February, 2009
How to Create a Shutdown Shortcut on Your Desktop
Below you will find instructions on how to create such a shortcut on your desktop. You can also view the one pager by clicking on the pic tutorial icon. As always comments/suggestions are always welcome. 1.Right-click your Desktop Computer and select New > Shortcut from the drop down menu 2. In the browse box type: SHUTDOWN -s -t 01, click Next [...]
How to Optimize Your Hard Drive and Registry with CCleaner
There are plenty of system optimizers and registry cleaners out there, but today I will tell you about a great free one called CCleaner. It is very simple to use and can drastically increase your computers performance. CCleaner can delete all unnecessary temporary files from most browsers including IE, Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera as [...]
How to Compile and install eaccelerator for PHP
eaccelerator is an opcode cacher (caches the compiled version of php scripts so php does not have to compile it for each request of the page). It has the ability to cache in shm (shared memory) making access to this cache very fast. eaccelerator can also handle sessions (see php code below). First step: change [...]
How to unzip tarballs with the ‘bz2′ extension
File archive compressed by Bzip 2, a file compression program often found on Unix systems; uses the Burrows-Wheeler compression algorithm combined with Run-Length Encoding (RLE) for maximum compression; created by Julian Seward To unxip bz2 just use the follwoing command  tar xjvf xxxxxxx.tar.bz2
Micro-USB Universal Mobile Chargers for Cell Phones by 2012
They promise the  universal charging solution (UCS) will be widely available worldwide and will use Micro-USB as the common universal charging interface. They promise that by January 2012, majority of all new mobile phone models available will support a universal charging connector. How does a Universal mobile charger benefit you? A universal charger will let you use the same charger [...]
World’s Cheapest $10 Laptop
India has developed and released the world’s cheapest laptop today which will cost merely around $10 to $20 (Rs 500 to Rs 1,000) and is much cheaper than any other notebook available in the world. Rediff news reports that the world cheapest laptop was unveiled by Union Minister for Human Resources Development Arjun Singh at the Tirupati temple on Tuesday evening. The [...]
Nokia Open Source Web browser for S60 Smartphones
Nokia unveiled the new Web browser for its world leading smartphone software, S60 platform aimed to provide smartphone users with a true Web experience when browsing full Web pages on the Internet using a smartphone. “The new Web browser for S60 is based on the WebCore and JavaScriptCore components of Apple’s Safari Web Kit, the industry’s smallest [...]
How to set Proxy Setting In Google Chrome
 Google Chrome is a browser is used slowly and slowly by millions of users and among then many love to use there browser after setting proxy .Proxy is one one of the greatest way to hide yourself from network and to reduce chances of online hacking .You have read many articles and blog post [...]
Download Apple Safari 4: World’s Fastest Browser
Now you can download the latest Apple Safari 4 web browser. Launching its latest beta version, Apple calls it the world’s fastest web browser for Mac and Windows computers. Apple Safari 4 powered by the new Nitro JavaScript engine claims to execute JavaScript 30 times faster than IE 7 and 3 times faster than Firefox 3; it loads HTML web [...]
Unix time will equal 1234567890
Its 1234567890 Day today! On Friday, February 13 at exactly 3:31:30 PM (PST) Unix time will equal 1234567890. The world is celebrating the milestone with global 1234567890 parties today. So what is Unix time? Unix time, or POSIX time, is a system for describing points in time, defined as the number of seconds elapsed since midnight Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of January [...]
How to set the Hostname in Linux
Most, if not all, network applications rely on you to set the local host’s name to some reasonable value. This setting is usually made during the boot procedure by executing the hostname command. To set the hostname to name, enter: # hostname name  It is common practice to use the unqualified hostname without specifying the domain name. [...]
How to Check the ARP Tables in Linux
On some occasions, it is useful to view or alter the contents of the kernel’s ARP tables, for example when you suspect a duplicate Internet address is the cause for some intermittent network problem. The arp tool was made for situations like this. Its command-line options are: arp [-v] [-t hwtype] -a [hostname] arp [-v] [-t hwtype] [...]
How to use netstat Command for checking your network configuration and activity
netstat is a useful tool for checking your network configuration and activity. It is in fact a collection of several tools lumped together. We discuss each of its functions in the following sections. When you invoke netstat with the –r flag, it displays the kernel routing table in the way we’ve been doing with route. On vstout, it produces: # netstat -nr [...]