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Test your internet connection speed for free

By Ajith | Published: April 9, 2008

Want to check whether your ISP is providing you the speed they promised – BandWidth place is a site built just for testing your Internet connections BandWidth or speed. It has got a very simple layout and a single button saying Start with a stopwatch (symbolic) on the side. There is a small explanation of [...]

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Correction to the list files and folders from a directory to a file

By Ajith | Published: April 7, 2008

I think you all remember OKTHEN, the one who told us all an easy way to list files and folders in a directory into a file through a context menu. He posted it as a comment. Well last day he commented on the post to correct some mistakes in the comment. Here is his new [...]

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Free service that lets you find out everything about a domain name

By Ajith | Published: April 4, 2008

Some times we may need to know more about the site we are visiting, including its IP address, domain name provider, administrator etc. Or we may need to know if the site’s server is up by using a ping command. All these and more can be done by using DomainTools by Name Intelligence. It provides [...]

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How to find out all open ports, connections and originating IP addresses

By Ajith | Published: April 3, 2008

netstat is a command available in both Windows and Unix to analyze local ports that are open and all the connections to those ports. The syntax of the command is very simple. In the picture above a verysimple example of seeing the ports and connections is shown. The -ano option tells a – all connections [...]

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Save web pages as PDF and save to your desktop for free

By Ajith | Published: March 13, 2008

Most of us browse through numerous web pages and save them if we find them interesting. When I am downloading the entire site I will use Winhttrack a very useful web archiving utility. But the problem with html pages is that the have an associated folder, even the mht files are not much of use [...]

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Perfomance enhancing – speed up your boot time 1

By Ajith | Published: March 10, 2008

This is the simplest and slowest tip which will actually improve the boot time only by a small amount. 1 . Take Microsoft “System Configuration Utility” by typing “msconfig” in the RUN () dialogs (Start»Run). 2. Select “BOOT.ini” tab from General,SYSTEM.INI,WIN.INI,Services and Startup tabs. There will be a check box NOGUIBOOT enable it. This will [...]

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Main reasons for Invalid XHTML pages in blogs

By Ajith | Published: March 7, 2008

Watching your blog pass all the validations like html, xhtml, css etc. is actually satisfying for everybody. W3Schools validator tool is the most popular one used for the purpose. Many Blogger users should have found that however hard they try there will still be errors if the strict check is enabled, Why? 1. For Blogspot [...]

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PC on steroids, Improve your systems perfomance – start of series

By Ajith | Published: March 5, 2008

This is the first among a series of post in which I will tell you many tips on how to make your System perform faster. The post frequency in this Series will be one post ( tip ) per week. So check out my other posts on all other days. Being the first in the [...]

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Adsense section targetting for better contextual Ads

By Ajith | Published: March 3, 2008

Google Adsense has been a money maker for many of the bloggers out there. but many a times we have seen really nonsense ads appearing on our blogs, may be of medicine on a blog about computers etc.. Well this can easily be prevented by using ad section targeting in Adsense. By section targeting what [...]

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Free URL shortening services on the WEB

By Ajith | Published: February 28, 2008

These are some of the most popular services on the net that allows you to shorten long URLs. Here is the test URL I used and the shortened URL by each service is given on the side http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?ovi=1&mqma p.x=300&mqmap.y=75&mapdata=%252bKZmeiIh6N%252bI gpXRP3bylMaN0O4z8OOUkZWYe7NRH6ldDN96YFTIUmSH3Q6 OzE5XVqcuc5zb%252fY5wy1MZwTnT2pu%252bNMjOjsHjvN lygTRMzqazPStrN%252f1YzA0oWEWLwkHdhVHeG9sG6cMrf XNJKHY6fML4o6Nb0SeQm75ET9jAjKelrmqBCNta%252bsKC 9n8jslz%252fo188N4g3BvAJYuzx8J8r%252f1fPFWkPYg% 252bT9Su5KoQ9YpNSj%252bmo0h0aEK%252bofj3f6vCP TinyURL http://tinyurl.com/24f65 NotLong http://ballistic.notlong.com (custom URL) URLCutter http://urlcutter.net/ballistic (custom url) [...]

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