Tag Archives: Tips

Get GMail much faster and with minimum eye candy – GMail X

By Ajith | Published: February 21, 2008

The default GMail user interface is a simple but incredibly powerful one. This is done with AJAX and the time you wait for Gmail to load after login is the time for the AJAX to download. This is how you can turn off all the eye candy and run on extremely low bandwidth so that [...]

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Blogger template tags to customize your layout and design

By Ajith | Published: February 20, 2008

This post is mainly in reply to a comment from a fellow blogger Shankar Ganesh which read And I have a question: how did you hack the code to display Adsense units under each post header only when a particular post link page is loaded? The basic idea behind the Ad placement is the correct [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Adsense, Answer, Blog, Hacks | 1 Comment

Speed up your Internet by using OpenDNS

By Ajith | Published: February 19, 2008

You can set your default DNS servers to be the Open DNS and thus . You can do this as follows : 1.Go to Control Panel»Network Connections 2.Right Click and goto Properties the connection you use for Internet. 3.Goto Networking tab and select Properties for Internet Protcol(TCP/IP) In most cases you will be having “Obtain [...]

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Prevent system slowdown due to large Host file

By Ajith | Published: February 17, 2008

A large host file can slow down your system significantly as said in the . This is mainly notable in W2000/XP. Windows 98 and ME are not affected. The problem can be solved by editing the Services Editor. * Goto Start»Run type services.msc * In the services editor scroll to “DNS Client”, Right-click and select: [...]

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How to disable Right Click on a Web Page – with HTML

By Ajith | Published: February 13, 2008

Disable Right Clicks using HTML tags. This trick is one of the basic ones. This has hugely been replaced by newer Javascripts and asp codes. But still this is an interesting piece of information.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Customize, Disable, HTML, Tutorial, Web | 1 Comment

Why are permanently deleted file recoverable form a memory device?

By Ajith | Published: February 12, 2008

If you have accidentally deleted some files don’t panic follow these steps. 1. Do not read, write or access that Drive. 2. Use this to recover your file. How can a permanently deleted file be recovered form any memory device. This is one thing all might be eager to know. The reason is simple. Every [...]

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Globally control and change all users passwords in Windows

By Ajith | Published: February 7, 2008

The advanced user password control center in Windows is a hidden feature. It allows Administrative users to reset or remove passwords of every user account. It also allows to add or remove a user from the computer. You can access the User Accounts manager by typing control userpasswords2 in the run dialog (WIN+R – find [...]

Posted in Windows | Also tagged Admin, Hacks, Tricks, User | 2 Comments

Keyboard shortcuts for Windows

By Ajith | Published: February 5, 2008
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A list of Windows keyboard shortcuts (most of them can be used under Linux too) I use regularly. Once you have picked up the habit, you will wonder why you didn’t do it till then? These may not necessarily be program specific because it would make this post all so long.

Posted in Featured, Windows | Also tagged Customize, Keyboard, Shortcut | 1 Comment

How to clear full internet history from Internet Explorer

By Ajith | Published: February 4, 2008

The security and privacy consciousness of Internet users are at an all time high for sometime now. But very few of us who use Internet Explorer (I use IE only very rarely now) actually know that the whole history is not cleared even if we do Internet Options»Clear History. Well most of the History is [...]

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JavaScript in address bar, trick to make images in a web page dance

By Ajith | Published: January 30, 2008

I recently found this funny JavaScript code which will make the Images on any page go in a ring like dance. I got it through an e-mail forward, so I don’t know whom to credit. All you have to do is 1. Go to an Image rich page (eg:search for flowers in Google Images) 2. [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Funny, Hacks, Image | 17 Comments