Tag Archives: Tricks

Feedreader on your WordPress dashboard

By Ajith | Published: July 12, 2009

You can use the applets on your WP dashboard to view the feeds from one blog. It is quite straight forward. Although it couldn’t be of great use it is still be a funny tweak.

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Setting a preferred domain for your blog

By Ajith | Published: December 27, 2008

Setting a preferred domain for your website is good SEO as well as for better usability. A preferred domian means whether you want your visitor to see http://YOURDOMAIN.com or http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com when they are visiting. This can be easily set using an htaccess file.

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Image not shown properly in Microsoft Office

By Ajith | Published: May 29, 2008

This is the screen shot of a Microsoft Office document with an image inserted into it. The top one is the original image. But Office kept on showing it with white portions as black. This is shown at the bottom of the Screen shot. If you have met with a problem like the above one [...]

Posted in Software | Also tagged Error, Image, Office, Windows | 2 Comments

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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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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Add a target to your Send ‘To Shell’ Menu

By Ajith | Published: February 29, 2008

This post will show you how to add a new Item to your sendto menu of your shell right click options. It is really simple and can be very handy to use. All the targets of sendto menu are located in the C:Documents and settingsUSERNAMESendto folder. Or just type shell:sendto in your Start»Run box. Create [...]

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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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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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Host Files – local DNS lookup

By Ajith | Published: February 17, 2008

This is a basic introduction to the host file, how they work, how to block web sites or computers on LAN using a host file etc.. Host file is a text file that the operating system uses to store the IP address of computers having a physical name (or site address). It is located at [...]

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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, Tips, User | 1 Comment