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Download YouTube Videos easily… —

    YouTube, what I need to say more on this website? Anyhow for those who are unaware of it (if any!), this website provides streaming videos to the visitors. Anyone can upload and share their videos. Many number of times when watching a video, we love it to have offline as well. We search for the [...]

Scheduling MySQL Backup..! —

    There have been instances when we need to schedule the backup process of MySQL databases regularly. So I thought of writing batch file that can be added in the Windows scheduler. I used the ‘mysqldump’ utility that comes with the MySQL distributions. It dumps the database definition along with all the data, indexes, triggers and [...]

Want to try Linux..? —

    Many of us say “Linux is not for me.., it’s for geeks…” Have you ever tried Linux? Nope… The reason is quite simple. You don’t see as many installations as Windows in household… even in offices. I agree installing Linux and getting it up running is little tougher and complicated then the counterpart Windows. Hence [...]

Creating a simple Mashup..! —

    As said in my previous post, Mashups are very powerful user-interface when handled with little common sense and creativity. In this post I’ll try to give an overview of how an Mashup (pretty simple Mashup… J ) can be created. Though this is going to be simple, the logic behind this is same for all [...]

What is a Mashup..? —

    Heard this buzz word, If yes, you can rate yourself ‘up-to-date geek’. If not, read on, still in the end of this post you can rate yourself so. Even this post is late by quite some time months since this word came into prominence. Before talking about Mashup, I’d take an analogy to explain.

Gmail – the mail client..! —

          Today let me write something useful regarding Gmail. This may be simple stuff for the techie community. But I want this to be known to those find it difficult to manage between their POP3 mails and different Gmail accounts. You can get all the accounts / mails under a single login. It’s pretty simple [...]

Change your ‘Start’ button easily… —

This is how my ‘Start’ button looks like…it’s no more a ‘start’ button but it’s a ‘Markish’ button. I’ve done this in Win98 some 4-5 years back. But I had the pain of the hexadecimal editors to change anything in the binary file (i.e the explorer.exe) But now with the availability of the ‘Resource hacker’, [...]

Tweaking Win32 Applications…. :) —

    I came across a utility called ‘Resource Hacker’. It’s not that bad as it name sounds.. It’s a very powerful and very small in size (some 600 kb) utility that will allow you to access the resources associated with any win32 Executables or dlls. So what..? Most of the Win32 Application uses the resource files [...]