Category: Tech
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A Dussera + Diwali + Thanksgiving + Christmas Gift …
And that would be a USB to SATA/IDE cable … hee hee. About three months back I purchased an external 250 GB SATA hard disk. But as I wanted to use it for backup purposes I did not want to fix it inside the cabinet but keep it outside and access it via USB. For…
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PVC Tie Wire
A tie wrap is used to tie wires or objects together. It is mainly used for binding electrical wires, rods during construction, plants in gardens etc. They are of many types depending upon your need varying in the make, thickness, coated or not, etc. The one I am going to talk here is a “Galvanized…
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Increase Laptop Battery Life
Hi, Below are a few links which has some useful tips on increasing laptop battery life. http://mobileoffice.about.com/od/usingyourlaptop/tp/laptopbattmtc.htm http://mobileoffice.about.com/od/usingyourlaptop/f/laptopbattery.htm http://mobileoffice.about.com/od/usingyourlaptop/f/laptopbattery1.htm http://www.laptopmag.com/Features/Five-Tips-For-Better-Notebook-Battery-Life.htm http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070925233811AACVHda
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Free Long Distance Calling Using SIP (with Linksys PAP2 or any softphone)
Short and simple steps for the technically challenged For this setup, you will have to first buy a phone adapter. A very good and cheap SIP phone adapter is the Linksys PAP2. This will cost around Rs.2500 in CTC, Secunderabad. If you want to use single phone for internet calling and normal telephone line, then…
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Informing search engines about change in url
I recently changed my website address from rahul.ind.in to rahul.amaram.name due to some reasons. The biggest problem I was facing with this was that all my pages were previously indexed in Google with the website name rahul.ind.in. Though I re-submitted my new url to Google (http://www.google.com/addurl/), the rankings were still for the old url. And…
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Domain Name Changed Again And …
Do not forget to checkout my latest post on domain registrars – New Domain Registrar. Hopefully the last time. Yes, rahul.ind.in is soon going to be obsoleted. The new domain name is rahul.amaram.name. And now I also have my own personal email id which is of the from firstnameATlastname.name. The reason for the shift of…
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Javascript Naming Conventions, Coding Guidelines and Best Practices
While most of the popular languages (Java, .NET, C++) have elaborate documents on the naming conventions to follow, I couldn’t find any such good document for javascript. All I could find was bits and pieces here and there. This is the main reason why I am creating this page listing the javascript naming conventions I…
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Activating BSNL AMS facility
BSNL offers AMS facility for its customers. And in my humble opinion, their service sucks. I had the AMS facility activated after a lot of trouble and then one fine day, it was deactivated for no good reason. I again had to go through almost the entire procedure for having it activated. Anyway, my woos…
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Website Designing Tips And SEO Techniques
It is now more than 2 years since I have launched my website. Below are some of the things which I think one should keep in mind while designing a website. This article was mainly written when I had a hand-coded website. Though now I am using a CMS (Drupal) for my website, I think…
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Contact Lens Queries
I started using contacts about a month back. Anyway, I had many queries related to the usage of contacts. Hence I mailed these queries to Customer Care (Bausch & Lomb). I use traditional daily wear (soft) contact lenses for astigmatism. But I think the below response applies to any soft contact lens. Below you can…