Snippets of Technology(and other things)
Working with web became quite simple with some of the add-ons which can be used in Firefox. I personally prefer to use firefox than other web browsers.
These are some of the Firefox Add-Ons which I found to be very interesting and believe me it saves time.
Are you too not an expert in CSS and still want to create a good looking menu for you webpage?
There are lots of CSS codes available. I tried couple of CSS menu generators to create a menu for a website I was working with, but was not impressed with sample codes. At last I was lucky to get a CSS Menu generator which helped me to create horizontal, vertical, combo-box and pull-down menu’s.
Now its time to mash-up.
Yah , Yahoo pipes is quite interesting to people who like to play with mash-up contents from the web.
I was really amazed to look at the power of this tool. Yahoo provides a cool interface where you can create your own pipe ( that what yahoo name it) that would be able to create your own feed from the combination of feeds you are interested in.
In case if you frequently visit couple of news feeds, you can create your own pipe which combines the updates of all the feeds and then even you would be able to provide functionality to list only the news you need ( Lets say you like to see only cricket news, you will be able to get only the updates about cricket from all the feeds by filter options. Or if you are looking for a best deal of a particular product, create a feed and keep track of it)
There are lot more you can play with pipes.
Have you even wondered how to organize your feeds. Or do you need to create a RSS feed for a webpage of your particular interest. Feedity would be useful to create rss feed even if the website doesn’t provide feeds.
Now its quite simple to create your own feeds.
Everyone knows that its very important to take backup of valuable data, coz we never know when our computer in going to hate us.
May be one day we switch ON our laptop and see that it doesn’t boot [ Oh my God ! you should have not did this to me atleast today. Today is the last day to submit my semester project ]
Ya, may happen to any one of us only at wrong times. Ok. Don’t Panic.
Just try to do the below steps. I tried to do this when one of my friend’s Windows crashed just on the final day of submissions. And I was able to get his files from it safely transferred to a USB device.
I came across KNOPPIX from one of the site where there were detailed step by step instructions : KNOPPIX is a bootable Live system on CD or DVD.
Step 1 : Download Knoppix from any of the mirrors
Step 2: Write it in a CD/DVD
Step 3: Make sure CD drive is selected as first boot device. This can be done by entering into setup by pressing F1,F8 or some function button
Step 4: Sit back and relax untill the CD loads LINUX on your system.
Step 5: Hurray ! I got my files back.
Picture source : Knopper
Google gadgets have been getting popular day by day and many users started coding their own gadgets.
I tried one for my university library and it seems to be very useful for students in searching books from their igoogle homepage. You can have your gadget in user’s igoogle homepage and it make life simpler for users to use the service offered by webpage.
You can create your own gadget using Google gadget editor and google has a good documentation for the same.
Well , Let me explain why I started Blogging….
I was not interested in blogging all these days. If someone asks me why would you start a blog for yourself ? My reply would be, ” I see that lots of people have one for them and so ,even I like to have one for mine”.
I had a different view towards these stuffs, and I thought it is a tiresome work of updating it regularly and waste of my time.
Then I came across few of very impressive blogs( I did’t make a note of them to share those with you..sorry pals) where I found valuable technical informations and solutions posted which would cost sleepless nights for me to solve. Then you know blink of light above my head, ”Why don’t I start a blog and keep posting the technical problems faced and solutions I find each day?” .
Yes, at last I have a blog of my own..
Do you want to start blogging? Its quite simple, not as complicated as you think.
Its just a minute ahead. Choose a service provider which offers you a free blog and Sign it with your information. Now even you have your own blog. Congrats !
Start blogging I did ………
