Monthly Archives: May 2010
Section targeting for Adsense, Infolinks and Kontera Ads
Note: For those who don’t know about Adsense, Infolinks and Kontera: Adsense is the Google’s Advertisement network which reads a web page and based on keywords on the page, it displays related advertisement links and banners on that page. Kontera … Continue reading
How To: Customize WordPress for iPhone and Android in a few clicks
The self hosted WordPress site can be viewed in Smart phones like iPhone, Android and Blackberry with better native look and feel of the phone’s native screen size, UI controls, font and touch screen input. It is going to be … Continue reading
How to use Google Web Font for your own web site
Today Google has announced Open Source Web Fonts. It is a collection fonts which we can use in our web sites at free of cost. Google hosts the fonts. Here is how to use these fonts in your own site … Continue reading
How to predict hard disk failure in Ubuntu with 3 clicks?
Hard disk is becoming crucial for our data storage in this digital age. We need sophisticated and simple to use tool to predict the failure and also to monitor the health status continuously. SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) is a standard … Continue reading
How to use Thunderbird to send and receive Exchange email replacing MS-Outlook
Thunderbird is a open source Mail client with tons of features. Out-of-box Thunderbird does not support MS-Exchange server – in simple it is not a Exchange client like Outlook. In most of the corporate networks, employees can access Email only … Continue reading
Mini Solar Fan functioning in Sun light and artificial light
Recently I got a mini Solar Fan from DealExtreme, which offered this for $5 only. It is meant for attaching with your cap or hat to get some breeze while walking on sunny days. But I bought it as a … Continue reading
How to fix “resolving proxy” delay in google chrome on Windows?
Corporate networks has internet proxy with username and password to access internet from their workstation. Most of the time browsers in corporate network (what else? IE only!) are configured to detect the proxy settings automatically to make it simple for … Continue reading
How I lost 17 pounds in 3 months?
The recent good development in my personal life is my intention of losing excess weight and did succeed to remarkable extent. I have lost 17 pounds in 3 months of time with some simple efforts. The period is from Jan-2010 to … Continue reading
WordPress: Using post tags as META tag in HTML and displaying in Window title bar
To make your wordpress blog easily searchable by search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing – you can do a small hack to your theme’s header.php file. Technique -1: Adding tags in Browser window title bar: In most of the themes, … Continue reading
How-To: Set GMail as default mail client on Ubuntu (GNOME on any linux)
I prefer GMail web interface than any other desktop client. Out of the box you can’t select GMail web interface as default mail client in GNOME on Ubuntu. But you can get it done with gnome-gmail application. Step-1: Download the … Continue reading
How-To: Solving libXM.so.4 error in Citrix Receiver (ICAClient) on Ubuntu
Here is how solved the missing libXm.so.4 error while launching Citrix Receiver (installed through XenApp client plugin) on Ubuntu. For some one who does not know what is Citrix Receiver, here is what Citrix says, Citrix Receiver™ with Citrix Dazzle™ gives … Continue reading
How to find which package contains a file in Ubuntu?
Once upon a time we faced a lot of dependency hell issues in Linux platforms. apt-get has matured enough such that this is not believable for newbies now. Kudos to Debian! Some times we want to know which package has … Continue reading
How to install Citrix Client (Application virtualization) on Ubuntu Linux?
I connect to my workstation at works through Citrix Presentation Server (also called as XenApp Server). This can also deliver the Windows applications such as Outlook, Internet Explorer through internet to a client system. In my case the client system … Continue reading
