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Maths Was Never So Delighting

noor — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:10:25 +0000

Internet has given new perspective in many peoples life. Information sharing and learning has become very easy. Human are always in hunt of new thing from entertainment to knowledge gaining. Adding to human expectation internet has given us multiple choices of web portals and social networking sites, which help us to stay, connected with close yet long distance friends and family.

Today e-learning sites are speeding up and luring user to grab all that they want in a single click. With the same niche www.mathtv.com has set-up new arena for all those who love maths and for those who find it brain whacking. The video wall gives you an amazing and easy implication of solving your (maths) problem within a fraction of seconds… may be a minute.

Come ahead and see what’s stored in here…

When can I use…

Prashant Jadhav — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 05:34:53 +0000

Cross-browser compatibility is the key factor of web development. It become very crusial while deciding which technology should be use while developing any site.

CanIuse.com offer a comprihensive comparison of features between various web browsers. It lets users select the technologies and browsers they want to view. It is very innovative and effective cross-browser compatibility tester (before starting development).

Click here to check the result provided for HTML5

URL Shortening & Security

Prashant Jadhav — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 06:57:22 +0000

With the rise of social networking and social bloging, the necessity of url shortening sites also rise. There are a handful of sites available which offer url shortening services. Sites like Bit.ly, Curio.us, Tinylink are among the popular one.

I recently came across another such site http://trick.ly

It is a bit special because it offers you an additional layer of security while sharing shortened URLs. One can also set a password clue that will be displayed to everybody in case they forget the password.

For those who view too many online videos on laptop

Prashant Jadhav — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:38:26 +0000

For the ppl who like to view videos on video hosting sites like youtube (including myself), I found a very nice extension of Google Chrome which provide us cinema hall like experience while watching video.

Turn Off the Lights is an extension of Google Chrome 4.x

Firebug support for Non-firefox browsers

Prashant Jadhav — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:08:27 +0000

Firebug is an extension for Firefox, but what happens when you need to test your pages in Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari?

The solution is Firebug Lite, a JavaScript file you can insert into your pages to simulate some Firebug features in browsers that are not named “Firefox”.

Firebug Lite creates the variable “firebug” and doesn’t affect or interfere with HTML elements that aren’t created by itself.

Installing Firebug Lite 1.2

Insert this line of code into any page that you want to contain Firebug lite:

Firebug Lite can be used as bookmarklet too. For detailed information regarding bookmarklet and other customisable features of it, kindly visit http://getfirebug.com/lite.html

IETester & DebugBar

Prashant Jadhav — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:26:40 +0000

Recently I came across a very interesting application called IETester. It s a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP. Though it sounds similar to the popular Multiple IEs, it has few things which make IETester very different from Multiple IEs.

The main difference are

View source code option which doesn’t work in Multiple IEs properly.
Support for DebugBar which is free for personal use. DebugBar is similar to FireBug addon available for Firefox. It provides
- DOM Inspector: View DOM Tree and modify tags attributes and css attributes on the fly to test your page
- HTTP Inspector: View HTTP/S request to check cookies, GET and POST parameters, view server info
- Javascript Inspector and Javascript Console: View javascript functions for easier debugging, see Javascript and AJAX code
- HTML Validator: Validate HTML code to correct and optimize your code and html size of your page
- And many more features: See page cookies, get pixel color on a page, make a page screenshot, etc…

For more details, click here.

Firefox 3: Text selection and general in-page goodness

Prashant Jadhav — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:03:52 +0000

[] Double click a word to select it; triple click to select a paragraph. If you need to select multiple batches of text, hold down Ctrl and select at will.

[] Changes have also been made to the way the zooming feature works. Hold down Ctrl and move the mousewheel (alternatively, press + or -). Firefox will zoom in or out the entire site; both text and images. Want to switch to the old, text-only way of zooming? Click on View in the menu and choose Zoom, then Zoom text only. Your preference will be remembered on a per-site basis.

[] There’s been a tiny but useful change to the “Find” toolbar; select text inside a web page, then hit Ctrl+F, and the selected text will automatically be entered into the Find field.

eSnips & Google

Prashant Jadhav — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:18:11 +0000

eSnips is a large social content sharing site that gives its members 5GB each of storage space to upload whatever they want. These files include music, ringtones, videos, ebooks, comics, programs, magazines and much more. By using Google, you can check to see what others have posted for download.

eSnips tags files by there filetype, so including the file extension in the query narrows the search results.

For this, go to Google and use the following search queries

To look for music files, use this:
site:esnips.com mp3|ogg|wma

or for a specific artist, try:
site:esnips.com mp3|ogg|wma Mukesh

To search for video files, try:
site:esnips.com asf|rm|avi|mp4|wmv|flv

or for a specific title, try:
site:esnips.com asf|rm|avi|mp4|wmv|flv “Cable Guy”

To search for eBooks:
site:esnips.com pdf|lit|doc ebook

for comics:
site:esnips.com pdf|cbr|cbz comics

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Firefox 3: Display Search Results in New Tab

Prashant Jadhav — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:53:27 +0000

Open Firefox 3
In the address bar, type about:config and hit Enter on your keyboard
Scroll down to browser.search.openintab and double-click it to change the value to True
Restart Firefox 3.

Note
[] Make a backup of your prefs.js file before you start editing. Then, if something goes wrong, you can restore it by copying it over the corrupt file.

[] If you can’t restore via a backup prefs.js file, you can exit Firefox and issue the command firefox -safe-mode to bring up the Firefox Safe Mode screen. Then, just select Reset All User Preferences To Firefox Defaults. This will restore all user preferences to their default values.

Firefox 3: Enable Spell Check in Text Boxes (not just textarea fields)

Prashant Jadhav — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:27:26 +0000

Open Firefox 3
In the Location Bar, input about:config
Click to get past the warning message that appears
Locate the Preference Name layout.spellcheckDefault
Double-click it and change the value to 2
Restart Firefox 3.

Note
[] Make a backup of your prefs.js file before you start editing. Then, if something goes wrong, you can restore it by copying it over the corrupt file.