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Wednesday, 21. January 2004
Search Sinker

Google's query limit is ten words. You can search for "Shantanu Oak India". But you can emphasize that you are looking for India related search results by typing "Shantanu Oak India India India" (Word India 8 times). Its not shouting. It's sinker search!

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Tuesday, 20. January 2004
Believe it or not!

Importance of User Interface:-
I recently revisited the livejournal website and suddenly found it very interesting. Community, friends, FOF (Friends of Friends) so many useful features to be used. Those are totally lacking in my blogger account because it's not community oriented. The stats show that I am a member of LiveJournal since Feb 2001!!
What was the reason I did not used it for the last 3 years?
I myself don't believe the answer. But I think it's the only reason. The User Interface (or page layout), at that time was not intuitive or cool! The default journal entries page still have no links to very important features like login, search, subscribe RSS, about me, etc. You see all these links only if you are logged in and go to the profile page of a user.
Here is how the old design used to look like.

And here is the new, decent design.

This fact has raised a question: is the design really so important?
The answer is YES. Microsoft, with the help of user friendly design, gained the market share which was dominated by DOS and other UNIX like clones of operating systems which were (And still are) better than Windows.
I bought a http://quickbase.com account. I recommended the http://cgiscriptshop.com to everyone who were using Mysql. The reason? Simply better design (and not necessarily more functions or features).

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Saturday, 17. January 2004
url2bmp

url2bmp draws a web page on a virtual screen. It is much better than using Alt+ print Screen key combination or using any other third party software.
http://www.pixel-technology.com/freeware/url2bmp/english/

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Friday, 16. January 2004
RSS Reader

I just found another reason to use a RSS reader instead of regular website. Some of the sites use CSS to reduce the font size. I find it better to read it in a RSS reader with regular and consistent font size. RSS admirers, you have one more reason to cheer!

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Thursday, 15. January 2004
Check spelling mistakes

The visual speller will crawl a web site checking for and highlighting any textual content for spelling mistakes. Once you bring up a web site clicking on any subsequent links will view that page via the visual speller making it extremely simple to navigate to all ends of a web site.
http://vs.reinvigorate.net

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Tuesday, 6. January 2004
PowerPoint File Size

PowerPoint 2002 provides new feature – picture compression. You can compress one or all
photographs in a presentation to reduce the final size of the PowerPoint file.

  1. Right-click any picture and choose Format | Picture.
  2. Choose the Picture tab in the resultant tabbed dialog box and click the ‘Compress’ button.
  3. Change the resolution to Web/Screen and choose to apply to all pictures in the document (presentation). Click ‘OK’ and then ‘Apply’ to the next dialog box. Click OK again.
  4. Resave the presentation.

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Word Error

There is a test you can use to see if an Add-in is actually your problem. Try starting Word using the /a switch that will stop any add-ins from being loaded. If this solves your error problem, you know it's an add-in causing the trouble.

  • Click Start > Run
  • In the Run dialog box, type this: winword.exe /a (note the space after exe and before the /a switch)
  • Hit the Enter key

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Monday, 5. January 2004
SendTo FTP

SendTo FTP is an easy-to-use file transfer program for sending files from your local PC to a remote host. Select the files, click right mouse button and choose SendTo FTP in Send To submenu. When use SendTo FTP for the first time, fill in the hostname, address, username and password. The last used details will be save in Windows Registry. The second time you use it, only thing to do is press OK. You can either save the file in the root directory or any subdirectory. Hold down Ctrl or Shift key to select more than one file (max 10).
http://www.pclightning.com/sftpdownload.html

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Saturday, 3. January 2004
Good times are ahead

Or behind?
Because they sure aren't here.
Garfield

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Friday, 2. January 2004
Best of the Web

I have just written an article about "Top 20 websites in 8 categories".
http://tinyurl.com/yvvyg
You will be surprised to find some of the less known sites next to gorillas.

  1. tinyurl is a URL forwarding service.
  2. cgiscriptshop by Ioannis Livassov host one of the best MYsql Database front end.
  3. ecriteria.net will help you to organize your data.
  4. blogger may not be a surprise but onclave.org is a blogging tool with RSS feeds.
  5. mailbucket.org is nothing but an open e-mail.
  6. watchthatpage will watch and notify you whenever your favorite web pages change.

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