Archive for March 2009
Install PHP, MySQL and Apache on Windows
If you want to Install PHP, MySQL and Apache on Windows but find installing them individually a really time consuming job (which sure it is) then you may want to give a look at XAMPP.
XAMPP is one click installation package which install all PHP, MySQL and Apache (including firezilla too) so you never have to install all of them individually and to connect them.. There is also no hussle of starting/closing services like apache or mysql as there is XAMPP control panel which takes care of this. So to start any service, you can do it from Xampp control panel. Not only this, XAMPP also provide you feature of switching php version of 4 and 5 so you can test your application in both php 4 and php 5.
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Backup all your firefox Settings
Firefox to me is the best internet tool/software available for free right now. I know its a browser and is so IN in the mainstream that we guys really don’t care about it and gives it as much credit as it should get (do we have a firefox day yet? because I think we should)
Anyway my only problem with firefox was it getting crashed occasionally (I uses 3.x and it still crashes) or due to unclean shutdown or due to power failure, loss of all data, cookies or bookmarks in the past. I also work on couple of PC’s so sharing firefox settings as well as taking backups of firefox settings was always going to be difficult as I was taking manual backup of my whole firefox profile!
Port 80 Busy | How to start Apache on XAMPP and WAMP
While using XAMPP or WAMP, many people get this error of Port 80 Busy and Apache is not able to start. In XAMPP the error looks like this
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Drupal Best Content Management System
I am using drupal since late 2005- early 06, have build tons of sites, created small themes and did lot of coding in it. I had started as a programmer though the need for paying bills made me come into SEO and Marketing as coding wasn’t paying enough.
I have used almost every decent CMS available on the net as well as web frameworks like django and RoR and is fairly impressed with the progress that drupal has made. Since CMS’es can be compared with web frameworks like Ruby on Rails and Django, we will not get into them and just stick to content management systems.
How to build a Digg like Site ?
Collegehumor Spam on Digg
It seems Collegehumor has its own underground network of diggers which makes sure every articles of theirs makes it onto front page of Digg.
If you see below image, it will tell you why.
Hundreds of More Myspace, Facebook, Youtube, Bebo, Hi5 Proxies are Added
Weill I sat for 2 hours and clear a huge number of pending proxy submissions which were in the queue.
Its unfortunate that proxy webmasters do not fill the Proxy Submission form properly and I have to spend lot of time editing the entries. Anyway from now on, I may just delete these proxies,specially those who submits proxies which do not support the Myspace, Facebook, Youtube, Bebo, Hi5 even though the webmaster claims, they do.
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World’s Most Powerful Tool
If someone asks you which is the most powerful tool in the world, what will you say ? or say if you are yourself are looking for the most powerful tool in the world, then what do you think, what it could be ?
You can think of a cluster of most sophisticated super computers working on completed algorithms to solve your problems but No, its not the answer. Let me tell you which is the most Powerful Tool in this world, it is Google Search Engine. 
(google does have its servers, datacenters and grids so in a way, it is a huge sophisticated computer system)
Yahoo Messenger Voice Problem
If you are having Yahoo Messsenger voice problem and not able to using voice in chat or not able to talk on yahoo voice and getting the error that “no microphone input is detected”
Recover Deleted Files from hard disk
How many times this has happened that we deleted some important file permanently using control + delete only to realize later that we are screwed !!!
Now there are many softwares which are in the market which help you to Recover Deleted Files from hard disk. The reason why this is possible is because the files which you think are deleted permanently are not deleted permanently, they are initially internally marked as deleted and are overwrite once you save some other files on hard disk. If you have lot of space on hard disk,the chances are, no file will overwrite the deleted file for some time and as long as nothing gets overwrite on the deleted file/space, you can recover the original deleted file.