Many times when you change your host (or server) your wordpress blog stops showing uploaded images i.e. when you upload an image you see a red cross like above, this happens because the upload image path is set incorrectly.

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Google has now officially changed its layout and brought the search results at the center so the controls of other google products can be seen on the left hand side, Now the current look of Google is very much like Bing, personally I am not very comfortable with the layout and wants to go back to the older one but there is no option for it.

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I owns both a Dell Laptop and Asus Netbook so here is a post reviewing both of them. First of all, Notebook is NOT netbook, Notebook is just another name for laptops and netbooks are trimmed down bareback version of laptops.

Typical Configuration of Laptop

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If your domain is hosted at godaddy rather then on your host, you have to add the A name record everytime you add a subdomain on your site. Though adding new A record in godaddy is very easy, it can still cause confusion for first timers due to messy interface of godaddy. So here is step by step to add sub domain to your godaddy account -

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Today youtube changed its video player layout again. Check the new video player

you see the difference in video scroller ? now it covers the whole width of video which means you can move the video to much finer length, this is very small difference (like 2% in width) but still a good change. What this has done is, now the strip which has audio controls (stop/next) and screen resize, is completely vacant. I won’t be surprised if youtube add more functions in that strip in coming days.

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Onlywire.com social bookmarking service which is often promoted as one of the best social bookmaking service, it seems is not working anymore. I have given it a try few times as it only costs $3 per month to see how exactly they work but even though the service says that it has bookmark your pages to 33 sites, when you check the report, you will find there is no bookmarking done.

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If you own a Dell laptop and if you like me work for continuous 14+ hours on laptop, I am sure you must have faced this problem of Dell laptops getting rebooted due to excessive heating. This a very serious problem, something which people often complain about dell laptops.

I have talked to Dell support about this to know what can be done as I am already in an AC room with room temperature of about 26 C. So on the basis of those conversations and from my knowledge of 7 years using computers, here are some tips to prevent your dell laptop getting rebooted

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This is a common problem with Windows, say when you right click on desktop, the menu appears and doesn’t get removed or when you open an excel file or any application and close it, a part of it shows on desktop and no matter what you do including refreshing the desktop screen multiple times, it don’t get removed!

Here is a very simple solution for it, Logout (ctrl+L) and log back in, this will clean the desktop screen from the remains of application.

I just purchased a book for $20 from lulu.com only to find that the book is not a regular pdf file (as promised by seller) but it is DRM protected pdf file which can only be open with Adobe Digital Edition software.

Nowdays all pdf’s purchased are in digital edition format, which means, instead of you getting a pdf file, you get an acsm file which has the encrypted information about the pdf. Now you need to download Adobe Digital Edition and install it and double click on that acsm file (or drag and drop to Digital Edition window) and the pdf file will be open in it.

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If you have a windows vista then the chances are, your windows explorer will keep on getting crash whenever you try to downlload .FLV (flash) files through Firefox. It is a well known bug about which nothing much has been done as the problem probably causes by lack of plugin for .flv in firefox which causes problem.

Anyway here are the two solutions to stop windows explorer getting crashed while downloading .flv files

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