[How To] Share Starred Items in Google Reader
Google Reader by default allows you to share items that you mark as shared while reading your feeds. But I don’t use the share feed feature but instead I star the items that I like. I was always looking for a way to share the Starred items in Google Reader, but thanks to Tech Recipes I found a simple way of sharing my Starred feed items. If you want to do the same, then read on.. Sharing the starred items isn’t that difficult, the only problem is that the... Read The Rest →
Leopard – Tips and Tricks
Well the hackers are at it again, this time undoing the User Interface mess that Apple created with OS X Leopard. If you are one of the old time Mac Users, I am sure you have gotten used to an Opaque Finder, A Dock that is simple and has Triangular icons.. Well with Leopard Apple has removed all this and given us something that is flashy.. Well here are some tips that will restore your Dock and Finder to a state that you will love it even more. Tip 1... Read The Rest →
21 Greenest of the Green Tips from Blog Action Day
Well Blog Action Day got over a week back, and I have spent the whole week collecting my favorite posts from the participating blogs and I have to see I have been blown over by the amazing stuff that was written all over the world in One day that was just as any other day you’d see.. Fast forward after reading over 250+ posts in the last week here is my favorite posts in no particular order. But before I show you what I like the most have a look... Read The Rest →
Clean up Your Mac before you Install Leopard
Well our friend MacWorld has some amazing tips for you to install Leopard on your existing Mac. There are quite a few gems in there and I suggest you read through them if you are planning to upgrade to Leopard the moment it comes out on the 26th. Well the steps might actually look quite silly, first of all I would suggest you clean up your hard drive, remove apps you don’t use anymore and a host of other things that you should do to have your Mac running as... Read The Rest →
Hack Attack : Download Vista SP1 Through Windows Update
If you are PC user, running Windows Vista, then you must be aware of the various multitude of problems that Vista faces. Well Microsoft plans to release the first service pack for Windows Vista sometime early next year. If you are the impatient kind, then you might want to install SP1 beta right away on your Vista PC. Well there are two options for you to install Vista SP1, one is the legal way and the other illegal way. Illegal way involves downloading the service pack from torrents, which I... Read The Rest →
How-To : Cheat DVD Regional Encoding
Well you are a movie buff, then I am sure you get DVD’s from the local movie store. Well you might think that a DVD is just a DVD, but it isn’t so, the Hollywood studios have come up with protection schemes to make sure that DVD’s that you buy in India for cheap don’t play in the United States. Well this is done through region protection, all DVD’s come locked to a particular region when you buy them. Well here are the regions that the Hollywood studios have... Read The Rest →
[How-To] WordPress 2.3 Tags in Windows Live Writer
Well, I just upgraded from WordPress 2.2.3 to WordPress 2.3. After Upgrading, Ultimate Tag Warrior no longer works, so I am using the built in Taxonomy system in WordPress 2.3. Before I could add tags to my posts via Windows Live Writer, my favorite desktop blogging client, but after the WordPress Upgrade that no longer works. I went searching around the internet, and found the solution that I was looking for and here the steps that I took to be able to post tags from Windows Live Writer. First of... Read The Rest →
Planning to Upgrade to WordPress 2.3? Read This!
Well After a lot of thought, I have finally upgraded dailyApps over to WordPress 2.3. While the process was not as easy as it normally is, but it wasn’t as scary as what I read from others experiences. I Had some requirements for dailyApps before upgrading, and everything but one, that is colored tag clouds remained was satisfied. I spent about 5hrs coding up a quick and dirty plugin to display colored tag clouds, borrowing heavily from UTW and my minimal PHP coding skills. After doing that, the result was... Read The Rest →
Disable WordPress Version and Plugin Update Checking
If you are a WordPress 2.3 User, and you want to disable the feature of Update checking, that has been requested by the WordPress community for ages now. If you are a person who is concerned about the privacy, then I suggest you check out these plugins that will prevent the checking for updates. Disable WordPress Core Update Completely disables the core update checking system which is a new feature in WordPress 2.3. The plugin prevents WordPress from checking for updates, and prevents any notifications from being displayed in the... Read The Rest →
Backup and Restore Saved Passwords in Firefox
If you are a big time Firefox user, then you surely have a large number of passwords saved in your Firefox. What happens if your computer decides to crash one day and you loose all your saved passwords? If you haven’t thought about a situation like that, then you better backup all your passwords now. If you are wondering how, then the solution is very simple, all you need to do is install Password Exporter Addon for Firefox. Once you have installed, follow the steps that I have outlined and... Read The Rest →
