Movie Recommendation Engines
Here is an official list of hidden smilies in Yahoo Messenger!
Google Chrome Trick: Calculate from Omnibox!
Google Chrome is a pretty fascinating browser. With the power of Google Search available from the address bar itself, you can actually conduct searches from the Omnibox itself.
Just type in a calculation. You do not even need to press enter. As the answer would just arrive in the drop [...]
Linux Workaround for ‘Argument list too long’ error message while removing all files from a directory
While someone deleting the files by using rm on the linux server, he might face this problem. There is a maximum number of files that can be passed as arguments to rm. So it does not allow you remove the [...]
Stupid Yahoo! Messenger
Apparently, you can no longer transfer files on the latest version of Yahoo! Messenger unless both the parties are using the latest version. I had to login to Gaim to transfer the file I wanted to send to a friend. Is this weird or what!
More on Yahoo! Messenger:
Yahoo! Messenger is a popular instant [...]
Macromedia Dreamweaver alternative for Linux
Don’t you just hate the fact that Macromedia and Adobe have not ported most of their products to the Linux platform? I sure do. There is no decent alternative to Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Dreamweaver. While I keep on looking for a non-GIMP solution to graphical applications, NVU seems to be [...]
It is quite interesting to note that OpenOffice saves MS Word files with better efficiency when compared to MS Office. Tests here showed that the file saved in OpenOffice Writer was less than half the size of the file saved in MS Word containing absolutely the same content! Considering it is free, TechWhack would recommend [...]
nLite – cut-down the size of your Windows CD, and more!
Hey, some of us are bothered about the existence of utilities we never use in windows. If you feel so too, this tool is for you. It is to be used on an existing Windows 2000/XP/2003 installer CD – it will aid you in removing [...]
Windows Explorer caches DLLs (Dynamic-Link Libraries) in memory for a period of time after the application using them has been closed. This can be an inefficient use of memory.
1. Find the key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer].
2. Create a new DWORD sub-key named ‘AlwaysUnloadDLL’ and set the default value to equal ‘1′ to disable Windows caching the DLL [...]
This is a safe tweak that I’ve tried on Windows 98/ME.
It has to do with VFAT. You don’t have to know anything about this to try it. We’re going to trick your Windows 98 into thinking it’s a Network Server. Actually it’s not a trick, but a setting.
Right-Click the My Computer icon on the desktop, [...]
