Linux the term is altogether an alien word for many people. And of the handful of people switching or let’s say having their ‘tryst’ with Linux, have a very common misconception – ‘Linux is virus free.’ A very debatable sentence, lets take a look at some arguments. (more…)

Well its official – WordPress 3.0, codenamed “Thelonious”, has just been released. Time to upgrade now. So how do you do it, without breaking up your site? Its quite easy in fact. There are mainly two ways to get about it, just read on.  (more…)

Password. The one word protecting your online (or otherwise) accounts from misuse. These days the need for a secure password cannot be undermined. But remebering those cryptic passwords could be quite a challenge. So what do you do? Use a password manger or write it down. Although the former is quite safe, the latter would be quite compromising. So here’s a way to get a hard-copy of your password securely. (more…)

AJAX implementations on websites are increasing by the day. A little overlooked fact is that sometimes that users having slow connection, may take time to have the inline content loaded on their computers. That is where the ever essential ‘Loading..’ graphics has importance. It tells the user to wait and that their connection hasn’t hung up. So how to create these icons? Yes here’s the solution. (more…)

Its no secret that WordPress is one of the, if not THE best, blogging platforms around. And one of the best things about it is the large number of plugins that it provides from the large community which supports it. So how do you install a wordpress plugin? Well there are 3 ways of which I know.  As always, read on. (more…)

The Apple iPhone 4 was released just some 2-3 days ago. And like in the iPad, the iPhone 4 will only support the microSIM standard. Well the MicroSIM basically is a smaller cousin of the normal SIM you’ve been using all along. Just see the image to the left to get an idea. So how do you convert the normal SIM to a MicroSIM? Well there are two ways, just read on. (more…)