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Clean your dirty Html Codes Online

2008-09-29T05:30:00.000-07:00

There is an online tool at Wordoff that will clean up html codes for you with a single click. It removes all unncessary formatting in the html. It will remove the un-necessary linebreaks, strips the styling attributes but presevers the basic formatting incuding links.Quote from Wordoff Wordoff applies the following rules to strip the cruft that is pasted into WYSIWYG editors from Word:

Upload Large files to Youtube - Upto 1GB

2008-09-29T05:16:00.000-07:00

Youtube has recetly launched a webuploader to upload large video files, using which you can upload videos upto 1GB. It also supports, uploading of multiple videos (max 10) at a time. You can also enter the title, description, tags etc.. for the videos while the upload is in progress. It looks like youtube is realeasing this feature in batches, so if you cannot access this feature then..you

Dynamically Populate Controls in a Table using asp.net

2007-02-28T06:11:00.000-08:00

If you want to dynamically populate a table with controls then, here is the way to do it. In this example we will create 50 buttons dynamically and populate a Table (say 5 rows and 10 columns) with the buttons in order.Create the TableIf you are using visual studio, just drag and drop the Table control on the webform and it will generate the following code (Change the Table ID to "myTable" as I

Embed video in a webpage

2007-02-07T12:25:00.000-08:00

If you want to stream a video file to the visitors of your website, the easiest way is to provide a direct link to the video file. When the visitor clicks on the link the video opens directly in the proper player (if installed on the users machine) on the users machine. Though this is the easiest way, it is not necessarily the most elegant way. There are many cases when you want the video to

Are you ready for windows Vista?

2007-02-04T09:21:00.000-08:00

Are you running on Windows XP and still wondering if you should shift to windows Vista? Are you still wondering "Can My computer run Vista?" Which version is good for me?Like Windows XP, Vista come in various editions, namely;1. Home Premium2. Home Basic3. Business edition4. Enterprise Edition5. UltimateFor a detailed description of which version would better suit your needs, refer to Microsoft's

Troubleshoot - Cannot Send Attachments with Email Messages

2007-02-04T03:51:00.000-08:00

Has it ever happened that you try to send an email message with an attachment and the mail just doesn't go? You keep getting error messages. In most cases the problem lies with the ISP (internet service provider) restricting the size of outgoing messages and attachments. So the first thing to do would be to contact the ISP and confirm that its not a restriction from their side. If it is a problem

2007-02-02T02:09:00.000-08:00

Ripping from scratched CDThough we have all kinds of gadgets for storing data, compact disc (CD) still remain the most popular and easy media for storage of data. We use CD's very routinely to store data, music files, video files etc. However the biggest disadvantage of using CD's is that they often get scratched. Recovery of data and ripping from scratched CD can really be a pain. Below are some

Draw a Circle or Rectangle using Photoshop

2007-01-31T14:02:00.000-08:00

Sounds very simple task but it isn't as straight forward as it seems.1. Start photoshop application.2. From the menu select File | new and choose 300x300 as the image size and click ok.3. Create 2 layers with names "rectangle" and "circle" where we will draw the respective shapes4. Select the "rectangle" layer and then click on the rectangular marquee tool.5. Make a rectangular selection on the

Capture Images from Video Players

2007-01-31T12:37:00.000-08:00

When you try to take screen shots of your desktop by using the print screen key on your keyboard it works wonderfully well. However with videos playing in any video player it gets a little tricky. Many a times the screen shot when pasted into any image editing software results in a black screen. Your intuition tells you that maybe you should pause the player and take the screen shot again. To

Wikileaks - Hope for a corruption free world.

2007-01-31T04:02:00.000-08:00

Wikileaks which will go live within a couple of months is going to be a community based website like wikipedia and based on the same script. Its primary aim is going to be mass document leaking and analysis. What it means is that anyone from any part of the world can submit documents online for others to analyze it and write their comments and opinions. It is going to be a truely global forum

Add favicon to your Site or Blogger Blog

2007-01-28T09:47:00.000-08:00

NOTE: For blogspot favicon doesnot work in IE versions earlier than 7.What is Favicon?Favicon is the small image you see in the address bar of the browser before the URL like theone we have here for digitalexcitement.If a website doesn't define a favicon then the browser displays a default icon. Apart from giving a nice fancy look to a website, when someone bookmarks the site, the icon is

Free Anonymous Surfing

2007-01-26T07:38:00.000-08:00

What is Anonymous Surfing?Anonymous browsing means to surf the web and not leave your information (your browser type, your OS, country, IP address etc). When a website is visited, the user contacts the webserver directly and hence the webserver can get any of the above details and hence may know the where, who and how of his visitors. There could be many reasons why you donot want to disclose

Wikipedi's new change to external links

2007-01-25T04:29:00.000-08:00

As we know wikipedia has become the largest online knowledge base. On march 1st 2006 the number of pages in wikipedia hit the million mark. The articles in Wikipedia are written by people like you and me, who have an expertise in a particular field of study. What makes wikipedia immensely popular and fast growing is, the concept of wikipedia, enabling anybody to edit the pages and create new

Computer and Laptop screen cleaning tips.

2007-01-25T03:11:00.000-08:00

Our computer screens do get dirty and need to be cleaned periodically. How often should you clean your monitor of course depends on how soon it gets dirty, which in turn depends on a lot of factors. If you have pets at home, you smoke (in the room where your computer is situated), if your child/children use the computer than you must clean your monitor preferably every couple of months.

Display html tags and code in html.

2007-01-22T11:47:00.000-08:00

If you are writing articles, tutorials or blogs I am sure you come across some situations in which you want to display a snippet of html code to explain something. If you embed "<" and ">" tags, they will not show up in the html. There is a simple trick to insert these tags into an html code.Replace all your "<" tags with "<" and all ">" tags with ">" and the html will display these tags

Add google sitemap of your blogspot blog

2007-01-22T05:28:00.000-08:00

What are sitemapsIn order to help ourselves and inturn help google to index our pages better, google launched a service called google sitemaps. As the name suggests sitemaps are like a map for your site to assist the google robot know which pages of your site to index. Its like a map guide to the google robot. Webmasters can create a sitemap account with google. Once you create an account you

Change the size of cache ("Temporary Internet Files" folder) in Internet Explorer.

2007-01-22T04:55:00.000-08:00

a. Open internet explorerb. click Tools > Internet Optionsc. In the "Temporary Internet Files" section click on settingd. Move the "Amount of disk space to use" slider to change the size.e. Click ok.

How to build a website - A look into the basics and needed tools

2007-01-21T08:19:00.000-08:00

Some of the basic things you need to build a website are1. Good internet connection (will help in speedy upload and download of stuff to use)2. Domain name3. Web hosting space and bandwidth4. A Html editor5. A good graphic editing program (to make images for your website)6. File upload softwareLets now look into more detail what each of the above means and where to get the tools.1. Good internet

Offline Ajax - what is it?

2007-01-20T07:16:00.000-08:00

Before we try to understand what offline Ajax means, lets look at what Ajax really is!What is Ajax?Ajax is a abbreviation for "Asynchronous JavaScript and XML". It is a technology which integrates a group of technologies. When we browse a non Ajax website and submit a form for example, the form is sent to the web server which in turn processes it and sends a new form back to the client (for

Download youtube videos

2007-01-19T01:47:00.000-08:00

Youtube has become the post popular free video hosting website on the internet. It has in fact created a new trend and a sensation in the world of video hosting. If you want to share a video with the rest of the world, the best way right now is to upload it to youtube and it is immediately accessible to the millions of people visiting youtube daily. If you are a frequent visitor to youtube, I am

Methods to password protect your files and folders

2007-01-19T01:43:00.000-08:00

In the earlier days (windows 98) password protecting a file or folder wasn't an easy task. You had to buy additional software programs specially designed to achieve this task. Thanks to windows XP we have an inbuilt feature to password protect our files and folders. Remember to backup your original files and folders on an external storage device before you password protect them, just in case, if

Strong Password tips

2007-01-17T04:09:00.000-08:00

From installing a new operating system to creating an email, everywhere we need to create passwords for our accounts. In other words, where there is login, you need a password. You need passwords to make sure that a system gives access to specific areas only to the person that is authorized to access it. A password is a way for the system to verify that it is you and only you who are logging

Magnetic Lasso Tool in Adobe photoshop

2007-01-17T03:07:00.000-08:00

When you wanted to select a part of the image from a larger image accurately, the magnetic lasso comes in handy. Magnetic lasso is a beautiful tool to accurately select the objects within an image with defined edges. Open an image of your choice. I have chosen the beautiful miss world Aishwarya Rai. Our aim is now to select the actress out of the pic. Select the magnetic lasso tool in the

Batch rename files

2007-01-15T11:22:00.000-08:00

Have you recently taken some photos with your camera or downloaded them from internet? Before you archive them, wouldn't it make sense to name them with a proper descriptive title and also number them in order? If the number of photos is in hundreds, it would be quitepainful to rename and number them manually. There are some easy techniques to rename your files easily and with little effort.The

New type of spam (Image Spam)

2007-01-15T11:18:00.000-08:00

A spam is a message sent to a user who didn't opt to receive it. In other words it is forcing a message on a user. If you have emails in your inbox about mortgages and buying vigra than 99% it is spam unless you knowingly opted for it. All of us receive spam, once in a while for the lucky ones, and many a day for the not so lucky ones. There are many softwares which detect and block spam. All

How to embed flash (swf) into a webpage?

2007-01-12T13:18:00.000-08:00

I am sure you all would have seen the wonderful flash animations on many websites.These are typically files with .swf extension. They are created using macromediaflash. The question than is, how do you put these animations into a web page?BASIC METHOD1. Upload the .swf file to the location where the html is located.2. Insert the following code into the html source at the location where youwant

Search Engine Optimisation (Insight and Tips)

2007-01-10T11:41:00.000-08:00

1. Try avoiding the usage of frames. Search engines cant read them properly.2. Dynamic URLSDynamic urls are generally bad for search engines in comparison to static URLS. Try to have static urls like http://something.com/something.html instead of a dynamic url like http://something.com/something.php?someid=something&something=1If you cannot avoid using dynamic url's and if you are have hosted

How to send / share big files?

2007-01-08T10:13:00.000-08:00

Did you ever need to send an email with a huge attachment? Like many email providers, currently gmail restricts the maximum allowed email attachment size to 10 MB. If you want to send emails with attachments greater than 10 MB then the alternatives are:1. Consider splitting the file into several parts (of 10MB each), name them in logical order and send them as separate email attachments. Some of

Who has send you the email? Detecting the Origin of the email!

2007-01-08T10:10:00.000-08:00

Have you ever received an email and wondered who send you that particular email? If it looks like a non spammy email then you are more interested to see where the email originated from. If you want to find where a person lives, you would want to have the address with the street name, city name, pin code etc. In a similar way every computer has an IP address, using which you can trace the location

Adobe reader and Acrobat Security bug : upgrade to latest version

2007-01-07T11:23:00.000-08:00

Everybody is urged to upgrade their adobe acrobat reader software as soon as possible.A bug so easy to exploit and yet give access of the local hard drive to the hacker has been found in versions 7.0.8 and earlier of Adobe Reader and Acrobat. As we know most of us who read any pdf documents regularly have adobe acrobat reader. The flaw has been found in the plugin which enables to read pdf

How to find your ip address?

2007-01-07T11:21:00.000-08:00

If you are connected to the internet then you are just a click away from finding your IP address.Go to http://www.ipaddressworld.com or http://whatismyipaddress.com) to find your IP address. However if you are not connected to the internet then the procedure to find your ip address is as follows.1. click "Start" on the bottom left of your screen and then click "run".2. Type "cmd" in the box and

How to handle Zipped (.zip, .rar .ace) files?

2007-01-05T14:52:00.000-08:00

A zip file typically is a file containing one or more files or folders. The use of a zip file is to maintain an archive. A particular reason why people zip files and/or folders is to reduce the file size. By zipping the total size could reduce dramatically of up to 90%. Suppose you have a folder with many files, folders and sub folders. If you want to send this exact directory structure from one

Free antivirus, adware removal, spyware removal tools (100% FREE)

2007-01-05T14:41:00.000-08:00

There are a lot of anti virus tools in the market but as we know they cost a lot of money and for many of us are unaffordable. The question then is are there any free antivirus tools? The answer is yes there are many free anti virus tools online.Free Anti virus toolsIf you are looking for a temporary scanner to see if your computer is infected and remove them then you can use many of the online

How do take a screen snap shot? A picture of what's on your computer screen?

2007-01-05T14:38:00.000-08:00

Sometimes we do need a snap shot of our windows screen. It can be useful for a number of reasons for example explaining to technical support the errors you get when using a software. The easiest way to do this is as follows:1. Open the application of which you need to take the screenshot.2. Press the "print screen" button on your keyboard.3. Open a graphic editing program like paint (normally

How to download flash Movies (capture flash files)?

2007-01-05T14:28:00.000-08:00

I am sure all of you have seen those wonderful flash animations on many websites. Many of those beautiful animated greeting cards you sent are flash animations. If you view an image in a website, most of the time it can be saved by right clicking your mouse on the image and selecting "save as". However you cannot save a flash movie in a similar way. There are many ways you can save a flash movie