Posted on Sunday, 29th August 2010 by Neeta

Blogging has today become very common. Persons from all walks of life blog today. While most of bloggers resort to Windows Live Writer while working on Windows OS but Linux users are not that lucky. There is certainly no comparable equivalent in real terms as far WLW is concerned but there are many alternatives which can be resorted to. One such blog writer is ScribeFire which is available as add-on and extension in Chrome and Firefox. Continue reading…

Posted on Saturday, 28th August 2010 by Neeta

Wine makes you run Windows software programs on Linus OS like Ubuntu. Wine is still under development and there are many millions of people who have installed Wine on their computers. Wine 1.2 is a stable edition while Wine 1.3 is still under Beta. There are many applications which are listed under Platinum, Gold and Silver category. Continue reading…

Posted on Tuesday, 24th August 2010 by Neeta

Are your online hours best utilized? How many hours do you surf aimlessly? Present day generation is grappling with a common ailment now which relates to information overdose. Most of  the time we are online, spending hours and hours in front of laptops, smart phones and of course hardtops. How much of our online hours are optimally utilized. If we all introspect, I am sure everybody will have the answers to the questions posed above. We have offline lives as well. But the way we are moving along, we are neglecting our offline lives which have gone off-color. Too much of information load with no structured pattern just flows by us. We just remember a few of the things which we have been exposed to or have read.  Continue reading…

Posted on Sunday, 22nd August 2010 by Neeta

RSS or the Really Simple Syndication feeds are generally employed by media outlets and web logs to display and distribute the content in standardized format. Standardized XML files help in publishing the content once and then distributing as many times as is required. There is one unique benefit of RSS which is aggregation of content from may web sources at one place. Bloglines and NewsGator like many others employ RSS feeds for syndication purposes. Continue reading…

Posted on Thursday, 19th August 2010 by Neeta

We all are quite bugged up juggling with multiple passwords and having to remember them. Trouble gets more deeper when out of the total maize of passwords there are some which get expired after regular intervals. There are password manager tools which lets you manage all of your passwords. But there are issues with such tools too. All such problems lead to most of us using the same passwords for multiple accounts. Some even use the same passwords for banking. Continue reading…

Posted on Friday, 13th August 2010 by Neeta

Have you ever wished while setting up your new PC to have facility to download all quality Free Apps in one go while you relax. Whenever you set up your new PC, you have to reinstall all packages one by one. This is a very painful experience as software have to be first browsed, downloaded and then installed. Continue reading…

Posted on Thursday, 12th August 2010 by Neeta

Heavy industries like steel mills, paper mills and cement mills have by far the largest untapped potential for energy generation in the wasted heat they generate.This energy generally goes wasted as there very few mechanism to trap this heat. Even if mechanisms are there they have been found wanting in operation. Coal based power Plants generally employ Economizers and Air pre-heater to recover the heat which is getting wasted in to environment. These are functional in new installations but are missing in the old setups.

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Posted on Sunday, 8th August 2010 by Neeta

IdiomDictionary has a domain name which exactly tells what the site does. Very rarely one can find a site which has a name which means what the website stands for. Site is repository of some 5000 odd idioms and their meanings. The meanings are well thought out, simple and concise.  Continue reading…