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Microsoft has launched its most awaited new mobile operating system at Mobile world congress which they have called as “Windows phone 7 series”. It is rebranded from “Windows mobile” to “Windows phone 7 series”. They are now planning to launch their own mobile phone instead of only selling their OS to other phone manufacturers like HTC. This might directly compete with Apple iphone. In the same way that the Windows 7 desktop OS was nearly everything people hoped it would be, Windows Phone 7 is almost everything anyone could’ve dreamed of in a phone, let alone a Microsoft phone.
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Do your technical analysis like RSA, MACD, Slow Stotch on Nifty data using excel sheet automatically..
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Twitter, the popular social news service, was hacked early Friday morning by a group calling itself the “Iranian Cyber Army.”
Featured, Unix/Linux »
TCL/TK is the very convient script language to create GUI on X-windows platform. Basically it wraps the call of X-Motif and allows user to create GUI very quickly without worry about X-motif functions..
Thought TCL is quite easy to use, it misses some useful functions. One of that is scrolling. Recently I was stuck-ed in similar problem. My requirement was to create a scrollable page with possibility to enter data by user.
Tcl/Tk only allows to attach scroll bar with Entry, Listbox and canvas widgets. If I use canvas then …
Featured, MediaWiki »
MediaWiki is very popular for wiki creation. Though it is so much used, the irony is, most of settings has to be set using LocalSettings.php file. Also the maintenance scripts has to be run by command prompt. Maintenance scripts are used for various update task on MediaWiki.
Recently I faced a problem in MediaWiki update. My requirement was to prevent users from creating the account by themselves. The account creation request should be validated by moderator and then it is accepted or rejected. I found a ConfirmAccount extension which does …
Featured, windows, windows 7 »
Bought your computer recently and planning to buy microsoft’s upcoming windows 7 operating system? Then here is your chance to update to windows 7 at reduced cost or no cost at all !! Microsoft has announced Windows 7 upgrade option, a way to upgrade your current vista operating system.. Some computer manufacturer have participated in this offer while some have not..
You can upgrade to windows 7 for free of charge if you have bought the computer with windows vista in specific time frame shown below and received a “windows 7 …
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Useful Vi editor commands.
If you are using Unix then you must have used the VI editor for text edition. Vi Editor is the best editor in my view. If you have practiced enough and mastered the frequent command then you can understand its power.
I have summarized the basic commands and some useful command one should know to speed up VI editor use. I will not go in to details of how commands work.
There are mainly three modes of commands in VI editor, Insert mode, Command mode and colon mode. …
Featured, windows »
Service DEP (Data Execution Prevention – Prevention of Data Execution) is a function from the Windows SP2. This function is to prevent malicious script code in certain areas of Windows usually reserved for the storage of non-executable data.Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is a security feature that helps prevent damage from viruses and other security threats by monitoring your programs to make sure they use system memory safely.
This feature can be some times annoying as it will close the program or game as soon as you start them..
I had this problem …

