How to Boost Your Printer Performance by 20% and Save Printing Ink

December 29th, 2008 There have been times when we needed a PDF file to edit. So we have converted that to a word document with the help of hundreds of free software across the internet.

June 22nd, 2008 VLC Media Player is a leading player for displaying video on Windows & Linux. It supports a wide variety of formats.

December 22nd, 2008 Another annoying thing I have found in Openoffice.org documents is that, it doesn't let you save the files as .doc unless you carefully do it every time at the point of saving. By default it saves the files in its own format.

May 4th, 2009 Ubuntu 9.04, codenamed Jaunty Jackalope has satisfied the Linux community to no end after its successful launch of the newest version of the distro where stability ands speed both were awesome as per the tech pandits. The other day, while I was going through a series of tests with my own Jaunty, I thought of using Samba with it so that I can share folders.

August 10th, 2007 While an individual DNS request often takes small time to execute, when the primary DNS server is overloaded or unavailable it can take quite sometime to resolve your requests. Now what has that to do with improving Firefox performance? Firefox makes DNS requests to convert host name (like blog.taragana.com) to IP addresses (like 72.36.134.131), which is then used to fetch the web page.

January 15th, 2009 Suppose you were concentrating hard to develop something new and editing a file in vim editor. Just when you thought you are done with the problem, the save option reminded you how unfortunate you are.

December 20th, 2008 There is a very annoying feature at orkut now. You can not download any image file from Orkut directly from someone's album.

May 14th, 2007 SessionSaver is a popular Firefox extension which allows you to seamlessly save existing session and restore it automatically at startup. You can also name the session and retrieve them anytime in future.

December 10th, 2008 I was amazed to find this GoDaddy coupon which allowed me to save over 42% for a .net domain registration for 2 years. It works for .net and .org domain registrations and for any number of years.

December 25th, 2008 This is a very important trick for Windows users. Though its fairly old still I thought of putting it up finally in case someone needs to copy the outputs of the DOS he is working on.

August 23rd, 2008 First tell me what is the best way to concatenate large number of String objects? Is it a + b? Most Java developers know not to use a + b (+ operator) because of huge performance problems, they use StringBuffer instead. In fact I did some tests in the past which confirms this folklore.

April 3rd, 2007 I tried using eAccelerator alone and then integrated it with PHP Zend Optimizer for better performance. The result was surprising.

January 16th, 2009 I have seen people facing problems with ipv6 in Ubuntu machines. The network performance dcecreases considerably through ipv6 protocols and there are some notable bugs too.

August 14th, 2007 I discovered a really cool way to use Subversion, my favorite version control system - automatic versioning / commit on save. Essentially with this simple tweak you can use subversioned files like you would use any ordinary files.

December 24th, 2008 HP has announced a free photo printing application that allows iPhone and iPod touch owners to quickly and easily print 4" x 6" photos wirelessly from their mobile devices to most HP inkjet printers connected to local Wi-Fi network, dubbed as HP iPrint Photo, which leverages Apple’s Bonjour technology and innovative Multi-Touch interface aiming for easiest and fastest wireless iPhone or iPod touch print experience. The new HP iPrint Photo application for iPhone and iPod touch is now available as a free download from Apple’s App Store.