Simplest Way to Mount / Extract iso files without Burning

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.

February 21st, 2006 James Huff (MacManx) points to comprehensive set of resources on how to effectively use Photoshop's Extract filter and Photoshop in general.

August 30th, 2007 By default, Windows Vista uses Live File System to incrementally add files to your CD. Live File System is a file storage system that can be used to create CDs and DVDs.

June 6th, 2009 Microsoft had introduced a new free email and newsgroup client in Windows Vista, Windows Mail. It succeeded Microsoft's long grown Outlook Express.

September 14th, 2008 One of the common challenges bash script writers face when writing a script which references files in the same directory (or its sub-directories) as the script file. As the script can be called from anywhere, you cannot use the current directory to refer to the files.

December 11th, 2004 Using php 5.x is not documented in the manual, there are lots of questions with few answers, redundant hints etc. Even php 4.x users will benefit from this as it shows how to enable php only in a single web application, instead of all web applications as all the existing docs state. Enjoy!

May 6th, 2008 The JavaFX Script Programming Language Tutorial by James Weaver at JavaOne 2008 was rather insipid. In my jet-lagged state, it was enough to put me to peaceful slumber.

January 7th, 2009 How about a simple trick that hides a file in an image? Yes I will give you a simple tip which will hide a file inside an image. So much so that the image file will be a JPEG, look and act like a JPEG too.

November 2nd, 2005 Ant (java software) from Apache Foundation is a popular build tool (often used successfully with other release management tasks) which replaces make. "Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool.

December 26th, 2008 If these men die the death of all men or if they suffer the fate of all men, then the LORD has not sent me. No I am not here to remind you of an old saying of Bible.

April 24th, 2009 Ubuntu 9.04, released yesterday, has got a lot of great new features. One of them is ext4 filesystem.

January 5th, 2009 Firefox, statistically the most popular browser in the world has a lot that is to be explored still. Though we have regularly fed you to better your firefox experience, the resource-hungriness of Firefox has always been under question.

March 30th, 2009 Did you ever download an awesome wall paper that had a lovely message in the background and you wished if you could set that over some of your snaps? Well, you can always do that through photoshop and all. But it takes so much of time and energy, no? What if there was a genie who could just cut the text out of the photo? Yes seriously.

October 25th, 2006 Often you have files in your subversion directiory which you do not want to commit / check-in. Such files could be compiled files, intermediate files used for data processing etc.

June 23rd, 2007 In directories under subversion there may be files which you do not want to add to subversion. Normally such files would show in subversion status (svn stat) with ? in front of them.