Two Ways to Create Rounded Corners in GIMP

July 16th, 2007 Chuq Von Rospach is an Adobe Photoshop veteran. Recently he had series of bad experiences with Adobe Photoshop customer support.

June 24th, 2009 Later this week LinkedIn is launching a long-requested feature for group managers: the ability to create subgroups. Subgroups are like a break-out session at a conference.

May 23rd, 2009 Xfce is a free desktop environment for Unix and other platforms such as Linux, Solaris and BSD. This system is designed to enhance the productivity, with faster loading and execution of application, while conserving the system resources.

November 9th, 2007 OpenSSL is a free, popular, robust, high quality, open source (Apache License) toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library. It is available on multiple platforms (Linux, BSD & Windows).

January 20th, 2009 I am sure that you usually get at least one spam mail a day from Orkut. Even GMail which perhaps has the best filtering capability of spam mails, stands helplessly in front of such backdoor attacks.

July 29th, 2008 Zemanta is a nice little WordPress plugin which allows you to discover tags and linkable items within your content as well as images to include. In short it could have a nice little blogger's elf, helping you to create richer content.

January 14th, 2009 Do you want to play with a little trick now? Well, its good to have some light-hearted fun amidst all these serious geeky talks. Do you see the browser address bar logo? Why don't we change it through a simple trick?First you need to create a Favicon  - Favorites  Icon.

September 23rd, 2008 When using enums in a switch, it is almost natural to assume they will be used like a regular switch. Unfortunately to accomodate enums, Java had to enhance its specification and enums in switch behave differently than regular switch statements in two significant and non-trivial ways.

October 23rd, 2008 Artweaver is a freeware graphics editor for Windows developed by Boris Eyrich to indulge in creative painting. It is capable of simulating a wide range of classical effects (such as oil paints, acrylics, pastels, pencils, airbrushes, etc) to create natural-looking artistic images.

April 5th, 2008 A common error while configuring (running ./configure) software in Linux systems is - error: C++ compiler cannot create executables. The solution, not surprisingly is simple: Install the package which adds C++ support to the GNU Compiler Collection - gcc-c++.

January 15th, 2007 There are 3 options to run rsync server on windows, explained below with pros and cons and instructions. Using DeltaCopy.

May 25th, 2009 YouTube is one of the most easily accessible video download source. There are numerous ways to download video from YouTube.

August 13th, 2007 In short in HSQLDB cached table sucks in terms of performance. To elaborate I was running a program which takes around 9 hours running on two medium sized cached tables (bigger one 163 MB).

March 15th, 2005 Email signature are by default text messages. However I wanted to create HTML signature (see below) for my email messages.

January 15th, 2009 Baffled with a sea of RSS feeds in your reader or aggregator? You are not alone. This happens to every other subscriber.