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	<title>Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog &#187; How To</title>
	<link>http://blog.taragana.com</link>
	<description>News and views from a Software Architect and Web Entrepreneur on Java, PHP and Web 2.0 Technologies.</description>
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		<title>How to get free electricity for emergencies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This video shows you how you can tap the free electricity in a phone line, which often stays even if your power goes out (loadshedding), and use it to light a table-lamp and more. It also allows you to operate your phone normally at the same time and flashes to indicate your phone is ringing.

Cool [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-get-free-electricity-for-emergencies/</link>
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		<title>How to install Blender in CentOS 5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blender is popular open source, cross platform suite of tools for 3D content creation. Here is how you can install Blender on CentOS 5 (enterprise version of Linux) and equivalent to RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.

This mini-guide assumes you have a working knowledge on yum / yumex.
To install Blender you need to have epel and rpmforge [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-install-blender-in-centos-5/</link>
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		<title>How to protect you brand / identity on 120 Popular Social Media Websites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[KnowEm is the new buzz in the social networking media that filters unclaimed usernames at 120 social media sites. Well, social media is expanding and too soon you would see all media going social. It high time to preserve your social media identity before it's compromised. If you have a unique identity established in Facebook, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-protect-you-brand-identity-on-120-popular-social-media-websites/</link>
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		<title>How to Get Windows 7 OEM License for Ultimate, Professional and Home Premium Editions Cheaply</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Windows 7 is set for a grand release in less than a month. You much be looking for the best bargain to buy Windows 7 at cheapest price. Although the retail pricing of Windows 7 license for both Full Packaged Product (FPP) and Upgrade licenses have already been announced, there's an alternative license scheme from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-get-windows-7-oem-license-for-ultimate-professional-and-home-premium-editions-cheaply/</link>
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		<title>How many Twitter users are there?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was playing around with the twitter API and I found a way to find the exact number of Twitter users.

Note: The number of twitter users is continuously increasing by dozens every second, however it will still be accurate at the time of this writing for the higher order digits.
The number of twitter users is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-many-twitter-users-are-there/</link>
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		<title>How to install / enable Java Plugin / Applets in Firefox on CentOS 5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CentOS comes with OpenJava JRE installed. However that doesn't provide the required libraries to run Java from browsers (read: applets). Here are the steps to install and enable applets / Java plugin in Firefox browser on CentOS 5.
Note: The instructions may be applicable to other versions of CentOS, Fedora, others Linux distros too. However it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-install-enable-java-plugin-applets-in-firefox-on-centos-5/</link>
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		<title>How to download &amp; install JDK 6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I never thought I would have to write this article. Downloading Java was the simplest thing possible. Just go to java.sun.com and download the JDK. Unfortunately Sun has (intentionally?) complicated the procedure to such an extent that it almost takes an expert to download the proper version of JDK and without any extra and often [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-download-install-jdk-6/</link>
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		<title>How to Monitor the Server And Network in Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For any System administrator its tough to monitor large Linux networks continuously without a streamlined system. Looking for an efficient network monitoring solution for Linux systems we came across Nagios. It is a free, open source host, service and network monitoring services. It allows you to monitor all your hosts, network equipment and services at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-monitor-the-server-and-network-in-linux/</link>
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		<title>How to Run PHP in JSP/JAVA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With Apache Tomcat developers can enable PHP only in one web application and run it globally for all applications under tomcat. Generally, PHP is said to have several orders of magnitude more open source code and projects. Those developers favoring the Resin application server have the ubiquitous of PHP. Implementing PHP in Java would benefit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-run-php-in-jspjava/</link>
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		<title>How to Trace System Calls and Signals in Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are certain programs in Linux for which the source is not readily available. There is an useful diagnostic, instructional, and debugging tool for Linux to solve it. The system intercepts and records the system calls that are called by process and the signals which are received by a process. It also gives students and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-trace-system-calls-and-signals-in-linux/</link>
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		<title>How to display the process in Linux System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a part of monitoring Linux system you often need to know about the currently running processes in Linux systems. Once you know the process running on the Linux system you can kill the process that are slowing down your system. Again, information about system processes makes it imperative to kill the processes that make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-display-the-process-in-linux-system/</link>
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		<title>How to find ethernet / MAC address on Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Linux networking is easy, you just have to know how. We will discuss below how you can find your own machine's MAC address for all the attached ethernet cards as well as MAC addresses on other machines in the network.

How to find Ethernet / MAC Address of ethernet cards in your machine
ifconfig -a
In the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-find-ethernet-mac-address-on-linux/</link>
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		<title>How to See Linux TCP/UDP Network and Socket information</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After configuring services on the network in Linux system, it's important for you to keep tabs on the ports that are actually listening on the system's network interfaces. This is all more important because open ports are evidence of an intrusion. There are a Linux monitoring tools that will allow you the knowledge of open [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-see-linux-tcpudp-network-and-socket-information/</link>
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		<title>How to track Average CPU Load and Disk Activity under Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For any System Admin working in Linux it's imperative to know how to maintain a better balance in input/output load between physical disks.They can change the system configuration to generate better input/output load between physical disks. There is a simple command for monitoring system input/output device loading in Linux by observing the time the devices [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-track-average-cpu-load-and-disk-activity-under-linux/</link>
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		<title>How to See the Memory Map of Processes in Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When working in Linux system you might need to look for the memory usage in the system. Linux comes with different command to check memory usage. However, there is an easy command in Linux that allows you to see the total amount of free and used physical and swap memory.


Type this command below into the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-see-the-memory-map-of-processes-in-linux/</link>
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		<title>How to know the Uptime in My Linux System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you wanna know how long the server has been running? It requires just a simple command to monitor the time for which the Linux system has been running. With a single command you can not only know about the uptime, but also the number of users that have currently logged on and the system [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-know-the-uptime-in-my-linux-system/</link>
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		<title>Who is in My Linux System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Out of many Linux monitoring tools there's a one cool one that allows you to know who is logged on the system and what they are doing. It shows current time, the time for which the system had been running, number of users currently logged on. Further it also displays the load averages for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/who-is-in-my-linux-system/</link>
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		<title>How to Monitor System Activity, Hardware and System information in Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For any Linux user monitoring the system's performance can be an intricate task. Most of the Linux distributions already come with loads of monitoring tools. These monitoring tools provide metrics that can be used to get information about system activities. Monitoring the system allows you to trace the root of causes hampering the systems performance. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-monitor-system-activity-hardware-and-system-information-in-linux/</link>
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		<title>How to install nVidia Driver on CentOS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before you read, here is a bit of warning: Do not install the nVidia driver that you can download from nVidia.com. The driver may install fine but may not work as you expect. You are much better of following the procedure below.

Now I could repeat stuff from other website or I could say it succintly. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-install-nvidia-driver-on-centos/</link>
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		<title>How to auto-start synergyc in Fedora / CentOS / RHEL Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may find several instructions to autostart synergyc during login and after login. I had a hard time using them. Additionally I found the instructions to be redundant and based on incomplete inderstanding of how gdm works. The following is the simplest set of instructions you can find anywhere to autostart synergyc on Fedora / [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-auto-start-synergyc-in-fedora-centos-rhel-linux/</link>
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		<title>MS Office 2007 Hack:  How to View a Picture that doesn&#8217;t Show Up in the Document</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, this has often occurred with me, may be with you as well. I placed a picture in your Word document only to see that its not visible. Generally what happens is you do the writing and editing in Print Layout view. When you view it in the Draft views, Word displays only the contents. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ms-office-2007-hack-how-to-view-a-picture-that-doesnt-show-up-in-the-document/</link>
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		<title>Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 Vs Norton Internet Security 2009: Comparitive Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the networks on web expanding, Internet Security has grown into a prime concern. Internet Security tools are designed to protect computer's internet account and files from intrusion by unknown entities. For businesses as well as individual users using internet face security threats from  virus, malware, spyware, phishing, spams and such other infections. There are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/kaspersky-internet-security-2009-vs-norton-internet-security-2009-comparitive-review/</link>
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		<title>Java / JDK 7 Downloaded?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just started playing with JDK 7 (JDK stands for Java development kit and is suitable for Java developers, others should just download the JRE). Java 7 comes with some impressive features. My personal favorite is the WatchService API, more on it later.

Java 7 hasn't been released at the time of this writing. However [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/java-jdk-7-downloaded/</link>
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		<title>Windows 7 + Intel to give laptops 50% increase in battery life!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Windows 7+Intel= "Wintel" &#8212; Well, the mathematical operation in question is not that boring because it holds great benefit for all you laptop users. The innovation from the partnership promises to sort out the most significant annoyance of our notebooks - the battery life. As PCMAG reports,
In a demonstration of two identically configured ThinkPads T400s, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/windows-7-intel-to-give-laptops-50-increase-in-battery-life/</link>
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		<title>Download multiple images from a website at once</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Downloading a single image from a website is a cakewalk. I am not going to waste your time on that. But, downloadling multiple images from the same is quite a repetitive one. You will have to download every single photo from that website exclusively. its tedious, boring and almost inferior. God knows why didn't we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/download-multiple-images-from-a-website-at-once/</link>
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		<title>How to find Hardware Details in Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We often come across a lot of inquires on Linux systems. One of the most commonly asked questions is how to find the hardware specs /details on Linux. Well, Linux is an intricate system and require some simplification. There are several tools for deriving hard disk specification in Linux. We would like to suggest you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-find-hardware-details-in-linux/</link>
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		<title>Convert PPT or doc file to PDF online Free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Does it requires hundreds on tools to convert Power Point (PPT) to PDF? Of course not, there are cost effective ways to achieve the same results. PDF is by and large the standard in distributing electronic documents. In PDF it's quite easy to exchange files through various platforms, such as text or graphics files into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/convert-ppt-or-doc-file-to-pdf-online-free/</link>
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		<title>11 Easy and effective Ways to do business through facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Facebook, besides being the one step solution to entertainment and social networking, also comes with a multitude of advertising opportunities for big businesses, entrepreneurs and even independent artists and freelancers. If you know the ways to do it, then Facebook with its more than 200 Million (approx.) unique visitors, can become one of the biggest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/12-tips-to-grow-your-business-successfully-through-facebook/</link>
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		<title>PC antispyware 2010 removal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PC antispyware 2010 is a rogue of a software program. Upon getting many complaints about it from people and their requests to troubleshoot the removal technique, we finally got our hands on this program and oh boy, it was some experience. It is the latest counterfeit anti-spyware software that creates hassles for computer users around [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/pc-antispyware-2010-removal/</link>
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		<title>How to Block Spammers From Your Twitter Stream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ While discussing the top 10 tips to improve your twittering, I had indicated that don't make yourself look like a spammer. In real world, with shooting popularity Twitter has also invited the spammers to have a party. Well, if you are fed-up with the spams and hankering for a solution, here's something for you. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-block-spammers-from-your-twitter-stream/</link>
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		<title>Progressive Disclosure in API Design with example</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You have probably heard about the progressive disclosure principle of UI design. In Progressive disclosure design you defer advanced or rarely used features to a secondary screen, making applications easier to learn and less error-prone. It has been successfully argued that the same principles can be and should be applied to API design, which are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/progressive-disclosure-in-api-design-with-example/</link>
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		<title>How to Get a Palm Pre for $99.99</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Here's a pretty cool revelation, check it out and if you need a stimulus check, how did you spend it? Voila! I STRUCK GOLD, your beloved Palm Pre is out for $99.99. It's a real deal at LetsTalk, if you can afford Palm's touchscreen sensation. No, I am not talking about the refurbished ones like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/palm-pre-available-for-9999/</link>
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		<title>Upgrade Windows 7 Cheaply and Easily: Guide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of you must be looking to do away with the Windows 7 Starter on your netbooks, What if you had a short-cut to Windows 7 Home Premium or for that Windows 7 Professional or Windows 7 Ultimate. Frankly, the Windows 7 starter at best serves your primary needs like emailing and surfing needs, just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/upgrade-windows-7-cheaply-and-easily-guide/</link>
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		<title>How to Store Files or Attach Them to e-mail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, iPhone is no PC, its just a smartphone with extended capabilities and a copious hard drive should at least allow storing and sending of files. Photos and video can be sent directly only from the iPhone's camera roll. You have no way to download Word documents and other files for editing and sending. We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-store-files-or-attach-them-to-e-mail/</link>
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		<title>How to Get an Apple iPhone for $49</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everybody wants a hand on iPhone 3G S, but not all have the money. What if you could have the latest iPhone 3G without burning a hole in your pocket? Well, here's a hack for your iPhone aficionados who are falling short of dollars to own the best selling smartphone. What about an iPhone 3G [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-get-an-apple-iphone-for-49/</link>
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		<title>How to Upload Photos &amp; Video from Mobile to Facebook: 3 ways</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Facebook is probably one of the fatest growing addictions out there. In Facebook, you are always craving to know what your friends are up to. On the contrary, you might be looking to show them what's going on in your life. Well, what about photos, don't they convey a hundred words you would have wasted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-upload-photos-video-from-mobile-to-facebook-3-ways/</link>
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		<title>How to Auto-Unsubscribe from Mailing List in Gmail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At times you receive emails from authentic mailing list and mark it as spam, since its of no interest to you. What if you could escape these undesired messages by automatically unsubscribing to the messages. Although most of the undesired messages are filtered to Spam by Gmail but the user preferences may vary. While you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-auto-unsubscribe-from-mailing-list/</link>
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		<title>How to Download Norton Internet Security 2010 Free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a week after releasing the beta test version of Norton AntiVirus 2010, Symantec has come up with the Internet Security 2010 Beta. Syamantec's revamped Norton Internet Security 2010 provides a faster and more effective security solution. The latest release offers superior performance with its newly imbibed Norton Safe Web that encloses a new antispam [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-download-norton-internet-security-2010-free/</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Productivity Plugins for WordPress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to blogging, WordPress is the most powerful CMS available on Internet.  Wordpress becomes all the more smart with its comprehensive list of extensions or plugins. The Wordpress plugins are designed to serve a wide range of purposes from email to adsense earnings. But, if you are looking to make your WordPress blog [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-10-productivity-plugins-for-wordpress/</link>
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		<title>How to check what has been changed in your Windows Registry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Believe me, being an avid Windows user all my life I know, 70% of the problems you encounter in your PC has some direct or indirect links to the registry. You uninstall a software, sometimes it doesn't erase its registry values and after a certain period you get a junk full of keys that slows [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-check-what-has-been-changed-in-your-windows-registry/</link>
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