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	<title>Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog &#187; Tech Note</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 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 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 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>Offer: Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended (80% discount + free shipping!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended, the latest and the most sophisticated image editor software is coming out with a palpable discount of 80% and also with a free shipping. We generally refrain from such allurement, but this time its really that shareable. Just to give you a brief overview,

You can

Paint directly on 3D models
Access all the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/offer-adobe-photoshop-cs4-extended-80-discount-free-shipping/</link>
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		<title>JDK 1.6 Compiler Optimization performance difference between IP address to long implementations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just to give all ya techies  some food for real geeky thoughts, here is a kind of an eye opener of how much JDK 1.6 compiler has optimized itself over the years. Our developers were working on a project that needed IP addresses to get simplified and be represented by numbers. Understandably it reduces [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/jdk-16-compiler-optimization-performance-difference-between-ip-address-to-long-implementations/</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>Firefox 3.5.1 fixes serious security flaws</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mozillla releases Firefox 3.5.1 update version for Windows, Mac, and Linux on Tuesday. This new version claims a fix for critical security hole and available in more than 70 different languages.

Critical security hole:
Firefox 3.5 was released in a hope to build a better foundation for Web applications, but within a short period of time a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/firefox-351-offers-tighter-security-than-before/</link>
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		<title>An Interview with Indian Travel Search service 90di&#8217;s co-founder Khushnood Naqvi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From this day, Simple Thoughts is starting up a series of interviews with prominent entrepreneurs from India and all over the world. In our first endeavor, we managed to do a tête-à-tête with Khushnood Naqvi, co-founder of a very useful online travel search service, 90di. (Get more information for 90di). The main USP of 90di [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/an-interview-with-indian-travel-search-service-90dis-co-founder-khushnood-naqvi/</link>
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		<title>Is Facebook killing Google softly? - A study</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before people feel obnoxious about the rather ambitious title this article ventures through, I must put you to peace by this self-quote:
Behind every successful machine, there is a human, always watching.
I know you are lost in the mazes of correlating it to the title but, a well researched article from Wired may help you realize [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/is-facebook-killing-google-softly-a-study/</link>
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		<title>Google launches &#8216;Explore Google Search&#8217; (being weary of Bing?)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Search is at the heart of everything we do. Our engineers work every day to solve the hardest search problems, and thus improve your online experience. Here's a glimpse at what they do, the features they've built and the remarkable user stories that inspire our work

When you get such quotes right up, you know that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-launches-explore-google-search-being-weary-of-bing/</link>
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		<title>Windows 7 Release Schedule</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The word is out. We broke it just when it came out of the horse's mouth. Windows 7 has always been one of our primary targets in feeding you with all the news, views and releases. This time too, we won't let you speculate what to do between June to October. Of course Microsoft has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/windows-7-release-schedule/</link>
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		<title>Fluther accuses Jason Calacanis of content stealing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The concept of internet plagiarism is a matter of concern and we all know that. While we had brought this issue into limelight almost a year before (Code of conducts for bloggers), a new and far more serious issue has stirred this debate once again. This time the person under allegation is none other than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/fluther-accuses-jason-calacanis-of-content-stealing/</link>
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		<title>Google Wave: Vision of Web 3.0?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google is constantly upgrading and improving itself looking at the future of web with their kinds. In their endeavour of doing so, the latest innovation they showed us on Google Developers' conference at San Fransisco, is Google Wave. According to them,
Google Wave is a product that helps users communicate and collaborate on the web.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-wave-vision-of-web-30/</link>
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		<title>Convert PDF Tables to Excel Format</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At times you need to reuse the table with tabulated data from PDF format. Simply, you can't work on the PDF tables as you can do with Microsoft Excel. Now, it is an up hill task to edit the data manually to get it in excel format. What if you could get the PDF tables [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/convert-pdf-tables-to-excel-format/</link>
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		<title>Hosted Subversion Service: Advantages and Disadvantages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Subversion is a highly popular version control system used worldwide. It succeeds CVS and aims to rectify its shortcomings. Subversion, like any other version control system, is used to maintain current and historical revisions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation.
Hosted Subversion Service allows you to host your subversion server and data [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/hosted-subversion-service-advantages-disadvantages/</link>
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		<title>Windows 8, How are you Shaping up?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After covering Windows 7 extensively, the quest to find what else is happening obviously took us to the question, Is Microsoft gonna rest now? But for what reason? May be the next version of Windows 7 will be a completely cloud based OS. But as it seems for now that Midori (Windows 8 codename) will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/windows-8-how-are-you-shaping-up/</link>
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		<title>Ubuntu 9.10 : Karmic Koala - Complete Overview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ubuntu community has been graphically the richest distro in the entire Linux community. When we actually talked about Ubuntu 8.10, Intrepid Ibex, people went ga ga over the desktop theme above anything else. This time too, after the announcement of Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope due for today), the community is buzzing up with the talks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ubuntu-910-karmic-koala-complete-overview/</link>
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		<title>Linux Netbooks Return Rates are 4 Times Higher than Windows, but how Microsoft is Gonna Lose it Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While such a claim has been rather emphatic from Microsoft's point of view, but analysts predict that sales of netbooks will grow nearly 80% this year to 21 million units, while overall PC sales decline by 11.9%. And Microsoft is quite aware of that. WSJ reports that Windows XP at a discounted rate is already [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/linux-netbooks-return-rates-are-4-times-higher-than-windows-but-how-microsoft-is-gonna-lose-it-again/</link>
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		<title>Google App Engine Support Java And How To Get An Early Invite Free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The breaking news today is Google App Engine has finally announced support for Java.  The Java environment provides a Java 6 JVM, a Java Servlets interface, and support for standard interfaces to the App Engine scalable datastore and services, such as JDO, JPA, JavaMail, and JCache. Standards support makes developing your application easy and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-app-engine-support-java-and-how-to-get-an-early-invite-free/</link>
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		<title>NVIDIA Quadro to Define the Next generation of Graphics Display</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To help customers face the most challenging visual computing problems, NVIDIA has come with its set of Quadro(R) professional GPU solutions. This new lineup, with the flagship Quadro FX 5800, will surely set the path of next generation graphics card designs and their powers to show extremely rich in visual graphics easily. So let's see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/nvidia-quadro-to-define-the-next-generation-of-graphics-display/</link>
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		<title>Script to kill Resource Hungry Processes and Save from System Hang</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am sure even if you use Fedora or CentOS, you have had fair share of irritation caused by system hangs. Of course no one can doubt Microsoft Windows' supremacy in this event but still, any kind of system hang interrupt our whole process of working and thinking in a big way. What happens with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/script-to-kill-resource-hungry-processes-and-save-from-system-hang/</link>
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		<title>Configure Hotmail for POP3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hotmail, unlike others, never had a POP3 access in the first place. Well, you can't blame Microsoft for leaving behind some of the most important features behind while concetrating on the ones which we DO NOT WANT. But what is POP3 if you ask, It is a protocol that allows almost any e-mail software program [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/configure-hotmail-for-pop3/</link>
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		<title>Google Docs Adds Drawing Feature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google refuses to stop these days. After upgrading GMail and Google search, its now time for an amazing and yet simple feature for Google Docs, insert drawing. With it you can now create and insert drawings directly into your Google documents, spreadsheets and presentations. The tool, just like Google's other products, is very easy to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-docs-adds-drawing-feature/</link>
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		<title>How to Compile Java Source within Java Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This small trick will tell you how you can compile a java source file from another java file on the go. You do not need to run it on a different page and compile it there and then get back to this program. This will be immensely helpful for a program that has some dynamic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-compile-java-source-within-java-program/</link>
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		<title>How to Stop Crashing / Hanging of php-cgi / spawn-fcgi with nginx / lighttpd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the frequently complained problems while using nginx or lighttpd, two popular and rapidly growing web servers which are faster and lighter alternatives to big daddy Apache web server, with php (through fastcgi interface) is that the pool of php-cgi which ultimately serves the php pages seems to hang frequently and without any apparent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-stop-crashing-hanging-of-php-cgi-spawn-fcgi-with-nginx-lighttpd/</link>
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		<title>Boomarklet to make any web page editable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine you had a way to edit any web page instantly in the browser itself to experiment with the look and layout or copy some code?

Here is a Firefox bookmarklet to make any web page editable [Edit] in the browser itself. Just drag it to your bookmarks and you are ready to use it. Whenever [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/boomarklet-to-make-any-web-page-editable/</link>
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		<title>How To Stop Firefox From Blocking Sites Suspected of Forgery or Attack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Firefox 3 onwards has a nice feature which warns you of sites which are suspected of forgery or attacks (through trojans, malware etc.). Unfortunately the feature is too intrusive and warns you repeatedly, nags you to death is a better phrase to describe it, even when you have confirmed that the site is genuine. If [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-stop-firefox-from-blocking-sites-suspected-of-forgery-or-attack/</link>
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		<title>How to Learn db40, Java and .NET Object Database, in 5 minutes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[db4o is a popular object database available both for Java and .NET. I have used it sporadically over several years and can highly recommend it. It is a non-intrusive, very simple to learn, object persistence system that stores any complex object with one single line of code. Unfortunately Db4o is still not as popular with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-learn-db40-java-and-net-object-database-in-5-minutes/</link>
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		<title>Almost 8 Million Job Cuts are Expected in this Recession Say Economists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The statisticians bring no good news but something to be very scared of. This recession has deservingly placed itself in history of worst job losses in 60 years. With output still falling at a dizzying rate, most companies are shedding unneeded workers and cutting back the hours of those remaining.
The economic patient is still in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/almost-8-million-job-cuts-are-expected-in-this-recession-say-economists/</link>
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		<title>How to Write Java WebStart Application in 5 minutes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They say, the best way of learning is to do-it-yourself. When I was assigned to write an article on Java Webstart, I thought to truly understand what's happening with Java Web Start, let's create a program and try to deploy it through any web server.

Pre-requisities

You need to have the latest version of JDK installed on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-write-java-webstart-application-in-5-minutes/</link>
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		<title>First Look at Next Generation 16GB Apple iPhone - Leaked Screenshots, Rumors etc.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve Jobs may have been away but that isn't stopping Apple to come out with the next generation iPhone. iPodObserver first posted a version of the above photo that allegedly depicts an unreleased 16GB iPhone with the model number A1303. This new iPhone case is said to "shed its glossy appearance for a matte black [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/first-look-on-next-generation-apple-iphone-leaked-screenshots-rumors-and-etc/</link>
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		<title>Free e-Book: Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Bible</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Covering the most popular Linux shells (such as bash, ash, tcsh, ksh, korn, and zsh), this reference book shows how to use commands to create scripts within each shell and demonstrates practical applications for shell scripts (including retrieving information from Web sites and sending automated reports via e-mail). For each shell, the author discusses the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/free-e-book-linux-command-line-and-shell-scripting-bible/</link>
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		<title>A Complete Guide To Clean the Hard Disk Space You Weren&#8217;t Aware of</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Things kept will rot if you don't stitch in time. This is for those of you not in a habit of cleansing you hard disk. This piles up system errors. If you ask me, I know a problem shared is a problem halved. Suggestions and ideas pour in like nothing. But where do you land [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/5-simple-steps-to-free-hard-disk-space/</link>
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		<title>How to Set Google Chrome in Incognito Mode as default in Two Steps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No cookies, no cache, no History. Google Chrome offers a cool way to browse Internet without any history stowed on your PC. It was great stuff especially for sluggards like me, who hates clearing cookies. Well I found launching the Incognito mode every time I open the browser was almost a hornets' nest. First switching [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-set-google-chrome-in-incognito-mode-as-default-in-two-steps/</link>
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		<title>3 Essential Firefox Add-ons for Geeks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have talked about so many Firefox add-ons till date but all on a sudden,I realized today that we missed out on the geeky aspect of Firefox add- ons. So without further ado, lemme present to you, 3 very useful apps for geeks.

1. FireBug

FireBug just makes web development so much easier with features like JavaScript [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/3-essential-firefox-add-ons-for-geeks/</link>
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		<title>How to Get Back Your Lost USB</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What if you lose your USB drive? It has slipped off your pocket or you have left it somewhere and forgot. All your work is gone. The confidential files, presentation,  pictures or what not? So would you go on a wild goose chase asking every other fellow - have you seen it?

The simplest way to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-get-back-your-lost-usb/</link>
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		<title>10 Reasons Why You Should Make Lua (A New Programming Language) Your Coding Friend - A Detailed Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amongst all the technologies and well established programming languages like Java, Ruby and etc. we often forget to look into the world of new kids on the programming block. Lua is one such aspirant. Lua (pronounced LOO-ah) means moon in Portuguese. It is a powerful, fast, light-weight, embeddable scripting language which combines simple procedural syntax [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/10-reasons-why-you-should-make-lua-a-new-programming-language-your-coding-friend-a-detailed-review/</link>
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		<title>How to Shut down Windows Vista Faster!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well I know, amongst hundreds of bugs that you face if you are an unfortunate user of Windows Vista, shut down time is a real annoying part. It takes unimaginably more time to shut a darn computer down. So here is a registry tweak that can make the job fairly quick.

Step 1: Open the Registry [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-shut-down-windows-vista-faster/</link>
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		<title>How to: 2 Tips to Make Gmail Faster for Slow Internet Connections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gmail, despite being the simple and effective email companion for most of us, takes a hell lot of time to load at start up. This is very annoying for them who don't have a broadband or a slow internet connection. So here is a simple trick that will make your entry to Gmail faster.

Trick-1
you can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-2-tips-to-make-gmail-faster-for-slow-internet-connections/</link>
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