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Mon, 05/26/2008 - 06:10Next Open Coffee Club Meet to be held on 27th April 2008
Thu, 04/24/2008 - 10:42
Open Coffee Club Bangalore organizes meetups for Entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists and wannabe Entrepreneurs to connect and share. The meets are held every alternate Sunday. If you are interested in Entrepreneurship and would like to start out something, please do sign up the group by visiting group page at http://groups.google.com/group/bangaloreocc
The details for the next OCC meet are as follows:
Date: 27 Apr 08, Sunday.
Time: 11 AM – 1 PM
Venue: CoreObjects
Brigade MLR, #50, Vani Vilas Road, Opp. National College, Basavanagudi,
Bangalore, Karnataka 560004
[How-To]Bypassing Passwords in Windows
Sat, 04/19/2008 - 11:55This post is about an interesting hack to bypass the login passwords in Windows. Application of this hack will result in Windows logging you on everytime as a certain user ( Please do remember at this point that this trick is useful if you are the sole user of your computer. ) Follow the steps mentioned below to apply this trick
- Click Start -> Run.
- Type Control userpasswords2
- Press Enter.
[How-To] Create and Delete Users in MySQL
Thu, 04/17/2008 - 04:24MYSQL which forms the M of the LAMP series is a widely used open source relational database management system (RDBMS).
While working on a project, i learnt that some of the developers who were too much addicted with tools like PhpMyAdmin didn’t actually know how to create / delete users from a command line. For the information of them and for all others, this is the post to read.
Creating Users
First and the foremost thing to know, if you wish to create users on your MySQL engine, you must have sufficient administrator rights. Specifically speaking, you must have the privilege either for CREATE USER or INSERT privilege on the mysql database.
CREATE USER user@host IDENTIFIED BY ‘password’;
IT Knowledge Exchange: A free edition of Experts Exchange
Wed, 04/16/2008 - 16:54Experts Exchange is one of the famous and most used forum for all IT related issues/problems. However, as this forum happens to be a paid one; there have been many attempts to crack open its authentication mechanism so as to allow free access. Over the months, i have found atleast 3-5 different ways mentioned in various blogs like this and this and this. This clearly shows the interest in getting quality solutions for free. In order to get free solutions to your problems, i would suggest using IT Knowledge Exchange.
Freelancer’s Toolbox: 5 Websites you must check
Wed, 04/16/2008 - 14:47Since a few weeks i was trying to figure out a websites which offer work to Freelancers working in the area of graphic designing, websites development and programming. For the information of my readers, these websites are usually marketplaces wherein project owners and providers interact, bid and get the stuff done and thereby earn money.
After having done some research, i feel its time that i write about them. Below is the list of 5 websites i feel you ( as a freelancer/ provider/ project owner) must register with.
1.) Elance: Elance is a Freelance job search database which covers open positions in fields like writing, website development, graphics, sales and support, Legal, Engineering and more.
What is Twitter?
Wed, 04/16/2008 - 03:02I found this interesting video from CommonCraft which talks about Twitter in Plain English. A must for all those who are still not there on Twitter because of their own conceptions about it. A good watch for those who are already on board.
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By the way, you can follow me on Twitter by clicking here
Also read :PollDaddy launches Twitter Polls
Futuristic UPS from WepIndia
Wed, 04/16/2008 - 02:35I came across this futuristic UPS from WepIndia . WeP TOP.UPS apart from being a normal UPS also has the following features
PollDaddy launches Twitter Polls
Tue, 04/15/2008 - 06:13PollDaddy has launched a new application which makes it easier to post PollDaddy Polls into your Twitter account.
Check out the URL http://twitter.polldaddy.com and follow the on screen instructions to create a twitter poll for your twitter account.
Also read: Use Twitter to Publicize your blog
How does a Blackberry device work?
Tue, 04/15/2008 - 03:22In this post, i would like to share with you the working of a blackberry device. Many people i know use Blackberry devices for e-mail purposes. However, almost Ninety-five percent of them are unaware of its working mechanism. I derive the motivation of this post from them.
As we all know, there is always a software behind the hardware. This holds true for the blackberry as well. Blackberry Server Software comes in two forms
- BlackBerry Professional Software (BPS)
- BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES)
The way that the BlackBerry server works applies to both the BlackBerry Professional Software (BPS) and the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES)
The basic steps in receiving an email on a blackberry device are as follows:
[Java] Why (and how) to comment your code
Thu, 04/10/2008 - 17:22Although this is primarily a post centered around Programming but because I happen to be a student of Java, I shall be talking about code commenting in Java.
We started with Java posts last year with the post titled What is the difference between JDK and JRE? . As is clear from the title of the post, this particular blogpost described the difference between JDK and JRE and then in the series of posts like Write a Java Application without a main() method which explained the trick of writing a program without a main method ( though this certainly is not useful from a production perspective) and How do I declare a constant in Java which explained the process of declaring a constant in Java.
[How-To] Get more from your iPod Battery
Tue, 03/25/2008 - 08:02In one of my previous post, i had written about steps one can take to save mobile battery and make it go longer. However, as we become more technology oriented, saving the battery for longer playback time becomes a concern; iPod is therefore no different. In this post, i shall be talking about a few simple steps which one can take in order to get more juice out of his/her iPod battery.
Google Code University: Learn programming the Google way
Tue, 03/25/2008 - 03:21Google Code University website contains courses on topics like Ajax, Distributed Systems, Web Security and languages like C++, Java and Python.
