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How to Search & Find PDF Files in Google

Ganesh — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:44:33 PDT

Every person at one time or another finds themselves in the situation in which he/she needs to get information from the internet fast but cannot find the needed info. Most of the times this info is in PDF files that you may not find easily by normal search. So why not just search for the PDF files instead.

>To do so just add “pdf” or “filetype:pdf” after your search topic.

>Press Enter or Click search

>You will be able to see [PDF] before the results, this means that the link will lead you to a PDF file.

>If the “quick view” option is there after the result, it means you can preview the PDF file using Google Docs before downloading it.The PDF will be opened for preview in a separate window.

Now you can get what you need quickly without going through multiple results which provide none of the info that you are searching for.

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How to get paid iPhone/iPod/iPad Touch apps for free

Ganesh — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:59:37 PDT

There are many legal ways to get paid apps from the Appstore. But patience is a must for some of these ways. A jailbroken iPhone/iPod Touch is not needed to get the apps. Here are a few ways by which you can get paid apps for free.

#1) FuelMyApp helps you to get paid apps for free inreturn of a review for it. You are first required to buy the app buy yourself then give it a review within 72 hours of purchase. then you will receive a refund via Paypal. But there is speculation that positive review are only getting refunds.

>Giveaways can be found in many place such as AppSafari.com where paid apps are given away every day. Promo codes which are updated every few days are there for all apps.

Other sites such as OpenFeint.com

and FreeAppADay.com also provide paid apps free of cost but only 1 app is available per day.

#2) FreeAppAlert updates you with all the latest Free Apps on Appstore. (Some of these apps don’t usually stay free for long)You can even get daily emails on Free Apps with links to view the app on the Appstore or FreeAppAlert.com

#3)AppMiner is a free app that lists all free apps and Apps with changed prices. From your iPhone/iPod Touch you can select apps from it which launches the AppStore. An interesting feature is that you can add apps to your watchlist and then get notifications on price changes.

#4) Appshopper lists price variations in paid apps and notifies you when there are price changes in apps in your wishlist if you signup for a free account. You can even list only the popular apps instead of searching for a long time through Apps which are not popular.

All apps are with the information about it which you would normally get in the Appstore. Similar services are provided by Apptism and 148Apps.

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How to install Froyo on Droid Incredible Manually

Ganesh — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:44:34 PDT

To install Froyo manually on your Droid Incredible all you have to do is follow these steps:

>Check if you are on a stock ROM as this update will work only if you are.

>Download the Official Android 2.2 Firmware.

>Make a copy of the downloaded file to the root directory which is your microSD and name it as “update”.zip.

>Switch Off your phone. Now reboot it with Volume down button pressed.

>Now in the bootloader screen select recovery using volume keys to navigate and power button to select.

>Upon seeing the “/!\” symbol press volume up and power to show recovery options. As earlier use volume keys to navigate and power button to select “apply sdcard:update.zip”.

>When the installation completes you will see “Install for sdcard complete”, now just select “reboot system now” to finish.

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How to download torrents on your iPhone/iPod Touch

Ganesh — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:55:34 PDT

Keeping your PC on all time time for downloading torrents is just not sensible. A smart way to download torrents is by using your iPhone or iPod touch. It is actually very simple and you can start downloading after a few fast steps. The only thing is that your device must be jailbroken on the existing firmware.

>First you need to have Jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch. Check out other posts on this site for help with jailbreaking.

>After that you need is Cydia,which is an alternative to your iPhone/iPod Touch’s installer.

>Now using Cydia install dTunes(which includes Safari download plug-ins in its installation) and Mobile Terminal.

>Now visit a torrent site of your choice in Safari and download the .torrent files.(Note that download will start only if plug-ins are installed properly)

>Then open dTunes and select the .torrent file which you downloaded using Safari.

>Now open Mobile Terminal and type the command ./gettorrent to begin downloading.(Down speed depends on not just your Internet Connection but also the number of seeds, so look for torrents with larger number of seeds.)

>After the downloads finish, you can retrieve it from root/var/mobile/Library/Downloads.

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How to Restore Stored Passwords in Google Chrome

Amal — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:04:50 PDT

Storing the passwords for frequently visited sites in google chrome is a great way to save time when you need to login to those websites again and again. Most of the users do depend on the password save feature as this is very handy.

Things could go wrong if the browser wont start up and you don’t remember the password correctly. You wont be able to view those stored passwords in the browser.

Google Chrome Password Decrypter is a small utility that would help you recover those stored passwords in google chrome without opening the browser.

Google Chrome Password Decrypter is created to work on Linux, MAC OS X and Windows.

One handy feature that this utility provides is the ability to export the restored passwords to a file.

Download Google Chrome Password Decrypter

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How To Block Websites Using Kaspersky Internet Security

Amal — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:49:24 PDT

With Kaspersky Internet Security you could easily block selected websites such that those cant be accessed again by any browser. This is done by the Parental Control Feature that comes along with Kaspersky internet security suite.

The Parental Control feature in Kaspersky not only allows you to block access to specific websites, it gives you a lot of good options like blocking persons in IM’s, limit internet usage, restrict usage in specific days, Restrict the type of downloads and many more..

Block Sites Using Kaspersky Parental Control

From the Kaspersky Window, click security and bring up the Parental Control.
Now click the “Enable Parental Control” check box and choose “Child” from the drop down menu under “ Operation Profiles “.
Click on the Settings button on the right side of the window. You will see the Parental Control window being opened now.
Click Settings in the Parental Control Window. The “Child” profile settings window will be opened now. Go to the Restrictions tab and click on the ‘Set Restrictions’ radio button and tick the checkbox left to ‘Block access to web addresses’ option.
On choosing the Select Option you could add the websites which you need to block.
You could also block unwanted sites by choosing the categories below.
Now Proceed by clicking OK on all the windows. You will be asked to enter a Password to make sure that others cant change the settings back.

Now access to all those selected websites will be denied by kaspersky on all the browsers.

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Watch Hindi and English Movies For Free on Youtube

Amal — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 02:28:57 PDT

Youtube is now turning towards Pay-per view basis for movies, that would allow the users to watch Hindi and English Movies after paying a small fee. But youtube has now put up some of the bollywood and hollywood movies in HD quality, which you can watch for free of cost.

Yes thats right you can now watch some of the Bollywood and Hollywood movies in HD quality for free in Youtube. The movies coming under these channels can be watched legally without shedding out any money.

Though the movies are free, you will be shown advertisements before the movie gets played.

via [Techie-Buzz]

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How To Recover iPhone From Reboot Loop in Windows

Ganesh — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:35:53 PDT

If you are reading this you might have experienced your iPhone getting into recovery mode each time you reboot after jailbreaking it. Well then it is time for you to meet iRecovery. This small program can help you get back your iPhone as good as new by following a few simple steps.

Download iRecovery for Windows. If you are using an OS other than Windows XP SP2 run it in Windows XP SP2 using compatibility mode and make sure you run it as the Administrator. Windows users need to install Libusb-win32 to run iRecovery.

>After successfully completing the installation of the program, run the test program and list the usb devices, excluding my new device.

>Start iRecovery in Terminal/Console and make sure that you use ”iRecovery -S” instead of iRecovery.

>Now all that is left to do is execute the following commands.

setenv auto-boot true

saveenv

/exit

>And then ofcourse reboot your iPhone by pressing Home and sleep together for 10 seconds and you are done.

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How To Integrate Max CDN with W3 Total Cache in WordPress

Amal — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 02:55:29 PDT

Max CDN Service is one of the best cdn services around. When combined with W3 Total cache plugin this becomes one of the best things which can be used to speed up your website.

Here i will explain how you can Configure MAX CDN service with the popular W3 Total Cache Plugin.

After logging in to the MAX CDN account,

Click “Manage Zones” and then Click “Create pull zone”.

You will now see a screen as shown below.

You could fill the required fields by referring the above image.
On the “Custom CDN Domain” Field you could enter a custom subdomain name if you want. for eg. cdn.mydomain.com. You only need to set the correct cname records for the subdomain if you are using it.After saving the zone, MaxCDN will give you a new domain name for which you could create a CNAME record that points from your CDN URL (cdn.mydomain.com) to the long URL that MaxCDN provides.
Make sure you tick the enable compression option if your webhost support it.

Installing MAX CDN into WordPress using the W3 Total Cache Plugin

Now Open up the General Settings tab on W3 total Cache and scroll down the settings page to see the Content Delivery Network Option.
Now tick the enable option and select Mirror: Netdna/MAX CDN from the drop down list.
Now go to the cdn settings page of w3 total cache plugin and enter the host address you got earlier from max cdn for eg cdn.mydomain.com . This would be the case if you have setup the cname records other wise it will be the long url provided by max cdn itself.

Now click Save Settings. Thats it.

Your static files will now be served from the max cdn network.

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Best CDN Service – MAX CDN Review

Amal — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 03:53:07 PDT

While going through the list of some cdn service providers, i sorted out one of the best and trusted cdn service provider. After searching for hours and discussing with other bloggers, i’ve shortlisted one of the best cdn service ie. MAX CDN. Here is a small review of the popular cdn service.

I use W3 Total Cache plugin for speeding up my website. The only setting i left behind was the cdn integration option and now that too is filled. Now the website is blazing fast in loading! Thanks to MAX CDN.

Why i choose MAX CDN Service for my Speeding Up My Website?

MAX CDN is used by most popular websites like Mashable, BuySellAds, User Voice, Copy Blogger etc. and is very easy to implement even on complex websites and supports almost all web host’s control panels.

You only need to pay they as per the usage and the cost per GB is just 0.09$. This is much lower than 0.23$ offered by Amazon service and similar competitors. The also have very good customer care support from Mo-Fr 9am to 7pm (PST) phone and chat support plus 24/7/365 email support is available by true CDN experts.

Here is a small chart that shows it all.

I am sure you will be impressed by now on seeing the chart.

Features of MAX CDN

Compatible with shared hosting, virtual private servers and dedicated servers / clusters
Transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration with Media Library, theme files and WordPress itself
Caching of (minified and compressed) pages and posts in memory or on disk, caching of (minified and compressed) CSS and JavaScript in memory, on disk or on CDN
Caching of RSS (comments, page and site) feeds in memory or on disk, caching of search results pages (i.e. URIs with query string variables) in memory or on disk
Caching of database objects in memory
Minification of posts and pages and RSS feeds, Minification (combine and remove comments / white space) of inline, embedded or 3rd party JavaScript (with automated updates)
Minification (combine and remove comments / white space) of inline, embedded or 3rd party CSS (with automated updates)
Browser caching of CSS, JavaScript and HTML using future expire headers and entity tags (ETag)
JavaScript grouping by template (home page, post page etc) with embed location management
Non-blocking JavaScript embedding
Import post attachments directly into the Media Library (and CDN)

For now, as per the promotion offer, you you get their service for just 39.95$ for 1TB usage. This would be a fruitful amount for new users.

Get MAX CDN For 39.95$ – 1TB Usage

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