Archive for the ‘Tips & Tricks’ Category

Finding out the square of any number in seconds

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

square-root-in-secondsWe cannot imagine the world without calculations i.e, Mathematics. It is present in all phases of  our life. Irrespective of our background or discipline we use it. Now i am going to share with you a small short cut for fast calculation. It is highly useful for the students. Particularly those who are preparing themselves for competitive exam.

Finding out the  square of any number in just 20 seconds.

For example let us take 23 and we will find out the square for this number in the easiest and quickest way.

STEPS

A.  First reduce the number’s unit digit to zero. In this case it is 20. Now the unit digit is zero or we can simply subtract

3 from 23 it comes to 20.

B. Now we should add back that 3 to 23. The total comes as 26. So we should subtract and add only once.

C. In the third step you will multiply the 2 numbers i.e, 20 and 26. Multiplication of these numbers is 520.

D. Finally we should take the square of digit 3, which we have subtracted first and added again, that is 9.

and should add them 520+9= 529.

Let us take 35 as one more example.

35-5 = 30  and 35+5 = 40

30*40 = 1200

5*5 = 25

1200+25 = 1225.

We hope you have enjoyed this trick. Check our other trick on Vedic Mathematics multiplication.

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Show your Gravatar as Favicon on your Wordpress Blog

Friday, November 27th, 2009

I was busy these days, with a PhpBB client of mine. I just tested few new themes for my upcoming theme, and came across a great theme by Jauhari. This theme was having a great feature that enables the admin gravatar as favicon. This was something that took the pain away of developing a new favicon.

I tried to search for this and found a plugin Gravatar Favicon developed by Patrick Chia. Which helps you achieve the desired results of favicon generation.

This plugin allows you to generate a gravatar favicon for your blog and admin logo included Apple touch icon. Just activate the plugin, and it will add gravatars to your blog template and admin panel automatically, no setting and nothing. But you must enable your avatar(Discussion Settings). (W6A4N4-L26P6-WSH)

This is how your plugin looks like, just check the screenshot.

gravatar-favicon

Image Credits

Note: This post does post does not claims that Jauhari had used the same plugin in its theme development.

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Scribe Fire a Blog Writing Add-On for Firefox

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

scribe fire logoFew posts back we had covered the windows live writer for writing your blog posts. This time we have explored a new add-on from the vault of Firefox. Scribe Fire add-on is a full featured blog writer that is embedded in your browser only. It removes your dependency on the desktop applications  while you are browsing, you could compose a post while reading tweets from twitter or while chatting with friends in the same browser.

How to get started with the Scribe Fire add-on

  1. Download>> Install>> Restart Firefox
  2. Select the Scribe Fire from the Bar.
    select from status bar
  3. Launch account wizard to add a blog in the network.
    scribefire account wizard
    Make choice of your blog system
    You are provided with various blogging platform where you want to publish your content. Make a choice suitable for your requirement.
  4. Add your username and password that you uses to login into the blog.
    add username and password- scribefire
  5. After entering the username and password, it gets verified and a blog is successfully added.
    Blog added sucessfully

That’s all you are done with the configuration of the scribe Fire add-on and now its ready for publishing.

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Easy Comment Firefox Add-on for Bloggers

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

I am a great fan of Firefox and its great add-ons that are available in wide range for it users. I have tried it in range of social bookmarking, rank check (alexa sparky), synchronization, ad filtering, image snapping etc. And recently i had started with a new add-on for improving and fastening my blogging experience and interacting with other blog. This add-on is a easy comment add-on and helps you to automatically fill up the comment form on a blog,just by a single click.

This is how the author describes its add-on.

Automatically fill out Blog Comment Forms. If you’re into the blogosphere, this is a must have!
- multiple profiles ( name / email / url / message )
- shortcut key for commenting
- language mutation

Steps for Installation and Configuration of the Add-On:

  1. Install the add-on in your Firefox browser, Download.
  2. Restart your browser for making it to function.
  3. At the extreme bottom right on the browsers status bar, you will see easy Comment option,
    Right click>> Manage Profiles
    easy comment fiefox add-on
  4. Fill up the settings form, create new profile by the name you prefer.
    Manage easy comment add-on profiles
  5. Leave the comment column blank, during profile creation.
  6. Close the easy comment setting extension and you are done.

Now when ever you move to a blog to make a comment,just click on your easy comment add-on in the extreme bottom right of your browsers status bar. As soon as the click is made, it will look for the forms available on the webpage and fill them up automatically. In this case it will fill up the comment form fields.

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Compose Mail messages with inline images

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Here is a post for all the new comers of the net, who want to learn posting images in their outgoing mail messages. For this you can use email softwares like Endora, Incredimail, or the one i uses i.e. Outlook Express.

You can compose mail very easily in their user friendly environment, but composing mail is not the only thing that you need. You need to configure the email software(outlook etc) with your mail account (Gmail, yahoo, rediff, indiatimes etc.).

Now being in India the issue comes of POP3 access, their are two services who provide pop3 access in India, one is Gmail and other one is Rediff. Gmail also provides you with the IMAP configurations. Here in my next post i will covering the configuration of mail account.
So, i will be covering one software Outlook Express over here.

  1. First open Outlook Express.
  2. Click on Create mail, now a new message window will open, it would be similar like your online yahoo or Gmail account.
    option for adding images in outlook
  3. Now click on insert image.
  4. And browse the path of the image on the HDD, you can also paste a hyper link in the browser path.
    attach images in your mail messages
  5. Now insert as many images you like, and send the message.

Hopefully, this post will make you achieve your mailing goals.

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Unable to Open Partition on Hard disk by double Click

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

unable to open partition on double clickThis is a common problem now a days, the virus causes this problem.
And today like my friends i also got stuck with this virus, it was really amazing to know about the methods and tools that are available to remove this virus.

Here is the List Of methods and Tools:-

Method 1:-

This method is the easiest and runs from cmd.
Open start >>run

  • Type cmd over here, and command prompt will open.
  • In the command prompt type cd\ and enter.
  • Now at c:\ type attrib -r -h -s autorun.inf
  • type del autorun.inf
  • Now similarly follow for other partition on your hard disk d, e, f etc
  • Enter d: to reach d:\ root and follow the attrib and del commands as above.
  • Reboot your system.

Method 2:-

  • Open My Computer and on the top menu open the tools option>> folder options
  • A poup window will open in that window; select view.
  • mark the option Showing hidden files and folders and unmark the option Hide protected Operating system files and click Ok to apply setting.
  • Now Open your drives (By right click and select Explore. Don’t double click!)
  • Shift delete autorun.inf and MS32DLL.dll.vbs or MS32DLL.dll
  • Reboot your system.

Now you have your hard disk operating on double click.

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