Embed PDF As Flip Book In WebSite Using FlipSnack

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PDF is one of the most popular document format today and is extensively used for sharing information. However, embedding PDF in web pages is not straight forward. Depending on size and content of PDF, the user experience could really vary. There have been services in the market like Issuu which enable you to upload PDFs up to 100mb in size and 500 pages in content and generate a physical book like interface, where you can view the whole book by flipping pages as you would have done if you had….. Read More

C Program For Generating Incremental MAC And IP Addresses

The other day I had this requirement to generate 4K incremental MAC and IP addresses and use them for some configuration. Typing 4k addresses by hand was never an option. So I spent some time to write a small C program that did the job for me for generating 4K mac and ip addresses starting from a given initial value. The idea was pretty simple The program should be able to print out the addresses which I can copy paste to create eg a command file. The program should take….. Read More

A Useful VIMRC That You Can Use

Whenever you migrate to new unix environment and have to setup all your preferences from scratch, one of the most important settings is that of your vimrc file. For starters, .vimrc file is a file in a user’s home directory which is used by vim to load preferences for any vim session that the given user opens. Recently I migrated to a new environment and I solely missed my old vimrc settings. This resulted in me recollecting the old settings as well as googling my way through to find the….. Read More

Create A Call To Action Button Online For Free

Super Conversion Button

Call To Action in web design refers to the user experience where the user can initiate an action from an element in the web page. The most common example is clicking of a button which will lead to an actionof eg opening a new web page. If  this sounds interesting to you, then we would recommend you to check out a service called Super Conversion Button that helps to create call to action buttons online for free. Using this service, you can create the desired button in a matter of….. Read More

WordPress Read More And Excerpt Customization Tips

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If you are a blogger on wordpress or an avid blog reader, you would appreciate the importance of post excerpts in wordpress which provide you with a small abstract of the post text ( typically the first few lines of the post ). The excerpt is followed by a hyper link which says something like “Read More” or “Continue Reading”. As a blogger, you would not expect a reader to go to each individual post and have a look at the same for information. Rather, the reader might like a….. Read More

How To Display CSS/HTML/PHP/Ruby Code Snippets Inside WordPress Post

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If you are a blogger on wordpress, then as part of information sharing with fellow bloggers – you would be required to occasionally share some piece of code which resolves a given problem for you and may help out other people who are encountering a similar issue. This code be anything from PHP, HTML, CSS to Ruby. Hence, it becomes important that you have an elegant way of inserting code snippets in your wordpress post, which retain/preserve the original code content and at the same time offer the reader a….. Read More

Compile And Run Your Code Online Using CodePad

Codepad Interface

Have you ever been in a situation where you want to desperately try out a piece of code to see what will be the output of it; but are running here and there just to get a machine which has an installed compiler/environment for the same. This could happen when eg you are not in office and just have a eureka about your code OR suddenly want to try out some small change. How about a web service where you could type, compile and run your code and see what….. Read More