With our busy lives today – getting a good night’s sleep is an absolute must. Your freshness after waking up will decide your energy levels for the day. A bad night of sleep could potentially cause you to feel tired whole of the next day with reduced levels of concentration. Hence it becomes imperative to sleep and wake up at the right time to ensure that body gets enough rest for the next day’s work. Refer the sleep description in wikipedia that tells you that sleep is divided in to….. Read More
How To Type Special Characters
By On April 6, 2011 2 Comments 45 views
Typing special characters using keyboard can sometime be a pain. For example do you know how to type an α(alpha) or a ß (beta)? Don’t worry, you don’t need to memorize and keyboard shortcuts for this! A very simple online service that makes this job a breeze is Copy Paste Character. This service presents you a pictorial list of all the special characters that you would possibly require. If you want to use a given special character in either of your text, all you need to do is to go….. Read More
Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts Tabs
By On April 4, 2011 Leave a Comment 25 views
When I am using Firefox or Palemoon, its pretty typical to have 10-20 tabs opened at one time. If the number of opened tabs are small, the browsing across tabs is pretty easy. However, if the number of tabs are large, it becomes a pain if you need to go back and forth across tabs. Following are the keyboard shortcuts which immensely help improve productivity while working with Firefox . photo credit: dimnikolov Ctrl-1 – This takes you to the first tab that you have opened ( the leftmost tab….. Read More
C Program For Generating Incremental MAC And IP Addresses
By On March 12, 2011 Leave a Comment 206 views
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
Linux – Search Text In Files And Open Result In VIM
By On March 10, 2011 3 Comments 109 views
If you are working on a project which has a lot of source files, there is always a need of searching for a given text or string in all the files of your work area and possibly opening all those files one by one either to check for the usage of that text or for general viewing. In this post, I will explain how you can search for a given string or a piece of text in all the files of your project and be able to open each of….. Read More
Rental Apartment Inspection Checklist
By On March 9, 2011 Leave a Comment 419 views
If you are looking to take a house on rent in the near future, read on. Renting a house is not an easy job. It requires you to visit multiple houses in different apartment complexes. For every house you need to evaluate whether it is fitting your requirements and whether it has all the bare minimum bells and whistles that you desire. photo credit: Sarah_Ackerman If you are lucky, you can find one pretty quickly. On the other hand, you might just have to wait for a good house for….. Read More
Yahoo Mail Search Not Working [Solved]
By On March 8, 2011 Leave a Comment 808 views
Several months ago my Yahoo Mail search stopped working. It did not stop working completely; rather it did not return all results especially if the matching messages were more than a month old. photo credit: Ivan Walsh Initially I assumed that this was a glitch and it would be automatically resolved in a couple of days. However weeks and months passed; but it wasn’t fixed. Googling revealed that the problem is likely a corrupt index file. This problem has happened to several users (but not all?). However, Yahoo can/will not….. Read More
Using Firefox On Windows? Try Palemoon
By On March 5, 2011 Leave a Comment 74 views
Firefox was the first browser which redefined the way we look at browsers. Till that time IE was enjoying a free run in the browser market and was the default choice of many and all. Firefox brought with itself customization in the form of extensions and themes which took the browser experience to the next level. photo credit: Mozilla India However, one tag the Firefox has hardly been able to get rid off is that it is heavy weight. Not in the sense that it is slower to use or….. Read More
Blogging Advice : When You Have No Time To Blog
By On December 11, 2010 Leave a Comment 29 views
How many times has it happened that you are occupied with a lot of work which prevents you from being regular at blogging? It is an extremely tough situation to be in if you are a passionate blogger. Keeping away from blogging not only means that your readership can possibly get affected but also could mean that slowly you would start losing the pulse of the kind of content that you desire to produce. It is really not about money or anything else – it is about the whole effort….. Read More
How To Mass Delete Comments From WordPress Dashboard
Recently one of the posts on Inficone got a huge amount of pingbacks from the web. Note that by default I had enabled both comments and pingbacks on this very post. As the pingbacks rose in to thousands, it became very difficult to manage them. Most of these pingbacks were from irrelevant sites and amounted to spam. So I decided to delete these pingbacks from the wordpress dashboard. However I soon ran out of steam as wordpress dashboard allowed me only 20 deletions at a time from the comments panel.….. Read More