Access Digg at Blocked Places with Alternate URLs
by Haris on August 19, 2008
in General, Tips and Tricks
Digg is one of the most popular social-bookmarking services. There you discover and share content by submitting links and stories from anyhwere on the Internet and vote up or down the stories. Voting up is called digging, and voting down is called burying. The most dugg and popular stories get to the front page.
Such sites are usually blocked at work places like schools, offices etc. Here are a few alternate URLs that could be used to access Digg where it is blocked.
How To Use Greasemonkey in Opera
by Haris on August 18, 2008
in General, Tips and Tricks
Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows Firefox users to install scripts that make quick changes to web pages. Greasemonkey can be used to add new functionality to web pages and web sites like adding an HTML signature in Google, bypassing image verification in Orkut etc.
Opera has a in-built feature that can support Greasemonkey scripts (custom JavaScript). These user scripts work exactly how they work in Firefox. You can read the brief tutorial after the jump on how you can use it.
Create an Online Store with Zilo
If you are looking for a script to set up up an online store for your website, then I think you should give this article a read as I have found a very nice service that does the job pretty well.
Zilo is a service that lets you create your online store for your website or blog and make money out of it. You earn commission up to 10% whenever any of their products is sold on your store. Every store is given a unique sub-domain i.e yourname.zilo.com by which the store owners can promote their online stores on blogs/websites.
Free Ramadan Mobile Applications by Nokia
The Holy month of Ramadan for Muslims all over the world is just two weeks away, and different services have started releasing Ramadan-related content for PCs and mobile phones.
After the success of the Ramadan-related content in 2006 and 2007, Nokia is back with new mobile applications this year, dedicated to the Muslim religious celebration that will start at the beginning of September.
How To Run XAMPP on 64-Bit Machine
by Haris on July 25, 2008
in General, Internet, Tips and Tricks
Recently, I moved to Slicehost because I was really fed up with Bluehost and their low quality web hosting. Dj Flush of Sizlopedia helped a lot to transfer my blog from Bluehost to Slicehost. While installing the web server we faced many difficulties.
The first one was that we were not able to start XAMPP on our server after installing it because Slicehost offers 64-bit machines only. XAMPP is currently only availably as 32-bit application. We will have to use 32-bit library to make it work.
Download PSP Firmware 4.05
The new PSP firmware 4.05 has released and is now available for download. There were rumours about it releasing in a week or so, but didn’t knew it would be out so soon!
The latest update features new new music playback visualizations and the ever-conclusive “other features” as said by the PlayStation Blog. There is nothing earth-shattering in it, it just features a couple of new visualizers, one if you happen to have a wallpaper while another is for those who don’t.
YouConvertIt: Free Online Media File Converter
YouConvertIt is an one stop online conversion service where you can easily convert (almost) any media file in just three simple steps. Enter your email address, choose a file to upload and select the desired format in which you want to convert the file and press the Convert It button! Once the conversion process completes, you’ll receive an e-mail containing a link to allow you to download it.
World’s Largest Fountain Building In Dubai
by Haris on July 1, 2008
in General, Technology, Uncategorized
Last month, Emaar Properties unveiled a world-class permanent water fountain project with an integral light and sound show for Downtown Burj Dubai. It will be the world’s largest fountain at over 900 ft (275 metres) in length, equivalent to that of over two football fields and it is about 25 per cent larger than The Fountains at Bellagio in Las Vegas in area. Powerful water nozzles will shoot water sprays to heights of over 500 ft (150 metres), equivalent to that of a 50-story building.
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The fountains – which are yet to be named – will feature over 6,600 lights and 50 colour projectors that will create a vibrant visual spectrum of over 1,000 different water expressions by shooting 22,000 gallons of water. The total cost to built this is AED 800 million (US$218 million)! This project is expected to draw over 10 million visitors annually.
From the press-release:
The fountain on Burj Dubai Lake is more than a visual spectacle that adds to the aesthetics of Downtown Burj Dubai. It is an engineering marvel and will further contribute to Dubai’s rich array of tourist attractions.
The fountain is positioned next to Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest building, and The Dubai Mall, one of the world’s largest shopping and entertainment destinations. As I have said before, these fountains are yet to be named, and a cash prize of $27,225 will be given to the person who suggests the perfect name for this water fountain project.
This fountain project is scheduled to be operational in 2009!
Don’t forget to check out my previous article on the 24 Amazing Future Projects Of Dubai which got on Digg’s frontpage!
BitLet: Web-Based BitTorrent Downloader
BitLet is web 2.0-based Java applet, that lets you download torrent files on a computer that doesn’t have a BitTorrent client installed. All you have to do is enter the URL of .torrent file, and press the Download torrent button! A new popup window will show your downloading progress and will ask you where to save the file. It uses your browser as a torrent client and downloads files just as a dektop BitTorrent client does.
