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We all love Gmail. Don’t we? I even use Gmail on domains but one thing that it certainly lacks in is its look. Google don’t give much importance to the looks other than colors and all as it doesn’t want to compromise with performance at any point. Gmail addiction is too much already and here comes a firefox add-on which is created to completely change the Gmail look. It uses a custom stylesheet (CSS) for changing the looks in the user browser overwriting the default styling of the Gmail. It only works for Mozilla browsers. The add-on also supports pimping Google Calendar & Google Reader.

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Tags:   gmail · google calendar · google readerNo Comments.

Earlier I have written about how to disabe USB autorun to save the computer from being infected with various sort of malware which adds action in the autorun.inf file to execute them self on the double click action. Hence if you double click open a pen drive or your USB drive (an infected one), then the virus will itself get executed. A virus residing in a folder does not harm unless it is executed. After all, virus is just a piece of code and before it can do anything, it needs to be in running state (execution state).

The earlier method that i wrote was a registry hack with the help of which one can disable USB autorun but a few days back, I found out a great tool from Panda which can disable autorun from your computer completely and moreover it implements a special trick which renders the virus attack of adding its execution to the autorun.inf useless.

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Tags:   disable autorun · pen drives · tools · usb devices1 Comment

You are already familiar with WordPress but do you know about the great forum script bbPress which is a less lot in code and gives you the functionality of a forum without the burden of extra bells & whistles.

Some of the benefits of integrating bbPress with WordPress are as follows :

1. Users need to register only once on your site to be able to login into both bbPress & WordPress
2. Existing users will be taken care of (although I have no idea of conflicts in two tables if you were earlier running both of them independently)
3. Users need to login only once and it will be reflected throughout the site (both in bbPress & WordPress)
4. Uses the same database (makes backup easy)

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Tags:   bbpress · integration · wordpress5 Comments

I am a freelancer web designer and as a web designer I design websites that are cross browser compatible. I know how much of a pain is IE for all web designers. So today I am sharing something that will help some, if not many of the web designers (front end developers).

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Tags:   internet explorer · Software · toolsNo Comments.

While I have been waiting for the bbPress 1.0 which holds up many changes under the hood, I was today in a little surprised when I saw a new stable version of bbPress version and that too not 1.0

It fixes up many bugs in 0.9.0.4 so it came up before anything else. I am officially announcing my interest in bbPress and I might stick close to it as I am in love with it. (What’s so official about it anyway?)

I always check bbPress forum everyday and today when I saw the about the release, I wanted to see how to upgrade it (just like WordPress or something different) and how is its integration with WordPress.

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Tags:   bbpress · integration · upgradeNo Comments.

Earlier I wrote about how you can cancel Godaddy domain registration order and now today I am writing about how you can transfer domain from any registrar to Godaddy. I would try to cover enough information that this tutorial will serve a good one for transferring domains from any registrar to any other but the screenshots will be of Godaddy as the gaining registrar.

Lets understand the process to make things easy.

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Tags:   domain transfer · godaddy2 Comments

I am using Google Apps for managing emails for some of my domains already and a friend cum client just showed interest in having a email ID on his domain. I told him that one can use Google Apps for letting Google manage their domain emails and he couldn’t ask for more. I was going to use it for one more of my domain so I thought I would write a post on it as the already available tutorials failed to satisfy my expectations out of a tutorial.

Alright. What we need to do is that as soon as the mail comes to our domain, we want that mail to go to Google’s server so that it can be collected and stored over there.

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Tags:   google apps1 Comment

Recently I was playing with the Godaddy cart and found myself into a position where I have placed an order of an unwanted domain and that too with no discount coupons applied (I could have saved some bucks) whereas I myself keep au updated copy of some of the Godaddy discount coupons for personal use or for anyone who would like to save some bucks.

Here are the instructions I followed to cancel the order and get a refund :

I wrote them a support request and told them that I have bought a domain in mistake and would like to cancel my order. I was already logged in (so my Account ID gets communicated automatically). I told them the domain in concern and the Order number. Less data may do the job too but I tried to put up as much information I had.

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Tags:   cancel order · domain registration · godaddy1 Comment