Category: Tips n Tricks
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ClipSpeak converts text to speech and save as MP3
Listening is a pleasure when one doesn’t need to strain one’s eyes for some reading material. There are many softwares available for converting text to speech (most of them are not freeware) but some days back I actually found a conversion tool which reproduces good speech (actually sounds like we human does) and that too…
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File Hippo Update checker take care of your software updates
We all update our softwares to the latest version because we like running the best and the latest package offering by the software. Now lets take a look what a user needs to do before he/she can download the latest version. What is the latest version? What version I am running? If a newer version…
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Fix bbPress installation problem
A while back when I was trying to install bbPress locally on my desktop, I got the following errors and warning : Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\xampplite\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\bbpress\bb-settings.php on line 186 Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\xampplite\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\bbpress\bb-includes\backpress\functions.wp-object-cache.php on line 108 Deprecated:…
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How to download zip file of latest trunk versions of WordPress, bbPress & Buddypress
On web servers or desktops running linux you can have the trunk versions by svn command but on windows there is no easy way of doing it. Tagged versions are easily available but for trunk versions there is a trick by which you can download the zip file of the latest trunk versions of WordPress,…
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How to use Adsense competitve ad filter to block unwanted ads
In this post, I will explain how you can block unwanted ads to show up on your blog or website. You may want to block ads from your competitor or may want to block ads of a product which is eating up your potential affiliate sale. Scenario For example : I offer bbPress related services…
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Bitlocker in Windows 7 encrypts your whole drive & locks access to it
Windows 7 comes with Bitlocker which let you encrypt the whole drive and puts a lock on it so that no one can access your precious data. The drive gets locked after encryption and can only be opened after authentication. How to encrypt the drive Right Click on the drive you want to lock and…
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Backup & Restore your Firefox data using Febe
Whether you are switching to a different OS or you are installing the OS again or just installing Firefox again or going to use a different installation too (like that in Office) then you can’t start from a new Firefox installation when you are actually accustomed to all the plugins and saved authentication details etc.…