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Make Your Firefox Even Better by tweaking its looks

Firefox logoFirefox is my favorite browser. The biggest reason for this is its repository of useful plugins. The only problem which I see in its default installation is the screen usage. With this I mean, Firefox wastes a lot of screen real estate in unnecessary menus, buttons. The good news is that it also provides flexibility to customize its overall look and feel.

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Drop Shadow in Images : No extra markup

Image with shadowDrop Shadows adds extra glare to any design. They can be easily accomplished in any graphic editor, however its a little tricky in web programming. In this post I'll walk you through various ways in which you can add shadows to images without any extra markup used. Continue reading…

Goo.gl : Google URL Shortner Bookmarklet

Google Google URL Shortener at goo.gl is a service that takes long URLs and squeezes them into fewer characters to make a link that is easier to share, tweet, or email to friends. [official announcement]

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how to be Invisible In Gtalk : Gtalk Hacks

gTalkOne of the most awaited feature is to set invisible status in gtalk. Just like yahoo messenger invisible status in gtalk will allow you to be online without being bugged by gtalk friends when you are at work or don’t feel like to be annoyed by your gtalk friends.

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Debugging Django on Windows : Developement Setup

Django I remember the days when I used to struggle while debugging django web applications. But after working for more than a year now with django, I am more or less settled with tools I use for debugging Django Application. My Development System is on Windows XP, so this post is specifically for Debugging django on windows.

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News, Twitter, FriendFeed and Many more in GTalk : Are Chat Client Becoming new Browsers ?

Following my previous posts about cleartrip train search engine and naukari.com job search engine this post is regarding various other services available on GTalk Client. Here are various other usefull services being offered on Gtalk/Jabber Clients. Continue reading…

Scaling Your Frontend: Far-Futures Expire Headers

To optimize our website load times we must optimize the frontend by setting far-futures headers. This simply means that media has an Expires tag of sometime in the distant future (maybe a year), and when we make changes, the filename needs to change. The easiest way to do this, is by adding a simple GET parameter.

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Chat Client for Naukari Job Search

Following a train search ChatBot from cleartrip, Now Naukari.com has come up with a new chatbot to search Jobs.
For this all you need is to add jobs@chat.naukri.com to your GTalk Client and start searching jobs. This hady tool will definetly make job search a little easier, although i doubt if there are any good job in this recession.
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12 Must Have Bookmarklets : Google Chrome and IE

As we all know that Google took Chrome out of beta almost a month back, but still there is a strong feeling that there is a long way to go for the browser if it has to compete with other browers such as Firefox. The biggest feature that is missing in Chrome/IE is lack of addons support. So in place of using addons I am using bookmarklets a lot more now.

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Cleartrip Launches Chat Bot Booking Agent For Trains

Cleartrip has always been one of my favorite startup. This company has everything which one can think in a good company. Moreover, every now and then they come up with small small things that really makes travel simpler. They already have a train search engine which is dead simple to use(way better than its alternatives). And now they have come up with another app, which is a innovative use of IM for search. Continue reading…

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