CMS And Website Design

You will find  many articles on WordPress, Dokuwiki and other content management systems on this blog. It also contain good web design tips.  This post consolidates all the articles related to content management systems, web designing, and web hosting in one place. Check them out !

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General Articles

Consumer Products

AquaSure filter unit – Price and review – May 21, 2010
Sony Walkman Review – January 7, 2010
Banks in India providing Virtual Credit Cards – December 20, 2009
Bamboo Products – December 14, 2009
Storage Water Purifier, Aquasure from Eureka Forbes – December 2, 2009
Titan Watch – A review – October 25, 2009
An Electric Fan Without Any Blades – October 15, 2009
LED bulbs that shine for 19 years – September 16, 2009

Economics & Finance

Warren Buffet – World’s Greatest Money Maker – November 13, 2009
The crisis of credit explained in layman terms – February 21, 2009

Environment

Water Conservation – Different ways to Conserve Water – March 19, 2009

Graphics Resources

History of Photoshop – A trip down the memory lane – February 18, 2010
Save for Web GIMP Plugin – November 19, 2009
Remove Flash Spots from Photos – Photoshop Tutorial – October 26, 2009
How to install GIMP scripts – in Ubuntu – July 22, 2009

Humor

Which is the best religion for you – November 12, 2009
Coolidge effect – July 9, 2009
Teach Math to your kids the fun way – October 27, 2008
God prefers atheists – October 02, 2008

Journalism

10 ugly truths -  September 13, 2009

Language Resources

English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Korean …. Learn how to speak these languages for free. Also do you know how to type on any website in your native non-English language? You will find resources to all these at the following links.

Google Script Converter – Read webpages in your language script – September 7, 2010
Google Indic Transliteration – Type in your favourite Indian language in any website – June 2, 2009
Type text in native languages – April 7, 2009
Learn Spoken Languages for Free – July 2, 2008

Life Hacks and Productivity

If You Never Failed, You Never Lived – An inspirational video – June 2, 2010
How To Win Friends And Influence People – May 10, 2010
How to gain mastery of your emotions – February 08, 2010
22 Tips On Performing Well In An Interview – January 1st, 2010
5 Tips To Working The Night Shift – December 11, 2009
100 Skills Every Person Should Know – November 25, 2009
7 GTD Tips to Improve Productivity – November 06, 2009
Happiness – Pursuing it’s secret. – February 1, 2009
Optimism – Pass it on – December 1, 2008
Inspirational talks by leaders – November 17, 2008

Mac OSX

100 Free useful tools for Mac OSX – March 11, 2009

Mobile Phones and Cellular Connections

Call Any Phone From Gmail – August 26, 2010
iPhone 4 vs iPhone 3GS – A comparison – June 11, 2010
Nokia Bicycle Charger Kit – June 5, 2010
Nexus One – A cellphone from Google based on the Android OS – January 6, 2010
Samsung Galaxy I7500 – Android powered smart phone in India – Tata DOCOMO – October 3, 2009
Tata DoCoMo unveils its service in Maharashtra – August 7, 2009
Tata DoCoMo mobile service value added features – July 8, 2009
Tata DoCoMo Mobile Connection Particulars – July 7, 2009
Send Free SMS text messages using email – December 1, 2008

Music

Music – Its interaction with our brain and emotions – September 20, 2009

Nature and Wildlife

Changing seasons in 90 seconds – January 05, 2010
Worlds Biggest Rat – September 7, 2009
Deep sea creatures – September 2, 2009
Hurricanes – How they are formed – August 26, 2009
A Dragonfly emerging from its skin – October 20, 2008

Programming

Zen Coding – Write HTML code speedily – May 04, 2010
A list of code search engines for programmers – August 14, 2008

Religion

Sita Sings the Blues – A musical movie based on Ramayana – May 27, 2010

Writing and Reading

Online writing tips – September 13, 2009
Handwriting Tips – September 9, 2009
Visuwords – A visual dictionary for English – August 24, 2009
20 tips on how to write for the web – August 10, 2009
50 Free resources that will improve your writing skills (English) – June 29, 2009
What it is like to write a technical book – June 16, 2008
Text editors for distraction free writing – June 12, 2008
A List of Free Audio Books Sites – Podcasts – May 30, 2008

Science and Astronomy

Satellites Orbiting Earth – Country wise infographic – January 31, 2010
Bhuvan – India’s own Google Earth – September 15, 2009
Longest solar eclipse of the century – July 24, 2009
Sixth Sense demonstration using off the shelf gadgets – July 2, 2009
Stars – life to death in 6 minutes video – December 29, 2008
Learn about your Universe – NASA Image Database – September 16, 2008
Two Informative Videos on the Large Hadron Collider – September 12, 2008
Video of Water Droplets in Zero Gravity – September 9, 2008
Superconductivity levitation a video – September 9, 2008

Grooming

How to pack a suitcase – May 23, 2010
Instructions on How to Tie a Tie – May 20, 2010
Shaving Guide – How to shave your face – August 9, 2009
How to tie a Tie – October 5, 2008

This and That

Play a piano in YouTube – January 22, 2010
Burj Dubai tower – World’s tallest building – December 26, 2009
World map of Power plugs and sockets all over the world – June 4, 2009
The King of Indian Railways – March 6, 2009
Fascinating Cigarette Smoking Facts – Equally Shocking – February 16, 2009
Indian version of popular Christmas carol remakes – December 18, 2008
Dog-Cat-Rat Man Video – November 8, 2008
Free condom mobile phone ringtone – October 5, 2008

Linux Articles

Here is a list of all the articles related to Linux you will find on this blog.

5 Free LaTeX Editors – For Linux & Windows – March 3, 2010
LaTeX resume templates – December 28, 2009
Phatch – Batch process thousands of images at once. – December 15, 2009
Find the fastest DNS server for your computer – December 10, 2009

Maximus – A tool to reclaim desktop space in Linux – December 4, 2009
Convert a USB Flash IMG File to VDI for use in VirtualBox – December 3, 2009
Save for Web GIMP Plugin – November 19, 2009
GNOME Shell – What is it ? – November 17, 2009

File synchronization – Conduit – A GUI tool for Linux – September 7, 2009
Linux tips – Easily share files and folders over the web – August 28, 2009
Artha – Free Offline English Dictionary and Thesaurus for Linux – August 27, 2009
How to display subtitles for movies in Totem player – August 23, 2009
Prevent non Root users from logging into Linux – May 3, 2009
Lack of an Xorg.conf file in Fedora 10 – April 21, 2009

Install Linux on a USB Stick in 5 Easy Steps – March 5, 2009
Scribes – A sleek, lightweight text editor for Linux – December 25, 2008
How to change the default text editor in Linux – December 24, 2008
Free Media of Linux and Open Solaris – December 23, 2008
SpeedCrunch – An easy to use scientific calculator for Linux – December 18, 2008

Run Nautilus file manager sans GNOME desktop – October 31, 2008
Build a firewall in Linux using IPTables – October 28, 2008
Take screenshots in Linux with Scrot – October 25, 2008
A list of Linux Signals – October 19, 2008
How to convert jpg images to cbr – comic book file format – October 4, 2008

Analyse power consumption in Intel based laptops – October 3, 2008
A beginner’s guide to Arch Linux installation – October 1, 2008
Cloud Computing and Linux – September 23, 2008
VGA framebuffer modes – September 17, 2008
10 tweaks for Linpus Linux – September 16, 2008

Opening Bash shell in restricted mode – September 7, 2008
Free download of Qt4 / C++ Book – June 20, 2008
Critical System Files in Linux – June 2, 2008
Sharing directories among several users – May 23, 2008

Ubuntu

Howto setup TrueCrypt in Ubuntu Linux – February 3, 2010
How To Enable mod_rewrite In Ubuntu Linux – December 23, 2009
How to install LAMP server in Ubuntu Linux – December 9, 2009
How to install GNOME Shell in Ubuntu Linux – November 18, 2009
Ubuntu 9.10 Installation Walkthrough (Karmic Koala) – November 3, 2009
Install LaTeX in Ubuntu Linux – October 06, 2009
How to install GIMP scripts in Ubuntu Linux – July 22, 2009
How to install fonts in Linux – Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Slackware – July 20, 2009
How to add a new user in Ubuntu Linux – July 19, 2009
How to create a screencast in Ubuntu Linux – July 13, 2009
Adding VirtualBox Guest Additions in Ubuntu Linux – February 12, 2009
Create a new Ubuntu Virtual Machine in VirtualBox – February 12, 2009
Install Ubuntu 8.10 in 6 Easy Steps – February 9, 2009
Upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop in 8 easy steps – October 31, 2008
How to change default display manager – September 6, 2008

Package Management

How to install packages from AUR in Arch Linux – September 30, 2009
Backup and Retrieve List of Installed Packages in Linux – November 13, 2008
How to determine the integrity of a Linux package – June 2, 2008

Opinion

Windows 7 vs Linux – a comparison – January 12, 2009

Linux Commands – A practical reference

Basic Linux Commands

There are numerous Linux tools which can be used from the command line. This is a Linux command line reference for common operations.

• chvt – Switch between virtual terminals.
• convert – Stitch photos together using ImageMagick
• curl – Split a file and download simultaneously from multiple locations.
• dpigs – Shows which installed packages occupy most space.
• find – How to find large files in Linux.
• id – Print user identity in Linux.
• imgopt – A bash script to optimize PNG and JPEG images.
• kill – Terminate a misbehaving process in Linux.
• killall – Kill hung applications or processes  by name.
• locate – Search cached index for names.
• lshw – List hardware information in Linux
• man – Print a man page from the command line.
• maximus – Open windows maximized by default. Useful in netbooks.
• md5sum – Determine the integrity of a package.
• mogrify – Resize images, photos, pictures from command line. ImageMagick tool.
• mount – How to mount an ISO CD/DVD image in Linux.
• netstat – A command to find listening / open ports in Linux.
• optipng – Advanced PNG image optimizer.
• pngcrush – Image optimizer for PNG graphics.
• powertop – Analyse power consumption on Intel based laptops.
• pwd – Print the current working directory.
• runlevel – Determine the current runlevel in Linux
• scrot – Take screenshots ( Screen captures ) in Linux
• tar – Tape ARchive.
• txt2tags – Convert text documents to a variety of file formats like PDF, HTML, LaTeX and so on.
• wget -Tip to download entire websites.
• wkhtmltopdf – Convert a webpage to PDF.