How do you access administrator account in WinXP?

There was a case in which the owner of a computer didn’t know his administrator account in Windows XP. It was tricky to find out the account password. If you have such problem this procedure might be useful. You however need to have WinXP install CD to perform the task.
First - Place your Windows XP [...]

Shopping Sites with Wordpress

I know Wordpress is made for blogging. But it can also be converted into a shopping site with some plugins. So far, I know of three such plugins. I am working in a site to use one of them.
YAK
WP e-CommerceeShop
Will update my experience after some time. Till then please comment with your experience with these [...]

Shortcut keys and Tips and Tricks in Internet explorer (IE)

List of short-cut keys for Internet explorer:
CTRL+A: Select all
CTRL+C: Copy
CTRL+X: Cut
CTRL+V: Paste
CTRL+F: Find
CTRL+E: Search
CTRL+W: Close window
CTRL+N: New browser window
CTRL+R: Refresh web page
CTRL+O: new location - esc to close
CTRL+D: quickly save a Web page to your Favorites list
CTRL+I: Favorites
CTRL+P: Print the page
CTRL+H: History
CTRL+tab: goto URL Address field
Alt+Spacebar+X: Window Maximize
Alt+Spacebar+R: Window Restore
Alt+Spacebar+N: Window Minimize
Home key: beginning of [...]

Website screenshots in different browsers

There are two ways of viewing your webpage in different browsers. First and straight forward way is to install every available browsers and open the webpage in each. Second way is to go to a site named  browsershots (link at the end of the post).
In browsershots all you need to do is select your [...]

Mass Flickr download freeware

I don’t know if it is against Flickr copyright policy or not but there is a freeware available which allows you to download all the photos from a Flickr account.
According to the site, the software can automatically download the best available quality for a picture (like - original, large, medium). It also claims to download [...]

Free Excel add-in The Duplicate Master

David Brett (a.k.a. brettjd) wrote an excellent utility for removing duplicates within Excel. But as his original web site is gone people are deprived from using the great free utility.
The add-in works in MS Excel 2003 and 2007. It was originally distributed through the site - http://members.iinet.net.au/~brettdj which is offline these days.
You can however download [...]

How I created the Photo Gallery

In the last post I talked about creating a simple photo gallery. It was supposed to be a simple and easy to update photo gallery without any community features and commenting system … just reinventing the wheels.
I was using php script for the code and here is the "index.php" file. All it does is display [...]

Useful Windows XP Shortcut keys - 2

Here are some of day-to-day use shortcuts for MS Windows XP:
If you don’t have Windows key in your keyboard visiting this previous post for other windows shortcut keys might be more useful.

Windows Key - START Menu
Windows Key+ Pause Break - System Properties
Windows Key+R - RUN Window
Windows Key+L - Locks Computer

Windows Key+Ctrl+F - SEARCH FOR COMPUTERS
Windows [...]

Photo gallery

There were the days when you have to upload your photos in the server and type IMG tags in html pages to publish your photo gallery. I was so happy when I got hold of Frontpage for the first time - it created the thumbnails automatically.
Now there are many high standard photo gallery scripts; many [...]

Accessing NTFS “protected” private folders

My computer just went dead and instead of repairing it I moved the hard disk to another system. Till then I never realized that the document folders was encrypted in the NTFS system.
It was the most annoying thing and I cursed NTFS over FAT system and all the stuffs. Well, it was not that hard [...]

Mass Flickr download freeware