Building the first iPhone App

These days I am learning programming iPhone apps. I don’t have much free time so I am making a simple RSS reader for the xnepali blog. The screen-shot on the right is the RSS feed list of the blog. Clicking (touching) the heading will open the blog post.
The application does its job but it [...]

Windows 7 – Is it the Lucky 7 for Microsoft?

In the history of Microsoft Windows releases XP is the only successful OS without numbers attached to it. All other named versions failed to gain the consumer confidence in them. Did that made Microsoft superstitions enough to choose the next version with number attached to it — number 7, lucky 7?
Most of the successful [...]

Meta tag in Blogspot blog

Meta keyword is one of the most important way to optimize your website’s search ranking. Search engines use meta keyword to filter sites for the search result of query occurred by their search tool. Keywords however should be properly selected to benefit from it. The keywords should be related to the blog in question [...]

Excel Filename – Copy sheets to new file

In the previous post I posted a code to copy data and remove all external references and save as a new file. But for a simple case, I was trying to save a sheet – as it is – as a new file.
But, typical to a copy-paste code; a strange error occurred while I tried [...]

Excel VBA – Copy worksheets and save as a new file

If you copy data from one sheet to another the formula refer back to the original sheet. Doing a ‘past special’ and copying only the data can do the trick. But if you need to do such operations for a large number of sheets a VBA macro can be handy:
Sub CopyPasteSave()
Dim [...]

MS Office 2010 going cloud

Microsoft today announced at its Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans about the new version of Microsoft Office 2010. In response to Google Apps, Microsoft is going to roll out web browser versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote for free.
Microsoft and free? Yes, and I am excited. Hopefully, I won’t need to [...]

Task Manager in Chrome

In the recent news Google is planning to release a full-fledged operating system. Hopefully it will have less compatibility and crash issues. I had been in and out of Chrome browser due to its incompatibility with Yahoo mails (messenger feature) and Hotmail. Looks like they are solved now. The best thing I like about the [...]

Windows 7 shortcuts

Here are some of the useful keyboard shortcuts for the next big thing from Microsoft:

Win+Home: Clear all but the active window
Win+Space: All windows become transparent so you can see through to the desktop
Win+Up arrow: Maximize the active window
Win+Down arrow: Minimize the window/Restore the window if it’s maximized
Win+Left/Right arrows: Dock the window [...]

Batch printing in MS Excel

I had to print loads of charts from excel files. All at once! Rather than starting printing one by one I started looking for software to do the job for me. I found some really nice featured software but they came with hefty price tags (not less than 100 bucks). At last I found just [...]

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 [...]

Free Facebook Photo Album Downloader

Mass Flickr download freeware