Use AWK to print column’s from file

In many times, we all may required an output of specific column in a file, for example we want to know the users in the system, for this we need to open passwd file in /etc folder and view, but the file is having so much of information, it is time consuming  to takeout user name, in that case we …

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How slow is our high speed internet dreams?

Everyone has dreams. Not only persons but nations also have dreams. India’ biggest dream is to become a developed nation by 2020. We have been a poor country for decades, then we got the status of developing nation. Now we are running to get the unique status of a developed nation. India is the youngest country in the world. Japan, …

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Debian lenny Colorful Bash prompt and file names

Fancy bash and ls color is helpful feature in linux. Once we install Debian lenny, the bash prompt and ls result will show in normal ( black and white ). so i planed to make some changes in the profile file. This will helpful for Linux server administrators. To change in to a colorful prompt do following, Open /etc/profile It …

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“alias” use it for a good reason

In Linux we all work with lots of log files, like mail, squid, application etc…., all these files located in its own folder, for example, if we want to look for squid access log to monitor the site access, generally we do tail -f /var/log/squid/access.log, this involves lots of typing, we can make this simple with alias command in linux …

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Bulk image resize with Microsoft office picture manager

You can resize large number of images at same time. Many time it is a main requirement to reduce the size of images and upload it to web. When we copy photos from a Digital camera, File size will be too large, It is not required that much resolutions for sharing images over the web.  So we can reduce the …

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Printing command from history without executing

We all know that, BASH stores the commands we entered in the terminal to .bash_history, we can see those commands using history command. Commands in the history can be executed by ! followed by the number,  !5 (5th command in the history will get executed). But what if we only need to print the command, instead of executing, we can …

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Super-fast broadband – The US choice

Now speed is the way of life. In this digital era speed determines everything. From news to day today affairs speed is essential. According to BBC report United States of America takes speed to the next level. For the internet users across the globe, speed is as important as their lives. Recently US government unveiled a plan to give super-fast …

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Login multiple Gtalk account same time

you can login to multiple Gtalk accounts simultaneously. Many people have more than one google account (Personal, Official). You have to apply “nomutex” syntax for googletalk.exe to open multiple Google talk accounts.

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Tabbed mobile browser – Opera Mini 5

Opera has released the new version of mobile browser Opera mini. This time opera introduce Mobile browser with Tabbed browsing. Opera mini 5 have some new features like speed dial, password manager, virtual keyboard etc. full screen mode is also a great advantage for Opera mini. Now Opera mini is also available for android. Opera Mini compresses pages by up …

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BarCamp Kerala 8

We are holding BarCamp Kerala 8 on 28th of March(2010)!. Finally its here to refresh the minds with technical beverages – its Barcamp time. Think barcamp is about lawyers? Or about alcoholics? Think again… BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, …

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Schedule tweets using desktop application – AutoTweeter

Have you ever thought of sending delayed tweets ? . Wished you could tweet 24×7 ? AutoTweeter is your answer.AutoTweeter is a simple desktop application to post delayed updates to your twitter account.Just queue up as many tweets as you want and then set a time interval for it.Start the AutoTweeter and simply leave it running.It will take each tweets …

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Internet and the world

Recently BBC disclosed the estimate number of Internet users in the world. According to their calculation 171.95 Crore people around the globe use internet. Every day 3.37 laks blog posts are updated in the cyber space. The emergence of social networking also contributed largely to this huge figures. Nobel peace prize for the internet is not a big surprise!. It …

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Green Charging utility for Symbian to Save Energy

We don’t monitor our phone while sharing it. Many people charge their mobile while sleeping. It may cause for wasting the energy. Green Charging is a mobile application that will assist you in saving power. Once the battery is fully charged, this application will alert with a sound effect. So we can immediately switch off the charger. It Prevents Global …

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Divx player on Nokia 5800 Touch Screen

I was trying to run a divx video on my Nokia 5800. But default real player doesn’t play that video. So I downloaded Divx player from some downloading sites. Buts it wont work and giving error message “Player Expired” “A new version of this player available. Press ok or go to http://mobile.divx.com to get the latest version”. So I downloaded …

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