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9 Best Sites For Diwali Greetings, SMS, E-Cards And More

Diwali is a few days ahead and still you are not prepared a greeting card or sms to wish ‘Happy Diwali’ to your family, relatives, friends? Don’t worry, here is a list of site, where you can find greetings, e-cards, sms. Each of the site have a varieties of cards and sms, choose best from that collection and send it to your loved ones. By the way, “Happy Diwali To You And Your Family“.

1. www.123greetings.com

123Greetings.com

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Redirecting www To non-www And Vice Versa

Every domain and sub domain can be accessed with two different url. Say you have a website example.com. Then it can be accessed by using urls example.com and www.example.com. This is true in case of sub domains also. Say if you are having a website as blog.example.com then that website can be accessed by two urls, blog.expmle.com and www.blog.example.com. Even though there are two urls, the content on the both url will be same. According to user point of view, having two different urls for same content will not matter much. But according to SEO point of view, having same content on two different urls is a big problem for your website.

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Deleting Old Profile Pics & Cover Photos From Facebook

Facebook… A well known social networking site that you are using from a long time. Maybe you are one of those people who loves to change their profile picture and cover photos regularly. Anyways, changing your pictures is a good idea and not a bad thing, but sooner you will have a huge gallery of profile pictures and timeline cover photos. In old days, there was an option to remove photos from your profile picture album but now as Facebook got new a design this option is removed for ‘Profile Pictures’ and ‘Cover Photos’ album. That simply means there is no straight forward way to delete old and unwanted photos from your profile picture and cover photos album. So how to delete them?

The trick is

Process is quite simple. Just open your ‘Cover Photos’ / ‘Profile Picture’ album. Once you open album, you will see all photos in grid view.

Now right-click on the photo you wish to delete and then select Open link in new tab from menu.

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Creating A Simple Database Application In Visual Studio ’10 (Drag & Drop Way)

There are already thousands of tutorials available on the web for doing this exercise. There are thousands of videos on YouTube also.  Each one claims that, the exercise will result into a small database.  But they use a lot of code and a lot of columns in their example and generally those types of code and columns results into confusion for any new programmer. So I am going to explain you ‘How to create your first database VB app’. In this tutorial, we will create a small database i.e. we will create an address book with only three columns (ID, Name, City).  Rest all steps will be performed by drag and drop, no coding is needed.

This tutorial is quite simple and will help you a lot.

Steps:

Since we are building application with Windows Form Control, we will use ‘Windows Forms Application’ as our template.

We have given name as ‘dbapp’. You can choose anything as name.

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AddHandler vs AddType : Apache Directive

Just from last few days while stumbling on the web for Branding a website, I came across something called as ‘Using custom extensions to brand your website’. Topic was quite interesting hence I tried to implement it. In first implementation, I got an error and I found that Apache is not serving file properly. Rather than executing file at the server, Apache send it to browser as it is and which results into download of the file at My PC. Again when I started digging more in this topic, I found something new called as Apache Directives. A directive defines how a file will be treated by Client or Server. The error was related to directives, I got answer to my question, I changed my directives and everything started working fine.

AddHandler and AddTypes are two directives which define how file will be treated by apache. Proper use of them will result into desired output while improper use may break server and can result into security risk also.

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DeEgger Embedder: Hide Private Files Within Images, Videos Or Audio (Media Steganography)

Do you have some private files in your computer or want to send files privately to your friends? Here is a best app for you. Deegger embeddeR allows you to embed your files into images, video and audio. Once you embed the file in one of them (say you embedded file in an image) then you just handover that special image file to your friend. Your friend will use Deegger embeddeR again to separate image and embedded confidential file. Even by mistake any third person got that special image which contain files, then also he will not know what is embedded in it. He or she will see image only and no any traces of hidden embedded files. DeEgger made transfer of secrete data very simple and secure. Deegger embeddeR is a free steganography (Embedding one file in another) software is designed to merge two or more files together, supports a wide range of file extensions you can hide and lets you create the bogus file in AVI, JPEG, MP3, MP4, PDF, PNG and lots of other formats also.

Entire process is quite simple. What you need to do is

  1. Select Your Host file via drag and drop or using browser button
  2. Select the file which you want to embed via drag and drop or by using browser button
  3. Click on Combine
  4. Now a dialog will come which will allow you to store the embedded file on your disk.
DeEgger Embedder
DeEgger Embedder
That’s all. Now your file is completely hidden in the hist file and secure from third person. Now you need to transfer that file to your friend.

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Programmatically Set Proxy Settings In Visual Basic

Proxies are very useful while developing application especially in those who need internet connection. Proxies are used according to applications requirement and organization needs. Always a developer wants to create a proxy connection for his or her application only and not for whole PC. There are many tutorials available on the web which might help you in doing this task but most of them deals with registry entries and hence proxy connection is applied to whole computer. While some tutorials deals with application only proxy, but they are very hard to get found on this huge internet.
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