Heya folks, Just installed Ubuntu 8.10 on virtual box today and the first thing was i wanted to get connected to my office’s VPN. It runs on some java client so i need to install one for my new Ubuntu box. I found tutorials which were really complicated but then
What is the size of twitter display image
Heya folks, After I wrote the blog entry How to create follow me on twitter image/logo with photoshop , I saw a healthy increase in the twitter queries from google and other search engines. Among them one query which I noticed everyday was as simple as that, “What is the
Change your windows vista, xp password from command prompt
Hey guys, Today at office was wondering how to change the windows login password. Actually there was some virus which corrupted all my exe files. So was unable to open up the user control panel and do the stuff thru GUI. So this is how i changed the password for
Create image in PHP using GD with different font , size
Heya, It is going to be pretty basic tutorial. I am gonna write the advanced or the other ones in the next tutorials. Here is a simple code in php which creates a image on the fly. This code is so simple,but i have written comment before each line to
End process from command line or console when task manager is not working in windows
Heya, This is going to be a really small trick but hope you like it, it can save you a reboot at time 🙂 During my Odyssey to Microsoft windows xp followed by Microsoft Windows Vista i felt that there are times when the task manager neglects you and do
How to create follow me on twitter image/logo with photoshop
Today i was wondering to create some eye candy on my blogs for the twitter on thingy. And i ended up with this simple image or logo which specifies visitors to follow me on twitter. This is how the end result look like. Note: Wonder if there was a tool
Add append remove value in select html element using javascript
Hiya Guys, Its been long since i posted here on “DigiMantra”. Been really busy in my office and events,conferences etc. As I love to write code/tutorials here so I am back 😛 This time I am gonna show you how can you swap elements from one select html element to
Install phpmyadmin using wget on godaddy or other hosts
Recently i shifted to godaddy hosting and i realized that godaddy’s hosting connections had SQLyog to be installed and not the phpmyadmin. Then i thought i should install phpmyadmin myself so that i can restore my current database from the old webhost. However later i realized that phpmyadmin is integerated
Get free Ubuntu CD/DVD
I know i should have posted it long back like 2-3 years back, but they say its never too late. So i am gonna tell you how can you order a free CD/DVD from canonical. They ship CD/DVD right at your doorstep without charging you a single penny. Seems absurd
Open source and the changing trends in technology
I am not a very old or an elder one in the house of technology, but yeah i am the one who knows about the latest technology and attempts to implement or atleast experience it. As we all know or might have experienced that today we are going through something
How to use HTTP_POST_VARS in php
HTTP_POST_VARS was a very useful global array, but we dont use it these days. I do not understand or i did not find time to research if it has been discontinued or had some problem. But it was quite a nice array which stored all the fields and their values
Simple, free SEO tricks for your wordpress blog
Hiya, This is going to be very short, brief blog entry but is sure gonna be useful. I used these tricks for the SEO part and trust me it gave me really good results. SEO is really a wide scope in itself and i dont know if i can grasp
calculating time difference in PHP
Date and time is one function which is always like there in whatever website, project you create. The more simple they look like to start with the more complex they become. Complexity comes in when we put these functions into different loops conditions etc. Well Today i got a bug
Display Avatars in wordpress themes
This is going to be a concise tutorial. On my another blog i had an old theme which doesn’t support displaying Avatars in comments. So i wandered along and found this snippet which can be replaced by the Avatar picutre when compiled and sent over to the server. So lets
Add javascript function using css class
In this tutorial i am gonna show you how a javascript function can be hooked to a HTML element with its predefined class or id attribute. We are going to use class attribute here because we may want to have multiple elements of the same kind where in we want