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How-To capture only a specific portion of the screen in Windows 7?


Windows 7 provides you with a tool called the Snipping Tool, with the help of which you could actually select a portion of the screen whose screenshot is to be taken. This is very helpful since you are now freed of the hassle of ‘Prnt Scrn’-ing the entire screen and cropping the required portion out….

 General   How-To   Microsoft   Pragmatism   Software   Windows   Windows 7  

By Debjit
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Google and Youtube video previews right inside Gmail chat


Google and Youtube video previews right inside Gmail chat

The GMail team has introduced yet another new feature to their Gmail version of Google Talk, i.e. Gmail Chat. Now, if you receive or send a link to a video in a chat message, you’ll see a preview of the video right in your chat window. This feature removes the unnecessary copy pasting of the…

 Google   Ideas   Pragmatism   Software   Web Design  

By Debjit

How To Enable Automatic Login In Fedora Linux


How To Enable Automatic Login In Fedora Linux

Setting up Fedora 10 to log into our account automatically is very easy. You simply need to append a few lines to the file called custom.conf located in the /etc/gdm/ directory. Now, open the above mentioned file in a text-editor like gedit or kedit, and append these lines:

 How-To   Linux   Pragmatism  

By Debjit

How-To Access GMail in offline mode from your browser


How-To Access GMail in offline mode from your browser

Gmail Labs has launched yet another very useful feature ‘offline Gmail’.  So even if you’re offline, you can open your web browser, go to gmail.com, and get to your mail just like you’re used to, just the way you can with Google Reader!

 Google   Pragmatism  

By Debjit
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How-To Install Windows 7 from a USB Memory Stick


How-To Install Windows 7 from a USB Memory Stick

Installing Windows 7  from a USB Memory Stick (or, a Pen/Thumb Drive) is not only a cakewalk but also blazingly faster than the corresponding DVD install. What you will be needing for this memory-stick-based-install is a 4GB USB Memory stick, since the DVD itself is a 2.8GB approx ISO. Remember, you will be able to…

 How-To   Microsoft   Pragmatism   Windows 7  

By Debjit

Get the Quick Launch Toolbar back in Windows 7


Getting the Quick Launch Toolbar back on Windows 7 is very easy. As is probably obvious, the concept of having a set of pinned shortcut icons is now integrated directly into the new taskbar, which is actually good and I am liking the feature but many others are not. So, this is how you go…

 Pragmatism   Troubleshoot   Windows 7  

By Debjit

Get the Real-IP address of a visitor on your website


We are going to make use of three environment variables of PHP in order to code this simple PHP class that returns the real IP address of a visitor, even when connecting via a proxy. The three PHP environment variables we`ll use are

 How-To   Networks   Pragmatism   Programming   Web Design  

By Debjit

Fedora 10 Reference Cheatsheet


Fedora 10 Reference Cheatsheet

Its been quite a time since Fedora 10 has been around and with so many users switching to Linux these days, a reference cheat sheet for Fedora 10 becomes handy for both n00bs (who are switching to Fedora 10) and regular users alike. We, here at Digitizor, have prepared a cheat-sheet for the brand new…

 Linux   Pragmatism  

By Debjit

HOW-TO convert DAA files to ISO in Linux?


Direct Access Archive, or DAA, is a proprietary file format developed by powerISO for disk image files. And it is very simple to convert to ISO in linux. You just need an utility called daa2iso.

 How-To   Linux   Pragmatism   Software  

By Debjit

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