Mark Papermaster, chief of iPhone hardware and vice president of devices hardware engineering at Apple Inc leaves Apple as reported today by NYTimes. In late 2008, Apple hired Papermaster from IBM since he was working on IBM’s powerPC processor and Apple needed a CPU engineer for high performance chips It is not yet clear if …
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How to: Protect Your iPhone from Water Damage
Well, all phones can fall into the water why does iPhone deserve a special post? That’s because you can’t remove it’s battery which is the first thing you would have done in case of any other phone. You can’t do that with your iPhone and you would really hate apple for keeping it this way. …
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Change / Preview Theme on Live Blog in Background
When I started blogging for the first time, changing themes wasn’t an issue because my blog was almost empty with respect to content and the traffic was too less to call my blog a live one. So, I used to just fiddle around whenever I had to change theme and it didn’t really matter to me …
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Import Your Online WordPress Blog to Localhost
We recently talked about installing a fresh copy of WordPress on your localhost or computer. Now we will tell you about importing your current online blog to localhost to make an exact copy. To proceed with this, you must know about localhost, so, it’s highly recommended that you read about installing the fresh copy of …
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Increase / Change MySQL Import Size in PHPMyAdmin
By default the size limit for importing MySQL database is 2 MB. To increase this limit you will have to change the php.ini file which can be located in C:\WAMP\BIN\Apache\php.ini if you are using WAMP. Search upload_max_filesize upload_max_filesize represents the size of one file which you can import. Change it’s value to the desired size, …
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How to Install WordPress on Localhost or Your Own Computer
We sometimes need to test things out with wordpress like plugins and themes before applying them on the live sites. The best way to do that is by installing wordpress on your harddrive for testing purposes. Since PHP is a server side scripting language and needs to be translated, you will have to make your …
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Control Car From iPhone With iCar Remote
Just today I came across this cool but fake iPhone app which lets you control your car through your iPhone. You can start off your engine, open and close doors and windows and even drive your car forward or backward making use of motion sensors of the iPhone. Even though the app is fake the …
Convert Photoshop Document (PSD) to WordPress Theme
Recently I shared with you an easy tool called Artisteer which lets you create wordpress themes in designer mode. All you have to do is make choices about colors, columns, menus & widgets etc. Today I will be introducing you to another software called Divine which lets you convert your PSD (Photoshop Document) files in …
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Write Mathematical Equations in Microsoft Word & Powerpoint
MathType is a must-use software and really handy for engineering students mostly. A lot of times we have to write mathematical equations with lots of fractions, super and sub-scripts & mathematical symbols. This is where MathType is really useful. What makes it even better is it’s power of working with MS Word, Powerpoint and many …
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Featured Post Gallery as a Slideshow in WordPress
Recently I wanted a plugin for my music blog which could display a slideshow of featured posts above all other posts. So I may keep displaying new content to the users along with some featured artists without taking much extra space. I googled for plugins to read reviews and see which one would work for …
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