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How to add new venue in Foursquare app

January 27, 2012

With the new update on Jan 18 2012, Foursquare has moved their add venue option from Check In screen. I was thinking that they have removed this option at all. But that is not so. You can add new venue but first you need to search that venue, and at the end of the listing [...]

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Get Windows Phone 7 UI on your Android phone with Launcher 7

January 23, 2012

With Launcher 7 you can get Windows Phone 7 UI effects on your Android phone. It gives you quite similar tiles based look with customization features. You can add new tiles and you can add new widgets in those tiles as well. I just gave it try and I am liking it more than any [...]

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Trouble shooting TP-Link wireless router with PTCL broadband

January 14, 2012

My setup of having TP Link wireless router with PTCL Broadband modem was working fine. But I was getting bad internet on my mobile phones and PCs. If I bypass the wireless router and connect DSL modem directly, it start working fine. So it seems issue is with wireless router. And I used to get [...]

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Programmer vs Developer vs Architect

January 9, 2012

The difference among programmer, developer and architect. I am in developer category. In which category you fall? Let me know in comments section.

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How to remove the border of Facebook page like box

January 6, 2012

The solution is below, how I removed the border of my Pakzilla Facebook like box. Wrap your IFrame code with a div with an ID CSS classes for above Div and IFrame You can adjust the width and height according the space where you want to place the box. What idea I have used, I [...]

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Blogging on Pakzilla in year 2011

January 6, 2012

WordPress.com’s Jetpack published a report of Pakzilla.com blogging for year 2011. Interested facts they are . Visitor’s statistics Blog was viewed about 140,000 times in 2011. In 2011, there were 25 new posts, that made total posts to 154. The busiest day of the year was March 1st with 1,114 views. The most popular post that day [...]

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FUD: JDBC addiction and designing software for NoSQL

January 4, 2012

I am having a background of programming Java based web systems with RDBMS. Where I write a lot of JDBC code. Updates, select statements with a lot of joins, inserts etc is a part of my daily job. Most of my time consumed on maintaining the state of database, validating from base tables and after all storing [...]

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A reference to HTML5 tags

January 1, 2012

New tags added in HTML 5 Layout tags <article> Defines an article <aside> Defines contents aside from the page content <embed> Defines external interactive content or plugin <figcaption> Defines the caption of a figure element <figure> Defines a group of media content, and their caption <footer> Defines a footer for a section or page <header> [...]

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How to find mime type of a file in Java

December 31, 2011

Validating a file when it is getting uploaded in the system is some time very necessary. We can check the extension of the file, but what if user has changed the extension to crack the system. So the best way is to find the mime type. There are multiple libraries that you can use to [...]

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5 reasons I like Bluehost

December 30, 2011

I was in terrible tension with my previous hosting provider. They down my site often and was having very less responsiveness in support. My account also was having very low bandwidth. So a friend suggested me to evaluate some hosting providers and I selected Bluehost. Reasons I like Bluehost Bluehost provide hosting unlimited domains with [...]