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How to use the Rupee symbol in blogs and webpages without any hacks

Posted on 09. Jan, 2011 by in How To

How to use the Rupee symbol in blogs and webpages without any hacks

The new Indian rupee sign has been adopted so quickly, that in 6 months (the competition was announced in March 2009 and the final decision was given in July 2010), it is now seen on all magazines, dairy products, farm produce, newspapers — pretty much anything you could pick up at a supermarket! And blogs [...]

How To – Set up caching in Pixelpost

Posted on 12. Aug, 2010 by in How To

Photography had always been a passion for me, and I was clicking pictures (good and bad) and reading about photography techniques all the time. With the time just right for buying a good camera (read: have enough money), and putting months of research into good use, I finally decided to buy a camera on my [...]

Rip DVDs and convert videos for your iPhone/iPod

Posted on 11. Dec, 2009 by in How To

With portable memory becoming cheaper everyday, more and more devices are pushing the memory capacity to unprecedented levels. The ubiquitous iPod comes with a mammoth 160GB space (the Classic version). Even your mobile phone could take up to 4GB or 8GB SD memory cards. So what do you do with all that storage space lying [...]

Experimenting with the macro mode

Posted on 21. Sep, 2009 by in Photography

Recently, Hari showed me a photo taken by his “periya photographer” friend. Having been a budding photographer for too long, I decided to top that photograph with one of my shots. A great opportunity came along as I went to Pondicherry with a band of friends. Always the official photographer, I was entrusted with shooting [...]

Selective coloring using Photoshop

Posted on 03. Jun, 2009 by in Photoshop

You must’ve come across those slick and glossy movie posters where only one color is highlighted and the rest of the image is gray scaled. Well, thats quite easy to do with Photoshop. Do not worry mortals, if you do not know how to use PS. Inverse Karma to the rescue Below are the two [...]

How To – Automate your Torrent Downloads

Posted on 21. May, 2009 by in How To, Technology

I have (and many of my friends too) a broadband plan that allows free usage at a specific part of the day, or in my case, the earliest part of the early morning. After having grown tired of waking up at 2 A.M (you read that right) to download my torrents, I thought of finding [...]

How To – Protect your PC from viruses and spyware

Posted on 26. Dec, 2008 by in How To

We all know Windows’ weak spot has been security – but software companies and passionate programmers alike – have come up with some great software that can help users to both prevent and remove potential threats like viruses, trojans, worms, spyware and malware. This article assumes that the user has a fair amount of experience [...]

How To – Download videos from YouTube the easy way!

Posted on 24. Dec, 2008 by in How To

Find out how to download videos from YouTube in a couple of minutes from the comfort of your favourite browser.