Author Profile: Gautam

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Profile: Gautam studies in the 9th grade and has a passion for coding and blogging

Airtel to sell iPhone 3GS in India

Today, Bharti Airtel agreed to sell Apple’s iPhone 3GS in India in the coming months. Airtel is India’s largest mobile phone operator by users. Yesterday, it had also submitted its bid to participate in a bandwidth auction for 3G services, and the successful bidders would be allowed to offer 3G services on commercial basis from September 1, 2010.

We had also covered this story in June 2009, but the…

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6 Anti-Spam Plugins for WordPress

This entry is part 5 of 10 in the series Wordpress Plugins

Spam is a thing which every high-traffic (even some medium or low-traffic) blogs, forums, websites etc. have to face. In this post, we will discuss some of the best plugins for WordPress which can deal with spam. No, not those based on Captchas or making your users solve math problems, rather we will discuss on some of the new and innovative plugins which work differently, but do the same thing, that of taking out the spam from your blog.

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Now quickly view formatted PDF Files in Google Search!

On Wednesday, Google added a new feature to its search results called “Quick View” that would enable the users to view formatted PDF files in Google Docs. Earlier, the PDF files could only be viewed in HTML format and also, they lost much of the formatting, but now the users can view the formatted PDF files with graphics, tables, fonts, etc with the help of Google Docs. This feature has…

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Passwords of Thousands of Hotmail Accounts Leaked Online!

Microsoft had a bad weekend as around 20,000 hotmail accounts were hacked and their passwords were posted on October 1 by an anonymous user on pastebin, a website used by programmers to share code snippets. The page was removed soon after (even the cached page by Google).
How were the accounts hacked?
The most probable reason for the accounts getting hacked is phishing. Wikipedia defines phishing as:
In the field of computer security,…

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Google’s New Translate Bar Widget for Websites

Some months back Google had launched its Google translator toolkit and yesterday, Google unveiled its new translate widget for blogs and websites on the day of International Translation Day (30 September 2009). This translation widget can be easily added to any website and provides translation into 51 languages.
Old Widget vs. New Widget
You might be wondering what is the difference between the old and the new translator bar widget, so…

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Vodafone’s ZooZoos receive the PETA Award

Most of you must be fans of the Vodafone ZooZoo ads which are aired in the IPL season 2 breaks. Here’s good news for the ZooZoos fans. Vodafone has won the first Glitter Box award which was given by PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) India. This award is given to those businesses that take the advantage of humane alternatives to the use of real animals in their advertisements.

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Is GPS close to its breakdown?

It is the time when the navigation software is being used in mobiles, cars and a variety of other gadgets. But the question that is now arising is – Is the GPS close to its end or is it going to breakdown? Some experts have said that the system maybe close to breakdown or even fail as early as 2010!

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Automatic Message Translation – New Feature in Gmail Labs!

Gmail Labs has released a new feature called Message Translation which helps you translate e-mails written in foreign languages into your own language. This feature is very handy for those who receive e-mails from others in various languages.
Enabling Message Translation Feature
To enable this feature, simple follow these instructions:

Login into Gmail
Go to Settings
Go to Labs
Look for Message translation and enable it

Click on Save changes button at the bottom

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Gmail tries to auto-detect…

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Picture Collage Maker: The fast & easy way of creating a collage!

Now you would never have any hassles in making collages for your daily use! Picture Collage Maker will handle it for you! It is a very simple to use program which can turn your ordinary photos into stunning keepsakes. You can also share them with your family and friends! With some few clicks, you can create digital collages, scrapbooks, posters, invitations, calendars, and greeting cards. Amazing, isn’t it?
Features

Build collages quickly…

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#7: PHP Tutorials for Beginners – Loops

This entry is part 2 of 7 in the series PHP Tutorials

In the last post, we learnt about the first kind of control structures which are, if statements which allowed us to run a block of code if a condition is true or not. But what about writing a code which would run a block of code again and again? That’s where we will need loops for. Loops allow us to execute a block of code again and again if a…

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