If you are having problems viewing CHM files, like when you click on any of the subject headings in the file and it shows a ”Page can’t be displayed” IE screen, right-click on the CHM file and select Properties from the context menu. Then click on the Unblock button at the bottom. This might fix the problem.

In case this didnt fix the problem try renaming the file. As it might create problems when the file name contains special characters like “#”, etc.

It was 2nd of October 2006 the HR executive took me around JKCS and it appeared to be just another software development company. but it took only few months for me to realize that JKCS truly is “More Than Just a Work Place..”

The most wonderful part of the JKCS is the people in it. JKCS has got “Computer Geeks” as most of the other software development companies but what makes JKCS different is, those “Computer Geeks” have not lost their Common Sense like others. The team i was in called “CSC” or “Braathens” lead by a wonderful PM. No matter whether you are “Bill Gates” or “Steve Jobs” they accept you as you are, most of the people including the management will never try to change you. Instead they identify your good and bad qualities and immediately start loving your good qualities ignoring the bad qualities. Even a less talkative alien type guy like me could easily get along with almost everyone and could make lot of cool friends as well..

So then you might ask what made me to leave such a nice place.. Well.. all I can say is.. We face such situations that, Though it is a bad practice, We end up leaving no choice other than taking things to runtime even it can be done at compile time. Same here :) 

Ya.. I’m not a Sky Drive fan. I didnt try it at all, that was because It was offering just 1GB which I thought its quite a limited storage.. But not any more..

Picture Says it All… Check it yourself

 

I wish I could write this book one day. I designed this book cover using a funny online tool called O’relly Book Maker.

If you have ever thought who is behind most of these strange book designes, it is Lorrie Lejeune, a free lance artist. There is a nice article which  explains how the animals ended up on O’reilly books and what sort of process they go through when drawing those animals. Read it here.  

I came across this news today that wordpress now offers 3GB. I quickly checked the storage capacity of my blog and it shows..

As Matt Mullenweg says :
“Today, one of those developments comes to fruition — everyone’s free upload space has been increased 60x from 50mb to 3,000mb. To get the same amount of space at our nearest competitor, Typepad, you’d pay at least $300 a year. Blogger only gives you 1GB. We’re doing the same thing for free.”

ya..he is not kidding..and this is how they are able to do it..

“Over the past year we’ve developed our file infrastructure, replication, backup, caching, and S3-backed storage to the point where we don’t feel like we need to artificially limit what you folks are able to upload just to keep up with growth. We’re ready for you.”

Read entire article.

I just happened to know a hot secret of a good old friend of mine by a mistake. Funniest part is she doesn’t want any of our friends to know it. Lets see how long she can hide it..lolz.. anyway great work..keep it up…

We all know that we can configure the browser, when ever we enter a password in a web form, browser prompts us asking whether we need to save it in the browser. When it happens to me in my home PC most of the time I say yes without bothering much about where it is saved or whether it is encrypted..etc..

But today I came to know that there is a serious risk in allowing the browser to save the login credentials. Specially when it is FireFox anyone who can access the system can see your passwords. All they have to do is go to,

Tools -> Options -> Security -> Show Passwords.

Try this if you were not aware about this and you will get surprised to see all your stored passwords are revealed.

Microsoft has gone one step forward by storing them encrypted in the registry, but I came to know that still there are tools like IE PassView which enable anyone to get them.

To disable this option in IE we can uncheck the ‘ Prompt me to save passwords ‘. and in Firefox it is ‘ Set Master Password ‘.

So next time be aware when you say ” Remember ” to save your passwords in the browser.

I came across a nice collection of another silverlight tutorials at Linda.com. Check them here.

There is a good friend of mine who is working as a secretary in a well reputed company. As she says, she is perfect on all her work except one thing. She is an Internet addict. As she says, she spends lot of time browsing the net while doing her office work at the same time. Recently they have shifted to a different location and it seems like, now her monitor is visible to her boss from a distance.So she has got a problem continuing her habit. She phoned and asked me “Is there any way I can browse Internet which my boss can’t notice that I am browsing the net”.

My answer was ” I have no idea.. “.

Actually there are number of ways to do this. The best of all I know which satisfies this specific requirement of her is a very cool website called www.workfriendly.com . It works as a wrapper website to the website you are browsing and the interface looks like a Microsoft Office 2003 Word Document. So if someone didn’t observe very carefully, when you are browsing the net it looks like you are working on a word document. Most interestingly it has got a key called “Boss Key” which replaces your web page with a sample word document in a fraction of a second. So if you are smart enough you wont find it much difficult to browse the net calmly without others noticing it, even if you are in front of hundred people.

Now I didn’t tell this to her cos I believe its a bad thing to cheat your boss. But I should also give her a chance cos as she said she never skips her office work. So I posted it here and if she is really an Internet addict let her find this blog post.

And one last thing, since my boss also might be reading this, I must say that those who are going to try this ” Please don’t try this at office.. ”

Screen Shot : CricInfo as seen at workfriendly

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