October 27th, 2009 Posted in Our World If we buy a second-hand mobile phone we can ascertain that it is not a stolen piece from Delhi Police website. With the IMEI number of the mobile phone, the website’s stolen/ missing mobile phones link will verify its genuineness.
A data of around 5,000 stolen or missing mobile phones has already been uploaded and it is going to be a continuous process. They will also be putting in data available from neighbouring States like Rajasthan and Haryana.
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October 21st, 2009 Posted in Open Source, Web 2.0 We can use a functions.php file inside the wordpress theme like a plugin and gets automatically loaded during WordPress initialization. We can just create a file named functions.php inside the theme folder and can copy all the common functions inside the file. 
It will act as a plugin and will load automatically that is we don’t need to include it any where in the theme files. It will help us to define a library and can reuse to fasten up our work while keeping code clean and easy to manage.
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October 17th, 2009 Posted in Our World A new user to the BSNL Broadband account will always try http://data.bsnl.in for checking the usage status. But BSNL is providing the internet usage status in different URL .
We can’t access the web site for checking the internet usage with a domain name but BSNL is providing some IP address. We can use either http://10.240.240.195/ or http://10.240.43.216/ for accessing the BSNL portal for checking the internet data download or upload usage status.
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October 13th, 2009 Posted in Open Source When the news of the introduction of a single-window mode in GIMP 2.8 hit the net Martin Nordholts is making great progress on the single window feature.As you can read on his blog he is making good progress on hacking on this great feature that is so wanted by so many users.
Martin Nordholts refactored the code to allow docks to be put inside an image window and Michael Natterer have refactored the code to allow many images to be shown in a single image window.
Here are some screenshots what was presented at LGM: Michael Natterer set the mood by showing a selection of single window contributions from the UI brainstorm:
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October 10th, 2009 Posted in Mac World When a windows user starts to use Mac OS X he will feel some difficulties with some of the basic things like creating shortcuts renaming files etc. Mac OS X is really providing several of these functionality in a different way.
In Mac OS X it is very simple to rename a file or a directory. For renaming a file or a directory in Mac first of all locate it in Finder and click once on that icon then click and hold the mouse button down on the file or folder name below it.
After about a second of holding down the mouse button the text will become editable and you can type over the filename.
Mac users can also click the file or folder, then press Enter to select the text box more easily.Once you have renamed a file, any aliases or shortcuts that you were using will no longer be able to locate the file. You will need to delete the old aliases, if any, and create new ones
