Mobile battery charging using USB is possible even when it is blocked/disabled in the computer. [More]

Looking out for a smartPhone, i was always having a question mark in my head about the difference between the three types of memory generally advertised by manufacturers i.e. RAM, Internal Storage and External Storage (SD card). I did a bit of research and tried to find the difference and relative importance to make a purchase decision. Here are the things explained in simple english for your reference. [More]

HTML5 has been making waves and the recent addition is the voice listening and writing it into the web text box. So, what are you waiting for? Add it immediately to your Google Adsense Search box and help your site visitors with the luxury of just speaking what they want to search without even typing anything. [More]

LTA is the short form for Leave Travel Allowance. It generally forms forms part of your CTC and can be used to claim tax rebates if you like to travel. Although it is good that salaried person is exempted from paying tax on the amount he spends on travel expenses of his family, he can only do so twice in a block of 4 years. [More]

Simple C# code to convert HTML code to PDF file. The code also takes care of image tags with relative URL's. [More]

This extension helps you add a link back to your article/post along with the QR code in RSS/Atom feed's signature. [More]

Facebook or any other social sharing platforms generally pick up an image from shared web page
using their own algorithm. But there is a way that you can point them to an image that you want to be shown as a thumbnail.
The solution is to add an open graph meta tag in your web page with the link to the desired image. The open graph standard is followed by many social sharing sites including Facebook. Here is an extension to add the meta tag on its own to your BlogEngine's posts.
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The extension is pretty simple and uses Google's chart API to generate a QR code for your post's URL. The user can scan it using his mobile's QR code scanner application. Once scanned, the embedded post URL will be read by scanner and user can visit it on his mobile without typing anything. So, it actually helps you share your posts without even using any Facebook, email or any other online mechanism.

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Yes, There is a new successor of BarCode which is gaining momemtum called QR code. The concept is similar but has wider set of applicability than bar code. QR is an image which can embed vital information like internet links (URL), an image, SMS, text etc. So, somebody using a QR reader, can find out the embedded web link and straight-away reach your site without even typing anything! Remeber how the cahier at retail stores do NOT type anything, they only scan bar code!
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It has intrinsic support for popular blogging platforms like wordpress but supports others like BlogEngine.net through API’s. Well, you do not need to know anything about the API’s to get it working for you, it is simply a matter of configuring it to start blogging with BlogEngine.net. There are many benefits of using LIVE writer like a strong inbuilt image editor (crop, watermark, format painter etc.), spell checker and much more. You will definitely fall in love with this tool if you start using it. It can be used to blog offline and post to online blog as and when the internet is available. [More]

Are you the one who loves to visit museums, then this is a great opportunity presented by
smithsonian magazine to get into one of your favorite Museum across USA. They have also listed some of the museums in Hawaai and Alaska.
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We have thousands of credit cards affiliated with various companies and products which help you get special offers for those special products. For example, you may have an ICICI bank HP credit card which helps you get discounts on petrol, another HDFC card may have tie ups with airlines to give you discounts and reward points on all your travel purchases. [More]

It is a very basic need to have a forum and a blog on a single website these days. If you already have a asp.net website and are looking to set up a forum and a blog, then you can cretainly use open source softwares to get the functionality FREE of cost.

There are the one of the best options that I have found and have been using for some years now. [More]

Thousands of companies have jumped into this arena in the last couple of years and have been cashing on the lure of sendign FREE SMS (text messages). Well, as somebody has rightly said "No
lunch is FREE in this world", the statement holds true here too. [More]

Are you looking to set up a Blog on your existing asp.net website and have finalized BlogEngine Dot Net, then this article will help you do the set up.

For those who do not know, it is an open source blog application written in asp.net and C#. It can be easily integrated with your current website to provide the blog (writing articles) facility to your website users. You can go throught he BlogEngine website to know about the featrues it supports. [More]