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Javascript To Remove All Facebook Apps From Your Account

February 11, 2010
Stop Facebook Spam

This is a guest post by Gaganpreet Arora AKA bitgeek.
My Facebook app list was cluttered with useless apps accumulated over the time I had joined Facebook. The worst thing is that Facebook does not allow you to remove multiple apps in one go. You have to select one, confirm on “Are you sure?” first and [...]

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News : Memepress (Yahoo! Meme) Wordpress Plugin Version 0.3 is available

November 6, 2009
Memepress (Yahoo! Meme) Wordpress Plugin

Memepress is a wordpress plugin which provides wordpress widgets for displaying public posts from Yahoo! Meme. Memepress is SEO ready and provides options to noindex/nofollow your Meme posts. New version fixes a few bugs and provides enhanced style control for the widget.
You can download memepress version 0.3 from wordpress plugin page.
For details on usage/installation instructions, [...]

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How To: Install PHP 5.3 on CentOS 5.1 or RHEL 5.1

September 23, 2009
RedHat CentOS PHP 5.3

PHP 5.2 and PHP 5.3 has tons of functionalities which are not provided by PHP 5.1 and PHP 5.1 is the most recent version of PHP available in CentOS 5.1 and RHEL 5.1 via updates. Also, its difficult for people to upgrade OS(s) on production servers frequently and especially if the servers are running absolutely [...]

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Memepress Ready to be Translated (Supports Turkish now)

September 18, 2009
Yahoo Meme Memepress Wordpress Plugin

Thanks for an awesome response to the Memepress (Yahoo! Meme) Wordpress plugin. A lot of people have blogged about it and contacted me via email for enhancements. New version also fixes the bug regarding image size in posts. I have also updated the plugin to support internationalization(i18n). Now you can translate about 20 strings in [...]

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How To: Configure Dual Display with ATI Radeon (fglrx)

September 15, 2009
Dual Display Configuration ATI Radeon

As promised in my last post (News: ATI Catalyst Display Drivers 9.9 Released), I am back with a post on configuring dual display with ATI Radeon HD Graphics Card and proprietary catalyst (fglrx) drivers from ATI.
Hardware Used
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 3200 (256MB, onboard)
Monitor 0: ViewSonic VG1930WM 1440×900 (19″ LCD, Connected via DVI port)
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News: Memepress (Yahoo! Meme) Wordpress Plugin is out!

September 11, 2009
Yahoo Meme (Memepress Wordpress Plugin)

Yahoo! Meme is a new Twitter like service in testing by Yahoo!. But its much better than Twitter. It has got facility to post text, photos, video and music. The best thing about Meme is the user interface. I am just loving it. Such a clean interface I liked twitter’s web interface very [...]

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How To: Install and Use Twython (Python Wrapper for Twitter API)

September 5, 2009
Twython (Twitter API in Python)

As promised in my previous post, here is a brief howto on getting started with twython. The main advantage of Twython over several other python (or any other language) wrappers for Twitter API is that it works even when you are behind your organizations proxy.
Download Twython
You can download latest version of twython from twython page [...]

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I Love Twitter, I Love Python = I Love Twython

September 3, 2009
Twython (Twitter Python)

I was really late to join Twitter. As soon as I joined Twitter, I started exploring various aspects of Twitter and hence the Twitter API. While searching for a wrapper for Twitter API in python, I came across python-twitter which was good and tweepy which was ok and I finally found twython. Twython is awesome [...]

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How To: Recover Deleted Files in Linux Using Photorec

September 1, 2009
Photorec - Recover Deleted Files in Linux

Frequently I get messages like “I have accidentally deleted my project. Is there any way to recover it in Linux?” or “I worked really hard on that program and managed to deleted it right before submission How do I recover?”. Well I didn’t really have any idea on “How to actually recover deleted [...]

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MSN Crawlers Pawned

July 29, 2009
MSN Crawler (MSN Search)

After seeing the way MSN crawled my last post, I just realized why Microsoft could never do good in Search Engine Market
I wonder why MSN would crawler same page from two different machines. I wonder if a single page can be divided further for crawling. Checkout the screenshots below

A few minutes [...]

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