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My New Book on Squid Proxy Server (A Beginner’s Guide)

April 18, 2011
Squid Proxy Server 3.1: Beginner's Guide

I have not blogged since a long time mainly because I was a bit busy authoring a book Squid Proxy Server 3.1: Beginner’s Guide for Packt Publications. The book is an introductory guide to Squid (especially the new features in Squid-3 series) covering both the basic aspects as well as the in dept details for [...]

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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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Red Hat Launches OpenSource.Com

January 27, 2010
Red Hat Open Source Com

Well, OpenSource is more or less about software source code and technology specific but OpenSource.Com scales beyond software and technology and provides a platform to discuss/learn/get involved/share.
From the website,

What problems can we solve? How would it affect the way we learn? Work? Run our governments?
We want to shine a light on the places where the [...]

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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: Save yourself from stupid Tech Support Questions

September 25, 2009
Tech Support Frustration STFW Pidgin Plugin

Almost every other geek is pwned by his friends or people he/she knows by their stupid tech support questions. And sometime they drag you to the limits that you get frustrated enough to shoot yourself and bang your head onto your computer screen How on earth can someone be so stupid [...]

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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: New Mail Notification

September 17, 2009
New Mail Notification

mbooth commented on one of my last post (How To: GNOME GMail Notifier) informing that he/she uses mail-notification. I was curious to check it out for mail via IMAP and I found it way more useful as compared to Gnome Gmail Notifier. I especially like the option to configure it to check the mails every [...]

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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: GNOME GMail Notifier

September 9, 2009
Google Mail Gmail

GNOME GMail (Google GMail) Notifier is an awesome tool for GNOME/Linux users if you are addicted to checking mails every few minutes. GMail Notifier solves a bit of your problems by notifying about multiple gmail accounts. One more plus point is that it can display GMail Notifications for new mails in accounts for which you [...]

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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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