Lunar Eclipse December 2011 Pictures (Stellarium)

Here are the some screen shots taken in Stellarium during yesterday’s total lunar eclipse. (Location – Shimoga, India)

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Graphene Child Theme Template

It is always better to use a child theme while doing changes to the site / theme. But, as a volunteer at the Graphene Theme Support forum, I see so many people struggling to set up a child theme for the Graphene theme. So, I’ve decided to create a …

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Custom Recent Posts Widget WordPress Plugin

Did you remember my old post about excluding categories in WordPress recent posts widget? It is still one of the easiest methods to exclude categories in wordpress recent posts widget. But it needed some coding knowledge. Well.. I’ve developed a plugin for that purpose …

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What is the RSS feed address for my twitter profile?

I had the same question for some time, because there was a link in my twitter profile to the RSS feeds of my tweets . But when Twitter changed over to NewTwitter, that link just disappeared from my profile! I spent some time in searching for the feed address on twitter and finally decided …

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Graphene Custom Slider Excerpt Length

Sometimes View full post button go out of the Graphene Slider due to increased excerpt length. Default excerpt length in WordPress is 55 words. You can override this by using a plugin or custom excerpt length function. But it affects the excerpt everywhere. So, here is a function which affects only the Graphene Slider excerpt …

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How to extract .rar files in ubuntu

RAR (Roshal ARchive .rar) files are one of the popular data compression methods. It was developed by Eugene Roshal. RAR files may be created only with commercial software WinRAR, As WinRAR is not an open source software, support for the RAR files is not given in the Linux distributions. So …

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Custom Recent Posts Widget

Custom Recent Posts Widget WordPress Plugin

Did you remember my old post about excluding categories in WordPress recent posts widget? It is still one of the easiest methods to exclude categories in wordpress recent posts widget. But it needed some coding knowledge. Well.. I’ve developed a plugin for that purpose …

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How to change WordPress Password using phpMyAdmin

Sometimes the Lost Password retrieval tool in WordPress doesn’t work due to an error in your host. In that case, phpMyAdmin helps you to change the wordpress user password by editing the database. phpMyAdmin is a free software tool written in PHP, intended to handle the administration of MySQL …

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Graphene Custom Slider Excerpt Length

Sometimes View full post button go out of the Graphene Slider due to increased excerpt length. Default excerpt length in WordPress is 55 words. You can override this by using a plugin or custom excerpt length function. But it affects the excerpt everywhere. So, here is a function which affects only the Graphene Slider excerpt …

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Tweet containing more than 140 characters. Click to enlarge image

Twitter has 140 character limit. Really?!

Twitter has a 140 character limit for tweets. Well, look at this tweet, and count the letters! It has more than 140 characters. So, what’s the hack behind this? (Click on the below image to enlarge it) Embedded original tweet. It was retweeted more than 38883 times!

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Goodbye Dravid

Dear Rahul, This is not going to be easy. But I will try. One sentence at a time. Congratulations. Is that appropriate? That’s what people at work say when someone quits. And, despite the anguish surrounding your decision, this is supposed to be a happy day. At least I would like to think …

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GitHub – SSH Key Vulnerability

Just received an email from github about SSH Key Vulnerability. It was not an attempt to breakdown the github though. But, nobody took Homakov’s concern seriously. So, he did it. I just wanted to give him a big shout out for helping to make github stronger. So, I’m going to approve …

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