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While working on an iPhone project i wanted a way to dynamically initialize classes, and then i found one simple way. Sharing it here since it may help someone someday.
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Google has introduced a basic extensions feature in its popular Chrome browser, although its still availble in developer release.So, i thought i should try to write my popular Orkut 99% width greasemonkey script for chrome because normally i use chrome. I am in love with the speed and responsiveness of chrome,only thing that make me open firefox is use of firebug,web developer toolbox or yslow.I miss my extensions for firefox, but speed matters most for me.
Anyways, here i will show you how to enable extensions for google chrome,and to install …
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Google Chrome users, open a new tab and type about:internets and hit enter.And you will see windows screensaver Pipes inside chrome.BTW this doesn’t works in Vista, here is the reason why ??
This is not a canvas element or flash, its actually the windows screensaver.Don’t believe me ? look at the code :
PathService::Get(base::DIR_SYSTEM, &path);
file_util::AppendToPath(&path, L"sspipes.scr");
So, now if you can build your own chrome, you know where to make changes so that it displays Matrix screensaver.
Here are some more about pages that you may like to have a look through and can …
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Ever wondered why major web server market is captured by Apache, whereas brainchild of greatest monoply of this world ‘IIS’ performs badly,now you can understand better.Richard Stiennon wrote an article in ZDNet (although article is very old but difference is worth to note even today) entitled Why Windows is less secure than Linux where he explains the difference between both opposite worlds in terms of the simplicity of sys calls.
First, why is sys call important ?? to understand this we have to understand sys call first. Richard expains it :
A system …
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This plugin was created for YUI 2.5.0, but with the release of YUI 2.6.0 there is no need for this (you have upgraded to 2.6, right ?? )
please visit http://www.aptana.com/node/513 for the new plugin.
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As you all know, Yahoo! upgraded its features and the capacities of the mail accounts have grown to 250 MB. That’s good for sure, but the “monitoring” methods that we all have been far too familiar with in the last couple of years have been renewed with this move also. Yahoo! is now keeping track of which sites its members that are getting into groups or using Yahoo! services are visiting and storing this data with a method called “Web Beacons”. The aim is to give these statistics to …