Browsing articles from "March, 2012"
Mar
27
2012

Unix Shell Metacharacters

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Metacharacters are those characters which hold special significance. There are numerous metacharacters in Linux. We will try to discuss the significance of each one of them through simple unix commands. Different metacharacters in Unix can be grouped in the following way : 1. Filename Substitution Metacharacters *   -   This wild card character represents any combination of number or characters. ?    -   This metacharacter stands for one character. [....]   -   This gives the shell an [...]

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Mar
21
2012

Creative Facebook Cover Designs

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It’s been quite some time since Facebook rolled out its new design with the sleek timeline feature and with the catchy cover picture. Most of us took quite some time adjusting to all these changes, there was the all so familiar “I so hate this, how can I get back my old facebook?” moaning but we eventually got used to it. I believe most of us spent quite some time deciding what would be the [...]

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Mar
16
2012

AJAX vs Flash.. why the debate??

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Web developers, animators, as well as power users of the internet (looks like it’s a significant part of the world population now) know what I’m talking about. Flash’s biggest strengths are its versatility and ease of use, and its support for virtually all kinds of media. It is quite easy to create quite complicated GUIs and animations in Flash, which in most part is because of its robust IDE. Advances in ActionScript , added html [...]

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Mar
7
2012

Download Torrent File when Torrent is Blocked

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Torrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol used to download large data over the Internet. It has been one of the most popular methods for downloading latest movies, TV series, music and cracked software these days. But for various reasons many admins block connections to torrent networks preventing the users from acquiring the torrents files. Other issues that might prevent people using Torrent can be copyright infringement or bandwidth abuse. For those who are addicted [...]

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