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 [...]

So another year goes by, the last sun of 2011 has risen and gone down. 2011, what a year it has been personally, I think this has probably been the most eventful year of them all year. The Americans finally got their man, Gaddafi and Kim Jong II bit the dust while riots raged across Britain.  On the tech things haven’t been different either so in this post we look back at all the events [...]

Continuing on my series of stones on Netbeans, I bring on the second part of the shortcuts in Netbeans. This post will primarily deal with the various coding shortcuts NetBeans has to offer along with a few editor code templates. So without any further ado let’s begin. Move/copy up/down. Press Ctrl-Shift-Up and the current selection are copied to the lines right above the current selection. Press Alt instead of Ctrl and it is moved instead [...]

 Coding for the best of us is a long tedious and frustrating process. Yes at times it can be all exhilarating when we get stuff right but there are moments when we feel like throwing our laptop through the window. An IDE or an Integrated Development Environment makes coding a whole lot easier and yes prevents the guy down on the street from getting hit by a laptop. NetBeans is a powerful IDE and is [...]

Steve Jobs can really be credited for his extraordinary story where he built an empire, Apple, which gave the world the first Personal Computer. After taking the company to new heights, he was sadly forced out of his own company. At that point when many individual might have broken down, Jobs stood firm and built two more companies: Next and Pixar. Moreover when Jobs was reinstated, he bought Apple out of near bankruptcy, and just [...]

In this article, I have included some of the basic sed one-liners. These amazing one liners make difficult tasks look so simple and elegant. Moreover,they make you believe that you can perform such tedious tasks in a simple one-liner. So, What is sed ? It’s a non-interactive text editor. It reads an input from STDIN or a given file, executes a series of editing commands and returns the output to STDOUT. It is designed to [...]

Twitter is one of the best things that happened on the Internet. Ever since the Social networking cum Micro-blogging site emerged in 2006, it has been growing in a tremendous way marking more than 200 million registered users as 2011, tweeting more than 200 million tweets per day. The figures certainly contribute in making twitter one of the ten most visited sites of the present time. The Twitter Empire has expanded in such a fashion [...]