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Wanted to know what it will be like to travel through the universe at any direction, at any speed you want?

Ever wanted to log into multiple gmail, facebook and twitter accounts at once? Normally, browsers do not allow this and you have to log out from one account to log in as another user. Many of us use multiple browsers and Incognito/Private browsing modes to accomplish something similar. But today we are going to discuss about a new method with which you can log into unlimited number of accounts together.

This tutorial focuses on ripping a DVD using VLC media player.

"How do I rip an audio CD" is a commonly asked question, and we have many free and commercial software for performing the same. However, in this tutorial, we will be discussing about converting audio cd songs to mp3 using VLC media player.

Do you know that you can create your own software without even writing a single piece of code? We will tell you how exactly you can do that.

SQLite database is used by many applications nowadays and is getting popular day by day. If you are a developer who deals with SQLite databases, having a SQlite Manager/ SQLite viewer software with ability to create, edit and manage databases will be handy.

Siri is an awesome, intelligent personal assistant available on Apple's iOS platform. If you are an Android phone user, you can also have something similar on your phone for free.

Creating tables on Mediawiki is often seen as a complicated task. This article focuses on methods which can help you make wiki tables easily.

Mediawiki makes use of Wiki markup to format the contents displayed on a page. Even though you can write wiki articles with WYSIWYG editors, knowing wiki markup can make you more efficient and fast. It's very easy to learn and use.

Ever wished to have a private tab feature in your favorite browser? Here's how you can have that.

Blogger XML sitemap for submitting to search engines, Google web master tools and Bing webmaster

11 Reasons why DokuWiki is better than Mediawiki for small to medium websites.

Firefox Health Report considers your browser as a car, collects information about your browsing pattern and  sends it back to the manufacturer which is in this case Mozilla.

Here is a list of 15+ popular free PHP scripts that can be helpful for your database backup, analysis and restore procedures.

Using this technique, you can launch any program on your computer once the Internet connection is established.

Mediawiki secrets Some quick tips and tricks for Mediawiki users.

Mediawiki by default adds a "nofollow" tag to all the external links. This system is in place to make wikis a less interesting place for spammers, as nofollow links are not going be of any use from SEO point of view. However  this system has been in place for years and even then , spammers continues to put links in wikis.

Ask a wiki administrator what is the most annoying thing they faced during Mediawki administration and they  will immediately say "spam". Clearing up spam contents consumes a considerable amount of time from wiki administrators and moderators. To add spices to the already worst situation, spam contents can affect search engine rankings and can also take legitimate users away.

WikiIndex is an online wiki based index for wikis.

Mediawiki offers many official and community developed extensions to improve usability, functionality etc. There are separate extensions available for many different needs. If you wanted to make use of multiple traffic analyzing services, there are extensions available for integrating Piwik and Google Analytics. If you want to put some banner advertisements or Google Adsense, there are separate extensions available for them too.

Question : What will you do after clearing your engineering degree? Answer : I will join some IT companies in Chennai or Bangalore and will lead rest of my life as a geek God. Question : How will you clear engineering degree? Answer : I will do some combine studies and will seek help from bujis (an acronym for buddhi jeevi, which means intellectual) in my class before the final exams.

One of the main issue associated with YouTube is the fake videos. Sometimes it will be a single picture or slideshow claiming its a popular video song or trailer. Sometimes the video name and thumbnail promises something and we will get something completely different.

We all love YouTube and spend quality amount of time there watching videos. Have you ever felt that it could have been great if you can see a small preview of the video from thumbnails itself rather than clicking on it and watching it.

Mediawiki SEO for better search engine rankings and traffic.

Cellphones are personal devices and we carry them with us where ever we go. Because of the same reason we hate spam messages on our mobile phone. We all do have automatic spam control mechanisms in our e-mails and social networking websites, but not in our mobile phone for messaging.

We all come across PDF files many times. Most of us use Adobe Reader for reading them, which is a heavy bloatware. The truth is that 80% of us does not need all those fancy features Adobe Reader offers. What almost all of us need is a simple PDF reader (and editor).

Computer's typefaces comes with support of lot more special characters than available on the keyboard. What if you wanted to use them on e-mails, social networks etc.?

There can be situation where you are visiting someone else's Blogger blog and wish to know the total number of posts they made till date. It's fairly easy to find out the same, just follow the following instructions:

This tutorial will help you convert songs to karaoke. For this particular method to work, song has to be stereo. If it is mono by any chance, sorry, you can't depend on this guide to make a karaoke out of it. The process is simple and very easy to perform but not always perfect. Depending on the song, your mileage may vary.

"A wiki is a website which allows its users to add, modify, or delete its content via a web browser usually using a simplified markup language or a rich-text editor.Wikis are powered by wiki software. Most are created collaboratively." - from Wikipedia

Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux distribution today. There are many other Linux distributions available on the Internet which are based on Ubuntu. This list focuses on Linux distributions that are distributed by Canonical along with Ubuntu. Almost all of these distributions are compatible with each other in terms of applications compatibility, package management etc. However, they are designed and distributed for different purposes and platforms.

There are times in our life where we looked at some websites and wondered what all technologies the developer might have used to build it. Which CMS they use, what sort of server they do have. Are they using any Javascript/CSS frameworks? Are they using Flash? The questions are many. Most of the times, the answer can be found by navigating through the source of webpage or with some additional tricks. Well, not anymore.

Almost all popular operating systems are nowadays designed to fit in a DVD and thus crosses 700MB mark. Of course there are few exceptions. Today we are going to see such an exceptional case, an operating system with graphical user interface, few general purpose applications and games all packed in as a 5 MB ISO . It has a good desktop, text editors, network manager, a text-only browser and supports NTFS, Ext2/3.

Linux is the leading operating system for servers and those high-tech super computers . It's presence can be seen from super computers to even wrist watches. One of the another cool thing about Linux is the ability to make a choice. There are many Linux distributions available with various feature sets, all of which are available for free.