Thunderbird 3.0 comes with a very nice and powerful global search functionality. For this when you fist start the thunderbird 3.0 after installation, it will try to index all the messages in your your inbox and folders, which will kill your machine and stop you from doing anything else on your machine. If you want [...]
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How to stop indexer in Thunderbird 3.0
December 14th, 2009 | by Ashok Chava | published in Computers, Latest
Thunderbird 3.0 released
December 11th, 2009 | by Ashok Chava | published in Computers, Latest
Long wait if over and the new version looks great and works great. Few things I notices after I started working on this 1) The UI and tabbed interface is much better than what I have anticipated. 2) The feature like “Show in conversation” you get as part “other actions” in message body is pretty [...]
Connecting two PCs with out switch or router
December 9th, 2009 | by Ashok Chava | published in Computers, Latest
One easy way of doing this is by connecting two PCs using a Ethernet Cross over cable. I got this cable for 35(1 meter in length) from a local computer hardware shop. After connecting the two PCs change the network connection settings as given below In the properties of TCP/IP portal For the first PC [...]
A Visual Guide to Computer Cables and Connectors – Identify The Right Cable Easily
October 22nd, 2009 | by Ashok Chava | published in Computers, Latest
A Visual Guide to Computer Cables and Connectors Computer cables can be confusing so here’s a quick visual guide that will help you quickly identify almost every cable that came bundled with your computer and other electronic gadgets. You may also refer to this guide for ideas on how to hook different devices using commonly [...]
How to convert graphic files from one format to another format?
September 21st, 2009 | by Ashok Chava | published in Computers, Latest
The common requirement for any graphics designer is to change file format from one to another with out loosing quality or effects got in the original format. There is freeware called XnView to do this same task very efficiently. This tool allows you to do the following tasks with minimum effort. Import about 400 graphic [...]
Windows XP users cannot upgrade to Windows 7
July 29th, 2009 | by Ashok Chava | published in Computers, Latest
Microsoft revealed the upgrade path of Windows 7 operating system Windows XP and below users are out of luck. You must have Windows Vista SP1 or newer to upgrade to Windows 7. You can’t upgrade to Windows 7 from Windows Vista Starter Edition. If you’re upgrading from Windows Vista, you must upgrade to one of [...]
Audio file formats explained
July 28th, 2009 | by Ashok Chava | published in Computers, Latest
Recently I found this very nice article in MakeUseOf.com, I am pasting the same below Almost everyone is familiar with the most commonly used file formats – for music, mp3 and wmv, for video, avi and mpeg, and for images, jpeg and gif. Unfortunately, these common formats are not the only ones we run into [...]
Apple.. we want a E-book reader
July 20th, 2009 | by Ashok Chava | published in Computers, Latest
First it was mac then IPod and then iPhone. With every new product Apple revolutionized the entire industry. May be now its time to bring Apple Electronic book reader. Existing products like Amazon Kindle, and Sony Digital reader. Recently there was some news about the same. Hope we will soon see a apple e-book reader [...]
Search Result Categorizer
July 2nd, 2009 | by Ashok Chava | published in Computers, Latest
I am creating a java swing based application, which categorizes the search results based on the user requirement and input. Check the screenshots below In the below given screenshot the search string is java and I wanted get the first 200 results from google. In the second panel I have given java.com and sun.com, also [...]
Foxit Reader 3.0 released
June 13th, 2009 | by Ashok Chava | published in Computers, Latest
Foxit reader is an alternative PDF reader, which very light weight and takes less than half of the memory foot print taken by Adobe PDF Reader. This latest version allows users to open the PDF files directly in Firefox the same way Adobe reader plug-in opens. [Link]