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Have you ever wanted to delete some categories and posts within it from your WordPress blog? Here is one simple step to delete multiple categories and the posts associated with it in a single step using a little SQL. If you have a PhpMyAdmin interface to your MySql , it would be better and simple. [...]

Flickr was feature rich. It overtook all other photosharing sites and became a model of web 2.0 service. But still it lacked one thing. A slideshow that can be embedded to any external site. People relied on third party tools to rip slideshows from flickr to post on blogs.But now, Flickr allows sharing slideshow as [...]

Or is it really a hack? If you are using Firefox , the recent album copy-protection feature by orkut is ‘hackable’ . Actually its not a hack at all. Its just simple as drag and drop. Just open the page with the desired photo to be ‘hacked’ or copied. Click the left mouse button on [...]

Finally the day is here. On 16th of August I am attending the first of its kind, a bloggers meet with blog writers from Kerala in the most lovely place on world – Backwaters of kerala. The event is sponsered mainly by Kerala Tourism Department and is a result of two guys, Kenny and Anand. [...]

I am trying out the FeedBurner-Netvibes flaw as listed in thenextweb. The hack is to increase your feed count by 1000s with a few clicks.My feed is a new one,started yesterday with just 8 subscribers. I uploaded an opml file with 1000+ entries to netvibes just now. Lets see how it ends up. The opml [...]

Motvik WWIGO or Webcam Wherever I GO ( read as ‘vigo’) is a software which turns your mobile camera into a wireless webcam. If you have a laptop/pc with Bluetooth , and a Nokia Symbian Mobile , thats all you need for running this application. And yea, its a Freeware!. It comes in 2 parts, [...]

We rely on bookmarks heavily as the list of websites that we want to check on a routine base grows. If you are like me, who is forced to use internet from multiple places say your home pc and from your work place, you need something to synchronize the bookmarks. There is a plugin for [...]

While optimizing this blog for better visibility by search engines, I got confused about what to do with the links to other websites from this blog, many of them being my own sites. I have read somewhere that target=_new or target=_blank attribute is not a good practice while creating links. I don’t know why it [...]

Once i had blogged about some hacks to use with Airtel Live for getting free and unlimited Internet . Most of them wont work now as Airtel fixed the loop holes in their service. What now new is, TeaShark – a Java Application just like Opera Mini , which can be used with Airtel Live [...]

Flickr is a great tool for showing off your photography. Even though it’s an awesome engineering piece , there are something which it still misses. But if you are on Firefox, you can use Greasemonkey with tons of scripts specially designed for Flickr to further enhance your Flickring experience. Here some of the best scripts [...]