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10 Golden Lessons From Steve Jobs

“I think we’re having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we’re always trying to do better.” – Steve Jobs His accomplishments and character helped define a generation and change the world. He is co-founder of the fairytale company we now know as Apple Computers. And he is the visionary of the [...]

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How to find Qibla from almost anywhere in the world?

This post is particularly gonna be of use for my Muslim brothers and sisters. Ever since I came to Sweden, I was perplexed about how I can find the correct direction of Qibla without having any compass and with the date and time where the Sun comes right above Kaaba, many many days away. So [...]

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How to put a carriage return in with Find-Replace Dialog?

Today we had a funny situation, my friend generated some sql from his custom code and it needed to have a ‘Go’ statement in between,, because it had create procedure statements in it. So after a bit of googling, I found out that you can use Microsoft Word for it and use the ^p character [...]

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blog for blog

howdy every one, ah, well, feeling very sleepy right now and I’m just sittin here at my desk upgrading my VS .NET to SP 1. Just heard from my colleague that hey! just one blog in whole September? Just got a deadline tommorow and well here I am sitting with this dumb thing taking so [...]

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Windows 98: Just made the day.

well, yesterday I was to format my C drive and for that some dumb nut just gave me an idea of formatting it by booting the computer up with a Windows 98 CD, starting with the help of CD ROM Support and formatting the God damn drive. What happend is that it just slipped out of [...]

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How to get the special characters from keyboard?

ANSI secrets   Ever wondered how to get special characters like ©, ® or ™ in your document? You don’t need any special software installed. Windows has it’s own inbuilt character map utility, which you can use to identify individual special characters. Using copy and paste you can insert them into your document. However, this [...]

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How To Increase The Google Crawl Rate For Your Website

It is every important to understand one simple concept and it is that, you can never force or cheat Googlebot into crawling your website. But you can always employ certain steps, that would ensure that Googlebot gets attracted to your content and crawls it. Here are a few ways to do just exactly that: You [...]

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Interview Tips

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