You must have noticed a lot of site display this message "Page generated in XX.XX seconds" at the bottom of the page. It is very easy to make and I will show in this post how to do so. It is a tool which gives you information
Captcha can come in handy when fighting against spam and bot attacks. It generates random images and asks the user to re-enter the characters it sees in order to verify whether user is a human or not. We will develop a simple captcha script in PHP by using GD library.
I have made a new year greeting card for bOtskOOl readers and fans using an online image creator/editor at Pixlr. I just love it. The editor didn't take time to load in my browser and I couldn't believe that we can actually save our work
In this post I will show you how to extract and display images from Microsoft Word Document files (docx extension) using PHP. This can be used for creating a document repository and indexing images for it. We won't use any third party software or module for this. This
Today I had some problem with my BSNL net connection. I was able to establish a network connection but couldn't access any website. Turned out that the problem was with BSNL DNS servers. I was surprised to know that sometimes BSNL DNS servers don't work. I
I wanted to purchase a cell phone recently and was about to buy one based on Symbian OS when someone suggested me to go for an Android based handset. As a novice in this field, I decided to do some research work before purchasing one. Some of the interesting facts
Koha, the first Open-Source Integrated Library System (ILS) is used worldwide in libraries of all sizes. Koha is scalable enough to meet the transaction load of any library. Suppose you have records of your library in excel data sheet format and want them to import into Koha. But how will
The ability to detect your website visitor's screen resolution gives you more freedom on how you want to display your website's content to the end user. This will help you to remove unnecessary scrollbars, that appear when the user's screen resolution is low, by
As per latest W3schools Browser statistics (last updated on November 2010), 4.1 % of web surfers still use Internet Explorer 6. It has become outdated and Windows has also stopped supporting it now. But still a significant amount of users use Internet Explorer 6. Internet Explorer 6 is known for
Many a times working on computers becomes a bit cumbersome when you have to use your mouse or touchpad for doing every single thing. Here’s a list of some cool keyboard shortcuts that can make your life much easier. So fiddle with the keys and enjoy! 1. Windows key
In this post I will show how to integrate a chat system into your website or blog which doesn't require any server side installation or modification. You don't need to install any third party script/module or use any IRC channel. The only requirement is that
Have you removed important documents from your trash or formatted a partition without backing up your data? Don't worry, it is still possible to recover such deleted files. Recuva is a free, easy to use and powerful tool for this. Before we begin here are some important tips:
Twimbow is a web based Twitter client that lets you assign colours to your twitter feed and customize things to your liking. There are numerous twitter client for desktop and notebook but Twimbow is unique and colourful. Twimbow is perhaps the best Twitter web application that I have come across
I was searching for the smallest web server for Windows which has acceptable features and can be used in production environment. Well TinyWeb by RitLabs is an incredibly small web-server for Windows with its executable file of only 67.2KB! And despite such small size, its very fast and efficient.
Did you know that Twitter, one of the world’s largest micro-blogging site, has now switched on to a new and more scalable search architecture powered by Lucene? Twitter’s original real time search was based on the Summize search system that it acquired in 2008. However, with the sites
jQuery is a cross-browser JavaScript Library that makes animations, event handling and ajax interactions and HTML document traversing easier for a web developer. Its a free, open-source and lightweight software designed to change the way you write with JavaScript. jQuery plugins are developed in order to extend functionality of jquery