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Internet Explorer Tip: How to download more than Two files at a Time

Reader Aastha asks, ” I am able to download max two files at a time with Internet Explorer, Can this limit be increased?”
Aastha, there is a simple registry hack by which you can increase this limit to a maximum of 10. This method works for both IE 6 and IE7. Now follow the procedure [...]

Wordpress: How to Move Self Hosted Wordpress Blog across Web Hosts

I recently moved Shivaranjan.com to DreamHost that went on well. Let me share with you the steps that I followed to move Shivaranjan.com across the Web hosts.
1. Backup the Current Wordpress Database: Back up your Wordpress database. Wordpress has provided wonderful tutorial on how to backup wordpress database.
2. Backup all the Wordpress files from [...]

iPod Tip: How to Make your iPod Faster

Reader Jai Ram asks, “My iPod has become very sluggish, the menu access also takes lot more time now. It was good when I first bought it, can the same performance be restored?”
Jai Ram your iPod’s performance can be restored by simply defragmenting it.
Pre-requisite:

iPod data cable.
iTunes (latest version preferable)

Here is how to do it: [...]

Windows Vista / XP: How to Configure Auto-Login

Reader Nathan asks, ” I want to login to my Vista ultimate machine automatically, how do I do it?”
Nathan there are three ways to do this:
Method 1:
If you are comfortable using windows registry then you opt for this method.
1. Launch the registry editor. You can do so by using this path StartMenu > Run [...]

Windows Quick Tip: How to Create a Batch File for Changing Network Settings

The aim of this tutorial is to create a batch file using which you will be able to change your network settings with just a click of your mouse.
Why to create a batch file for changing network settings?
If you happen to use a laptop at your workplace and at home the you may have to [...]

iPod: How to Add Album Art to MP3 Songs using iTunes

In this post we shall discuss how we can add any picture as an album art for the songs that you have in your iPod or iTunes library. The main purpose of this post is that we own lot of songs to which we would want to add our favourite picture as album art instead [...]

iPod: How to Convert MP3 files to iPod Audio Book format (m4b)

In this post we will discuss, how to convert a mp3 file to iPod audio format (.m4b). You may download lot of audio books in mp3 format and transfer it to you iPod for listening, but these files don’t have the useful features of iPod audio book format.
Why Convert MP3 audio book to iPod audio [...]

How to Create Cue file for a Bin file in 5 Steps

A friend of mine was recently struggling to burn a bin file which he had downloaded as the Cue file which usually accompanies the bin file was missing. So the in this post you will learn how to create cue file for a bin file. Let us imagine you have bin file called “abc.bin” for [...]