Book Review: Foods That Harm, Foods That Heal

It's comforting to know that food can also be preventive medicine. Foods That Harm, Foods That Heal - An A-Z Guide to Safe and Healthy Eating beautifully explains the benefits & drawbacks of various vegetables, fruits & food sources. Written by experts and full of relevant images, this colorful...

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HOW TO access web pages faster on a slow Internet connection

Disable IFRAME based adsDisable Flash based ads. These ads suck up a lot of bandwidth. It's easy to enable/disable add-ons like the Flash plugin on newer versions of IE & Firefox. Note however that you will need Flash to be enabled to watch videos on YouTube or MyPopKorn.com (the site that gives...

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Pros & Cons of various C# Collection classes

The System.Collections and System.Collections.Specialized namespaces contain about a dozen Collection classes. How do you decide which one is optimal?This compilation of pros & cons of various C# Collection classes can help you decide.Also see:MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-536): Microsoft...

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State of Internet in India

As per stats released by The Internet Governance Forum, India has 81 million Internet users. These figures however don't tally with other estimates.According to Akamai's quarterly State of the Internet report for Quarter 3 of 2008, India has 26% on narrowband (<256kbps), 5% on broadband (>2 Mbps)...

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HOW TO avoid the IE Information Bar during development

If you have ever tried opening a web page that contains JavaScript directly instead of from your web server in newer versions of IE, you may have noticed the message "To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has restricted this file from showing active content that could access your computer"...

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Plain English Explanation for Non-Geeks

Explaining Internet terms like Podcasting, Phishing Scams, Social Media, Twitter, Blogs, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, Wikis, RSS to non-geeks is not a easy job. Typically if people find something intimidating they may form a bad opinion about it & keep away. That's what happened to me...

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Learning Resources for Building High Performance Websites

I have high regard for Steve Souders & Peter-Paul Koch. Their knowledge and contributions to the Web Development community are exemplary. Steve is the man behind YSlow, a nifty tool that analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites.Steve recently...

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What is Stemming?

Stemming means matching on the "stem" (or root) of the word rather than the exact word.Many of the popular search engines support Stemming. For instance if you search for pet lemur dietary needs, search engines like Google & Live Search will also search for pet lemur diet needs, and other related...

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HOW TO find if your site is indexed by search engines

For most websites, much of their traffic is driven by search engines. To see if your site is listed on popular search engines like Google, Live Search and Yahoo Search, type site: followed by (without space) your website domain URL. Ofcourse, this technique can also be useful to search within a specific...

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Large ASP.NET websites - 1

Anything that represents customer hand-holding represents a failure of site design - Jim Buckmaster, CraigslistWhat does it take to run a large ASP.NET website that can have 30+ million hits a day (500 - 600 pages per second)? You would have to ask Markus Frind who single handedly runs PlentyOfFish,...

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HOW TO implement AutoComplete with jQuery & ASP.NET

Auto-completion of search terms is an AJAX feature popularized by Google that reduces typing by listing possible keywords as the user types. ASP.NET developers typically use the AutoComplete Extender that is the part of the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit to plug it to a text box to implement auto-completion....

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HOW TO avoid Spam Filters while emailing programmatically

Spam filters are generally built into email clients, can be installed seperately or implemented on the server. Many popular spam filters utilize Bayesian spam filtering besides other techniques to distinguish illegitimate spam email from legitimate email. The process involves training the...

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HOW TO conditionally format entire row/s based on a cell's text value in Excel 2007

I found that Conditionally Formatting an entire row/s rather than a single cell and that too  based on a text value in a cell rather than a numeric value in Excel 2007 is not straight forward. After a bit of monkeying around I learnt you can also actually have multiple Formulas while specifying...

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SEO simplified

Undermining the exagerrated fears of some SEO consultants about all the changes happening at Google Search in recent times, randfish over at SEOmoz Blog says -SEO remains, at its core, remarkably similar to what it was in 2002:Make pages accessibleTarget with keywords that searchers employBuild content...

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How To Copy Files between Virtual PC and Host PC

With Virtual PC 2007, you can run multiple operating systems (Guest OS - Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/2008, OS/2) on the same physical computer (Host OS - Windows Vista Business/Enterprise/Ultimate, Windows XP Pro/Tablet PC). The biggest advantage of using Virtual PC 2007 is that you can test an...

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India Stats

India Today published a special issue titled "Transforming India Great Ideas.Great Minds" in October. It has thought provoking articles by India's best minds on ideas than can transform India and how they can be implemented.The articles contained some statistics about India - some interesting, some...

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