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  • Hack sbicapsec.com to run on Firefox

    `AG_BACKQUOTE_TURN_ON` www.sbicapsec.com is State Bank of India’s online share trading portal. This is a good portal but their site’s code quality is amazingly of low quality, dare I say, crappy. SBI being a public sector government institute, we can rest assured that the code quality or bugs in it would not get fixed soon, if […]

  • SplitBill: IOU manager for and by Geeks

    There are hundreds of IOU software on the net. What makes SplitBill different is that it has no UI. Yes, you read that right – No UI. Now the more surprising part. It is a breeze to use and setup. In fact all you need is a sever with Python and MySql installed to host […]

  • iFlickr PHP Script: Create mRSS feed of interesting pictures on Flickr.com

    Did you notice the “Flickr Gallery” on top right corner of the home page of this blog? The picture slide show is provided by Google’s Ajax Slide Show, but this post is not about that. Google’s Slide Show needs a mRSS feed, which it parses to get the list of thumbnails it wants to present. […]

  • Digit Math Application: Proving the correctness of shortcut method to squaring numbers ending with 5

    Please read Digit Math: Introduction before you continue. The problem Someday, somewhere I came to know that any number which ends with the digit 5 can be easily squared. The trick can be easily demonstrate using an example. Suppose we want to find the square of 25. Trick is to take the number before 5 […]

  • Access Ext3/Ext2 file system on Mac OSX Lion (10.7)

    On Mac if you want to access ext3/etx2 filesystems, which are used by Linux systems, you will find lots of links on net but all are pretty outdate and they don’t work for Lion. So, here is the updated version, which works. At least for me. 😉 You will need two softwares:- OSXFuse – Download […]

  • You can download all your data from Facebook.

    You can download all your data from Facebook.

    I don’t know how long its been up, but today I noticed that Facebook allows you to download all your data. The download archive will have:- Any photos or videos you’ve shared on Facebook. Your Wall posts, messages and chat conversations. Your friends’ names and their email addresses (if they have shared it). What the […]