July 31st in General by .

How to do a FREE Trademark Search

Starting anything without checking for trademarks can put you in trouble at some point of time or other. It may be possible that in your country the trademark may not be available but somewhere in other part of the world some third person may have registered a trademark that collides …

July 24th in PHP Scripts by .

Optimizing MySQL Rand() against Slowdowns

I was having having nightmares with mysql rand() function. Rand() function works well in pulling out rows randomly from the datbase and works well if you have a quite few hundred records. Ironically, it desperately slows down when you have a large table dataset above 10,000 rows.

This is the traditional …

July 14th in Mobile Phones by .

Best Mobile Phone for Senior Citizens

I have always been fond of finding a suitable mobile phone for senior citizens with poor eyesight. Many aged persons lose the interest for mobile phones just because they are not comfortable to operate the mobile phone without wearing eye-glasses.

Dont forget that senior citizens also form a good consumer market. …

July 5th in Linux/Unix by .

Install Webmin Server Control Panel for Debian/Ubuntu

Installing Webmin (server control panel) for Debian/Ubuntu is dead easy.

Just follow 3 steps.

1. Go to Root> console and download Webmin using wget command

wget http://webmin.com/…./webmin-X.YYY.tar.gz

2. Just follow the steps during the installer.

3. Once installation is finished, just point to URL you will get the webmin login screen.

http://localhost:10000/

http://ip.address:10000/

Thats it!

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July 1st in PHP Scripts by .

Custom Layouts with CakePHP Framework

I was amazed with the simplicity of the CakePHP framework. Its so easy to understand the model view controller and just within minutes we can break down the application like a blog into pieces.

Just i was experimenting i found that making custom layouts with the framework is bit hard to …