Since Dec 20, many parts of india, asia and middleeast countries experience a dramatic slowdown of internet and blackouts because of of the undersea cable breakdown. Users are unable to access many important websites such as paypal and other sites from north america because of traffic re-routing.

I remember same kind of incident happening last where cables are torn off by a ship dropping anchor and cutting the cables.

The real impact of this incident is much felt today (monday) where …

How to setup BSNL Dataone automatically connect to Internet when modem switched ON?

If you are using BSNL broadband in India and most of the time you will be connecting to internet using a username and password. You might be wondering why cant you connect to internet when modem switched on.

It can be easily done with few steps. All you need to do is to setup your DSL mode to work in PPPoE mode. In this mode once the …

Fact: iPod touch can only connect wirelessly (using wi-fi) to broadband internet that is always ON. Since ipod touch does not have or come with any dialer it is not possible to connect to internet that requires username and password using ADSL modem. Technically this means your ipod touch can only get wifi internet access if your router/modem is already connected to internet. (for example in airports etc..)

But there is a way to do it…

Solution: You will need to configure …

You might often have come across MAC addresses which is unique for every network/wireless adapter and if you are having a laptop/notebook you might want to find MAC address of wireless adapter so that you can secure your wireless laptop by restricting access to only MAC address of your wireless adapter.

Here is how you find the MAC address for network or wireless adapter in your notebook in your windows.

Go > Start > Run > Type command

Then

> ipconfig /all

Look for …

Over this past 2 days, I was frequently getting this error and i had been struggling to connect to internet using bsnl dataone. There was absolutely no problem with my password and the modem and adsl was working fine yet i get this error. Sometimes it connects fine and most times i face this problem.

Error 691: Access was denied because the username/password was invalid on the domain.

Here are the main possible reasons for this error 691:

1. Your username and password …

I have been using hostgator for hosting few of my sites and until now i was using paypal to make payments. This time i wanted to make payment with credit card switching from paypal. Unforunately all i could find when i logged in

I was searching hours for a link to credit card payment link and all i could get this warning…

[warning] Your Billing Method must first be changed to ‘CC Batch’.

Finally i have figured this out.

You have to first click …

I have been long time confused about this simple two types of hosting and atlast i understood the difference between colocation and dedicated hosting.

Colocation

You have to buy server equipment and the co-location service provider gives you all internet facilities in their location like internet connection, safety of your equipment, surveillence and more.. Further the software and administration your responsibility. Simply put take your server hardware equipment from your home/office to your co-location providers office and fit it there. It …

When you type a website name in the browser where often the sites dont load fast. You will see in the status bar of the browser “looking up website.com”, which often means the DNS server (resolves hostnames to IP address) is slow causing such a long time to connect to website in your home PC.

If your ISPs DNS server is down which often causes “connection timed out” or host unreachable and this problem may be for for hours until …

How to design a rounded corner menu boxes in CSS?

Being a beginner in CSS coding, i have always struggled to design round corner
menu boxes in CSS. At last i found a very simple way to to accomplish this with
minimum lines of code in CSS. In this tutorial i am going to show you how to
design a round corner menu box with header. You will need photoshop to slice
images and a CSS editor.

Objectives

To …

Lightweight WYSIWYG Editor for PHP

A dead simple javascript based WYSIWYG html editor for PHP. It is lightwight, fastloading html editor can be integrated to PHP scripts easily.

I always wanted a very simple WYSIWYG editor for my PHP scripts with just simple functions like bold, italic, URL and Image insertion and nothing more than that! I came across many many open source editors and each had disadvantages like popup html window for inserting links, slow loading and much more, which …