Author: Prabhu Balakrishnan
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Fix -> iPhone says “no service” on roaming
I arrived in India with my european phone number and all it says was “no service” and “restricted network”. I went nuts because i tried resetting, restarting, pulling up simcard and reinserting but nothing worked. Then bingo! it worked easy and realized that iphone has issue with switching from airplane mode. huh! Here is what…
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How to create page breaks in html/pdf pages?
I had this tricky issue. I use php to generate html page, but when i save as pdf, each page leak into another page which i didnt like. I wanted a code which inserts page break in html code so that the pages print nicely one by one. This code works nicely if you are…
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Shuttle bus from Eindhoven to Amsterdam
Ryan air operates in and out of eindhoven airport. If you want want to go to amsterdam you have the option of taking train or shuttle bus to amsterdam city centre (central station). The shuttle bus is the easiest and is operated by http://www.airexpressbus.com/. Usually it takes 1.5 hours to reach amsterdam, be sure to…
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How to query mysql for previous month?
I was working on a php project, where i wanted to count the total number of clients for last previous month, starting from 1st to 30th. For example, if the current month is Sep 2012, i wanted to find the count of clients i received for the August 2012. You need not bang your head…
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Best Movie theatres in Budapest, Hungary
Everyone would like to go for movies on weekends. If you are an expat in Budapest, interested to watch english language movies, the good news is, there are lot of theatres which screen english movies, with or without hungarian subtitles. All cinemacity theatres in shopping malls, shown english movies, but not all the time and…
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How Machine readable data work on Passports?
Ever wondered how machine readable passports work and how do they encode and decode data while swiping? Do you notice at passport control, officers swipe the passport containing your data? When you closely observe your travel document visa or passport, you might notice something on the bottom. It is called Machine Readable Zone (MRZ) and…
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Website down? Here is how to fix it
Seeing a site down or terrible slowness, is a webmasters nightmare. I have often freaked out in such situations because with high traffic site, you could lose lots of clients, and money, if your site is not properly accessible. Taking very good care of websites on weekly basis is much recommended. Very often, when you…
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Social media buttons slows down website loading
I have never compromised the speed loading of website at any costs. I necently noticed many times that social media buttons, especially twitter and facebook, causing the website to load very slow during peak times. Pulling the button data also puts load on the local server. You will never know when the social buttons cause…
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Best Shopping malls to hang out in Budapest
If you like shopping in Budapest, these are the best shopping malls in Budapest you must visit. All these malls are accessible by public transport metro and tramlines. Westend city mall (near nyugati station) Árkád ( near ors vezer metro) Arena mall (backside keleti railway station) Great Central Market Hall (near Szabadsag or Liberty bridge…
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ATM for Withdrawing Euros in Budapest?
Hungary does not use EUR and the currency is Hungarian Forint (HUF). Approx you can buy 295 HUF for 1 EUR. The problem is most the ATMs operated by OTP bank, Unicredit, Raiffeisen dispense only the local forints and it could be goose chase, searching for an ATM dispensing Euros. There is one OTP Bank…