GMail Tricks You Might Don’t Know

Gmail is one of the Google product, which is free, advertising-supported webmail, POP3, and IMAP. I have been using Gmail for more than 2 years now, and i can say it is the best mail service that ever made. It is fast, secure and convenient to use. The Gmail give you 7GB free space and growing every second.Beside the large space Google also have the uniqueness. One single account can give you more than 100 thousands alias. You maybe don’t believe me. But see the 3 tricks below:A … Read more...

Encrypt Your Flashdrive With Truecrypt In Windows

After i write Encrypt Your Flashdrive With TrueCrypt In Ubuntu, some of my friends ask if TrueCrypt could work in Windows 7. And i said, of course it would work. TrueCrypt work in multiple paltform such as Windows and Linux. For Mac? i don't know yet, i haven't try.As you read in the previous article. TrueCrypt is an open source software that helps you set up and maintain an on-the-fly encrypted volume. On the fly encryption means data is automatically encrypted or decrypted right before … Read more...

Encrypt Your Flashdrive With TrueCrypt In Ubuntu

Data privacy is important. You need to keep it safe and store in your harddrive or flash drive only. And you don't want your data got by the wrong hand. You need to secure your data where you store it. One of the technique to store your data is encrypt it.To encrypt your data, you can use Truecrypt. TrueCrypt is an open source software that helps you set up and maintain an on-the-fly encrypted volume. On the fly encryption means data is automatically encrypted or decrypted right before they … Read more...

Create Backup Of Your Ubuntu To Distributable Ubuntu Live CD/DVD

I have been using Ubuntu for almost 3 years. I started using it since Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron released. And when Ubuntu released a new upgrade, i prefer do fresh install rather than upgrade the package. Even it's takes time to configure and restore my backup files so i could do my work. And when my work mate want to use Ubuntu too, i install it for him and again, i configure and tweak it so he could do his work. So i'm thinking is there a way to clone my Ubuntu instead of configure it per … Read more...

[HowTo] Create Ubuntu Live CD

Ubuntu 10.10 code name Maverick Meerkat has been released on October 10th 2010 you can download it from ubuntu.com for free. But when you are an Ubuntu advance user, you need to add more package or remove some package that you won't use. Then you can live boot your custom Ubuntu live CD. And it's not limited to live CD, you can make it as live USB too.There are some reasons you want to customize Ubuntu live CD:Make your own Linux / Ubuntu distribution, something like rebranding but … Read more...

Beginners Guide: Backup And Restore Compressed MySQL Dump File

As you know your website data is stored in your database server, in this case is MySQL. To prevent disaster, backup your data regularly is a must for you and every website owner. There are many ways to backup MySQL data, one of them is using mysqldump to dump your MySQL data to a file.But mysqldump output is plaint text files with full of SQL commands. And in linux you can compress it using gzip with pipelining command.To backup and compress MySQL dump file:Explanation: the … Read more...

Things You Can Do With String.Format In C#

Formatting output string with String.Format is really helpful, and it's been mostly use when you develop application using C# or VB.Net. String.Format firstly released in .NET Framework 1.1. String.Format is for replaces each format item in a specified String with the text equivalent of a corresponding object's value.String.Format overload function:Basic use:As you see the argument that inside the curly braces {0}, is the string format that will replace by the arg0. Which have this … Read more...

Access Google Data API From Command Line

Googlecl is a google utility to access Google Data API from command line. Googlecl is written in Python programming language. Googlecl allow you to update your blogger blog, Picassa, Calender, Contact, Google Doc, and Youtube videos. This tool connect to Google service using Google Data API. Since it is written with Python, it'w work on cross platform such as Linux, FreeBSD, Windows and Mac OSX.To install GoogleCL, you need to install it's dependency:Python 2.5 or 2.6 gdata >= 1.2.4 … Read more...

Cheat Your Professor With Trash File

I know cheating is not right thing to do, but sometimes you have to. Imagine when you have to submit your task by tomorrow and you don't even start it now, for any reasons you can give. And i'm sure your professor doesn't want to hear any reasons from you for not submitting your task.So to cheat your professor you can submit a broken file or a trash file. And later you can blame the professor computer's or server computer or even the internet or network which make your file broken. You can … Read more...

[TIPS] Convert Your Numbers To Human Readable Format

Sometimes your code produce a large numbers which is hard for user to read it. For example 17753392783 bytes or 18293753038 unit. For human eyes, it is easier to get 17MB or 1 million rather than lot of numbers.I write this as quick tips for you, in case you want to convert your data to human readable format. I do this in PHP, for other programming language you can get the algorithm and convert it to your own language:Usage:Thank you for read this article. Good luck and have a … Read more...