Archive for August, 2008

Barack Obama: Top Twitter user

As per Twitterholic, Barack Obama, the US presidential candidate is the top twitter user. As of now, Barack Obama has 69,153 friends and 66,428 followers.
A closer look at the number above gives you the fact that Obama has more friends than follower. Now we know the reason for the huge success of Obama.a
Earlier i wrote [...]

Turn off Windows Messenger and improve your PC Performance

There are many windows processes which usually run in the background and thereby tend to eat up system resources and slow down the computer. In my previous post, you learnt how to process idle tasks in Windows.
One of the process which usually starts on its own by default whenever Windows starts is Windows Messenger. If [...]

Canon Powershot A470: No frills, entry level digital camera

I recently got a chance to review Canon Powershot A470 camera. This post carries some of my observations of this camera and also the specifications.
Canon Powershot A470 is a compact and easily portable entry level digital camera. Canon’s PowerShot series is known for its user-friendliness and good quality, and the PowerShot A470 upholds that reputation [...]

HTTP Response Status Codes

Lifepal has an interesting article about HTTP Response Status Codes. The HTTP request response cycle begins with DNS Lookup and ends with the browser parsing the response after studying the Response headers.
Response headers are a way by which the browser understands what happened when the request was sent to the server. In a way, for [...]

[How-To] Copying data from a corrupted User Profile to a New Profile in Windows XP

Recently one of my reader from Delhi had an issue with his user profile and he wrote to me about it. The issue was that while trying to login to his account, he was getting an error as
Windows cannot load your profile because it may be corrupted. You may be logged in using a temporary [...]