How to download videos from Youtube and Metacafe
Though there are many ways to download videos from sites like Youtube & Metacafe, it’s always better to use tools or software’s which are fine tuned for a particular requirement. One such tool, which I found very useful is the Morz Video downloader from Morz Softwares. This free software lets the users to download videos from Youtube & Metacafe and at the same time can convert the downloaded videos to different formats without even requiring any external software. Continue Reading >>
Few photos from the Bangalore Indiblogger meet
The second edition of the Bangalore Indiblogger meet was held at Microsoft’s premises on the 28Th of Feb. More than 50 enthusiastic blogger’s from different walks of life took part in the event. As the detailed reviews about the event have been already posted on other blogs, which are more or less matching my thoughts, I don’t want to repeat the same stuff here. Continue Reading >>
How to copy and paste data between multiple computers
If you are frequently juggling with multiple computers, then there can be a need for you to copy the same data to diffe
rent computes. It will be much easier if you can achieve this task by using the normal copy & paste commands. Following are the three tools using which one can seamlessly copy & paste data across multiple computers. Continue Reading >>
How to use your website or blog URL as an OpenID
In one of my previous post, I explained about the rise of OpenID movement & how it is moving towards becoming a De facto standard in the online Digital Identity field. If you are still not aware of OpenID, you can consider reading my earlier post to get some gyaan on OpenID before continuing with this post. Today, I like to throw more light on OpenID by explaining how one can use his own website/blog/domain URL as an OpenID. This feature comes in handy when you have your own domain and/or if you don’t like to trust any of the OpenID providers in the market. Continue Reading >>
How to run a task in Vista even when your system is in Sleep or Hibernate mode
The Windows Vista comes with a new & enhanced Task Scheduler service which offers much more control & flexibility when compared to the ones provided in the previous versions of Windows. The Vista Task Scheduler service provides controlled & unattended management of task execution, launched either on schedule or asynchronously in response to events arising out of system state changes. One of the best features provided by the new task scheduler is the ability to schedule tasks even when the system is in Sleep or Hibernate mode. Continue Reading >>
The rise of OpenId movement
We all know the diffi
culties involved in creating & maintaining separate online identities for each & every Internet service that we may need to access. However, many of us may not be aware of the evolving technologies which aim to provide a solution for this problem. There has been a silent revolution in the online world from quite some time to bring in a universal standard for accessing the Internet services. Here is a sneak peak at one such protocol called OpenID which is redefining the online digital Identity. Continue Reading >>
‘SEO Challenge 09′ at DollarShower
One of my friend and Bangalore based Blogger Ajith of ‘DollarShower’ has started a contest called ‘DollarShower SEO Challenge 09‘. 
This SEO contest, which is first of its kind in the blogosphere challenges its participants to increase their Search Engine visitors during the period of the contest. Ajith will be making use of Google Analytics to calculate the stats for each of the participating blogs. The most exciting part of the contest is, the winners will be walking away with prizes worth $1500. Continue Reading >>
TechSagar celebrating its first birthday
Hope you all have bid adieu for 2008 & received the new year with a bang. In the mean time, I am happy to inform all of you that, 
TechSagar is celebrating its first birthday today i.e., on Jan 1st 2009. I started this blog exactly one year ago with the intention of making it one of the premier technology blogs. During the past one year, TechSagar has seen ups & downs just like many other start-up blogs in the World Wide Web. Though there was a drastic variation in the posting frequency over the last one year, my passion for blogging has remained constant. Continue Reading >>
How to tweet your photos & videos by mail
It’s incontrovertible that twitter has come out as one of the hottest Internet tools in 2008. This can be well justified by the emergence of 100’s of web based tools & applications, which a
re providing their own add on features to the basic service provided by twitter. The latest entrant to this list is an application called 2tweet from 2pad. This new app lets the users to tweet multiple photos & videos directly from their mail without even requiring any extra registration. Continue Reading >>
Installing MySQL Server On Winsows Vista
The installation of MySQL Server 5.0 on Windows Vista is not straightforward as it requires a bit of tweaking to successfully start running the server. I don’t know why still there is no fix for this problem from the MySQL team at Sun Microsystems. I hope they will patch up this issue in their upcoming release (5.1). I have spent a fairly good amount of time to find a work around for this problem & have been successful with my stab after quite a bit of research on the net.
Following are the 8 steps that I followed to Install MySQL 5.0 on my Vista Machine
1) Turn off the User Account Control (UAC) feature from Control Panel -> User Accounts.
2) Download & Install the MySQL SetUp.EXE & in the final step when the configuration wizard pop’s up, uncheck the ‘configure’ check box & click on finish.
3) Download the Resource Hacker software from here. Resource Hacker is a free software to view & modify the 32 bit windows executables & resource files.
4) Open the ‘MySQL Server 5.0\bin\MySQLInstanceConfig.exe’ using Resource Hacker.
5) Traverse to 24\1\1033 & add the following statement inside the <dependentAssembly> XML element.
<requestedExecutionLevel level=”requireAdministrator” uiAccess=”false”>
If there is already a ‘requestedExecutionLevel‘ element with level=”asAdministrator”, just replace the “asAdministrator” with “requireAdministrator“.
6) Click on Compile Script & close the Resource Hacker.
7) Now, go to Control Panel ->Windows Firewall -> Allow a Program through a Windows Firewall & add a TCP port 3306.
Now start the ‘MySQL Server Instance Config Wizard’ & configure the server.
By this time the server should be up & running without any errors.
