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Goodbye IE6, join the countdown to history

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Priyanka
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Finally Microsoft has decided to mercy kill IE6, one of its old family members and the browser is counting it’s last days from 4 Mar 2011 at ie6countdown.com. Many may feel sorry to say goodbye, but now all web developers designing websites (specifically corporate sites) can enjoy a “IE6 hack” free life :) .

The site shows a percentage breakdown of who uses the ten-year-old browser in what parts of the world, along with other links like “Join the cause”, “Educate others”,  and Internet Explorer 9 download. Continue reading →

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Playing embedded midi file in firefox – Part 2: Windows

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Priyanka
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Continued from: Playing embedded midi file in firefox – Part 1

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Quicktime is useful for playing embedded midi file types from within the browser in windows.

Clicking the “Install missing plugins” button in firefox brings up Apple QuickTime, which you mostly have installed in windows. But it still does not work. Continue reading →

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Playing embedded midi file in firefox – Part 1

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Priyanka
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Many web sites that you may visit will have embedded media that requires the use of a plug-in for playing these embedded “midi” background music files.

When somebody opens a web page or may be an eCards site which is supposed to have a background music, we get the banner in Firefox “Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page”, and there is a button “Install missing plugins”

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See How Easily You Can show or hide file extensions in windows

Posted on December 1, 2007 by Priyanka

show or hide file extensionsCant see the file extension of your document?

Wandering if it is htm or html?

So you need to show your file extention -

Just go to My computer -> tools -> folder -> options -> views and de-select “hide extensions for known file types“.

(To view sample, click thumbnail on left)

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Email Notifier (POP Peeper)

Posted on July 19, 2007 by Priyanka

POP Peeper 3.0.1 is a Email Checker product from poppeeper.com, POP Peeper is a small utility that runs in your Windows system tray. It visually and audibly lets you know if you have email on any number of POP3 and IMAP servers as well as Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo and other web mail providers. It allows you to preview the headers of your email, and view the messages. Continue reading →

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oleaut32.dll was not found

Posted on May 14, 2007 by eyedealab

A required dll file C:WindowsSystemoleaut32.dll was not found

PROBLEM:

Sometimes when you start windows or any particular program you get this error – “A required dll file C:WindowsSystemoleaut32.dll was not found” or “oleaut32.dll file is corrupted, or damaged”.

REASON:

Now this may be caused by some bad program file or while installing/uninstalling a software. Linked to missing export OLEAUT32.DLL, file not available or you have a old one installed on your operating system. Continue reading →

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