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Have you ever used Google Books? If yes, have you unleashed the power of Google books? For those who aren’t aware of Google book,

Google Book Search is a tool from Google that searches the full text of books that Google scans, converts to text using optical character recognition, and stores in its digital database.

Source: Wikipedia

You dont need a seperate account for Google Book. Login into Google Book ( http://books.google.com) then you are done. You can search millions of books and the texts with the Google Book.

Search your home library:

Ok, now how does it helps to search my book library at my home. Simple, add all your books you own in your home library, tadaaa…done. Type in a search text in your book library, it will tell you which book does your search query has it and what is the page number of it. Simple and Powerful.

How to create a replica of your home library in Google Books:

1. Login into Google Books
2. Goto My Library
3. Left hand side, you will find Import Books Link
4. Type in all the Book’s ISBN number you need to import
5. You are done.

Now type in the phrase / reference you want to search. Google will get you the Book Name & Page number. Either you can read it on line ( if the entire book is permitted to read for free ) or You go fetch it in your book.

I came across this Mailplane application for Mac recently and  I started liking it as soon as I used it in 5 minutes. Probably will buy one copy for me. Mailplane provides a GUI interface for Gmail. Consider this as Microsoft Outlook for Gmail, but without modifying any thing that gmail provides. Right from the Look & Feel, the settings, the options of the web Gmail can be availed via Mailplane. The main feature is you can manage multiple Gmail  ids at one place and switch between them by a single click.

Features in Mailplane:

Looking at the extra features in Mailplane, it allows you to send any file to this mail application using the “Right Click > Send to Mail Plane”

Mailplane apart from managing multiple Gmail ids, it has extra features like dropping any file in to the MailPlane,  which would just create a new Conversation in Gmail and attach the file instantly.

iPhoto integaration is also breeze with Mailplane via the built in plugin, which would instantly attach the photo to your mail.Go to iPhoto, Select the photos that you need to send then “Share > Email“, which would open the Mailplane and load all your selected photo into the Mailplane app.

Also you can send document to MailPlane by printing it to the Mailplane app.

Mac is Immune to Virus. This is globally acclaimed status until the iWork’ 09 worm infused into the Mac. So this tell you none of the OS in the world is immune to virus analogous to no human is immune to any virus. But the difference is, until we are healthy and cautious no external objects affects our body. Same thing for OSes too. Mac doesnt accept any executables to run without users notice, unlike PC.  Though a nice writeup from ‘the How-to-Geek’ Even Mac’s can get viruses,  ‘the How-to-Geek‘ mostly writes on the PC tips, tweaks and tricks, so there is no wonder that he writes about the Mac when Mac fails ( no offense here ).

The trojan is installed as a “Start up” service in in /System/Library/StartupItems/iWorkServices, a location reserved normally for Apple startup items.

Screenshot: A clean iWork installation will not have the 'iWorkServices' in the startup folder

Though the fix for this trojan has not been around, it’s true that the trojan turns the infected Macs into Zombies. But still  Mac is much better than PC in stopping the viruses. It’s true that Mac cant claim that it is not affected with virus, but still it holds a proud position of having lesser viruses compared to the PC’s large virus base.

So, Mac users though you download the pirated software, make sure that you run through the anti-virus softwares.That keeps your mac health and of course you too 

In excel, while executing macros you may get the error message “code execution has been interrupted”. Generally this error message should appear only if you hit “Ctrl +Break” to stop the execution and view the code. But there may be certain instances, where you may get this error message even without pressing “Ctrl + Break”. If you hit “Continue” button, the code will execute for a while but again you may get the same error message. At one point of time, you may need to click “continue” button many times to execute a macro. There may be plent of reasons behind it like new software installation, key settings etc..

Problem Solution:

The solution for this problem is to add the line of code “Application.EnableCancelKey = xlDisabled”  in the first line of your macro.. This will fix the problem and you will be able to execute the macro successfully without getting the error message “Code execution has been interrupted”.

Thanks: This tip is given by one of my collegue Vijayaragavan..

I faced the problem of loading the MySQL Extentsion when I upgraded the PHP from 5.0 to 5.2.5.
I search for websites on HOW-TO load the PHP MySQL Extension.
All the websites quoted saying remove the semicolon “;” in the extensions section.
It was the same answer even in MySQL forums, which I already knew.

But that didn’t fix the problem. The problem is, the PHP cannot find the extension directory.
Update the below line in your “php.ini” file.

; Directory in which the loadable extensions (modules) reside.

extension_dir = “./ext”

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