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So, That's it!

2 months back If you are like me, then there is a list prepared by your mother or wife sitting in your pocket reminding you to purchase some items on your way back home in the evening :) I slightly deviate from my regular walking route and reach the shop where I buy most of the household items. By the time I finish shopping and reach home I am almost dead tiered and never dare to imagine to sit and document how much money I spent few hours back. 1 month back When Srushti's lab released a private beta version of Expense management application,  ServeEase  and suggested me to use. I am reluctant to use it until I explored the following feature. Today I always suggest my wife to include purchase items to " Expense " section of ServeEase. She does add items marking their price as zero. So, everyday evening on my way back home, I make sure to check expense section on my mobile and get all items that are with zero price tag. That clearly hints me these are the items...

Windows forgets visual effects settings on log-out or reboot for non-administrator account

Steps given here worked for me with Windows 7 SP1. Hope you may find it useful. Start -> Run-> cmd (press enter) -> type SystemPropertiesPerformance.exe This gets you the "System Properties" window, go to   Advanced tab -> Performance Settings -> Visual Effects tab and choose "Adjust for best performance" and click OK. Note: While doing all these UAC doesn't show-up as all changes you are doing will be saved in your logged-in profile account. Reference material used:  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee330866.aspx Feel free to comment your findings.

Top 10 checks before buying question paper setting and generation software

When an educator start searching for question paper generation software, he/she will find plenty products claiming they are the best in automating paper setting and generation process. As the number of similar type of software is more, complexity to settle down to one product increases. Let me put some helping points to simplify software selection process.  Software price tag is bit more expensive than your planned budget   -   but wait!   Many of us feel that software price is fixed and not negotiable, In-fact, some companies do offer discounts if they are selling product under promotion period . so make sure you check with them regarding the discount. It's a customer right to negotiate, nothing bad about it! You checked features list, all competing software has all-most all features! Which one to pick for analysis?   - Really, this is a puzzled situation. In that case, Look for the product screen shots or ask for a demo. Take a scenario, such as, how...

Hiring a Super Programmer?

When it comes to programming, I noticed most of the super programmers share similar attitude and thought process. I started identifying similarities whenever I took interviews. After meeting 3000+  potential candidates (thanks to all my previous companies choosing me as interviewer), I dared to have a quick points to spot a 'Super Programmer' from the pool of programmers. When I shared these points with my colleagues, they found it useful during their interviews. Please note These points are strictly valid for 'Rock Star Programmers' only. If you apply these observations to a good programmer, you may loose him.  I always don't follow these points very strictly in interviews as there will be many other aspects to consider, However these can just be used as indicative pointers if you feel good.  So here it goes, They may be little nervous in the beginning. When you ask them about their interesting project, their eyes glow and for a moment they...

Openness with Free Web Fonts

If you want to design a webpage with stylish font. There are few important things to consider before using graphical text images. If you prefer search engines bring traffic to your web page, it has to be  Search engine friendly , as of  now crawling engine ignore text written in images. (BTW, can search engines improve to extract text from image and index? like  Quick Quest  does ;) The font should be rendered and displayed consistent across multiple browsers . When viewed through mobile browser, it should wrap (as normal text do) to fit the small screen. Its now old fashion to choose the most common font (either Times New Roman or Arial, that are for sure exist in users computer) and design the page accordingly to stay safe. Things have changed, so the approaches. To respect above points, HTML font embedding became essential need to design impressive web page ( SrushtiSoft.com  home page is using font embedding. Its live now!). Bac...

In This World - 16

"Relationship shouldn't be complicated, if it so, then its time to look at it from a different perspective and attempt to resolve challenges, if that doesn't work at any cost, put a period and move on." Well..I have one more view to share which may sound bit contradictory to what I expressed above, but its indeed an unarguable truth! "Move on - is the simplest one to say and most difficult to go through!" :)