Ngspice Ngspice is the most popular free circuit simulator. Its available for most platforms including Linux. Whether you are an engineer or just want to play with electronics as a hobby, Ngspice can be a useful tool to simulate circuits and analyse their behavior before actually building them in the lab. This quick tutorial shows… Read More »
Nginx Recently I was setting up nginx on my new server where this blog is being hosted. Nginx is very different from the more popular apache web server in many ways. It has an event driven architecture which makes it much faster and high traffic tolerant compared to apache. In apache the redirects used to… Read More »
SSL certificates Some websites, specially restricted ones might require you to use a client side ssl certificate to open the pages. The certificate is used as an authentication factor, in place of username/password. When opening such websites in browsers, the browser must provide the ssl certificate. Over here we shall see how to do that… Read More »
Cost per click is the amount google pays for a particular click that was generated on an ad on your website. This is not constant and can vary a lot depending on various factors. It can be as low as $0.01 (which is not uncommon) and be as high as $20 (it can be even… Read More »
Smart pricing is considered to be one of the main reasons why google adsense might be giving low cpc to ad clicks on a website. When I came to know about it, I tried to gather information on what it is and how exactly does it work. Does it work on per-site basis or effects… Read More »
Adsense Cpc Cpc or cost per click is the amount of money you are paid for each click that occurs on the adsense ads. Higher the cpc higher the earning per click. So publishers are always looking for ways to increase their cpc. So what does cpc depend on. Simply put, it depends on the… Read More »
Imagemagick Imagemagick is a commandline program/utility that can be used to perform a variety of image manipulations. It supports most image formats. It also has programming apis for various languages like php, python etc making it easy to use as a library. Install Imagemagick on Ubuntu On ubuntu install it by typing the following in… Read More »
Most if not all adsense publishers are looking for ways to increase their ctr (click through rate) to increase their adsense earnings. Ctr is the percentage of clicks per 1000 impressions. In other words increasing ctr means to increase the number of clicks at the same level of traffic (visits or pageviews per day or… Read More »
Faster internet speed is what everyone wants, so here a few tips to increase the speed of your bsnl broadband internet. The results may vary and are not guaranteed to give consistent improvement. 1. Select the fastest dns server Select the fastest dns server for your computer. Common choices are open dns server, google dns… Read More »
A simple trick to increase the speed of your bsnl broadband is to use the fastest dns server available. Now most articles and tutorials talk about using opendns. However opendns may not be the fastest dns server. The dns server’s speed has to be found out by doing a simple ping test. Lets say we… Read More »
One common adsense optimisation technique is to block low paying ads. The adsense interface allows users to block whole categories of ads like travel&tourism, real estate, health etc. Although the google adsense does try its best to serve the most relevant ads for a website based on its topic, keyword and content but sometimes when… Read More »
There is a blue patch at the end of this post that mentions the “Last Updated On” date. It is the date when this particular post of last modified or updated on. Since I keep updating many of the old posts from time to time, thought it would be a nice idea to display the… Read More »
Bsnl has plenty of high speed (4 MPBS) plans as mentioned here : http://bsnl.co.in/opencms/bsnl/BSNL/services/broadband/new_BB_postpaid.html . These are on the NIB – II Network. Ip addresses begin with 117. One known problem with the high speed internet is that it gets disconnected frequently. So like Yahoo Messenger or Pidgin or Skype could go offline every 5… Read More »
Phpmyadmin auto login Phpmyadmin is a popular web based mysql database administration tool/frontend. It is used widely by php/mysql developers to manage database locally and remotely. When logging in to phpmyadmin, the user has to provide the mysql login credentials. However when working or developing on localhost , its better to make phpmyadmin login automatically… Read More »
wxwebconnect is a control for wxwidgets that allows to embed a gecko browser in a wxwidgets application. So lets try to install it on Ubuntu 11.04 wxWidgets can be installed from synaptic. Look for packages called libwxgtk2.8-* 1. Download wxwebconnect source from http://www.kirix.com/labs/wxwebconnect/downloads.html Extract them in home directory. Inside the webconnect directory you would see… Read More »
Here are some IDEs that work very well on Ubuntu ( and other Linuxes ) and can be used as an alternative to the terminal gcc or g++ thing. Geany Url : http://www.geany.org/ Install with sudo apt-get install geany Open any C/C++/PHP/Html/Python/Perl file and start coding. Compile with F8 , Build with F9 and execute… Read More »
To connect to your bsnl broadband connection using the 110TC1 router follow the simple steps : 1. Switch on the modem , connect the ethernet wire , and connect the phoneline/adsl line. 2. Open http://192.168.1.1 in your browser. Use the following username password to login username : admin password : admin or password It should… Read More »
Hack bsnl broadband username and passwords Bsnl Broadband continues to grow as one the most popular broadband services in India with high speed facilities of upto 2 mpbs. But a large number of users of this service are vulnerable to hacker attacks because discovering and hacking the vulnerable victims of this network is shockingly simple…. Read More »