There are times when we feel annoyed and frustrated by the constant bombardment of incoming calls at our cell phone
If you want to disable your incoming calls than it depends on your phone model, in most of the Phones you can disable incoming calls by going to settings > Call Barring and there you will find the option of blocking incoming calls
however, this is a very crude method and of your incoming calls will be blocked if you need to block ssome specific number or unknown numbers than you will have to install some custom application on the phone to handle this.
If you are using Nokia than some of the newer phones have “Adv. Comm Manager” installed which can be using to block sms or calls from specific number and has the option of a white list and black list.
Most Mobile Phones from Sony Ericssion also have this feature present so you dont need to install some extra software to achieve it.
Another tip is that you can change the ringtone of a person and set it to “no ring” and of-course you can always turn you phone to silent mode to stop the callers from bugging you
if you need help with disabling incoming for your particular mobile phone than please post in the comments below and we will try to help you
unfortunately using the bare-bone command line shell ftp which comes with linux/unix and without any scripting or some special command line utility
you wont be able to directly download a directory from a server
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If you are trying to connect to a remote host with wget and wget is instantly throwing a “bad port number” error to your face without even trying to connect than please note that it is due to certain special characters which you have supplied to wget in the password filed
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I was using the EDGE data connection from my provider When I had initially configured my E-72 with the Nokia Ovi mail service
since, I had a unlimited data plan so I never bothered or worried that what access point is being used by E72 for checking and syncing emails.
However, last week I discontinued my unlimited data plan and since now checking emails cost me money so I wanted to set it to use wifi
Here is how you can change the access point which E72 uses for checking for your email
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I just noticed the a process named Plugin-Container.exe running on my laptop
I was immediately alerted as the name Plugin-Container seemed very unfamiliar and I thought that I might have got a virus.
Anyway, a bit of quick investigation revealed that this is nothing harmful Plugin-Container.exe is a process related to Firefox browser and is used by Firefox for managing video plug-in like Adobe FLASH and Quick Time, basically the plug-ins have been moved to a new process of their own so any problem or crash of the plug-in will not effect the main Firefox.exe process
It is a new released feature and is present in Firefox 3.6.4 which was just released on 22nd June. Now I must give myself a pat on back for the watchful eyes 
The other day someone request me to remove vocals for them from an audio mp3 song.
There are many free software’s which claim to remove vocals from songs.
1) Audacity
2) Winamp with Analogx Vocal Remover plug-in
3) Karaoke Anything
4) Wavosaur
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There is no way you can copy text from places like this
You can copy text easily in Windows using the Crtl+C or Ctrl+Insert key combination’s, but the above commands only work in certain text areas, but what if you want to copy text appearing in ‘Getting started’ Tab of Microsoft Word ? certainly you won’t be able to select the text , you can’t highlight it. the above mentioned commands won’t work here.
But hey wait, actually you can copy text from this place, or any place for that matter, let me tell you how
1) Install a OCR reorganization software , the one I used is ‘capture text’, It can be downloaded from capturetext.com , you get a free 21 days trial, so no worries
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You must have looking those excel spreadsheets where they have neatly crossed a line, If you have ever wondered that how can you put such a cross, than don’t worry, It is really easily and just takes one click.
Actually, the line crossing feature in Excel and Word is known as strikethrough
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We all know that Gmail offers a free email forwarding service, i.e. you can define an email address in you Gmail account and Gmail will forward all incoming emails to that address. But are there any options other than Google Gmail ?
Today I tired to search for any free email forwarding service provider other than Gmail and the results were disappointing.
The only other free service that I could find was HotPoP.com, all others required paid subscriptions to avail the forwarding feature.
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Following the footsteps of Bing, Google also yesterday added a background image to its otherwise clean white homepage, naturally many people were disappointed and frustrated over this change and appeared frantic to remove the background image from Google homepage.
Fortunately the removing of the background image is very simple and just takes one click to do that
One the Google homepage with background image click the “Remove background image” link which appears in the bottom-left
Google is known for its minimalist and clean design of homepage so that was a big change for Google, however throwing it over user like this was not the right way to follow, they should have just give an option to user which allowed them to have a background image and if majority of users started using the background image thing than may be Google could have rolled out this feature for everyone