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How to remove Search Bar from Firefox

Firefox provides you the functionality to search on almost all the major search engines either by entering your query in the Address Bar directly or by entering your query in the Search Bar provided next to Address Bar. As both of these provide similar functionality, so if any time you decide to remove the Search Bar to get more space for Address Bar, then this tutorial might help you with… Read more »

How to install Eclipse in Linux

Eclipse is a an IDE i.e Integrated Development Environment tool mostly used by developers for JAVA development. This tool support development in a number of languages like C, C++, COBOL, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, etc. and also supports plugins which can let you develop projects in a number of other languages as well. Eclipse SDK is free and open source software released under the terms of the Eclipse Public License…. Read more »

How to install or update Firefox in Linux using Terminal

In this tutorial, I will show you how can you install or update latest version of Firefox in Linux using Terminal commands. Method explained is tested on Ubuntu 11.10 to install Firefox 10.0 and it probably work on all the Linux based Operating Systems. If you already have older version of Firefox installed in your system, then it should not be running while getting this update. If you are not… Read more »

How To Use IDM’s Drag and Drop Feature

IDM (Internet Download Manager), no doubt the best download manager, has a great built in feature that supports dragging the links to IDM which you want to download and after download is complete, you can even drag and drop the files out of the IDM to any folder you want. Click here to download IDM Instructions: To start downloading a file, you can just drag and drop the file into… Read more »

How To Download YouTube Videos

YouTube is the online networking system that connects millions of people from all over the world by sharing videos. Range of videos on YouTube and users on it, is vast which makes bands and other artists upload and share their videos every day, but these videos do not always have a link available to download and YouTube doesn’t allow its users to download those videos. If you ever wanted to… Read more »

How To Find the SQL Server Instance Name and Machine Name using Query in SQL Server

You can easily, with just a single query of 4-5 words, fetch your Machine name and SQL Server Instance name. Machine name is the one which can be find by right clicking your Computer and then selecting Properties from the right click context menu and SQL Server Instance name is the one to which you are currently logged in, in your SQL Server. Actually you can have multiple Instances of… Read more »

How To Generate Random String / Password In SQL Server

In this article, I will discus about the While loop in SQL Server and will show you how can we generate random numbers/characters in SQL Server to get a random string. Application of this process can vary but the procedure is same. You can use this method to generate random passwords, to generate confirmation code or something like that, user ids etc. Main concept of this procedure is getting random… Read more »

How To Check if A String is Valid IP Address in SQL Server

For security purposes, some websites saves IP addresses of its users in the database. Your web application will send you a string value (Varchar value), and you have to save that value in your database. Before saving you can cross check whether the value supplied is correct or not. In this article, I will show you how can we check the string value in SQL Server, whether the value is… Read more »

How To Generate Random Numbers In SQL Server

Sometimes you need to generate Random numbers for some kind of functionality in SQL Server. Say you want to create an application to select Lucky Draw winner for any kind of competition from your database. Then you can achieve the same by generating a random number and then selecting that row or person from your database. Here is my article on How To Select nth Row from a Table. Instructions:… Read more »

How To add Captions to Tables, Figures, Equations in Word

You can add captions to tables, figures, equations, or other objects in Microsoft Word 2010. I am using Word 2010 for the instructions purpose, but the procedure for the older versions of Microsoft Word will be same. Instructions: Open your Word document and then select the object you want to add caption to. After selecting the object (table in following image), click on References tab and then click on Insert… Read more »



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