My Learnings - Markish Personal Blog

    Yesterday, I posted how to download videos from YouTube using the VB script. Even I downloaded some videos by putting the video links to a text file and calling the script with ‘F’ switch. But I’m a lazy guy to prepare the text file with URLs now. I thought I’ll leave this task to the script itself. I added some code to make the script bit more intelligent. It takes the keywords from you, searches the YouTube for the related videos and downloads them. Sounds cool… J

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    YouTube, what I need to say more on this website? Anyhow for those who are unaware of it (if any!), this website provides streaming videos to the visitors. Anyone can upload and share their videos. Many number of times when watching a video, we love it to have offline as well. We search for the ‘download video’ link in the page. Oops, you won’t find it. YouTube supports only streaming of videos.

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    There have been instances when we need to schedule the backup process of MySQL databases regularly. So I thought of writing batch file that can be added in the Windows scheduler. I used the ‘mysqldump’ utility that comes with the MySQL distributions. It dumps the database definition along with all the data, indexes, triggers and SPs in the form of .sql file. I’ve also made the batch file to compress the output .sql file.

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    Many of us say “Linux is not for me.., it’s for geeks…” Have you ever tried Linux? Nope… The reason is quite simple. You don’t see as many installations as Windows in household… even in offices. I agree installing Linux and getting it up running is little tougher and complicated then the counterpart Windows. Hence most of us have kept ourselves away from Linux. We’re ready to use a Pirated version of the Windows, but not ready to try out the Linux which is freely available. It’s more secure to use, fast, reliable and absolutely free.

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    I’s bit held up with other tasks, so was a bit long break in my writing. Now I’ll continue on what I showed in my previous post. Today we’ll see how a Mashup can be used to give powerful reporting feature. I’ll discuss about the charting of data from an enterprise source. Let’s say we’ve a data something like the following table (more…)

    As said in my previous post, Mashups are very powerful user-interface when handled with little common sense and creativity. In this post I’ll try to give an overview of how an Mashup (pretty simple Mashup… J ) can be created. Though this is going to be simple, the logic behind this is same for all Mashups..!

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    Heard this buzz word, If yes, you can rate yourself ‘up-to-date geek’. If not, read on, still in the end of this post you can rate yourself so. Even this post is late by quite some time months since this word came into prominence. Before talking about Mashup, I’d take an analogy to explain.

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          Today let me write something useful regarding Gmail. This may be simple stuff for the techie community. But I want this to be known to those find it difficult to manage between their POP3 mails and different Gmail accounts. You can get all the accounts / mails under a single login. It’s pretty simple and straight forward.

Logon to your primary Gmail account, and click the ‘Settings’ link in the top right corner.

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This is how my ‘Start’ button looks like…it’s no more a ’start’ button but it’s a ‘Markish’ button. I’ve done this in Win98 some 4-5 years back. But I had the pain of the hexadecimal editors to change anything in the binary file (i.e the explorer.exe) But now with the availability of the ‘Resource hacker’, it’s quite easy and straight forward. For those who’re not aware of the ‘RH’ (the resource hacker), please check my previous post on ‘Tweaking win32 Applications‘

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    I came across a utility called ‘Resource Hacker’. It’s not that bad as it name sounds.. It’s a very powerful and very small in size (some 600 kb) utility that will allow you to access the resources associated with any win32 Executables or dlls. So what..? Most of the Win32 Application uses the resource files for the GUI part. Once we have access to them, we can play around with it even when we don’t have the source code of it.. I forgot to mention, the utility is a freeware, you can download it from http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/

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