Adnan Rashid

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The PocketMod is a small book with guides on each page. These guides or templates, combined with a unique folding style, enable a normal piece of paper to become the ultimate note card. The application provides templates in various categories like Writing Guides, Calendars, Games, etc. Some of these templates provide options for customization. It’s [...]

Courtesy of Microsoft Press, SkyDrive is hosting a complimentary eBook titled First Look Microsoft Office 2010 by Katherine Murray. Office 2010 provides a plethora of new features like video editing, saving documents to the cloud directly, photo effects, etc. The Microsoft Office website has a video series showcasing the new features in Office 2010. You [...]

Google Chrome has many great features including an Incognito mode. You can open an incognito window by pressing ctrl+shift+N in your normal browser. You can see the Spy guy on the top left corner.

You can also open the Incognito mode directly, by modifying the Target property. Right click on the Chrome executable/Shortcut and append -incognito [...]

October 2 marks the 140th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Considered as the father of the Indian Nation, he will always be remembered for his great simplicity. Google is celebrating this event with a new doodle on their homepage.

I am a big fan of YouTube and how they revolutionized video sharing. One thing I didn’t like about the YouTube embedded player is that it does not have sufficient filtering depending on the content being played. I am referring to the Related Videos option that is available when you mouse over the video, or [...]

Here’s a small javascript helper to read Url Query String Parameters.

function GetUrlParams()
{
var vars = [], hash;
var hashes = window.location.href.slice(window.location.href.indexOf('?')
+ 1).split('&');

for(var i = 0; i < hashes.length; i++)
{
hash = hashes[i].split('=');
vars.push(hash[0]);
vars[hash[0]] = hash[1];
}
return vars;
}

The above function, will read the url, get the query string part i.e from (”?”) and split each paramter by the (”=”) character and [...]

I needed to integrate support for vCalendar in my current project. So i went through the vCalendar spec 1.0 at http://www.imc.org/pdi/vcal-10.txt and wrote this class. Although I have not implemented all the specification features, but this should prove sufficient for the usual requirements. If you have any comments / suggestions , let me know.

using System;
using [...]

Being a Web Developer, I don’t know whether to rejoice the addition of another browser or not? With all the hype of IE 8 ; Cross-Browser compatibility and now this, life sure is chaotic.
I am not going to blog about the new features of Google Chrome (We already have tons of them). It’s been analyzed [...]

I was designing a template for a web application and i wanted to try out something new. The user interface revolves around a compatible set of layout, colors, images and fonts. So i was Googling for a tool to help me compare Fonts and thier web compatibility. I came across a great tool called Typetester. [...]

Prestashop is a welcome addition to the list Open source e-commerce solutions. The solution is completely configured with two sections, the front end; which deals with the online store’s user interface and the back end; which provides various tools to configure products, categories and other usual product related stuff. What sets Prestashop apart is its [...]