Getting started with Apache Jmeter

Increasing usage of web based application has raised a need to test the performance of web-based applications for speed i.e. responsiveness of the application, scalability i.e.  sustainabilty of an your web application at peak load or maximum users load and stability i.e stable state of the system under peak load. In order to  conduct these [...]

VirtualBox – Windows 8 with custom resolution

Though Windows 8 is officially supported by Oracle Virtual box, the guest additions are not yet compatible with Windows 8 resulting into limited UI accessibility. One of such features is screen resolution! With current version of Oracle Virtual box, you get screen resolutions with 4:3 aspect ratios (i.e. 1024 x 786, 1240 x 1024 and 1600 x [...]

Sync Skype chat history across Multiple Machines

Yesterday, I wanted to browse through the links saved in my skype chat done from another machine. As skype stores all its history locally and does not push it to cloud, it was not possible to retrieve chat history from another machine. After few hours of brainstorming and googling I got this idea to push [...]

Login to System VMs/Routers CloudStack

CloudStack manages two system VMs for it’s internal processing – Console proxy VM (CPVM) and secondary storage VM (SSVM). Console proxy VM is used by CloudStack to provide console access of the user instances whereas Secondary Storage VM (SSVM) downloads and maintains VM templates. For enabling advanced networking functions such as load balancing, port forwarding [...]

Getting More from Google

Now days we all are addicted to Google let it be a developer, businessman, architect, engineer or any other professional person. Its use has been intensified in every walk of life. Also with its massive data chunk and billions of indexed web pages, one has to effectively provide a search query (keywords) to get the [...]

Tag someone with different name [Facebook]

Have you noticed that blank status on friend’s profile? or someone in your friend’s list tagged with some different name? Curious..? Well, here are those awesome tricks.. Tag someone with different name It’s simple- Copy and Paste the below line in your status or comment box @@[0:[235959506635:0: Any text you like Here]] Where, 235959506635 : [...]

How to search within Google Plus

It’s been a week after Google launched their social thing, Google plus. A lot of posts and new profiles are created in a past week. Till now they have not provided any facility to search within Google plus but, I hope soon they will come up with such a facility.

HowTo: Generate QR code for your site

Everyone know that one of the keys to have a great SEO for your website is making sure you keep your website updated, new and fresh. Whether you do this with a blog, or you change your homepage with new offers, coupons or new products, it serves to show Google that your site is “alive.” [...]

What is Robots.txt?

Web site owners use the robots.txt file to give instructions about their site to web robots; this is called The Robots Exclusion Protocol.

Detect Invisible Friends in Gtalk

I believe in the thought “Any system no matter how secure it is, will always be exposed by dumb person!” Ever thought of catching your friend when s/he is invisible. I saw a lot of posts out there on “how to catch invisible friends” but none of them work out, they just tell you to [...]