Godmode in Windows 7

Windows 7 is a little cool feature hidden. Its called as GodMode, this feature helps you in configuring all the setting related to Windows Customization in one place and hence its very useful. To activate it do the following:

1. Create a New Folder
2. Rename the Folder : GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
3. Then its icon will change

Now your GodMode icon is ready, you can double click on it to access the settings.

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Update Manager for Joomla

Updating a Joomla Installation can be a nightmare, but there is a very small component which makes the update process so simple that any novice user can also update his Joomla Installation.

All you will need to do the following steps to update Joomla:

* Download Update Manager for Joomla from Here : Update Manager
* Install it on your Joomla usings Extensions->Install/Uninstall
* Run the Update Manager from Components->Update Manager
* Follow the onscreen instructions.
* Update of your Joomla Installation will complete within few seconds.

So enjoy updating your Joomla and stay ahead.

Facebook Connect With Joomla

Today after much thought I finally decided to add Facebook Connect facility with my site Adityastar.com which is based on Joomla. My Site is in Joomla because there are lot of useful extensions available for joomla and most of them are free to use.

For Facebook connect I used an extension named : myAPI

It is free, easy to install and configure. All you need to do is download myAPI from Joomla Extension Directory (Direct Page for myAPI at Joomla Extension : Here)

Then install it. You will need to create an application in Facebook, just follow the instructions given in myAPI and you will be able to set up an application.

Then enable the Facebook Connect component, Facebook Fan Box component and Facebook activity component and configure them as per your requirement. Your Joomla site will be connected with Facebook.

You can see it is extremely easy and very much effective. For Demo on its working feel free to visit : Adityastar.com

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How to Install Webmin on Linux Server (CentOS)

Many people are interested in VPS for their personal website and they don't want to waste money on cPanel or they want some cheap solution to manage their VPS through Browser.

I would recommend Webmin for this purpose. Its free and has a lot of features (known as modules) which you can install to improve server's performance, its also low on resource usage. It hardly requires more than 100 MB of RAM (On one of my VPS it is using only 40 MB RAM).

Here is a tutorial on installing Webmin on CentOS 5.

You will need to access your VPS by SSH and you need to have root access (To install Webmin)

Login to your VPS and then give the following commands :

First run :

yum -y install perl-Net-SSLeay

This command will install the dependencies for Webmin.

Then give command :

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.510-1.noarch.rpm
&
rpm -i webmin-1.510-1.noarch.rpm

Right now don't worry about the Version as Webmin has a very good feature of upgrading all the softwares on server using browser interface.

If there is no error then Webmin would be installed.

To access Webmin interface goto : http://serveripaddress:10000

Login using Root and then first upgrade all the softwares. Also install Usermin which will help you create users to access mail accounts etc.

To know more about webmin visit webmin website : Webmin