Devang Gandhi

Ever wondered how easy it is to create the “Site Map” page on your website? Well, if you are using wordpress, you are in luck. This wordpress sitemap plugin creates a sitemap for your WordPress powered site. It is an HTML sitemap generator (unlike the XML ones) which is highly customizable from the WordPress admin panel.

Cron is a unix utility that allows tasks to run automatically in the background at the configured intervals. Crontab is a tool used to schedule cron jobs. Some great resources on setting up cron jobs.

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Comcast CEO Brian Roberts told The Associated Press that his company is innovating a technology that delivers data as fast as 160 MBPS. Comcast is also developing a service that will pop up caller-id of incoming calls on TVs and computers and a phone that lets users access email. So in the near future we can hope that a TV won’t be just a TV and a phone just a phone.

Ever tried to create a directory in windows that starts with a dot (period). The windows explorer wouldn’t let you do that. To do this you need to use DOS.

For example, consider that you need to create a directory called “.work” in the folder “C:\user”

1. Start> Run> (then type “cmd” and press ok)
2. Go to the “C:\user” directory cd C:\user
3. then type md .themes

This finally creates a folder that has a name starting with a dot.

I stumbled upon a great webpage that provides comparison of xml editors. It is a very comprehensive comparison

A clinic in the western Indian city of Anand is helping infertile couples have babies. The clinic finds local women who can be impregnated in-vitro with the egg and sperm of the couples who cannot conceive on their own. These “rent-a-womb” are growing in India.

Benazir Bhutto was shot dead on Thursday at a election rally in Rawalpindi. Gunmen opened fire at her vehicle and a suicide bomber blew himself up, killing and injuring several others.

Here’s a nice article that shows how you can sort pages created in wordpress. The default is to display the pages titles in the sidebar in an alphabetical order but you can define your own order as well.