Technophilia

  • [How-To] Install Dissabled Chrome Extensions on Windows 8

    Dec 28, 2012 • How To, Plugin • No Comments
    [How-To] Install Dissabled Chrome Extensions on Windows 8

    When I upgraded my system to Window 8, some Chrome extensions including my own were disabled by default in Chrome Web Store. Such extensions have, “This application is not supported on this computer. Installation has been disabled” posted on their extensions page as shown in the following image: Here are a couple of nifty ways ...

  • How to Download a Chrome Extension to Install Offline

    Dec 22, 2012 • How To, Plugin • No Comments
    How to Download a Chrome Extension to Install Offline

    Some times it is useful to download a chrome extension so that you can have a back up or may be to install it in your home computer without an internet connection. But the problem is, if you try to download the extensions in Chrome browser, the “Save link as” menu doesn’t work on Add ...

  • [Infographic] TED: The Greatest Platform Worth Sharing

    Nov 13, 2012 • Featured, Techi Wit, Tips • No Comments
    [Infographic] TED: The Greatest Platform Worth Sharing

    TED.com is one of my favorite way to gather knowledge. Since TED videos were made freely available to the public, it has crossed over one billion views. To celebrate this milestone, TED has teamed up with Mashable and iTunes to showcase curated TEDTalk playlists from notable members of the TED community, including Bill Gates, Bono ...

  • The Greatest Irony of All

    Nov 8, 2011 • Techi Wit • No Comments
    The Greatest Irony of All

    If you are a news regular then you should be “no stranger” to the owners of WikiLeaks and Facebook, Julian Assange and Mark Zuckerberg respectively. Recently, Mark Zuckerberg was awarded the Time Magazine’s “Person Of The Year 2010 Award”. While a group of people supported it, there were some who advocated that Julian Assange should ...

  • [SQL] Toggle 1 and 0 in a Single Update Statement

    Oct 25, 2011 • Snippets • No Comments
    [SQL] Toggle 1 and 0 in a Single Update Statement

    I use a lot of tinyint columns for my PHP projects, usually sticking to the convention of 1 means on/true and 0 means off/false. In other words, the perfect target for a SQL toggle statement! I recently found out a nifty trick to toggle a column between 1 and 0. To toggle a value, we ...