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8085 & 8051 Simulators for Windows 8/7/XP and Linux

8085 & 8051 Simulators for Windows 8/7/XP and Linux

Almost all Engineering students might have Microprocessors & Microcontrollers laboratory classes in the course of 4 year degree. So, one must know how to write programs and feed it into 8085 & 8051 kits to get proper output. Unfortunately, most of us won't have access to those trainer kits when we want. Here, simulators come for the rescue.


Easily Find the Meaning of Words You Come across on Web

Easily Find the Meaning of Words You Come across on Web

'It is sine qua non to eat balanced food to stay healthy'

What will you do when you read a piece of text like the one above? Do you know the meaning of 'sine qua non'? Sure, 95% of you might have no idea and assume a meaning to that word to know what the passage conveys. It might be good for the time being, but your English vocabulary would not improve. Also, you couldn't open your dictionary app of your smart phone or similar software on desktop to know the meaning.

5 uses of VirtualBox you might not know about

5 uses of VirtualBox you might not know about

All savvy computer users know what is VirtualBox, how and why it is used. But rather than just virtualizing, you can use it for other purposes too. The following things can also be done using VirtualBox in my point of view. For the one who don't even know what is VirtualBox, I recommend you to read the Lifehacker's guide to VirtualBox.

How to use Pidgin IM to chat with Gtalk, Facebook friends

How to use Pidgin IM to chat with Gtalk, Facebook friends

So, you use Gtalk and Yahoo messenger to chat with your gmail and ymail contact lists and signing in to Facebook to chat with your Facebook friends. You can have all of your Gtalk, Yahoo, Facebook, Myspace friends at single place and can chat with them whenever they come ON in the web. This can be made possible by using any of the Instant Messenging application like Pidgin. All you need to do is configuring those softwares correctly.

Select multiple files without holding ctrl key

Select multiple files without holding ctrl key

Assume, you have to select multiple files from your PC in random to fill your USB flash drive. As we all know, you must press and hold ctrl to select multiple files. That was little bit irritating to me. I wanted to get rid of it. I have found a cool trick to eliminate the problem. So, in this post I will explain you how to select multiple files without holding ctrl.

Create your own shortcut keys with Autohotkey (tutorial)

Create your own shortcut keys with Autohotkey (tutorial)

How will you open your Web browser? Are you using a Desktop shortcut? You don't need to. You can simply assign keys to do whatever you need. You can assign alt + C to open Chrome browser or you can set that combination to open your Movies folder or to shutdown your pc.

Clipboard manager for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android

Clipboard manager for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android

Almost 65% of the world people use digital devices daily. And we have been doing copy paste operations with this devices. We copy texts from internet or mp3s from our friend's pendrive and paste it to memory storage devices. This post is all about how to perform this copy paste operations more efficient than ever before by making use of clipboard managers.

Shrinking BOSS linux partition of TN Govt laptop

Shrinking BOSS linux partition of TN Govt laptop

Tamilnadu Government is giving Laptop to Government and Aided institute's HSC and Arts college students. The manufacturer of the laptop is most probably Lenova, HCL or Acer. The size of the hard disk in the Lenova laptop is about 300GB. Now, In this post I'm going to show you how to resize the linux partition so that you can use that partition (which will have the size of around 88GB) without deleting the BOSS Linux. You must also remember that Removal of BOSS Linux may cause the warranty of the product.You can also download this guide as pdf for your future reference.