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When there are hundreds of mail in our Gmail account and we are in need of mails with attachment and want it to find quickly.Then there is a easy trick in Gmail.

has:attachment

just type has:attachment and the type of the file like pdf,ppt,doc,zip with a space.

Example :-

has:attachment pdf

When we click the search mail button we get the mails with the attachment of the type we specified as the result.Here in this example we get the PDF attachment mails as result.

There are also many easy tricks to find a specified mail in gmail like “has:attachment” keyword.You can find the list here.

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Problem : Internal Server Error 500

Yesterday(Jun-26-2009) our blog was down and got the internal server error 500.So we immediately mailed Dreamhost(our host) support to see the issue and got a support ticket.

We Checked the  error log  which was stating “Premature end of script headers: index.php” error for every hit made.We came to know many had this problem previously in their sites mostly due to some script error in the plugin installed in wordpress.

While waiting for support reply we started to search the web for some solution about internal server error 500 and 503.

We followed some suggestion to solve error 500 like : -

1. Rename wp-cache-config.php

2. Disable the plugins.This we cant do because wordpress was installed in the root folder which made impossible to login and disable the plugins through web interface.

3. Just click Change fully hosted settings actually without making any changes in dreamhost panel

Unfortunately these didn’t work for us.

Today(Jun-27-2009) morning we got the reply mail from dremhost as

I was looking through your error logs and I found one issue that definitely could contribute to the 500 errors that you’re experiencing:

[Fri Jun 26 12:40:29 2009] [notice] mod_fcgid: too much  /home/fordevs/fordevs.com/index.php process(current:4, max:4), skip the spawn request

These errors can be contributed to several things:

1.) Plugins or extensions that are causing the site to load ineffectively, this is common with 3rd party scripts as they are   generally poorly coded.

2.) Your over all site is maxing out the allocated amount of RAM for your user. Unfortunately for security reasons we can’t reveal the amount available to each user, but this could be a contribution to the error.

How we solved the issue?

As the support mail also says it may be due to plugin we decided to solve it ourselves taking the suggestion from a forum discussion .We backed up the plugin folder from webftp and deleted all the plugin there.

After deleting the plugins the site was working fine.We could not exactly say which pulgin made the mess.

If you get the same error just try this but cant assure this method will work for you.

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We would be curious to know who is sharing our IP in our shared hosting package.Here is a way to know that,Axandra free seo tool makes the task easy.

Not everybody can go for a dedicated IP which are better.So atleast we will know our neighbour’s which is good for some specific reasons,such as :-

• To check websites hosted on our server are not spammer.
• To check if porn websites are hosted on the same server we are sharing.
• To check with others to clarify if there is a downtime in our shared server.

To look in a postive side we can also make friends with whom we are sharing our IP.

Link :- http://www.axandra.com/free-online-seo-tool/shared-hosting-check.php

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While designing a website we would need to compare fonts which suits us.Typetester as made the work simple.

Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen.we can compare three fonts at a time with different font style,font size,color etc.We can aslo get the css coding of the font setting given.

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I was looking for a tool to search a blog since it did not have a search box.
So i Searched google but did’nt find any but surprisingly while searching i
came across a article in yourshortestpath which gave the answer and was
very simple.

Use Google To Search A Website or Blog Without A Search Box.

Steps to search a website or blog without search box:

* Go to Google search
* type the word you want to search space site:+”url of the site”

Example : dotnet site:http://fordevs.com

This returns the result with the pages having the word dotnet.

And to note the search returns only the pages indexed by google for that website/blog.

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By default for controls placed in the designer the layout position is as ‘Not Set’ thus we cannot drag the control to a specified location.

We have to change the layout position to absolute position to achieve that.

In Visual Studio we can make the default postion as we need.For that we have to enable the css postioning of controls.

Here is how we can do

1. Go to Layout->Position->Auto-position Options->HTML Designer–>CSS Styling

or

2. Go to Tools->Options->HTML Designer–>CSS Positioning

And check “Change positioning to the following for controls added using Toolbox, paste or drag and drop” and select the postion you perfer.Here we select Absolute Positioning.

Now we can move the controls placed in the designer with absolute positioning.

The Given Procedure is for Visual Studio 2005 which is same for Visual Studio 2008.

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