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Hi friends, In my previous posts, I have told you how to reveal password typed in the password field using javascript . That trick was not working with all the browsers because as soon as you paste the javascript code in address bar then hit enter then some browser starts searching in the search engine. Today I am going to show you another simple trick that is much simpler than the previous ones Read more »

Sometimes we get irritated from the message "Your PC is running low battery", so in order to increase the battery life we should follow some tips. These tips Computer Laptop Battery Care and Usage Tips for getting more from a notebook battery. Read more »

Hello friends, Today I am going to tell you about a trick that can change your folder icon to custom image. Just follow these simple steps. 1. Download Any to icon converter , and install. 2. Run it. Read more »

The great team of Wyolum announced that their Raspberry Pi AlaMode is available for pre-order . This board, shown in the photo below, is Wyolum's answer to interfacing any number of hardware shields, sensors and servos to the Raspberry Pi . AlaMode is an Arduino compatible board that plugs right on top of the Raspberry Pi computer. It also gives you: extremely accurate real time clock DS3231 with backup battery micro SD slot direct headers for plugging in servos safe voltage translation between the Raspberry Pi and Arduino.

I should have titled this "Adventures in WiFly land - Part 2", a continuation of this post , but really there was no adventure. Things worked smoothly from the start. The main "challenge" was parsing the http response on the fly, since the (truncated) response string itself is about 1500 bytes (3/4 of the RAM in a 328), which is the size of WiFly's receiving buffer. The code ( download from here ) performs these steps: send http request to yahoo site , specifying the stock symbol; read the http response and find the token that identifies the stock price, in this case " last: "; read the next few characters that represent the stock price; display the symbol and the price on the 3216 display. This crude version is based on the WiFly_WebClient sample code from sparkfun . For display, it uses the HT1632 (header and c) files that are part of Wise Clock 4 library (but also supplied in the zip file). The software should work with any Arduino connected to a