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How to Read Palms

Posted: March 18, 2008 in How To
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from wikiHow – The How to Manual That You Can Edit

Palm-reading, otherwise known as palmistry or chiromancy, is practiced all over the world, with roots in Indian astrology and gypsy fortune-telling. The objective is to evaluate a person’s character or future by studying the palm of their hand. Whether you’re an aspiring palm reader or you’re just looking for a fun way to pass the time and impress your friends, here’s how to gain insight just by holding someone’s hand.

Steps

  1. Choose a hand. Traditionally, a woman’s left hand and a man’s right hand should be read, but some schools of palmistry hold that anyone’s non-dominant hand sheds light on a person’s natural persona while the dominant hand indicates one’s choices in terms of how they’ve developed their personality and talents.
  2. Identify and the four major lines. (1) The heart line. (2) The head line. (3) The life line. (4) The fate line.
  3. Interpret the heart line. This line can be read in either direction (from the pinkie finger to the index finger or vice versa) depending on the tradition being followed. It’s believed to indicate emotional stability, romantic perspectives, depression, and cardiac health.
    • begins below the index finger – content with love life
    • begins below the finger – selfish when it comes to love
    • begins in the middle – falls in love easily.
    • straight and short – a high sex drive, less interest in romance
    • touches life line – heart broken easily
    • long and curvy – freely expresses emotions and feelings
    • straight and parallel to the head line – good handle on emotions
    • wavy – many relationships and lovers, absence of serious relationships
    • circle on the line – depression
    • broken line – emotional trauma
    • smaller lines crossing through heart line – emotional trauma

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How to find out the Tcl version

Posted: February 18, 2008 in How To
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Tcl (Tool Command Language) is a very simple, open-source-licensed programming language. Tcl provides basic language features such as variables, procedures, and control, and it runs on almost any modern OS, such as Unix (Linux and non-Linux), MacOS, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/…, PDA systems, and many more. But the key feature of Tcl is its extensibility.

And unlike any other scripting languages, just -v option won’t give you the version of your Tcl, there is a separate variable defined for that, tcl_version. So, just say puts $tcl_version to know your Tcl version.

There is a good Wiki for Tcl users, give a try: wiki.tcl.tk

How to find out the perl version

Posted: February 18, 2008 in How To
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Perl is acronym for Practical Extraction and Report Language. It is a general-purpose programming language invented in 1987 by Larry Wall. Originally developed for text manipulation. Perl has become extremely popular and is now used for a wide range of tasks, including web development and interface design.

If you have access to a shell prompt(Solaris, Unix/Linux), type following command to find out perl version:

perl -v

Altrernatively, you can use the following perl script to achieve the same through web:

#!/usr/bin/perl
$command=`perl -v`;
$title = “Perl Version”;

print “Content-type: text/html\\n\\n”;
print “<html><head><title>$title</title></head><body>”;

print “<h1>$title</h1>\n”;
print $command;

print “</body></html>”;

How to over come no subject mails in Outlook

Posted: November 30, 2007 in How To, Tips, Useful
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Forgot to mention subject while writing an official mail and feel bad later ???

Yes, it’s a concern for all. A mail without a subject brings a bad impression on us.

To avoid this, just follow the simple steps mentioned below and see the result. 🙂

1. Open your Outlook

2. Press Alt+F11. This opens the Visual Basic editor and then Press Ctrl+R which in turn opens a Project-Project 1 (left side)

3. On the Left Pane, one can see “Microsoft Outlook Objects” or “Project1”, expand this. Now one can see the “ThisOutLookSession”.

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How to download videos from Youtube

Posted: November 22, 2007 in How To
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Many of us may be wondering how to download the beautiful videos that we see in Youtube or any such video site. At least, I was wondering before. 😉

There are two ways to download a video or audio file from Youtube site.

First one would be to just add “kiss” before youtube in the address bar which will download the file for you.

For ex, here is a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kybeq2dWBf8

I just need to add “kiss” before youtube.com, so it will become: http://www.kissyoutube.com/watch?v=kybeq2dWBf8

Another way is to use the VideoDL site.

This site supports top 3 video sites: YouTube, Google Video and Break.com.

You will get the files in .flv format which you can play in FLV player or VLC player.

To download these players, use these links: FLV Player or VLC Player.

You can also decode these files using decoders like Riva FLV Encoder or Total Video Converter.

In case you face any difficulties, jus leave a comment.