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6 Must have tools for an Windows User

In this world, in every 100 desktops, more than 90 has got Windows(any version) installed. Check Wikipedia link here  or the real source here . That means either you've been using windows for a long time or at least worked on it sometime in past. Out of hundreds of applications you've used so far, I'm gonna list only 6 which will surely benefit you and and solve many of your problems. If you find this long text boring skip to the bottom for summary. 1. 7 Zip It is an open source and free file archiving software. It is a perfect replacement for WinZip or WinRar for any practical purpose. It supports all most popular archiving formats like  7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and unlike WinZip or WinRar won't ask for a license key . It natively supports 7Z compression which is much effective(read smaller archived file size) than ZIP format in many occasions. Best thing, it is also available for Linux and Mac. 2. K-lite codec pack It is a code pack for Wi...

Evolution of a Programmer

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Does it really matter what was the programming language you learnt first ?  Once you step into any engineering college it is highly probable that you'll land with a programming job. The whole 4years go as a pre-planned vacation. But, there are stages which everyone has to go through, sooner or later. Let's see the various stages of evolution you've gone through to become a programmer as you're now. Step - 1: Baby steps with VBA Probably you always wondered how this programs work and you started with VBA as it was easy to use and develop some useful things and get things done. Step - 2:  Say hello to the world with extinct TC++ IDE. You're lucky if you've even heard of gcc then. You only knew TC+++ and didn't know what to do without that #include<conio.h>. A bit more sophisticated code Step - 3: Learning the data structure and sorting algorithms (I know what you did this summer, LOL) This book has alway...

A hybrid of Mirabilis Jalapa

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If you've ever heard of Gregor Johann Mendel , then you must be knowing he is the first person to show experimental evidence of inheritance. Thanks to him, now we all know many things about how a certain characteristics is transferred from parents to their children. We know him as the father of Genetics . This blog is about my experiment of inheritance and cross pollination, similar to that of Mendel's. Mendel did that with pea plants and I tried with Mirabilis Jalapa, aka 4O'clock plant. This plant is abundant in India and shows many distinguishable , observable and verifiable characteristics which makes it one of the best plants to conduct experiment with . This plant comes in 3 different varieties (as per my knowledge), White , Yellow and Red based upon their flower color. Easily observable characteristics of this plant are: Color of the flower Color of the stem The Red variety is the most abundant one, yellow is comparatively rarer and whi...