Have you ever wanted to change the color of an image to some color of your choice ? if yes, sit back and read on as I'm going to share one cool & easy way to do that. So, lets get started and fire up your photoshop.

I'm going to convert the orange color of RSS feed icon into butter yellow.

• Load the image you want to change the color of. 

• Duplicate the original color layer and rename it to the color you are changing to.
  

• Select the new layer (mine is RSS-Yellow) and click on the "layer style" icon and select the "Color Overlay".

• Select the desired color.
  

• You'll see your image is "overlayed" with the chosen color.
  

• Now we have to change the way this new color gets spreaded, for that we'll create a new layer in between the previous layers.

• Now select the layer called "Rss-Yellow" and merge it down by using a hot key Ctrl + E or by using a menu option: Layer-> Merge Down.  Change the name of the new layer back to "Rss-Yellow" as after merging the layers down, normally it takes up the name of the bottom layer

• Now select the "Rss-Yellow" layer and click the "layer style" icon and select the Blending Options 

• Select the Blend Mode to "Color". It will automatically select the foreground color you've already selected so set the foreground color to the desired one before selecting the blending mode. 

• Voila! we have the Yellow RSS icon !

All the pink feed icons you see on my blog are converted to the "Color of Choice" by using this trick. You can use this trick for any other image you like.

Let me know if this helped you and I see you in the next post with some cool tools which I'm dying to share with you all !

Long story why I had to take my blog down...... but this event has definitely taught me the risks behind "Open Source". 

I'm planning to share my experience in a big post...after all thats the whole point in having your blog !

So, now I can't wait to see it all live again... and let me end this tiny miny post with a photograph of the latest beautiful addition to my life.. 

Okay girls finally here's "The Most Wanted" recipe for which I have been receiving so many calls from so many girls for the last 2 weeks ! Sorry for the delay its just that recipe didn't have a written title in my mom's diary and we had to make a lot of efforts in finding this very recipe. Btw, in between I and my mom had a fight (oral fight, I mean, obviously!) because we were blaming each other about the missing recipe. I guess I should not stay anymore between you girls and this very recipe so get a good cup of tea and start noting it down.

Ingredients-

For Crispy Chicken-

• Chicken breast 300 grams
• Plane Flour 1 cup
• Corn Flour 1 cup
• Egg 1
• Cold water 1 cup
• Cooking Oil Tbl spoons
• Cooking oil for frying

For Sweet & Sour Gravy-

• Carrot 1
• Capsicum 1
• Spring Onion 1
• Red Onion 1
• Tomato 1
• Cooking Oil 3 Tbl spoons
• Knorr Sweet & Sour Chicken 1 Packet

Directions-

For Crispy Chicken-

• Cut the chicken in cubes.
• Take a mixing bowl, add plane flour, corn flour, egg, cold water and oil, mix them well and add the chicken pieces in this mixture. Set this mixture of chicken aside for about 10 minutes.
• After 10 minutes, deep fry the chicken pieces. Pay special attention while frying, coating must not leave the chicken.
• Drain the pieces on kitchen towel & set aside.

For Sweet & Sour Gravy-

• Julian all the vegetables.
• Take a cooking pan and  add cooking oil. Now add all the vegetables and cook them in the oil.
• When the vegetables are cooked, add 2 ½ cup of water and Knorr Sweet & Sour Chicken powder.
• Cook it for about 6 to 8 minutes.
• Now add fried chicken pieces and tomato. Mix the vegetables & chicken pieces well. Take special care while mixing the pieces, they must not leave their coating and tear apart.
• Finally Sweet & Sour Crispy Chicken is ready to eat.. Oh I’m already hungry!
• Enjoy and say me a BIG THANKS :D !

One of the best things about VS 2008 is that it supports multi-targeting i.e. targetting different versions of framework v2.0, v3.0 & v3.5. By telling this let me come to the intent of today's post. When you fire up VS 2008, you don't see an option to create an "ASP.NET AJAX-Enabled Web Site" for framework 2.0. The reason being that is VS 2008 does not let you create a Template for ASP.NET AJAX Enabled Website by default. Somehow VS people forgot to add this small yet important thing to the most awaited version of Visual Studio. They shipped "Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Templates for Visual Studio 2008" in mid December 2007 as an add-on

So, now if you want to create ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX-Enabled Websites in VS 2008, you need to download the following in the specified order.

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0

ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Templates for Visual Studio 2008

The purpose of this post is to save others from facing a stupid hassle which I had to when I fired up my VS 2008 to create an ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX-Enabled application !

I actually wanted to write about the "right decision" of Microsoft about IE 8 but I think Matthew Magain has made my job easier. Check out this post and scream Bravo Microsoft !

Finally I'm done with moving my blog to BlogEngine.NET... one of the FAQ of BE.NET says "Is my mother able to use it?" and the answer is "Yes". Well, I don't think so My Mom can use it but surely anyone who has no knowledge of development and other related stuff can use it. Since I had to make some tweaks, I spent some extra time and a few more tweaks are still pending. So I'm getting back to that pending stuff and for now Hats Off to all you guys involved with this Project of BlogEngine.NET.

For those of you came to know about BlogEngine.NET through this post of mine, its an innovative open source blogging platform developed with ASP.NET 2.0