The paid URL link shortners are a great headache to all of us as it eats up a lot valuable time and also, are really very very annoying. They are pretty good deal for the website owners and webmasters – no offense , But are really annoying for the readers. You see a heap of Continue reading
Foursquare is a location based social-network that lets you check in at different venues you are visiting leave a feedback.It’s a game, social-network,and for business
Google calendar is a very powerful web-based calendar and task manager. Facebook is the most popular social networking site on the internet. This post shows you how to see all the Facebook friend’s birthdays on you Google Calendar.
I really like Google Chrome browser. It’s fast, reliable and minimalistic. Today I’m gonna show you which extensions I use to make my life with Gmail, Facebook and YouTube easier. Better Gmail (Unofficial) This extension is pretty much all I need for Gmail. It’s key features are: Show Unread Message Count in tab Favicon Hide Footer Continue reading
Windows OS’ users have got a lot of softwares to do any task; be it reading Books, listening music etc. Also, the most popular among them are the free ones. Most users have either iTunes, Winamp or Foobar for music, Firefox or Chrome for browsing. Undoubtedly, these free softwares are very useful and therefore very popular. However, there also exists a large pool of softwares that aren’t yet famous but nevertheless useful. In this post, I list 5 of such softwares and briefly discuss them.
Many of us use Gmail as our primary mail client. But most of us don’t know about the most useful features of Google Labs for Gmail. If you are using Gmail and have not used these Gmail Labs options yet, you are definitely missing out some fun.You can get to Gmail Labs by clicking on Continue reading
Today Social Media has become a dominant force in marketing world and with each passing day its roots are spreading wide. It is has become one cost – efficient method to promote websites and blogs by getting you links and huge amounts of traffic. Social media is bound to get your site/blog profits over a Continue reading
Gmail is known for its faster access & reliability. It is one of the best free email provider that offers unlimited or you can say ever increasing mailbox space. Most of the users online uses Gmail as there primary Email client. Apart from the basic mail settings available on other free email services, Gmail also Continue reading
The word Proxy is derived from a Latin word proximus which means “close”.A proxy is actually a server which helps us maintaining our privacy on the Internet. It is just like a wall between you and the Internet. When you use a proxy, the webpage on the other side won’t be able to see you, Continue reading
In my last post I discussed about what is public DNS, if you haven’t read it you can visit http://techbu.com/2010/07/31/what-are-public-dns/and read about public DNS . In this post ill discuss step by step how to configure public DNS. I am going to use Windows 7 in which I will use these public DNS. Same method Continue reading
For those of you coming from windows backgrounds, the way the linux filesystem is laid out may seem confusing at first glance…. but that is where this article comes in !The first thing you should know when working with linux, is that everything is treated as either a file or directory. Yeap thats right, even hardware is considered a file by linux, and, speaking of hardware… all your hardware devices are located in the /dev directory, but more on that later.
In windows XP, you would most probably use DVD/CD burning software such as Nero or DeepBurner to make iso images, and software like alcohol 120% or daemon tools to mount the images.In linux, you can use the commandline to both make and mount iso images.
Most people look at Distros like Ubuntu and Fedora and Slackware and call them “Linux”. When these distros boot up and get into a GUI environment, people call the GUI linux as well.But…..That is not true!
Windows XP takes a lot of time to start, If you hate waiting like me then you must consider using hibernation option instead of turnoff for a faster startup. To do this, 1.Hold down the “shift” key in the shutdown dialog to change the “Stand By” to “Hibernate“. 2. Or You can just press H Continue reading
The Windows Experience Rating is sort of like a system performance gauging system that you only find in Vista . While many complain that it’s flawed and unfair at times, there’s a way to fool Vista. Basically, we change the performance figures in the XML that holds the scores for each of the subsystems. To Continue reading Allowing Network Access with Blank Passwords (XP and Vista) Although you can log in locally without a password, by default, WindowsXP Pro does not allow network users to access the computer without a password. Typically you will receive an Unknown error 31 if this is the case. To change this setting: Run gpedit.msc Go to Continue reading Using Google For Searching for Cracks, Serials, Ebooks, etc via FTP Google has some fantastic potential for you to find whatever you are after on the internet. To search for a book/program/file, perhaps try the following. Go to Google’s search page and use the following criteria in the search dialog intitle:index.of? file extension Name of Continue reading Open notepad and paste the following code and save the file with .vbs extension, it will create a VBScript File. It will prompt you for a text, input the text and press ok.” ;copy from here————– Dim msg, sapi msg=InputBox(“Enter your text”,”Talk it”) Set sapi=CreateObject(“sapi.spvoice”) sapi.Speak msg ;———-to here Download the .vbs file
Download StartClock form the following url and run StartClock http://startclock.osnn.net/files This cool freeware will replace the word start with the system time. This tiny piece of code comes with startclock.ini file for making configuration changes such as 12 hour clock with seconds 24hour clock ,load program at start up, refresh rate (Be careful with this Continue reading As an added security precaution it is possible to clear all data that has been written to the page file so it cannot be retrieved. The downside to this tweak is that it may substantially increase shutdown time depending on the amount of data in the page file. [Start] –> [Run] –> Type Regedit –> Continue reading Remove Security Alerts From System Tray Go to Start > Control Panel > Security Center.In the left pane, click the Change the way Security Center alerts me link, located right at the end of the column. In the new window that popsup, uncheck everything. To change windows xp start up sound You have to convert the sound which you want to put as the start up & shutdown sound Rename the files as Windows XP Startup.wav & Windows XP Shutdown.wav Navigate to c:\windows\media & replace the orginal winxp startup & shutdown sound with the new Windows XP Startup & Continue reading You can login with multiple id’s on the same yahoo messenger without any download or patch . Follow these steps – Go to Start —-> Run . Type regedit, then enter . 2.Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER ——–> Software —>yahoo —–>pager—->Test 3.On the right pane , right-click and choose new Dword value . 4.Rename it as Plural. Continue reading When you shut down Windows XP, the OS tries its best to make sure that all services (they help run things like graphics, printers etc) are shut down. But there are times when they don’t close, thus Windows XP tries to give it the chance to shut down itself. This amount of time that windows Continue reading A lot of users use internet schemes with restrictions on the bandwidth consumption. Firefox re downloads all the heavy files even if they are in the cache ( Even if the cache size setup way too high ), this will considerably increase your bandwidth consumption. It’s very annoying to download the files again if you Continue reading
open notepad dump the following lines into it and save it with the name OEMINFO.INI in the c:\windows\system32 directory: ——————————————————————- [General] Manufacturer=Your Name Here Model=Your Model Here [Support Information] Line1=Your Name Here Line2=Your Address Here Line3=Your Email Address Here ——————————————————————— 1. Save the file as OEMINFO.INI in the c:\windows\system32. 2. Then make a right click Continue reading If a business allows it’s users to install whatever software they choose and/or make configuration changes then they run the increased risk of the security of the machine being compromised. I recommend wherever possible businesses should refrain from giving end users administrative rights over the machines they use thereby preventing users from installing software (that Continue reading I found this tutorial in our college lan,I hope you find this useful. Getting the Internet Protocol or the IP Address of a remote system is said to the most important step in hacking of a system. Sometimes, however we get an IP in order to get more information on someone or some host. But, Continue reading
Simple yahoo chat commands you can use directly in the messenger. Yahoo Chat Commands: /join [room] go to what ever room you wish /invite [buddys name] sends invitation request /tell [user] [message] private messages a friend /follow [user] follows a friend /stopfollow [user] stop following someone /stopfollow [yourname] to stop them from following you /goto Continue reading Computer security is something everyone who uses the internet should learn about and use to protect themselves while they use the internet. Physical security This type of security is overlooked as not being a risk but it is. Anyone that has access to the machine can interrupt the boot process to get to a command Continue reading