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How to convert any file into pdf

noreply@blogger.com (Pushpendra Paliwal) — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:12:00 +0530

While working in office it is some times very important to convert our documents into pdf format.With this post i am presenting very easy method to convert any MS office document or image into pdf format using software PdfCreator . It is opensource also.

How to convert any file into pdf

View more presentations from Pushpendra Paliwal.

~~Edit:~~ Edit: (Seriously, who the hell underlines the text nowadays)

[In case you're clueless, spend time thinking how to enlarge the image. Otherwise, calculate the millionth number that is not a perfect square or a perfect cube. jk ]

Yes, Microsoft Office can save files in PDF format. This was Office 2010, i know Office 2007 can do the same. Can't say about previous versions.

How to open youtube with low bandwidth connection

noreply@blogger.com (Pushpendra Paliwal) — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:57:00 +0530

In country like India where average speed of internet connection is very low,it is not possible to watch videos on youtube.com .

But with the mobile version of youtube it is very easy to watch video on your personal computer.

Troubleshooting:

Youtube download for dummies

noreply@blogger.com (Pushpendra Paliwal) — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:03:00 +0530

Perhaps the Dummies guide to use Keepvid. Referring to Youtube's Terms of service it does not clearly says but yeah, they don't want you playing around download videos since they are a streaming website. On the other hand, it is itself paradoxical. Because when we are seeing any video, it is being stored on the computer in the form of cache. Pretty much one can't distinguish downloading video from seeing it in the browser. Even though it would be good if you download only legal content, downloading copyrighted things which are itself uploading illegally is still a crime(just like downloading songs from pakistani website or using torrents to download movies) which is not advised.

Open Youtube.com and select your favorite video to play

Now select the URL and copy it. (right click and click copy).

Open keepvid.

Paste URL in the text box and click download

Troubleshooting:

mere 42 minutes

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra) — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:53:00 +0530

Pretty interesting. A month from now i would be able to derive this time. Thanks to Physics, it is really an awesome thing, with real calculus it comes to life. And the best, all you need to have is Internet.

MIT OpenCoursware
Quite epic place. Walter Lewin (Many more of his lectures are there, on various subject.) & the section for high school is incredible.

KhanAcadem
Nothing to elaborate. One man Army, Salman Khan. Just got funded by Google with $2 Million.

Academic Earth
Another good domain.Niche for every Lecture out there.

There are certainly more people who are teaching, like PatrickJMT, on the internet, keep trolling. Listen to Richard Feynman, some here & Stragely it is Microsoft, Project Tuva. Then the classic way in which Carl Sagan speaks, plenty of videos on youtube.

Talking about physics as a vocation, there are many more blogs out in the net yet i got specifically amazed by Starts with a Bang (not forgetting to mention, Yes, everytime someone sees the author's picture, 3 children die in Angola. He should change it). Ponderabout.com is also a great place. I don't stick to too many places, it gets real hard to read them everyone. At last Discovery News is a must in your RSS reader.
[More Earth: Ten things you don’t know about the Earth]

By the way, you would also like to check. Mensa, the oldest high-IQ society, released their list of top 50 websites.

Google's World Domination Plan

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra) — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 19:14:00 +0530

First of all, Thanks to MrSaints. He told me about it.

I tried it, and it worked.

To see the bigger version. Right-Click on the image and click 'View Image'.

Some minutes later i was here,

This is hilarious, though the last one does not makes sense. But had to add O in there so to display Canada in the translation. While you are trying this take care of uppercase and lowercase letters it does makes difference.

Definately, some evil overlords' work.

Top 5 'new-age' Dictionaries

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra) — Thu, 20 May 2010 12:17:00 +0530

Dictionaries is the home of words. The list is according to their awesomeness, the most awesome one is at last. Although, i'm pretty sure you will have to try each one of them. The list contains two software, i had been partial choosing the list as Mac and Linux users already enjoy in-built dictionaries and the poor windows users has to download one. No otiose crap, every element is different.

Wordweb
It is a software, a lightweight software that runs in the system tray. To look for meaning of a word, select the word, then Ctrl+Alt+W or Ctrl+Click the word. The small dictionary pop-ups and magically shows the meaning. I was previously using Wordweb pro version 4, it was all i needed but had no support for google chrome so had to upgrade to version 6 free version.

Onelook
It is the meaning of internet. In a true sense, i use it as a word finder. Use operators to find new words that make sense to you. The website is suffice to understand the importance of it.

Urban Dictionary
Things get short, internet has provided a boost to english as a language. It is dictionary by people. That's the reason that every word ever spoken in the backwaters of this planet is even in this thing.The old fun: Try seaching the your name in it, you will be fascinated. If not, then just add a new definition!

Google Dictionary
Yes, google even has a dictionary. It shows quotes that were in news in the recent past. Below the usage examples it displays some links to other dictionaries also. I use it for the defining the word in simple language. As you can see in the screen shot, it is a multi-lingual dictionary. Every widely spoken language is included.

Visual Thesaurus
I'm sorry but it is the only one not free. That was also the reason i didn't wanted to include this but It is the dictionary for fun. If style is what matters to you, it is one of those softwares on your computer that you want to show to the world. Not quite popular however best of it's kind. Try this free online version/emulator of the dictionary, though the software is a lot more cool. Each branch with different color represent a different thing. That wow thing. It is also available for Apple users.
Cost: $40

Simply vacuous fun.

I strongly think that if i had to pick any one of them, breaking the rules, i would choose the in-built dictionary of Mac as the best one.

Update:
Google Chrome Extension
I noticed that there is a google chrome extension called Google Dictionary, since most of us need it when on web, it can be quite a handy tool.

Ubiquity
Wikipedia is neutrality is amazing. I too want to be neutral, a Google chrome extension means another add of Firefox one. You will find many dictionary addons on Firefox, but no one has that aura. Ubiquity is not really a dictionary, it is much more that that. Aza Raskin started this lab experiment it had to be great. To get the definition select the word on page press Ctrl+Space, in the interface that comes on type define. Here is the video by himself explaining it all.

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

You know something more kewl? Please leave a comment.

Intelligent Phishing

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra) — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:37:00 +0530

Not much days ago, Twitter warned users of a phishing attempt. After clicking the infected link, they landed on a login page that was indistinguishable in terms of design from the original twitter login. After you gave your credentials, it redirected you to twitter home page(as you were never logged out). It was though a simple idea, many fell for it. Thus, hacked(err.. Technically 'Cracked' ).

Anyway, it's the most real trick. The villain can get your password, without a try, and you are giving it to him. No offense, but it a truth universally acknowledged that few of :) people on Social Networking sites are nincompoops. Hence, easy targets.

They fall for tricks like phishing. As it is, not quite difficult, find a free host and make the page look like login page of say twitter. Now what you have to do is, to get somebody visit the link. In the optimistic world, it'll be quite good if you even got login credentials of 1% of users visited.

[Image: Toastyken]

Well.. that was easy. There is quite high chance you already know about this. wait, there is something more.

Tabnabbing aka tabnapping!?
First of all, tabnapping?? the name is crazy. still getting used over the web now.This is the latest and the most intelligent one. You visit the page of bad guy, it's normal and informative now. With many more tabs open, the site of bad guy loses focus. Thanks to Javascript he detects it and changes his page's favicon and content to that of Gmail.com. You return to the tab, thinking you need to login, thus enter your credentials. All done. Again, this is Aza Raskin!

But, wait a second, are we so stupid to not remember we have gmail login open? maybe not this time, you can't be attentive every time! Hugely inspired by traditional phishing, they'll redirect you to the original page once you've entered the information(no matter right or wrong!). Obviously, you were never logged out. There is a creepy presentation Aza Raskin has on his page. Goto the link, after the page has loaded. get busy with another tab, after at least 5 seconds come back. Whoa! it has Gmail icon and whole page looks like that. Aza says, he was too lazy so he rather just showed the screenshot of gmail login. You get the idea it is possible.

Preventing Phishing
Not getting into what needs to be done with browsers, although the very complexities. It is a normal phishing attempt, just keep your eye on the URL. When logging into great things.
Any mis-spells, additional suspicious domain are the signs of phishing. and particularly avoid using full-screen mode of browsers while you login to any service.
One of the more secure thing is to make firefox remember your password, so whenever there is a login prompt firefox will fill it for you. In case it didn't, you'ld get some instinct or suspicion that the site's not right.

Desktop Phishing
Now this defines awesome. The bad guy can get your username password even if you are on the right page. That is you login from the right page like http://www.twitter.com/login still you are falling for the trick!
How? See the video.

Note:Ok you googled it now? You will not find much about it. I am not big enough to interpret what is going on behind the scenes. But surely it has to do with security, normal bugs to be public is not a huge thing. Since, the potential of so called 'Desktop Phishing'. It is scary and without a cure today, that might be a reason why it is not something you have heard of.

So what he did is, he modified a system file that operates the TCP/IP protocol. How he modified it is even more simpler, compressed the file to be modified in sfx extention(it will extract itself). Obviously you won't start it anyway, so it is along with a legit software like teamviewer. Now every time the victim visited paypal.com, he is actually visiting the fake paypal page from the bad guy. The login button does nothing but saves your credentials in some file. Every noob in the cyber cafe at the corner of the road can do this.
Even more than that, imagine it's use on public computers. The computer owner may himself modify the file. Every one opening http://www.facebook.com for instance will first fall on his clone, after giving the credentials he can be redirected to the original facebook login which can lessen the suspicion of the user to a great extent.

How to prevent from this thing?!!
The only solution is to, use only official and trusted websites for downloading any piece of executable code or file. The way it is extracted and the type of file it is, no Anti-virus will warn you. Actually, no will know.
To the threat to public computers, i'm still unable to find a cure there. Comment if you do not agree! Surely, Desktop Phishing is the best way to 'phish'.
You don't need to be paranoid here. There is someone claiming that they'll alert you whenever the HOSTS file is edited, try inquiring about it. I'm not sure of its credibility.

How Secure is your Browser?
In most cases, we think Firefox is a reliable browser(It is, even Chrome Safari and IE are pretty much. No browser treats your privacy like facebook does.). It'll warn us, on many sites it does. But.. the speed and ease you can register a new domain(especially free ones) it is impossible for a browser to stay up to date with the amazingly new ways hackers find to bypass security. In real world, it never matters that Firefox saved you 100 times from phishing, still for the only time you are 'cracked' the loss is no less.
Here Gercek Karakus tells you how open you are when on web. Similar example StartPanic!
If they still seem a low threat, imagine a phisher who first knows which service do you use on the computer, and then present you the login page of same service. You'll not be able protect yourself every-time. or someone who first knows which bank you use then present you their login screen saying "Your login has expired!" which is normally what they show.

I'm sorry if you've freaked out. But that is windows. :P
Download Virtualbox, and install Ubutnu on it. For more information, here is Tutorial. Once you get used to things in Ubutnu, you can prepare for dual boot. Linux are the safest systems out there and FREE too! FYI I don't belong among those Free and Open source software(FOSS) junkies, rather i think the energy they waste hating windows could have been better utilized if they wrote few good pieces of code for *nix. In a nutshell, windows is your native OS, keep it. But don't be blind to the world outside.

Internet is awesome technology but not at the cost of intrusion of user's privacy. Stay safe.

Solving Server not Found and DNS errors : 5 Free Fast DNS Servers

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra) — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:22:00 +0530

If you have error or not, it's though exactly a diagnose. Using DNS server can speed up your online experience. Give them a try, it costs nothing. It can be all good and no bad.

DNS is Domain Name System, it's work in simple words is to translate URLs into IP addresses so that you can get the right thing. If it gets overloaded, you may be unable to view all or some websites. Like, if websites like http://74.125.53.99/ loads but http://www.google.com doesn't, you may have a DNS problem.
Also, if you have a DNS problem, the browser will often display error as Server not found.

To correct the trouble, you can use DNS servers. These will be servers that shall respond and process the DNS demands of your computer or network.

Some Gyaan Before we take off:
There are two types of the IP address your computer could be assigned.

Static IP

Your IP address would be same every time you connect to the internet

Dynamic IP
Your computer would be assigned different IP address every time you connect to the internet. In this case, it's good for you. You don't need to see Control panel for now.

There is a simple observation you can make just now, go and check whatismyip .org. The website shows your IP address(that's all it shows on the page, so i don't need to elaborate). Note it somewhere on notepad, paper or desk or in the form of doodle or on walls or have a Tattoo whatever. Now next time, you start the computer and connect to the internet, go again to whatismyip.org, again you'll find the IP address. Check the latest one from the one you noted before. If there's no difference then you have Static IP otherwise you have a Dynamic IP.

Here's the procedure.

The thing is you have to get to your internet connection's properties to instruct it to use a DNS server.
On Windows XP and older versions, it's in Control Panel - Network Connections
Or it can be in the Start Menu - Connect to
Right click your connection and get to it's Properties. (On Windows 7 or Vista, get straight to the properties of the connection)
Networking Tab - in the list of services, Click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Get to it's Properties. You should see this.

You see those boxes for IP addresses, here is your turn to pick up the most handsome numbers from the menu below.

Here's List of DNS Server's that you do the Job, just for free.

Google Public DNS
Google is everywhere. It claims to be the fastest, and i'm sure you would believe it unless you really want to investigate. If time's not a luxury for you, try Namebench. You will find other info there. So back on Google.

8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4

[Link : http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/ ]

ScrubIT

67.138.54.100
207.225.209.66

[Link : http://www.scrubit.com/ ]

DNSadvantage

156.154.70.1
156.154.71.1

[Link : www.dnsadvantage.com/ ]

OpenDNS
The paid version is also available, rather than doing by making an account there and registering. If not, doing it manually is OK. It gives best features once you are registered. I used it, and it is faster than any free DNS servers out there.

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

[Link : www.opendns.com ]

vnsc-pri.sys.gtei.net
Public Name server IP address:

4.2.2.1
4.2.2.2
4.2.2.3
4.2.2.4
4.2.2.5
4.2.2.6

Troubleshooting
Still DNS problems? There is a high probability that you use some sort of third party application to access internet. You can try stumbling in it's settings and can see if there is any option to add DNS. Try the Control Panel thing given above once again. Now everything should work fine. You can though ping me up here.

Other than this there is UltraDNS, which is really very fast. It's though paid.

For more troubleshooting on internet, comment or here's Mozilla's help . For Instruction as where to enter it further explained, visit the given websites of the DNS servers.

To Access the Blocked on Internet

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra) — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:55:00 +0530

Internet is the most liberal of all the human inventions. But sometimes, when you get blocked. Here's help.

Presentation for Basic knowledge, bypassing blockages: ComputerWorld

Now a fantastic article: Top 10 Ways to Access Blocked Stuff on The Web

Maintaining Windows: What to keep, What Not.

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra) — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:25:00 +0530

[Lifehacker]

Everybody's got an opinion on how to keep a Windows system running fast and smooth. Some tips are timeless, others are bunk that always recirculate. Here's a closer look at what really helps and hurts your Windows PC.
First up, here's the quick chart version, with the tips you're likely to hear floating around the net and from the mouths of casual IT types; each tip is plotted by its reputation and actual value. (More details for how we assigned these values below.) Click the image for a larger view.

And now a little finer explanation on those points.

Seems Bad, Is Good

These are those tips that seem like they actually kind of suck, but are in reality pretty good for your system.
Sleeping/Hibernating Instead of Shutting Down: Knowing that your laptop is drawing even just a trickle of power can freak out anyone who's had to pay for an expensive battery replacement, so a lot of people think it's always better to shut down your system when you're not using it. If we're talking PCs, the answer to the question of sleep or shutdown depends on how you feel about your electricity bill. For laptops, the issue of battery life and convenience is a sticky wicket. It takes some time and some vigorous hardware use to boot up your system, so if you know you're only stepping away from your system for, say, less than 3 hours, go ahead and close the lid and suspend it, or hibernate your system if you find it faster starting up. If you're going to be away for a solid bit, shut it down. Either way, don't plug it in if you don't have to, and spend more time getting things done than micro-managing your modern battery.

Windows Media Player: Windows Media Player used to be one of the first apps we'd replace on our system. Recently we learned to love the latest version of this built-in app, on the strengths of its performance, its built-in streaming and album art functions, and the fact that, now in its 12th edition, WMP is actually kind of good at what it's supposed to do.
Microsoft Security Essentials: Microsoft's security tools have never been that great—until they released Microsoft Security Essentials, that is. This anti-malware app is entirely free for Windows users, from initial install through every malware definition update. It's just as good at finding bad stuff as the leading commercial products, and it integrates well into your Windows system without adding a whole metric ton of toolbars, badged buttons, and other cruft. And if you follow some other basic security advice, you'll get by just fine, and never see a "reminder" that it's time to pony up for your protection fee.
Not having Windows "Ultimate": When you hear "ultimate", you can only assume it means "this version of Windows is a lot better". Early on, before Windows 7 was even released, Paul Thurrot did a little reverse-engineering of an early release and found that its main difference above "Professional" and cheaper versions was the inclusion of AppLocker, Federated Searches, and some virtual machine tools. Ed Bott summed it up succinctly: Windows 7 Ultimate, for all but the most corporate or IT-versed of users, is an "unnecessary luxury."

Not having "Admin" access: For the savvy user who does a lot of installing and tweaking, having Administrator privileges is just a means to an end. For users who are apt to click on "You've Just Won a Free iPad!", having administrator rights on their user account is a recipe for malware and other bad things. Granting admin access to bad stuff is the cause of up to 90 percent of security flaws, so on a shared desktkop, or a laptop you let your friends and family borrow, killing Administrator privileges might be worth the occasional verbal nagging.

Seems Good, Is Good

Let's call this the Advanced No-Duh section of system maintenance: Those tips that seem like a good idea, and they are. But they're also easy to lose sight of in pursuit of optimization, customization, and other tweaks.
Automating backup to external drive: Because protection from drops, spills, hard drive failure, electrical shorts, accidental deletions, theft, forgetfulness, and other calamities is clearly a good thing. Luckily it's not that hard to automatically back up your hard drive.

Automating backup to a web location: Because protection from fires, floods, acts of God or infants, external hard drive failure, and forgetfulness across two different safety mechanisms is the best thing. Luckily the best online backup tools are easy to use and relatively inexpensive (at least where your important data is at stake).
Install more RAM: Whether in your desktop PC, or skirting Apple Store prices and doing it yourself with a MacBook, adding more RAM can breathe a lot of new life into an old computer. Installing more than 4 GB may not always be worth it, or even feasible in some older systems, but it never hurts to future-proof your system.

Physically clean your system and peripherals: Dust, noisy fans, keyboard crud, and other symptoms of a well-used computer may not actually prevent you from doing work, but they do make using it much more annoying, and possibly less productive. Make your stuff look nicer, work better, and likely run more efficiently by giving it a spring cleaning.
Automating maintenance tools: Like a good backup, the tasks that keep your computer running clean and swift should be done without thinking. Whether it's a self-repairing hard drive, an automatic CCleaner run, or dozens of night-time fix-it jobs, it's not that hard, and the time invested in setting up pays off exponentially in having a worry-free Windows.
Using Revo Uninstaller: Because the Add/Uninstall Programs alternative Revo digs deep, moves fast, and just works. It cleans out cruft, shows you more of the apps you have installed than Windows does, offers auto-starting application disabling, and can even be pointed, sniper-style, at the application you want to kill but don't quite know the name of.

Seems Good, Is Bad

These are the deceptive tips that keep us tweaking our systems, often to our detriment.
Disabling QoS in Windows XP: Rumor had it that Microsoft had permanently tied up 20 percent of your net bandwidth for Windows Update. They didn't, and those who disable QoS, or IPv6, in XP actually end up with some pretty harsh connectivity problems.

Running defragment apps: On Windows Vista and 7, and into the future, the actual need for defragmenting hard drives is almost non-existent, since it's already done automatically. With solid-state drives, there's no need at all, and doing so might actually be harmful to the flash-memory-based devices. Defragging your drive won't likely cause any major harm, but for most of us, at best it's a wash.
Loading Internet Explorer with add-ons: Add-ons aren't necessarily a bad thing in themselves—they can, for instance, make IE act like Firefox. But if you're going to use Internet Explorer, and you're going to use add-ons, expect to see more crashing than normal.
RAM/memory optimizers: The fact that there was a federal investigation, and an article dubbing SoftRAM (and, by extension, its ilk) the "Worst Tech Product of All Time," should say it all. But, heck, let's just say it again. There are smart ways to manage your memory use, but you can't get something (more RAM) out of nothing (colorful packaging). Just because they no longer sell it in stores doesn't mean there aren't still software apps trying to convince you that the laws of physics don't apply inside your computer.
"Trick" Vista into multi-core booting: It's easy to assume Microsoft has done something wrong, isn't it? Like design an entire operating system, even one with a 64-bit version, that doesn't know how to use multiple cores. Heck, it's a sham. You can change how many cores Vista boots up with, but only if you're looking to test single-core operation for your application—otherwise, Vista automatically boots up with what you've got.
Enable SuperFetch in XP: In newer Windows systems, SuperFetch speeds up load times for programs and files. Trying to enable it in XP isn't actually harmful, unless you consider false hope a long-lasting harm. There is no SuperFetch in XP, no matter what Registry setting you tweak.
Clean out Windows prefetching: Another seemingly helpful tip, as cleaning out Windows own log of which data to queue up on boot-up does, at best, nothing, and at worst can cause serious delays and problems with booting.

Reinstall Windows regularly: If you were never going to die, spending hours every year re-installing Windows—and, more relevant to most of us, all your applications and settings—would be a harmless move toward efficiency. In reality, though, you don't need to reinstall Windows unless something's gone wrong, because you can automate your backups and maintenance tools to keep it at an even speed and usability, year after year. And tell your Windows-hating geek friends we said so.
Registry "Cleaning": No doubt, the Windows Registry—where Windows keeps track of applications' needs, file associations, and other settings—is a big, unwieldy beast, and it's easily stuffed with leftover crud. If you're having a particular problem with a certain app, a Registry fix can possibly help. But stepping in every so often to "clean" the unnecessary stuff isn't going to speed things up, because Windows is mostly looking for the things it needs on each run, and doesn't, despite your worst fears, spend an entire afternoon browsing the Dead Sea Scrolls of your application installation history. Clean when you need to, but don't spend much time thinking about it.

Disable Shadow Copy or System Restore: Don't do this. You might think it's not necessary, and that you're the Ultimate Backup Maker, but doing so won't speed Windows up, you'll potentially cause problems with certain Windows services, and you'll never know when you'll need System Restore. The other night, I thought uninstalling Bonjour and Apple Application Support was a minor thing—until my Wi-Fi failed to work at all the next morning. Keep System Restore around.
Disable unneeded services: It's one of those nefarious "It depends" deals. There might be some services running on your system that you absolutely don't need, and Microsoft itself recommends checking them out. Just don't kill a service unless you know, specifically, what it provides you and your daily workflow.

Seems Bad, Is Bad

Many of these are downright laughable, but hey—we're just covering our bases here.

Installing lots of alpha apps: One or two early releases of software with a killer new feature? Yeah, sure, go ahead, but try to find a portable, non-install version, if you can. Always picking the alpha/pre-release/dev version of your favorite apps and installing them? It's like having a house made of 1,000 pipes, and you'll have no idea where that hissing leak you hear is coming from, or where it begins.
Type rm -rf / in Cygwin: Actually, any terminal command you see on the internet that someone suggests? If you don't know exactly what it does, and you don't understand the syntax, you're better off skipping it.
"Would you like to install the X toolbar to make searching easier?" Don't be that person—the one keeping Ask.com in business. Always watch during software installation to see what it's asking you to install and "make searching easier."
Drinking while Registry editing: Drinking while near a keyboard in general, really.
Uninstalling apps you don't recognize: As noted above, you might think your computer is cluttered with unnecessary applications, but it's often smarter to just let unnecessary apps age out, rather than find out a crucial network service was tied to a particular app.

Installing software from unverified torrents: Read the comments, think about the source, and run an MD5 checksum before installing anything from the public pool. Alternately: Don't install software from torrents.
Installing software from .ru sites: Would you rather spend 10 minutes finding a free, open-source alternative to what you're looking for, or an entire afternoon trying to recover files and restore your system?
Skipping updates from Adobe or Java: Even if it claims to be just bug fixes, and they feel like they arrive every day, install them, or un-install the product they're for, if you don't like them. It feels like giving in, but you don't want to be shaking your head sadly at a headline involving "exploit" tomorrow.

That's our take on the big field of Windows maintenance for the average user. What did we leave off? Where would you move these points on the chart? Tell us your take in the comments.

[via: Lifehacker.com]

Funny Product Warnings

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra) — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 06:58:00 +0530

PRODUCT WARNINGS
Dumb and Funny Warning Labels On Products

Liquid Plummer
Warning: Do not reuse the bottle to store beverages.

Windex
Do not spray in eyes.
Bowl Fresh
Safe to use around pets and children, although it is not recommended that either be permitted to drink from toilet.

Toilet Plunger
Caution: Do not use near power lines.

Dremel Electric Rotary Tool
This product not intended for use as a dental drill.

Arm & Hammer Scoopable Cat Litter
Safe to use around pets.

Endust Duster
This product is not defined as flammable by the Consumer Products Safety Commision Regulations. However, this product can be ignited under certain circumstances.

Baby Oil
Keep out of reach of children

Little Ones Baby Lotion
Keep away from children

Hair Coloring
Do not use as an ice cream topping.

Wet-Nap
Directions: Tear open packet and use.

Dial Soap
Directions: Use like regular soap.
Stridex Foaming Face Wash
May contain foam.

Hairdryer:
Do not use while taking a shower.

Old Spice Red Zone Deoderant
Use only on underarms.
Zantac 75
Do not take if allergic to zantac.

Sleeping Pills
Warning: May cause Drowsiness
Christmas Lights
Warning: For indoor or outdoor use only.

Bic Lighter
Ignite lighter away from face.

Komatsu Floodlight
This floodlight is capable of illuminating large areas, even in the dark

Fire Extinguisher:
Caution: Non-Flamable

Earplugs
These ear plugs are nontoxic, but may interfere with breathing if caught in windpipe

Mattress
Warning: Do not attempt to swallow

Matches
Caution: Contents may catch fire.
Pepper Spray
Caution: Never aim spray at your own eyes.

Auto-Shade Widnshield Visor
Warning: Do not drive with sunshade in place. Remove from windshield before starting ignition.

Fix-a-Flat
WARNING: Do not weld can to rim.

Rain Gauge
Suitable for outdoor use.

RCA Television Remote Control
Not Dishwasher Safe

Pine Mountain Fire Logs
Caution: Risk of fire

Triops Fish Food
Warning: Not for human consumption

Home Depot Treated Lumber
Do not consume

Hair Dryer
Warning: Do not use while sleeping.

Road Sign
Caution water on road during rain.

Camera
This camera will only work when film is inside.

Road Sign
Cemetery Road. Dead End

Church Parking Lot Sign
Thou shalt not park

Children's Superman Costume
Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly.
Silk Soy Milk
Shake well and buy often

Air Conditioner
Caution: Avoid dropping air conditioners out of windows.
Rowenta Iron
Warning: Never iron clothes on the body.

Slush Puppy Cup
This ice may be cold

American Airlines Peanuts
Instructions: open packet, eat nuts.
Nabisco Easy Cheese
For best results, remove cap.

Swanson TV Dinners
This product must be cooked before eating.

Hershey's Almond Bar
Warning: May contain traces of nuts

Heinz Ketchup
Instructions: Put on food

500-piece puzzle:
Some assembly required.

Beach Ball
CAUTION: It is not a life saving device.

Chainsaw
Do not attempt to stop chain with hands.

Sears hairdryer:
Do not use while sleeping.
Bag of Fritos:
You could be a winner! No purchase necessary. Details inside.

Bar of Dial soap:
Directions: Use like regular soap.
Swann frozen dinners:
Serving suggestion: Defrost.
Hotel provided shower cap in a box:
Fits one head.

Tesco's Tiramisu dessert: (printed on bottom of the box)
Do not turn upside down.
Marks & Spencer Bread Pudding:
Product will be hot after heating.

Packaging for a Rowenta iron:
Do not iron clothes on body.

Boot's Children's cough medicine:
Do not drive car or operate machinery.
Nytol sleep aid:
Warning: may cause drowsiness.
String of Chinese-made Christmas lights:
For indoor or outdoor use only.
Japanese food processor:
Not to be used for the other use.
Sainsbury's peanuts:
Warning: contains nuts.

American Airlines packet of nuts:
Instructions: open packet, eat nuts.
Korean kitchen knife:
Warning keep out of children

Helmet mounted mirror used by us cyclists:
Remember, objects in the mirror are actually behind you

New Zealand

insect spray:
This product not tested on animals.
Blanket from

taiwan

:
not to be used as protection from a tornado
Cardboard windshield sun shade:
Warning: Do Not Drive With Sun Shield in Place.
Infant's bathtub:
Do not throw baby out with bath water.
Package of Fisherman's Friend throat lozenges:
Not meant as substitute for human companionship.

Disposable razor:
Do not use this product during an earthquake.

Bottle of shampoo for dogs
Caution: The contents of this bottle should not be fed to fish.
Curling Iron
Warning: This product can burn eyes.
Hair Dryer
Do not use in shower.
Hair Dryer
Do not use while sleeping.
Hand-held Massaging Device
Do not use while sleeping or unconscious.
Case of a chocolate CD in a gift basket.
Do not place this product into any electronic equipment.
A toilet at a public sports facility
Recycled flush water unsafe for drinking.
Pair of shin guards made for bicyclists
Shin pads cannot protect any part of the body they do not cover.
Container of Underarm Deodorant.
Caution: Do not spray in eyes.
Aim-n-Flame fireplace lighter.
Do not use near fire, flame, or sparks.
Toner cartridge for a laser printer
Do not eat toner.
13-inch wheel on a wheelbarrow
Not intended for highway use.
Can of self-defense pepper spray.
May irritate eyes.
Novelty rock garden set called "Popcorn Rock"
Eating rocks may lead to broken teeth.
A frisbee
Warning: May contain small parts.
A toilet bowl cleaning brush.
Do not use orally.
A birthday card for a 1 year old.
Not suitable for children aged 36 months or less.
Heated seat cushion
Warning: Do not use on eyes.

Microwave Oven:
Do not use for drying pets.

Electric Cattle Prod
For use on animals only.
Can of air freshener.
For use by trained personnel only.
Silly Putty
Do not use as ear plugs.
Knife sharpening stone
Warning: knives are sharp!
Deodorant
Do not use intimately.
Rat Poison
Warning: has been found to cause cancer in laboratory mice.
Portable stroller
Caution: Remove infant before folding for storage.
Dashboard of a mail truck
Look before driving.
Children's cough medicine
Do not drive car or operate machinery.
Sign at a railroad station
Beware! To touch these wires is instant death. Anyone found doing so will be prosecuted.
Bottom of a supermarket dessert box
Do not turn upside down.
Package of dice.
Not for human consumption.

Bottled Drink:
Twist top off with hands. Throw top away. Do not put top in mouth.

Shipment of hammers
May be harmful if swallowed.
Manual for an SGI computer.
Do not dangle the mouse by its cable or throw the mouse at co-workers.
Stamped on the metal barrel of a .22 calibre rifle
Warning: Misuse may cause injury or death.
Electric Thermometer.
Do not use orally after using rectally.
Packaging for a chain saw file, used to sharpen the cutting teeth on the chain.
Turn off motor before using this product.
6x10 inch inflatable picture frame
Not to be used as a personal flotation device.
Box of bottle rockets
Do not put in mouth.
Wrapper of a Fruit Roll-Up snack
Remove plastic before eating.
Box for a car jack
For lifting purposes only.

Instructions for a cordless phone:
Do not put lit candles on phone.

Small print from car commercial which shows a car in the ocean
Do not drive cars in ocean.
Small print from a car commercial which shows a vehicle "body-surfing" at a concert
Always drive on roads. Not on people.

Bus Stop
No stopping or standing.
Church Sign
These rows reserved for parents with children.
Bag of Fritos
You could be a winner! No purchase necessary. Details inside.
Credit card statement.
Payment is due by the due date.
Laundromat triple washer
No small children.
Sign in front of a newly renovated ramp that led to the entrance of a building
Take care: new non-slip surface.
Box of Pills
Take one capsule by mouth three times daily until gone.
Instructions on the packaging for a muffin at a 7-11
Remove wrapper, open mouth, insert muffin, eat.
Can of black pepper.
Instructions: usage known.
Bag of cat biscuits
Simply pour the biscuits into a bowl and allow the cat to eat when it wants.
Car Manual
In order to get out of car, open door, get out, lock doors, and then close doors.
Espresso Kettle
The appliance is switched on by setting the on/off switch to the 'on' position.
T.V. manual
Do not pour liquids into your television set.
Label on a hammer
Caution - Do not use this hammer to strike any solid object
VCR box
Instructional video on hooking up VCR included.

Toilet brush
Do not use for personal hygiene.
Black rubber fishing worm
Not for human consumption.

Orange Juice Can:
100% pure all-natural fresh-squeezed orange juice from concentrate.

Depend Adult Diapers
Step into underwear and pull them on just like regular underwear.
Furniture Wipes
Do not use for a baby wipe.
Stickers to put on the seat of a potty training toilet
This is not a toy. Stickers require adult supervision.
Lawnmower
Warning: When Motor Is Running - The Blade Is Turning
Instructions on the bottom of a grocery store pizza
Do not turn upside down.
Bottom of a Coca-Cola bottle
Do not open here.
Bottle of bathtub cleaner
For best results, start with clean bathtub before use.
Container of lighter fluid
WARNING: Contents flammable!
Box of household nails
CAUTION! - Do NOT swallow nails! May cause irritation!
Microwave popcorn, packaged so that the directions cannot be read unless you open the plastic and unfold it
Direction #1: Remove plastic.
Drink bottle label
Do not peel label off.
Woolite carpet cleaner
Safe for carpets, too!
Box of Frosted Cheerio's
The logo, "Tastes so good this box never closes," is located just underneath another announcement: "To close: place tab here."
Sterno
Do not use near fire or flame.
Container of salt
Warning: High in sodium
Hose Nozzle
Do not spray into electrical outlet.

Future: Making gadgets invisible

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra) — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:34:00 +0530

It is often people imagine a future where our human skills will be lost. We'll be life-forms around plethora of machines helping and regulating us. But while we are advancing towards future, it can be seen slightly. Here's two mind-blowing projects, i was honored to know about.

Sixth Sense
How nice a thought, draw a watch on the wrist and there's time. Make gesture of taking a picture and it it's taken. Like those Harry Potter movies, there is actually in real life videos in the newspaper. Latest status on boarding passes. Solving what should i buy problem. Dialing on the hand. Using paper as a digital medium, you can drag a graph or some paragraph from the paper to the digitally connected paper. Collaboration of this intimate technology is amazing.
It also looks the real version of Hollywood Movie, Minority Report.

It is a different branch that contemplates the idea that, Will we really be using gadgets viz. music player, computers, cell phone. Perhaps, the future would make them invisible.

That feature that explores a tag-cloud in the torso of the person you're meeting, it's a great idea. But since they are using tags. With it and others, for the sake of privacy, the projector should emit such light that can only be seen by me. Anyways, it's personal thought.

Project Natal
In competition with Nintendo Wii, Microsoft came up with this extraordinary solution. I don't think i need to say more, just watch the video.

What do you think we will land up in the future? Definitely, it'll be unexpectedly cool.

Twitter undergoing Vast Redesign

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra) — Fri, 9 Apr 2010 09:12:00 +0530

It has become more clear that Twitter is going for an huge redesign project. Twitter designer Doug Bowman, made the progress available on web.
Though the Sneak Peek does not reveals much but certainly more stats. The background is apparently inspiration from the fruit stripe gum. While the awesome, new design is in the public eye. It isn't finalized. The activity of twitter designers was recently seen as twitter adopted the new welcome page.

Twitter recently proposed a new home page design that is out now.

Code Editors gone Online

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra) — Sun, 4 Apr 2010 17:43:00 +0530

The list of Online code editors, available from any computer around the globe.

Bespin

Mozilla labs experiment, it has lots of nifty features and can be embedded in any web project just by adding two files in the header. In order to use, sign-up is required.

Kodingen

No wonder a brilliant online code editor, and best among the list. Though registration is not required for use, sign-in activates advanced features like collaborative work etc. Offers all the features that a code editor should. Supports most programming language.

Online PHP Editor

PHPAnywhere is one editor that can replace anyone's PHP programming needs smoothly. It comes with a built-in FTP editor that lets edit files directly on the server. It also has excellent syntax highlighting and project management features.

9ne

As the website says 9ne (pronounced "nine")... based on Emacs. Supports CSS and Javascript syntax highlighting. Not best results when working on windows or linux, it insists Mac.

TIDE

Being a code editor, it is also very resourceful. Tide is a JavaScript based online code editor and explains well. TIDE is actualy Tiny IDE.

Dark Copy

It is a web-based clone of WriteRoom. They mainly focus on simplicity, and giving a distraction-free environment to user. The Full-screen feature gives a kind dark background providing a clean space to write code and rivet.

[How to] Save Protected Photos

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra) — Sat, 3 Apr 2010 21:47:00 +0530

It started with a bet. While stumbling through that image website, i noticed a really cool picture(skateboarding Fly!), it was protected, and if you right click and click save as. They'll will in turn save a GIF file named spaceball of 1x1 pixel resolution. The same applies for every protected picture.
I wanted to save it on my disk but it won't allow me to save it directly. Here's how to save them.

It would be intrusive if i gave link to any protected picture. So when you find one.
As a line of text is selected, select the image(Drag the mouse from free space aside picture to the picture)

Right click the selection. In Firefox, click view selection source, a windows DOM source of selection would appear.

Go through the small piece of code, for convenience select Wrap long lines from the view menu. Identify the long and distinguished image URL and paste it on address bar

Now you can save it.

It's normal stuff, most of you would have eventually known it. Alas, thanks for the visit.

Freewares for deleting empty folder

noreply@blogger.com (Pushpendra Paliwal) — Sun, 7 Feb 2010 09:08:00 +0530

How many times has something as simple as deleting an empty folder wasted your time? Windows file management has progressed much since the old days of MS-DOS, but it’s still far from perfect. Many times when you manage your computer hard disk drives or move files and folders, you end up having empty folders. This situation also happens when you uninstall programs. Although these empty folders do not take up any space, it still is annoying if you are searching for some file. In this post I decide to give some alternatives to make your task easy.

There are two Freeware tools (which i like most) for deleting empty folders

1. RED (Remove Empty Directory)

Type: Freeware & open source

About: RED searches and deletes empty directories recursively below a given start folder and shows the result in a well arranged tree. Further you can create some custom rules for keeping and deleting folders. Empty files in directories can also be ignored. Just try RED to see the other features - no registry keys or system files will be touched.

Requirement: Essentially require Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.

Size: 653 Kb

Download link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/rem-empty-dir/files/rem-empty-dir/

2. Empty Folder Nuker

Type: Freeware

About: No complexities, not required to run set up and no additional requirements

Size: 340KB

Download link: http://simonwai.com/bin/EmptyFolderNuker.exe

Though i had to be including freewares only, but since world is turning Open(Source), here is one(thanks to one of the commenters)

3. Vanity Remover

Type: Open Source

About: "This application removes all sub-folders (and the folder itself) where vanity is found. In other words: Recursivly checks for and deletes empty folders. Simple as that."

Size: 32.5 KB

Download Link: http://vanityremover.codeplex.com/

Disclaimer

Some applications may require temporary directories that are empty. It could be possible that some applications stop working if such a temporary folder gets deleted. So it would be better if you try not to delete any folder unknown to you and those from your system Drive(generally temporary file folders are situated here)

iWrote

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:26:00 +0530

Hey People,
I just noticed that most of the visitors here, don't look to be aware of the Feature that actually you can chat on the Website without any registeration, there at the lower right corner of the Page, you can see a small box. There it's firefly, i already had given it's review here it's good.
A thing, i would not be blogging for a year now, School things i'm in 10th class(Grade) and that's a important class so just a hibernation. In the meantime, Enjoy the Posts, i'll obviously not be away from the internet, i'll keep reading comments and replying. I am still a Newbie in this world so will be even learn some stuffs, and please if you can recommend even any obvious stuff, Share! mail me, my inbox shailendra.paliwal@rocketmail.com needs it. I have so much problems on the site and thus can't solve them, let me know that you can solve them. I had so much thoughts to write about in the post, i just ran out of them Super speedy thoughts.
And Please Comment, you don't know, it feels so good to see "someone" saw the work.
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Digsby: Multi-Platform IM Client

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra) — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:02:00 +0530

You have been using those Chat clients, everyone uses them, Gtalk, Y!Messenger, Live Messenger, AIM, ICQ there are too many more. Now, it's so difficult with RAM space, for some even HD, or just handling 4 IM clients. and then different extensions for Twitter, or visit Facebook every time, or just to check mails.

Today, I’m going to put in my own plug for Digsby, an application I use every day, by showing you six things Digsby can do that will save you time, energy, and RAM space.

Digsby has come to replace my use of several other applications – no longer do I need a Gmail window, Twitter window, Facebook window, and IM window open all at the same time. Instead, I just use Digsby!

Now this is awesomest of the coolest IM clients there, previously there was Pidgin, but it does not had that, Graphics, UI. And Digsby, now it looks really great, even sooo simple! and works for Windows, Linux and even Mac OSX.

And a thing more: For people having bandwidth like me! as 4-20 KBPS the speed, so it gets really hard to manage it, it loads a lot, updates then logging in to so much services, so one might have Problem with LOW bandwidth, For those Pidgin would be recommended. Even a slight more speed from the given, would run the Software, Fabulously.

Here are five features that make Digsby the only application you’ll want to always be open, besides just being the best multi-IM client out there:

Email Checking

Got a POP or IMAP email? Of course you do. That means you can use your email with Digsby. Setting up Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo with Digsby is incredibly easy; others are a little harder, but still entirely possible.
Once you set it up (under “Digsby” and then “My Accounts”), Digsby lets you check, read, and respond to your email without ever leaving your IM window. Mark emails as read, write them, or just head over to your Inbox to check them out- all using Digsby. I used to always have a Gmail window open to make sure I never missed critical email – now all I need is Digsby.

Twitter

After spending forever looking for the perfect Twitter client, I’ll tell you this- it’s not Digsby. But what Digsby is perfect for is reading Tweets. It’s a great way to stay on top of your replies and direct messages, as well as write tweets quickly. Digsby’s not the solution for power Twitter users, but it’s a great way to stay on top of all the Tweeting you do on a daily basis.

Facebookery

Just for the record, I love the new Facebook layout. But that’s beside the point. Using Digsby, you can do just about anything you would on Facebook, from right within the Digsby interface. You’ll be alerted when you have a new message, wall post, alert or notification. One click in Digsby, and you can see all the things waiting for you on Facebook. One more, and you’re sent right to a Facebook window within the Digsby application. Update your status easily, answer your wall posts, and stay on top of your social networking, all from within Digsby.
One of Digsby’s newest features is the addition of Facebook Chat. Now, you can chat with all your online Facebook friends from within Digsby. I love the idea of Facebook Chat (being able to connect in real-time with your friends on Facebook, which I have more of than IM buddies), more than I like the execution on the Facebook site itself. Digsby does a great job of using your friends list, and integrating it into its fantastic IM client to make chatting with your Facebook friends better and easier.

Socializing

Digsby’s options for social networking go far beyond Facebook. You can use Digsby to check your LinkedIn or MySpace account, and receive notifications, send messages, and interact with your network right from within Digsby. Each account gets an icon in your Windows system tray, and one click brings up a pop-up window letting you manage your social networks just as you would in a browser.
Got a new message? Digsby tells you about it, then lets you respond to it all without leaving the Digsby interface. It’s simple to use, not a memory hog, and an awesome way to manage multiple online identities from one place.

The Little Things

My favorite thing about Digsby is that its team pays such close attention to the little things: the small features that you never noticed before, but can’t live without once you start using Digsby.
My personal favorite is the pop-up notification box: when you get an IM, a pop-up comes up. Not exactly revolutionary, but what IS awesome is that you can respond from within the popup. No switching back and forth between IM windows and other applications – just type in the popup, and it goes away once it has been idle for a few seconds.
There are tons of features like this within Digsby: mass-changing of your status and away message, easy hiding and showing of the application, and endless customization of how it looks. I spent a while getting my Digsby to look exactly how I want it to, and big props to Digsby for giving you so many options.

What’s your IM client of choice? Why?

Firefox 3.5 Top 10 Features

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:37:00 +0530

Firefox strikes again, this time with a new version 3.5, a bit fresh logo and some more cool features. No need to tell how new is HTML5, firefox this time has got the experimental support with HTML5.

Get the Firefox Release Candidate 2

It has some greatest features to what firefox is known for, let's see some of them.
1. Videos with HTML5

If you're viewing a page coded in HTML 5 with video in an open-source format like Ogg Vorbis or Theora, Firefox 3.5 treats that video like it's just part of the page, not a separate little island of Flash content. That means instant commenting on videos. It could also mean offering links from inside a tutorial video that offer more details on what's being shown—soldering tips on an iPhone repair guide would be keen. In general, it's just a promising step forward into a seamless melding of video and text on a future web.

2. Javascript Engine, TraceMonkey

As Mozzila Said, some Months ago, about in-development Javascript Engine, Tracemonkey is "20 to 30 Times faster" than the old Spidermonkey in Firefox. Even if TraceMonkey is ultimately outpaced by Chrome and/or Safari, its innovations push the whole browser market forward and give us all a bit less load time to complain about.

3. Geo Location
If you type post office into a maps site, you probably don't want the headquarters of the U.S. Post Office, or post office listings from two towns over. Integrated geo-location, powered by Google's Wi-Fi triangulation and simple IP address information, looks to know roughly where you are and help you when you're looking for something local. You can disable it if you'd like, but, realistically, signing on from any IP address reveals a bit about where you are anyways. If a good number of sites pick it up, geo-location could bring to the browser what a lot of people are already enjoying on their phone.

4. Improved Session Restore

Firefox even features a crash recovery tool, for smarter Session Restore, It'ld allow user to select the tabs to load get back.

5. Tab Tearing

Tear tab feature in Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 from Percy Cabello on Vimeo.

The feature enables user to drag a tab to make a new browser window to it.

6. Undo closed Windows
The most precious, previously firefox got the ability to restore previously closed tabs, this time a much necessary feature restoring of Closed windows is also there. The feature should also restore the text you typed into it. It can be found in History menu, named Recently Closed Tabs.

7. Forget this Site

There are addons for Private Browsing, but would be nice to wipe a particular site off the History. Firefox 3.5 offers a convenient "Forget This Site" feature.
It doesn't cover subdomains, and your network traffic and Flash memory would still hold some details, but it's a handy tweak however you cut it.

8. Smart Keyword suggestion

Firefox 3's AwesomeBar/address bar offers a speedy list of suggestions to complete whatever you're typing. That's great, but that list comes from your page history, bookmarks, and tags, and can be matched by URL or name, leaving some results almost uselessly cluttered. This gets fixed with special character filters in the next Firefox. Restrict a search by typing "life *" for just your bookmarks with the words "life" in them, or just your tagged "lh" items with "lh +". Anything that really makes getting backs getting back to importantly web destinations quickly is a welcome upgrade.

9. Private Browsing Mode
Now, it should be there, like for Gift Buying, Sensitive research, for bill pay, accessng your friend's browser for a quick look to your emails. Likewise, anonymizing some of your searches and cookie collection on your own machine isn't a bad idea, and a private mode can do that too. You don't need it all the time, but you might be glad it's available.

10. Colors getting Real

Different cameras, monitors, and capture devices grab and set colors in different ways. On the web, most colors look the same, though, because they're filtered and optimized for quick viewing in every browser. Firefox 3.5 introduces dynamic color profiles for each picture, meaning that whatever the graphic designer or photographer saw when they were doing their work, you'll see it on their web page.

I would sincerly like to hear your words, please Comment.

Remove Haloscan from Blogger Template

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra) — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:56:00 +0530

This is kind of awful to use Haloscan, my main problem was that i could never find that on which post the comment is posted. I chose to switch back to Blogger Comment system, which is not the best but atleast better than Haloscan, after reverting back to blogger comments, you can even add any else comment system, like Intense Debate.

It is a very easy job to remove haloscan, i tried too many websites, their words to do, but most of them make it very complex.
Go to your blogger's Layout Tab, then "Edit HTML"
Please first read the whole Procedure before starting

Make a Backup: First, and the most important, download your template first in case you do a mess accidently.
Identify Haloscan codes: Using firefox Ctrl+F shortcut find word Haloscan, for ease it'll be better if you highlight them. There are three parts. NOTE: Please Tick "Expand Widget Templates" before doing this step.
Remove The Code: Now remove the Haloscan Code, try to just delete the real code, let the 'comments'(HTML Comments) remain untouch, like this.Remember Don't delete all parts, let the Part 3 remain as it is. You can even skip this step, so you can replace the code below

Add Blogger Code
In between Haloscan (part 1) add this code:

<a class='comment-link' expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'><b:if cond='data:post.numComments == 1'>1 <data:top.commentLabel/><b:else/><data:post.numComments/> <data:top.commentLabelPlural/> </b:if></a>
In between Haloscan (Part 2)

<h4> <b:if cond='data:post.numComments == 1'> 1 <data:commentLabel/>: <b:else/> <data:post.numComments/> <data:commentLabelPlural/>: </b:if> </h4> <b:if cond='data:post.commentPagingRequired'> <a expr:class='data:post.oldLinkClass' expr:href='data:post.oldestLinkUrl'><data:post.oldestLinkText/></a> <a expr:class='data:post.oldLinkClass' expr:href='data:post.olderLinkUrl'><data:post.olderLinkText/></a> <data:post.commentRangeText/> <a expr:class='data:post.newLinkClass' expr:href='data:post.newerLinkUrl'><data:post.newerLinkText/></a> <a expr:class='data:post.newLinkClass' expr:href='data:post.newestLinkUrl'><data:post.newestLinkText/></a> </b:if> <dl id='comments-block'> <b:loop values='data:post.comments' var='comment'> <dt expr:class='"comment-author " + data:comment.authorClass' expr:id='data:comment.anchorName'> <b:if cond='data:comment.favicon'> <img expr:src='data:comment.favicon' height='16px' style='margin-bottom:-2px;' width='16px'/> </b:if> <a expr:name='data:comment.anchorName'/> <b:if cond='data:comment.authorUrl'> <a expr:href='data:comment.authorUrl' rel='nofollow'><data:comment.author/></a> <b:else/> <data:comment.author/> </b:if> <data:commentPostedByMsg/> </dt> <dd class='comment-body'> <b:if cond='data:comment.isDeleted'> <data:comment.body/> <b:else/> <data:comment.body/> </b:if> </dd> <dd class='comment-footer'> <a expr:href='data:comment.url' title='comment permalink'> <data:comment.timestamp/> </a> <b:include data='comment' name='commentDeleteIcon'/> </dd> </b:loop> </dl> <b:if cond='data:post.commentPagingRequired'> <a expr:class='data:post.oldLinkClass' expr:href='data:post.oldestLinkUrl'> <data:post.oldestLinkText/> </a> <a expr:class='data:post.oldLinkClass' expr:href='data:post.olderLinkUrl'> <data:post.olderLinkText/> </a> <data:post.commentRangeText/> <a expr:class='data:post.newLinkClass' expr:href='data:post.newerLinkUrl'> <data:post.newerLinkText/> </a> <a expr:class='data:post.newLinkClass' expr:href='data:post.newestLinkUrl'> <data:post.newestLinkText/> </a> </b:if> <b:if cond='data:post.embedCommentForm'> <b:if cond='data:post.allowNewComments'> <b:include data='post' name='comment-form'/> <b:else/> <data:post.noNewCommentsText/> </b:if> <b:else/> <b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'> <a expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'><data:postCommentMsg/></a> </b:if> </b:if>
Add your feed link and name it as you like

As shown above Replace the highlighted link with you Blog's feed link, if you don't know what it is? Just add http://yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default if you're on Blogspot

After this your blog should be free from Haloscan! Cheers!
Things to remember:

If finding from the Firefox Ctrl+F, The Part 1 comes 1st then will come Part 3rd and last comes Part 2nd, Don't get distracted by the irregular placement.
The Part 1 is the Code for the Comment link which appear on the homepage or at the end of every post.
Part 2 is the code for the Main comment system, it appear below every post where Commenter writes comment, choose account and post them.
Part 3 is for the Comment feed, It's doesn't make any difference but it's the link at the bottom of every page, showing the link to subscribe to your blog's feed.

You're Done? or any problem, I'ld like to hear your words, Please comment.

UPDATE: Many of you are sad, since you lost your comments. By the way, exporting comments is possible apparently it has got a very little chance that you'll succeed and it's hard to do. Download the python script from here, it will get all of your comments on the hard drive. Now you have to make scripts that would post comments on your blog. The problem is that while you are exporting your comments (and you have lots & lots of them, more than 100) haloscan CAN and WILL block you identifying you as a bot flooding their servers with many requests. Hence, it is not possible. Also, if you are very very desperate to get comments back, try this.

Google search feature Guide

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra) — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:54:00 +0530

Google, A leading search engine that we use every day to search content on internet. but google.com is not only for searching web pages from web. Google.com has many amazing features to help you to find exactly what you're looking for. but Some of the most useful features that you can in your daily life. like check the who link with you or mathematical calculation . Here I tell you more then 11 Great Hidden Secrete Google Can Do That You Should Know and use in your daily life .

1.Package Tracking : You can track packages by typing the tracking number for your UPS, Fedex or USPS package directly into the search box. We’ll return results that include quick links to easily track the status of your shipment.
2. phonebook : With Google search you can Search the phone number of your clients , friends and even college friend .The phone book operator can be used to find both the official and residential phone numbers of people. Three operators can be used for the phonebook search: rphonebook, bphonebook and phonebook, which will search residential listings, business listings, or both, respectively.
A query such as:

phonebook:ABC def ny

would list both business and residential listings for abc def in New York. but if you concerned about your privacy and your address information being in Google's databases for the world to see . so, don’t worry Google give you right to delete your address information from Google's databases , just Fill out the form at and your information will be removed, usually within 48 hours.

2. Earthquakes : To see information about recent earthquakes in a specific area type "earthquake" followed by the city and state or U.S. zip code. For recent earthquake activity around the world simply type "earthquake" in the search box. Google tell the latest news and report about recent earthquakes activity around the world .

3. Spell Checker : Google’s spell checking software automatically checks whether your query uses the most common spelling of a given word. If it thinks you’re likely to generate better results with an alternative spelling, it will ask “Did you mean: (more common spelling)?”. Click the suggested spelling to launch a Google search for that term.

4. Local Search : If you’re looking for a store, restaurant, or other local business you can search for the category of business and the location and we’ll return results right on the page, along with a map, reviews, and contact information.

5. Real Estate and Housing : To see home listings in a given area type "housing", "home", or "real estate" and the name of a city or a U.S. zip code into the Google search box and hit the Enter key or click the Google Search button. Clicking the "Go" button on the results page will display details of individual homes that Google has indexed.

6. Area Code : To see the geographical location for any U.S. telephone area code, just type the three-digit area code into the Google search box and hit the Enter key or click the Google Search button.

7. The OR operator : Google's default behavior is to consider all the words in a search. If you want to specifically allow either one of several words, you can use the OR operator. For example, [ San Francisco Giants 2004 OR 2005 ] will give you results about either one of these years, whereas [ San Francisco Giants 2004 2005 ] (without the OR) will show pages that include both years on the same page. The symbol | can be substituted for OR. (The AND operator, by the way, is the default, so it is not needed.)

8. Use the Plus (+) and Minus (-) Signs. : The plus sign just before a search term means "This MUST be found in the search". Conversely, if you find a lot of search results that include a specific product, word, phrase, or item that you do not want to see, you can put a minus sign before that word or phrase, and those results will be excluded from your search. You can even exclude domains or top-level domains from your search - see the site: command below.

9. Use the Asterisk (*) As a WildCard search term. : you can insert an asterisk in your search phrase and it will act as a wild card matching any word in that place in the phrase. Not only that, but you can insert more than one asterisk in place of more than one word in your search phrase, up to the limit of ten search words - and the wild card markers are not counted toward this ten word limit.

10. filetype : This is my favorite operator. Using this, you can search for a specific file type in the internet. Suppose you want to search for a document for linux and you only desire PDF file types. The query you should enter into Google is as follows:

filetype:pdf linux

If you want to search for mp3 music to download, type filetype:mp3 and the artist name followed by that. This search will fetch you any such mp3 file in the pages which Google has crawled.

Actually there are many many many more awesome google search features besides these features but they were the least known.
Some useful links:
Google search basics: More search help
Learn how using some characters can improve the quality of the Search results

Google Search Feature
Some ways to lure out the most common things from google

Google Advanced search
Don't want to remember these tips? Okay! Google has a solution, Google Advanced search.

Improve your Google Search

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra) — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:45:00 +0530

The Basic search help article covers all the most common issues, but sometimes you need a little bit more power. This document will highlight the more advanced features of Google Web Search. Have in mind though that even very advanced searchers, such as the members of the search group at Google, use these features less than 5% of the time. Basic simple search is often enough. As always, we use square brackets [ ] to denote queries, so [ to be or not to be ] is an example of a query; [ to be ] or [ not to be ] are two examples of queries.

Phrase search ("")
By putting double quotes around a set of words, you are telling Google to consider the exact words in that exact order without any change. Google already uses the order and the fact that the words are together as a very strong signal and will stray from it only for a good reason, so quotes are usually unnecessary. By insisting on phrase search you might be missing good results accidentally. For example, a search for [ "Alexander Bell" ] (with quotes) will miss the pages that refer to Alexander G. Bell.
Search within a specific website (site:)
Google allows you to specify that your search results must come from a given website. For example, the query [ iraq site:nytimes.com ] will return pages about Iraq but only from nytimes.com. The simpler queries [ iraq nytimes.com ] or [ iraq New York Times ] will usually be just as good, though they might return results from other sites that mention the New York Times. You can also specify a whole class of sites, for example [ iraq site:.gov ] will return results only from a .gov domain and [ iraq site:.iq ] will return results only from Iraqi sites.
Terms you want to exclude (-)
Attaching a minus sign immediately before a word indicates that you do not want pages that contain this word to appear in your results. The minus sign should appear immediately before the word and should be preceded with a space. For example, in the query [ anti-virus software ], the minus sign is used as a hyphen and will not be interpreted as an exclusion symbol; whereas the query [ anti-virus -software ] will search for the words 'anti-virus' but exclude references to software. You can exclude as many words as you want by using the - sign in front of all of them, for example [ jaguar -cars -football -os ]. The - sign can be used to exclude more than just words. For example, place a hyphen before the 'site:' operator (without a space) to exclude a specific site from your search results.
Fill in the blanks (*)
The *, or wildcard, is a little-known feature that can be very powerful. If you include * within a query, it tells Google to try to treat the star as a placeholder for any unknown term(s) and then find the best matches. For example, the search [ Google * ] will give you results about many of Google's products (go to next page and next page -- we have many products). The query [ Obama voted * on the * bill ] will give you stories about different votes on different bills. Note that the * operator works only on whole words, not parts of words.
Search exactly as is (+)
Google employs synonyms automatically, so that it finds pages that mention, for example, childcare for the query [ child care ] (with a space), or California history for the query [ ca history ]. But sometimes Google helps out a little too much and gives you a synonym when you don't really want it. By attaching a + immediately before a word (remember, don't add a space after the +), you are telling Google to match that word precisely as you typed it. Putting double quotes around the word will do the same thing.
The OR operator
Google's default behavior is to consider all the words in a search. If you want to specifically allow either one of several words, you can use the OR operator (note that you have to type 'OR' in ALL CAPS). For example, [ San Francisco Giants 2004 OR 2005 ] will give you results about either one of these years, whereas [ San Francisco Giants 2004 2005 ] (without the OR) will show pages that include both years on the same page. The symbol | can be substituted for OR. (The AND operator, by the way, is the default, so it is not needed.)

Exceptions

Search is rarely absolute. Search engines use a variety of techniques to imitate how people think and to approximate their behavior. As a result, most rules have exceptions. For example, the query [ for better or for worse ] will not be interpreted by Google as an OR query, but as a phrase that matches a (very popular) comic strip. Google will show calculator results for the query [ 34 * 87 ] rather than use the 'Fill in the blanks' operator. Both cases follow the obvious intent of the query. Here is a list of exceptions to some of the rules and guidelines that were mentioned in this and the Basic Search Help article:

Exceptions to 'Every word matters'

Words that are commonly used, like 'the,' 'a,' and 'for,' are usually ignored (these are called stop words). But there are even exceptions to this exception. The search [ the who ] likely refers to the band; the query [ who ] probably refers to the World Health Organization -- Google will not ignore the word 'the' in the first query.
Synonyms might replace some words in your original query. (Adding + before a word disables synonyms.)
A particular word might not appear on a page in your results if there is sufficient other evidence that the page is relevant. The evidence might come from language analysis that Google has done or many other sources. For example, the query [ overhead view of the bellagio pool ] will give you nice overhead pictures from pages that do not include the word 'overhead.'

Punctuation that is not ignored

Punctuation in popular terms that have particular meanings, like [ C++ ] or [ C# ] (both are names of programming languages), are not ignored.
The dollar sign ($) is used to indicate prices. [ nikon 400 ] and [ nikon $400 ] will give different results.
The hyphen - is sometimes used as a signal that the two words around it are very strongly connected. (Unless there is no space after the - and a space before it, in which case it is a negative sign.)
The underscore symbol _ is not ignored when it connects two words, e.g. [ quick_sort ].

Sperse.com Meta Search Engine

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra) — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:23:00 +0530

People usually tend to stick to the search engines they like, but there are often times when your search engine doesn’t give you required results and you turn to others. A meta search engine is one that searches multiple engines like Google, Yahoo e.t.c. and shows you aggregated results. One such smart and accurate meta search engine is Sperse.

Sperse searches multiple engines and remove duplicate results in order to provide the user with more accurate and relevant results. In addition to the traditional web pages, Sperse also allows you to search images, news, music, video and much more. One of the coolest features that Sperse offers is the ability to preview the webpage directly from the search results.

Main features of Sperse:

Smart meta search engine that combines results from Google, Yahoo! and Ask.
Filters out duplicate results for better accuracy and relevancy.
Search the web, images, videos, music and even local listings.
A real-time thumbnail preview accompanies each search result.
Narrow your search by location using zip codes.
Type a question and get an answer using Yahoo! answers.

Check out Sperse @ www.sperse.com

Multi process Support in Firefox

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra) — Sun, 10 May 2009 16:46:00 +0530

Firefox, the world's second most used browser, by the looks of it will soon receive an update that will add multi-process support.

By multi-process support we re talking about the similar feature seen in Google Chrome and IE8 that runs multiple, separate processes for each tab, which allows the browser to function without issues even when one tab has stopped responding or has crashed. This method of splitting processes increases stability and offers performance improvements as well.

As for why the speculation regarding multiprocessor support arose, that is because of a recent project that the Mozilla has initiated. The project is being co-coordinated by Benjamin Smedberg, who is a long time supporter of Mozilla. While little is known abut the project itself, we have a roadmap which suggests that we should be seeing a simple implementation of this in action by July this year.

That being the first phase, there will be three other phases post this, which will deal with the interactions between process types. The third phase will comprehensively test APIs for extensibility, accessibility, and performance. The fourth phase will deal with the final implementation and sandboxing.

Looking at how things are moving now, it would be at least an year from now when we would see a final release version of Firefox with multi process support.

Dual Boot Windows 7 with vista

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra) — Fri, 8 May 2009 19:06:00 +0530

If you're dying to try out Windows 7 but aren't ready to give up your installation of XP or Vista, let's take a look at how to dual boot Windows 7 with XP or Vista.

Step 0: Download the Windows 7 Beta and Burn It to a DVD

Assuming you've already downloaded a fresh copy of Windows 7, you'll need to burn it to a DVD in order to do a fresh installation. To handle this task, grab a copy of the most popular CD and DVD burning tool ImgBurn, burn the ISO to a DVD, and move right along to step 1.

Step 1: Partition Your Hard Drive

Before you go installing Windows 7, the first thing you need to do is create a new partition on your hard drive to hold the new installation of Windows. Partitioning your hard drive will vary depending on whether you're running XP or Vista—namely because Vista has a partition tool baked in, XP does not.

Partition Your Hard Drive in XP

To partition your hard drive in Windows XP, you'll need to download some sort of third-party partitioning software. There are a lot of options available, but I prefer to stick with the previously mentioned GParted live CD, a free, open source boot CD that can handle all kinds of partitioning duties.
To use it, just download the GParted Live CD, burn it to a CD, then reboot your computer (booting from the disc). You'll boot right into the partitioning tool. HowtoForge's previous guide to modifying partitions with GParted is a great place to start, but it's a fairly basic procedure:

Resize your current OS drive to free up enough space for a Windows 7 partition (the minimum system requirements ask for 16GB).
Create a new partition from the newly freed space.
Apply your changes.

Partition Your Hard Drive in Vista

The folks at Redmond were kind enough to include a disk partitioning tool in Vista if you know where to look. So go to Control Panel -> System and Maintainence (skip this one if you're in Classic view) -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management. Once you launch the Computer Management tool, click on Disk Management under the Storage heading in the sidebar. It's partitioning time.

Luckily we've already gone down this road before in step-by-step detail, complete with pictures, so check out our previous guide to creating a new partition in Vista. In a nutshell, you'll need to shrink your current OS partition to free up at least 16GB of disk space (per the Windows 7 minimum system requirements), then create a "New Simple Volume" from the free space.

Step 2: Install Windows 7

Now that you've done all the heavy lifting, it's time for the easy part: Installing Windows 7 on your new partition. So insert your Windows 7 disc and reboot your computer (you'll need to have enabled booting from your DVD drive in your system BIOS, but most PCs will have this enabled by default).

Once the DVD boots up it's a simple matter of following along with the fairly simple installation wizard. When you're choosing installation type, be sure to select Custom (advanced) and choose the partition you set up above. (Be careful here. Choosing the wrong partition could mean wiping your other Windows installation altogether, so make sure you pick the new partition you just created.)
After you select the partition, go grab yourself a drink and let the installer do its work. Windows will run through some installation bits, restart a few times in the process. Eventually you'll be prompted to set up your account, enter your license key, and set up Windows. Keep your eyes open for fun new Windows 7 features, like your new homegroup (and the accompanying password). When it's finished, you're up and rolling with your new Windows 7 installation.

Congratulations! You should now have a new entry for Windows 7 on your boot screen when you first start up your computer. You've now got all the tools necessary to dual-boot Windows 7 and XP or Vista—or even to triple-boot Windows 7, Vista, and XP.

This isn't the only way to set up a multi-boot system by any means, but it's how I pulled it off. If you've got a method of your own that you prefer, let's hear it in the comments.