Tech Stroke

Easter Egg in uTorrent – A Hidden Tetris Game

Vivek — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:35:45 +0000

Did you knew that your dear Torrent client uTorrent had a Easter egg in form of a Tetris game, for those who do not even know what an Easter egg is, here is the definition from Wikipedia. A virtual Easter egg is an intentional hidden message, in-joke or feature in an object such as a movie, book, CD, DVD, computer program, web page or video game. … en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg_(media) Now, to activate this hidden game just go to help->about uTorrent and when the about window [...]

Do not Put Laptop on Lap or say Goodbye to your Chances of being a Dad

Vivek — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:24:41 +0000

Scientists have time and again warned about effect of excessive devotion to gadgets and PC’s on our health, now Geeks you have another danger “ Please avoid keeping the Laptop on your Laps” “Laptops are becoming increasingly common among young men wired into the latest technology,” said Dr. Suzanne Kavic, director of the division of reproductive endocrinology at Loyola University Health System. “However, the heat generated from laptops can impact sperm production and development, making it difficult to conceive down the road.” Now after reading this news, I [...]

Remove Unwanted Items from MSConfig Startup items List

Vivek — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:00:24 +0000

Easily get rid of all the unwanted items from your MSCONFIG startup items menu that stay there even after you have deselected them , using this small utility software which automatically cleans up startup entries from msconfig ( Microsft configuration Utility ) . For those of you , who do not know what MSconfig is then in essence it is a utility to manage some important windows configuration and settings like startup items and services and boot process. You can launch it by going to Start-> Run and [...]

A Free Sony Ericsson PC Suite Alternative with Many Features and small Size

Vivek — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:32:52 +0000

I am absolutely a fan of this software, It is a freeware and it works with compatible with all Phones from SonyEricsson except P800i, P900i and P910i . This software came to my rescue way back when I lost my PC suite CD and did not wanted to download a 25 MB or more of PC suite , so I searched the Web and found My Phone Explorer and believe me I am totally stunned by the number of features it provides and in my honest opinion [...]

Get a .com domain for just 8.81$ via NameCheap Coupon code

Vivek — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:16:55 +0000

Get yourself a .com/.net/.org for just $8.81 using this namecheap.com coupon code FIREWORKS So, hope I saved you some bucks on your new domain buy, also namecheap accepts paypal so need for credit card . Related items Need Help Finding a Good Domain Name ?

Skipping Boring Navigation Messages to Talk Directly to Customer Care on a IVR

Vivek — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:48:02 +0000

Whenever we dial some customer care or enquiry number we are greeted with long and boring series of navigational commands “Press1 to do this, 2 to do that and more. .. “ , now if you are a regular caller that hurts but with some clever use of DTMF tones signals knowledge we can trick the IVRs machine and can quickly navigate to wherever we wish inside a menu . Suppose You have to dial 131 for train enquiry which asks you further to press 2,3,1 to [...]

Best Free Video Converter for any Format – Format Factory

Vivek — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:07:49 +0000

Hello friends, I searched the Internet for a decent video converter that converted 3gp video from my mobile to wmv, mpg or any other common and easily playable format. I tried several of them but the winner was Format Factory as it converted / transcoded my video easily with no anomaly in playback speed, quality etc. I would recommend Format Factory to you people as it helped me a lot and I researched the web and found out that it is very trusted and reliable converter of [...]

Quickly Change Your Default Browser via System tray

Vivek — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:33:16 +0000

Here is this small software utility to quickly change the current default browser on Windows systems easily via the system tray. Some people will ask what’s the need to change my default browser, well to answer you it’s a straight simple tool to do various operations that you might require, like you wish to quickly launch separate browser for Work and Entertainment purposes, also web pages that you might have saved directly open in default browser , now if you need firefox extensions or some Activex that runs [...]

Installing Software from tar.gz Tarball Compressed Archive in Linux

Vivek — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:55:28 +0000

This is for newbies in Linux who are trying to learn Linux and in the meantime require to install several apps most of them are available in the repository ( Ubuntu,Suse,Fedora etc .) , installing from repository is very easy but if you download a tarball or a compressed archive of the software package source code then you can easily install it using these commands at your terminal ( command interpreter ) Assuming , You have downloaded a file named mytarball.gz(replace with whatever is your file name) you are in [...]

Most Common Slangs on internet Chat and Email

Vivek — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:51:40 +0000

One often hears some slang words like woot and ASL on internet chats and Emails and wonders what do these words actually mean, these are basically slangs used on the WWW and here is a brief list of some common and popular slang words used on the Internet, for a comprehensive and daily updated list of such terms you can always check out UrbanDictionary.com. 0-9 1337 (written in ASCII) – From the word Leet, derived from the word elite 2 – too, or to [...]