The Hidden Guide

Become A Gmail Ninja Now

admin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:16:51 +0000

Google really made the best of Gmail, its by far the best online email management system out there right now, But a lot of people still use it like a regular email service, lots of people don’t even know about it’s power-features So Google launched a new Tips area of the site today to serve as a reference point for how to become what it calls a “Gmail Ninja.”

Basically there are four area for the tips “White belt,” “Green belt,” “Black belt,” and “Gmail master,” based on your level of expertise. While the White and Green belt stuff is mostly for neophytes, there are some good tips in there that you may have forgotten along the way while using Gmail. The later belts are the ones that contain some of the good stuff though, particularly some of the big keyboard and search shortcuts, that I always forget to use.

Google has also made a PDF version of the list for you to print out and “pin to your wall,” which would very useful, like cheat sheet.

White Belt

Use stars to indicate a note is special.
Reply by chat.
Organize your email with labels.
Clean up your inbox using “Move to” — it works just like folders.
Search your mail instead of sorting.
Archive messages to tidy up your inbox without deleting anything.
Import your email and contacts from your old address.
Spice up your inbox with a theme.
Join forces to rid the world of spam.

Green Belt

Talk face-to-face with video chat.
Use Tasks as a handy to-do list.
Use filters to control the flow of incoming mail.
Highlight important emails using filters and colored labels.
Send email from your phone.
Preview attachments without downloading them.
Avoid email gaffes with Undo Send.
Tell your friends what you’re up to with a status message.
Never forget an attachment again.
Tell everyone when you’ll be back with vacation responder.
Nothing says “I’m excited” like a bouncing happy face emoticon.

Black Belt

Get through your mail faster with keyboard shortcuts.
Use search operators to find the exact message you’re looking for.
Filter your email with personalized email addresses.
See which messages were sent right to you.
Make Gmail go where the internet doesn’t.
Quickly add multiple attachments to an email.
Add “(EOM)” to the subject of one-liner messages.
Set up canned responses instead of typing the same reply over and over again.
Click less and watch more using YouTube, Flickr, Picasa, and Yelp previews.
Use quick links to get anywhere in Gmail with one click.
Send and archive in one step.

Gmail Master

Bring Google Calendar and Docs to Gmail.
Send SMS text messages right from Gmail.
Forget to sign out of a public computer? Sign out remotely.
Personalize your RSS feeds in web clips.
Access your mail via https.
Search for superstars by name.
Use Gmail on your own domain.

Windows 7 Prices Announced! Pre-Order Your Copy of Windows 7 From Amazon

admin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:00:21 +0000

It’s here you can pre-order your copy of windows 7,Microsoft announced a special 50% discount on Windows 7 pre-order for its customers in US, Canada and Japan. Windows 7 Home Premium (Upgrade) for $49.99 and Windows 7 Professional (upgrade) for $99.99.

Now users from the United States, Canada and Japan have been able to pre-order Windows 7. Users from Great Britain, France and Germany will have to wait until mid July before they can start pre-ordering the operating system. Interested users from the three countries can currently purchase Windows 7 Home Premium for $49.99 instead of $119.99 and Windows 7 Professional for $99.99 instead of $199.99.

Also you will noticed that Microsoft decided not offer a pre-ordering discount for Windows 7 Ultimate which is something that caused some concern with users who would like to purchase this edition of the upcoming operating system.

Following is the price list of upgrade packages of Windows 7

Windows 7 Home Premium (Upgrade): $119.99
Windows 7 Professional (Upgrade): $199.99
Windows 7 Ultimate (Upgrade): $219.99

And the retail prices for full packaged of Windows 7

Windows 7 Home Premium (Full): $199.99
Windows 7 Professional (Full): $299.99
Windows 7 Ultimate (Full): $319.99

This offer ends July 5th in Japan and on July 11th in US and Canada. Customers in UK, France and Germany, will be able to pre-order starting July 15th through August 14th

Windows 7 will be launched in 14 languages on October 22nd and in 21 languages on October 31st. This is the first time ever Microsoft will be releasing an OS with all the supported languages within a week from its release.

How To Convert dmg To iso with dmg2iso

Mida — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:10:00 +0000

Windows have its own executable (.exe) and also Mac Operatign system have the .dmg files which act as executable for installing applications, but on mac .dmg files are treated like a real disk. They can be created with Disk Copy, burnt to CD or mounted as a normal volume. However if you want to open .dmg file on windows than its not possible with help of any tool.

But there is small tool called dmg2iso which converts (z-lib compressed) .dmg images to iso images on windows. Once you have converted dmg files to iso you can mount or burn it on CD & DVD.

Download dmg2iso for windows and convert dmg to iso file.

How To Resize Firefox With Bookmarklet

admin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:21:45 +0000

Why you even want to resize Firefox window? if you have big screen you probably want to do this, or you if you web developer and you want to see how the site look like on different screen resolutions

Creating a Resizing Bookmarklet

Step 1

Right click on Bookmark Toolbar -> New Bookmark to launch the Bookmark dialog box.

Step 2

Insert the following into the box:

Name: Give a descriptive name if you are planning to add several bookmarklet.
Location: Place javascript:window.resizeTo(1024,768) into the textfield. change 1024 & 768 to create bookmarklet of another size.

For example I’ve created several bookmarklet and placed them in new folder,with different screen resolutions.

Clicking the bookmark will instantly resize your window. Also make sure JavaScript is enabled in the Firefox preferences.

Watch DivX Video on Your Mobile Phone with DivX Mobile Player

Mida — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:07:00 +0000

Many people prefer to watch movie encoded in DivX format , because for its high quality which is equivalent of DVD quality. In order to play DivX video on your Computer we have officially DivX player but now you can also enjoy DivX video on your mobile phone.

You can download DivX Mobile Player 0.92 beta Even if your phone isn’t officially DivX Certified, you may still be able to watch DivX videos on your phone by installing the DivX Mobile Player.

You don’t need to install DivX Mobile Player if you phone is officially DivX certified.

Supported operating systems

Windows Mobile 5.0 or later including:

1. Windows Mobile 5.0 (Smartphone & PocketPC)

2. Windows Mobile 6 (Standard, Classic & Professional)

Symbian OS 9.0 or later including:

1. Symbian OS S60 3rd Edition

2. Symbian OS UIQ 3.0

In order to download DivX mobile player you have to log in to your DivX Labs account and subscribe to the DivX Mobile Community and then download the DivX Mobile Player.

Download DivX Mobile Player 0.92 for Mobile Phone and enjoy DivX videos on your Mobile Phone.

How to send Fax to USA & Canada For Free

Mida — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:52:00 +0000

Fax Zero allow you to send fax to usa & Canada for free, you can send fax directly from your computer to any fax

Fax zero allows you to send .DOC or .PDF file to fax. You can send maximum 2 Faxes per day as a free user. There will be ads on the Cover page of your document and document pages are limited by 3 pages/ document.

Also FaxZero offers a premium fax service for $1.99, allowing more pages, No ads and priority delivery.

Visit: Fax Zero

How to copy Text from images Using JOCR

Mida — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:35:00 +0000

Have you ever wanted to copy text from images ? Then what can you do, just start typing the whole Text part by referring to the image. But now you can ignore the typing, you can copy the Text part from directly image by using JOCR. Using this small but powerful utility JOCR you can copy text from any images. Its based on Optical Character Recognition Technology.

JOCR is a freeware application that enables you to capture the image on the screen and convert the captured image to text. It is useful to revive the protected files whose text can not be copied. JOCR enables you to copy text from any files and images on the screen such as protected Web pages, PDF files, error messages. The program offers several capture modes.

JOCR requires Microsoft Office 2003 or higher version.

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How To Legally Download Music Online For Free

Mida — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:50:24 +0000

Yes you can really download music online for free legally, you don;t have to spend a lot of money to download music or illegally, here is top places to legally download music online for free.

1.Amazon

I bet you didn’t even know about that, well many people don’t, but you can actually download music from amazon for free,amazon has a ton of free songs and albums available in their store. there are more than 840 songs available for free as album-samplers featuring all kinds of acts from Paul Simon to indie groups.

2.last.fm

You may already know this last.fm is perhaps best known for its intelligent internet streaming radio service, but it also offers up a nice selection of free MP3 downloads and many of them from prominent artists.

3.The Live Music Archive

The Live Music Archive or etree.org claims to be a community committed to providing high quality live recordings Featuring a long list of commercial and indie artists performing live including Hot Buttered Rum and Smashing Pumpkins, this is a great place to complement your existing music collection.

4.SXSW

SXSW is a music festival held annually in Austin, Texas, which has been taking the world by storm. If you didn’t make it to the festival, you’ll be glad to know that all the music from 2005 till 2009 is available for free download

5.Free Music Archive

The Free Music Archive is a movement inspired by open source ideas ,here you’ll find free and perfectly legal music created by mostly indie artists.

6-ccMixter

ccMixter is a place where you’ll find tracks that have been remixed by users, some with outstanding results. If you’re getting tired of what you’re hearing now, a visit to this site might refresh your senses.

7.Muzzie

Muzzie is a site which offers free Japanese music downloads. If you don’t understand Japanese, you may not understand the reviews but the MP3 title is in English are you’ll know where to click.

8.Epitonic

Epitonic another featuring fresh indie music that has been handpicked by audiophiles. Members can also listen to college radio stations, read reviews and view artists profile in this well managed site.

9.OverClocked ReMix

OverClocked ReMix is a huge library of video game music. Although there are music from games such as Pokémon, and Final Fantasy, its true draw lies in the remixes done by fans also you’ll find thousands of dedicated work done for the love of gaming.

10.LegalTorrents

LegalTorrents is an “online digital media community” that hosts thousands of music files, downloadable using a torrent p2p software. Of course, being a media community, there are also pictures, videos, audio books and other free goodies available for grabs.

11.ArtistServer.com

ArtistServer.com is a huge collection of over 10,000 songs, complete with artist information and social review capabilities. Head on here if you’re in need of fresh music to complement your music collection.

12.Garageband

Garageband is a social review network for independent bands vying for exposure. You can vote for your favorite indie bands and help take them to stardom.

13.Wikipedia Sound/list

On Wikipedia you will find a huge list of classical music downloads which are in the public domain, or shared by the commons law. Get songs from all your favorite composers from Bach to Beethoven here.

14.PureVolume

PureVolume is a premier social music site with streaming as well as downloadable songs from emerging artists.

15.mp3.com

mp3.com has offered countless artists the chance to strut their stuff before the world. It still offers up one of the largest collections of free legal music to date.

16.thesixtyone

thesixtyone and yet another indie music, with digg style voting system where you can play a active role in making unknown people stars on the indie scene.

17.Amie Street

Amie Street, a community that determines the price of music. Every song starts cheap or free and increases in price up to 98 cents as more and more people purchase it. This ensures that you get music at a sensible price. If you find cheap songs or albums, that means they’re new to the site and/or undiscovered; conversely, when you pay top price for an album, you know that a lot of people think it’s really good.

18.Archive.org

Archive.org, the Internet’s super-archive has with them a very interesting collection of really old records, now preserved digitally. Here you can download from this collection of thousands of 78rpm records and cylinder recordings released in the early 20th century.

19.Jamendo

Jamendo offers the largest catalog of music under Creative Commons licenses. For artists, it’s an easy and efficient way to publish, share and promote their music, and also to make money, through ad revenue sharing and commercial partnerships.

20.iLike

iLike allows you to share playlists and recommendations with friends riding on social networks such as Facebook and Bebo, as well as download some of the songs on the site for free.

21.Tuneshout

Tuneshout Discover independent artists you can’t find anywhere else, meet other listeners who share the same musical tastes as you, and participate in the popularity of TuneShout artists by writing reviews.

22.Dubroom

Dubroom carves out a very unique niche for itself specializing in reggae music, offering loads of free downloadable MP3s as well.

23.Mp3 4U

Mp3 4U is a website which scours the net to find the best free MP3s on the web and puts them up here.

24.Fatwreck

Fatwreck offers up selected tracks for downloads so you can sample all the punk rock you need. With more than 50 bands under their wings.

25.Classic Cat

Classic Cat is a directory with links to over 5000 free to download classical performances on the internet, sorted by composer and work. everything from piano to classical guitar songs.

26.Electrobel

Electrobel bringing together artists and fans, organizing music events, coordinating mutual help and promoting the independent music culture across Europe specializing in every thinkable electronic music genre.

27.Spinner.com

Spinner.com is a an AOL project which has a section dedicated to release one carefully screened MP3 every day.

28.FreeKidsMusic

FreeKidsMusic is a repository of free children’s music where you can download some amazing tracks for kids

29.FeelsLikeChristmas

FeelsLikeChristmas get Christmas songs, just amazing place When the holidays come.

Download Outpost Firewall Free 2009 Edition

Mida — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:30:09 +0000

I’ve been using outpost since 3 years now, and i love it, its one of my favorite firewall, although it’s kind hard to use at the beginning ant it require lots of configuration, but once you get used to it, it will give you the power to control everything.

Few months ago Agnitum has released free edition of outpost firewall 2009, If you are looking for good Firewall application then here is your chance to grab Outpost Firewall 2009 edition for Free. This is the first time Agnitum has introduced Outpost Firewall Free successor of the acclaimed Outpost Firewall Pro.

you can find comparison in here which show difference between free and pro edition. But the question is do you really need firewall? firewall keep you computer safe from hackers, as well as worms, spyware, malicious software ,but also firewall is must required application. There are so many good freeware antivirus software are available but very rare freeware firewall application can be found.

Features of Outpost Firewall 2009 Free Edition

1. Bidirectional firewall

2. Protection that can’t be shut down by hackers

3. Application behavior monitoring

4. Intuitive, resource-friendly operation

5. Activity monitoring capabilities

6. 64 Bit Compatibility

System requirements

Outpost Firewall Free is compatible with Windows Vista SP1, XP SP3, as well as all previous 32- and 64-bit versions from Windows 2000 onwards. The product will work smoothly on a 450 MHz or faster CPU (x86/x64/multi-core) with 256Mb RAM

Download Outpost Firewall Free here!

How To Recover Lost Wireless Network Keys (WEP/WPA) From Your Computer

Mida — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:49:00 +0000

Did you ever forget your wireless network password? and you want to recover the keys of your wireless network, there is very simple way to recover the lost keys first you need to download this tool WirelessKeyView , then extract the zip and run the program.

This free portable tool for Windows that allows you to instantly recover your lost wireless network keys.

After you run the program, it will list all the networks and their keys in a simple list view.

For every network WirelessKeyView shows the Key Type(WEP or WPA), Key(Hex), Key(Ascii), Adapter Name, and Adapter Guid.

How To Watch Thousands Of Free Video Lectures Online For Free

Mida — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:03:46 +0000

You never went to college?, no problem on the internet you can learn almost about anything you want. there are thousands of free video lectures, that you can watch online for free.

Academic Earth is on of these great website where you will find thousands of video lectures from top scholars and universities from around the world. Academic Earth is an organization founded to provide everybody around the world with world class education.

You can either search for videos or browse the videos by subjects, universities, or instructors. You will also find top rated videos on the homepage along with featured courses and lectures.

When you choose the course you want you can view and study the whole course with complete lectures, exam papers and solutions.

You can also see the complete details of the video in the right sidebar such as, source, grade, length, etc.

Youtube Edu, another great site launched by youtube just few months ago where you can watch thousand of free lectures from universities like ASU,stanforduniversity, MIT, and more.

You can also search for specific lectures you want or choose the university you want and then you will get list of available courses to choose from it.

How To Split Your Firefox Screen To Make Space For More Content

admin — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:37:17 +0000

If you have large screen ie. larger than 19” you must have noticed that many websites used fixed width (800px) and there are two spaces on both left and right side, you can use this space to increase your productivity, so you can resize Firefox window and open another window or may be even another application ,but what if you want to split Firefox window so you can browse two website at the same time, that would be amazing, You can use Split Browser to do this its a free add-on for Firefox that splits your screen to make space for more content

What Split Browser actually do is splits the content area and not the whole browser, so you can open new tab in the same window so both site can be viewed in the same time.

Amazing isn’t it?, To split the current tab in new window, just right-click the tab, select ‘Split Tab To’ and then select the area where you would like to split.

With Split Browser you can split the screen both vertically and horizontally, you can select how you want to view it by going to Split tab.

Split Browser has various useful options which help in customizing the add-on to your personal need. You can configure the General settings, Appearance, Combination options, and Menu.

How To Find Manuals And Installation Instructions For Customer Products

Mida — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:31:00 +0000

OwnerIQ is another great site to find Thousands Of Manuals And Installation Instructions for many products, we all know that every electronic product come with manuals but what if you lost it?, here come OwnerIQ to help you find thousands of manuals and installation instructions, pretty amazing.

There is also a community section where you can request help. You can also create an inventory of manuals and installation guides, since they can come useful later.

To find product manuals you can begin by either browsing by category or searching directly using the search bar. You will find popular manufacturers on the main page along with some popular product types. Below the right sidebar you will find user activity. Registration is not required, but if you want to save your manuals or ask for help then registration is needed.

How To Extract Colors From Any Website Or Blog

Mida — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:36:00 +0000

Have you ever wanted to extract color from website? and u have no idea how to, Like Your Colors is a free online tool that extracts the colors of any website or blog. It actually reads the website’s stylesheet(style.css file) to find the colors and the end results are surprisingly accurate.

But if you need faster solution you can install colorzilla a firefox add-on that allow you to hover with your mouse on any colors in the page and i’ll give the the color code you want

No back to Like Your Colors Just enter the URL of any website or blog at the bottom and click Get colors. and in few seconds you will get the colors.

Google’s Docs Now Supports Office 2007 File Formats .docx and .xlsx.

Mida — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:26:33 +0000

Google’s online Docs service announced support for Microsoft’s Office 2007 file formats, .docx and .xlsx.

the list of file formats google docs accept and you can upload any file with any of these formats (included .doc, .odt, xls, .ods, .ppt, .csv, .html, .txt, .rtf, and others).You can import a .docx or .xlsx file, simply click the “Upload” button in your Docs List menu, select your file, and then google docs will upload and convert your document for use in Google Docs. This is a another great benefit of Google Docs., this is nice way to Upload .xlsx, .docx Files to Google Docs & Convert to .Doc.