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Twenty20 world cup 2010 Match fixtures

2010-04-15T22:52:00.000-07:00

Here is a complete match fixtures of Icc T20 world cup which is going to be held on 30th of April.The ICC World Twenty20 2010 will be contested by 12 teams which have been 'seeded' and divided into four groups are A, B, C and D.

Group A - Pakistan (A1), Bangladesh (A2) and Australia
Group B - Sri Lanka (B1), New Zealand (B2) and Zimbabwe
Group C - South Africa (C1), India (C2) and Afghanistan
Group D - West Indies (D1), England (D2) and Ireland

Apr-2010
Fri 30
17:00 GMT, 13:00 local 1st Match, Group B - Sri Lanka v New Zealand
Providence Stadium, Guyana

Fri 30
21:00 GMT, 17:00 local 2nd Match, Group D - West Indies v Ireland
Providence Stadium, Guyana
May-2010
Sat 01
13:30 GMT, 09:30 local 3rd Match, Group C - India v Afghanistan
Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia

Sat 01
17:30 GMT, 13:30 local 4th Match, Group A - Pakistan v Bangladesh
Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia

Sun 02
13:30 GMT, 09:30 local 5th Match, Group C - India v South Africa
Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia

Sun 02
17:30 GMT, 13:30 local 6th Match, Group A - Pakistan v Australia
Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia

Mon 03
13:30 GMT, 09:30 local 7th Match, Group B - Zimbabwe v Sri Lanka
Providence Stadium, Guyana

Mon 03
17:30 GMT, 13:30 local 8th Match, Group D - West Indies v England
Providence Stadium, Guyana

Tue 04
13:30 GMT, 09:30 local 9th Match, Group B - New Zealand v Zimbabwe
Providence Stadium, Guyana

Tue 04
17:30 GMT, 13:30 local 10th Match, Group D - England v Ireland
Providence Stadium, Guyana

Wed 05
13:30 GMT, 09:30 local 11th Match, Group A - Australia v Bangladesh
Kensington Oval, Barbados

Wed 05
17:30 GMT, 13:30 local 11th Match, Group C - South Africa v Afghanistan
Kensington Oval, Barbados

Thu 06
13:30 GMT, 09:30 local 13th Match - A1 v D2
Kensington Oval, Barbados

Thu 06
17:30 GMT, 13:30 local 14th Match - C1 v B2
Kensington Oval, Barbados

Fri 07
13:30 GMT, 09:30 local 15th Match - A2 v C2
Kensington Oval, Barbados

Fri 07
17:30 GMT, 13:30 local 16th Match - B1 v D1
Kensington Oval, Barbados

Sat 08
13:30 GMT, 09:30 local 17th Match - C1 v D2
Kensington Oval, Barbados

Sat 08
17:30 GMT, 13:30 local 18th Match - A1 v B2
Kensington Oval, Barbados

Sun 09
13:30 GMT, 09:30 local 19th Match - C2 v D1
Kensington Oval, Barbados

Sun 09
17:30 GMT, 13:30 local 20th Match - B1 v A2
Kensington Oval, Barbados

Mon 10
13:30 GMT, 09:30 local 21st Match - B2 v D2
Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia

Mon 10
17:30 GMT, 13:30 local 22nd Match - A1 v C1
Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia

Tue 11
17:00 GMT, 13:00 local 23rd Match - B1 v C2
Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia

Tue 11
21:00 GMT, 17:00 local 24th Match - D1 v A2
Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia

Thu 13
15:30 GMT, 11:30 local 1st Semi-Final - TBC v TBC
Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia

Fri 14
15:30 GMT, 11:30 local 2nd Semi-Final - TBC v TBC
Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia

Sun 16
15:30 GMT, 11:30 local The Final - TBC v TBC
Kensington Oval, Barbados

Episodic joins Google

2010-04-03T07:19:00.000-07:00

Search Engine giant buys the online video platform Episodic .Noam Lovinsky, CEO and Co-founder of Episodic,has announced that his company has been acquired by Google.Episodic which has been a platform for broadcasting live and on-demand video to the Web or Web-enabled devices.The Episodic Inc team will work as google employees to bring a great experience to the Web,Mobile phone and Iptv Devices.

In their blog post episodic has announced its customer that there will be no interruption in their service.Earlier Google has acquired Picknik an online photo editing site.

Check your AA batteries

2010-02-22T04:35:00.000-08:00

Here is a simple way to check your AA batteries whetherit is functioning or not.All your need is a TV remoteand a camera.Just insert your battery in the TV remote and then you switch on your camera.Here to demonstrate I have used a mobile camera.In order to check press any button in the TV remote and show the remote in front ofthe camera a light will glow if it does then your battery has some charge in it else it is of no use.

Creating Invisible account in XP

2010-02-22T03:18:00.000-08:00

1. Open Start menu then click on RUN.
2. Type in the Run Window Regedit
3. Windows Registry editor will open then navigate from the left

panel :HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList
4. Create a new DWORD, setting its name to the name of the account you wish to hide.
5. Then set its value to 0 to hide it.
You are done....

How To Login In it after you have hidden the account :

1. At Welcome screen, and you want to login to this account.
2. Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete twice and it will display the log-on promt.
3. Type the username, and the password and hit enter.

Play prank with your Friends

2010-02-22T03:17:00.000-08:00

1>write in notepad
Cycle a message in your friend's computer(code is given below)
Type :
@ECHO off
:Begin
msg * Hi
msg * Are you having fun?
msg * I am!
msg * Lets have fun together!

msg * Because you have been o-w-n-e-d
GOTO BEGIN
Save it as "Anything.BAT" and send it.

2>write in notepad
Convey your friend a lil' message and shut down his/ her computer(code is given below)
Type :
@echo off
msg * I don't like you
shutdown -c "Error! You are too stupid!" -s
Save it as "Anything.BAT" in All Files and send it.

3>write in notepad
Toggle your friend's Caps Lock button simultaneously(code is given below)
Type :
Set wshShell =wscript.CreateObje ct("WScript.Shell")
do
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys "{CAPSLOCK}"
loop
Save it as "Anything.VBS" and send it.

4>write in notepad
Continually pop out your friend's CD Drive. If he / she has more than one, it pops out all of them!(code is given below)
Type :
Set oWMP = CreateObject("WMPlayer.OCX. 7")
Set colCDROMs = oWMP.cdromCollectio n
do
if colCDROMs.Count >= 1 then
For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count - 1
colCDROMs.Item( i).Eject
Next
For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count - 1
colCDROMs.Item( i).Eject
Next
End If
wscript.sleep 5000
loop
Save it as "Anything.VBS" and send it.

5>write in notepad
Frustrate your friend by making this VBScript hit Enter simultaneously(code is given below)
Type :
Set wshShell = wscript.CreateObjec t("WScript.Shell")
do
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys "~(enter)"
loop
Save it as "Anything.VBS" and send it.

Change MS DOS background color

2010-02-22T03:12:00.000-08:00

To change colour of command prompt
open cmd by navigating to start-->run
and then type cmd and then ok
type"color" and any number example:(color 45)
every number shows diffrent colours

Photo As Drive Background in XP

2010-02-22T03:10:00.000-08:00

open notepad and write

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
ICONAREA_IMAGE=image.jpg
ICONAREA_TEXT=255

and save it as desktop.ini ,Change the "image.jpg" to the name of the picture you have..Thats it You are done.Your image will be set as a background in your drive

Creating your own Run commands

2010-02-21T03:45:00.000-08:00

Here is an easy way to open your files or folders or an application by making your own Run commands
Follow these steps to create your own Run commands
1. Goto Start > Run (or press Win+R).
2. Enter %windir% and press enter to open the Windows Directory.

3. Goto File > New > Shortcut.
4. Go through the wizard to create a shortcut to the desired program, the name you give to the shortcut is what you type in the Run dialog to start the program.

voila!!!

Pen Drive as RAM

2010-02-20T08:54:00.000-08:00

Is your PC is too slow.Here is a trick to use your pen drive as your RAM which can boost your PC's performance to some extend.Just follow these steps

>> The first step You need to do is insert a pen drive in the USB port (atleast 1GB)
>> After the pen drive is detected by your OS.Right click on My computer-->Properties

>>System Properties windows appears in that click the advanced tab -->performance settings-->Advanced-->change.
>>select the pen drive and click on the custom size radio button ,check the amount of space available
>>Enter the value in the initial and max column..

Just restart your PC and you are done.Your pc will be fast than before.The reason behind this is that you have used your pendrive space as a virtual memory.

Notepad as a Diary

2010-02-20T08:52:00.000-08:00

Hi folks Here is a cool trick to use your notepad as Your Personal Diary

1.open a blank notepad
2.Write .LOG in the first line, press Enter.

3.Save the file with a name and then close it.
4. Reopen the file

You can see date and time in the text file.
You are done.you can start writing your notes and save it and close it.everytime when you open that text file the current date and time gets recorded ..

USE NOTEPAD SAVE PAPER

Remove Thumbs.db files

2010-02-13T02:31:00.000-08:00

Thumbs.db is a cache of the thumbnail pictures in a directory. It speeds up the showing of thumbnails when you are viewing a folder in Thumbnail view.The drawback of this is that if u have more nos of this files it occupies disk space in order to remove it

> open "WINDOWS EXPLORER".

>go to "TOOLS".

>open "FOLDER OPTIONS".

>go to "VIEW".

>see 1st section "FILES & FOLDERS".

>click on the "DO NOT CACHE THUMBNAILS".
you are done .After doing this the thumbs.db files will never be created

Enable your task manager

2010-02-13T02:20:00.000-08:00

Click Start --> Run
Type gpedit.msc and then click OK

In the Group Policy settings window,
>select User Configuration
>Select Administrative Templates
>Select System

>Select Ctrl+Alt+Delete options
>Select Remove Task Manager
>Double-click the Remove Task Manager option
>Disable that option

you are done

Hide folder with command prompt

2010-02-13T02:19:00.000-08:00

Here is the trick to hide your files with command prompt .
just navigate to Start-->Run-->cmd and then press ok
after cd.. type ur path with "attrib" command

For example to hide a folder in c drive
to hide

c:\> attrib +s +h [folder name]

to show

c:\> attrib -s -h [folder name]

you are done.

Chat with friends through MS DOS

2010-02-13T02:17:00.000-08:00

step1:First find your friends ip address

step2:open Notepad and Paste this code and save it as messenger.bat

@echo off
:A
Cls
echo MESSENGER
set /p n=User:

set /p m=Message:
net send %n% %m%
Pause
Goto A

Step3:Run the messenger.bat file

Step4:Type your friends ip address in the user field
and then start chatting with your friend

Display Your name in MS DOS

2010-02-13T02:15:00.000-08:00

start-->Run-->cmd then ok
type
title yourname

and then press enter
you are done

check your name will be displayed in the title bar of the command window

Display your name in taskbar

2010-02-11T22:00:00.000-08:00

Try this trick to add up ur name in place of AM and PM beside time

Just Navigate to -> Start -> Control Pannel -> Regional and Language Option -> Click on Customize -> Go to TIME Tab -> Change AM symbol and PM symbol from AM and PM to ur name -> Apply -> Ok ...

Remove the Shortcut Arrows in Icons

2010-02-11T21:45:00.000-08:00

Here's how you can remove those shortcut arrows from your desktop icons in Windows XP.
Start regedit. ( Note: To Start Regedit Click Start --> Run and type regedit)
Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/lnkfile

Delete the IsShortcut registry value.
You may need to restart Windows XP.

Facts About Nokia

2010-02-07T02:36:00.001-08:00

1) The ringtone "Nokia tune" is actually based on a 19th century guitar work named "Gran Vals" by Spanish musician Francisco Tárrega. The Nokia Tune was originally named "Grande Valse" on Nokia phones but was changed to "Nokia Tune" around 1998 when it became so well known that people referred to it as the "Nokia Tune."

2) The world's first commercial GSM call was made in 1991 in Helsinki over a Nokia-supplied network, by Prime Minister of Finland Harri Holkeri, using a Nokia phone.

3) Nokia is currently the world's largest digital camera manufacturer, as the sales of its camera-equipped mobile phones have exceeded those of any conventional camera manufacturer.

4) The "Special" tone available to users of Nokia phones when receiving SMS (text messages) is actually Morse code for "SMS". Similarly, the "Ascending" SMS tone is Morse code for "Connecting People," Nokia's slogan. The "Standard" SMS tone is Morse code for "M" (Message).

5) The Nokia corporate font (typeface) is the AgfaMonotype Nokia Sans font, originally designed by Eric Spiekermann. Its mobile phone User's Guides Nokia mostly used the Agfa Rotis Sans font.

6) In Asia, the digit 4 never appears in any Nokia handset model number, because 4 is considered unlucky in many parts of Southeast/East Asia.

7) Nokia was listed as the 20th most admirable company worldwide in Fortune's list of 2006 (1st in network communications, 4th non-US company).

8) Unlike other modern day handsets, Nokia phones do not automatically start the call timer when the call is connected, but start it when the call is initiated. (Except for Series 60 based handsets like the Nokia 6600)

9) Nokia is sometimes called aikon (Nokia backwards) by non-Nokia mobile phone users and by mobile software developers, because "aikon" is used in various SDK software packages, including Nokia's own Symbian S60 SDK.

10) The name of the town of Nokia originated from the river which flowed through the town. The river itself, Nokianvirta, was named after the old Finnish word originally meaning sable, later pine marten.

Lock folders without use of software

2010-02-06T21:59:00.001-08:00

Procedure :
1. Make a folder on the desktop and name it as "folder"
2. Now, open notepad and write ren folder folder.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} and now (Notepad Menu) File>save as.
3. In the 'save as' name it as lock.bat and click save ! (Save it on Desktop)

4. Now, again open notepad again and write ren folder.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} folder and now (Notepad Menu) File>save as.
5. In the 'save as' name it as key.bat and click save ! (Save it on Desktop)
6. Now, double click lock.bat to lock the folder and now if you open your folder, control panel will open up !
7. Now, double click key.bat to open the folder and now if you open your folder, you can access your data inside the folder again !
8. Lock your folder and hide the key.bat somewhere else on your hard disk !
9. Whenever you want to open your folder just paste the key.bat on desktop and open your folder using it !

Change your processors name

2010-02-06T21:47:00.000-08:00

Go To Start and type RUN
TYPE REGEDIT
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>HARDWARE>DISCRIPTION>SYSTEM>CENTRAL

Processor
On Right Hand side just right click on Processor name and string and then Click Ok

Now Modify and write what you want to write ..

Harmless simple Virus code

2010-02-06T21:31:00.000-08:00

Open notepad and type this:

lol=msgbox ("Warning a virus has been detected on your PC. Press YES to format your hard disk now or press NO to format your hard disk after system reboot",20,"Warning")

Then save it as Virus.VBS

and go to the folder that contains it and open it if a window pops out saying a virus has been detected it's working. Press yes or no to close the window and put it in the startup folder of the victim's account.On startup the window should appear.Note: This does not harm your computer as it does not contain virus.

Create Own Command Prompt

2010-02-05T08:29:00.000-08:00

writing your own command prompt is pretty cool because you can mess around with some stuff and it is useful to hack stuff at your school.

open up notepad and put in this code:

Code:
@ECHO OFF
BREAK OFF
Title ______________
color ___
cls

:cmd
set /P CMD=Command:

%CMD%
ECHO.

goto cmd
The areas of _________ are stuff you put in by yourself

after title put what you want to appear on the bar on the top of your cmd
after color put the color you want the text and background to be. this is done by code so dont try writing in words. The code 0c gives you red writing with a black background. the background color goes first followed by txt color. here is a table of the colors

0 = Black
1 = Blue
2 = Green
3 = Aqua
4 = Red
5 = Purple
6 = Yellow
7 = White
8 = Gray
9 = Light Blue
A = Light Green
B = Light Aqua
C = Light Red
D = Light Purple
E = Light Yellow
F = Bright White

for example 6f would give you a yellow backgound with bright white writing
now all you need to do is save it. make sure you save it with the file extension .bat or it wont work