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SKODA Fabia In India -- 1st super hatchback -- Auto Expo Update

2008-01-10T20:15:00.000-08:00

After yesterday HOT HOT HOT day, today we are expecting a rocking day at Auto Expo Delhi. Today SKODA India is launching its super hatchback car know as SKODA FABIA in India. SKODA has already launched this premium car in other parts of the world, so Indian buyers are eagerly waiting for this car. Everyone here in India is more than happy with the quality and performance of all the SKODA cars so far, so let’s hope best for the one more premium car from SKODA. Welcome to India! FABIA.

Cheapest Car in the World:TATA NANO: only 2500$

2008-01-10T03:29:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone, Although this is a off topic post on this blog, but i cant keep myself in control about not to posting this news. Today here in Auto EXPO Delhi (India) Tata motors launched worlds cheapest ever car named as "TATA NENO" When this project started 3 years back, everyone in world says "THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE TO DO". Now Tata motors have created a history by launching the car. Here are quick specifications: Engine: 625 CC (4 gear manual transmission) Five Doors Sitting capacity : 4 People Power: 30 BHP Speed: 90KMS (maximum) I am also able to get some the pics of the cars for everyone of you. here they are

Nice book on CCNA Routing and Switching

2007-12-20T01:14:00.000-08:00

I just come across this book from Dreamtech Press, while searching for a book on this topic. I must say, a very focused book with good coverage of the topic. I liked this book for its compactness. Reading each chapter is worth its while as it does not state the obvious and gets to the point immediately. The real beauty of this book emerges in the writing style, which is absolutely not boring and ability to explain tough concepts with ease. The CD-ROM included with the book contains a Personalized Test Engine with lots of practice questions as well as graphic analysis of your test results. The quality of test engine really impressed me as it gives the reader a chance to test the skills along with the learning process. A very good package for the students CCNA Routing and Switching exam, I am going to recommend this book to few of my friends as well. To read more about the book, click on the following link Click Here

Windows XP Tip: Preventing New Processes From Stealing The Focus (Spanish)

2007-04-07T08:59:00.000-07:00

New processes often steal focus away from the window you are workin in, as they pop up. It can be irritating if you r doing something like drafting a letter or editing an image that more... requires uninterrupted concentration. This behavior can be checked, watch the video.
Windows XP Tip: Preventing New Processes From Stealing The Focus - The funniest videos clips are here

Windows XP Tweak Reveled: Speed Up System Performance (Spanish)

2007-03-21T11:13:00.000-07:00

If your machine has 512MB or more of RAM, you can boost its performance by setting it up to keep the core system in RAM and deal less with (slower) hard disk.Watch the video for instructions. close Windows XP Tweak Reveled: Speed Up System Performance (Spanish) - The best video clips are here

Windows XP Tip: Hiding A XP Computer From Network Neighborhood (Spanish Video)

2007-03-20T02:30:00.000-07:00

If you want to share files from a XP computer, yet want to prevent it from showing up in the Network Neighborhood just follow the steps in the video: Windows XP Tip: Hiding A XP Computer From Network Neighborhood - Funny videos are here

Windows XP Professional Trick: Renaming Administrator Account (Spanish Video)

2007-03-11T11:27:00.000-07:00

Watch the video for instructions on how to rename Administrator account on a Windows XP Professional system.
Windows XP Professional Trick: Renaming Administrator Account (S - Click here for the funniest movie of the week

Windows XP Tip: Speed Up Start Menu Items (Spanish)

2007-03-11T11:00:00.001-07:00

Just follow the steps below and you will see XP start up menu load it self quicker. Trick is to remove resource hungry and quite dispensable shadows from menu items.
Windows XP Tip: Speed Up Start Menu Items (Spanish) - The funniest videos clips are here

Windows XP Tip: Password Recovery Disk (Spanish Video)

2007-03-09T12:43:00.000-08:00

Password Recovery Floppy disk bails you out of situations where you have forgotten the password to your XP account and cant log in. more... Here is how you create it. Now If you forget your password in future, turn your system on normally. On the login screen, click on the green arrow next to the password box. You will be prompted to insert the password recovery disk you just created with which you can set a new password to override the old password you've forgotten. close
Windows XP Tip: Password Recovery Disk (Spanish Video) - Click here for another funny movie.

Windows Vista: How To Install IIS 7 on Windows Vista

2007-03-05T02:21:00.001-08:00

All of us who are using using ASP.NET for web applications development, the very first thing we need is IIS on windows Vista, as continued from windows XP, Vista does not install IIS by default, so just follow the steps given below to install IIS 7 on Windows Vista.

Note: It is possible that your version of Vista may not shipped with IIS. In my case i am using Vista Ultimate edition.

First, go to Control Panel, and then click on Programs. Here you will notice a link with caption “Turn Windows features on or off”. Click on this link.
Select the items you want to install (same as Add/Remove windows components in XP).
Click OK. It will begin the installation procedure as shown in Figure below:
Once finished, you can test the installation from your browser by typing http://localhost.

Happy Development !!

Professional C# 2005 (Wrox)

2007-03-04T11:09:00.001-08:00

I liked this book for its compactness. Reading each chapter is worth its while as it does not state the obvious and gets to the point immediately. The title says "Professional" and the book lives up to it. I think this version didn't miss any thing, I've been reading this book since its edition on C# .NET 2003, most of the authors have been retained, which means that this one is a well researched and worked upon piece of literature.Its shows. I give it five stars. Professional C# 2005 (Wrox) Other Good Books

Visual Basic 2005 Black Book - An evolved book,

2007-03-04T11:08:00.001-08:00

An evolved book. It seem to have summed up all there is to VB 2005 in a single compilation. I have been reading VB Black Books since there very fist releases. Where earlier version were more or less skimmed msdns, that very convinently stayed away form anything 'serious'; this one dares to present in its own way topics like Security, Assemblies, Remoting etc. It interests you to see such topics been discussed in such an easy to follow manner. The book, however maintains its character, i.e. this one too, like its predecessors, is skimmed msdn, but examples are better with some of them really interesting. Like that stop watch program which intrigues you with its interesting interface. Easy to follow, modular, compact - characteristics of Black Book series. Despite the fact that some of the code samples didnt work, I give it five stars. Visual Basic 2005 Black Book Other Good Books

Blogger Hack: Hide Blogger navbar in simple steps

2007-03-04T07:06:00.000-08:00

This is a very simple hack to hide blogger bar from you blog, just follow thesteps given below:

Login to your blogger account
Select Layout from Dasboard as shown in Figure 1 Below

Select Edit HTML as shown in Figure 2 below:

Click on expand widgets to check it as shown in Figure 3

Now insert the following code just after the body section in textarea as shown in Figure 4

#navbar {

height:0px;

visibility:hidden;

display:none

Save the changes by clicking the SAVE TEMPLATE button as shown in Figure 5

Its done. View your blog in browser and you will find that blogger bar is no more visible as shown in Figure 6

Happy Blogging

Must have Free Applications for your PC: Part IV

2007-03-04T04:34:00.001-08:00

RSS Readers:

Ablion - http://www.fileheaven.com/Abilon/download/14059.htm
BlogExpress - http://www.usablelabs.com/productBlogExpress.html
Feedreader - http://www.feedreader.com/
FireANT - http://www.antisnottv.net/
GreatNews - http://www.curiostudio.com/
RssBandit - http://www.rssbandit.org/
RSSOwl - http://www.rssowl.org/
RssReader - http://www.rssreader.com/
RSS Xpress - http://rssxpress.free.fr/en/?page=&idNews=
SharpReader - http://www.sharpreader.net/

Pop-up Blockers:

Google Toolbar - http://www.google.com/
Privoxy - http://www.privoxy.org/
NoAds - http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/
PopUp Stopper - http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html
Proxomitron - http://www.proxomitron.info/

Webcam Software:

booruWebCam - http://www.booru.net/
Dorgem - http://dorgem.sourceforge.net/
grabMotion - http://www.grabmotion.com/
Pryme - http://www.hilo.dk/pryme/

Graphics:

Aqsis - http://www.aqsis.com/
Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/
Houdini (Free Edition) - http://www.sidefx.com/apprentice/index.html
Now3D - http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm
OpenFX - http://www.openfx.org
3Delight Free - http://www.3delight.com/index.htm
Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/
POV-Ray - http://www.povray.org/
Terragen - http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/
Toxic - http://www.toxicengine.org/
Wings 3D - http://www.wings3d.com/

Audio Creation

Jesusonic - http://www.jesusonic.com/soft.php
KRISTAL Audio Engine - http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/index.php
Gungirl Sequencer - http://ggseq.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage
HammerHead - http://www.threechords.com/hammerhead/introduction.shtml
orDrumbox - http://ordrumbox.sourceforge.net/
Tu2 - http://www.brambos.com/news.html

Audio Players:

Mixere - http://mixere.sourceforge.net/
Mixxx - http://mixxx.sourceforge.net/
monoRAVEik - http://www.mono211.com/monoraveik/mr1200.html
MoreAmp - http://sourceforge.net/projects/moreamp/
XMPlay - http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html
Zinf - http://www.zinf.org/
Musik - http://musik.berlios.de/
musikCube - http://www.musikcube.com/
1by1 - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch
Billy - http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy
CoolPlayer - http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/
DeejaySystem MK1 - http://www.deejaysystem.com/prod_mk1.asp
DeliPlayer. http://www.deliplayer.com/
QCD Player - http://www.quinnware.com/
Sonique - http://sonique.lycos.com/

CD/DVD Burning:

CDBurnerXP - http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/
CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/
Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/
Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/
Burrrn - http://www.burrrn.net/
DVD Decrypter: http://www.dvddecrypter.com/
Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/
Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD - http://www.paehl.de/cdr
ImgBurn - http://www.imgburn.com/

Compression / Decompression:

FilZip - http://www.filzip.com/
Info-Zip - http://www.info-zip.org/
bzip2 - http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html
ExtractNow - http://www.extractnow.com/
IZArc - http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/
UPX - http://upx.sourceforge.net/
Zip&Go - http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm
QuickZip - http://www.quickzip.org/
TUGZip - http://www.tugzip.com/
Zipgenius - http://www.zipgenius.it/

Photo manipulation and image design:

ColorPic - http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/
ArtRage - http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html
Artweaver - http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?en_version
JPEGCrops - http://ekot.dk/programmer/JPEGCrops/
Delineate - http://delineate.sourceforge.net/
Inkscape - http://www.inkscape.org/
Paint .NET - http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/
PhotoFiltre - http://www.photofiltre.com/
Pixia - http://www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight/
Pixie - http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html
Sodipodi - http://www.sodipodi.com/
xWax - http://www.debugmode.com/wax/
The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/
Tuxpaint - http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint
Wink - http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
WinMorph - http://www.debugmode.com/winmorph/

Programming:

Eclipse - http://www.eclipse.org/
ActivePerl - http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl
BlueJ - http://www.bluej.org/download/download.html
Crimson Editor - http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
Code::Blocks - http://www.codeblocks.org/
Context - http://www.context.cx/
Freepascal - http://www.freepascal.org/
JCreator LE - http://www.jcreator.com/download.htm
jEdit - http://www.jedit.org/
Metapad - http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/
Notepad++ - http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
Notepad2 - http://www.flos-freeware.ch/
Dev C++ - http://www.bloodshed.net/
Dev Pascal - http://www.bloodshed.net/
Pelles C - http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/index.htm
PHP Hypertext Parser - http://www.php.net/
Programmer’s Notepad - http://www.pnotepad.org/
Digital Mars C++ - http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html
ExamDiff - http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff
xOpen Watcom - http://www.openwatcom.org/
Python - http://www.python.org/
Ruby - http://www.dm4lab.to/~usa/ruby/index_en.html
SharpDevelop - http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/
WebMatrix - http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/
PSPad - http://www.pspad.com/
WinMerge - http://winmerge.org/

Web servers:

SimpleServer:WWW -
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/sswww.htm
Smart Cache - http://scache.sourceforge.net/
Abyss - http://abyss.sourceforge.net/
Apache - http://httpd.apache.org/
xSambar - http://www.sambar.com/
Savant - http://savant.sourceforge.net/
TinyWeb - http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.html
Apache2Triad - http://apache2triad.net/
HTTP File Server - http://www.rejetto.com/sw/
Xitami - http://www.xitami.com/

Free Applications from Microsoft

2007-03-04T04:05:00.001-08:00

Some of the Free applications from Microsoft

CA Antivirus 2007, Its a life saver, found it better than Nortons

2007-03-03T11:24:00.000-08:00

I've been using Norton, actually its the only Anti Virus I ever felt relying on. Good for benign homey environment but you ask for even a little more and it refuses to oblige with a straight face. Happened to me when a client complained of a CD which I had compiled at home, being infectious. I scanned it many times to no avail. I scanned it with McAfee my brother has on his System still no trace. I tried pacifying my client who gave me that techy's look (that I use to give him) and asked me to scan it with CA. Ya, I got this advice from my client. But CA's virus defination are more comprhensive. Its light wait to boot. It scans the system without slowing it down that much. I'm yet to explore its internet security thingy but with CA standing guard for my system, I'm more at piece with secrutity senerio at home. I give it five starts. CA Antivirus Other Good Software

Must have Free Applications for your PC: Part III

2007-03-03T03:44:00.001-08:00

List goes on:

Category: Internet Browsers

Microsoft Internet Explorer (Freeware)
FireFox (Freeware)
Opera (Freeware)
Opera Mini (Freeware)
Avant (Freeware)

Category: File Sharing, P2P

Azureus (Freeware)
Ares (Freeware)
BearShare (Freeware)
BitComet(Freeware)
eMule (Freeware)
uTorrent(Freeware)
Shareaza( A very nice and handy tool) (Freeware)
LimeWire (Freeware)
iMesh(Freeware)

Category: Compression Softwares

Winzip (Freeware)
Winrar (Freeware)
WinUHA (Freeware)
7-Zip (Freeware)
KGB Archiver (Freeware)
Universal Extractor (Freeware)

Category: Audio/Video

Audacity (Freeware)
Audiograbber (Freeware)
BSplayer (Freeware)
DivX Player (Freeware)
Windows Media Player (Freeware)
Real Player (Freeware)
Apple iTunes (Freeware)
JetAudio (Freeware)
K-Lite Codec Pack (Freeware)
Quick Time (Freeware)
VLC Media Player (Freeware)
Winamp (Freeware)
Foobar2000 (Freeware)

Must have Free Applications for your PC: Part II

2007-03-03T01:30:00.001-08:00

List of some more great application you can use in free in your daily life:

Category: File Transfer

Core FTP LE (Freeware)
FileZilla (Freeware)
FlashGet (Freeware)
SmartFTP (Freeware)
Download Accelerator (Freeware, Ad Supported)

Category: Productivity Tools

AbiWord (Freeware)
Adobe Reader (Freeware)
OpenOffice (Freeware)
Corel® WordPerfect Lightning (Freeware)
Google Desktop Search (Freeware)
MSN Desktop Search (Freeware)
Microsoft SMS Sender ( A very nice and handy tool) (Freeware)
Nokia PC Suite (Freeware)
W.Blogger (Freeware)
Picasa (Freeware)
CDEX Audio CD Ripper (Freeware)

Category: Security

AntiVir Personal Edition (Freeware)
Avast! 4 Home Edition (Freeware)
AVG Free Edition (Freeware)
BitDefender Free Edition (Freeware)
CA eTrust EZ Antivirus (Freeware)
Comodo's Firewall (Freeware)
Outpost Firewall (Freeware)
PeerGuardian IP Blocker (Freeware)
Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall (Freeware)
Sygate Personal Firewall (Freeware)
ZoneAlarm Free Edition (Freeware)
Ad Aware Personal Edition (Freeware)
Spybot Search and Destroy (Freeware)
Windows Defender (Freeware)

Must have Free Applications for your PC: Part I

2007-03-03T00:47:00.001-08:00

In today’s world, we have plenty of choice available towards us in terms of software applications. Here is a quick list of them based on my personal opinion, All of them are free and you only need to pay for your operating system (if using Microsoft Windows):

Category: Instant Messengers

Yahoo Messenger (Freeware)
MSN Messenger (Freeware)
Google talk (Freeware)
Gizmo (Freeware) (This supports free* international calls from your PC to mobile or landline)
AIM (Freeware)
ICQ (Freeware)
Miranda (Freeware)
Skype (Freeware)
Trillian (Freeware)

Category: Email Clients

Eudora (Freeware)
Thunderbird (Freeware)

Windows XP Tip: Automatically Ending Non-Responsive Tasks

2007-03-02T01:10:00.003-08:00

Start Regedit
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\AutoEndTasks
Set the value to be 1
In the same section, change the WaitToKillAppTimeout to the number of milliseconds you want.

Windows XP Tip: Common Command Console Utilities

2007-03-02T01:10:00.001-08:00

WindowsXP comes with quite a few console utilities you can easily run from the command line:

Computer Management - compmgmt.msc
Disk Managment - diskmgmt.msc
Device Manager - devmgmt.msc
Disk Defrag - dfrg.msc
Event Viewer - eventvwr.msc
Shared Folders - fsmgmt.msc
Group Policies - gpedit.msc
Local Users and Groups - lusrmgr.msc
Performance Monitor - perfmon.msc
Resultant Set of Policies - rsop.msc
Local Security Settings - secpol.msc
Services - services.msc
Component Services - comexp.msc

Windows XP Tip: Disabling Hibernation

2007-03-02T01:09:00.001-08:00

If you don't want to use up the disk space taken by Hibernation, or don't need to use it at all, you can easily disable it.

Open up the Control Panel / Power Options icon
Click on the Hibernation icon
Uncheck Enable Hibernation

Windows XP Tip: Windows XP Command Line Utilities

2007-03-02T01:08:00.001-08:00

While there are a lot of command line utilities in WindowsXP, here are some that I have been using lately.

bootcfg - Configures, queries, or changes Boot.ini file settings.
driverquery - Displays a list of all installed device drivers and their properties.
getmac - Returns the media access control (MAC) address and list of network protocols associated with each address for all network cards in each computer
gpresult - Displays Group Policy settings and Resultant Set of Policy (RSOP) for a user or a computer
netsh - You can use commands in the Netsh Interface IP context to configure the TCP/IP protocol
schtasks - Schedules commands and programs to run periodically or at a specific time
systeminfo - Displays detailed configuration information about a computer and its operating system

Windows XP Tip: Hide/Unhide Logon Names

2007-03-02T01:07:00.001-08:00

If you want to hide or unhide the names of users that are displayed on the initial logon screen:

Start Regedit
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \
Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Winlogon \ SpecialAccounts \ UserList
Add a DWORD Value with the name of the user account you want to hide
Make sure it has a value of 0
If there is an existing account, you can unhide it by giving it a value of 1

Windows XP Tip: Clear Pagefile on Shutdown

2007-03-02T01:06:00.001-08:00

If you want to clear page file on each shutdown. Follow the simple steps given below:

Start Regedit
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\
Session Manager\Memory Management\ClearPageFileAtShutdown
Set the value to 1