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Windows SkyDrive 2008-03-07 11:39:42
SkyDrive was earlier available only for users in US, UK and India but now they have expanded the service to included many new countries including Australia, France, Switzerland and Canada among others.
Windows
SkyDrive provides RSS feeds for their folders so your subscribers will know the moment you upload new files. You can also embed files / folders in web pages for your readers to download files directly from your website.Try it : skydrive.live.com
All Gmail Users Are Given Two Separate Email Addresses 2008-03-07 11:34:53
You probably know how to create multiple email aliases in Gmail
by adding the plus symbol and dots to your Gmail username but there is something more interesting. When you create a Gmail account, you actually get two email addresses - one is the regular @gmail.com while the second email address has @googlemail.com in the domain. That means if your email address in Gmail is something like billgates@gmail.com, all email messages that are sent to billgates@googlemail.com will also be delivered to your own Gmail account. Thatâs two for the price of one. Like the Gmail plus trick, you can take advantage of these two domains so that less spam reaches your Gmail Inbox. Give the @googlemail.com address to your close contacts (put that in the visiting card) while keep the @gmail.com addre Read more:Given
, Email
Use Google Docs To Compare Two Text Files Online 2008-03-07 11:17:44
WinMerge, Beyond Compare
, ExamDiff and Altova Diffdog are some popular utilities that help you visually compare differences in two files but a problem with these software is that they work only on the desktop. Since there are no online file comparison services available yet, we can use our favorite Google
Docs to locate differences between two text files or files that contain programming source code. Here are the step involved for comparing two files with Google Docs: Step 1. Create a new document in Google Docs and paste the contents of the first text file into this document. Save. Step 2. Open your second text file in notepad and copy its content to the clipboard. Now open the Google Document created in Step 1 and overwrite everything with content from the clipboard. Save. Step 3. Go
Find Installed Hardware And Software Without Opening Your PC 2008-03-07 10:50:53 Sometimes, unplugging everything from your PC and opening it up just to find out what the model of the motherboard or PCI card is turns out to be a real pain. There are a few utilities out there that you can simply run and they will tell you what hardware and software live in your PC.
One of the more popular system audit applications is Belarc Advisor. After installing, you can run it, and it generates an HTML report listing installed hardware and software. It’s very easy to use.
Another (albeit lesser-known) system audit application is SIW. This one requires no installation, and offers excessive detail on installed hardware and software. To build a report, simply go to the “File” menu > “Create Report” and click “HTML”. This will create a report in an HTML file Read more:Hardware
, Software
Create Your Windows XP Installer CD with All Hotfixes Since XP SP2 2008-03-06 11:59:46 Windows XP SP3 may be just round the corner and is expected to include all hotfixes ever issued by Microsoft since XP SP2.
But if you are not in a mood to wait and urgently need a Windows XP installer CD with all the hotfixes included, the XP SP2 update pack created by Ryan VanderMeulen will help you.
Ryan’s XP SP2 Pack weighs just around 50 MB and includes every hotfix, security patch released after XP SP2. You download and unzip the pack, then point it to the i386 directory of your XP installer and click Integrate.
Once the integration is complete, you just have to burn that XP SP2 folder to a CD and you are done. This is much like the Autopatcher project that was discontinued after a legal threat from Microsoft.
Download:
RyanVM SP2 Update Pack Read more:Windows
, Installer
How Many Videos Have You Watched on YouTube ? 2008-03-06 11:54:25 You may have spent countless hours on YouTube
watching cats falling off the dinner tables but do you know the exact number of video clips that you have ever watched on YouTube ?
YouTube tracks statistics for all their videos but now they have decided to share some basic stats with their members.
Login to your YouTube account and then click this link - youtube.com/iyt - its your personalized YouTube homepage. Customize this page and add the statistics modules.
1. You will now know the number of YouTube videos that you have ever viewed on YouTube.
2. If you upload videos on YouTube, you will also see total views - that’s the number of times your own videos have been viewed on YouTube by other members.
YouTube offers aggregated stats for all your videos - if you want to track statistics for
Get Your Free Microsoft Office Live Workspace Account Now 2008-03-06 11:50:21 Microsoft
Office Live Workspace
, an online file storage for Documents, PDFs, Spreadsheets and Presentations, is now available for everyone without an invite.
If you use any of the Microsoft Office programs including Outlook, you absolutely need this new Office Live Workspace. Here’s why:
1. Unlike other online Office suites, Microsoft Office Live Workspace supports the new Office 2007 File formats (pptx, docx, etc) - you can read these file in the browser though you may not be able to edit them yet.
2. You can download the Office Live add-in and upload documents to Office Live Workspace directly from your Microsoft Office programs.
3. Office Live Workspace offers two-way synchronization with Outlook Calendar, Tasks and Contact list - any changes that you make online are reflecte Read more:Account
Microsoft StartKey - Windows Desktop on a USB Drive 2008-03-06 11:36:25 Microsoft StartKey will put your entire Windows
desktop on a USB Flash drive including the software programs, files and settings.
You can then plug this USB stick into any PC and use it as if it were your own personal workstation. Related: Carry Your Windows Computer on a USB Drive
While this is not a new concept and existing applications like MojoPac do offer similar functionality, Microsoft Startkey will definitely help in popularizing this whole idea of converting a portable storage device into a computer, especially among the non-techie crowd. The first public beta of StartKey is expected later this year. For more on Windows Startkey, check out ZDNet. Read more:Microsoft
, Desktop
Set a Blank Password in Windows XP To Protect the Computer from Internet Attacks 2008-03-06 11:31:52 Some useful information. Your Windows
XP computer is more safe if you don’t set any password at all than using some weak password like "abc123" which can be easily guessed by hackers. Using a blank password (or no password at all) makes your computer more secure because Windows XP accounts, that are not protected by a password, cannot be accessed remotely over the network or the Internet
. You have to be physically infront of the computer in order to get in. Due to this default behavior, it is better to leave a blank password assigned to an XP account rather than assigning a weak, easily guessed password. An official guide from Microsoft on Password
Strength therefore suggests using blank passwords on Windows XP machines when the following criteria are met: • You only have one computer Read more:Protect
, Computer
Can Your Computer Run It? 2008-03-06 11:11:26 Here’s an interesting site that’s useful in a pinch for determining whether or not a certain game will be able to run on your hardware: Can You Run It. Basically, you select the game from the dropdown and hit the “can you run it” button. This will work in either IE or Firefox (sorry Opera folks…it’s a no-go). It then gives you a breakdown of which pieces of hardware are holding you back (CPU, RAM, video card, etc) according to the game’s minimum requirements and recommended Read more:Computer
Access Linux partitions inside Windows 2008-03-05 05:37:53 If you dual boot with Windows
and Linux
, and have data spread across different partitions on Linux and Windows, you should be really in for some issues.
It happens so sometimes you need to access your files on Linux partitions from Windows, and you realize it isn’t possible easily. Not really, with these tools in hand - it’s very easy for you to access files on your Linux partitions from Windows:DiskInternals Linux Reader has a Windows Explorer like interface, and can provide access to Ext2 and Ext3 Linux partitions from Windows. You can extract files easily from those linux partitions to your Windows partitions. You can’t use this tool to write on those partitions, though.DiskInternals Linux Reader - Download Read more:Access
, inside
Linux Commands 2008-03-03 09:44:34
Command
Description
alias
Create an alias
apropos
Search manual for keyword
at
Schedule a job to run in the future.
awk
Find and Replace text within file(s)
break
Exit from a loop
builtin
Run a shell builtin
bunzip2
Decompress file from bzip2 format
bzip2
Compress file to bzip2 format
cal
Display a calendar
case
Conditionally perform a command
cat
Concatenate files to standard output
cd
Change Directory
cfdisk
Partition table manipulator for Linux
chgrp
Change group ownership
chmod
Change access permissions
chown
Change file owner and group
chroot
Run a command with a different root directory
cksum
Print CRC checksum and byte counts
clear
Clear terminal screen
cmp
Compare two files
comm
Compare two sorted files line by line
command
Run a Read more:Commands
SQL Injection 2008-03-03 08:35:37 SQL injection is a technique that exploits a security vulnerability occurring in the database layer of an application. The vulnerability is present when user input is either incorrectly filtered for string literal escape characters embedded in SQL statements or user input is not strongly typed and thereby unexpectedly executed. It is in fact an instance of a more general class of vulnerabilities that can occur whenever one programming or scripting language is embedded inside another. You can get more on SQL injection from here. Read more:SQL
, Injection
Convert Your PHP Scripts To A Windows Program 2008-03-03 07:14:52 This tip is for developers out there who know PHP. If you have ever wanted to convert your PHP scripts into a standalone Windows
executable program there are several options out there for you.
First, there are the "standard" PHP to EXE compilers you can get such as Bambalam or PriadoBlender. However, a more intriguing option is WinBinder. WinBinder, in a nutshell, bridges the gap between the PHP interpreter and the Windows API allowing you to create and distribute PHP applications as Windows programs. WinBinder also features a graphical form editor you can use to create GUI’s for your applications. There are also many more features you can read about on WinBinder’s site.
WinBinder is completely free (and open source) and something PHP developers should definitely take a look at. Read more:Convert
, Scripts
, Program
, PHP Scripts
Microsoft to test new measure of Web ads 2008-03-02 00:16:23 Microsoft Corp said on Monday it would test a new way to measure the effectiveness of Internet advertising in a challenge to an industry standard that has helped the likes of Web search leader Google Inc.
Microsoft's "Engagement Mapping" is due to begin in beta form on March 1 and departs from a standard that ties sales, leads and traffic to the last ad that a user clicked on online. Instead, it attempts to take into account all the Internet interactions that lead a consumer to buy a product.
Microsoft's new ad initiative follows its purchase of online marketing company aQuantive for $6 billion last year in an effort to capitalize on the fast-growing online ad market and better compete against Google.
The software maker is also in the midst of a $41 billion unsolicited takeover attempt Read more:Microsoft
Adobe AIR 2008-03-02 00:09:02 The line between software that people access over the Internet and software that resides on their PCs will blur over the next several years, as an announcement from Adobe
reminds us.
Adobe today introduced AIR, an application that lets people access Web sites even when they aren’t online. Someone who wants to put an item up for bid on eBay, for example, could fill out the form through the AIR software while the PC isn’t connected to the Web. The software would automatically post the information to eBay the next time the computer is connected to the Internet.
Adobe isn’t the only company trying to bridge the gap between online software and traditional PC software: Google, Microsoft and others have similar initiatives. That’s because while online software has a number of advantages
Microsoft Office 2008 2008-03-02 00:00:44 Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 doesn’t officially ship until the kick-off of this month’s Macworld Conference and Expo on January 15. But Microsoft has taken the wraps off the latest version of Office, showcasing its new features and capabilities.
“This is a really big release for us,” Geoff Price, Product Unit Manager for Office 2008 for Mac at Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit, told Macworld. “We are moving with Apple as it moves forward with its operating system.”
Office will be available in three versions: Office 2008 for Mac ($400; $240 upgrade), Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student Edition ($150) and Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition ($500; $300 upgrade).
When it arrives on U.S. retail shelves later this month (with international sales to follow), Office 2008 w Read more:Microsoft
, Microsoft Office
Three Ways to Use Gmail on Your Phone 2008-03-01 23:52:34 GMail is wonderful, free, and ubiquitous. Thanks to its support for the POP3 and IMAP protocols, you can access your Gmail
inbox via Outlook, Thunderbird, or other e-mail programs in addition to using the standard Web method. Alternatively you can read your Gmail messages on your cell phone through your phone's browser by navigating to Gmail's Web site. Some phones (including my Motorola Razr V3 with T-Mobile service) won't display standard Web sites, unfortunately, though they will display sites designed to support the Wireless Applications Protocol (WAP) using the Wireless Markup Language (WML). Google's WAP-compatible Gmail site is (don't leave off the 'http://' part-unlike the browser on your PC, your phone's browser may not add that prefix automatically).
Gmail's mobile site is perf Read more:Three
Latest Antivirus reviews 2008-03-01 23:46:57 AV-Test.org, an independent testing group at the Otto-von-Guericke-University (Magdeburg, Germany), tested 29 anti-malware products with a very large set of files (606,901 to be specific). The goal was to test detection capabilities only, not cleaning. Products were set with their most aggressive detection options, such as using all heuristics and testing inside archives.
In the test set were:
* 68,864 backdoors
* 407,487 Trojan Horses
* 47,891 bots (zombies)
* 82,659 worms
Some of the results:
* The best product, WebWasher, detected 99.83 percent, but this is a gateway product. The best desktop product, at 99.56 percent, is AVK 2007.
* The worst product, Computer Associates's eTrust-VET, detected 62.12 percent.
* The average product detected 86.95 percent, the median 90.97 percent. Read more:reviews
Display Multiple Time Zones In Vista 2008-03-01 23:18:57 Windows Vista
has the ability to display the time in multiple time zones using the system clock.
This is easy to set up:
1. Right click on the time in the task bar and select Adjust Date/Time.
2. Go to the Additional Clocks tab.
3. Select the check box to show the additional clock, pick a time zone and give it a title.
4. You can add up to 2 additional time zones this way.
5. Apply your changes.
Now hover the mouse over the clock in the system tray and you will see your additional times are displayed along with the local time. This feature is very useful for those who are having customers in several different time zones around the World. Read more:Display
, Multiple
, Zones
Change priority of active processes in Windows XP 2008-02-25 10:47:26 Follow this tip to increase the priority
of active processes
, this will result in prioritisation of processes using the CPU.
Press:- CTRL-SHIFT-ESC
1.Go to the second tab called Processes, right click on one of the active processes, you will see the Set Priority option
2.For example, you Run your CDwriter program , set the priority higher, and guess what, no crashed CD’s Read more:Windows
, Change
Protect your MS-Word documents with password 2008-02-25 10:35:28 You can protect your document by applying password so that unauthorized person can not display as well as modify your document. You can apply two types of passwords:
Password to open the document: -If it is applied then you have to give the correct password to open the document, otherwise you cannot open the document.
Password to modify the document: -If it is applied then you have to give the correct password to modify the document, otherwise your document is opened but you cannot modify the document. It means that your document becomes read-only.
To apply a password to document, follow these steps.
Open Save As dialog box by selecting "Save As" command from File menu.
*Click "Tools" button of Save As dialog box and choose "General Options" from drop down menu. Enter first password i Read more:Protect
Take Popular Applications With You Anywhere 2008-02-25 08:16:32 Have you ever wished you could simply install some programs to your USB device and then, literally, take and use them anywhere? If so, check out PortableApps.
This aptly named software package does exactly as you would assume:
A portable app is a computer program that you can carry around with you on a portable device and use on any Windows computer. When your USB flash drive, portable hard drive, iPod or other portable device is plugged in, you have access to your software and personal data just as you would on your own PC. And when you unplug the device, none of your personal data is left behind.
PortableApps features many popular titles, such as:
* OpenOffice
* 7-Zip
* Notepad++
* Firefox
Of course, since all the software packages are free, so is PortableApps. Read more:Applications
, Anywhere
Setting blank page as home page in IE7 2008-02-23 12:13:46 Even though if you have set 'about:blank
' as your Home Page in Internet Options, IE7 keeps putting ' into the address line. You can change this option by changing registry. For that just download and run this registry file . And restart your IE7. Your default page will be set to blank page. Read more:Setting
, home page
Windows Live Writer 2008-02-23 08:15:47 If have a blog and do not like using it’s online editor or are tired of dealing with the problems of copying and pasting from Word, then give Windows
Live Writer
a look.
Live Writer is a free tool which allows you to compose your blog entries, while offline, and then easily upload your entries to your online blog. As you would expect, the typical features, plus a few nice other ones, are available for editing and proofing blog entries, just encapsulated into a desktop application instead of only being available online.
While Live Writer is slanted towards getting you to run your blog on Windows Live
, the application is able to upload to other popular services, such as WordPress, Blogger and LiveJournal. Read more:Windows Live Writer
The Best Free Software for Windows 2008-03-12 11:25:58 Here are some of the best software programs and utilities for your Windows
computer that are completely free and still extremely useful. Given all these wonderful choices, why pay? Audio Editing: If you ever wanted to do some basic audio recording, look no further than Audacity - it can record, remove noise from audio and also mix multiple sound track. With little effort, you can use Audacity to record live streaming music from Internet radio stations. Video Editing: For videos, Windows Movie Maker from Microsoft is a good choice. It has all the basic video editing tools plus a good collection of transitions and video effects. For advanced usage, get the powerful VirtualDub - it has a number of filters (like video rotation), can create videos from image sequences, split videos or even extr Read more:Software
, Free Software
Save Web Pages As An Image with Kwout 2008-03-12 11:15:35 Kwout is like a Print Screen key for your web browser. This useful service lets you capture screenshots of web pages without requiring any software or browser plug-ins. Type in the web page address and Kwuot will convert the entire web page as an image - simply select a portion with your mouse that you wish to save as an image and click Cut Out. Later, you can enhance the screen captures of HTML web pages by adding borders, shadows and rounded corner - all this without leaving Kwout. You can either download the image of that web page locally or let it stay on the Kwout website - the big advantage here is that all the hyperlinks inside the screenshot will remain live and active. - saves in JPG format. Read more:Pages
, Image
Extract Email Addresses from Messages in Outlook Folders 2008-03-12 10:46:28 When you communicate with someone using Gmail, the email address of that person is automatically added to your Gmail address book. This comes handy when you join a social network like Facebook or LinkedIn and need to connect with email contacts who are already members of these networks. Things are a bit different in Microsoft Outlook
because unlike Gmail, Outlook wonât build your address book automatically. Thus the need for an email extractor software that can make a databases of email addresses that are spread across your Outlook folders. To extract email addresses from Outlook email, you can download the Outlook Contact Exporter from ClearContext (link). This will immediately create a list of email addresses found in messages that are stored in Outlook Inbox and other mail folder Read more:Email
, Folders
Create Your Own Passport Size Photos At Home 2008-03-11 12:22:29 If you have a photo printer at home, you can easily convert any of your digital picture into a valid passport size photograph using ePassport
Photo.
The dimensions of a legal passport photograph often vary according to the country and this tool takes care of the size requirement very easily.
You pick a country and then select whether you need the photo for a visa, passport or applying for a citizenship. Then upload the digital photo, crop and you immediately get a printable strip of 6-8 photographs for free.
Even you have no plans to print photos at home, bookmark this for reference because your local photo booth will have no idea about photo dimensions of other countries.
www.epassportphoto.com - Online Passport Photo Printing Booth
Create MP3 Files From Text in Emails and Web Pages 2008-03-11 12:06:46 Vozme is web based tool that turns any snippet of text into an MP3 audio file that you can either listen online or download to your local hard drive. You just have to copy the text from a web page or an email and paste it inside the Vozme text box. While there are tons of solutions that convert text to spoken words, it has the clutter free interface and the fact that it runs inside the browser without requiring any downloads. Bloggers can easily integrate the Vozme feature in the site so visitors can either listen to your full blog posts or they can select a portion of text and have Vozme narrate it like a speech. Vozme.com - Accepts Spanish, English and Italian languages Read more:Pages
, Emails
, Web Pages
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