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Want to track your vehicle ! try GPS insight 2008-03-17 04:38:49 Well for some of users GPS
may be an hi-tech sci-fi thing but if you think about GPS tracking system then you might remind some hollywood movies where spy like James bond perform this kind of actions but now a days GPS system for vechicle tracking has become more easier and reliable by GPS insight.The Global Positioning System (GPS) is the only fully functional Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). Utilizing a constellation of Medium Earth Orbit satellites that transmit precise microwave signals, the system enables a GPS receiver to determine its location, speed, direction, and time.New in the series is GPS Insight vehicle tracking system which is a hardware and web software-based vehicle tracking product which is the technical leader in the GPS tracking field.They have the only hardw
Increase your internet speed by using freewares 2008-03-24 23:05:31 Are you tired of slow internet speed.Here is the method to increase your internet speed.To verify this you can visit any site like speedtest before and after doing this method.Phase 1:Type "about:config" into the address bar of firefox and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:network.http.pipeliningnetwork.http.proxy.pipeliningnetwork.http.pipelining.maxrequests* Alter the entries do as follows:Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30.* Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer.Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0".Phase 2:Now download and install internet download managerdownload IDM[here] or [here]Phase 3:Download TCP optimi
How to download/watch high quality versions of Youtube videos 2008-03-27 23:02:40 Most of us complains about the quality of youtube videos
.They are of very low quality but Youtube does this for the sake of bandwidth.But youtube also stores the high quality version of the original video that was uploaded to it by the user.If you have high bandwidth and want to watch
or download the high quality version of the desired Youtube video then you have to follow this simple trick.This trick will enable you to download or watch the higher quality version of Youtuve video of your choice.The trick is to append &fmt=18 at the end of URL of the YouTube video you are watching. This trick will make your youtube video in good quality.Let us consider the URL of YouTube video that you are watching is to watch a high quality version of the same YouTube video,you have to follow this up Read more:versions
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Now 11 digit mobile number for BSNL,MTNL users in india 2008-03-27 21:49:57 Now BSNL,MTNL both are going to increase the digit size of your mobile phone number,its 10 now but they are increasing it upto 11 digits.According to them it is going to reduce the congestion in network and going to provide the better connectivity (If you are BSNL user then you must have experienced congestion) . The frequent failure of Chandigarh based BSNL server is mainly because of this congestion.This is likely to be started in eastern UP circle first and they will just add a 0 after the first digit 9 e.g. if your number is like 94123..... then after this it will be 904123..... .Bsnl states that other mobile operators like Airtel,Vodafone ,Reliance,Tata,idea etc. will also be allowed to use this technology afterwards.
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Future of your blog after your death 2008-03-27 13:22:05 "Every thing that has got life, has an end" This idea is not mine but this is a famous saying.You ,me and every living organism on planet follows/will follow this cycle.You know and i know,this is truth. But what about your blog?Is it also follow the same cycle?Your blog is not a living organism and if there is any one who can look after your blog after you, then its life can be more than that of yours.I am not sure about blogger but wordpress is ready for this situation.Yes they have a plugin for this situation.Actually Next of kin is a wordpress plugin which handles what happens after the blogger die.This plugin monitors your own visits to your wordpress website, and will send you a warning email after a number of weeks (of your choice) without a visit. If you fail to visit your blog eve Read more:Future
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Folder option's Show hidden files and folder not working 2008-03-30 04:18:19 This condition mainly occurs because of some kind of virus action or trojan activity and after that you have two way of viewing hidden files
,either fix this issue or use DOS prompt ,we will discuss this way later in the post.1:- if you just want to enable your windows way then you have to follow this procedure which will make the default way working
means folder option
's show hidden files and folder will start working.1.Go to Start –> Run,2. type RegeditGo to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden\SHOWALL3.In the right pane, look for key CheckedValue” and change the value to 14.Also look for key that says “DefaultValue nd change its value to 2But if for any reason this method is not working then you have limited options left.2:-
Know the version of USB in your system 2008-03-30 03:41:19 If you want to figure out the version
of USB in your system then there are two widely known ways of figuring out the USB version standard available on your PC. Well some of you might not be convinced that why should they search for this kind of stuff.So for these people only do you have ever seen a message like "this USB device can perform faster if you connect it to a Hi-Speed USB 2.0 port ..." .This is because of the different versions of the USB,version 1.0 and version 2.0 (ver 3.0 in process) both have different data transfer rates along with some other differences.Main thing is data transfer rates which is 1.5 Mbit/s (Low-Speed) and 12 Mbit/s (Full-Speed)for USB 1.0 and 480 Mbit/s (now called Hi-Speed) for USB 2.0.So to figure out the version of USB,One of the most commonly used way i
Top 5+ free alternative to Microsoft Office 2008-03-29 02:10:00 For a very very long time Microsoft
's many products like windows,web browser,media player, Office suits etc. have enjoyed monopoly in their segment but after the Internet evolution almost each of them is facing a very hard competition .This is because their alternatives are either freewares or less priced compared to them.Here in this post we are limiting our self to the alternatives of Microsoft's Office pack.People had worked on Microsoft Office
for years so some of you might not feel comfortable initially on other software because changes are always not comfortable but afterwards you would love them. 1. Google Docs - Google Docs is probably your best bet against the monopoly of Microsoft office. Assuming you a decent Internet connection, Google Docs includes a web-based Word Processor,
How to backup and restore windows registry using DOS 2008-04-01 02:53:29 Though most of the software that are going to make any change in registry allows you to back up your systems registry before making any change in it because if any thing goes wrong during the process and makes the system unstable then you can use the back up and can make your system stable.But do you know the Windows Registry is never backed up and restored whenever system restore point is created or restored? The default export registry function in Registry Editor doesn't save all the registry settings (example, the SECURITY settings). Since they are backed up, they can't be restored.It has also become impossible to copy the necessary files, now called "hives" and usually named DEFAULT, SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE,SYSTEM in the SYSTEM32\CONFIG folder, to another location because they are all Read more:backup
What if you forgot your windows login password? 7 password recovery tools 2008-03-31 05:22:59 Sometimes it happens,you can forgot your systems login password and now unable to login,well you can also forgot other password too but in this post we will talk about only windows xp login password.There are few options by following which you can login into your system without reinstalling windows.1.Password reset Disk:This is not a tool,this is just a precautionary measure that you take to avoid this condition.Windows itself allows you to create a password reset disk which you can use if in the case you forgot the password.To create a password reset disk follow these steps.1.Click Start, and then click Control Panel.2.In Control Panel, click User Accounts.3.In the User Accounts pane, click the account that you want to work with.4.Under Related Tasks, click Prevent a forgotten password t
Google uses Microsofts technology for its popular application 2008-04-04 11:22:05 Yes it true.I am not sure about how many applications of Google
are developed using Microsoft's technology but do you know that Google's social networking web site Orkut.com is powered by Microsoft technology? We just learnt that Orkut is powered by its rival company's ASP.NET technology. All the page URLs of Orkut ends with the extension .aspx, which is file extension of Microsoft ASP.NET web pages.you can see this in the links provided below for orkut.Home page: Edit profile: Scrapbook: Well this is not an offense to use rival's technology but usually people don't expect this for a such popular
application Google is dependent over Microsoft.Microsoft has at least one point to smile.Related:How to hack orkut accountsHow to remove "Orkut is banned you fool.." virusHow to access blocked Read more:Microsofts
Pen drive Office of just 2.5 Mb 2008-04-03 07:18:32 You have many options of using Office application in Pen drive
like Mojo pack etc .They usually take lot of space in your tiny space i.e in your pen drive .Now you have a awesome option Tiny USB Office.2.5 Mb of space and you’ve got yourself a suite of office applications which are capable of doing almost everything which you expect from an office suite. It is a suite of 15-16 applications which take care of the database creation, data encryption, email client, file compression, file sharing, chat, pdf creation, password recovery, word processing, spreadsheet creation and few more things and that too in just 2.5 Mb of size.Tiny USB Office features all of these programs, which are accessible with one click with the included Qsel portable program launcher software:* Database Creation - wit
Reapir windows vista's "BOOTMGR is missing problem" 2008-04-05 13:47:53 If your system is booting from Microsoft windows vista,Then you might get the "BOOTMGR is missing" error which actually comes as the reason of many problems like another operating system and hardware issues (This is common to me) as whenever you insert any other hard disk into your system or many other unknown issues causes this problem.After getting this problem you just stuck to this screen constantly displaying BOOTMGR is missing press ctrl+alt+del to restart.Since this problem comes at the booting phase so you even can't fight with the system by changing few setting because you simply don't have access to those settings.Now if you want to fix this error without reinstalling the windows operating system then simply follow theses simple steps.1.Insert your Microsoft's windows vista CD/DV
Check your emails with top 5 email clients 2008-04-07 08:27:58 Usually People don't use email clients when they are on shared computers that's why these kind of people are not aware of email client technology or even if they are aware of them they are not in a position to use them.So if you are migrating from a shared system to your own PC then we have some details about email client for you.Email client is a front end computer program used to manage emails. It also provides a calendar, task and contact management, note taking, a journal and web browsing. It can be used as a stand-alone application. It’s where we read, send and organize our emails.1:Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird is a free open source, cross-platform email client. It has quickly gained huge popularity in recent years. Backed by the Mozilla open source community and having a good ex Read more:Check
How to backup everything of Firefox 2008-04-11 05:29:58 If you are a person who reinstalls windows (Operating system) very often and in that case you want your firefox to be backup
ed entirely,then for you Firefox
Environment Backup Extension ( FEBE ) is a useful extension which backs up your extensions, themes, and (optionally) your bookmarks, preferences, passwords, cookies and just about everything else Firefox offers including your entire profile. This is pretty useful in case you want to synchronize between your home and office computer and laptops.It also allows: * User defined backup where you can choose what you want to and not want to backup. * Scheduled Backup makes it easy.It will actually rebuild your extensions individually into installable .xpi files which you can just take anywhere and Install it again. There is no need to do
Reduce the noisy vibrations of your hard drive 2008-04-12 06:05:39 Most of the time we can hear the noisy vibrations from our system and most part of this is from our hard drive
.As most of us are aware of working method of hard drive so it is not hard to guess how hard drive vibrations contribute to the system noise.Though this sound can be neglected as its intensity is not much but still some of us might feel this sound irritating.So if you are interested in reducing the amount of this sound then you can follow this simple procedure.This is not an official method but it works.Above shown method uses elastic band which acts as suspender and vibration absorber to the hard drive and reduce the vibration in the case to which hard drive is attached.In this case the hard drive still have vibrations but it does not pass them to the case attached with it, hence
Amazing facts about Google 2008-04-12 04:18:02 1. Google
receives daily search requests from all over the world, including Antarctica.2. Google’s Home Page Has 63 Validation Errors. Don’t believe me?: Check Google Validation3. The Google search engine receives about a billion search requests per day.4. The infamous “I’m feeling lucky” button is nearly never used. However, in trials it was found that removing it would somehow reduce the Google experience. Users wanted it kept. It was a comfort button.5. Due to the sparseness of the homepage, in early user tests they noted people just sitting looking at the screen. After a minute of nothingness, the tester intervened and asked ‘Whats up?’ to which they replied “We are waiting for the rest of it”. To solve that particular problem the Google Copyright message was inserted Read more:Amazing
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How to start your web browser without addons 2008-04-14 05:41:05 If your recently installed add on is causing the improper behavior of your Web browser
then it is better to use your web browser
with out add ons.By this way you can find out whether the problem lies in the add on or any other thing was responsible for that improper behavior of your web browser and most important thing about add ons is this that you should avoid add ons while performing online transaction.Here is the method of using web browsers without add ons.For Internet Explorer:Go to Start > RunType iexplore -extoffPress EnterFor Mozilla Firefox:Go to the Run dialog by going to Start > RunType firefox -safe-modeA window will popup asking things that you want to disable or reset (eg: reset/disable bookmarks/toolbars, etc.)Give the right choices, and press ‘Restart’ for the changes
Secret word caused the panic in airline 2008-04-13 00:03:03 If you have watched james bond movies then you must know the impact of secret words.They are designed for the ease when situation is not favorable.They can change the situation dramatically .If they are used properly they are going to make a rainbow but if used improperly they can either harm you or situation can become worse.Here is the case of an airline.An alert at Melbourne Airport on Friday night was caused when a Qantas Airlines pilot accidentally used the secret word for a hijacking when communicating with the tower. The pilot used the word shortly after the plane took off.Upon landing, the plane was "quarantined" and searched for about 20 minutes before passengers were allowed to disembark.I'm assuming the code word isn't an easy one, so I'm not sure how exactly this happened - and
A bot cracked Microsoft live captcha in just 6 seconds 2008-04-15 10:37:18 I am sure most of you are aware of Captcha (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart ) if not then CAPTCHA is the name given to the distorted, scrambled characters that many Web services require users to decipher and type in to create a new account; the tests are meant to block automated account registration by spammers and malware authors.You can find the world's most complex CAPTCHA here.Here are the technical details of the Captcha that broke the Microsoft
Live email id registration form.Actually this process enables the hacker to register as many as required email id's to send his/her spam within a very short time period.Most of the hackers prefer the Id's of Gmail, yahoo, and Msn because it is hard to mark Ids of these domains as Spam Ids by ani
My friends,their blogs and future of blogging in indian engineering colleges 2008-04-16 09:05:57 Most of Tech Buzz(techinnews) readers who have visited my profile knows about me that i am an engineering
student in northen india, presently recruited in Wipro technologies in campus selection. My blog tech buzz is already a year old and has almost 5k visitors a month.Though this is not a big amount but this is satisfactory for me because i know the conditions in which i was doing blogging.As you can see in my initial days the frequency of posting was very less which was because of the internet connection in my town.At the time when this blog was started i was having a 56Kbps internet connection which makes it difficult to post regularly and it also consumed lots of my time but now a days situation is changing and i have got a broadband connection in my town.This has increased my posting Read more:indian
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How to know the stats,page views of any wikipedia article 2008-04-19 03:52:50 Wikipedia is a very popular site and so as its articles.You can feel this very easily means that whenever you search for any item on Internet either on Google or yahoo then you can find the wikipedia article of that item in top results most of the time.This can easily determine the popularity of that article or most of the wikipedia article.But if you are interested in knowing the exact stats of any wikipedia article on wikipedia then officially there is no tool for this but labnol has something to say about this issue."Using the raw server logs from Wikistats, Wikipedia administrator Henrik has created a tool at stats.grok.se that shows how many times any particular page has been viewed on Wikipedia. It’s something like Google Analytics for Wikipedia with public access."Initially this w Read more:views
Amazing facts series about internet & computers part-1 2008-04-18 21:51:45 By looking at the response to our previous post of amazing facts
,we are now expanding this feature and planning to do more posts in this section.So this is kind of series
pattern.I will publish more articles on amazing facts.Yahoo! derived its name from the word Yahoo coined by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels. A Yahoo is a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human!Researchers consider that the first search engine was Archie, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.Marc Andreessen founded Netscape. In 1993, he had already developed Mosaic, the first Web browser with a GUI.It was once considered a letter in the English language. The Chinese call it a little mouse, Danes and Swedes call it 'elephant's trunk', Germans a Read more:Amazing
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How to recover important files from CHK files 2008-04-23 08:32:04 First of all what are CHK files
: whenever you run a disk scan and repair tool, such as ScanDisk or ChkDsk (depending on your operating system), the default action when finding errors on the hard disk (such as invalid clusters) is to save the affected files as a .CHK file, thus "repairing" the error.These .CHK files are referred here as CHK files.This is about CHK files but the question is how to retrieve the important data from these files ?Whenever the system crashes, Scandisk or Chkdsk utility runs and recover
s any files or chunks of data which may have been lost as a result of the crash. Since every recovered file has .CHK extension, you'll not be able to find the file type. You cannot distinguish if the file is graphic file(like .jpg) or a word document (.doc) or any other type of file
Can not use add or remove programs 2008-04-26 08:02:34 Some virus related activities in your system might causes the inability to use certain system features like your Folder options "show hidden files and folders" might not work or you can't use your "add or remove program" under control panel.This might be quite frustrating for user as he is not able to uninstall any program from his system.If you want to use your add or remove program then this simple procedure will do this for you.This is just a registry hack.1. Go to Start –> Run, and type Regedit2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Uninstall3. On the right pane, look for DWord NoAddRemovePrograms4. Change its value to “0” to disable it5. If you don’t see this DWord you can create it as well, because when it is not created, it means it is n
How to save website for offline access 2008-04-27 10:40:08 Do you ever wanted to access any website
even when you are connected to internet.This is quite helpful for lot of people who do not have a internet connection or get the internet access for a little time.Now you can download a whole website in your pendrive in cyber cafe and then access the whole content of that website on your PC afterwards.There is freeware HTTrack [Download ] which allows user to rip any website of their choice and then save it to your system for further offline use.This will copy the exact website content on your system.You can update the local copy of the website, pause or resume the download. It follows the links of the original website, and downloads the files recursively to a local directory, rearranges the hyper-links structure of the local copy. It runs on Window
Format a USB drive in NTFS file system 2008-04-27 10:19:20 When we format our pendrive
then file system is by default FAT or FAT32. Windows automatically select FAT file system to format a pen drive and doesn't provide the option to format the pendrive in NTFS file system but you can easily format your pendrive in NTFS file system by following tweaks.1.Plug in your pendive and right click on the my computer icon on the desktop and select manage2.Now computer management window will open now select device manager3.In device manager you will find your pendrive under disk drives (expand disk drive ) , go to pendrive properties by right clicking on it.4.Now move to policies tab and select the second option "optimize for performance " and click ok 5.Now when you will format your pendrive by right clicking on it, then you will find NTFS, FAT32 and FAT un
How to delete recycle bin in windows xp 2008-05-07 06:55:22 Whenever you install fresh windows on your system then on first display of your desktop you will find a icon of recycle bin.This icon is by default present on your desktop and windows does not provide any method to delete
this.But if you want to delete this icon from your desktop anyhow, then we have two methods for this.First method:1.[Start] ->[Run]-> [Regedit]2.Registry Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\BitBucketModify/3.Create the Value Data Type(s) and Value Name(s) as detailed below.Data Type: DWORD //Value Name: NukeOnDeleteSetting for Value Data: [0 = Use Recycle Bin / 1 = Permanently Delete]4.Exit Registry and RebootSecond Method:start->run->gpedit.msc-> user configuration ->desktop->remove recycle bin from desktop->double click->change it
change page title for blogger templates 2008-05-18 00:27:54 I haven't published any blogger trick for a long time.So this is good to be in a zone which is less explored by me.Now as my exams are over i can focus on this zone also.So this is like re-beginning of my blogger zone.
By default , blogs on blogger show the blog title as the page title followed by the post title.This means if the blog title is "Tech Buzz" and the post title is "How to change p
How to boot windows xp in Non GUI mode 2008-05-17 07:28:28 If you are fed up with the GUI boot of windows xp and don't want to use it any more. Then there is a simple trick that will allow you to remove GUI boot from your windows xp and after that your system will boot in a NON GUI mode that has its own benefits means that this will increase your systems booting speed and its better to have this kind of look rather than installing a software program tha