Wednesday, February 23, 2011

File corrupter

I found and interesting tool today at blogsolute. This is used to destroy a file. Actually we have tools to recover data from a corrupted file. But this is reverse. We can corrupt our file. Its name is File Destructor.

File Destructor is a web application that can generate a corrupt file with desired file name, file size and file extension. This sounds more realistic and file contains nothing but corrupt data, so when you try to open it does not work.

It is fully compatible with Windows and Mac

File Destructor

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Facebook: How to disable New Photo viewer and get back Old version

I already posted about executing a script in my previous post to get rid of new facebook photo viewer.. But we have two more easy ways to do that. Simply delete the word "&theater" in the URL and enjoy the4 old version.
Or simply press F5. You will be with your old photo viewer. Comment if this doesn't work.

Facebook Photo Theater Killer

The new photo viewer or theater is embarrassing for many facebook users. To get rid of this I found a userscript.


Script Summary:
Kills the annoying (IMHO) new photo theater on facebook. Instead loads the old photo viewer, as long as facebook keeps it running.
Version: 2.1
Copyright: 2011+, David Harvey
License: GPL version 3 or any later version; http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html 

This has been tested in Chrome with the Tampermonkey extension and in Firefox with the Greasemonkey add-on. Let me know if you run into any issues. Also, if you find the script helpful, if you would, please, "fan" it.
2.1: Fixed an issue in newer versions of Firefox/Greasemonkey that caused the script to error out.
2.0.1: Fixed the timeout on the script to check the links for updating.
2.0: Added some functionality to capture the click before it can launch the theater. The theater still OCCASIONALLY shows up, but not as often as before.

The script is can be found here.

Source : http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/96773

Friday, February 18, 2011

BINARY TRAFFIC

While browsing sites for getting free traffic to my blog, I found a very interesting but doubtful site called binary traffic dot com, So i decided to write about and check wheter it is possible to get real traffic from this site and I signed up to just test it.

Convert PPT to PDF

Have you ever tried converting total PPT into a PDF and viewing it using adobe reader or so. The main reason behind conerting to PDF documents is that it provides security.

We have a ready to use tool for this purpose.Moyea PPT to PDF Converter (Word, Excel, PowerPoint to PDF) is a free, smart and integrated PDF creation program that converts most printable Windows applications including Word, Excel & PowerPoint to PDF file in one mouse click.
Download it from developers page or click below.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Send free sms without registration

We have many sites allowing to send free sms from internet to mobile. But in websites like 160by2.com , way2sms.com , fullonsms.com etc., we have to register with our mobile number. But we also have a few sites which provide anonymous sms service. Some of them are listed here.
This allows Indian numbers only.
2. Seasms.com
This allows us to send messages world wide for free.
3. Spicesms.com
This allows only 130 character sms.
4. Bollywoodmotion
This allows us to send 500 character sms. But this is limited to Indian numbers only. One more facility is that it doesn't include any ads in sms.

Note : If any illegal activities are being done using above said sites. You may be traced and caught. We are not responsible for the consequences.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Nokia and Microsoft Announce Strategic Partnership

Yes, this is true. Nokia and Microsoft announces a strategic partnership. Actually I'm too late in posting this. All this is happened yesterday. For details goto Microsoftfeed

Accelerated Processing Unit (APU), New Era in Computing

APU is a combination of GPU and CPU. When data are processed in a computer, GPU and CPU both processes the data together. So, there is some lack of time by moving data from GPU to CPU and vice-versa. AMD is going to eliminate this time gap by combining CPU and GPU together in a single micro-processor or an APU.AMD is the only one competitor of Intel’s market.
AMD is going to launch their APU or Accelerated Processing Unit in this year. Not only AMD Intel is also working with this architecture and hopefully they will also release their new processing technology code named

Bing is more accurate than Google....!!


According to a study conducted by Hitwise, Bing users clicked on search results 81.54% of the time, while Google users only clicked 65.58%. This shows that Bing is offering more accurate results than Google.
“The share of unsuccessful searches highlights the opportunity for both the search engines and marketers to evaluate the search engine results pages to ensure that searchers are finding relevant information.” said Hitwise
According to Neowin “Bing’s market share has gone up by 6%, while Google is slowly losing its dominance. Although Google still holds the top spot with 67.95% market share, Bing is slowly catching up. Bing-powered searches, including both Bing.com and Yahoo.com, claim a total of 27.44%.”

source : Microsoftfeed

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Get Ubuntu tips with fortune


In order to install the Ubuntu Tips Applet, you will first have to install the application fortunes-ubuntu-server.  To do that, follow these steps:
  1. Open up a terminal window.
  2. Issue the command sudo apt-get install fortunes-ubuntu-server.
  3. Type your sudo password and hit Enter.
  4. Accept any dependencies.
  5. Allow the installation to complete.
Now download the .deb file from the GTK-Apps web site.
  1. Change directory to where the .deb fle is downloaded. ex: cd ~/Downloads.
  2. Type the command sudo dpkg -i "downloaded file name .deb "  ofcourse without quotes.
  3. Type your sudo password and hit Enter if asked so.
  4. Allow the installation to complete.


After the installation start the app from Applications > Accessories > Ubuntu Tips Applet. What you will notice immediately is a small icon in your notification area.  The icon is the swirling line between the network applet and the sound applet. If you left-click that icon you can do the following:
  • Set the interval for tips (by default the interval is one minute).
  • Show a single tip.
  • Disable auto refreshuit the applet.
Thats it! You're done.



Tuesday, February 8, 2011

How to check and enable IPV6 in Windows XP

As IPV6 is activated officially by IETF, many are in need of it. In windows 7 it is already enabled. However, due to some circumstances, it may be disabled. Also due to the failure of Windows Vista, many people stuck to Windows Xp till now. Especially in case of educational institutions, firms etc., where a large number of computers are present, are still in dilemma whether to shift to Windows 7. So if these users wanna activate IPV6, there is some procedure here.

1) Just goto run by pressing windows button + R.
2) Type cmd to enter command prompt.
3) Type ipconfig and check for the entry IPV6.


4) If not found then type netsh and press enter.
5) Now type interface and press enter.
6) Type ipv6 and press enter.
7) Type install and press enter.

I think there is another way to do it. But i prefer this as it is easy.
If anyone want to know how to do it using GUI and not from command prompt, just leave a comment here. Also if there is any problem with IPV6 installation let me know through your comments.

Learn the basics of Photoshop in 25 minutes

I came across a good post at Lifehacker on basics of photoshop. I am already familiar with photoshop and for the beginners it would be great. Just check out the tutorial at Lifehacker

Nokia bubble effect for symbian TOUCH phone

Today, I came to know about a new application for Nokia mobiles. Those who are on Symbian OS (operating system) and using touch screen can avail this.Bubbles is a fun and efficient way to take a shortcut to timely or useful things on your phone.  Bubbles appears when you press the "Apps" key while your device is in sleep mode (instead of the black screen with clock and unlock button).  Simply grab a bubble and drag it to one of the available drop points to initiate the corresponding action.

Currently there are bubbles available for the following actions.

* Unlock the phone
* View new messages
* View/Respond to missed calls
* Control the music player
* Control the FM radio
* Change profile (profile timing also supported)
* Call/Message your three best friends
* Activate the back-light to use as a flashlight
* Show your current location using Ovi Maps
* Change the background of the Bubbles screen
* Display when battery needs charging

The product is still in beta version.

Bubbles can also be used to pass the time by "throwing" bubbles and watching them bounce back and forth around the screen for fun.
You can download it from here.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Online College Article 2

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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Smart File Advisor

Smart File Advisor will help you find appropriate programs to open your files using Filefacts.net web site database. If you are having problems to open some specific files in your system install Smart File Advisor and it will help you. Smart File Advisor will be able to identify the type of the file you want to open even if it have a wrong file extension by analysing file contents.



Smart File Advisor also insludes a MD5, SHA-1 and CRC32 checksum/hashing tool for free! You will be able to use it to verify the integrity of files you download from the Internet, after installing Smart File Advisor just right click any file in Windows Explorer and you will have a new option named Checksum.

Download from the developers website or below.

Facebook Friends Page - Lesser known feature

I came across an interesting fact today about the Facebook. It maintained a Facebook friends page. After logging in just go to http://www.facebook.com/friends/ and click on phone book in the left side bar. That's it. All your friends phone numbers are listed. I think this is a lesser known feature.

PDF Jumbler

A simple tool to rearrange/merge/delete pages from PDF files. The modular backend system uses either JPedal or JPod to display PDFs and iText or Apache PDFBox to save them.
Source : SourceForge

Multiple Image Resizer .NET


Multiple Image Resizer .NET uses the Microsoft .NET Framework, if you do not have the Microsoft .NET Framework v4.0 then the installer will download and install it for you.
The installer has been fully tested on a range of Windows platforms - simply download and run Mir4Installer.exe then follow the instructions on the screen.

Multiple Image Resizer .NET does not require registration or an unlock code, and does not gather or transmit information about you, your computer or your data. All that we ask is that you use Multiple Image Resizer .NET within the terms of the license agreement.



Hardware and Software Requirements :

Multiple Image Resizer .NET 4 uses the Microsoft .NET Framework v4.0, if you do not have the Microsoft .NET Framework v4.0 then the installer will download and install it for you.

Supported Operating Systems (32bit and 64bit): 

  • Windows XP (Service Pack 3)
  • Windows Server 2003 (Service Pack 2)
  • Windows Vista (Service Pack 1)
  • Windows 7
  • Windows Server 2008 (not supported on Server Core Role)
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 (not supported on Server Core Role) 

The download is 6.89Mb in size.
The current version of Multiple Image Resizer .NET is 4.0.0.2




BUM - Boot Up Manager for Linux

To manage start up services etc in linux distributions, there are plenty of tools available to make the process easier. One of those tools is Boot Up Manager (BUM). BUM is a graphical tool that allows you to select which services you want to run at startup. Not only that, but there might well be processes running on your machine that you do not need. Solution to these needs is BUM.

Installation :

1. Open up a terminal window.
2. Issue the command sudo apt-get install bum.
3. Type your sudo password and hit Enter.
4. Accept any dependencies (if necessary).

Once the installation is complete, leave that terminal window open so you can start up the tool.

How to start?

In terminal just type "sudo bum" without quotes to start BUM.

System Silencer .... Control the way your computer acts when idle

System Silencer is a freeware application that allows you to easily customize the way your computer should react when it's idle (you haven't used your keyboard and mouse for a longer period).


This little app will help you control what can be seen and heard from your computer when you're away / idle.

Run System Silencer and when you're away your computer's monitor can turn itself off, the sound will be muted and you can even choose to hide your taskbar and desktop icons! Of course, you can skip all the hiding and just configure System Silencer to lock your computer while you're away.

Version 1.2 looks like this (future versions may look different - with more actions / options):


License : Freeware
You can download this from developers website.

New Windows Vulnerability

I am already late in posting this. My dear readers, if you on a windows machine (whatever may be the version including the latest W7). There is a vulnerability existing in windows. It is related to security. It results in attackers to execute scripts on your machine without your knowledge. So I suggest 3 things.

  1. Maintain a updated antivirus 
  2. Maintain a good firewall.
  3. Download this fix from Microsoft and run on your computer.This is a patch from Microsoft.

File Joiner, Combine .001, .002, .00x Files

The main reason for splitting files is to prepare a file for distribution. File hosting sites often have file size limitations that force a user to split the file before it can be uploaded. This is usually done with the help of archiving software such as Winrar, Winzip or 7zip.

Internet users sometimes however may encounter split files with file extensions like .001, .002 and so on which many unpackers do not support.

File Joiner is a free portable application for Windows that can join these files back together.


Features 


  • auto sorting (numerical sorting (.001, .002) or full path sorting)
  • auto loading consecutive parts when you open or drag&drop file with extension .001
  • auto output file path generator (file "c:\test.avi.001" will generate output file path "c:\test.avi")
  • faster joining with option to append all files to first file
  • MD5 and CRC32 hash calculation for output file
  • full UNICODE support
  • loading files from folder and recursive loading from sub-folders
  • option to associate extension .001 in windows explorer, so you can load files by double clicking the file (not portable)
  • progress bar to monitor the join operation (also Windows 7 progress bar in taskbar)
  • File Joiner 64bit (x64) and 32bit (x86) versions available





Licence :
File Joiner is released as freeware, 100% free to use. You may copy and/or distribute File Joiner only in its original, unaltered form, with all files included unmodified.
File Joiner is intended as freeware, you are not allowed to charge any fee or other compensation for the software.




File Joiner can be downloaded at the developer website or from here.

32-bit

OS: Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000
Size: 41 KB   

64 bit
OS: Windows 7 64bit, Vista 64bit, XP 64bit
Size: 52 KB


A great Linux combination of thesaurus : WordNet + Artha

You may have heard of WordNet before. It’s a very handy command-line interface for the WordNet lexical database. When combined with a front-end however, WordNet is very powerful. There are many front ends for WordNet, but one of the easiest to use is Artha. Artha is a free, cross-platform thesaurus that depends upon WordNet for the backend.

Installation :

The installation of these two tools is simple. You can either search for them and install them from within your Add/Remove Software tool (search for “wordnet” and “artha” – no quotes), or you can install them via the command line. Let’s install from the command line. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Open up a terminal window.
2. Issue the command sudo apt-get install wordnet artha.
3. Type your sudo password when prompted.
4. Accept all dependencies (if necessary).

That’s it. Once installed you will find Artha in Applications > Accessories.