Thursday, December 30, 2010

Gmail Notifier

    Gmail notifier is a tool to check Gmail messages without opening the browser. It alerts when you have new Gmail messages. It displays an icon in your system tray to let you know if you have unread Gmail messages, and shows you their subjects, senders and snippets, all without your having to open a web browser.




   Click to download Gmail Notifier.

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Some Windows Tips

Your Name on Taskbar
  • Right click Taskbar > Toolbars > New Toolbar
  • Make a new Folder and name it with your name
  •  Now you have your name in the Taskbar
  • You can also hide that folder by going to properties and check hidden.

    Notepad
    • Open Notepad
    • Type ''.LOG" without quotes
    • Save and close the document
    • Open the document again... You will see current date and time...!!!

    Sunday, December 26, 2010

    Google Multiple Account Sign-In

       Till now only single Google Account login was possible at a time in a browser. 
       Google has now enabled the option of Signing in to multiple Google accounts simultaneously from the same browser.This option can be enabled by going to the Google Accounts page and enabling the 'Multiple sign-in' option. 

      When multiple sign-in is enabled, a drop-down is displayed next to your email address at the top of the page, so you can quickly switch to a new account.
      If you use multiple sign-in, the first account you sign in to will be your default account. If you visit other Google products that don’t support multiple accounts after you’ve signed in, you will automatically sign in to your default account for that product. If you sign out of any Google product, you will be signed out of all your Google Accounts at once.




    Friday, November 26, 2010

    Windows 7 Tips

    Window Management


  • Win+Left Arrow and Win+Right Arrow dock;

  • Win+Up Arrow and Win+Down Arrow maximizes and restores / minimizes.



  • Globalization
    There are several sets of themed wallpapers installed based on the language you choose, but the others are in a hidden directory. Simply browse to C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT and you’ll see a series of pictures under the Wallpaper directory for each country. Just double-click on the theme file in the Theme directory to display a rotation through all the pictures for that country.

    Rearranging the Furniture
    The icons in the new taskbar aren’t fixed in-place. You can reorder them to suit your needs, whether they’re pinned shortcuts or running applications. What’s particularly nice is that once they’re reordered, you can start a new instance of any of the first five icons by pressing Win+1, Win+2, Win+3 etc.

    Quick Launch Toolbar

  • Right-click the taskbar, choose Toolbars / New Toolbar

  • In the folder selection dialog, enter the following string and hit OK: %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

  • Turn off the “lock the taskbar” setting, and right-click on the divider. Make sure that “Show text” and “Show title” are disabled and the view is set to “small icons”.

  • Use the dividers to rearrange the toolbar ordering to choice, and then lock the taskbar again.



  • Peeking at the Desktop
    Just press Win+Space

    Specialized Windows Switching
     Another feature that power users will love is the ability to do a kind of “Alt+Tab” switching across windows that belong to just one application.

    Focus to Taskbar
    Press Win+T to move the focus to the taskbar. Once you’re there, you can use the arrow keys to select a particular window or group and then hit Enter to launch or activate it.

    Explorer from “My Computer”
     To change the default starting directory for Windows Explorer so that it opens at the Computer node, navigate to Windows Explorer in the Start Menu (it’s in the Accessories folder). Then edit the properties and change the target to read:
     %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /root,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D} 
    If you want the change to affect the icon on the taskbar, you’ll need to unpin and repin it to the taskbar so that the new shortcut takes affect. It’s worth noting that Win+E will continue to display the documents library as the default view.

    Friday, November 19, 2010

    Top Hidden Features in Windows 7

     Windows 7 has its own hidden treasures. And you can access all of those listed here without downloading anything extra. Read on for handy and largely undocumented items in Windows 7 that you probably weren’t aware of..


    Ø   God Mode
       Windows 7’s God Mode is indeed omnipresent. It conveniently puts hundreds of settings from all around the operating system all in
    one place. 
         To turn on God Mode, create a new folder on your desktop, or anywhere you’d like, and name it: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
         The resulting folder will contain 270 items, representing virtually every configurable option in Windows 7.

    Ø   Enhanced Calculator


      Windows 7’s calculator has a few extra tricks up its sleeve, which you’ll find under the View menu. It can do myriad unit conversions (temperature, weight, area), and even mortgage

    payment or car mileage calculations. It maintains a history of your previous calculations as long as the program is open.


    Ø   WordPad's File Support


      The built-in WordPad word processor in Vista is of limited usefulness because it only supports RTF (Rich Text Format) and plain text (TXT) files. In Windows 7, on the other hand,  WordPad isn’t quite as restricted. Although Windows 7’s WordPad still doesn’t work with .doc files from Microsoft Word 2003 and earlier versions, it can open and save ODT (Open Document Text) files used by the free OpenOffice.org word processor as well as .docx files created in Microsoft Word 2007 or 2010. Although WordPad can’t understand all the complex formatting (it will warn you of this upon opening or saving a file), it will still let you read the documents without having the native programs installed.


    Ø   Reliability Monitor


      When your system is acting flaky and you’re trying to figure out what’s going on, the Reliability Monitor may help. Search for “reliability” from the Start menu, and run View Reliability History. You’ll get a graph of your system’s “stability index” over a period of days and weeks (rated on a scale of 1 to 10). 


      It displays which programs, Windows components, or miscellaneous items crashed on a given day, helping you identify problem items.

    Ø   Problem Steps Recorder
    When you need outside PC help, it’s much better to let them see for themselves what’s happening on your system. But if remote access isn’t an option, the Problem Steps Recorder may be the next best thing.


    Search for and run psr from the Start menu. Click Start Record, and the utility will record your activities through a series of screen shots, automatically including captions that show exactly where you clicked. You can also use the Add Comment button to highlight specific areas of the screen and insert custom annotations. When you stop recording, everything will be stitched together and saved as a Web browser-compatible MHTML (MIME HTML) file, conveniently pre-ZIPped and ready for e-mailing to your geek of choice.

    Ø   Power Efficiency Report
      If your Windows 7 laptop isn’t getting the battery life you expect, or it experiences power-related issues, such as the inability to go into standby or hibernate mode, the problem usually lies with incorrectly configured power-management settings. Windows 7’s Power Efficiency Report can help you sniff out potential problems. 


      Type search for CMD from the Start menu, run it as an administrator (right-click cmd.exe on the menu and choose Run as administrator).
      From the command prompt, type powercfg -ENERGY (include the space) to scan your system, and after about a minute, you’ll find a file called energy-report.html in your \windows\system32 folder.
      Copy the report to another location and open it (you’ll get a file-not-found error if you try to open it from the system32 folder) for detailed information about what system devices or settings are throwing a monkey wrench into your power management.

    Ø   Pin Folders To Taskbar
      You can right-click your favorite programs and pin them to the Windows 7 Taskbar for easy access. There’s no such option for folders, but you can still keep them close at hand on the Taskbar. Rightclick any folder, drag it to an empty space on the Taskbar (or to the Windows Explorer button), and let go when Pin to Windows Explorer appears. Now when you right-click the Windows Explorer button, your folders will be accessible via the Jump List.

    Ø   Wipe Free Disk Space
      When you delete files or folders in Windows, they’re not actually erased; the space they took up is simply marked as “available for use,” which allows the files to be recoverable until they’re overwritten with new data. There is a utility built into Windows (even XP Pro and vista) that will overwrite all the free space on a hard drive, insuring any files you’ve deleted stay dead. 
      Launch a command prompt and type cipher /w:X (X is the letter of the drive or partition you want to wipe). be patient; the process can take a long time if you have a lot of free space.



    Friday, September 10, 2010

    Google launches Instant

    Internet giant Google launches Google Instant for fast searching. 

    Google Instant is a new search enhancement that shows results as you type.The most obvious change is that you get to the right content much faster than before because you don’t have to finish typing your full search term, or even press “search.” Another shift is that seeing results as you type helps you formulate a better search term by providing instant feedback. You can now adapt your search on the fly until the results match exactly what you want. In time, we may wonder how search ever worked in any other way.

    Benefits

    •  By predicting search and showing results before you finish typing, Google Instant can save 2-5 seconds per search.
    •  Even when you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for, predictions help guide your search. The top prediction is shown in grey text directly in the search box, so you can stop typing as soon as you see what you need.
    •  Start typing and results appear right before your eyes. Until now, you had to type a full search term, hit return, and hope for the right results. Now results appear instantly as you type, helping you see where you’re headed, every step of the way.


    Google says:

    • Before Google Instant, the typical searcher took more than 9 seconds to enter a search term, and we saw many examples of searches that took 30-90 seconds to type.
    • Using Google Instant can save 2-5 seconds per search.
    • If everyone uses Google Instant globally, we estimate this will save more than 3.5 billion seconds a day. That’s 11 hours saved every second.
    • 15 new technologies contribute to Google Instant functionality
    Google Instant is starting to roll-out to users on Google domains in the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Russia who use the following browsers: Chrome v5/6, Firefox v3, Safari v5 for Mac and Internet Explorer v8. Users on domains other than Google.com can only access Google Instant if they are signed in to Google. New domains will be added in next several months.

    Sunday, August 15, 2010

    Happy Independence Day

                                          


    Wish You A Happy Independence Day...!!!

    Saturday, July 17, 2010

    Thursday, July 15, 2010

    Indian rupee to have a distinct symbol



    The Indian rupee will have its own symbol, a mix of the Devanagri 'Ra' and Roman 'R', to become the fifth currency in the world to have a distinct identity.

    The new symbol, designed by IIT post-graduate D Uday Kumar was approved by the Union Cabinet.


    The rupee will join the elite club of US dollar, British pound-sterling, Euro and Japanese yen to have its own symbol.


    Monday, June 28, 2010

    Argentina vs Mexico 3-1

    Carlos Tevez, Argentina

    Gonzalo Higuain scores goal

    Carlos Tevez  and Mexico's midfielder Gerardo Torrado look at the ball

    Messi and Mexico's Ricardo Osorio battle for the ball

    Mexico's coach Javier Aguirre and Argentina's coach Diego Maradona

    Mexico's defender Rafael Marquez and Gonzalo Higuain fight for the ball

    Diego Maradona kicks the ball on the touchline

    Thursday, June 17, 2010

    Argentina beat S.Korea 4-1



    The ball bouncess off of Park Chu-Young after a cross by Messi and goes in.It's an own goal that puts Argentina up 1-0


    Argentine celebrate the first goal.

    Gonzalo Higuain celebrates his first goal, Argentina's second

    Gonzalo Higuain takes a header to score Argentina's second goal

    Higuain connects another header,this time for Argentina's fourth goal,after a superb play by Messi and Aguero

    Lio Messi and Sergio Aguero high five each other after setting up a great play that ended with the fourth goal for the Argentines


    Messi,surrounded

    A defensive mistake from Martin Demichelis allows Lee Chung-Yong to steal the ball and score for South Korea at very end of the first half

    Lio Messi controls the ball as he is followed by Park Ji-Sung

    Tuesday, June 15, 2010

    Listen: "Waka Waka This Time For Africa"

    Listen:
     shakira - waka waka .mp3
    Found at bee mp3 search engine


    Lyrics:


    You’re a good soldier

    Choosing your battles
    Pick yourself up
    And dust yourself off
    Get back in the saddle
    You’re on the front line
    Everyone’s watching
    You know it’s serious
    We’re getting closer
    This isn’t over
    The pressure’s on; you feel it
    But you got it all; believe it
    When you fall, get up, oh oh
    And if you fall, get up, eh eh
    Tsamina mina zangalewa
    Cause this is Africa
    Tsamina mina eh eh
    Waka waka eh eh
    Tsamina mina zangalewa
    This time for Africa
    Listen to your god; this is our motto
    Your time to shine
    Don’t wait in line
    Y vamos por todo
    People are raising their expectations
    Go on and feel it
    This is your moment
    No hesitation
    Today’s your day
    I feel it
    You paved the way,
    Believe it
    If you get down
    Get up oh, oh
    When you get down,
    Get up eh, eh
    Tsamina mina zangalewaThis time for Africa
    Tsamina mina eh eh
    Waka waka eh eh
    Tsamina mina zangalewa
    Anawa aa
    Tsamina mina eh eh
    Waka waka eh eh
    Tsamina mina zangalewa
    This time for Africa