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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Windows XP Account Policy Explained

Windows XP Account Policy Explained See this video to know all about Windows XP Accounts Polic...

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Mapping a Network Drive

Mapping a Network Drive If you have more than one computer on the same switch or wireless network, then you don’t have to use flash drives or email attachments to move files around. One of the best – and least understood – ways to share files on small networks of computers is to use those networks to send and receive files. One of the simplest ways to do this is to map a...

Additional Clock in Windows Vista

Additional Clock in Windows Vista Do you have a need for an additional clock on your desktop? Maybe you have a son or daughter in the service overseas, or perhaps relatives living in Europe? It's always good to know what time it is where they are, so you're not calling them at 3 o'clock in the morning and disrupting their rest. So, let's learn how to pin another clock up...

How to Open .Rar Files on a Mac

How to Open .Rar Files on a Mac Rar is a file format that is used to compress computer files and make them smaller. .Rar files can be broken up into equally sized parts for archiving and they can also be password protected. To open a .rar on your Mac, you usually need special software. Learn about .rar files. .Rar files are popular with Windows users (the main .rar expander being WinRar), but you can also open .rar files on your Mac. Use StuffIt Expander if your computer runs Mac OS X. This program is built in to the system. You can use StuffIt...

Sunday, March 28, 2010

How to Safely OverClock you CPU

How to Safely OverClock you CPU Most processors allow overclocking only to a certain extent. Others, by virtue of their design, allow it a little more. Most processors today have their clock multipliers locked and this prevents them from being tweaked through that component. In such cases, the bus speed needs to be used, but you need to take care when you do this so that the...

Multiple Twitter Login

How to Login Multiple Twitter Accounts If you are a web worker, Internet Marketer, Blogger or Social Media guy you might be having more than one twitter account on which you would like to update your status, TweetDeck which is the best desktop twitter client allows you to login in with multiple twitter accounts, if for some reason you don’t want to use TweetDeck then you...

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Import mail and contacts to Gmail

Import mail and contacts to Gmail If you use Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL or any other free email provider, you’ve probably considered switching to Gmail for its superior spam filter or its integration with other Google services, like Google Docs. Even if you have your own domain or company email address, you should consider using an extra Gmail account. Free email providers, like...

Friday, March 26, 2010

Need a Co-Author

Need a Co-Author Thank you very much for showing interest in my blog. Every day when I see a new flag in the Flag Counter or the increased number of visitors, I think all the time I have invested in building the blog, collecting and typing all these information, making pictures for elaborating the subjects is not wasted. As you may have noticed that number of topics I used to post in a day have come down because I have joined a new office now-a-days and don't get much time to post in the blog, I want someone who is interested to post in my blog....

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Displaying Your Own Logo Before The Windows XP Login Screen

Displaying Your Own Logo Before The Windows XP Login Screen  Three-step Process  First, design an appropriate bitmap and save it in the “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data” directory as LogoName.BMP. Use the 8.3 naming convention. Since the Application Data directory is a hidden directory, you may need to unhide it by opening Windows Explorer and going to Tools > Folder Options, click on the View tab and check the 'Show hidden files and folders' option. Click on Apply and then on OK.  Next, open the registry...

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Change Start Button Text with System Time and Date

Change Start Button Text with System Time and Date Fire-up your favorite browser and punch this URL in the address bar: http://startclock.osnn.net Go to the "Click Here to Download" link and it'll take you to the download page http://startclock.osnn.net/files Now download the StartClock.Zip from the parent directory. Then extract the file StartClock.exe to any folder...

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Multiple GTalk

Multiple GTalk As I just posted a topic on How to use multiple Yahoo Messenger at the same time...Why not GTalk also ? Now-a-days people use gmail a lot. Many of us are having more than one GTalk IDs. Here is a simple method to use multiple GTalk at the same time on the same computer. See the picture below. Here is how you do it: -    Find the shortcut of...

How Google Search Works

How Google Search Works  There is a nice youtube video on how does google search actually works, you may know many things that were shown in the video before, but some of things may be new to you, you'll get all answers about How Google Search Works after watching the video. About Google.com ?As a company, Google focuses on three key areas: Search, Ads and Apps. Search is their core technology; ads are their central business proposition; and apps are the umbrella over their web-based software that you can access anywhere, any time. While...

Monday, March 22, 2010

Multiple Yahoo Messenger

Multiple Yahoo Messenger  Do you have more than yahoo IDs and want to chat simultaneously from both the IDs on Yahoo Messenger ? I have three yahoo ID and I chat from all of them at the same time using yahoo messenger. Doesn't it sound interesting ? If you too want to do the same then just follow these easy steps.  Go to Start > Run > type Regedit > Press Enter Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER-->Software-->Yahoo-->Pager-->Test On the Right side if the page, Right click and choose new Dword Value. Rename it...

Virus Alert

Virus Alert Get this sent around to your contacts ASAP. PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS:You should be alert during the next days:  Do not open any message with an attached file called 'Invitation' regardless ofwho sent it, It is a virus that opens an Olympic Torch which 'burns' the whole hard disc C of your computer. This virus will be received from someone who has your e-mail address in his/hercontact list, that is why you should send this e-mail toall your contacts. It is better to receive this message...

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Un-hide Windows 7 Hidden Themes

Un-hide Windows 7 Hidden Themes Windows 7 created a special theme for some reasons and it does get activated when we select the region while installing the windows 7, otherwise it just stays disable. But don't worry you can manually activate these themes by following simple 10 steps.  1. Open Windows Explorer  2. Click Organize, and select Folder and Search Options.  3. Go to View tab.  4. Select Show hidden files, folders and drivers and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended). If prompted with confirmation,...

How to Hide Partitions Without Any Software

How to Hide Partitions Without Any Software We all use Computer and have some important data also in the form of some pictures, Videos, Audios, documents etc. We want to hide and protect our personal data. There are several freeware software which provide us facility to hide folders and drive as well. We save the data into some folders and hide them to protect that data....

BarCodes Reading

BarCodes Reading  How will you come to know if the item you are purchasing is made in China or not This may be useful to know when grocery shopping, if it's a concern to you.  The whole world is afraid of China-made "black hearted goods".  Can you differentiate which one is made in Taiwan or China ?  If the first 3 digits of the barcode are 690, 691 or...

Friday, March 19, 2010

Download Mukhosh By Protik (Bengali Songs)

Download Mukhosh By Protik (Bengali Songs) Hey all you Bangla Band lovers. Here is the beautiful album Mukhosh _ Protik. I love this album and just uploaded the album to my FileFront Site. To download the full album just Click H...

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Photoshop Tutorials - Layer Mask

Photoshop Tutorials - Layer Mask Use the eyedropper tool to get a sample of any color in your document.Click and the sample will now become the foreground color that you can work with.  For this educational tutorial, get an eyedropper sample to get your new foreground color in the color picker. Now drag the background layer of this photo to the new layer icon. This...