Hi friends,
Hi friends,
As you all know there's a new in front of us... It is gonna be 10 years after the millennium threat (the Y2K threat)...the great milestone in computer's history! Let us recall it.
The Year 2000 problem (also known as the Y2K problem, the millennium bug, the Y2K bug, or simply Y2K) was a notable problem for both digital (computer-related) and non-digital documentation and data storage situations which resulted from the practice of abbreviating a four-digit year to two digits.
In computer program design, the practice of representing the year with two digits becomes problematic with logical error(s) arising upon "rollover" from x99 to x00. This has caused some date-related processing to operate incorrectly for dates and times on and after January 1, 2000 and on other critical dates which were billed "event horizons". Without corrective action, it was suggested that long-working systems would break down when the "...97, 98, 99, 00..." ascending numbering assumption suddenly became invalid. Companies and organizations worldwide checked, fixed, and upgraded their computer systems.
While no globally significant computer failures occurred when the clocks rolled over into 2000, preparation for the Y2K bug had a significant effect on the computer industry. Countries that spent very little on tackling the Y2K bug (including Italy and South Korea) experienced as few problems as those that spent much more (such as the United Kingdom and the United States), causing some to question whether the absence of computer failures was the result of the preparation undertaken or whether the significance of the problem had been overstated.
Many banks have responded to the Y2K problem by forcing full 4-digit year entries on cheque forms, which helps to prevent the error from occurring in accounting environments.
Y2K was the common abbreviation for the year 2000 software problem. The abbreviation combines the letter Y for "year", and k for the Greek prefix kilo meaning 1000; hence, 2K signifies 2000. It was also named the Millennium Bug because it was associated with the popular, rather than literal, roll-over of the millennium, despite the fact that the bug could have occurred at the end of any ordinary century.
The Year 2000 problem was the subject of the early book, "Computers in Crisis" by Jerome and Marilyn Murray (Petrocelli, 1984; reissued by McGraw-Hill under the title "The Year 2000 Computing Crisis" in 1996). The first recorded mention of the Year 2000 Problem on a Usenetnewsgroup occurred Saturday, January 19, 1985 by Usenet poster Spencer Bolles.
The acronym Y2K has been attributed to David Eddy, a Massachusetts programmer, in an e-mail sent on June 12, 1995. He later said, "People were calling it CDC (Century Date Change), FADL (Faulty Date Logic) and other names."
Many computer programs stored years with only two digits, for example, 1980 would be stored as 80. Some such programs could not distinguish between the year 2000 and the year 1900. Other programs would try to represent the year 2000 as 19100. This could cause a complete failure and cause date comparisons to produce incorrect results. Some embedded systems, making use of similar date logic, were expected to fail and cause utilities and other crucial infrastructure to fail.
Some warnings of what would happen if nothing were done were particularly dire:
The Y2K problem is the electronic equivalent of the El Niño and there will be nasty surprises around the globe. — John Hamre, Deputy Secretary of Defense
Special committees were set up by governments to monitor remedial work and contingency planning, particularly by crucial infrastructures such as telecommunications, utilities and the like, to ensure that the most critical services had fixed their own problems and were prepared for problems with others. While some commentators and experts argued that the coverage of the bug largely amounted to scaremongering, it was only the safe passing of the main "event horizon" itself, January 1, 2000, that fully quelled public fears. Some experts who argued that scaremongering was occurring, such as Ross Anderson, Professor of Security Engineering at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, have since claimed that despite sending out hundreds of press releases about research results suggesting that the bug was not likely to be as big a problem as some had suggested, they were largely ignored by the media.
In Word 2007, most of the shortcut keys are same from the earlier versions such as Word 2000 and Word 2003. But the interesting thing in Word 2007 is that, Microsoft provides a new look or system for these shortcuts keys. In earlier Word versions, you must be memorized to use the shortcuts keys such as (CTRL + B" to make letters bold and "CTRL + I" to make letters italic). But now do not require planned memorization in latest Word 2007 version. There is a fast, simple, and visual way to find out what you need to press.
Now by pressing the "ALT" button and many options or keyboard shortcuts (containing letters or numbers) will be appear on top of the toolbar buttons.
You will see here, For Example:
Alt-F = Office Button
Alt-1 = Save
Alt-2 = Undo
Alt-3 = Redo
Alt-H = Home
Alt-N = Insert tab
Alt-P = Page Layout tab
Alt-S = References tab
Alt-M = Mailings tab
Alt-R =Review tab
Alt-V =View tab
Alt-L = Developer tab
To get the shortcut keys for earlier versions of office please go through our archives.
How do you use social networks like Twitter and Facebook if you are computer shy or don’t have access to the Internet?
Well, you can use a mobile phone to post updates without a computer but this woman is using something that most of us can’t even imagine — see uses a pen to write her tweets on a piece of paper and then send them to Twitter using a fax machine.
Hard to believe? Watch this news story:
The woman, whose Twitter handle is @dorothy_celery, uses a service from Celery that lets people send and receive email messages through a fax machine without requiring a computer or an Internet connection. Other than email, Celery now works with Twitter and Facebook as well.
The service costs about $8.98 a month and you can not only send tweets via fax but they’ll also fax you back any @replies to your Twitter account.
Content Coutesy: Labnol.org
hi dudes,
You’ve seen all the new features of Office 2010 and now its time to try them on your own computer.
The first public beta of Microsoft Office 2010 is now available as a free download on microsoft.com/office. And other then Office, you can also download Visio 2010 beta and Project 2010 beta for your Windows computer.
This is the Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 edition so you get to experience Publisher and Infopath 2010 as well in addition to the regular Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Outlook applications.
The Office installer weighs around 700 MB in size but you need around 3 GB of free space on your hard drive for the installation.
You can either upgrade your current version of Microsoft Office to Office 2010 Beta or select the Customize option during installation and set your current version of Microsoft Office to coexist with Office 2010 Beta.
All products require online activation after installation. In case of Office 2010, you can enter the serial number inside Word 2010 and it will automatically activate all other Office applications. Project and Visio will require separate activation since they use a different set of keys.
The beta version of Office 2010 will expire in October 2010. And other than English, Office 2010 is available for download in Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian and Spanish.
One of the reasons why your computer may become slow over time is because the files on the hard drive can become fragmented. Now what’s that?
Disk Fragmentation for Non-Techies
As you start filling your hard-drive with new programs, documents, and other files, the operating system tries to find vacant places on the hard-drive to place these files. Like an artist who breaks a tile into multiple pieces to form a mosaic, your computer will break these file into chunks (or fragments) and store them in different places across your hard drive.
When you load a program or open a file, the computer will have to first assemble these "fragmented" pieces thus decreasing the performance. And fragmentation is not just an issue with your computer’s hard disk but even removable devices like the USB Flash Drive or your external drives can also become fragmented with time.
Alternate Windows Disk Defragmenter from Microsoft
A Disk Defragmenter program helps because it will pre-arrange all the "fragmented" pieces of a file close together thus reducing the time it takes to open files or load programs on your computer.
Now almost every version of Windows includes a disk defragmenter utility but the problem with these built-in tools is that that will defragment the entire hard-drive at once and they’ll ignore files that are smaller than 64 MB. Luckily, Microsoft offers another free but lesser-known utility called Contig (short for contiguous) that lets you have more control over the defragmentation process.
What’s unique about Contig is that it lets you defragment individual files, folders, or the entire hard drive. You can run Contig from the command prompt but if that sounds a bit technical, you can also look at Power Defragmenter – an easy and more visual interface for Contig.
Using Power Defragmenter, you can visually select files, folders, or the drive you wish to defragment, and Power Defragmenter will internally use Contig to perform the defragmentation process. You may use Contig on machines running Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.
For instance, if I were to defragment all the documents on my disk and none of the other files, the command* will be:
Contig.exe -v -s c:\Users\labnol\Documents\*.*[*] You’ll need to run the utility as an administrator as it will throw an "Access denied" error.
And here’s a detailed output of a standard Contig command that tells you exactly what happens behind the scenes per file.
Unlike other third-party defragmentation tools, Contig uses Windows’ internal defragmentation APIs so it won’t cause disk corruption, even if you terminate the program while its running.
Please note, however, that defragmentation is only recommended for traditional hard drives; computers using newer flash memory based solid-state drives should not use traditional defragmenters. Even though file fragmentation may occur on these drives, it should not impact performance due to the nature of flash memory. Additionally, defragmentation may actually decrease the life of a solid-state drive; however, they cannot cause this on a traditional platter-based hard drive.
Content Courtesy: labnol.org
Today's Tip:
Similar Images allows you to search for images using pictures rather than words. Click the "Similar images" link under an image to find other images that look like it.
Thats what is known as Google Similar Image Search...
If you were wondering how long will global reserves of some important metals that are used in electronic devices last, here’s a clue.
Tantalum is a rare metal that is used in the manufacture of cell phones and camera lenses but you’ll be surprised to know that if every human on the planet were to consume this metal at the same rate an average US resident today, the metal supplies won’t last for more than 20 years.
Similarly, we won’t be left with any stock of Indium, another rare metal used in LCDs and touch-screen displays, after 4 years if the world consumes this metal at the same rate as US today.
This report, which roughly demonstrates how quickly time is running out for some rare and important metals, was original published in New Scientist in 2007.
Armin Reller, a materials chemist, estimates that we have, at best, 10 years before we run out of Indium. Its impending scarcity could already be reflected in its price: in January 2003 the metal sold for around $60 per kilogram; by August 2006 the price had shot up to over $1000 per kilogram.
Muslims generally use the term “Halal” to designate food items that they are allowed to eat under the Islamic law (like fish). The opposite of “halal” is ‘haraam’, another Arabic term which is used for food products that Muslims are forbidden from eating (like pork).
This page describes in detail how stuff is classified as Halal or Haram according to Islam. And its not just about food, the term Halal can refer to any action that is permitted under the Quran while prohibited actions are known as “Haram”.
A Search Engine for Muslims (and your Kids)
Extending the Halal and Haram concept to the Internet, Ramadan Kareem has created a search engine called I am Halal that might just prevent you (Muslims and Non-Muslims alike) from “accidentally” bumping into any explicit (or “Haram”) content on the Internet.
Unlike Safe Search in Google which simply removes all adult sites from search results, I-Am-Halal, which uses search results from Yahoo, employs a double-layered filter.
When you type a search query (e.g. sex) that can potentially retrieve “haram” search results, the search engine would require you to confirm whether you really want to see those search results. When you say yes, it will fetch the relevant pages but will still filter out content that is not deemed as family-safe.
The search results page will also contain thumbnail images of web pages alongside the site links and description. And in addition to websites, you may also use IAmHalal.com to search for images and news stories on the web.
I am actually quite impressed with “I Am Halal” and, other than the religious side of things, this is something good for your kids as well. For instance, if they type a query that is bound to return explicit results, the search engine would simply refuse to work for that query.
Hope it is a good service.
When all you want to do is write, a distraction-free writing tool can come really handy as it will automatically hide all the distractions on the desktop and you can therefore concentrate on your writing.
Dark Room (Windows), Microsoft Word, Write Room (Mac), Internet Writer (Web-based), JDarkRoom (Java), PyRoom (Linux) and Q10 (Portable) are some of the popular distraction-free writing tools for various platforms.
There’s an app as well to help you create that perfect writing environment on an iPhone or iPod Touch.
Distraction-free Writing with Google Docs
If you have Google Docs, you really don’t need to download another text editor as Google Docs offers everything (and even more) that you may need in a perfect distraction free writing tool.
To get started, open this page and click the “Use this Template” button. Now press Ctrl + Shift + F followed by F11 and you are all set to do some creative writing.
If you are interested in the details, here’s how you can quickly turn Google Docs into a online distraction-free writing tool:Step
1: Create a new document in Google Docs and choose “Edit CSS” from the edit menu.
Step 2: Paste the following code into the CSS Box and save.
body {
font: 16px "Courier New";
color: #00ff00 !important;
background: #000 !important;
width: 800px;
margin: 10px auto;
}
Step 3: Now hit Ctrl + Shift + F to remove the menu bar in Google Docs and then hit F11 to turn your browser into full-screen mode. That’s it.
The above example uses green text on a black background. If you like to change the color of text or that of your screen, just edit the color and background property in the CSS to a different hexadecimal value. You may also modify the font-family, size, or the line-height property to adjust the text spacing and other formatting.
The latest data from Google Ad Planner suggests that female users form a majority on all popular social networking sites except Digg where 64% of the traffic is from male users. The male to female ratio on LinkedIn and YouTube stands at 1.
I think this is interesting....Why does this happen? Who knows!
Special Thanks: David McCandless, Brian Solis and Labnol.
Hi,
Google celebrates its 11th anniversary today. On this occassion Blog4info wish google to live long. MAy God bless google.
Bon Voyage,
Mohammed
Hi friends,
Google books is an online library service offered by google. It is a very useful service for people who like to read a lot. This service is absolutely free. Many readers around the world utilize this service.
Search
Book Search works just like web search. Try a search on Google Books or on Google.com. When search finds a book with content that contains a match for your search terms, they'll link to it in your search results.
Browse books online
If the book is out of copyright, or the publisher has given us permission, you'll be able to see a preview of the book, and in some cases the entire text. If it's in the public domain, you're free to download a PDF copy.
Learn more -- fast
They have created reference pages for every book so you can quickly find all kinds of relevant information: book reviews, web references, maps and more.
Buy the book ... or borrow it from the library
If you find a book you like, click on the "Buy this book" and "Borrow this book" links to see where you can buy or borrow it.
If you love to read...Its a golden opportunity for you..
Did You Know?
The domain horse.ae was bought by a company for AED 6,100,001 (1.655m USD). The price increased a lot and still increasing. Now the price for the domain is AED 8,000,000 (2.177m USD).
The company got an offer of AED 7,235,000 (1.97m USD) from a horse lover. They gained all this profit because of their hard work and marketing. They had spent a lot for the marketing of this domain. Not only that as you all know .ae is for U.A.E. All the people in the gulf especially UAE nationals are very fond of horses. Horse race is a royal game in gulf region. It is played by the members of royal families. So the domain horse.ae has a great value.
Their luck!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi friends,
I am very happy to know that Microsoft Office 2010 is on the way to us. After a long period of time Microsoft is releasing the new version of Office.
I think that the last version released was in 2007. As we all know after Micrsoft Office 2007 there is no new version of it released until 2009. So I believe that Microsoft Office 2010 will create a ripple in the market.
Some of the key features of 2010 are (As per microsoft as no trial program relesed):
Introduction to Microsoft Office 2010
Microsoft® Office 2010 gives you rich and powerful new ways to deliver your best work - whether you’re at work, home, or school - on a computer, Web browser, or Smartphone. Grab your audience’s attention and inspire them with your ideas using enhanced tools, customizable templates, and photo editing capabilities. Work with multiple people from different locations at the exact same time using new co-authoring capabilities. By offering more ways to access your files from virtually anywhere, Office 2010 puts you in control.
Microsoft Excel 2010
Microsoft® Excel® 2010 makes it possible to analyze, manage, and share information in more ways than ever before. Track and highlight important data trends with new data analysis and visualization tools. Work more effectively with multiple people by simultaneously editing Excel files over the Web. Access important data on the go using Office Excel Mobile or the Office Excel Web Application. Whether you’re producing financial reports or managing personal expenses, Excel 2010 gives you the proficiency and flexibility to accomplish your goals.
Microsoft PowerPoint 2010
Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2010 delivers more new and exciting ways to create and share dynamic presentations with any audience. Improved audio and visual capabilities help you tell a crisp, cinematic story that’s as easy to create as it is powerful to watch. New, easy-to-use tools help you polish your presentations to help you keep your audience’s attention even longer. Almost-anywhere access to PowerPoint 2010 from your smartphone or the Web allows you to simultaneously work on presentations with other people. Simply put, it’s never been easier to express your ideas with PowerPoint 2010
For more info: http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/
Hi Friends,
Today I am gonna discuss about blog traffic. Many people start blogging with great ambitions and wills but most of them gets melancholic and many gets succeeded.
Are you one who became successful? or Are you not receiving enough traffic to your blog?
Never get upset!! Many great bloggers did not receive any response for many many years. You will get clicked a day........ As a proverb states "Every Dog Has A Day". We all will have a day.
However let us see how to bring traffic:
1) Make your posts short
2) Make your posts attractive with pics and animations
3) Follow all the blogs you see, so you will be listed in their blogs
4) Comment everywhere in the web with your blog's signature
And many more things to do.....
Successful blogger: Please help the others to get clicked....
Even I am one who does not get much clicks... I am blogging for the last 3 years..
Still waiting for my day..
President Barack Obama warned American teenagers on Tuesday of the dangers of putting too much personal information on internet social networking sites, saying it could come back to haunt them in later life.
The presidential words of advice follow recent studies that suggest US employers are increasingly turning to sites such as Facebook and News Corp's MySpace to conduct background checks on job applicants.
Taking part in a question-and-answer session with a group of 14- and 15-year-old school students, Obama was asked by one pupil for some advice on becoming US president.
"Well, let me give you some very practical tips. First of all, I want everybody here to be careful about what you post on Facebook, because in the YouTube age, whatever you do, it will be pulled up again later somewhere in your life," Obama said.
"And when you're young, you make mistakes and you do some stupid stuff. And I've been hearing a lot about young people who - you know, they're posting stuff on Facebook, and then suddenly they go apply for a job and somebody has done a search."
Obama referred several times to "mistakes" he had made when he was at school but offered no specifics. He has previously admitted to drug use when he was younger.
A survey in June by careerbuilder.com found that 45 per cent of employers used social network sites to research job candidates and that Facebook, which says it has 250 million users worldwide, was their site of choice.
Some 35 per cent of the employers surveyed said they had found content on the sites that had influenced them to reject a candidate. Examples included inappropriate photographs, information about the applicants' drinking or drug use, or bad mouthing of previous employers, co-workers or clients.
Google Inc.'s Gmail service has been knocked offline in an outage that the company said affected a "majority" of its millions of e-mail users.
The disruption, which lasted under two hours on Tuesday, was a reminder of the growing dependence on Google's technology.
The disruption led tens of millions of Gmail users to get an "Unable to reach Gmail" error message as their computers tried repeatedly to reconnect to the service.
Google said it had taken some of Gmail's servers offline for routine maintenance, and underestimated the load that would place on other computers responsible for directing traffic to the appropriate Gmail servers.
Google said it was alerted to the failures within seconds. It said it has added capacity and made other changes to prevent similar incidents in the future. A separate outage on Monday had wiped out e-mail to a "small subset" of users.
Google says more than 1.75 million businesses use Gmail as part of Google Apps, which is Google's answer to business software from Microsoft Corp.
The last major outage at Google happened in May, when millions of people were cut off from Google's search engine, e-mail and other online services after too much traffic was routed through computers in Asia.
Dear friends,
This post has many specialities. This is the independence day special post and also the 100th post of our blog.
Some good news:
Q. Who is the GM of Hewlett Packard (hp)?
A. Rajiv Gupta
Q. Who is the creator of Pentium chip(needs no introduction as 90% of the today’s computers run on it)?
A. Vinod Dahm
Q. Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail(Hotmail is world’s No.1 web based email program)?
A. Sabeer Bhatia
Q. Who is the third richest man on the world?
A. According to the latest report on Fortune Magazine, it is Azim Premji, who is the CEO of Wipro Industries. The Sultan of Brunei is at 6 th position now.
Q. Who is the president of AT & T-Bell Labs(AT & T-Bell Labs is the creator of program languages such as C, C++, Unix to name a few)?
A. Arun Netravalli
Q. Who is the new MTD(Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000, responsible to iron out all initial problems?
A. Sanjay Tejwrika
Q. Who are the Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart?
A. Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar.
We Indians are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in America, even faring better than the whites and the natives.
There are 3.22 millions of Indians in USA (1.5% of population). YET,
38% of doctors in USA are Indians.12% scientists in USA are Indians.36% of NASA scientists are Indians.34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.28% of IBM employees are Indians.17% of INTEL scientists are Indians.13% of XEROX employees are! Indians.
Some of the following facts may be known to you. These facts were recently published in a German magazine, which deals with WORLD HISTORY FACTS ABOUT INDIA .
1. India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.
2. India invented the Number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
3. The world’s first University was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
4. According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software.
5. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.
6. Although western media portray modern images of India as poverty stricken and underdeveloped through political corruption, India was once the richest empire on earth.
7. The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. The very word “Navigation” is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.
8. The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is now known as the Pythagorean Theorem. British scholars have last year (1999) officially published that Budhayan’s works dates to the 6th Century which is long before the European mathematicians.
9. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India . Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11th Century; the largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 10. 6 whereas Indians used numbers as big as 1053.
10. According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds to the world.
11. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Professor Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.
12. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
13. Chess was invented in India .
14. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted surgeries like cesareans, cataract, fractures and urinary stones. Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India .
15. When many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley ( Indus Valley Civilisation).
16. The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.
Hi friends,
I would like to inform you that Blog4info is on the way to score century. There is only one post, just a single post left to cover 100 posts. That means the century! Thank You all my friends for supporting me! I cannot change the look of our blog on this great occasion as I am in vacation that means in my home country,
Mohammed
Blog4info admin
Hi dudes,
Blog4info steps forward into a new branch.
You can study photoshop online through Blog4info! The course will be of 20 days. Each week contains three posts! You may clear all your doubts through comments and you will be answered to your question within a time period of maximum 48hrs. The first post will be on 15th of August. Hope you all support me as always you do!
Dear friends,
Today I am going to share a DOS magic with you!
You can watch a movie made of dots.
The steps are as follows:
1. Start menu
2. Run
3. Cmd
4. Enter
5. telnet towel.blinkenliggts.nl
6. Enter
Make sure that you are connected to the internet.
By this way you can watch the movie 'star wars'.
Dear friends,
Blog4info invites templates for our Blog. Please mail us along with the template to: cybermammu@gmail.com
What is technorati? What does it deal with? Lets discuss! Post your info through replies
Do you want to capture a full screenshot of a web page without installing any software or browser extensions?
Well, here’s a simple trick.
Open the web page that you want to capture, go to the address bar of the browser and type "aviary.com/" just before the http:// part of the URL.
For instance, if your web address is something like http://blog4info.co.cc, the new URL will become aviary.com/http://blog4info.co.cc - hit Enter and there you have an editable screenshot image of that page.
Or add this bookmarklet to the bookmarks bar and you can even save yourself from typing aviary.com every time you want to capture a screenshot.
You can save the image to the desktop or further add annotation using the Type Tool, freehand brushes, arrows and other tools available in the Aviary editor. It can’t get easier than this.
And it even works with the Flash videos of YouTube.
Another web services that allows screen capture of web pages in the browser is Kwout.com though it won’t do full pages. [via RWW]
Compiled from: labnol.org
Iranian government blocks Facebook access, But why? A political Play? Or An action to protect the youth? Whatever, its gone.
Iranian authorities often block specific websites and blogs considered critical of the Islamic regime, but the timing of the latest clampdown suggested it was intended to undermine opponents of the hardline president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
During the last presidential race, in 2005, information about rallies and campaign updates were sent by text message. In recent years, political blogs by Iranians in the country and abroad have grown sharply. Newcomers such as Twitter are also gaining in popularity.
Do you think it is not a political game??? Then Discuss with us through comments.....
Dear Readers,
The default full screen button in the YouTube video player expands the video such that it covers your entire desktop area and all existing windows on the screen stay hidden as long as you are watching the video is this "maximized" state.
That’s one way of doing things but what if you want more control over the size of the YouTube video player, here’s a simple hack - just replace the word "watch" in the URL of any YouTube video with "watch_popup" and the video will expand to fit your browser window, not the desktop.
For instance, if the original YouTube video is located at ..
youtube.com/watch?v=2mrRvUNlq50
the same video can be accessed standalone outside the YouTube website at..
youtube.com/watch_popup?v=2mrRvUNlq50
Resizing the browser window will also resize the YouTube player and you can press F11 in Firefox to mimic YouTube’s full screen mode even with this hack.
YouTube & Sticky Windows
You may also use the trick for watching YouTube videos in sticky mode. Just open the YouTube video in a new window (not tab), resize it according to your need and use a program like Always on Top to watch videos while working on other tasks.
Embed YouTube Player
You can use the the watch_popup URL with the IFRAME tag to directly embed any YouTube video on your website without having to calculate the confusing height and width ratios necessary for the EMBED tag. In the case of IFRAME, specify the height or width as 100% and it will auto-expand to fit the entire available space on the site.
CONTENT COURTESY: LABNOL
If you like to abandon your Yahoo Mail account in favor of Gmail, here’s some good news. You can now move copy all your old contacts and email messages from the Yahoo! inbox to your new Gmail address without having to worry about complex IMAP or POP3 configuration.
How to Move from Yahoo Mail to Gmail
Gmail now offers a new import mails option under Settings -> Accounts and Import. Enter the username and password of Yahoo Mail account and all the messages will be copied to your Gmail account in the next few hours. Once the migration is over, any incoming email on your old Yahoo address will be auto-forward to your Gmail account for another month.
The reason why I stressed Yahoo! Mail here is because it was the only web email service that required users to upgrade to Mail! Plus for them to move their data out to another email provider. That however changed with today’s announcement on the Gmail blog.
The Import function is currently available in new Gmail accounts only (not Google Apps) but it will soon be available for all so if you are in a hurry, just set up another Gmail account and use Mail Fetcher to copy Yahoo mails from this new address to your old Gmail account.
Hi Readers,
Today tip will help you to recover the unreadable and corrupted file of Microsoft PowerPoint. Normally PowerPoint open files can become corrupted when you are trying to save it or if you were working on it and your PowerPoint application or windows crashed due to power failure. Windows saves a duplicate copy of working file as a temporary version. There is no need to use any third party software to manage these types of corrupted files, because you can recover them from TEMP folder.
Follow the given steps to recover the corrupted files in MS PowerPoint:
1. First click on Start button then click on Search option to start your search process.
2. Here type the *.TMP in "All or part of the file name" box then choose the "Local Hard Drives" option in "Look in" box.
3. Now click on Search button to start the search process of temporary files on your system local drives.
4. After some time, windows locate the list to temporary files. Here arrange the all temp files as Date modified.
5. Now open the PowerPoint and try to open these temp files or double click on that file to run in PowerPoint.
Keep Visiting!!!
Hi Step: 1. Click on “Run” and type the following address: C:\heap41a and hit Enter key. You cannot find the “heap41a” file by navigating thru files and folders using mouse in C drive. Inference: You will find the following files in the above path Step: 2. Delete the “svchost.exe” file with the big “H” icon. Step: 3. Then press start button, click run and type regedit and click ok. Your registry will be opened. Then press F3 and find comes. There type heap and search. Wherever it stops and gives any values, corresponding to “Heap”, just press delete button on key board and delete it. Then Press F3 once again and so … on, till you delete all heap folders and values.
The "MUHAHAHA" virus is a highly contagious virus. If this virus is infected in your computer, you must im
mediately remove it. MUHAHAHA.!!!!!!!!! virus migrates through pen drives or even through CD’s. In CD’s or USBs if you find a file named Microsoftpowerpoint.exe kindly delete it. The virus gets installed to the computer by this executable file.
Symptoms:
When you open some sites (for eg: youtube), a dialog box appears that "this site is blocked for you fool, The admin did not add this dialog and who did? Muhahaha" and a laughing sound.
This virus has already infected millions of computers. This virus cannot be removed with the help of an antivirus.
To remove this virus follow these steps:
a) Offspring (folder), b) 2.mp3 (Muhaha laughing sound that is played while virus closes the window),
c) drivelist (notepad file), d) reproduce (notepad file), e) script1 (notepad file), f) std (notepad file), g) Icon (Icon file)
h) svchost.exe (executable file)
Then restart the computer. Your MUHAHAHA virus is gone for ever !!!!
Note: Some times the access in denied to this file and thus cannot be deleted, in such situations download GIPO FILE UTILITIES to delete it.
1) Start Windows in your normal fashion.
2) Click the Start menu and select the "My Computer" option. Alternately, you can double-click the "My Computer" desktop icon if you've enabled it to appear on the desktop.3) Double-click on your hard drive to open the directory.4) Find the program for which you wish to change the associated icon. You'll need to know its location on the hard drive. If you don't know where it is, you can use the Start menu "Search" feature to locate it.5) Right-click on the file, and click the "Properties" menu option. This will open the Properties menu for the file.6) Click the "Change Icon" button. If there is no "Change Icon" button, you will need to create a desktop icon instead. To do so, cancel out of the Properties menu and right-click the file again. This time, select "Send to -> Desktop (create shortcut)."7) Click on one of the icons that appears in the list. If the icon you want isn't on the list, click the "Browse" button to search for more icons.8) Click "OK" once you've chosen the icon you'd like to use.9) Click "Apply" to confirm your changes, and then click "OK" to close the window.10) Wait a moment to see the icon change. There are times, like when a lot of system resources are in use, when icon changes can take a moment to appear.Recommendation from experts: "Better to use icon managers or icon packs instead of manual editing"
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Hi Friends,
Today I am gonna teach you or tell you how to open orkut even if it is blocked by your country without changing any IP or using any sofwares. It really works with orkut, myspace, facebook and more. What you have to do is only to visit www.power.com. Through this site you can login to most of social networking sites. Thats it! No hacking, changing proxy etc. It really works in U.A.E too. It is a superb service. You can even log in to all ur accounts at the same time through power.com. Hope you will check it out soon.
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A look into the most popular sites:
Twitter.com: The site that started the microblogging phenomenon was founded in San Francisco in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams. The site works by sending a text message to one of four numbers located in the US, Canada, India, or the United Kingdom. Those messages appear on Twitter.com and can be viewed by anyone. Followers of the blog can choose to receive SMS updates every time a new update is posted. Number of monthly visitors: 7,935,441.
Flickr: Flickr used to be a site that was all about photography. Photos are still a big part of what the site offer. Flickr allows users to upload, touch-up and share their pictures online. You can organise your photos for family and friends, and just use Flickr as a place to store your digital files. You can even tag your photos to a map to show where they were clicked. Flickr was developed by Vancouver-based Ludicorp. It launched Flickr in February 2004. In March 2005 both the site and parent company were acquired by Yahoo. Number of monthly visitors: 23,769,885.
Zannel.com: A relatively new site that adds Multimedia Service (MMS) as a way to let people update blogs. That means that instead of sending a text message, Zannel users can update their blogs from their phones with text and images by sending them to a personalised email address. Zannel won a Webby for Best Mobile Social Network in 2008. The site was launched in 2007. Number of monthly visitors: 38,159.
FriendFeed: FriendFeed, launched in October 2007, is an aggregator, similar to Digg and Reddit, that consolidates the updates from a large number of sites. The founders of Friendfeed are all former Google employees. Number of monthly visitors: 876,616.
Hulu.com: A joint-venture of US networks NBC and Fox, this site allows you to watch the latest episodes of your favourite television shows, even in High-Definition (HD) format. The Hulu venture was announced in April 2007 and launched publicly in March last year. Number of monthly visitors: 7,352,849
Digg.com: This is the place to visit if you want to talk about the day's news. Users post links to stories they find on other sites, which are then read by others and commented on. And there is a lot of commenting. Readers also have the choice of giving any story the thumbs-up (you 'Digg it') or the thumbs-down ('Bury it'). The more 'Diggs' a story gets, the wider its circulation among the site's readers. Digg was founded in 2004 by Kevin Rose, Owen Byrne, Ron Gorodetzky, and Jay Adelson. Number of monthly visitors: 33,433,760
Imeem.com: This is a social networking site that includes blogs, photos, audio and video. The company was founded by Dalton Caldwell and Jan Jannink, a former employee of Napster, a file sharing site that was shut down in 2001 for violating copyright laws. Imeem was launched in October 2004. Number of monthly visitors: 9,694,353
Who invented the cell phone?
Option 1: Martin Cooper
Option 2: Richard Frenkiel
Option 3: Joel Engel
The winner's blog will be reviewed by BLoG4InFo experts and also advertised for 1 week.
Dear friends you have read many interesting tips from my site and I think you have gained more knowledge from them. Now I have a more interesting tip to increase your Laptop's battery life. There is no matter, laptop manufactures gives you the guarantee about the battery that how long it works. The battery of laptop always stops working very early at some stage in essential research, just like when you are watching a DVD movie. Follow the few steps to increase the laptop battery's life: Lower the backlighting on your screen. The screen of your Laptop takes up significant amount of power and you do not require its maximum brightness. You should have to check your system and decrease the screen brightness it to a comfortable point. Stop your wireless signal when you are not using. After turning off your Laptop can save max. 20 minutes of your laptop's battery time because WiFi can use a considerable quantity of power. By right clicking you can stop your WiFi signal when you are not using. Manage the correct power scheme in XP Windows XP contain a number of predetermined power plans, which control settings like how rapidly your laptop turns off and when your screen saver boots in. You can change your laptop power scheme by choosing Control Panel > Power Options. For max. Battery life from the "Power scheme" chooses the option "Max. Battery" and decline the list. There are good choices for you just like "Low Power Mode" and Portable /Laptop. They don't conserve as much power as Max Battery. After selecting a power scheme you click Ok button to finish the process.
If your are using same switches frequently in Command prompt then open your system command prompt using open Run option
Click Start and open Run option then type cmd to open command prompt, here type
set dircmd=/w/o/p
then press Enter, now every time thereafter that you type
dir
the /w/o/p switches will be automatically applied and now need to type every time. If your are interested to use single switch like /w you can use it
set dircmd=/w
and press Enter.
and same if you wants to undo these switches then you can very easily by typing
dir /-switch
For example, if you wanted to do a directory with only the /w switch, you could enter
dir /-p/-o
When you exit the Command prompt window, however, the Dircmd setting returns to its default settings.
Hi Friends,
Yes, my exams are over and Blog4InFo will be live now!!!!
There are many ways to prints a document, but you can print a document quickly if you put a shortcut to the printer on your desktop and drag a document icon to it, no need to open file for printing just drag a file to printer icon and get your print.
To do this, first click Start button, Settings, then Printers ( first make sure you installed your printer driver). When the Printers window opens, hold down Ctrl and drag the printer icon to your system desktop.
Now you can drag a document icon and drop it in printer icon on your desktop. Here you will get a print quickly and with out open a file.
Open - X:\Documents and Settings\username\SendTo (it is hidden) where X is your drive letter and username is your username make and delete shortcuts to folders and devices at will
Here is how to find the IP of your connection. Always remember, BLoG4InFo is not responsible for any destruction.
>Go to start/run type 'cmd'
>then type 'ipconfig'
>Add the '/all' switch for more info.
Theoretically, you can get rid of it (as well as a few other things). Windows 2000 power users should already be familiar with this tweak.
Fire up the Windows Explorer and navigate your way to the %SYSTEMROOT% \ INF folder. What the heck is that thingy with the percentage signs? It's a variable. For most people, %SYSTEMROOT% is C:\Windows. For others, it may be E:\WinXP. Get it? Okay, on with the hack! In the INF folder, open sysoc.inf (but not before making a BACKUP copy first). Before your eyes glaze over, look for the line containing "msmsgs" in it. Near the end of that particular line, you'll notice that the word "hide" is not so hidden. Go ahead and delete "hide" (so that the flanking commas are left sitting next to one another). Save the file and close it. Now, open the Add and Remove Programs applet in the Control Panel. Click the Add / Remove Windows Components icon. You should see "Windows Messenger" in that list. Remove the checkmark from its box, and you should be set. NOTE: there are other hidden system components in that sysoc.inf file, too. Remove "hide" and the subsequent programs at your own risk.
Hi Readers,
Last few days I am not able to post any new posts. This is because our new blog is under construction. It will be open for the visitors by the end of this month. Till the other blog gets ready, please forgive me. Keep visiting.
BLoG4InFo
Admin- Mohammed
Hi,
We all know that the "Recycle Bin can never be renamed (in XP). Here is how to make that possible. Try this!
»Open Run from start menu
»Open regedit and goto
»HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID/{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
»and change the name "Recycle Bin" to whatever you want (don't type any quotes).
Thats it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here's a great tip to speed up your browsing of Windows XP machines. Its actually a fix to a bug installed as default in Windows 2000 that scans shared files for Scheduled Tasks. And it turns out that you can experience a delay as long as 30 seconds when you try to view shared files across a network because Windows 2000 is using the extra time to search the remote computer for any Scheduled Tasks. Note that though the fix is originally intended for only those affected, Windows 2000 users will experience that the actual browsing speed of both the Internet & Windows Explorers improve significantly after applying it since it doesn't search for Scheduled Tasks anymore. Here's how :
Open up the Registry and go to :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace
Under that branch, select the key :
{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}
and delete it.
This is key that instructs Windows to search for Scheduled Tasks. If you like you may want to export the exact branch so that you can restore the key if necessary.
To make your desktop icons transparent.
> Go to Control Panel
> System,
> Advanced
> Performance area
> Settings button Visual Effects tab "Use drop shadows for icon labels on the Desktop"
A gadget is a small technological object (such as a device or an appliance) that has a particular function, but is often thought of as a novelty. Gadgets are invariably considered to be more unusually or cleverly designed than normal technology at the time of their invention. Gadgets are sometimes also referred to as gizmos.
The origins of the word "gadget" trace back to the 1800s. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, there is anecdotal evidence for the use of "gadget" as a placeholder name for a technical item whose precise name one can't remember since the 1850s; with Robert Brown's 1886 book Spunyarn and Spindrift, A sailor boy’s log of a voyage out and home in a China tea-clipper containing the earliest known usage in print. The etymology of the word is disputed. A widely circulated story holds that the word gadget was "invented" when Gaget, Gauthier & Cie, the company behind the repoussé construction of the Statue of Liberty (1886), made a small-scale version of the monument and named it after their firm; however this contradicts the evidence that the word was already used before in nautical circles, and the fact that it did not become popular until after World War I. Other sources cite a derivation from the French gâchette which has been applied to various pieces of a firing mechanism, or the French gagée, a small tool or accessory. The spring-clip used to hold the base of a vessel during glass-making is also known as a gadget. The first atomic bomb was nicknamed the gadget by the scientists of the Manhattan Project, tested at the Trinity site.
Different types of gadgets are:
> Mechanical Gadgets
> Electronic Gadgets
> Programmable Gadgets
> Application Gadgets
Well, I will explain each of them in my further posts.
Have you ever wanted to send confidential information within your work environment, to family or friends, but were afraid to do so over the internet, because some malicious hacker could be spying on you?
Privnote is a free web based service that allows you to send top secret notes over the internet. It's fast, easy, and requires no password or user registration at all.
Just write your note, and you'll get a link. Then you copy and paste that link into an email (or instant message) that you send to the person who you want to read the note. When that person clicks the link for the first time, they will see the note in their browser and the note will automatically self-destruct; which means no one (even that very same person) can read the note again. The link won't work anymore.
You can optionally choose to be notified when your note is read by leaving your email and a reference for the note.
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Blu-ray Disc (also known as Blu-ray or BD) is an optical disc storage media format. Its main uses are high-definition video and data storage. The disc has the same dimensions as a standard DVD or CD.
The name Blu-ray Disc is derived from the blue laser (violet coloured) used to read and write this type of disc. Because of its shorter wavelength (405 nm), substantially more data can be stored on a Blu-ray Disc than on the DVD format, which uses a red (650 nm) laser. A dual layer Blu-ray Disc can store 50 GB, almost six times the capacity of a double-dual layer DVD (or more than 10 times if single-layer).
Blu-ray Disc was developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association, a group representing consumer electronics, computer hardware, and motion picture production. As of July 30, 2008 more than 720 Blu-ray Disc titles have been released in the United States and more than 460 Blu-ray Disc titles have been released in Japan.
During the high definition optical disc format war, Blu-ray Disc competed with the HD DVD format. On February 19, 2008, Toshiba — the main company supporting HD DVD — announced it would no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders, leading almost all other HD DVD supporters to follow suit, effectively ending the format war.
The Blu-ray Disc physical specifications were finished in 2004. In January 2005, TDK announced that they had developed a hard coating polymer for Blu-ray Discs. The cartridges, no longer necessary, were scrapped. The BD-ROM specifications were finalized in early 2006. AACS LA, a consortium founded in 2004, had been developing the DRM platform that could be used to securely distribute movies to consumers. However, the final AACS standard was delayed, and then delayed again when an important member of the Blu-ray Disc group voiced concerns. At the request of the initial hardware manufacturers, including Toshiba, Pioneer and Samsung, an interim standard was published which did not include some features, like managed copy.
Do u prefer to buy a Blu-ray instead of a DVD or a CD?? Which will u choose??
You can create a new topic in the online Wikipedia. It is a free encyclopedia in which you can create or an edit an article. You can also create a new topic which Wikipedia applies to a category. Here is how you can create a new topic in Wikipedia.
Who here knows what is open source? put ur hands up!
Open source is software ,usually free,
The Intel 4004 Microprocessor available in 1969 had the equivalent of 2,300 transistors.
The Intel Itanium Processor available now has the equivalent of over 15 million transistors.
More powerful chips are being designed all the time.
