July 30, 2010

Online virtual operating system


              Have you ever seen operating system in your own web browser, no! then have a look at this one – this is one of the first operating system you have ever seen before – Online virtual operating system – which has been rolled out by windows4all.com, which has been developed using Microsoft Silverlight.
             When you browse to windows4all.com, it will request us to install Sliverlight on to desktop, if you have already installed the same on to your desktop, then you will be directly redirected to the Operating System, if you are installing Silverlight for the first time, it will request us to install the same. After installing, just browse towindows4all.com (or) refresh (F5) if it is already opened in your browser.
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                           You can view Virtual Operating System right away on your respective browsers, it has a start button (like Windows Vista and older versions), File Explorer (Like Windows Explorer), a Media Player, a Notepad, RSS reader, paint application, Games like Chess, Solitaire, Spider, Tic-tac-toe, and many more

This virtual operating system also supports installation of programs, but the respective program should be developed in Silverlight and be available in Internet or local file system. This online virtual operating system is alpha now! might get more features added in future.

July 26, 2010

The First Indian Browser : EPIC



           
BANGALORE, INDIA (GaeaTimes.com)- Hidden Reflex which happens to be Bangalore based firm has launched Epic browser in the market. Epic browser happens to be the very first Indian browser which draws it's element of inspiration from Mozilla Firefox.
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                Just out of the bag, the Epic browser is based upon regional features that shall give all Indian web surfers a new reason to rejoice. The founder company Hidden Reflex was formed by America based engineer Alok Bhardwaj in the year of 2007. Following the launch of Epic browser, the company officials are planning to drop in one more browser in the market. The first hand users of Epic browser found the browser to be a smart one. Its bright colors catches your eyes at the very first instant. The Epic browser offers customizable options.
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                 Epic browser lets you change the theme of the browser from a total of 1500 themes which are available. It also has several different applications bundled together at the sidebar which lets you access Twitter and Facebook easily. So its more of a widget kind of setup which mingles in fine tune with the ultra modern surfers. However, Epic browser allows you to launch only one widget in a single window. One of the rewarding features of Epic browser is it's built anti-virus which is a rare thing in a browser. It also supports a total of 12 different Indian languages along with a host of several different productivity applications which are beneficial for one and all. These includes the free word processor, my computer browser and the video sidebar. With the launch of Epic browser, Hidden Reflex has become the very first Indian firm to compete with other prominent browsers in the market.
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                The so-called Indian browser Epic has just turned two days old. It runs on the well-known Mozilla platform. It reminds us of Flock, often called the browser for social media addicts. But Epic stands ahead of Flock in various ways. Here are the Pros and Cons of the new browser Epic:

Pros:

  • Customizable: 1000+ skins and also you can choose from over personas
  • Watch NDTV 24X7, NDTV इंडिया and NDTV profit online without any streaming problems
  • Indic typing with the integration of Google transliterate
  • Anti-Virus protection for both your computer and downloads optional
  • Write: Create a word document and save it as a HTML file
  • Snippets: Useful for taking screenshots of webpages – either select certain image or a paragraph and drag-and-drop it to the snippet sidebar or take a complete screenshot of a webpage
  • Cricket news and live scores – Everybody knows India loves cricket and the Epic Browser is no exception
  • Regional News, Events and financial events
  • Daily masti – Jokes, quotes and gyaan of the day
  • Epic video – Watch videos from youtube right on the sidebar
  • My computer – Browse your computer directly from the browser; You can open upto 5 tabs in the Computer sidebar
  • Social networks, E-mail accounts and Twitter in sidebar
  • To-dos: A great alternative to rememberthemilk.com with alerts in
  • Timer: Need not run to your cupboard to pick your stopwatch up with the timer feature in Epic browser
  • Get directions with epic maps – Google maps integration
  • Search for jobs – with indeed.co.in integration
  • Book tickets with yatra and cleartrip integration
  • Games: Time for some entertainment
  • Backup files by logging in to your gmail account and now, initially, each file size is limited to 10 MB mark. It is expected to increase soon
  • Collections: Save similar websites to one collection by clicking the collection icon next to the tabs. To load them, open the collections sidebar and click on the collection’s title
  • Bookmarks: Just the same as in Firefox browser, Self-explanatory;
  • History: Epic is very careful about your privacy, it has a private browsing icon and a clear browsing data icon in the address bar
  • 10,000+ Firefox addons compatible
  • Epic apps: 1500 sidebar applications, but we recommend you to keep the number of applications minimum so that the blazing speed of Epic will be maintained
  • 10,000+ Firefox addons compatible

Cons:

  • Showing of the sidebar even in pop-up windows is quite disgusting – I click the re-tweet button in a post and even then, the sidebar shows off in the pop-up also.
  • Because it is a fully loaded browser, it takes more time to boot as compared to chrome, Firefox and safari. More the number of sidebar apps and add-ons more is the time taken to start the browser.
  • No Home button in the address bar
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July 25, 2010

Transform your Windows XP in to Windows 7 in just few minutes



             The Microsoft Release Candidate is already out and free to download. But still if you are one of those XP lovers like me who can’t stop using XP then you can try the Windows 7 kind of look for your XP.

            Windows 7 theme for XP users today is found all in one Windows XP to Windows 7 transformation pack.By using which even a newbie can get the complete Windows 7 look without doing any extra work. It is as simple as installing a new software on your PC

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Windows 7 trasformation pack

With Windows 7 remix you can make your XP look like Windows 7 in just few clicks. It supports Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Media Center Edition and some other flavors of XP.

Languages:

  • Spanish
  • English






Will work with only 32 bit edition of Windows.

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How to reset Windows Admin password without old password


              Here is a simple tutorial on resetting the admin account password of any Windows Operating System.  All you will require for this is one Ubuntu live CD.

  1. Insert Ubuntu Live CD and boot from it.
  2. Open terminal and install chntpw in Ubuntu. To do so use the following commands.
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install chntpw

  3. Now mount your Windows volume. In my case it was dev/sda1. Replace it with yours.
    sudo mkdir /media/WINDOWS
    sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/WINDOWS

  4. Now navigate to the Windows configuration folder.
    cd /media/WINDOWS/WINDOWS/system32/config/
  5. To reset the administrator password enter,
    sudo chntpw SAM
  6. After completing this command you will see 5 different choices. Select the 1st one and press Enter and done.
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July 24, 2010

Free Anti-Theft software for your mobile phone


            Majority of us now use smartphones and we do store our personal as well as some confidential data in it. A lost or stolen phone can be really painful if the owner had any confidential data stored in it. All you need in such situation is a way to delete all those files so that no one can misuse the information on the phone.
Here the F-Secure anti  theft system comes in the picture. It is a free mobile software developed by one of the leading company in the field of digital security.



You can lock your phone,  find the current location of the phone and wipe out the data from it if needed. You can do all this on your phone just by sending a sms. If the sim on your cell is changed then the phone will be automatically locked and the new sim number will be sent to the number set by the real owner at the time of installation.

F-Secure anti theft software is completely free and can be used on Symbian, Windows and Android phones.

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How to Change the Logon Screen on Windows 7


             There are various methods to accomplish this, with and without third-party software. I understand many people might not want to rely on a third-party application, while others would appreciate a quicker, safer route. First up is the more hands-on approach, and then the utility.

Hands-on approach

This method will require you to modify the registry, and if that puts a knot in your stomach, you should move on to the next section.
Step 1: Open the Windows Start menu and enter regedit into the search bar.
Step 2: Right click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and select Find.
Step 3: Search for OEMBackground, which should be in Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background. If the key does not exist, add a new DWORD value with the name OEMBackground.
Step 4: Double click on the entry OEMBackground, and change the value from 0 to 1.
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Step 5: Open Windows Explorer and go to the following path: %windir%\system32\oobe.
Step 6: Create a new folder named info, and open it.
Step 7: Create a new folder within info named backgrounds.
Step 8: Rename your desired wallpaper as backgroundDefault.jpg and place it inside the folder backgrounds (images must be less than 245KB in size).
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That should do the trick, now just lock your PC, log off or reboot and enjoy.

Third-party software

                   If you are uncomfortable with manually tinkering with the registry -- or simply have better things to be doing with your time -- we understand. Various third-party applications can change Windows 7's default logon wallpaper, but our personal favorite is Tweak.com's Logon Changer.

The software is ridiculously easy to use, doesn't require installation, and it even has built-in tools to automatically resize and recompress your images while leaving the original file untouched. The Logon Changer also lets you quickly change your logon wallpaper back to the Windows 7 default.
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Start by downloading the app here, and then unzip the executable. Run the program and it should present you with a preview of your logon screen along with a few self-explanatory options: "Change Logon Screen" lets you browse to a new image, "Test" will bring up your logon screen, "Revert to Default Logon Screen" reapplies Windows 7's original wallpaper.

July 21, 2010

Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Coming Out in 2011


                                While we all know that the public beta of SP1 for Windows 7 came out some weeks back, it looks like Microsoft will be officially releasing the actual Windows 7 Service Pack this 2011. To be precise it looks like this will take place in April of 2011, based on updates gathered.

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                   Most Microsoft users were anticipating the SP1 to come out by this year. Official remain firm that the new Service Pack does not contains no new features and will carry mostly enhancements. These “enhancements” include things such as support for more third-party federation services; improved HDMI audio device support; and XPS printing fixes.

                  Take note thought that this does not contradict the belief that the Windows 7 Service Pack will not be coming out this year. Microsoft has showed some inconsistencies when it comes to releasing such updates and from the looks of it, there is no telling if the official Service Pack will be out this year or in 2011.

Users, especially businesses, make use of updates to coincide with milestones for their planning and deployment with a new operating system.

Rupee Gets a Symbol


                                 This image is the final currency symbol of our Indian Rupee. The Rupee symbol is inspired from the Devanagari ‘Ra’ and the Roman capital ‘R’ which depicts the culture and ethos of India. The design by IIT post-graduate D Udaya Kumar is chosen as final from among five shortlisted symbols. Indian-Rupee

Unlike other currency symbols like the Dollar or the Euro, you can’t however type the Rupee symbol using the standard Roman keyboard as the Unicode Consortium has not assigned a unique (ASCII) code to this new Rupee symbol yet but there are some free fonts that include this symbol already.

 

July 20, 2010

How to Disable Taskbar Jump List in Windows 7


                     Windows 7 provides you a new Taskbar with Jump List facility. As in the previous Windows versions Taskbar shows the current opened files and programs, in Windows 7 taskbar also shows a Jump list of recently opened files.

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You may not always require this feature due to privacy issues. So I am here to tell you how you can Disable Taskbar Jump Lists.

The Steps are:
1. Right-click on the Taskbar. Select properties.
2. Click on the Start Menu tab and uncheck "Store and display recently opened items in the Start menu and the taskbar".

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3. Click Ok and now the jump list will not be visible. The screen shot below shows that Internet Explorer no longer shows the browser historyafter disabling the Jump List.

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July 19, 2010

Javascript Char Codes (Key Codes)


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Javascript events are used to capture user keystrokes. Just type a character into the 
Textbox below to Check the key code.


KeyPress Javascript Key Code

Below is a table of key codes for the keys on a multimedia keyboard.


Key Pressed Javascript Key Code Key Pressed Javascript Key Code
backspace 8 x 88
tab 9 y 89
enter 13 z 90
shift 16 left window key 91
ctrl 17 right window key 92
alt 18 select key 93
pause/break 19 numpad 0 96
caps lock 20 numpad 1 97
escape 27 numpad 2 98
page up 33 numpad 3 99
page down 34 numpad 4 100
end 35 numpad 5 101
home 36 numpad 6 102
left arrow 37 numpad 7 103
up arrow 38 numpad 8 104
right arrow 39 numpad 9 105
down arrow 40 multiply 106
insert 45 add 107
delete 46 subtract 109
0 48 decimal point 110
1 49 divide 111
2 50 f1 112
3 51 f2 113
4 52 f3 114
5 53 f4 115
6 54 f5 116
7 55 f6 117
8 56 f7 118
9 57 f8 119
a 65 f9 120
b 66 f10 121
c 67 f11 122
d 68 f12 123
e 69 num lock 144
f 70 scroll lock 145
g 71 semi-colon 186
h 72 equal sign 187
i 73 comma 188
j 74 dash 189
k 75 period 190
l 76 forward slash 191
m 77 grave accent 192
n 78 open bracket 219
o 79 back slash 220
p 80 close braket 221
q 81 single quote 222
r 82
s 83
t 84
u 85
v 86
w 87