The First Indian Browser : EPIC

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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.

                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.

                 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.

                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

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

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             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

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.

How to reset Windows Admin password without old password

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              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.
   

Free Anti-Theft software for your mobile phone

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            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.

How to Change the Logon Screen on Windows 7

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             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.
 
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).
 
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.
 
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.