Clean Your Junk PC Defender

License Type: Free
Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows Vista
File Size: 518KB
Author: PC DeCrapifier
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You always want your brand new PC to be clean and junk proof but over some time you'll find it full of crap software installed for no reason other than that the PC maker gets paid to put it there. These extra (waste) software slow down your PC startup and its day to day operation.

The free PC Decrapifier removes dozens of these softwares automatically. Using this program is very simple. Just run it, and it does its cleaning work automatically. Don't expect it to completely clean your PC, because it removes only a specific set of softwares and trialware programs namely, those that are specifically put on new PCs, such as QuickBooks Trial, Wild Tangent Games, Dell URL Assistant, and many more. For a complete list of softwares it removes, go to here.

Note: When using this program, it's good to first create a restore point. Just in case it removes something that you wanted to keep.

Vista Tweaking Tools

Looking for tools to get the most out of Windows Vista?
Here are a few utilities to tweak up Windows Vista.

1. VistaTweaker - VistaTweaker is, as its name says, a reliable, smart and yet easy-to-use Windows Vista tweaking tool. The interface is nice and simple.
· Every tweak has its description so the user can see what each one does.
· Tweaks are organized into tabs, each tab is subdivided in sections by group boxes. This way it is easy to find the tweak the user is looking for.

2. XdN Tweaker - Tweaking program that supports Vista (and XP/Server 203). It doesn't have tons of tweaking options, but does focus on ones that most users may want to attend to. No installation required (but .NET is for XP/2003). Address areas with Vista UAC, Control Panel, Media Player, Right-Click context options, Files and Folder tweaks, File Associations, Start Menu, IE7, Outlook Express/Windows Mail, Misc. Tools, and System Settings. Pretty handy little utility.

3. Windows Sidebar Styler - Allows some easy fine-tuning of the Windows Sidebar and provides extensions to the Windows Sidebar in Vista. Supports custom styles for resizing and customizing how it integrates with other elements. Still being refined but looks pretty handy.

4. EasyBCD 1.6 - Hard-core NeoSmart tool that is definitely NOT for "average" Vista users. Allows advanced Vista users/tweakers to set up, configure, and tweak the Windows Vista bootloader.

5. TweakUAC - this utility allows folks running under an Administrator-level profile to easily turn off UAC (User Account Control), turn it back on, or keep it running, but suppress the UAC elevation prompt requests.

6. Tweak VI from Totalidea - The basic version is free and additional feature "plugins" can be purchased. It's a nice business model. The Basic version allows you to tweak desktop items, Start menu items, IE, Firefox, hardware settings, system info, virtual desktops, subsystem folders, mousing, and shutdown options.

7. Vispa - This tweak-tool uses a non-install executable and is a bare-bones Vista utility. Run it and you get a long list of check boxes organized by subjects. To apply a setting, activate the checkbox. Pro: simple interface. Con: simple interface. So unless you already know and understand the consequence of your choice, this might not be a utility for Vista noobies.

DX1 Customizable Keyboard

The DX1 is a customizable keyboard that features only 25 programmable keys. Each key can be placed anywhere on the board. You can also assign shortcuts and macros to each key. The DX1 customizable keyboard is priced at $139.

Cyber Goggles : A Revolutionary Memory Booster

With the growing number of assignments to be done within a given time period, our memory tend to forget things done minutes back. I feel sorry about complaining this as it is natural. Okeay, can you recall what did you have yesterday in your afternoon meal? Or what is the second name of the person you met today morning for a business deal. These things, which seem small, can make a big difference to life.

Many thanks to the researchers’ team at the University of Tokyo for discovering an innovative video goggle called ‘Cyber Goggles’ that captures everything you do all through the day. More than that it taps the images of everything you do, everyone you meet.

It behaves smarty by recognizing and then recording every object by assigning names to every appearing in the video, thereby producing an accessible database of the captured footage. The goggles come equipped with a squashed camera that feeds video to a computer hung at the users’ back. The computer enables you to analyze, name and file the items that emerge in the video via its ultrahigh-speed image recognition processing software.

It is being claimed that cyber goggles can be used for multiple purposes. It might prove resourceful in the advancement of robots with humanly features.

Browse The Web Using MS Calculator

Now access the internet via your standard Microsoft Calculator using this trick.
You can do this for fun or when your browser is messed up for some unexplainable reason.

Steps:

1. Open your MS Calculator. This is normally found in Start => All Programs => Accessories => Calculator.

2. Open the help-window by pressing the F1 key.

3. Click the top-left corner icon of the help window once (Standard is a Document with a Questionmark).

4. Select 'Jump to URL'.

5. Type your address into the avaliable field, but remember to type http://, and not just www. (or equivalent).

Have fun !!!

OKIDS PHONE : express love via hearty phones

If your 5-6 year kid is playing smart with you by demanding a mobile phone on his birthday then you can over smart him by getting him one. Hey, I talk a lot of sense. These days it’s not only difficult to handle kids but almost impossible to meet their growing demands. And mobile phone for a 6-year young kid seems nothing but useless.
Considering this, you can explore the potential of Okid phone, which is been seen as a perfect gift option. A deep delve into the phone would make you realize that it is a perfect combo of a chic mobile phone along with your heart piece. Got baffled? Don’t worry am still here to demystify the mystery.

It is the design of the phone that unfolds in the form of a hearty shape putting across your kid in front of a Tetris handheld game. It can be seen as truly a kids phone as it erases all the possibilities of dialing numbers (doesn’t have num pad). As a substitute, it has a word “Mommy” carved on it. But if it fails to satiate your kids’ requirement then the phone can be loaded with another game introduced by a brilliant Russian. The game is competitive to challenge the intelligence levels of your kids. It is drenched with lot of protection and love that compensates your kids’ infatuation for a mobile phone.

TomTom GO 930 GPS Navigation System

GPSAndCo provides us with a short demo video of the new TomTom GO 930 GPS navigation system. Watch the video to get more details

Pantech releases five new mobile concepts

Pantech comes back with five new designs, each with a specific emotional presence. These designs are created by some Korean university students, in response to a challenge by Pantech to create some mobile phone designs for 2010. Good job! See four more designs after the jump.

Stop Google From Tracking Your Searches

There is a way to remain somewhat anonymous on the most popular of all search engines, Google. Remember that if you have a username log-in with any of the Internet search engines, their systems can build a profile of you. If you're truly paranoid you may want to delete or cancel any free e-mail accounts that are associated with Web search engines and scrub their cookies from your hard drive. If you use any of the services provided by Google, such as Groups, Wallet, AdSense or Gmail, then you have an account that points back to your identity. This means that everything you do within the search can now point back to you as a unique user. To stop this from happening, follow these steps:

1. Go to www.google.com/psearch to sign in to your account.
2. Click on the Search History page and pick some days on the calendar to see every search made since you created your Google account.
3. Select the Clear Search History button, check off items that you wish to remove, and then click the Clear History button.
4. To prevent Google from collecting this data in the future, select items such as Web, Images, and News that you don't want to collect data, then press the Pause button.

This way you'll remain totally anonymous while you search anything on the Google search engine.

Yamaha’s iPod ready compact electric motorcycle

August 17, 2007 Yamaha first unveiled the EC-02 electric motorcycle as part of a range of sustainable machines in 2005. Not wanting to be left behind in the age of the ubiquitous personal music player, the latest incarnation of the short-range commuter features a tank mounted iPod dock… and it also glows in the dark.

In contrast to the recently released 50mph Enertia electric motorcycle, the diminutive EC-02 is designed as a low-speed (18 mph), short-range (40 miles) run-about that’s very easy to park.

Earphones can be used with the iPod which mounts on the tank (though it’s not really a tank given that the machine is 100% electric) or music can be played via built-in stereo speakers.

The Yamaha EC-02 costs $2000 but it is only available in Japan and did we mention – it glows in the dark – though explanations for this last feature are a little thin on the ground.

Navitas bicycle trailer concept offers 3-way power generation

August 16, 2007 British designer Paul Smith has come up with an interesting bicycle trailer concept that produces its own renewable energy. The Navitas bike trailer is designed to generate power in a number of different ways, combining both solar panels and a unique vertical wind turbine to offer cyclists a range of energy options with which to power lights or even run small appliances like mobile phones and laptops.

The concept model devised by the University of Derby student has a contemporary stream-line design featuring a single towing arm that attaches to the rear of the bicycle using a quick release seat post clamp. This allows the trailer, which boasts a 40 litre luggage compartment, to be detached and remounted to the bicycle quickly. The Navitas incorporates an onboard 24 volt battery that facilitates energy through a car cigarette type socket and also a USB port. The battery automatically powers a LED based braking and hazard light system and has the ability to run small appliances, such as mobile phones and laptops.

A small solar panel built in to the trailer also collects solar energy to replenish the battery’s charge, whilst the sun is shining. But the most unique feature of the Navitas amongst other cycling trailers, is the vertical wind generator turbine that can be set up once the bike is stationary. The single rear wheel of the Navitas can be detached and converted into a three-pronged wind turbine. The wheel’s twist and lock system allows it to be split into three segments to form a turbine that is in turn, mounted onto the towing arm which is removed from the bike to construct a vertical axis. According to Smith, the wind turbine can be: “…set up once the cyclist has made camp and the turbine aids the solar units giving energy throughout the day and night.”

The Navitas, which is Latin for “energy”, has been carefully designed from only recyclable materials. The worldwide focus on sustainable transport is reflected in this product, through its clear aim to create environmentally friendly renewable energy. Though not for everyone relying on pedal-power, the concept would certainly bring great benefit to the touring cyclist market at which its aimed.

How To Recover Most Sratched Cd's

I learn an old technique to how to recover damaged or scratched disks
with some lost of data. In this case i have one borrowed game - MAX PAYNE 2
with a chunck of 4 mb lost with a scratch in CD1 Install. Here we cover some
special thecniques of how to create a full working CD from the scratched one.

First some tools will be needed:

1. Alcohol 120%
2. UltraISO
3. Windows XP/2000 (not tested on 95/98/me)
3. Small piece of cotton
4. Dry cleaner paper
5. Finally, oil for cooking.

First step - preparing the CD

Get the cotton and drop some water, start cleaning vertically the surface of CD.
Do it 3 times and dry the water with a piece of dry cleaner paper. With a new piece
of cotton, drop some oil for cooking and start to wet the surface like you are
washing the CD with the oil. Dry carefully now. Some particles of oil will stay on the
microsurface of the scrath. It's okay. Seems the oil helps the laser of the CD/DVD driver
to read the surface again. Sure this will work with small unreadable scratchs - some hard
scratchs loose parts of the surface of the CD where we have data and it's lost forever.
But if it is loosed try anyway. Whith this tip 80% of the small scratched CD's coud be
recovered.

Second Step - testing the CD

With Alcohol 120% make an ISO - image making wizard - and lets see if the app can
read the loosed surface. In my case Alcohol 120% had recovered 60% of the data.
This is not enough. Have tryed other appz, they do not recover all the data. But the
CD/DVD driver laser CAN recover all data in this case. the data is still there, what we do?

third step - making the new CD

With the main copy system of windows explorer you can do it. Just create one folder
with the same name of the CD label for future burn reference, and copy the CD content
to the folder. When the CD copy process find the scratch, in majority of the cases, it's
slow down the reading and will recover ALL loosed data.If not, it just tell you there's
an unreadable sector. In this case your CD is lost. But it's not my case, finally
windows explorer got all the data from the scratch and made a copy in the folder.
with the ultraISO, wrote the original CD label, drop the content of the folder and
save as Iso. You can Test the new CD just mounting the iso in the Alcohol 120%. In my
case i did ISO of the two discs from MAX PAYNE 2 and tested installing from the mounted
ISO. Works like a charm. I got the 4 mb lost again. So, I have burned the CD and now i
have a working copy from the scratched one.

Sounds too bizzarre, but works. Course you can jump the cleaning process and try to copy
the content with Windows explorer. But in my case did not work without oil...

How To Change A CMOS Battery

First the safety rules:

The inside of a computer is a bad place full of electricity and sharp edges.
On the electricity side always when working on you computer make sure that it’s still plugged in to the power socket and the power is turned off, this is to ensure that any static
From you is discharged through the earth. The inside of most computer cases are unfinished metal and has very sharp edges so be careful.

The first signs of a battery failing are:-

1) Your clock starts running slowly
2) When you boot (start) your computer it has a problem finding your hardware (no hard drive, no cd rom)

To change the battery you need the following tools

1) a X-point screwdriver
2) an anti-static strap(optional)
3) a new battery (seems logical)

Then unplug all the cables from the back of the computer as you remove them make a note where they came from. (So when you finished you can put them back)

Move the computer somewhere where you can work on it with ease

Remove the cover by locating the screws around the outer edge (back) of the computer
Some computer cases only require you to remove 2 screws on one side then a panel can be removed allowing you access to the computers insides, others you must remove 6 screws and remove the whole case by sliding it to the rear and lifting it off.

Now make sure that you read the safety instructions about static.
Look inside you will see a round silver thing that looks about the size of a 10p piece (quarter). This is the battery itself, carefully lift the retaining clip and slide the battery out. That’s it removed now go to your local computer retailer, electrical retailer (Tandy/Radio shack) taking the old battery with you and get a new battery.

Back to your computer insert the new battery by lifting the clip and sliding the battery in.

Reinstall your case and plug all the cables back (you did remember to label them didn’t you)

Now for the fun part.

You will now need to go into you bios….

Right the bios is the god of your computer.

To access it, when your computer first starts you will see a black screen with white text.

If you look carefully you will see a line that says something like "press del for setup" or some other key (F2 or ESC or tab) this will take you to god's house where you can make lots of changes to the way your machine works.

It is also the place where you can make your nice computer in to a rather expensive door stop so be careful and don’t go playing with anything.

You will now be presented with a blue screen with a lot of options on it,
The one we want is load optimised/default settings.

Press the F10 key and type y the computer should now reboot.

If every thing went well then your computer will now be up and running.

Shizers Way: Keep computer running. Lay it on it's side and remove side cover to expose MoBo. Take any thin object, "small screwdriver, knife point, wood shiskabob skewer. Pull back the battery retaining clip. Toss the old battery in the junk recepticle, unless you belong to greenpeace and want to save the earth. Install the new battery. No need to reset bios becasue the compter supplies voltage to the cmos while it is running. Reset or resync clock with internet.

Done

Canvas Computer Concept By Kyle Cherry

Designer Kyle Cherry has designed a new type of computer called the “Canvas”. It is designed to “increase the quality and productivity of the designer or artist.” The computer helps unexperienced users to make digital work flows by building the system around a more familiar interface. What a cool concept

Acer Unviels Aspire 8920 G HD Home Theatre Laptop

Acer is aiming to bring laptop users closer to the full HDTV experience with its new Aspire Gemstone blue range. The top-of-the-line Aspire 8920G crams in a 1920×1080 resolution, 18.4-inch Full HD LCD screen, six integrated speakers backed by Dolby Home Theater technology, an optional digital TV Tuner and an on-board Blu-Ray disc drive in a striking design that incorporates a blue, black and silver color scheme with interior and exterior lighting effects and a Holographic 3D cover. The Aspire 8920G series uses Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processors and the mobile Intel PM965 Express Chipset with a choice of graphics options - either the NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS graphics engine with up to 1280 MB of TurboCache (512 MB of dedicated GDDR3 VRAM, up to 768 MB of shared system memory) or by the NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS with up to 1280 MB of TurboCache (512 MB of dedicated GDDR2 VRAM, up to 768 MB of shared system memory). HDD space of up to 640GB (2×320GB) is available and a choice of optical drives are available along with a 6-in-1 card reader. Set to hit the market next month

Mindwire Shocking V5 sensory kit

Mindwire has designed an electrical muscle simulation kit that gives gamers direct sensory feedback - so every time your onscreen character gets a whooping, you get a shock. The £99.99 Mindwire-V5 plugs into any second-generation console through the game controller port, the add-on is sure to give a more intense, more immersive playing experience for anyone game enough to plug it in. Up to five self-adhesive pads can be applied to arms, legs and the stomach, allowing localized sensory feedback. The system works in both single and multi-player mode, with the latter especially appealing to competitive gamers.

Bristlebot 2.0 Robot made From Computer Chip

Some inventors at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have created the Bristlebot 2.0 robot with only a battery, a computer chip, and a cell phone vibrator. Video after the jump

Pandigital’s Kitchen HDTV

Pandigital’s Kitchen HDTV is a combination of a digital photo frame and an HD television. This 15inch screen has the ability to display your recipes as you cook in HD quality (1,280 by 720-pixel resolution). It supports ATSC and NTSC, and can be connected to video feeds using composite, S-Video, YPbPr, or HDMI connections. The unit can display images from its built-in 512 MB memory, a card reader or downloaded from Google’s Picassa photo-sharing service. It also features a sealed glass design to protect it from moisture, oils, and splatters. The Pandigital Kitchen HDTV/Digital Cookbook/Digital Photo Frame will be available in June for $400.

Sony PS3 Dual Shock Controller

The Playstation Dualshock is back. After all the controversy over copyrights and gamer-hating judges, you can finally pre-order yours for $50. It’s wireless and sixaxis, too

Loc8ter Light Tracking Device

Have you ever lost your keys or wallet just before that important meeting or date? Well most of us do, but thanks to New Loc8tor Lite, you can now track small items like keys up to 400 feet away. A credit card sized handheld device designed to find any of your lost or mislaid possessions. To use the Loc8tor Lite just simply select which tag you’re trying to find, turn around in a full circle and then walk in the direction of the strongest signal indicated by the LED lights or audio beeps. Available for $79.99.

Zenith Defy Xtreme Wrist Watch

Luxury Swiss watchmaker Zenith’s Defy Xtreme range features a multi-layered dial of Hesalite glass surrounded by a blackened titanium case that is waterproof at 1000 meters, a titanium bracelet with Kevlar inserts and high-temperature resistance and a position sensitive gyroscope cage Tourbillon designed to enhance accuracy. According to Zenith this is a ” a major innovation in the world of watchmaking” providing “considerably greater accuracy”. The Defy Xtreme SEA range comprises 4 models: a Tourbillon, an Open, an El Primero Chronograph and an Elite Power Reserve models All of which are water-resistant down to 1000 meters and incorporate shock-resistant technology

Sony PS 4 Concept

There’s word on the street about the Sony’s next generation game console Playstation 4 which could be in the works and if rumours are to be believed the Playstation 4 will be solving the backward compatibility issues with PS3 and PS2. The rumour waves started to appear on the internet after Sony Computer Entertainment Japan rolls out an advertisement for a software engineer to deal with backward compatibility for both the PS3 and an unspecified next-gen console …that could be Playstation 4.

Use Word 2007 To Publish Posts On Your Blog

Want to directly publish posts to your blog ? Then here is something for you .

Microsoft Word 2007 can be used to publish posts on your blogs. There is no plug-in or add-ons you need to install. Word 2007 allows you to connect to the internet and publish your posts. You can create and configure an account in word and start blogging. You can use it to publish your posts for Windows Live, Blogger, Typepad, Wordpress and others. After that you just need to provide the details for your images, and its done.

Just follow these steps and you are ready to start blogging from Word 2007 ..
Click the Office button, and click new, choose the option “Blog Post”.
If you are opening it for the first time then it will automatically ask you for the configuration of an account, If not click on manage account, and click new.
Choose your Blog provider and provide the login details.
Then choose the image where you want to upload. You can choose to upload the images on your own server if your blog is a self hosted, choose “My Blog Provider” in case your blog provider gives you space to upload pics like blogger.
When you are done with writing, you can publish the post directly or else you can also make the post to publish as draft.
You can also create multiple accounts to publish posts to separate blogs .This is one great way by Microsoft to step into the blogosphere.Happy Word Blogging !!

Zalman FPS Gun FG 100 Gun For FPS Gmae lovers

This seems to be fantastic replacement for the ugly looking mouse you play your FPS games with. This ergonomically designed gaming mouse would provide you lots of cramp free fun and will be a perfect companion for those long FPS mission and multiplayers. The FG 1000 gaming mouse is custom configurable with five buttons and provides 2000 dpi resolution and a time response of 1ms.

GTA 4 Another Release Date

Long time back i posted the about GTA 4 at that time it was expected to release in october 2007 then it gets postponed.. now once again Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto has been given official release date of April 29th, 2008 and this time its highly likely to get release on the given date.

Gifi:Latest Reserch in Wireless Technology

Researchers of Melbourne University has come up with a wireless technology which promises high speed short range data transfers with speeds of upto 5 Gbps within a radius of 10 meters. The new wireless technology is named GiFi operates on the 60GHz frequency band, which is currently mostly unused. The GiFi Chip developed by the Australian researchers measures 5mm square and is manufactured using existing complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology, the same system that is currently used to print silicon chips. Continue reading ‘GiFi-Latest Research In Wireless Technology Looks Promising’

Snapbomb : making money with your own blog

Hey you guys I want you to here this . There is a site named snapbomb I came across it learned a way to earn money. This portal I think is the only one which respects bloggers and their hard work . It converts your skilled blogging into equal amount of money . also it helps to know where a blogger stands in the market i.e a blogs value . The sole criteria is how popular your blog is and what quality of content you have added which matches with your title .
The registration is free .This portal helps bloggers to emerge in blogger marketing and get best of your work converted into money .
The URL to this is http://www.snapbomb.com/

Sony PSP 2 Concept

Here is a pic of a new Sony PSP 2 concept. It’s pretty sweet looking and seems to have a pretty big screen. Maybe this design would make UMD movies more appealing. But, don’t get too excited fanboys, this baby is still just a concept.

Free i phone unlocking solution

A team of hackers attempting to unlock Apple Inc.'s iPhone for use with GSM-based wireless carriers other than AT&T appear to have finally succeeded in their efforts, and last night began distributing their solution as a free download via several websites.

Dubbed "iUnlock," the SIM unlocking tool represents the fruits of a multi-month effort on the part of the unofficial "iPhone Dev Team" -- a community of independent contributors who've banded together to discover and develop additional uses for the inaugural Apple handset.

Unlike commercial efforts from groups such as iPhoneSIMfree and UniquePhones, iUnlock was released Tuesday evening as a free download, and has since begun to spread rapidly across the web. Several iPhone owners and members of Apple online communities claim to have tested and verified the solution as genuine.

In its current state, however, the iUnlock solution is not for the technically-challeneged or faint-of-heart. It requires a "jailbroken" iPhone, rudimentary knowledge of using a unix terminal, experience with SFTP and some patience.

Some tutorials on how to apply the hack have also begun to crop up, but they're currently rough around the edges.Several more user-friendly installation guides are believed to be under development at the present time, as is a version of iUnlock that will be based around an installer for the less technical savvy.

Unlocking mobile phones for one's own use, for instance to place calls with a different carrier, appears to be legal under an exemption of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. However, the same may not be true for the specific steps taken by the iPhone Dev Team's unlocking solution, which has not been scrutinized in that regard.

Because the iPhone is GSM-based, U.S. consumers who unlock the phone will be limited in their alternative wireless carrier choices to just T-Mobile, the only other national GSM-based service provider outside of AT&T. Internationally, however, the unlocking solution would seem more compelling due to the proliferation of GSM-based networks and carriers overseas.

Download -
iUnlock Application

The Naja King flexible stand for i phone

The Naja King flexible iPod stand lends a helping hand in holding your iPhone or iPod touch. It allows you to put either item in a vertical or horizontal position, so you can watch movies without using your hands. Other features include a head with anti-scratch grippers that rotate 360º, a three-foot-long cable. $40

Mooon + Concept Phones

Check out a new concept phone called the Mooon +. It allows you to detach the mouthpiece from the handset automatically turning into a bluetooth headset and features both a touchscreen display and a camera. Too bad this phone isn’t on shelves yet

BenQ Joybook A53

BenQ will blow you away with another Penry-based laptop called the Joybook A53. It offers a Core 2 Duo T7250 processor with 512MB of RAM, 80 to 200GB 5400RPM hard drive, dual-layer DVD writer, 15.4-inch WXGA (1,280 x 800) resolution display, 3 USB 2.0 ports, VGA output, audio in / out and 6-cell battery with 2.3-hours of usage along with integrated ethernet / wifi, a 4-in-1 multicard reader and a 0.3-megapixel webcam for video chats. No word on pricing but it’s supposedly hitting Europe and Asia and then the U.S after

editting right click menu in win xp

When you install some softwares, they add their own options to the right click menu.
This can slow down the system as it needs to get all the files ready when you right click. Especially, the compression tools like WinRar & WinZip add their options to the right click menu. A lot of options in the right click menu makes it look untidy too. If you don't need some of the options, then you can customize the menu.

One way is through Registry editing. Here is the Registry Setting.

1. Go to Run and type in Regedit.

2. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

This is the where programs attach to right click menu, This is a universal right click. To make the specific right clicks, you need to go to specific type of file in this section.

3. You simply delete the keys you do not want.If you don't want to edit the registry, you can use a editing software with which things can be done with much ease and in a detailed manner.

There is also a software named File Menu Tools through which you can edit your right click menu. Through this software you can add more options provided by the software, and you can remove the contents you want. The only thing is that you should know which files to look for and editing which file will make the correct changes.Try out this software & customize your right click menu according to your own needs.

Speed Up Your Shut Down In WIN XP

Tired of waiting while your windows shuts down? Now no more wait, thanks to this cool trick.The trick is in two parts. Follow both of them for best results.

Part~1
1. Open the Registry Editor (Start >> Run >> type regedit).

2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control

3. Click on the "Control" Folder.

4. Select "WaitToKillServiceTimeout".

5. Right click on it, select modify and set it a value lower than 2000 (the lesser the faster, but remember don't set it less than 100 to be on the safer side).

Part~2

Like previous versions of windows, it takes long time to restart or shutdown Windows XP when the "Exit Windows" sound is enabled. To solve this problem you must disable this useless sound. Follow these steps to disable this sound.

1. Go to Start -> Control Panel -> Sounds and Audio Devices.

2. Click on the Sounds tab, then under program events and windows menu find and select the "Exit Windows" option.

3. Now there will be several sounds to choose from. Choose "(None)" and then click on Apply and then OK.Yippee!! it's done now. You will see some improvement when shutting down your system. :)

Goldstriker 16GB Iphone

Goldstriker has announced that they will be giving the 16GB iPhone the gold treatment, coated in 24-carat gold. If you’re loaded then the $1,770 price shouldn’t be a problem

Remove win Xp From A Xp\Vista Dual Boot

If you just installed and tried out the new MS Windows Vista on your machine, you just might be planning to get the old MS Windows XP out of your computer because of the new features being offered by Windows Vista satisfies your daily computing needs. The boot loader process bundled with Vista has changed, yes, but the changes are so minor the steps to configure other OS versions installed on your computer are basically similar to that of MS Windows XP.

First, just boot up and choose MS Windows Vista. Afterwards, format the Windows XP partition. The bootloader process of Vista allows you to make necessary changes on the boot operations of your machine without configuring the boot.ini file of the Windows XP OS version installed on your computer.

Next, insert the Vista CD 1 or the Vista DVD in your drive. Reboot your computer afterwards. Finally, choose the repair console option after the setup process has commenced, choose to have access to a DOS prompt, and key in the following:

• bootrec.exe /fixmbr

• bootrec.exe /fixboot


Key in the first command and execute it by pressing the Enter key. This will remove XP from the Vista bootloader. Then, key in the second command in order to ensure that XP has been unloaded from the boot.ini file of Vista. At this point, Windows XP is history!

Speed Up Vista

Here are few techniques that can help speed up your Vista system in minutes ..

1. Disable the Indexing Service ..Indexing services in Windows Vista indexes all the files and folders for faster access. It basically makes search function faster. By default all files are indexed, but you probably won’t need that. It is recommended that you should disable the indexing service on all the items other than the start menu. To speed up Vista, follow these steps:* Select Start and type "index options", without quotations* After the Indexing Options are loaded, click the Modify button.* Then click Show all Locations* A list of locations will be displayed in the form of a tree. Uncheck those folders which you do not want to be indexed. You can also use the Advanced button to specify file types to be indexed, but this part is optional.* Click OK button to finalize.

2. Enable advanced write caching ..Vista comes with built-in support for SATA (Serial ATA) hard drives. By default Vista does not enable write caching. To improve your data retrieval speed you must enable the write caching. Just follow these steps:* Go to the hard drive properties* Select the Policies tab* Select the radio button labeled Optimize for performance.* Check the boxes titled “Enable write caching on the disk” and “Enable Advance Performance”* Click OK button to finish.

3. Speed up Start Menu Search ..The good old MSCONFIG option is available in Vista as well. Lots of crappy programs load at boot time which consume large amount of memory and processor. To tweak follow these steps:* Go to Start>Run or press Windows + R* Type “msconfig” and click OK* The System Configuration dialogue box will be displayed, select the Startup* You will see list of checkboxes, most of them will be checked. Uncheck those ones which are not needed. More unchecked boxes will lead to better performance.* Click OK button to finish this tweaking step.

4. Stop extra services ..There are lots of services that are automatically started by default in Vista. Many such services are of no use for the user. There are services that get automatically added to the list when you install different third party software. They consume lots of RAM and processor. To speed up just follow these steps:* Go to Start>Run and type “msconfig” without quotations.* System Configuration window will be displayed.* Go to the Services tab (middle one)* To be on the safe side check the box “Hide all Microsoft Services”* Now you will have a reduced version of the list, select ones that you feel are unnecessary.* Press OK to finish.There are some Windows Vista’s services that you can disable without any glitch:* Windows Error Reporting* Tablet PC Input Service ( don’t disable if you are using a tablet PC)* Remote Registry* Offline Files* IKE and AuthIP IP Keying Modules* Distributed Link Tracking Client* Computer Browser

5. Disable Network Printer Search ..Disabling network printer search may greatly improve Vista’s performance. When you browse through folders Vista is always looking for network printers. This search ends up in consuming lots of resources. To speed up performance just follow these steps:* While you are in the explorer (My Computer), go to the Tools menu* Select Folder options* Go to the View tab* Uncheck the box named “Automatically search for network printers”After completing this step you would certainly feel the difference.

6. Use ReadyBoost ..

Vista Tweaking Tools

Looking for tools to get the most out of Windows Vista?Here are a few utilities to tweak up Windows Vista.

1. VistaTweaker - VistaTweaker is, as its name says, a reliable, smart and yet easy-to-use Windows Vista tweaking tool. The interface is nice and simple.· Every tweak has its description so the user can see what each one does.· Tweaks are organized into tabs, each tab is subdivided in sections by group boxes. This way it is easy to find the tweak the user is looking for.

2. XdN Tweaker - Tweaking program that supports Vista (and XP/Server 203). It doesn't have tons of tweaking options, but does focus on ones that most users may want to attend to. No installation required (but .NET is for XP/2003). Address areas with Vista UAC, Control Panel, Media Player, Right-Click context options, Files and Folder tweaks, File Associations, Start Menu, IE7, Outlook Express/Windows Mail, Misc. Tools, and System Settings. Pretty handy little utility.

3. Windows Sidebar Styler - Allows some easy fine-tuning of the Windows Sidebar and provides extensions to the Windows Sidebar in Vista. Supports custom styles for resizing and customizing how it integrates with other elements. Still being refined but looks pretty handy.

4. EasyBCD 1.6 - Hard-core NeoSmart tool that is definitely NOT for "average" Vista users. Allows advanced Vista users/tweakers to set up, configure, and tweak the Windows Vista bootloader.

5. TweakUAC - this utility allows folks running under an Administrator-level profile to easily turn off UAC (User Account Control), turn it back on, or keep it running, but suppress the UAC elevation prompt requests.

6. Tweak VI from Totalidea - The basic version is free and additional feature "plugins" can be purchased. It's a nice business model. The Basic version allows you to tweak desktop items, Start menu items, IE, Firefox, hardware settings, system info, virtual desktops, subsystem folders, mousing, and shutdown options.

7. Vispa - This tweak-tool uses a non-install executable and is a bare-bones Vista utility. Run it and you get a long list of check boxes organized by subjects. To apply a setting, activate the checkbox. Pro: simple interface. Con: simple interface. So unless you already know and understand the consequence of your choice, this might not be a utility for Vista noobies.

Orkut Auto Spam-Detector

Here is a cool greasemonkey script to automatically detect and remove spam from your owned Orkut communities.

This script can make your job of moderating a lot more easier as it automatically searches and prompts you to delete almost all spam messages, saving you a lot of your time in finding and deleting them.Assuming that you have firefox and greasemonkey extension already installed, you can install install the script from Here .

After installing the script simply go to your community, and click on “view all topics” button.The script will start searching for spam messages and prompt you to delete if it finds any.

Orkut Control Panel

Let the browsing in Orkut be on your finger tips. A menu will float over your Orkut window which will have one touch links to various frequently browsed Orkut pages such as albums, scrapbooks, etc.First Login to your Orkut Account then visit the following address for accessing Orkut Control Panel. Download is not required.

http://cp.orkuting.com/

New Orkut Fonts

Hey guys, just try out these cool new fonts.

Note : Just write the text in the scrapbook or while replying in a community, before clicking on the submit button just copy and paste one of these javascripts in the address bar (were you type www.orkut.com) and press enter.

1. тhι$ ιz d иєw cøøl ƒøит øи øяkuт ...тhє $cяιpт :-javascript:var

txt=document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')[0];txt.value=txt.value.replace(/a/gi,"α");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/b/gi,"ß");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/N/gi,"и");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/t/gi,"т");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/E/gi,"є");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/f/gi,"ƒ");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/i/gi,"ι");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/s/gi,"$");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/o/gi,"ø");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/m/gi,"м");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/r/gi,"я");void(0);

2. ♪ Wгitε thiš шαŷ ... ♪

♪ τhiš iž απΘthεг ¢ΘΘl ƒΘπt ....
Jμšt Θρεπ thiš liπκ .. μ gεt thiš ƒΘπt ... ♪

http://www.geocities.com/saad_memon2000/abstract_cool.html
♪ ÑjΘŷ !!! ♪

3. Write in dis Font...

The Script :javascript:cor=new Array('u','b','i','u');var z=1;txt=document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')[0];txt.value=txt.value.replace(/(.)/gi,"§$1");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/\§ /gi," ");for(y=0;yalue=txt.value.replace(/\§/,'[/'+cor[z-1]+']'+'['+cor[z]+']');z++;if(z==cor.length){z=1}}void(0)

4. W®îtË în Ðî§ wÅy..

Script :

javascript:var txt=document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')[0];txt.value=txt.value.replace(/A/gi,"Å");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/B/gi,"ß");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/C/gi,"©");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/D/gi,"Ð");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/E/gi,"Ë");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/F/gi,"ƒ");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/i/gi,"î");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/s/gi,"§");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/o/gi,"ø");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/u/gi,"µ");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/r/gi,"®");void(0);

5. Rainbow Format..Script :javascript:cor=new Array

('aqua','blue','fuchsia','gold','gray','green','lime','maroon','navy','olive','orange','pink','purple','red','silver','teal','violet','yellow' );var z=0;txt=document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')[0];txt.value=txt.value.replace(/(.)/gi,"§$1");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/\§ /gi," ");for(y=0;yalue=txt.value.replace(/\§/,'['+cor[z]+']');z++;if(z==cor.length){z=0}}void(0)

Enjoy!!

Messenger For Orkut

Scrapboy enables you to send and receive instant scraps on Orkut without a browser. It keeps you login into Orkut for a long time and right on your desktop as a small standalone running software. It is just like a messenger .Some of scrapboy’s features include:

1. Instant notification : You get notified by this scrapbook software as soon as someone scribbles into your orkut scrapbook. It is quite similar as when you get notified by an instant messenger when you get any new intant message. Scrapboy notifies you of new scrap by audio and visula alerts which can be configured as per user’s choice.

2. Orkut Emoticons and smileys : You can add emoticons and smileys to your orkut scraps easily and conveniently using scrapboy. You can even do text formatting using bold italic and different colors with easy visual rich text area editor.

3. Easy to use : When you login into scrapboy with your orkut account, then all of your friends get loaded into this scrapbook software automatically and instantly. So sending a scrap is just a click away.

Download It Here

Orkut Unique Character Trick

Guys I found a unique thing. I know many of you must be knowing this but for all those who don't this is pretty interesting.

So here it goes:While scraping someone or replying in a community type any four numbers without space in front of the symbol &# except 0000 and every time a new thing will come out. Not every time because most of the times a symbol like this will come:

✏But if you try different numbers, I am sure you will get many unique ones.For example:Typing this will produce a result like this:&#1212 - Ҽ

Hope you will enjoy this trick. And keep inventing new ones. :)

You can also post the source of some you found in comments.

Cool greasemonkey scripts for Orkut

Over the time, I have been collecting some cool greasemonkey scripts for Orkut.For those of you who don't know what Greasemonkey is please read this.And I am sure all of you know what Orkut is. :)

So here's my collection for you all. Hope you like it. Add more if you have in comments. I will update the article from the comments. I will also continue updating this list of greasemonkey scripts in my upcoming posts. :)

Note: You need Firefox with Greasemonkey installed to use these scripts. Just use this link to install greasemonkey in your Firefox browser :https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748

1. Lets you configure orkut's color scheme, changes your Gmail address on the top right corner into an actual link to your Gmail inbox :http://www.sujooo.com/ed/greasemonkey_scripts/orkutrestyler.user.js

2. Adds a toolbar at the top of the orkut page with various formatting tools and extra links : http://www.sujooo.com/ed/greasemonkey_scripts/orkutformatbar.user.js

3. Adds search function for finding your posts or those of a specific user in scrapbooks and community threads : http://www.sujooo.com/ed/greasemonkey_scripts/orkutfindmessages.user.js

4. Transforms links of images into the images themselves, so you can see them inside orkut (now this facility is supported officially by orkut):http://www.sujooo.com/ed/greasemonkey_scripts/orkutlinktoimage.user.js

5. Alerts you when you receive new scraps and when your friends log in, like MSN :http://www.sujooo.com/ed/greasemonkey_scripts/orkuthinewscrap.user.js

6. Adds a contextual menu when you right click (Windows) or control click (Mac) on someone's avatar :http://www.sujooo.com/ed/greasemonkey_scripts/orkutprofilecontextmenu.user.js

7. On clicking "reply" in a thread this script adds an input box in the same page without loading the page. After submitting your post you can see it immediately without having to back go to the last page of a thread : http://www.sujooo.com/ed/greasemonkey_scripts/orkutfastreply.user.js

8. Adds shortcuts to scrapbook, photo album and compose message next to every user's photo : http://www.sujooo.com/ed/greasemonkey_scripts/orkutshortcuts.user.js

Parallels Desktop for the Mac Beta Version With iPhone Support Released

VMware Fusion for Mac OS X software was the only one to make news, until now. On Thursday, Parallels too announced the launch of the new public beta version of the Parallels Desktop for the Mac platform. Parallels software also bundles support for the iPhone in Windows XP and Vista while running on your Mac PC.

With the new Parallels, Mac users get the ability to run Windows XP or Vista on their Mac without requiring a reboot like Apple’s built-in Boot Camp does.
Parallels public beta packs in a number of new features that users can test including Coherence compatibility with Expose. In addition, Parallels will now allow you to “stack” Windows and Mac apps the way you want to.

Further more, the public beta has an advanced Explorer tool that works with suspended, as well as shutdown, virtual machines. A complete, snapshot-compatible Image Tool to convert, enlarge, convert or split/unsplit virtual drives is included as well.
Parallel beta includes the following new feature updates:

1. Major enhancements to the look and feel of Windows programs in Coherence
2. Coherence support for Exposé and Transparent Windows
3. Support for overlapping several Windows and Mac windows in Coherence
4. Ability to silently boot into Coherence mode
5. Linux PC and virtual machine migration to your Mac using Transporter
6. Ability to change your VM’s disk format using the updated Image Tool
7. iPhone support in Windows. iTunes in Windows can connect to your iPhone
The Parallels public beta is free for all Parallels Desktop 3.0 users that have a trial or permanent key. Downloaded it from the company’s website.

Recovering Windows Passwords

This method can be used 2 change the password of an xp pc without knowing the current password…follow the steps

Start >> Run >> [type]cmd // this will open your command prompt[type] net(space)user(press

enter)[type] net(space)user(space)[windowsloginid](space)*(press enter)

// for e.g. : net user HOME *(press enter)

[type] new password (press enter) and retype it (press enter).. it will show u confirmation… //

caution it wont show u the password u type.. but it still types.. the blinking pointer will b there at the same place.. but it still works..// for e.g. : password changed successfully.

What Will Windows 7 Look Like ?

Analysts said Microsoft probably is keeping tight-lipped about what Windows 7 will look like because at this point, company engineers and executives don’t even know.

“They don’t want to commit because they don’t have a good idea what’s in it,” said Michael Silver, an analyst with Gartner. “We’re three years out, so you can’t really expect that much detail.”

Michael Cherry, an analyst with Directions on Microsoft, said that with so many people still in the midst of upgrading to the latest client OS, Windows Vista, he’s hesitant to speculate on what might be in the next OS. “We barely know the features of the one we just got,” he said with a laugh.

That said, Cherry is expecting less “earth-shattering” new features than improvements on some of the new ones found in Windows Vista, such as the Bitlocker encryption feature, which is currently hard for the average PC user to navigate.

“You have to partition your hard drive and do a bunch of things, and you can only really today protect one drive, whereas many machines have more than one,” he said.
Cherry also pointed to a common hardware performance problem many users face because of Vista’s “very large footprint.” “It’s one of the things they might want to address — hardware utilization and performance,” he said. “It’s hard to put a big wrapper around that; it just needs to be better.”

One Microsoft executive gave a slight hint about what might turn up in Windows 7 earlier this year at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. Ben Fathi, corporate vice president of development with Microsoft’s Windows Core Operating System Division, said in an interview that a “fundamental piece of enabling technology,” such as a hypervisor or a drastic change in the user interface, would likely turn up in Windows 7.

Fathi also said at RSA in February that Microsoft was in the middle of the planning process for Windows 7’s features and would know more over the next few months, which suggests the company now has a good idea what the OS will look like but is declining to disclose that information.

While both a hypervisor and a new user interface are possibilities for Windows 7, the former is almost a given, Gartner’s Silver said. “It almost has to go” in the OS, he said, describing the technology as “a really thin OS” that manages virtual machines running on the system.
It would behoove Microsoft to put a hypervisor in Windows 7 because it would give them more control over the hardware the OS runs on, something the company would prefer to have, Silver said.

“The hypervisor really owns the hardware, and Microsoft likes owning the hardware, and they want to be one of the people to standardize [hypervisor technology],” he said.
Vista includes such new features as desktop search and a new user interface, which also are two areas that leave room for expansion in Windows 7, analysts said.
Microsoft has shown the direction it’s going with the latter with its Surface computer, introduced in late May. That form factor looks like a coffee table with a touchscreen interface that lets users move photos around by hand and synchronize devices by placing them on the table.
With products like the Apple iPhone making the touchscreen popular with consumers, a touchscreen UI in Windows 7 is a possibility, Silver said. “They don’t want to look bad next to Apple,” he said.

Desktop search, a new feature built into Vista, also has room for improvement. Microsoft has said it will link desktop search to Windows Server 2008 so desktop users can search not only for local files but also for files on the server. This is a feature that potentially could be built into the desktop OS.

Direct x 10 Disappointing

“Many of the newest Windows games will take full advantage of the next-generation graphics technology in Windows Vista called DirectX 10.” says Microsoft. Gamers(mostly) don’t care what is behind the all hyped up DirectX 10. They care about the power it gives and the new feel it gives. And sorry to say, DX10 is not upto the mark.Wondering why?

DX10 will only run on systems which have Windows Vista and a fairly high-end graphics card. Developers are really thinking whether to use DX10 considering the slow upgrades by users to Vista.

The upcoming games : Call of Juarez, Lost Planet and Company of heroes have the same kind of the DX9 feel with extra graphical improvements and some new features. Crave even ran a DX10 machine and DX9 machine side by side and it was nearly impossible to detect differences.

Don’t be sad that you just upgraded to Vista hoping to see some real game experience. Wait for more titles(more like kind hearted Devs) before you throw that machine to dogs.

15 Coolest Firefox Tricks Ever

Everybody’s favorite open-source browser, Firefox, is great right out of the box. And by adding some of the awesome extensions available out there, the browser just gets better and better.
But look under the hood, and there are a bunch of hidden (and some not-so-secret) tips and tricks available that will crank Firefox up and pimp your browser. Make it faster, cooler, more efficient. Get to be a Jedi master with the following cool Firefox tricks.

1) More screen space. Make your icons small. Go to View - Toolbars - Customize and check the “Use small icons” box.

2) Smart keywords. If there’s a search you use a lot (let’s say IMDB.com’s people search), this is an awesome tool that not many people use. Right-click on the search box, select “Add a Keyword for this search”, give the keyword a name and an easy-to-type and easy-to-remember shortcut name (let’s say “actor”) and save it. Now, when you want to do an actor search, go to Firefox’s address bar, type “actor” and the name of the actor and press return. Instant search! You can do this with any search box.

3) Keyboard shortcuts. This is where you become a real Jedi. It just takes a little while to learn these, but once you do, your browsing will be super fast. Here are some of the most common (and my personal favs):
Spacebar (page down)
Shift-Spacebar (page up)
Ctrl+F (find)
Alt-N (find next)
Ctrl+D (bookmark page)
Ctrl+T (new tab)
Ctrl+K (go to search box)
Ctrl+L (go to address bar)
Ctrl+= (increase text size)
Ctrl+- (decrease text size)
Ctrl-W (close tab)
F5 (reload)
Alt-Home (go to home page)

4) Auto-complete. This is another keyboard shortcut, but it’s not commonly known and very useful. Go to the address bar (Control-L) and type the name of the site without the “www” or the “.com”. Let’s say “google”. Then press Control-Enter, and it will automatically fill in the “www” and the “.com” and take you there - like magic! For .net addresses, press Shift-Enter, and for .org addresses, press Control-Shift-Enter.

5) Tab navigation. Instead of using the mouse to select different tabs that you have open, use the keyboard. Here are the shortcuts:
Ctrl+Tab (rotate forward among tabs)
Ctrl+Shft+Tab (rotate to the previous tab)
Ctrl+1-9 (choose a number to jump to a specific tab)

6) Mouse shortcuts. Sometimes you’re already using your mouse and it’s easier to use a mouse shortcut than to go back to the keyboard. Master these cool ones:
Middle click on link (opens in new tab)
Shift-scroll down (previous page)
Shift-scroll up (next page)
Ctrl-scroll up (decrease text size)
Ctrl-scroll down (increase text size)
Middle click on a tab (closes tab)

7) Delete items from address bar history. Firefox’s ability to automatically show previous URLs you’ve visited, as you type, in the address bar’s drop-down history menu is very cool. But sometimes you just don’t want those URLs to show up (I won’t ask why). Go to the address bar (Ctrl-L), start typing an address, and the drop-down menu will appear with the URLs of pages you’ve visited with those letters in them. Use the down-arrow to go down to an address you want to delete, and press the Delete key to make it disappear.
User chrome. If you really want to trick out your Firefox, you’ll want to create a UserChrome.css file and customize your browser. It’s a bit complicated to get into here, but check out this tutorial.

9) Create a user.js file. Another way to customize Firefox, creating a user.js file can really speed up your browsing. You’ll need to create a text file named user.js in your profile folder (see this to find out where the profile folder is) and see this example user.js file that you can modify. Created by techlifeweb.com, this example explains some of the things you can do in its comments.

10) about:config. The true power user’s tool, about.config isn’t something to mess with if you don’t know what a setting does. You can get to the main configuration screen by putting about:config in the browser’s address bar. See Mozillazine’s about:config tips and screenshots.11) Add a keyword for a bookmark. Go to your bookmarks much faster by giving them keywords. Right-click the bookmark and then select Properties. Put a short keyword in the keyword field, save it, and now you can type that keyword in the address bar and it will go to that bookmark.

12) Speed up Firefox. If you have a broadband connection (and most of us do), you can use pipelining to speed up your page loads. This allows Firefox to load multiple things on a page at once, instead of one at a time (by default, it’s optimized for dialup connections). Here’s how:
Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Type “network.http” in the filter field, and change the following settings (double-click on them to change them):
Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to a number like 30. This will allow it to make 30 requests at once.
Also, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

13) Limit RAM usage. If Firefox takes up too much memory on your computer, you can limit the amount of RAM it is allowed to us. Again, go to about:config, filter “browser.cache” and select “browser.cache.disk.capacity”. It’s set to 50000, but you can lower it, depending on how much memory you have. Try 15000 if you have between 512MB and 1GB ram.

14) Reduce RAM usage further for when Firefox is minimized. This setting will move Firefox to your hard drive when you minimize it, taking up much less memory. And there is no noticeable difference in speed when you restore Firefox, so it’s definitely worth a go. Again, go to about:config, right-click anywhere and select New-> Boolean. Name it “config.trim_on_minimize” and set it to TRUE. You have to restart Firefox for these settings to take effect.

15) Move or remove the close tab button. Do you accidentally click on the close button of Firefox’s tabs? You can move them or remove them, again through about:config. Edit the preference for “browser.tabs.closeButtons”. Here are the meanings of each value:
0: Display a close button on the active tab only
1:(Default) Display close buttons on all tabs
2:Don’t display any close buttons
3:Display a single close button at the end of the tab bar (Firefox 1.x behavior)

Sungjut launches tango x nano in korea

Sungjut is launching a new UMPC in Korea called the TangoX. It has a CPU C7-M ULV at 1.2GHz, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, 40 or 80GB of HDD, HD Audio, a 7” WVGA (800×480) touch screen, a 4 in 1 card reader, ethernet port and Wi-Fi ABG, USB 2.0 (2 port), DVI, and internal Skype/VoIP phone. No word on pricing or release date in Korea.

Allowing Network Access with Blank Passwords with Vista

Although you can log in locally without a password, by default, Vista does not allow network users to access the computer without a password.
To change this setting:
1.Run gpedit.msc
2.Go to Computer Configuration / Windows Settings / Security Settings / Local Policies / Security Options
3.Double click on Accounts: Limit local account use of blank passwords to console login only
4.Disable this option

Installing Vista With No Product Key

You can install Vista with no product key and have 30 days to evaluate it
1.Boot from the DVD and start the installation
2.Select the Language, Time and Currency, and Keyboard
3.Click on Next
4.Click on Install Now
5.Don't enter a Product Key
6.Uncheck Automatically activate Windows when I'm online
7.Click on Next
8.Click on No to confirm you do not want to enter a product key
9.Highlight the version of Vista you want to install
10.Check that it is the same edition you have purchased (if you want to enter in a product key at a later time).
11.Click on Next
12.Check accept the license and terms
13.Click on Next
14.Install a clean copy and continue as with a regular insta

Looking glass tablet concept

Search and find info for just about anything with this looking glass tablet concept by Mac Funamizu. It comes with all the basic features like a a camera/scanner, GPS and internet connectivity. All you have to do is put the object that you wanted searched, and it will analyze it and look for it on Wikipedia and other search engines. Maybe in the future you can replace your binoculars for your voyeur activities.

Emotiv EPOC :Neuroheadset for games

That’s correct, the Emotiv EPOC is a headset that controls video games with your mind. It recognizes over 30 expressions, emotions, and actions. The game itself is trivial compared to the technology and its implications. The potential effect on society this kind of technology could have is immeasurable, just check out all the movies associated with this kind of stuff. We just hope it doesn’t expose just how dirty our minds are. The headset will ship with a game for the PC later this year for around $300.

Intel six-core chip Dunnington microprocessor

Intel is preparing to introduce a six-core chip called the Intel . This six-core Dunnington microprocessor will use three dual core 45 nanometre Penryn processors with a shared 16MB L3 cache. It will be succeeded by Nehalem micro-architecture, which will support greater than eight cores. The project itself is still under wraps so no word on availability as yet.

Sony Ericsson W 980 Phone

Check out this new phone the new W980 by Sony Ericsson. It comes with a 2.2-inch display, 3.15-megapixel camera, 8GB of built-in memory, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, and USB 2.0 connectivity, as well as an FM transmitter. Pricing an availability go have not yet been released

Logitech’s Play Seat Evolution and G25 Premium Pack

Only 100 lucky persons who can purchase Logitech’s Play Seat Evolution and G25 Premium Pack because the company will sell only 100 pieces of this ultimate racing video game accessory. It will definitively be the best companion of the Sony PlayStation 3. The gadget retails for around $750.

Snake Camera : World's Smallest Camera

Misumi claim that their new spy camera is the smallest camera ever. The company have been making spy-cameras for years, and now they come out with the Snake Camera. Measuring at just 4.4mm in diameter and 15mm in length, it can record 320×240 pixel QVGA video in color and includes an LED light for filming in dark places.

Kingston DataTraveler Micro Reader

If you’re constantly on-the-go then there’s a solution called the Kingston DataTraveler Micro Reader. It’s basically an all-in-one USB Flash drive and reader that can store, transfer and read data on mobile memory cards. The DataTraveler is compatible with microSD, microSDHC and Memory Stick Micro cards, and has a Windows ReadyBoost capability whenever you hook it up into any Vista-powered computer. Other features include: storage capacities of 1GB, 2GB, 4GB as well a 5-year warranty. The 1GB, 2GB and 4GB models will retail for $19.25, $28.25 and $42.

Improve wireless router signal strength

THE MISSING LINKOnce upon a midnight dreary, while pondering work for a meeting the next day, you decide you've had enough of your desk. Henceforth, you declare, you'll work anywhere in your house your heart desires: the sofa, the bedroom, the backyard, the kitchen, the bathroom (well, maybe not the bathroom). So you buy a wireless laptop, install a wireless router, and after you check that it all works, give yourself a pat on the back. The next day you discover that your wireless network covers only half your house and that both your living room and your kitchen are shrouded in digital darkness. The package the router came in claims a range of up to 250 feet, but your Wi-Fi signal barely seems to penetrate into the next room. You return the router for a new one, only to discover that the replacement unit leaves you with the same dreadfully cramped coverage area. Condemned once again to spend your most productive hours at the desperate solitude of your desk, you acquiesce, take a seat, and start typing.

Insufficient range is a common problem for many wireless networks, but there are ways to extend your coverage area into the places you need it most.

1. Center your router.
A vertical antenna and its radiation pattern.Setting up a wireless network is like investing in real estate: it's all about location. Unfortunately, it's hard to know exactly what your coverage area will be before you install the equipment. Transmission power, antenna sensitivity, and environmental conditions such as walls and furniture all help shape your coverage area. Moreover, the router alone is not responsible for your range. Your computer's wireless adapter must also be able to transmit data to the router. An ultrapowerful router with a sensitive antenna transmitting at 1 watt does you little good if your adapter has a poor antenna and is kicking out only 30 milliwatts. Replacing your router will often do nothing to improve your range.

If possible, place your wireless router in the center of the area you wish to cover. The omnidirectional antennas on most routers radiate in a three-dimensional doughnut-shaped pattern around the pole. If your router is located in a corner of your house, much of that radiation pattern will fall outside your home. Also, consider mounting your router high on a wall or ceiling far away from furniture and shelving that can impede or block Wi-Fi signals.

2. Add antennas or repeaters.
Buffalo's router repeater kit comes preconfigured out of the box.Some wireless adapters and routers are equipped with a connector that lets you add a high-gain antenna. High-gain antennas focus the energy they radiate in a particular direction, and you can use them to extend your range into rooms where your wireless signal otherwise might not reach. This solution works best when high-gain antennas are added to both sides of the connection.

You can also use a wireless repeater to extend your range. Repeaters receive data packets and retransmit them at full power. Unfortunately, this double duty of receiving and transmitting each individual packet cuts the throughput of your network connection in half. Repeaters can also be difficult to install, especially if you're new to networking. To make it easier, Buffalo sells a router/repeater combo that comes preconfigured out of the box. Keep in mind that repeaters tend to rely on proprietary solutions that are vendor specific and work only when you use the same brand of router and repeater. Still, a repeater can significantly increase the range of your wireless network and is well worth considering if you want to add a few rooms to your coverage area.

Panasonic 32 Gb classic SDHC Card

Panasonic has just announced the world’s First 32GB* SDHC Memory Card With Class 6 Speed specification. This newly developed card, featuring a massive 32GB of capacity, is a perfect device for those wanting High Definition content, as it can record up to 12 hours of High Definition video. Available in April for retail price of $699.

Greenhouse 19-inch monitor

Greenhouse will launch its 19-inch monitor GH-TIF193SDW in Japan. It features HDCP(High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection), support for 1,440 x 900(WXGA+) resolution, 1,000:1 contrast ratio, 5ms response speed and 400 cd/m2. This monitor should drop mid-February for $297.

16 GB HTC Advantage

HTC has upgraded their Advantage to a 16GB version that has an improved keyboard that’s alot easier to type on because it’s bigger and uses haptic tactile feedback, TouchFlo ( their finger-friendly user interface), and Opera 9. Pricing and an exact release date is unknown, but it shouldn’t be long until it’s unveiled.

Netflix Drops Hdd

Netflix has announced that it won’t be selling HD-DVD movies on mail-based subscriptions. So Blu-ray will be the only high definition format available. While HD-DVD titles can still be rented, Netflix won’t be adding more HD-DVD’s to their catalog and will phase out the format once the discs are done with their rental cycle.

Planning your Dream PC

Don't bust the budget A dream machine can have many incarnations, depending on how much money you truly are able to put into it. At some point along the configuration process, you’re going to ask yourself the question, “Do I really need this particular item in my machine?” It can be a high-end video card, HD-ready display, etc. The first thing you need to decide on is essentials.You should write (or type) the absolute must-haves for your machine. This list will differ with everyone, depending on what you’ll be using the computer for. After the essentials are done, then you can start thinking about spending that extra buck on a component that may be a bit frivolous, but you can’t live without it.
Bottom Line: Have a budget and a dollar figure that you won’t go over by more than a few bucks.

Choosing components

The best advice I can give is to choose your components based on a couple things. First, if you have had past experience with a particular brand, whether positive or negative, that should factor into your decision-making process every time you are shopping around again. If you have had nothing but wonderful experiences with ASUS motherboards or Nvidia video cards, that’s obviously going to influence your decision, and that’s perfectly fine. The same goes for negative experiences.

Second, it is essential that you read reviews of products you are interested in. Just because a company has made well-reviewed and popular products in the past, that doesn’t mean they are infallible. Make sure you read reviews from both tech professionals and consumers for the exact product you are looking to purchase.Also, make sure the components you buy complement each other.

For example, if you are planning on taking advantage of SLI [to boost your machine's graphic processing], you want an SLI-capable motherboard. If you are planning on a nice digital speaker system, make sure that your sound, whether it’s integrated or dedicated, has an S/PDIF input.Bottom line: You want components in your Dream PC to operate as if they were built to do so seamlessly.

DSCRIBE Digital Ball pen

Designed by Reuben Png, this digital fountain pen actually sends out SMS and Email messages in real time directly from the pen! Once a message is sent, the status is displayed on the built-in OLED screen. The pen also records everything you write which can be accessed on a computer.