ohhh..!!
Dis z d peak time when all of my collageous r burnning their ass in book’s
but my god.. my addiction of blogging n surfing can’t let me do so..
wat i still hv to prep one more subject of “System analysis and design” …
hope after dis blog i do…!!
well ma xam is from 10.00 am tommorow n i don’t knw wat will happend in d paper..
well i m 100% sure i have to appear in the same exam next year
hahahaha..!!
A couple of months ago when i started this blog i dont have any plan to a buy paid domain for my blog but as i feel my readers, friends and some anonymous user like this blog so i move it from www.pankajkala.blogspot.com to www.pankajkala.com. I am adding two new section in this site.Personal development and Health i.e yoga and spirtuality. As i think whether you a geek/student/IT professional or have your own IT or any other business without personal development and health you cant grow more as if you with these 2 things you fill find change in yourself and your carrer.These two things affect you both personally and professionally.So just wait for these two section i hope you like it. Thanx for all your support and suggestions.
UK freelancer Dave Mitchell bought a new Dell laptop, replaced its copy of Windows with Linux - and got money back from Dell for never using the Microsoft OS.
When he started [the computer] for the first time, he clicked the box that said "no" on the Windows licence agreement that asked him to agree to its terms. The text of this agreement states users can get a refund for the "unused products" on their new computer if they get in touch with the machine's manufacturer.
He photo-documented the whole process, and wrote Dell a letter asking for his refund for the unused copy of Windows. Without argument or asking for the photos or the Windows install disc back, Dell sent Mitchell a refund for £55.23 (over 100 bucks). Mitchell said he was "pretty gob-smacked" it was so easy.
Flash drives are ingenious little devices. Most people are catching on to the incredible ease of use of flash drives. Heck, I have one that boots up to my favorite linux security distribution. This allows me to run an entire operating system via USB. So, even if you had Windows on your computer, I could bypass that and boot to linux - if your computer had USB booting capability. But i digress. Flash memory is great until it bombs out on you. You may get messages saying that your drive isn’t recognized or it may do nothing. What are you to do?
Flash drives use the FAT file system. This makes it very readable across many different operating systems. Sometimes that file system just gets whacked out. When this happens, you errors about the medium being unreadable. Sometimes, the master boot sector of your flash drive can get hosed. This will give you messages about the drive being unformatted or it won’t read the drive. You plug in your flash drive and your computer may not detect it as a drive. Some of the tools already on this blog will help you recover data off of your flash drive. If it’s a flash card from a camera, you could try this free photo recovery software.
I don’t think I have to say that data loss is everyone’s nightmare. At home, data loss could mean years worth of photos, videos, financials, and documents lost. In business, data loss means money out the window. Many times, however, you want to recover data, but you don’t want to pay the exorbitant fees that data recovery companies charge ($150-$250/hour). Let me introduce you to some free data recovery tools.
1. NTFS Reader - NTFS reader is a great little program that comes in a boot disk image. This allows you to boot from a floppy disk, read an NTFS partition, and copy the files to the floppy. This is probably the fastest way to get your files off of a non-booting NTFS partition.
2. Restoration - Restoration is a utility that allows you to recover items that were deleted out of your recycle bin. It is a very successful tool.
3. Boot Sector Recovery - Sometimes it’s just a matter of getting that boot sector back on track. This little utility simply does the job.
4. DIY DataRecovery - They have a great little repository of free utilities waiting for your perusal. DiskPatch is a great set of tools for repairing partitions, boot sectors and the like. iRecover helps recover lost data. Go check it out.
5. HDCopy - HDCopy allows you to make an exact copy of your drive. You can even push it over to another drive. Ever been stuck with too little space and you wanted to put all your stuff onto a new, huge drive? Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
6. Recoverdm - Recoverdm allows you to recover disks with bad sectors. Now, having said that, it’s not for the faint of heart. You should be well versed to use this utility.
Remember, once data loss occurs, use that drive as little as possible. This keeps the sectors from being overwritten. Also, you don’t want to be turning the computer on or off, if possible. This will greatly increase your chances for recovering your valuable data.
You’re probably reading this because you have the time to do it yourself or you don’t have the money to purchase commercial data recovery software or services. Just remember, if this is your business and you have really critical data on your drive, it may be time to dig into your wallet. This is especially true if time is of the essence. Also, if your configuration involves RAID or complicated implementations, this also may be time to dish out the money.
Windows Live Hotspot Locator of course locates hotspots. You just put in your country, state, city, and zip code. You also put the distance and the access fee either free, paid, or both. It works very nicely and you can view the results on a map as well.
Today at Apple's It's Showtime event, Apple revealed quite a bit of new stuff. To start off I'll talk a little about the 5.5 gen. iPod. The new iPod looks basically the same but it has a 60% brighter screen. The iPod also has longer battery life and new headphones. It will have gapless playback (which I think goes for all iPods as an update) and even text based search I'm really not to sure how this function works yet.
iTunes 7 is now available and you can download full length movies such as Pirates of the
Caribbean, The Incredibles, Flightplan, and many more. And get this, on the 5.5 gen. iPod you
can now download games at $4.99 each such as Pac-man, Tetris, Bejeweled, and more. There are many other new things in iTunes 7 so got to the iTunes 7 overview page for more info.
DiscountClick is a service that helps you market your website. DiscountClick also helps you with SEO (search engine optimization) including placement in Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, Netscape, Ask, and Altavista. They help you with text link advertising as well. DiscountClick has marketing charts, graphs, and keyword ranking results that find where you currently stand in all the major search engines. DiscountClick includes a Keyword Density Analyzer, Traffic Metrics, both Organic and Pay Per Click Traffic and Rank Reporting Utilities. Analyze URLs and perform effective on page SEO optimization for your website or your customers sites. They say they guarantee your satisfaction. DiscountClick charges as low as $50 a month for search engine promotion which wouldn't be too bad if you used it for a couple of months. So you might want to check this out if you'd like to get some hits to your site and get some good rankings in the top search engines.
Tired of searching via Google and getting almost instant results? sick of getting info as speed as lightning? Got some time to waste around…than this is the perfect search engine for you:
It’s annoyingly slow and made completely from Flash, you may get ecited initially with the humor and most probably with Ms. Dewey herself, but other than that it’s all pointless.
Who is the real Miss Dewey?
In real life Miss Dewey is Janina Gavankar a classically trained pianist, vocalist, and orchestral percussionist.
Gickr is a service that allows you to create animated Gifs online. There are a couple ways that you can do it though. You can either search Flickr for pictures, use your Flickr account, or you can just upload images to Gickr and create your animated Gif. You can also choose from different sizes and speeds for your Gif. It's really easy to use and it's fun so try it out.
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Link Alert is a Firefox extension that puts a small little icon next to the cursor when you hover over a link. The little icon next to the cursor identifies what you're about to click on like a Word document or Zip file. It works for many different types of links including the following: new windows, secure sites, email links, javascript, word documents, excel spreadsheets, PDF files, Zip files, applications, text files, images, and RSS feeds. This comes in very handy and useful. Have fun!
Microsoft handed out these free Lemon-Lime Talking Rain sparkling water drinks to employees. The can has a Windows Vista logo on it and a web address for them to learn more about Vista. It seems that they're trying to build hype within the company also.
I just thought I would share this great resource for the best free and open-source software for Windows and Mac. Both the Windows and Mac lists have many categories such as web browsing, IM, email, RSS readers and much more! Here is a quote from the site " Free and op en-source software is good for you and for the world. This is the best software that we know of. No adware, no spyware, just good software." Go to the site at Open Source Windows and Open Source Mac.
HP have launched a new range of Photosmart Digital Cameras that have a slimming feature so that you can make your subjects look lean at the press of a button.
Here's a quick, easy and safe way to lose weight and look fit instantly. And you don't have to stop the calorie intake, just buy an HP Digital Camera.
Like the Weight Loss clinic ads in newspapers, the camera's LCD screen will also show a before and after version of the picture before apply the effect permanently. The slimming level can be adjusted using the arrow keys.
And not just slimming subjects - this camera can also be used for the reverse job - thin people can look healthier, atleast in photographs.
Dell Laptops and Desktop Computers may soon be shipped preloaded with Google Toolbar and Google Desktop Search.
Google is in discussion with Dell that could result in Google paying the computer maker up to $1 billion to have its software factory-installed on new Dell PCs.
Google Toolbar and Google Desktop Search are among the items that could appear on new Dell machines.
Dell UK already bundles Firefox with new Dell computers. Google already has a Personalized Google Dell Start Page.
Computer users often don't switch from the pre-loaded programs after they boot up a new computer, making this a lucrative market.
Source: Google: Factory installed from Dell? | Google may strike big deal with Dell
CD-ROMs maybe the most popular choice for storing data especially among the home consumers but they are certainly not the most reliable backup medium. Some experts believe that the average life of a CD written with the standard CD burner is anywhere between two and five years while the factory burnt CDs have higher life. The life of CD's may also depend on other factors like the storage environment, surrounding temperature, humidity, multiple rewrites and how often the CD is accessed by you. CD disc can easily get damaged by finger scratches, dust, incorrect handling or if someone tries to label the CD with a pen on the shiny side. Whatever be the reasons for disc generation, it should be kept in mind that your CDs won't last forever. To see this for yourself, find an old CD that was bundled with the first Pentinum-I computer you bought in 1995. It might throw some unpleasant suprises. While the best [though impractical] way to remain safe is to keep testing your collection of CDs at frequent intervals or taking backup of CD's itself on other CDs or external hard-drives, the big question is what can you do if the data contained in an old CD suddenly becomes inaccessible ? You ejected the CD to clean it with a cotton cloth but unfortunately, those precious family photographs on the CD are still unreadable. Don't lose hope yet. If you are lucky, those important files in the corrupted CD can still be retrieved with some of these free data recovery software: Unstoppable Copier - Available for Windows and Linux, this free utility can copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data. Normally when your computer is unable to copy a file from a damaged disk it will abort and delete the portition of the file it has copied. This program however will continue to copy the file right to the end. Any data that is not recoverable after many retries is replaced with blanks. CD Check - detects and recovers damaged files on CD-ROMs. CDCheck can also be used to check the health of your existing working CDs to ensure that the data residing inside is safe. IsoBuster - It supports all CD and DVD formats. Isobuster has tons of data recovery features and the basic version is free of cost. Advice: If you notice a scratch on the surface of a CD or DVD, immediately duplicate that disc before inviting problems in future.
Our next example is from the css library at dynamicdrive . This is a more basic image gallery setup, it just involves thumbnails on the site and you hover over each one the full image is displayed on the right side of the screen. The code for this one is simple and is good for beginners to understand whats happening.
This next one is a remake of the first gallery on this list and again it's from cssplay. The main design is basically the same with the different tabs on top for the sections. As you hover over images they no longer expand for easier viewing, the background of the images is just changed to black. I really liked the expanding images on hover from the first one I wish they would have kept it in the remake. In this new one when you click an image the full size is loaded right into the window, then if you click it again it will take you right back to the list of images. I really like this feature in the new one, it makes it more user friendly not having to redirect to view the full size image. This one is also worth looking at..
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If you hadn't already heard the oh-so-happy news, Firefox 2 has officially been released. Go now, and get the goodness for yourself. Seriously, stop what you're doing, and go download the awesomeness yourself. Right now.
Coming just days after the launch of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2 offers a refreshed user interface, anti-phishing protection, improvements to the built-in search feature, tabbed browsing changes, the ability to restore an interrupted session, better support for Web feeds, inline spell-checking, support for microsummaries and a number of other enhancements.Upgrading seems to be pretty painless, and I'm honestly surprised by how few extension incompatibilities I've run across. In my personal installation, SessionSaver (who's functionality is now integrated into Firefox by default) and Reveal were the only ones that were angry and annoyed. I've never had so few extensions stop working after an upgrade, especially so soon after a major release. If you're still not sure, you can still take this puppy for a spin without having to install anything. As of this writing, v2.RC3 is the latest version of Firefox available at PortableApps.com, but the public release should be up there soon. In more obscure news, Fedora Core 6 (Zod), the latest version of the Community-driven and
RedHat-sponsored Linux distribution has also just been released. According to a buddy of mine, who beta-tests and troubleshoots FC releases, remarked that FC6 is "very shiny." I'll probably be getting the install DVD from him in the next few days. Download information can be found at the Fedora Project website.
If the jump from FC4 to FC5 is at all telling, Fedora users should be in for a real treat this time around.
Screencasting to help your mom is a handy guide to help you choose the right screen capture software on a Windows PC, Mac OS or Linux Platform. Screen Capture software are used to to capture screen video, grab scenes from dvd movies or even a playing screen saver.
How often friends visit you to learn how to use email, how to search Google or how to install a software. Or how do you teach Outlook Express to your Mom who is sitting miles away. Just screencast it. Record your desktop computer activity with narration and share it as a video.
Screencasting is a process of creating interactive demonstrations and software simulations. You take a series of screenshots of a running application. The software records your actions and instantly create a simulation or Screencast. The movies can be in a variety of formats like Standalone EXE, Macromedia Flash SWF, AVI format or the Windows Media Video (WMV) format or as streaming presentations from a website. You can even burn the simulations / demonstrations on a CD for mailing them to your Mom.
Screencasts can be used for describing software projects, reporting bugs, and explaining interactions. Just as a screenshot is a picture of a user's screen, a screencast is essentially a movie of what a user sees on his monitor. And if a picture is worth a thousand words, a movie is worth a thousand pictures. Creating a screencast helps software developers show off their work. It is a useful skill for ordinary software users as well, to help report bugs (the movie takes the place of potentially unclear written explanations) or to show others how a given task is accomplished in a specific software environment.
» Techsmith Camtasia Studio 3.1 - [read review] From the developers of SnagIt, Camtasia is cheaper and much easier to use. It is essentially a desktop recording solution with the capability of Flash file export. Camtasia movies can be converted to a variety of media formats for use with standard flash plug-ins, Windows Media Player, Quicktime, Real Media etc. Camtasia is used even by Microsoft to create product demonstations.
These software cost $149 to $499, which is more than most people want to spend for this purpose. Fortunately there are cheaper or even free alternatives available:
» Windows Media Encoder - encodes other formats to WMV which can be progressively download and can even broadcast a live event from your webcam. Windows Media Encoder Tutorial.
» Wink - It creates flash tutorials and can also reproduce the screens of the tutorials in a PDF file.
» BB FlashBack - An effective screen record from BlueBerry Software.
» Wincam 2000 - Record everything on the computer screen with easy to use frame-by-frame editing.
» Demobuilder - [review of DemoBuilder] A very powerful software which can export to Flash and EXE files.
» vnc2swf Screen Recorder - captures live motion of a screen through VNC protocol and converts it a Flash movie. Source code available.
» WildPresenter 2.1 - Unlike competing Flash development products like Swish or Xtivity, WildPresenter is more than just a Flash Presentation tool. WildPresenter is a feature-intensive suite of useful products packed in one neat timeline-driven interface.
» DemoStudio - GPL-licensed screen capture application for Microsoft Windows (open source). DemoStudio records by default to AVI format, but provides an excellent tool called DemoStudio Producer for converting these into Flash (SWF) files.
» CamStudio- GPL-licensed screen capture application for Microsoft Windows (open source). CamStudio is a simple, straightforward program to record screen activity to AVI or SWF format. You can also record audio from your speakers or microphone. Rendersoft CamStudio was acquired by eHelp and incorporated into their RoboDemo software. CamStudio is also available on SourceForge.
» Istanbul: GTK-based Open Source Istanbul for Linux has the simplest user interface you can imagine. Launching it displays an icon in the notification area that you click to start or stop recording your screen. Istanbul can stream video to an Icecast server or create a file using Ogg Theora, a free, efficient video codec.
» Wink - Wink (not open source, but free for business or personal use) creates a compressed Flash file, which can be easily embedded in Web pages and is usually smaller than the Theora files created by Istanbul. Flash files are good for representing simple, schematic user interfaces, while the Theora video codec is often preferable if most of the screen is filled with changing or moving complex pictures..
» Screen Capture OCR - Kleptomania and CaptureText allow you to copy text from error messages, window dialogs preserving the formatting and layout. Read more about OCR Scan to convert hindi into editable text for magazines and newspapers.
» Screencasting on a Mac - Use Snapz Pro X or create screencasts on an Apple Mac using free software tools like osxvnc, X11 and vnc2swf. Don't be confused by the Image Capture program found in the Applications directory of Mac OS X. Another program iMovie, bundled with Mac OS X, is a capable low-end video editor.
Meredith prefers Screencasting over Podcasting: I think Podcasting is cool, but not for me. I'm a visual learner, so listening to my favorite bloggers takes more mental energy to absorb than reading their blog entries. When I click on a library tutorial see static pages of text, I rarely even bother to read it. When I see a movie that illustrates step-by-step how to accomplish the task, I am more likely to stay for the show. Screencast software are also being used for debugging software problems.
Software Tutorials and Traning software companies like TotalTraining.com, lynda.com and vtc.com use Screen Capture Software create QuickTime video tutorials of software training and educational training. See some sample videos for learning Macromedia Captivate.
Which simulation software is best for you ? Here are some comparisons by actual users of these simulation software:
1 .Qarbon ViewletBuilder vs. Techsmith Camtasia
2. Techsmith Camtasia vs. Macromedia Captivate
3. Macromedia Captivate vs. Qarbon Viewletbuilder Pro
4. Comparison of Macromedia Captivate with Robodemo
5. ScreenCasters - An exhaustive review of screencasting software based on output quality, file size, ease of use, and other basic issues.
And if you cannot afford any of the commercial software, don't loose heart - you already have a tiny free screencast software on your PC - the little Print Screen Key in combination with the Alt
To copy/capture the current window, hold down ALT + Print Scrn at the same time. To capture the entire screen, just press Print Scrn.
Open a new document in MS Word, MS Photo Editor, or Adobe PhotoShop. Paste the screen shot choosing Edit->Paste or or pressing CTRL+V.
After Samsung, Dell is the second major company that tells its customers that Vista may need more system memory than what Microsoft is listing in its system requirements. According to a report in the Seattle Post Intelligencer (SPI), chief executive officer Kevin Rollins promoted an upgrade to 2 GB.
You may be used to the procedure of doubling your system memory every few years or so, when a new operating system is introduced. We have seen this tradition with Windows 95, when the memory went from 4 to 8 MB in the mainstream or more recently with Windows XP when most users went from 128 MB to 256 MB. Windows Vista won't make an exception, even if you are already running your XP with a comfortable 1 GB of RAM.
The goal of this site is to introduce new users to Ubuntu by way of short video clips that highlight Ubuntu's features and demonstrate how to complete common tasks. If you know of our have any clips that would help new users get started please submit them here. The site is sponsored by SFU's Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology.
Whats up everyone? I was just taking a look at Google Trends and I found out something interesting. Apparently Ubuntu Linux has not only surpassed its major competitor in Linux ( SuSE ) in popularity, as well as the distro it's based off of (Debian) , but it seems to have also surpassed another major competitor. Yes, that's right! Apple Computer's very own Mac OS X has also been defeated in popularity by Ubuntu! Check it out for yourself. Here is a screenshot I took not 15 minutes ago. The blue line you see shooting up to the sky there is Ubuntu itself, while Mac OS, SuSE and Debian seem to all hang around the same general level of popularity. I've purposely left Windows out of this graph because if added, all of these OS's crawl near the bottom of the graph in an almost flat line compared to Windows' wild lead. Just thought this was pretty cool! Free software is definetly making some serious progress.
Run Windows XP and want to have the benefit of easier to read, less-jaggy fonts system-wide? Yeah, I thought so too. Right-click the desktop, select Properties, head over to the Appearance tab and click on the Effects button. In the window that opens up, check the second box that says Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts and select ClearType from the drop-down menu, then OK out of all windows.
Those steps will just enable ClearType on your system with the default settings. If you want to fine tune the appearance, download the ClearType Tuner from Microsoft and use its wizard. It can do things like adjust contrast and LCD screen striping.
After browsing around online on a friend’s computer I realized how horrible everything looks, my site included, without ClearType enabled.
Google has merged its separate Writely and spreadsheets web applications into Google Docs & Spreadsheets. The new service will further Google’s strength as an online office suite, currently competing with Zoho.
Intel, the corporation responsible for your speedy Mac, has launched the IT@Intel Blog. It seems like all the big companies are catching on to this business blogging trend; I love it. A quick look around the blog will get you a page about the authors and there are some heavy hitters in there, including the director for the Platform Capability group and the manager for the Enterprise Collaboration & Engineer group at Intel. I have read the first few posts and if things keep up, it will be an interesting blog to watch.
Rohit Bhargava, who handles some of Intel’s PR needs, has more on this as well as Intel’s partnership with Second Life. The IT@Intel blog isn’t Intel’s first foray into blogging, they actually run quite a few blogs and I can tell you there will be one more coming soon.
