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Sunday, July 13, 2014

Unblock Websites Blocked by Recent Delhi High Court Order

The Delhi High Court ordered the blocking of 219 websites which could be used to stream Fifa World Cup matches illegally. Order was passed on the basis of  Sony  who  owned Multi Screen Media (MSM), which has exclusive rights to broadcast the Fifa World Cup 2014 in India.

The original list of 472 websites to be blocked included some strange entries like Google Docs, but the order was then amended and the list brought down to 219; however,there are still some website which has nothing to do with World Cup

Let have a Trick to Unblock these website using DNS change

Change the DNS

If the URL change doesn't work, then you might want to try changing the domain name server to Google DNS or OpenDNS. Most people have reported that this method works on BSNL for them. I am going to describe the step by step for diffrent device. If you are quite smart and techi you can also change your DNS setting of MODEM also so that you need to change it on every device.

For Windows Vista, 7 or 8 users

1) For Windows Vista and 7,
click Start > Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network and Sharing Center.

 If you're using Windows 8, hit Windows key + C > click Search on the right-hand side > type Control Panel in the search bar > select Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network and Sharing Center.

2) Click Change adapter settings, which is on the left sidebar.

3) Right-click the Internet connection on which you're having trouble accessing websites, and click Properties.

4) Select Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IP), and then click Properties.

5) Click the radio button next to Use the following DNS Server addresses. If you want to use Google DNS, enter 8.8.8.8 as the Preferred DNS Server and 8.8.4.4 as the Alternate DNS Server. If you want to use OpenDNS, use 202.67.220.220 and 202.67.222.222 respectively. After entering these, click OK.

For Windows XP user.

1) Click Start > Control Panel > Network Connections.

2) Now select your specific Internet connection with access problems, right-click, then select Properties.

3) Left-click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), and select Properties.

4) Follow the instructions in Step 5 above.

Apple  iOS device that's connected to a Wi-Fi network.

1) Open Settings > tap Wi-Fi > tap the Wi-Fi network the device is connected to.

2) Tap DNS and change the two values to Google DNS or Open DNS (explained in step 5 above). These two values should be separated with a comma and one space (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4).

For Android users

1) Open Settings > tap Wi-Fi.

2) Long press the Wi-Fi network you're connected to > tap Modify Network.

3) Now tap the box next to Show advanced options. Scroll down.

4) Tap DHCP > select Static IP > scroll down and modify DNS 1 and DNS 2 (as explained in step 5 above).

On BlackBerry 10

1) Settings > Network and Connections > tap Wi-Fi. Now connect to a Wi-Fi network.

2) Long-press the connection you're connected to > tap Edit.

3) Scroll down and turn off Auto Obtain IP. After you do this, you'll see more options, such as the IP address, DNS and gateway. Switch to OpenDNS or Google DNS here (as explained in step 5 above).

Unfortunately, Windows Phone 8 doesn't support changing DNS manually.

Try a Proxy
If changing the DNS does not work, you should try a Web proxy to open blocked websites. These websites simply route you through servers based in other countries, which means that you can access websites that aren't blocked in those countries.

Kproxy,Hidemyass and NewIPNow are  such websites. Just enter the name of the blocked website in the form and click enter. On the Hidemyass website, the free proxy is at the very bottom of the page, .



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Saturday, August 25, 2012

Can't copy File larger than 4GB on USB drive,Here is Solution

Have you ever noticed that using your 8GB or 16GB USB flash drives(pendrive) to copy larger single having having more than 4GB? If you have done so then you might get some windows error message stating that You don't have enough space.(such as: There is not enough free space on the drive, or similar.) Does this sound familiar?


If you have faced such a problem, most probably it’s caused by the fact that your flash drive comes with  FAT32 file system from factory. This type of a file system has a built-in limitation on the size of the files that it may contain. Although the total size of the files that you can copy to a FAT32 drive could be as large as 2TB (or the physical capacity of the drive, whichever is smaller), the size of each individual file may not exceed 4GB.Such file system (FAT32/FAT) will not support copying file which is greater than 4GB.Here i want to mention that I am talking about file size of single file should not exceed 4GB.

This limitations is quite unwanted in present context but when FAT32 was designed no body anticipated that we would deal with large files as we are dealing today.Or, maybe the designers hoped that by the time such large files become common, the use of the FAT32 system would be replaced by the more modern systems.

But in any case we need to resolve the solution . This problem can be solved using NTFS file system.The latter does not have the 4GB file size limitation, and it also allows for many other functions not supported by FAT32: file security, encryption, compression, etc.

On the other side there are some limitations of NTFS also the older versions of Windows (such as Windows 95, 98, or Windows Millennium do not support the NTFS file system. If you plan on using the drive with such old computers, then DO NOT format the drive with NTFS, because you won’t be able to get the old Windows to recognize it anyway. If, however, you only plan on using the drive with the more recent versions of Windows, such as Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and of course Windows 7, such computers should work with the NTFS drives just fine.

Now I am going to tell you how you can change your FAT32 USB devices to NTFS in Windows Xp. Normally it is very easy in case of Windows vista/Windows 7 but it is little bit tricky in case of Windows Xp
By default Windows Xp will not allow you to format USB to NTFS. When you select "Format" in context menu of USB drive there you won't have any option for NTFS.

Step to enable NTFS format of USB in Windows XP

1.      Insert the USB flash drive into the USB port.
2.      Click Start, type devmgmt.msc in the Search textbox and press  Enter.
3.      Find Disk Drives and expand it.
4.      Find the USB flash drive you want to format, and double-click it. It opens the  Properties dialog box.
5.      Click Policies tab.
6.      By default, the  Optimize for quick removal option selected, switch it to Optimize for performance and then pressOK.
7.      Now open My Computer. Right click on the USB Flash Drive and select Format. The Format dialog box now appears.
8.      Select NTFS in the File System field.
9.      Press Start and wait while the process will be completed.
10.   Now your USB Flash Drive is formatted with NTFS format.



Steps to format USB in Windows vista/Windows 7

1. Insert the USB flash drive into the USB port.
2.  Now open My Computer. Right click on the USB Flash Drive and select Format. The Format dialog box now appears.
3.  Select NTFS in the File System field.
4. Press Start and wait while the process will be completed.
5. Now your USB Flash Drive is formatted with NTFS format.


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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Free Partition manager and Recovery File Software

 MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition is a free partition manager software designed by MiniTool Solution Ltd. Partition manager supports 32/64 bit Windows Operating System including Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. Home users can perform complicated partition operations by using this powerful yet free partition manager to manage their hard disk. Functions include: Resizing partitions, Copying partitions, Create partition, Delete partition, Format partition, Convert partition, Explore partition, Hide partition, Change drive letter, Set active partition, Partition Recovery

MiniTool Power Data Recovery is an all in one data recovery software. User can recover lost data from hard disk, CD/DVD disk, memory stick, memory card and USB flash drive. It can recover data after accidental deletion, recover data from formatted partition, deleted partition and damaged partition. With MiniTool Data Recovery Boot Disk, user can also boot computer directly to recover data after system crash, hard drive crash.


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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

WinToFlash -- Make Bootable USB Installers for Windows


What is WinToFlash
There may come a day that optical drives are as hard to find as 5.25 floppy drives are today.
WinToFlash starts a wizard that will help pull over the contents of a windows installation CD or DVD and prep the USB drive to become a bootable replacement for the optical drive. It can also do this with your LiveCD.
You don't have to worry about scratches on the disc or misplacing your original media discs once you transfer their contents to the flash drive. The optical drive is quickly becoming a thing of the past, especially in office environments, as media is shifted to the cloud.
WinToFlash is a free and easy to use application that does something very useful: it helps you create a bootable USB installer for your Windows operating system. It basically takes your Windows installation disk and ports it to an USB stick.
Additional information on WinToFlash is available here.
The problem with having a Windows installation disk on a CD or DVD is that the aforementioned CD or DVD could get damaged. You could crack the disk or you could scratch it badly, thus making it unusable. Another problem is that it can be a bother to walk around with a CD or DVD in your pocket – especially when you take into consideration the fact that instead of a cumbersome CD or DVD, you could walk around with a tiny USB drive (or USB stick or Flash drive or whatever else you want to call it).

 





















It is a lot more convenient to walk around with an USB installer for Windows instead of a CD or DVD. USB sticks are easier to carry around and they don’t get scratches on them which make them unusable. Those two facts alone are reason enough for me to want to ditch a Windows CD or DVD and move to an USB stick instead.

There is a very simple way to do so: get the right piece of software and you can easily turn a Windows CD or DVD to an USB installer. That “right piece of software” is the Novicorp-developed and appropriately named WinToFlash. What this application does is it takes the contents of a Windows installation CD or DVD and moves them to an USB stick, turning that stick into a bootable USB installer for Windows. So instead of using a CD or DVD to install the Microsoft-developed Windows operating system, you can use the USB stick instead.

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Friday, September 30, 2011

Delete a Document from the Print Queue

Printing problems are some of the most frustrating problems that we experience as computer users. It takes a long time, and sometimes it will not delete at all, blocking all subsequent print jobs. In some instances, even taking the printer offline, or rebooting the machine will not clear the printing queue. This article discusses what to try if you have a problem when you try to cancel a print job, or if you have a problem when you try to delete a print job from the print queue.

To clear the print job, simply follow these directions:

1. Navigate to "Services" under "Administrative Tools" (from either Control Panel, the Start>Programs menu, or right-click on My Computer and choose "Manage")
2. Stop the Print Spooler services
3. Open Window Explorer (CTRL+E), and navigate to: C:\Windows\system32\spool\PRINTERS
4. Delete any offending print jobs (.spl file extensions).
5. Start the Print spooler service again.
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Compress your Digital Camera picture for better Storage utilization


Most of time Now a days when we buy high resoutaion digital camera and take picture from it then there is a big problem for it largage file size . suppose when u you have 10 Megapixel camera and you are taking snap with that resoultion then the file size increases. After long time time found a application wihich is pretty much simple and easy to use like other compresson software.

Advance JPEG Compressor is one of Shareware. It is not free but still you can use it up to trial period. The best feature that I like is you can compress your source multiple photo with single click that mean you need to compress individual photo one by one

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Thursday, August 4, 2011

New Revolution in USB Technology : USB 3.0 ,Diffrence between USB2.0 and USB 3.0

 
USB  is most innovated ideas which causes revolution in field of computers,currently USB 2.0 is used in most of the computers which leads to a very high data transfer as compared to the older ones but now USB 3.0 is launched , next generation USB. USB 3.0 much faster and safe as compared to USB 2.0
New USB 3.0 products are 10 times  faster than USB 2.0 means data transfer speed upto 5 GB/ sec
Faster power transfer (900 mA) in USB 3.0 as compared to USB 2.0 (just 500 mA) means increase in speed of scanning by USB scanner and other equipments.
It also means that LAN connection will be replaced by USB 3.0 as it is much faster than LAN.
But if you want actual speed of USB 3.0 than you have to use both USB 3.0 equipment  and USB 3.0 ports, as in USB 2.0 ports, the speed of USB 3.0 equipments decreases and it will be same as USB 2.0 equipments or  you can use the USB card adaptors as shown above.

USB 3.0 is a great improvement to USB 2.0. The biggest difference is the speed at which it can communicate with computer’s . USB 2 had a maximum speed of 480 Mbps, which was very speedy at its time but now it might not be enough because we now have USB flashdisk drives which are 64 GB in size, cell phone and PDAs that have a lot of internal storage built in, and even at 480 Mbps a full transfer of data in between devices can take a long time. So now USB 3.0 has a speed of 4.8 Gbps, almost 10 times faster than USB 2.0. Now if we want to transfer files from a pc to a 64 Gigabyte flashdisk to full capacity, we can do it in under 20 minutes!!
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Monday, July 25, 2011

How to Create Fillable form PDF using Open office

To create a PDF Form you will need OpenOffice. As far as I know Microsoft Office doesn’t support PDF export. You can easily get the OpenOffice suite here: http://www.openoffice.org/

Open now OpenOffice Writer which is similar to MS Word of microsoft . You can now handle this page as you usually do as any other written document. But your question surely is: How do I insert form controls/fields?
To insert Form controls and fields go on View -> Toolbars -> Form Controls .This will show you a toolbar with plenty of useful form stuff such as Labels, Text Boxes, Check Boxes, etc…
In this toolbar you will also find another useful button, More Controls which allows you to insert even more controls.
Inserting form controls in your page should not be a problem. Just find a layout you like. You can treat this elements exactly as any other element like an image, a paragraph or whatever. With a right click on the object you can modify its properties. Really intresting are the “Control…” and “Data…” entries which allow you to set advanced properties of your newly creted object.
Once you have created your form it’s time to create the PDF file. You can click on the “Export directly as PDF” button directly from OpenOffice’s standard bar or either go on File->Export as PDF and select some more advanced options.
There you are! Now you have your PDF Form. You can fill it and print it obtaining a really standard piece of paper, useful if you have to collect lots of the same information from many people.This type of pdf form is usually used on internet by end user to fill it over computer and take print out and submit the form.
Important
Please note that you PDF module won’t be saveable. You can just have to fill it in and take a print in order not to loose their work!
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Sunday, May 22, 2011

Complete Application Uninstaller solution for Windows

Revo Uninstaller helps you to uninstall software and remove unwanted programs installed on your computer even if you have problems uninstalling and cannot uninstall them from "Windows Add or Remove Programs" control panel applet.

Revo Uninstaller is a much faster and more powerful alternative to "Windows Add or Remove Programs" applet! It has very powerful features to uninstall and remove programs:

Scanning for leftovers after uninstall - With its advanced and fast algorithm, Revo Uninstaller analyzes an application's data before uninstall and scans after you uninstall a program. After the program's regular uninstaller runs, you can remove additional unnecessary files, folders and registry keys that are usually left over on your computer.

Forced Uninstall - Uninstall even already uninstalled programs. This feature allows you to remove leftovers of programs that are already uninstalled, incomplete installations and uninstall remnants of programs!

Real-Time Installation Monitor - Revo Uninstaller Pro has real-time program installation monitoring. It detects system changes during installation, so you can undone them later.

Multi-Level Backup System - Revo Uninstaller Pro creates backups of removed registry keys, values, files and folders. It also creates full registry backup each time you uninstall a program.

With its unique "Hunter mode", Revo Uninstaller offers you some simple, easy to use, but effective and powerful methods for uninstalling software. You can use it to manage your installed and/or running software programs.
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Lock your system using secret key

With so many cracking tools coming up to break windows password, it’s very difficult to protect your personal computer from unauthorized access. Even BIOS password is easy to crack. Nothing is secure and safe these days.

Windows password can easily be hacked but you cannot get around this secret key which we will be going to store in a removable devices such as USB drive etc.
Here is steps given below
Before I am going to proceed first of all arrange a USB storage device and we will change the drive letter name for our windows
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After you have inserted your USB device, right click My Computer -> Manage -> Storage -> Disk Management.  Now you will see all storage volumes there. Choose your USB volume, right click on it and select option Change Drive Letters and Paths…
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Recover your deleted file form PEN DRIVE,MEMORY CARD,HDD

One day my brother accidentally deleted this some of snap from his memory card of mobile phone,then he asked me whether I can recover those file or not ,at that time I said that it is not possible but today when I started googling I found a good freeware tool to recover that

PC Inspector Smart Recovery is just the right software that can do wonders for you. Believe me, it works perfectly fine although takes a bit of time (when I say “bit of time” that means hours and hours…) to recover all those accidently deleted pictures and files. The software is very easy to use and even if you are not a computer savvy person, you can use it without problem
 PC INSPECTOR Smart Recovery works with Flash Card™, Smart Media™, SONY Memory Stick™, IBM™ Micro Drive, Multimedia Card, Secure Digital Card or any other data carrier for Digital Cameras. I have tried this software on my Phone Memory Card as well and it recovered all the pictures that got accidently deleted.
If you have unintentionally deleted or formatted pictures, videos or sound files on your data carrier or have pulled it out during a write operation, no matter – PC INSPECTOR smart recovery can easily, quickly and absolutely reliably reconstruct the lost data. It supports the following picture formats: .jpg, .amr, .tif, .bmp, .gif, Canon .crw , Fuji .raf , RICOH .raw, Olympus .orf (E-XX), Olympus .orf (C5050), Nokia 3gp, Kodak .dcr, Minolta .mrw, Nikon .nef (D1H/D1X), Nikon .nef (D2H/D2X), Nikon .nef (E5000/E5700), Sigma – Foveon .x3f, mp4, QuickTime .mov (Konica Minolta). Video files in .avi, QuickTime .mov format and audio files in .wav, .dss format can also be recovered.Click here to download this freeware tools

There is one more tool called RESTORATION which is also quite effective. This tools is quite simple and easy to use Download this from here

If you face any problem please so comment on this article
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Broadcast your Live Streaming from your Desktop for FREE

Here today I am going to describe a method by which your can broadcast your video to friend and family and other using a public link
CastAMP has solution for this broadcast,I f you want to host some video session then you can just create a channel on this site.No registration required over this site its very simple.Just enter any channel name and create the channel and follow the step.


Start broadcasting now! It's free

  • Choose a channel name and click broadcast
  • Follow the instructions on how to upload your video
  • Invite family, friends and co-workers to watch your live video!
1. Download Flash Media Encoder and install it on your system
2. Open Flash Media Encoder and select 'Stream to Flash Media Server'
3. Enter the FMS URL in the corresponding field
4. Enter the Stream name
5. Start your broadcast and share it with friends!
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

How to remove new folder exe or regsvr exe or autorun inf virus

    1. Last week I came across a virus with new folder.exe and regsrv.exe and autorun.inf. I was searching for suitable solution for autorun.inf but I didnt get any proper solution for long time but Today I found a USB virus removal tool which is quit effective. This will help to remove above said virus .Click here to find the Download
    2. Here is one more method I am going to tell you this is manual process. Follow this process if you can't remove using above tool. In most of the case this virus will disable regedit and task manager.  I am also going to tell you how to enable REGEDIT and TASKMANGER . To enable regedit just Click Start, Run and type this command HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableRegistryTools /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f    To enable task manager Click Start, Run and type this command REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableTaskMgr /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
      1. Search for autorun.inf file. It is a read only file so you will have to change it to normal by right clicking the file , selecting the properties and un-check the read only option
      2. Open the file in notepad and delete everything and save the file.
      3. Now change the file status back to read only mode so that the virus could not get access again.
      4. Autorun
      5. Click start->run and type msconfig and click ok
      6. Go to startup tab look for regsvr and uncheck the option click OK.
      7. Click on Exit without Restart, cause there are still few things we need to do before we can restart the PC.
      8. Now go to control panel -> scheduled tasks, and delete the At1 task listed their.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

What users should know about new internet protocols IPv6

Many web surfers don't know it, but the introduction of new internet address standards might change the way they get online.
Since the supply of usable addresses governed by the IPv4 standard (internet protocol, version 4) has been exhausted, IPv6 has now been introduced. This will allow a previously impossible variety of addresses, says Christoph Meinel, a professor at Germany's Hasso Plattner Institute.
But what does this change mean for everyday surfers? Here's an overview.
Why are IP addresses necessary?
In order for internet-capable devices to share information, they need a unique machine-readable address. These addresses are assigned based on a standard of internet protocols.
But, since humans have a hard time remembering these strings of numbers, websites are also labelled with domain names, like www.google.com. When these addresses are typed into browsers, special servers translate them into IP addresses for the benefit of the computers.
What is the difference between IPv4 and IPv6?
Until now, IP addresses have been assigned in blocks of four numbers with up to three numerals each: 217.79.215.248, for example. The new IPv6 standard won't convert the numbers into the decimal system, rather a hexadecimal system, recognized by its combination of numbers and letters.
The new standard can be recognized by its eight blocks, separated by colons - 2001:db8:0:0:0:0:1428:57ab, for example.
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Friday, January 21, 2011

Emergency Boot your PC using MS-DOS using USB drives

Today I am going to explain important process to boot your computer with MS-DOS using USB drive
Before I am going to explain the process Download Win98 boot disk from here 
Next you need to download HP USB Format tool from here

Follow these steps below:
Extract window98 boot disk to a folder
Run HP Formatting tool select FAT32 next check the Create DOS start up disk using file located at: Provide the folder location which you have extracted
Press Start ,Once process gets completes you MS-DOS bootable disk is ready
Copy entire Win98 folder into root of pen drive expect 3 files (MSDOS.sys,IO.sys, Command.com)

Now Copy the Winodows XP CD into a folder on to USB drive
Now its time to test your CD ,goto BIOS change first boot menu sequence as USB device
Insert the USB ,your computer will get a prompt like A:\
Now your computer has started into MS-DOS
You can run most of DOS command over here
Type Command Cd \i386
Once you have got into A:\XPfoldername\i386 then type WINNT and press enter you will get option to install windows.









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Thursday, December 16, 2010

Online Free Storage,Online Backup,Access your file from anywhere :Dropbox


What is Dropbox?
Dropbox is software that links all of your computers together via a single
folder. It’s the easiest way to back up and sync files between computers.
The Dropbox Desktop Application is software that watches a folder on your
desktop computer and syncs any changes to the web and to your other
computers.
The Dropbox Website allows you to access your files on any computer from
a web browser. You can also use the Dropbox website to share your files or
folders with others.
The Dropbox mobile website and Dropbox for mobile devices allow you
to connect to your Dropbox from your pocket, so you can take your files
with you wherever you go.
Is it for me?
Transferring data between computers usually requires uploading via web forms,
connecting to network drives, carrying around thumb drives, or sending emails
with attachments to yourself and others. Dropbox makes all of these methods
obsolete. If you're looking for a better way to transfer data over the internet or
are just looking for a way to improve productivity within your team, Dropbox is
for you.
Adding files to your Dropbox
You've found your Dropbox folder, and you're ready to start using it. Let's move
a file to your Dropbox folder.
Step 1: Drag and drop a file into your Dropbox.
Step 2: The blue icon means your file is syncing with
Dropbox.
That’s it! The green icon means that your file has
finished syncing and is now available from your other
computers and the website. Now that Dropbox is
watching your file, any changes you make will sync
instantly.

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Friday, December 10, 2010

Remote Desktop Sharing Tool : Ammyy Admin

Ammyy Admin is a highly reliable and very friendly tool for remote computer access. You can provide remote assistance, remote administration or remote teaching for your clients, employees and friends regardless of their location. Ammyy Admin connects remote computers within seconds without any installation or configuration. You can view and/or control (using your keyboard and mouse) any applications running on the remote computers.

How to use (quick guide)

Client
"Operator" will see your computer display
Operator
You'll see the display of "Client"
1.Say your ID to "Operator" 1.Click to the "Operator" tab
2.Press the "Start" button 2.Enter the client ID and press the "Connect" button
3.Press the "Accept" button, when an operator is connecting  

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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Enjoy Easy Online Backup Method

Do you want to Backup your file from system to online server. Here is few option for you
1) Backupelf(http://backupelf.com/)

You just need to compose a email with your file in attachment  and send it to save@backupelf.com. There’s no need to sign-up as the service will automatically create a new account when it receives the first message from your email address.

Later, you can log into the BackupElf website to retrieve your email backups. The free version offers 100 MB of storage space or you can go for a paid plans for additional space.

2) Gmail Drives (http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm)

GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google Mail account, allowing you to use Gmail as a storage medium.
GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google Gmail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your Gmail account directly from inside Windows Explorer. GMail Drive literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag'n'drop files to.

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Sunday, June 6, 2010

Hide Folder/drives using encryption that let you easily protect files and folders with a password:use TrueCrypt

TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume
(data storage device). On-the-fly encryption means that data is automatically encrypted or
decrypted right before is loaded or saved, without any user intervention. No data stored on an
encrypted volume can be read (decrypted) without using the correct password/keyfile(s) or correct
encryption keys. Entire file system is encrypted (e.g., file names, folder names, contents of every
file, free space, meta data, etc).
Files can be copied to and from a mounted TrueCrypt volume just like they are copied to/from any
normal disk (for example, by simple drag-and-drop operations). Files are automatically being
decrypted on-the-fly (in memory/RAM) while they are being read or copied from an encrypted
TrueCrypt volume. Similarly, files that are being written or copied to the TrueCrypt volume are
automatically being encrypted on-the-fly (right before they are written to the disk) in RAM. Note that
this does not mean that the whole file that is to be encrypted/decrypted must be stored in RAM
before it can be encrypted/decrypted. There are no extra memory (RAM) requirements for
TrueCrypt. For an illustration of how this is accomplished, see the following paragraph.
Let's suppose that there is an .avi video file stored on a TrueCrypt volume (therefore, the video file
is entirely encrypted). The user provides the correct password (and/or keyfile) and mounts (opens)
the TrueCrypt volume. When the user double clicks the icon of the video file, the operating system
launches the application associated with the file type – typically a media player. The media player
then begins loading a small initial portion of the video file from the TrueCrypt-encrypted volume to
RAM (memory) in order to play it. While the portion is being loaded, TrueCrypt is automatically
decrypting it (in RAM). The decrypted portion of the video (stored in RAM) is then played by the
media player. While this portion is being played, the media player begins loading next small portion
of the video file from the TrueCrypt-encrypted volume to RAM (memory) and the process repeats.
This process is called on-the-fly encryption/decryption and it works for all file types, not only for
video files.
Note that TrueCrypt never saves any decrypted data to a disk – it only stores them temporarily in
RAM (memory). Even when the volume is mounted, data stored in the volume is still encrypted.
When you restart Windows or turn off your computer, the volume will be dismounted and files
stored in it will be inaccessible (and encrypted). Even when power supply is suddenly interrupted
(without proper system shut down), files stored in the volume are inaccessible (and encrypted). To
make them accessible again, you have to mount the volume (and provide the correct password
and/or keyfile).
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Sunday, May 23, 2010

How to create WindowsXP Live CD.

Microsoft Windows XP live CD  is the best way to boot into the Operating System without installation into the computer. By using this XP Live CD you can use XP and its features without actually installing them. This sounds cool, right? Creating a Live CD is not a big problem. It just involves adding of some plugins. One of the easiest ways to do this is using a software called pebuilder. Using it, you can create an XP Live CD in just about 15 minutes!
Here’s all the software you’ll need:

Step 1: Download PeBuilder from here and install it. Make sure you have enough free space on the drive where you install the program. After you have finished adding all programs it will create an ISO to be burned into a disk. The size of the ISO will depend upon how many programs you add to your live CD. I would recommend atleast 700MB of free space.

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