Saturday, July 18, 2009

See how Google Voice works with your phones .Will the new Google voice idea going to change the face of telecom operators?

I’ve seen the demo video of Google voice service (Search for Google Voice in Youtube).To summarize the concept of Google voice “They will have the face of the telephony” just like they did to Internet!Visit http://google.com/voice for more inforamtions

When you register with Google voice, you will get your unique “Google Voice number”. You can connect all your phone connections (Office/home/mobile) to this Google number. You can divert the callers to the phone based on your convenience. For instance, if you are at a party you can divert them to your mobile, or when you are in office, you can divert the callers to your office number.

Now, callers don’t know where you are. But they will call your Google Voice number. Based on your settings, the call will be diverted to you! If you don’t want to wish to talk to some one, you can divert them to Google voice mail, and even you can receive the voicemail message in text format delivered to your mobile!

The best part is even when you change your mobile number; you just need to assign your new number to the Google Voice number which will be unchanged (like your gmail id).

It will help consumers for sure. But, for the mobile operators?

Mobile numbers are being the face of telecom companies. Imagine when more people go with Google number it will affect the brand equity of the carrier! Imagine if Google comes up with a mobile search (Already launched in Hyderabad,Bangalore India) and it diverts users to their voice search engine! Revenue lost to carriers.

What’s amazing in Google’ strategy is that when they have Interface to the callers they can get enormous database of customers mobile nunber! They can even use the numbers to send text alerts by tracking them through GPS and enable a location based advertising using Google maps, Google latitude etc!

Google might change the face of telecom carriers beginning today.

It’s too scary to imagine one company to be the face of Both Internet and telecom!
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Windows 7 Shortcut Keys...

With all the less pleasant verdicts about Vista, Windows 7 is perhaps PC users’ next best news. Codenamed Blackcomb, this new Microsoft operating system is surely a successor over it’s predecessor Windows XP and definitely Vista. With Microsoft to end their support for Windows XP in 2014, we figured Windows 7 will be completely taking over things in the next year or so.

If you are a Windows users it’s probably time for a change, or at least tryout this new operating system. Here are some shortcut keys to help improve your productivity and user experience with Windows 7.
General Windows 7 Shortcuts

Shortcut Description
Win + UP Arrow Maximize the current window
Win + Down Arrow
Restore down or minimize current windows
Win + Left Arrow Dock the current window to the left half of the screen
Win + Right Arrrow Dock the current window to the right half of the screen
Win + [number] Activate and run the program pinned on Windows 7 Taskbar, running program won’t be affected
Win + Home Minimize all but the current window
Win + Space Makes all windows transparent so you can see through to the desktop
Win + Pause/Break Open System Properties
Win + Tab Flip Aero 3D [press Tab to cycle between Windows]
Win + B Move focus to notification tray (the right-most portion of the taskbar)
Win + D Show/Hide desktop
Win + E Windows Explorer is launched
Win + F Search
Win + G Bring all gadgets on top and foreground
Win + L Lock Computer
Win + M Minimize all windows
Win + P Open the projection menu (generally used for laptops connected to projectors)
Win + R Run Command is launched.
Win + S OneNote Screen Clipping Tool
Win + T Show preview thumbnail of running applications in Windows Taskbar one by one without mouse over
Win + X Mobility Center
Win + # Quicklaunch
Win + = Magnifier
Win + [+/-] Enables the magnifier and zooms in/out
Win + Shift + Up Arrow Maximize vertical size
Win + Shift + Down Arrow Restore vertical size
Win + Shift + Left Arrow Jump to left monitor
Win + Shift + Right Arrow Jump to right monitor
Win + Shift + M Undo all window minimization
Win + Shift + T Cycles backwards
Win + Ctrl + F Opens the Active Directory Find Computers dialog
Ctrl + Right Arrow Move the cursor to the beginning of the next word
Ctrl + Left Arrow Move the cursor to the beginning of the previous word
Ctrl + Up Arrow Move the cursor to the beginning of the previous paragraph
Ctrl + Down Arrow Move the cursor to the beginning of the next paragraph
Ctrl + Click A pinned taskbar icon to cycle through the program’s open windows (e.g. IE)
Ctrl + Win + Tab Persistent flip 3D
Ctrl + Shift with an arrow key Select a block of text
Ctrl with any arrow key + Spacebar Select multiple individual items in a window or on the desktop
Ctrl + Shift + Esc Open Task Manager directly
Ctrl + Shift + N Create new folder
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Thursday, July 16, 2009

How to Secretly Hide Any File inside JPG/GIF Image File without using any Software

We can easily place video clips, pdf, mp3, text files, Office documents, zipped files, webpage or any other file format inside a JPEG/GIF image.

And when a suspecting user tries to open that jpeg/GIF file [with concealed/Hidden information] with a photo editing software or with Paint, User would not be able to make out if this disguise jpg file is different from any standard jpg image.

Suppose you want to hide some confidential word documents from your friends. What you can do is convert that file into a regular jpg image so even if anyone double-clicks this file, all user will see is a preview of the image and nothing else.

Here is the trick on How to do it:-

1) Just zip the various word Documents into one rar File.
2) Take any jpg/gif picture of any size and Dimension.
3) Copy the two Files in Same Folder. Let’s say we have copied the file in D: Drive.
4) Now open the Command prompt window. Move to the Destination Folder, in this case we will just type
d: and press enter (as our rar file and image are saved in D: drive)
5) Just Type the following command:

copy /b image.jpg + hide.rar newimage.jpg

(Here image is the name of the original image,
hide.rar is the name of the rar file we want to Hide,
and new_image is the name of the disguise image which contain both rar file and the image)

6) To get the original rar file, just rename newimage.jpg to newimage.rar and than extract it using 7-zip or Winrar.

Similarly we can hide other files like videos, mp3 and other secret documents.
Just Zip all the Files into Single rar files and Follow the above Steps.
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Calculate how much you can save with TATA DOCOMO(New TATA GSM service)

Recently TATA DOCOMO launched its GSM services. It will be charging its customer for making outgoing calls on the per second basis. So if you make a call from your TATA DOCOMO and the call lasts for 20 seconds, you pay for only 20 seconds. If you want Calculate how much you will be saving every time you will make call from your TATA DOCOMO connection then please visit this link
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Monday, July 13, 2009

Stop access to any website without using any Softwares

You can stop your system's users from visiting a website easily.

Here is the Trick on How to do it:-

1) Go to Run than Type C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\Etc\hosts & Press Enter.
2) You will see a Open With Dialog Box
3) Now Select Notepad and press OK
4) Now in End of file edit.

For Example I want to Block www.Yahoo.com from users of my computer.
For this I will add line below to block yahoo
127.0.0.1 www.yahoo.com
& Save the File.

5) To block any site write 127.0.0.1 then write the site's name after giving a space & Than Save the file

That's It..

Cheers!!!
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Removing Shortcut Arrow from Desktop icon

Goto Start then Run and Enter regedit.
Then Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT than lnkfile.
Delete the IsShortcut registry value. You need to restart ur Windows.
After restart, shortcut arrow won’t appear on ur desktop icons.
That’s It.
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How to Hide Folders Without using any Software:-

Suppose u want to hide a folder named games which is in D: of ur computer

go to command prompt
start—>run—>cmd–>d:

after changing it from C: to D:

Type D:/>attrib +h +s games
This Command will hide your folder

To show the folder

Type D:/>attrib -h -s games

Using this Trick you can hide your folder which cannot be viewed even if you make advance search or even if change the folder option to show all hidden files.

That’s it!!
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