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WalkMe: Mobile GPS Software to Calculate Steps, Speed, Distance & Calories after Walking/Jogging [Tech[dot]Blog] Posted: 30 Apr 2008 07:35 AM CDT WalkMe is new software for Java J2ME mobile devices that keeps track of your performance when walking. It provides speed, distance, steps taken, and calories burned during exercise. After a walk the results can be exported and uploaded for further analysis to any community site. Key features of WalkMe include: + Exercise duration + Speed and distance tracker + Real-time calories burned + Display traveled route and compass + Pedometer function (step counter) + Pace in kcal per hour + Auto Pause (pauses and resumes the walk based on speed) + Export route to GPX and Google KML Visit getjar.com to download WalkMe for Java J2ME mobile devices.

Enable more file types on Windows Vista Explorer Preview Pane [Online Tech Tips] Posted: 30 Apr 2008 06:29 AM CDT One of the great things about Windows Vista is the new Preview Pane in Windows Explorer. Now you can simply click on a file and get a preview of the document without having to open it! However, one of the not so great things about Vista is the fact that a lot of files types don’t work in the Preview Pane! The only work around to this problem was to edit the registry and manually put in each file extension. It’s a painfully long registry hack that even I would not want to do. Luckily, someone developed a GUI Windows program that finds all the different files types registered on your computer and lets you enable previews for them! Here’s a shot of the Windows Explorer Preview Pane in Windows Vista for a Word document: Image Source: ActiveWin So by default, Microsoft set the files types that will work with the Preview Pane for mostly common and proprietary formats, such as .txt, .doc, .ppt, .xls, etc, but not for other very common types of files such as .php, .css, etc. Just in case you don’t know, you can enable the Preview Pane in Vista Explorer by going to Organize at the top, then Layout and then choosing Preview Pane. PreviewConfig is a very nifty and useful application that was developed to solve just this problem. It allows you to add new file extensions to the default list of supported file extensions. Once you install and run it, you’ll see the listing of files types on the left hand side. Click on one of the extensions on the left and you’ll get information about it on the right pane. You’ll be able to see if the file is already configured for previews and if so, what the preview type is: plain-text, media file, or others. If it’s set to None, then you can activate previews by selecting one of the other options and clicking Apply. For PHP, CSS, REG files and more, you could select Plain-text and then go to Explorer to see a preview of your file! Enjoy! Source: HowToGeek Technorati Tags: previewconfig, explorer preview pane, enable file types preview pane, windows vista preview pane Related posts Enable more file types on Windows Vista Explorer Preview Pane How to get Vista breadcrumbs navigation on Windows XP Select multiple files in Windows Vista quickly using checkboxes FlashFolder - Toolbar for Windows Open/Save dialogs that allows much better navigation of folders Tweak Windows Vista - Performance, registry, and Internet tweaks Customize the right-click context menu in Windows XP and Vista Tweak Windows Vista for free with MZ Vista Force Copyright © 2007 Online Tech Tips. Aseem Kishore (digitalfingerprint: a59a56dce36427d83e23b501579944fcakmk1980 (66.150.96.121) ) Post from: Enable more file types on Windows Vista Explorer Preview Pane

Stop web procrastination with LeechBlock [Online Tech Tips] Posted: 30 Apr 2008 06:10 AM CDT The Internet is without a doubt, a wonderful place to be. It contains many useful elements that can be used to improve our life. However, the Internet has a dark side too - sometimes we get too addicted with certain websites e.g. social networking sites, online forums, etc. and we can’t stop accessing them every once in a while. To curb the addiction to websites like these, self control is definitely not enough (at least for me!). If you are looking for an online productivity tool that can ease this problem, try LeechBlock. LeechBlock is a simple productivity tool that comes in the form of a Mozilla Firefox extension. If web procrastination is your sickness, LeechBlock can be the cure. It works by blocking websites at a time that you have specified previously. Earlier, I had written about another service called 8AWeek, which also helped in trying to increase your productivity by curbing Internet usage, but LeechBlock is a little bit more proactive! To start, you need to install LeechBlock, restart your browser and access its option from the Tools menu. Next, you need to enter a list of websites that you want to block and set a few, time based rules. Whenever any of the rules are matched, LeechBlock will block you from accessing a website. It’s that simple. LeechBlock Features Specify up to 6 sets of sites to block. Each set can contain more than one websites to be blocked. I recommend that you rename and use each set for each category of websites. For example, set the first one to block all social networking sites, the second one to block all email websites and so on. Three ways to block a website: Within a certain period of time - example: block abc.com during work time, from 9 AM to 5 PM. After a time period - example: block abc.com after 15 minutes of access. The time will only start ticking when a blocked website is in focus. You can optionally set LeechBlock to display how much time left that you have on the status bar. A combination of both of the time-rules above - for example: block abc.com from 9 AM to 5 PM AND after 15 minutes of access. Choose the days in a week for the rules to be applied. For example: you can block access to abc.com from 9 AM to 5 PM, on weekdays only. Lockdown - use this feature to immediately prevent yourself from accessing a set of block websites within a certain period of time. Great to use when you have to focus on a lot of work that needs extra attention. Wildcard support - you can block a whole website with a wildcard (*.abc.com) or only a part of a website (block abc.com/home only) Exceptions support - you can block a whole website but allow a part of it to be accessed with the plus sign (*.abc.com and +accessible.abc.com) To discipline yourselves from modifying LeechBlock settings, you can: Set a password or random access code to make it harder for you to access LeechBlock. Prevent access and modification to a blocked set when certain rules are running. Set the “Disable” and “Uninstall” button to disappear from LeechBlock Firefox’s add-on menu. “Load from URL” option allows you to add the current website URL to a LeechBlock set. Set a custom page to be shown when blocked rules are triggered. If you have problem separating work from web browsing time (in short: web procrastination), then LeechBlock is one of the online productivity tool that you ought to have. I recommend that you set it with all the “disciplinary” settings turned on to get the best effect. However, if you are still procrastinating once all of these options are turned on, I recommend that you turn off your Internet modem (lol!) Try LeechBlock today! This is a guest post by Syahid A. from TechMalaya Tags: leechblock, online productivity, online producitivity tool, block websites Related posts Stop web procrastination with LeechBlock Track Internet Browsing Habits with 8aweek IMified- Instant messaging and productivity tool Perform advanced Google searches using Power Search Tool Zoho - Free online office applications - Word Processor, Spreadsheets, etc IBM offers alternative to MS Office with Lotus Symphony Extract text from PDF, DOC, HTML, CHM, and RTF files Copyright © 2007 Online Tech Tips. Aseem Kishore (digitalfingerprint: a59a56dce36427d83e23b501579944fcakmk1980 (66.150.96.121) ) Post from: Stop web procrastination with LeechBlock

Stumbling - My Do’s and Dont’s [ Random Thoughts ] [Technospot.net] Posted: 30 Apr 2008 12:00 AM CDT I love stumbling. This is one way which not only freshens me but also lets me find new things. I have developed some habits and rules for myself and here is what I do and what I don’t. Am I going the right way ? Do’s of Stumble Spend At least an hr on stumble - You can stumble at least 50+ pages. Write a small review if something is really good or something is terribly wrong. Stumble all my friends post. ( I have seen if I do so they do, Helps ). Visit my new visitors and If they are good add them. Visit the home page for rock solid news. Don’ts of Stumble Stumble same sites all the time. Entertain request for stumble from others very often because of the above reason. Miss stumbling any day. Fix my choices of sites. Random stumble is always better. So whats your habit and Whats wrong in my approach ? Is there anything I can do to improve ? About The Author of this article: Ashish is one of the co-author of this blog and writes on various interesting softwares, PC tips and more. You can read more of his articles here. Your Play Ground Now since you finished reading the article, Let us Engage and do one or all of the mentioned things below   Click to save on your favorite Social Bookmark Site Add to del.icio.us || Submit to Digg Add to Yahoo MyWeb || Add to Google   Add your Comments or Discuss further in our forums   Read More Stories from Blog-Tips

Google Page Rank Update. Life Rocks 2.0 is PR5 [-| Life Rocks! 2.0 |-] Posted: 29 Apr 2008 08:56 PM CDT Looks like there has been a Page Rank update by Google. today morning when I opened my blog, I found that the Search status add-on for Firefox was showing PR5 for my blog. But then I know that its not the most reliable mechanism to check page rank, so I went to PR Checker checked my PR. It was also showing PR5, so officially Life Rocks 2.0 is now PR5. The PR of Life Rocks has changed after a year, it was the same time during last year when this blog got a PR4, but then in the subsequent PR updates there was no change inspite of the fact that many of the top blogs lost their PR. I’m happy that this time Life Rocks has got a PR update. So has your blog PR changed?

What are A1 and R1C1 Reference Style in Excel? [Lyte Byte] Posted: 29 Apr 2008 07:43 PM CDT There are two types of reference styles in Excel. The first one is A1 reference style where the columns are labeled using the Alphabets and the rows are labeled using numbers. In the R1C1 reference style both the rows and columns are labeled using numbers. Earlier versions of Excel from MS Office came with only R1C1 reference style. But recent versions like Office 2007 has both referencing styles. For example, in A1 Reference Style, E15 refers to the cell in 15th row and Eth (5th) column and the same cell in R1C1 Reference Style uses R15C5 (R followed by the row number and C followed by the column number). I have always preferred to use A1 reference style as both the labels for rows and columns are different. But with the R1C1 reference style since both rows and columns are numbered its easy to get confused (especially while writing formulas) Also these reference styles are not only different in addressing but also very different in the way they are referenced in formulas or when selecting a range of cells. In A1 reference style, the range is referred by the starting cell address and ending cell address with a colon in between. Example, A1:A5. This refers to the first five cells in the first column and this reference remains the same where ever the range is called within the sheet. But in R1C1 reference style, the range is referred by how far the cells are located from the cell you are calling. For example, if you have 5 values from R1C1 to R5C1 and the range is called from R7C2, then the range would be R[-6]C[-1]:R[-2]C[-1]. Here the first cell in the range is 6 rows before the cell R7C2 and 1 column before the cell R7C2 and similarly for the last cell in the range. This method of referencing is called Relative Referencing.   Though relative referencing is used by default in R1C1 reference mode, one can also use absolute reference with R1C1. For the same example as above, with absolute reference, the range would be referred as R1C1:R5C1. To know more about referencing, read How to use relative and absolute reference in Excel? Benefits of A1 and R1C1 Reference Style For human computation and understanding A1 reference style is better but if you are writing a macro, then R1C1 reference style would be better to compute with referencing to the positions. If you are writing a macro but you don't want to get confused then you may switch to A1 reference style and write all the formulas and then switch back to R1C1 reference style to get the value of the formulas in this reference style. Copyright © 2008 This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content is not in your news reader, it makes the page you are viewing an infringement of the copyright. (Digital Fingerprint: qfjk452hj34hjfjh12h4f1hj3dld45jd312j4112341d4hjdh) Share This --- Related Articles at Lyte Byte: How to use Relative and Absolute References in Excel? How to View Formulas instead of Values in Excel Cells? How to Insert Multiple Empty Rows or Columns in Excel? Where are the Macro Features and Settings in Excel from Office 2007? How to do Quick Sum in Excel Using AutoSum and its Keyboard Shortcut?

Blank Feed Problem with WP 2.5.1 Upgrade [TechBuzz] Posted: 29 Apr 2008 07:04 PM CDT Over the weekend, my RSS feed went totally blank, which made you people miss couple of posts. Thanks to everyone who sent out emails to let me know. It turns out that the culprit was WordPress 2.5.1 upgrade. I directly link to my feed generating files (wp-rss2.php) for FeedBurner to burn my feeds. For some weird reason, those files don’t send any content in WP 2.5.1 Fortunately, the fix was pretty simple. I had to change my FeedBurner settings to use pretty permalinks instead of wp-rss2.php. It’s really painful to see your feed go blank to for three days. My feed count took a small nose dive

Apple Refreshes Its iMac Lineup [dailyApps] Posted: 29 Apr 2008 06:49 PM CDT Apple on Monday refreshed its iMac lineup with the latest and greatest in Core2Duo Processors and more powerful graphic options for the 24″ model. The updated iMac’s now feature Core2Duo processors using the latest penryn chips manufactured using the 45nm technology, more efficient compared to the older 65nm technology. Prior to Monday's update, the iMac featured either a 2GHz or 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo chip. The updated machines run at 2.4GHz, 2.66GHz or 2.8GHz, depending on configuration. Apple also offers a 3.06GHz processor as a build-to-order option. The only other Macs to top the 3GHz mark are build-to-order configurations of the Mac Pro, with either 3GHz or 3.2GHz Quad Core Xeon processors. So its nice to see the iMac receive some pro treatment ain’t it? Apple also increased the amount of RAM that ships with two of the three standard iMac configurations. The 20-inch 2.66GHz iMac and the 24-inch 2.8GHz iMac ship with 2GB of RAM; in comparison to the previous offerings of 1GB of memory. Other changes to the iMac line include a 1,066MHz FSB on all three iMac configurations in comparison to the previous 800MHz. Also NVidia 8800GS is also an option on the 24″ model which is good news for hardcore gamers because NVidia cards seem to outperform ATI ones in every world. The new iMacs come in three basic models: The $1,199 20-inch with a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 1GB of RAM, a 250GB hard drive, and an ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT with 128MB GDDR3 memory; The $1,499 20-inch model with a 2.66GHz processor, 2GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive, and an ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO with 256MB GDDR3 memory; and The $1,799 24-inch offering with a 2.8GHz processor, 2GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive, and an ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO with 256MB GDDR3 memory. The $2,199 build-to-order 24-inch model that ships with the 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo chip, Nvidia GeForce 8880 GS graphics card and 500GB hard drive. All iMac models are now available and are shipping immediately. For the performance comparisons on the new iMac with its other Mac cousins and the older iMac head over to Engadget Related Posts at DailyApps [Updated]The First iPhone Only Social Network On Its Way More iPhone Rumors - 3G Model Slated For WWDC Launch Nokia To Bring The Ultimate iPhone Killer A Landmark Event. In More Ways Than One - WWDC 2008 iPhone 2.0 : Developer Ready, Enterprise Ready

Madonna Live in Concert: Free Online Broadcast [Quick Online Tips] Posted: 29 Apr 2008 01:41 PM CDT You always wanted to watch Madonna Live in Concert. Now Madonna fans can view Madonna Live in an exclusive performance at New York City's Roseland Ballroom on April 30 at 10 pm EDT via an online broadcast brought to you by MSN and Control Room. A Microsoft press release says the Madonna Live show will stream live Wednesday evening, April 30, at 10 p.m. EDT in the United States and will be available on demand to international audiences on May 15. Madonna will be debuting several new songs including her 37th No. 1 smash single "Four Minutes" from her upcoming CD Hard Candy. The show will also include never-before-seen rehearsal footage, a pre-recorded interview with Madonna and her full performance, giving fans access to one of the biggest music events by logging on to MSN Music In Concert. The Music In Concert series is available in 42 countries and 21 languages through the international MSN network, and gives music fans worldwide the chance to see live music performances from their favorite artists. Related MSN to Exclusively Webcast Dixie Chicks Concert Live Earth Global Music Concerts: Internet Broadcasting Milestone Free Xbox 360 Live Gold Weekend : Play Online Games Xbox Live Diamond Card : Exclusive Discounts and Promotions Return of Air Mozilla: Live Show with Michell Baker Copyright 2008. Quick Online Tips. All Rights Reserved. Permalink | Add comment | Filed: Celebrity, Events, Fun, Microsoft

How to Set up an Out of Office Reply in Outlook 2007 [-| Life Rocks! 2.0 |-] Posted: 29 Apr 2008 01:40 PM CDT Whenever you are out of Office or going on a vacation, its better to set up and Out of Office or auto reply, so that your friends will know that you wont be able to reply back to the mails. Outlook 2007 has an Out of Office assistant which will help you to set up an auto reply. But this feature is available in Microsoft Outlook only if it is using a Microsoft Exchange Server service. This means that if you are using POP or IMAP account in Outlook, then this feature will not be available. Alternatively, you can create a rule to send automatic emails. 1. Create a Auto Reply Template Select a new Outlook message. In the Options tab, click Plain Text. Type in the Auto Reply message you want to reply. Click Save As and in the Save As dialog box, click to select the Outlook Template check box in the Save as type list. Type a name for your reply template in the File name box, and then click Save. 2. Creating a Rule for sending Auto Reply. Click on the Tools menu, select Rules and Alerts. In the Rules and Alerts dialog box, click the New Rule button. In the Rules Wizard under Start from a blank rule, click Check messages when they arrive, and then click Next. Under Which condition(s) do you want to check?, click to select the Sent Only To Me check box or any other check box that you want, and then click Next. Under What do you want to do with the message, click to select the Reply using a specific template check box. Under Step 2: Edit the Rule Description, click the underlined phrase a specific template. In the Select A Reply Template dialog box, click the template that you saved previously and then click Open. Complete the Rules Wizard instructions, click Finish, and then click OK. Now, auto reply message will be sent to all mails that arrive after the rule is applied. The feature of this rule (for rules created with Reply using a specific template option) is that it will remember the list of persons whom it has replied, so that this auto reply is not send to same person again and again. This rule is reset when you restart Outlook. NB: Outlook must be running for the Rules Wizard to automatically reply. In case you are using Microsoft Exchange Server (mostly in Offices), then you can use the Out of Office Assistant to configure Auto Reply.

Shutdown Day: 24 Hours Without Computers [Quick Online Tips] Posted: 29 Apr 2008 01:21 PM CDT Shutdown day is back this year on 3rd May 2008 and encourages you to shutdown your computer for 24 hours. Last year the Shutdown Day was on 24 March 2008, and emerged as a popular experiment to find out how many people can go without a computer for one whole day. Last year, on Shutdown Day 2007 more than 65,000 people participated in the campaign by actually shutting down their computers for 24 hours on the 24th of March, 2007 and 450,000 visitors signed up for country locator on Shutdown Day website. This year you can gather a flash mob, to get people off their computers - and get them participating in creative events, outdoors, and in a public space. Check the map for events in your location. So what do you do with your shutdown laptop… here are some uses. Last year participants are looking forward to it… Remember similar events that encourage you to switch off TV, deactivate Akismet or turn off your lights. Will you shutdown your computer on 3rd May 2008? Related Computer Shutdown Day Today Computer Shut Down Day : 24 Hours Without a PC Create Desktop Icon for One Click Window XP Shutdown 11th Annual TV Turn-off Week: Switch off your Televison, Video Games and Internet Internet Surfing : Top Time Wasting Activity at Work Copyright 2008. Quick Online Tips. All Rights Reserved. Permalink | Add comment | Filed: Computers, Events, Fun

Give me a reason to stop using windows [ Random Thoughts ] [Technospot.net] Posted: 29 Apr 2008 11:28 AM CDT Somebody said cursing Windows “We hate how butt-dragging slow and unreliable Windows is, but we get stuck in the rut of a familiar routine.” Here is my experience: I have been using windows wince 9 yrs now. My current state of windows is, I haven’t reinstalled windows Xp since 2 yrs but it never crashed. I have 756 MB ram with Centrino Processor My C drive has just over 500mb free space. I have more than 10 Heavy applications installed apart from MS products of which I used 5 of them many a times. My computer still does not go slow any time unless I open all of them and think of using all of them together. I browse internet like 10 hrs and never got a virus since 3 yrs. I don’t see a reason to try another OS and learn everything from scratch when Windows just works fine for me. Underline : You need to know how to use your computer an OS be it any. Its useless to say one is good than other. So just learn how to use and stop blaming any other OS, About The Author of this article: Ashish is one of the co-author of this blog and writes on various interesting softwares, PC tips and more. You can read more of his articles here. Your Play Ground Now since you finished reading the article, Let us Engage and do one or all of the mentioned things below   Click to save on your favorite Social Bookmark Site Add to del.icio.us || Submit to Digg Add to Yahoo MyWeb || Add to Google   Add your Comments or Discuss further in our forums   Read More Stories from Debates

Is CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER The New CTRL+ALT+DEL On Vista? [dailyApps] Posted: 28 Apr 2008 05:30 PM CDT Windows Vista’s UAC can be overly frustrating at times. There are times when a program needs to be launched with administrator privileges from the start menu, and right clicking and clicking on “Run as Administrator” just doesn’t cut it when you are in a hurry and need to get something to be done in a hurry. For example, to open Command Prompt as administrator, click Start, type cmd in the Search box and press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER. You should see the User Account Control window popping up for task elevation confirmation. Press ALT+C to continue. By using the keyboard shortcuts life certainly becomes a lot more easier doesn’t it? The CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER shortcut is extremely useful for Keyboard junkies like me. It should be noted that this shortcut works only on the Start menu and nowhere else. Windows Vista has been a lovely companion for me, but the UAC frustrates me all the time. With these keyboard shortcuts I’m actually trying to figure out if I’m using  CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER more than CTRL+ALT+DEL on my PC! Did this shortcut make life easier for you? Related Posts at DailyApps Hack Attack : Disable UAC for Certain Applications in Vista 5 Simple Things You Can Do On Your Desktop to Impress Your Not-So Geeky Friends Hack Attack : Launch Applications Using The Middle Mouse Button Some Cool Windows Tricks Get Free Official Support For Windows Vista SP1 Issues

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