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Save time with copy paste shortcuts in Windows [Online Tech Tips]

Posted: 10 May 2008 06:25 AM CDT

Have to copy and paste a lot of files in Windows? However much you try to avoid it, eventually you have to move or copy a bunch of files from different folders and paste them into one folder. Or you might have to copy files from one location on your hard drive to multiple destinations.

Either way, it can be a royal pain because you have to keep navigating to different folders or have 10 different windows open for each location you are copying and pasting from. The most annoying thing is that you can only copy one item at a time. It would be nice if there was some kind of copy paste “buffer” where you could copy 10 items from different and then paste them all at once.

Piky Basket is a freeware Windows utility that I have seriously become addicted to! Piky Basket was created to save you time and effort when working with files and folders in Windows and it does a great job!

It does three things that make working with lots of copying and pasting a lot easier:

Copy, Copy, Copy, Paste, Paste, Paste

Piky Basket allows you to select files/folders into a virtual “basket” from different locations. Once you are done copying, you can paste them all at once to the target folder. It also allows you to selectively paste the files to the target folder.

Piky Basket is very useful in the following situations:

When copying same set of files to different locations
When organizing files on your hard drive
When taking backup of files and folders from different locations
When burning a CD which requires copying of files and folders from various locations

In Windows Explorer, select the files and folders you wish to copy/move. Right click and choose “Piky Basket | Drop into the Basket“. Continue dropping different files and folders in the same manner as you desire.

Now go to the target folder where you wish to copy/move the files. Right click on the white area and choose “Piky Basket | Copy All” or “Piky Basket | Move All“. This action will copy/move all the files in the basket to the target folder.

Copy File Paths to Clipboard

By default in Windows, you can only copy the folder path to a file, but we often need to copy and paste the entire path. For example, if I am browsing files in My Documents\My Pictures and I want to copy the path to one of photos, I have to copy the folder path from the address bar and then append the file name to the end of it in a text editor.

With Piky Basket, you can get the file paths of the selected files/folders in Windows Explorer. Another cool thing is if you are copying the file paths from a mapped network drive, Piky Basket will prompt you if the paths must be in Universal Naming Convention (UNC) format (eg. \\servername\sharename\foldername ). It is a quick way to allow your coworker to access the files\folders over the network.

Command Prompt Anywhere

If you work with Windows command prompt (cmd.exe or command.com) very often, then you will really like this feature.

You can launch the Command Prompt from a selected folder in Windows Explorer with the current directory set to the selected folder.

Overall, it’s a great utility program for Windows if you find yourself copying and pasting a lot in Windows! So if you’re looking for how to copy and paste in Windows, this tool is for you! Enjoy!

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Napster founder Shawn Fanning’s startup Rupture bought by EA [TechZilo]

Posted: 10 May 2008 06:21 AM CDT

Napster founder Shawn Fanning founded Rupture, a social-networking gaming company (startup). Little did he know that his startup would be brought over by Electronic Arts, a popular game studio. He will be working at Electronic Arts, which has bought Rupture for USD 30 million.

Rupture's first product was a social network for players of the online video game World of Warcraft, but it only came out with a beta version and kept delaying its public launch.

$Rupture - Shawn Fanning\'s startup$

EA is buying Rupture for its backend technology. EA will not get any benefits of new users, as the service was in beta and has not launched any non-beta version. Social networks for massively multiplayer online games (MMOG) may well become a key component of EA’s online strategy. Rupture has been largely unheralded, having previously raised just $3 million in VC funding last summer.

Napster was Fanning’s first startup which he started while in college, and operated between 1999 and 2001. It revolutionized music industry and presented new challenges before them, but it went bankrupt and was closed down after a court order. However, it led to the starting of numerous other file sharing networks, which have been much harder to close down.

i.Scribe - Fast, Safe and Portable Email Client [Online Tech Tips]

Posted: 10 May 2008 06:01 AM CDT

Ease of access is one of the reasons why web based email or web mail programs such as Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail and others are the most popular way to compose, read, send and receive email these days. However, do you know that using an email client has its own advantages?

The ability to download and compose emails offline, when no Internet connection is available is one of the primary reasons why some of us still prefer to use an email client instead of being fully dependent on web mail. Another advantage of using an email client is that you have a single point of access for all email accounts and contacts that you have. There are many cool email clients out there that you can use, such as Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird, Incredimail and others.

i.Scribe is yet another email client that is fast, safe and portable - so you can take your emails with you, anywhere you go.

iscribe-interface-screenshot

i.Scribe Features

i.Scribe is a lite version of the Scribe email client but that doesn’t necessary means that it is light in features. Here are some good reasons on why you should choose i.Scribe as your email client:

Free to use with no nagging advertisements asking you to buy the full product.
Easy to use - the interface resembles and works like other popular, desktop email clients so it won’t be long until you get to know how to use it.
Fast - i.Scribe takes less than 3 seconds to start and shut down. The flat file format that it uses to store emails makes displaying your emails much faster.
Portable - you can install i.Scribe on a portable device such as a USB Flash drive and use it to access your emails on any computer. All of your emails will be stored in one single, transferable directory so moving emails between computers won’t pose any problem at all. This makes it even easier for users to copy and backup all their emails at another safe location.
Safe from viruses - i.Scribe protects you from the danger of email viruses such as Klez and Bugbear by using its own HTML engine, instead of using Internet Explorer. It also prevents viruses from spreading by hiding your email contact list from other malicious programs. Additionally, i.Scribe prevents automatic opening of file executables (e.g. .exe file attachment). To open them, you have to download them first to your hard disk and open them at your own will.
Small in size and requirements - the download size for i.Scribe is only 1MB and it takes only about 3-4MB of memory to run on your computer. That means that you can run i.Scribe on really low end computers.
Comes with built-in Bayesian spam filter to help you tag, monitor and filter spam / junk email effectively.

bayesian-spam-filter

Built in calendar and contact list / address book.

iscribe-calendar-screenshot

Cross platform - support for Windows, Linux and Mac OS.
Constantly updated by its developers to accommodate new user requests and functions.
Plugins support - for example, Aspell for spell checking, Autozip for automatic compression of file attachments and more.
Import and export emails and contacts from and to multiple formats such as mbox, MAPI, MBX and more.

import-and-export-email-easily

Multi-language support.

Overall, the best part of i.Scribe is that I can download, read and compose my emails anywhere, anytime that I want to. The fact that it is built with the ability to secure your emails and contacts from viruses are also a big plus. Try i.Scribe today!

This is a guest post by Syahid A. from TechMalaya

Tags: email client, desktop email client, portable email client, fast email client, free email client

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“The Operation Could Not Be Completed” Error Message with Nokia Mobile Phones [Killer Tech Tips]

Posted: 10 May 2008 04:05 AM CDT

Recently, I encountered an error when trying to transfer some MP3 files to my dad’s Nokia 3110c mobile phone from my computer. Everytime I tried to copy and paste some files into the memory card present in the phone via the Nokia Phone Browser, it showed an error dialog with a message saying “The operation could not be completed”.

nokia_operation_could_not_be_completed

I scouted for some solutions on the web, and here are two possible solutions that could solve the issue.

First, go to Start > Run and type this into the Run Dialog Box: Regsvr32.exe %Windir%\System32\Ole32.dll

run_dialog

Windows will then throw up a dialog box:

windows

Restart your computer and try copying the files again. Things should work fine now.

In case, you’re still getting the error with the message “The operation could not be completed”, follow these steps:

Start the Nokia PC Suite
Click on the ‘Update PC Suite’ link in the right extreme at the bottom of the window.

update_pc_suite

Download the update. Once the download is complete, the Nokia PC suite will update itself with the new version.
Restart and copy your files. You should be able to transfer files from your computer to your Nokia phone now. Good luck!

If you’re still unable to transfer files, you need to format your memory card.

Hope that solves your problems. Use the comments section to voice your questions and doubts.

Is starting a podcast - good idea or bad idea? [ReviewSaurus - The Techie Dino!]

Posted: 10 May 2008 02:47 AM CDT

Jim Kukral has posted a question or rather has asked everyone to start a podcast of your own because he believes that it’s really important to start a podcast at this point of time. The reason is that he thinks that it’s the perfect time to start a podcast as it’s still in early stages and by the time, podcasts will grow huge, you’ll have a pretty big archive.

I agree with Jim on this part completely and I’ll say that here are some of the reasons why I would like to start a podcast of my own or may be screencasts :

1. It’s the right time to start one. (The point made by Jim).
2. Monetizing them isn’t difficult too : there are services like Revver, Metacafe, Kaltura (still not released but have the plans to share the money) which allow you to earn money through the videos, which allow you to upload.
3. Helps build authority : Various websites like YouTube, Revver, MetaCafe attract millions of users and if you build a pretty impressive video then those videos will help you in building authority as you’ll be able to brand yourself in front of those millions of users.
4. Helps in driving traffic : You get to include the link to your own website in the description of the videos, you can put your website address as the watermark in the videos too and that can certainly help in driving the traffic to your blog/website.

Well with all these benefits I certainly believe that it’s a nice idea to start a podcast and now my question for you is that what kind of videos/screencasts would you like to see on this blog. I’m certainly going for it and I hope that you too should also start one.

ZDNet, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb; They’ve got it wrong [Brajeshwar]

Posted: 10 May 2008 01:56 AM CDT

Illustration by Brajeshwar

Rich Internet ApplicationsHow some high profile sites got it all wrong!

I was willing to brush it aside as another harmless mistake by some high profile sites, “we all make mistakes”. However, Mrinal’s second tweet (Mrinal’s articles are here and here) got me thinking and wanted to bring forth some clarifications for the Rich Internet Applications (RIA) realm.

ZDNet

Recently, Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet wrote an article — Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition from Sun. While talking about JavaOne where Sun unveils their future cloud-computing platform — Hydrazine — which will be in direct competition with similar offerings from Microsoft, Google, Amazon and others, she wrote

ZDNet's wrong interpretation on JavaFX, Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight

“Robert Brewin, Sun Chief Technology Officer and Distinguished Engineer, described Hydrazine as a combination of Amazon’s Elastic Cloud, Microsoft’s Live Mesh and Google Analytics all rolled into one. It’s a platform that Sun is building on top of JavaFX.”

From the article, it is definitely clear that Hydrazine is a server side solution and JavaFX is a client side solution. So, how can Hydrazine be built “on top” of JavaFX?

“JavaFX, which is Sun’s rough equivalent to Adobe AIR and Microsoft’s Silverlight.”

Wrong Again!

Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe AIR are NOT equivalent.
Microsoft Silverlight is equivalent to Adobe (Flash Player + Flex framework).
Sun JavaFX is equivalent to Adobe (Flash Player + Flex Framework + Adobe AIR + Adobe Mobile).

Further down in the article, she have written

“Sun also is working on JavaFX Script, a new scripting language that will do for Java developers what FlexBuilder and Expression Blend are for Adobe and Microsoft developers, respectively.”

This is Blasphemy,

JavaFX Script is a programming language like Adobe’s ActionScript and MXML and is similar to Microsoft’s XAML and their CLR language.
Adobe’s FlexBuilder is an Integrated Development Environment like Microsoft’s Visual Studio or Sun’s NetBeans.
Microsoft’s Expression Blend is an RIA design tool which is equivalent to Adobe’s Thermo.

TechCrunch

Duncan Riley of TechCrunch wrote about — Adobe AIR Vs Microsoft Silverlight — which I believed is wrong right from the title. It could have been Adobe Flash Player vs Microsoft Silverlight!

Techcrunch's wrong interpretation on comparing Adobe AIR to Microsoft Silverlight

Here, Duncan wrote,

“There’s no arguing that AIR is highly capable, but so is Microsoft’s Silverlight.”

Well, to put things in a simple way — Adobe AIR is the platform independent Desktop Client with built-in Flash Player. It would have been way better to do a comparison of Adobe Flash Player and Microsoft Silverlight and not Adobe AIR with Microsoft Silverlight.

ReadWriteWeb

Bernard Lunn of ReadWriteWeb wrote about MetaASO: A Bootstrapped P2P Startup From India.

ReadWriteWeb's thinks they cannot run Silverlight because they're on Macs

“MetaASO stumbled at the first hurdle for me, which was that you need Silverlight and that means a PC (I use a Mac).”

How cool! Guys, they’re on Macs and no PCs. But, Silverlight can run on a Mac. Silverlight is a browser plugin just like Flash Player and runs on both PC and Mac.

Silverlight is a cross operating system, cross browser plugin which is very similar to Adobe’s Flash Player. It has a subset of abilities of the .NET Runtime. The term Silverlight also includes the web application library built on top of the runtime and this library is very similar to Adobe’s Flex Framework. Microsoft’s .NET runtime is a Windows only desktop runtime. Some version of it is included in most recent version of Windows. It allows you to run Windows desktop applications.

Well, these are the facts churned out by the top profile sites, rendering the prospects of the future Rich Internet Applications, eerr, rather bleak! Or do we really care?

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how to add effects to photobooth images or ichat! [ReviewSaurus - The Techie Dino!]

Posted: 10 May 2008 01:28 AM CDT

PhotoBooth is an excellent utility from Mac which allows you to take quick pictures from iSight camera of Macbook or any other USB webcam. Although the images are quite plain and if we want to add effects to those images then we’ll need to dip our hands dirty into image editing field and trust me that’s not at all easy!

Well, for lazy people like me software or utilities like CatEye come pretty handy. This utility puts various effects in photobooth and iChat. So if you want to take a still photograph showing the retro effect then it will be as simple as clicking a picture from Photobooth or while chatting with your friends you can show these wonderful effects through the iSight webcam.

CatEye package comes with RetroPixels, Love for 80s and Bent Pels effects packages and is pretty simple to install, just extract the .QTZ files into the folder /Library/Compositions. That’s it and when ever you’ll open PhotoBooth or will launch iChat, it’ll show you the list of effects like you see in the above given image.

Alunch : Perfect Application Launcher for OS X [ReviewSaurus - The Techie Dino!]

Posted: 10 May 2008 01:07 AM CDT

We’ve reviewed quite a few application launchers of OS X and every time loved the utilities as they were not only getting better as an application launcher but making life simpler for a user and this time we are reviewing aLunch. Although, aLaunch would have been a better name for it, so the developer can take one suggestion on the name itself.

Till this time I was impressed by TigerLaunch (our review), however aLunch is one step better than TigerLaunch as it allows us to create sub menus and that was the only missing feature in TigerLaunch. Another additional feature of aLunch is that it not only allows you to put the shortcut for applications, it lets you put you the shortcuts of folders and files too.

You have to configure the menu completely and I guess that it can be a Pro and Con both. I find no problems in configuring the menu from scratch, as I find it better that I get to take control of the menu from the word go, however few may find it irritating that it doesn’t even list the applications.

It supports drag and drop of application so it becomes fairly easy to add applications or files in the menu.

Overall, it’s a wonderful utility and is the perfect application launcher ever built for Mac OS X.

Perfect Example of Process Control [ Have a laugh ] [Technospot.net]

Posted: 10 May 2008 12:02 AM CDT

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Why the hell should you digg that guys shout? [Daily SEO Blog - SEO tips for wordpress and blogger users]

Posted: 09 May 2008 11:33 PM CDT

It may be a big deal getting lots of fans on Digg. Most of us get minimum ten friend requests daily and there is a whole bunch of friends on Digg.Now, how many shouts do you get on email everyday from all of these friends? Quite some isn’t it? And how many do you reply to or digg? Well, keep the answer to yourself.

The question is - How can you effectively use the friends and community on digg to market your websites on Digg?
The answer probably is in the question itself - You are trying to “market” your sites.

Digg is a community where everyone is on the look out for networking. The basic motive of course is to harness the power of community. Let me take you through the process of “digging”.

Step 1.
Submit a story.

Step 2.
Shout/share it with your friends.

Step 3.
Grow your friend circle.

Step 1 and Step 2 are comparatively easier steps, but what matters most is the third one - growing your network.

How can you grow your network on Digg?

Anyone might have easily guessed that digging the maximum number of stories is enough to take you get popular on Digg.
Well, I don’t know about everyone, but this happened to me. I thought digging the maximum number of articles on digg can get me popular. And I made it even a practice to digg a good number of articles every day, religiously. But, there was no big difference in the “popularity” as such.

Now, the bigger question is - What do you mean by popularity on Digg?

Well, popularity (or I’d call it power) to me is the power to submit a story and declare that this story is going to get 1000 diggs in the next couple of hours.

Unfortunately, that’s not a guarantee and I wonder if the top diggers would say such a thing. But essentially, what all of us are aiming to is to be able to submit a story and when you share it with friends, all of them digging it.

I’d call it the the Digg Power Quotient.

Digg Power Quotient = (No. of diggs on an article in an hour / No. of friends in the circle) / No. of diggs from the community in an hour

This may not be the best metric though sometimes because we’ve all seen cases where a guy with less than ten friends submitted a story that made it to the top. Excluding all those “miracles”, if there is someone who has a very healthy “Digg Power Quotient”, then I think he has the potential to make a story popular.

This article may not make any sense at all because Digg is an unpredictable community sometimes, and things can work at a totally different pace and dimension than expected, for the good or the bad. But some pointers on how to be a popular guy on Digg is interesting !

What practices will get you popular on digg?

Again, with all the unpredictability taken into account, let me share a few observations.

1 - Digg ONLY relevant articles that are related to your interest.
In the frenzy to get more numbers, people go around digging anything and everything, and end up being everywhere. This may not look good on you if you are trying to build an image. For example, if you are a techno geek who blogs on technology, it makes sense for you to digg through articles in the technology corner and not the fashion and lifestyle section.
The reason is that, when people find that you are more active in one particular category, they’ll derive an impression that you are an authority on that topic and this is good for brand building.

2 - Participate in the community
In the rush to digg more articles, we tend to forget the fact that Digg is a community. A very sensitive community. Digg’s popular members are all very well networked and communicate with each other a lot on the digg platform. They see it more as a place to share thoughts with like minded people. And anyone who can’t adapt to this, may stand out of the crowd. And handling things single handed is not a good idea on digg.

3 - Comment as much as you digg
Rather than digging or submitting much , try commenting more, at least as much as you digg, and you will see the results. Commenting is a good way to generate interest among the community and gain trust. Here again, you got to really genuine while commenting or you’re gonna get burned out spamming.

4 - Create a circle of “trust worthy” friends
Friends are always good. The more the merrier. But make sure they are “trust worthy”. By trustable I mean, you got to make sure that whenever you send a shout, you get the story dugg by him. Well, it is not possible all the time, but a 90% hit ratio is satisfactory.There are a lot of guys who’ll add you and keep bombarding with shouts, at the same time never responds to your’s.

5 - Don’t digg stupid articles
Aww…did someone had to tell you this? These days there are lot of “spam” being submitted to digg. The titles make no sense, neither the description, nor the URL. If you are on a digging spree, it is most likely that you’ll digg one of those articles. So keep away from them so that, people don’t misunderstand you for a spammer.

6 - Respond well to shouts
Next time when someone see your shout notification in their email, they shouldn’t go “Oh no! Not that guy again! “. The simple solution is that you have to respond well to others shouts whenever they send you one. Only then will the community recognize you a trust worthy guy.

7 - Create trust among the community
This is probably the most important and significant thing out of all these stuff mentioned here. And probably the most non-comprehensive. It is easy to talk about it, but to measure as to how much of it you actually earned is quite difficult. Simply because there are a lot of metrics that go into it, and it takes time to gain trust.

8 - Sharing is the key
While digging keep asking this question - “When is the last time I dugg a story just because it was interesting?” n
Essentially, the idea is to keep digging interesting articles from the web so that you can share it wit the world. Keep away your marketing interests and genuinely participate in the community. It will reward you.

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Watch You Tube Videos in 3d [Technospot.net]

Posted: 09 May 2008 11:03 PM CDT

Now if you are already tried of loading pages after pages to find a good video on Youtube, Its just time you start using at PicLens which has integrated You tube Video Search in the latest Firefox Extension update and It works like a charm.Its really cool than Not only I can see them in 3d but searching is like just scrolling similar way we were doing with images both in Web and on Local Machine

Here is a snapshot

Pic lens extension for you tube

You can use it on any page of you tube or in you tube searches. Good work by the Piclens team.

You can download Extensions and support for Firefox (Windows), Firefox (Mac), Internet Explorer and Safari.
or just check all versions.

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Fix “Disc Burner or Software not Found” Error in iTunes [TechBuzz]

Posted: 09 May 2008 04:13 PM CDT

Earlier today, I was trying to backup my iTunes library to disc, but iTunes just wouldn’t let me do that. It said “….” Since this is my first try, I thought that iTunes required some software component for the burn function to work. I also knew that iTunes recognized my DVD burner, since it was listed under Advanced > Burning tab in Preferences.

After troubleshooting for a while, I found out that Daemon Tools is the culprit. Daemon Tools is a software for inserting virtual CDs, mostly useful for playing games without it’s actually DVD. I tried uninstalling Daemon Tool, but that didn’t solve the problem.

I dug a little deeper and found an add-on called SPTD v1.50. It repairs Daemon Tools to fix the incompatibility issues with iTunes. It’s available for both 32 bit and 64 bit operating systems. You can download it from here.

Thanks to iPodlounge member “squadronx“.

Facebook Layout Theme for Wordpress [-| Life Rocks! 2.0 |-]

Posted: 09 May 2008 04:00 PM CDT

If you are an avid fan of Facebook and a Wordpress blogger, then you should be using the Facebook Layout Wordpress theme. This theme bring in all the simple features of Facebook layout.This Wordpress theme Incorporates all of the best design elements on the Facebook layout. The theme has two versions, one with sidebar widgets and other normal one.

Features of this theme;

Clean and simple Facebook type layout
Color Scheme changing (Blue, Green, Red, Black, Grey, Brown, Pink, Yellow, Light Blue and Purple)
Toggle Wordpress Logo on or off
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QOT Featured on BBC Click Webscape [Quick Online Tips]

Posted: 09 May 2008 12:36 PM CDT

A sudden spike in site traffic led me to the source - BBC Click! Click is the BBC flagship technology programme and Kate Russell presented her latest selection of the best sites on the World Wide Web on BBC Click and QuickOnlineTips.com was one of them.

Check out Webscape on BBC Click Online today where Kate Russell features 3 sites every week and you will find QOT recommended there. Don’t miss the video created from the live TV show on that page where she showcases these sites (no options to embed it). Here is the complete video of this weeks show. Here is what they had to say -

QOT on BBC

The featured links on BBC are our Popular Posts page and 50 Best Firefox Extensions and here are the videos expaining RSS. Getting featured on mainstream media is a wonderful experience in terms of traffic, readers, credibility, exposure and is recognition of all your hard work. Thank Kate. Thanks BBC.

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Funny Lessons In Logic You Should Not Miss [Techie Buzz]

Posted: 09 May 2008 11:11 AM CDT

Ok everyone its Friday and time to start your weekend with a good laugh, the logics below are purely for fun with all pun intended. Go ahead have your share of laughs.

If your father is a poor man,
it is your fate but,
if your father-in-law is a poor man,
it’s your stupidity.

I was born intelligent -
education ruined me.

Practice makes perfect…..
But nobody’s perfect….. .
so why practice?

If it’s true that we are here to help others,
then what exactly are the others here for?

Since light travels faster than sound,
people appear bright until you hear them speak.

How come “abbreviated” is such a long word?

Money is not everything.
There’s Mastercard & Visa.

Behind every successful man, there is a woman
And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.

Every man should marry.
After all, happiness is not the only thing in life.

The wise never marry.
and when they marry they become otherwise.

Never put off the work till tomorrow
what you can put off today.

“Your future depends on your dreams”
So go to sleep.

“Hard work never killed anybody”
But why take the risk

“Work fascinates me”
I can look at it for hours.

God made relatives;
Thank God we can choose our friends.

The more you learn, the more you know.
The more you know, the more you forget.
The more you forget, the less you know.
So.. why learn.

A bus station is where a bus stops.
A train station is where a train stops.
On my desk, I have a work station….
what more can I say……..

Have fun folks its Friday get your best clothes on and get ready to party.

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Modify Boot Manager in Vista with VistaBootPRO [-| Life Rocks! 2.0 |-]

Posted: 09 May 2008 09:43 AM CDT

From Windows XP to Vista, there has been a change in the Boot Configuration Data (BCD) registry editing and normal users may find it difficult to edit the BCD file. This job can be easily done with VistaBootPRO. VistaBootPRO is a freeware which was developed to make changes to the Windows Vista Boot Configuration Data registry quickly and easily, doing the job in a fraction of the time it would take using the alternative. VistaBootPRO allows users to easily and neatly organize their boot configuration entries.

One thing that is really good about this utility is the ability to backup your boot manager before you change anything, that way you don't have to worry as much about screwing something up.

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Nokia Maps 2.0 Beta with Multimedia City Guides, Real-time Traffic, Dynamic Re-routing & Pedestrian Navigation [Tech[dot]Blog]

Posted: 09 May 2008 09:42 AM CDT

Nokia has released a new version of Nokia Maps 2.0 Beta for Nokia S60 3rd Edition mobile devices with a host of new features such as real-time traffic feeds and dynamic re-routing, Multimedia city guides, Pedestrian navigation and satellite and hybrid images. Nokia Maps offers free maps of more than 150 countries and over 15 million points-of-interest. It comes with compatible Nokia Map Loader with which you can get the newest map data, which is required by some Nokia Maps 2.0 features such as Walk navigation.

Key features of Nokia Maps 2.0 Beta refresh include:

Nokia Maps 2.0 Beta with Real-time Traffic, Dynamic Re-routing, Pedestrian navigation & Multimedia city guides

Pedestrian navigation: Nokia Maps 2.0 Beta offers you the possibility to explore a city by walking. Breadcrumbs show your previous position and mark down the route you've been walking. Stop at any place you'd like to and continue your route afterwards. Navigation is visual and without voice guidance. To start a pedestrian navigation, choose your destination and select Walk to from the selection key menu (in the middle of your mobile device).

Satellite and hybrid images: Nokia Maps 2.0 Beta offers satellite and hybrid view maps for selected bigger cities. Satellite images offer an accurate map view and they display individual city buildings. You can change the view from the normal map view to satellite or hybrid map view via Options > Map mode > Satellite or Hybrid.

Improved UI for car navigation: Nokia Maps 2.0 Beta offers clear guidance and improved visual elements for car navigation.

One box search: One box search to search for addresses or places that interest you is available with start-up of the application! Just enter the address or name of a place for which you are looking in the search field and press Search. The results are displayed, sorted by category. You do not necessarily need to enter all letters of an address.

Multimedia city guides: This new type of city guide features photos, videos, and audio streams. This new method of accessing information about a certain city has a lot of advantages compared to traditional electronic or written city guides.

Real time traffic information (RTTI): Nokia Maps 2.0 Beta offers real-time traffic feeds and dynamic re-routing in 18 European countries. Real-time traffic feeds inform you of collisions, roadworks, and traffic jams. After the feed is received, the device can dynamically re-route you to avoid a traffic event.

Click here to download Nokia Maps 2.0 Beta for fresh installation on Nokia S60 3rd Edition. Nokia Map Loader 1.3.5 can be downloaded here.