tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46127255254354190982024-03-19T17:12:11.788+05:30Techno EnigmaLatest Tech News,Software Reviews and Guides.Snehasis Patrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15518791023809004877noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4612725525435419098.post-87902540041597369512011-09-03T11:18:00.007+05:302011-09-04T03:16:15.270+05:30Top 3 Online Shopping Websites of India<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Online Shopping gives you the pleasure to shop products and services right from you home with the help of just a few clicks. Lots of stuff can be bought cheaper from an online retailer and comparing prices is as easy as a click of a button. Online shops may also have products that are either sold out or not available in local shops. Even though online shopping seems to be very convenient and easy to use, it has its disadvantages. Still there are lots of risk factors involved in online transactions through credit/debit cards, online banking etc. Your card details and account info can be misused if you are using an unsecured or malware effected PC for online transactions, technical fault in payment gateway or e-commerce site may lead to failed transaction and yet your card or bank account may be charged for the item. You cannot physically check the product before buying and blindly rely on online sellers reputation.<br />
Anyway here are the best three online shopping sites to shop from India in terms of ease of use, reliability and security.<br />
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<b>1. <a href="http://www.flipkart.com/">flipkart.com</a></b><br />
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Probably the best online retailer of India. It's reliable provides fast shipping, prices are competitive. You can buy Books, Cameras, Dvds, Mobiles Phones, Home Appliances etc. You will get standard warranty from the manufacturer and as an added bonus buyers also get a 30 day replacement guarantee. Sometimes you can pre-order a new about to be launched mobiles or gadgets. The best thing is the option to buy products with cash on delivery (COD) as payment method.<br />
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<b>Pros:</b><b> </b><br />
i. Prices are competitive.<br />
ii. Wide range of products, from consumer electronics to books.<br />
iii. COD payment option available.<br />
v. Free Home delivery.<br />
v. 30 day replacement guarantee.<br />
vi. 24x7 Customer Support helpline.<br />
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<b>2.</b> <a href="http://ebay.in/"><b>ebay.in</b></a><br />
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With Ebay users can buy from different online sellers and can also sell products by paying a certain fee or commission to ebay.in. Ebay provides a secure and reliable platform to the buyers and sellers where they can buy or sell goods and services without the risk of being cheated. (<a href="http://pages.ebay.in/aboutebay/eBay_Guarantee.html">Ebay Guarantee</a>)<br />
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<b>Pros:</b><b> </b><br />
i. Wide range of products (you can buy virtually anything). <br />
ii. Securely purchase items from overseas. (Gobal Easy buy)<br />
iii. Buyers can purchase items from auction type listing.<br />
iv. Ebay Guarantee, full refund of money incase of disputes.<br />
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<b>Cons:</b><br />
i. Prices vary a lots from one seller to another.<br />
ii. Most items have a certain shipping charge.<br />
iii. No COD option as payment.<br />
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<b>3.</b> <a href="http://www.letsbuy.com/"><b>Letsbuy.com</b></a><br />
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It's similar like flipkart and mostly sells consumer electronics products.<br />
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<b>Pros:</b><b> </b><br />
i. COD payment option.<br />
ii. Free Home Delivery.<br />
iii. Exchange offer <a href="http://green.letsbuy.com/">Go Green</a>.<br />
iv. Discount Coupons.<br />
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<b>Cons:</b><br />
i. Sometimes delivery is delayed.<br />
ii. Not as reliable as Flipkart.<br />
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Other notable mentions are <a href="http://www.indiaplaza.com/"><b>indiaplaza</b></a>, <a href="http://www.tradus.in/"><b>tradus.in</b></a>, and <a href="http://www.homeshop18.com/"><b>Homeshop18</b></a>.</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr /> <a href="http://technoenigma.blogspot.com">Techno Enigma</a></div>Snehasis Patrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15518791023809004877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4612725525435419098.post-79073817264296785892010-11-01T05:40:00.001+05:302010-11-01T05:42:50.267+05:30Fix Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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“A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.” <br />
Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) or the Stop error is the most infamous catastrophic Windows error ever. It is generally caused by faulty device drivers(software) or hardware failure. Most Windows PC users have faced this problem every once in a while and in most situations users try to fix the problem by reformatting and reinstalling the Operating System (OS). But this fix doesn’t work always. Here I am providing a comprehensive list of steps to fix BSOD.<br />
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<b>Step 1: BSOD is occurring randomly or you can reproduce the error in specific situations.</b>
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Try to submit the error to Microsoft and check if a possible solution and cause for the error is provided or not. Update all device drivers (graphics, chipset etc) to latest and stable versions. Uninstall any recent software that you are suspecting is a cause of BSOD. Check Event Viewer logs to see the error details or try <a href="http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html" target="_blank" title="Download Blue screen Viewer">Blue screen Viewer</a> from Nirsoft. Test your hard disk drive for errors, you can use <a href="http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools" target="_blank" title="Download SeaTools for DOS">SeaTools for DOS</a> (also works on non Seagate HDDs) or any other bootable Disk diagnosis tool. If all fails then try the classic approach to fix Windows, yes by a boot cd (check Step 3).<br />
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<b>Step 2: The computer just abruptly restarting and showing BSOD error message.</b> <br />
Try to boot into safe mode (by pressing F8 during Start up) and try the solutions mentioned in Step 1.<br />
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<b>Step 3: Use boot CD to Repair or Reinstall OS.</b> <br />
When you can’t do troubleshooting from your running Windows environment, you need a boot cd or live cd to do further troubleshooting. Try <a href="http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html" target="_blank" title="Download Ultimate Boot CD">Ultimate Boot CD</a> or use your Windows setup disc to boot and repair your current windows installation or do a fresh installation.<br />
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<b>Step 4: Hardware Troubleshooting.</b><br />
If all the above solutions fails to solve your BSOD then it may caused by hardware fault or device malfunction. Check your RAM first. Use <a href="http://www.memtest.org/" target="_blank" title="Download Memtest86+">Memtest86+</a> to test your RAM modules. Try to clean the modules and socket, you can use rubber to clean dust and other unwanted substances from the conductive pins of the modules and socket, then reseat the RAM modules. If RAM is not the culprit then check the Disk Drive (HDD,SSD etc), PSU, internal cables, add-on cards or any visible sign of damage to the motherboard. If you have doubt about a particular hardware device then simply swap it by a new tested one or try it on another working machine. <br />
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<b>Still getting BSOD?</b> <br />
Just leave a comment describing your situation and I will definitely try to help ASAP, also try <a href="http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/" target="_blank" title="Visit Tom's Hardware Forums">Tom's Hardware Forums</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr /> <a href="http://technoenigma.blogspot.com">Techno Enigma</a></div>Snehasis Patrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15518791023809004877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4612725525435419098.post-53834562945963233242010-07-10T00:45:00.006+05:302010-07-10T01:38:25.047+05:30The Downfall of Seagate Hard Disk Drives<a href="http://www.seagate.com/" target="_blank" title="Seagate"><img alt="Seagate" border="0" height="177" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_Z6NrDUR8Snw/TDd1VQKjJOI/AAAAAAAABbg/tVKxdiL9Un0/Seagate20.gif?imgmax=800" style="border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" title="Seagate" width="427" /></a> <br />
Seagate was once one of the most reputed and trusted brand for hard disk drives (HDD). Seagate HDDs were both fast and reliable. I myself have trusted and recommended the brand for years. But ever since their notorious firmware problem with the Barracuda 7200.11 series, which prevents the HDD to be detected by system BIOS, I have lost my faith in Seagate. Although there are four major bugs
<a name='more'></a>in the firmware of 7200.11 family, this one affected a large number of users. At first Seagate refused to acknowledge this as a major issue and heavily moderated its official forum where large number of people reported this problem. Then they released firmware updates and later also offered free data recovery service for drives affected with this firmware issue. The brand reputation was heavily hit and loyal customers moved to other brands like Western Digital (WD). Then came the all new Barracuda 7200.12 family. Although this series of HDDs have no major firmware issues, they were highly unreliable and have high failure rates compared to other brands. <br />
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Just check the customer reviews in <a href="http://www.newegg.com" target="_blank" title="Newegg.com">Newegg.com</a> (Popular online retailer) of Seagate HDDs compared to other brands such as WD. <br />
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<a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148433" target="_blank" title="Newegg Seagate Barracuda 7200.12"><img alt="Seagate HDD Newegg" border="0" height="355" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_Z6NrDUR8Snw/TDd1WVqBChI/AAAAAAAABbk/woXATm8rOBc/SeagateHDDNewegg13.gif?imgmax=800" style="border-width: 0px; display: inline;" title="Seagate HDD Newegg" width="454" /></a><br />
Seagate has 55% reviews as Excellent and 22% reviews as Very Poor. If we go by these numbers then there is almost a fifty-fifty chance that your Seagate HDD is gonna die.<br /><br />
<a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136534" target="_blank" title="Newegg Western Digital Caviar Blue"><img alt="WD HDD Newegg" border="0" height="343" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_Z6NrDUR8Snw/TDd1XICf3tI/AAAAAAAABbo/_OEjY47zacQ/WDHDDNewegg4.gif?imgmax=800" style="border-width: 0px; display: inline;" title="WD HDD Newegg" width="453" /></a> <br />
Here you can see customers reviews of WD Caviar Blue (similar functionality and price as Seagate Barracuda 7200.12) with 70% Excellent and just 9% as Very Poor. Although the number of reviews is a lot lesser than Seagate, but still nowadays WD seems to be more reliable than Seagate.<br />
Also Seagate has now reduced their warranty from 5 years to 3 years. But other manufacturers have also reduced warranty to 3 years as a cost cutting measure. Still WD offers its Caviar Black series with 5 years of warranty, but its costlier and targeted to high end users.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr /> <a href="http://technoenigma.blogspot.com">Techno Enigma</a></div>Snehasis Patrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15518791023809004877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4612725525435419098.post-87221992821022585622010-01-19T16:15:00.001+05:302010-01-19T20:29:36.265+05:30Bingle – Check Bing and Google Search Results Side by Side<img title="Bingle" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="172" alt="Bingle" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_Z6NrDUR8Snw/S1WNJjtNcEI/AAAAAAAABaY/CBeQodjyWbY/Bingle12.png?imgmax=800" width="435" border="0" /> <br /> <br /> <p><a title="Check Bingle" href="http://www.bingle.nu" target="_blank">Bingle</a> is a nice tool to compare search results of <a title="Bing Search" href="http://www.bing.com" target="_blank">Bing</a> and <a title="Google Search" href="http://www.google.com" target="_blank">Google</a>. You can use Bingle to track performance of your Website or Blog for a particular keyword on both search engines.<a name='more'></a></p> <br /> <p><img title="Bingle - Bing and Google Side by Side" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="314" alt="Bingle - Bing and Google Side by Side" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_Z6NrDUR8Snw/S1WNTSuKQuI/AAAAAAAABac/aSfbsxego14/BingleBingandGoogleSidebySide3.png?imgmax=800" width="454" border="0" /></p> <br /> <p>As you can see Bingle shows search results generated by Bing and Google side by side, eliminating the need to search on both Bing and Google to find results on a particular topic. You will notice a huge difference between Bing and Google Search results in lots of search queries. I think Bing only includes sites with high page ranks to its search results. </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr /> <a href="http://technoenigma.blogspot.com">Techno Enigma</a></div>Snehasis Patrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15518791023809004877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4612725525435419098.post-67679621178718662612010-01-16T22:08:00.002+05:302010-01-16T22:33:01.678+05:30ginipic - Search Photos Online and Offline Simultaneously<p></p> <p><img title="ginipic - Search Photos Online and Offline Simultaneously" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="391" alt="ginipic - Search Photos Online and Offline Simultaneously" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_Z6NrDUR8Snw/S1HrCHyyDcI/AAAAAAAABaE/1e2B_oBLzi0/ginipic%20-%20Search%20Photos%20Online%20and%20Offline%20Simultaneously%5B3%5D.png?imgmax=800" width="362" border="0" />  </p> <br /> <p>Search images from all possible sources you may think of using <a title="Get ginipic" href="http://www.ginipic.com/" target="_blank">ginipic</a>. Ginipic offers photo searching from multiple sources like Photo Sharing sites(<a title="Visit Flickr - Photo Sharing" href="http://flickr.com/" target="_blank">Flickr</a>, <a title="Visit Photobucket" href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank">Photobucket</a>, <a title="Visit Picasa" href="http://picasaweb.google.com/" target="_blank">Picasa</a>), Online Image Search Engines(<a title="Visit Google Images" href="http://images.google.com" target="_blank">Google</a>, <a title="Visit Yahoo! Image Search" href="http://images.search.yahoo.com" target="_blank">Yahoo</a>, <a title="Visit Bing Images" href="http://www.bing.com/images" target="_blank">Bing</a>), Stock photos(<a title="Visit Fotolia" href="http://www.fotolia.com" target="_blank">Fotolia</a>, <a title="Visit Dreamstime" href="http://www.dreamstime.com/" target="_blank">Dreamstime</a>, <a title="Visit Crestock" href="http://www.crestock.com" target="_blank">Crestock</a>) and local pictures stored in your computer simultaneously.<a name='more'></a></p> <br /> <p><img title="ginipic_splash" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="158" alt="ginipic_splash" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_Z6NrDUR8Snw/S1HrHKW4jPI/AAAAAAAABaI/afRk2lJEgTc/ginipic_splash%5B2%5D.png?imgmax=800" width="315" border="0" /> </p> <br /> It’s a  very useful software for a wide category of users, whether you are a graphic designer searching for stock photos, icons etc or a naive user searching photos for wallpaper, school project etc. Ginipic has made photo searching very easy by combining popular online photo sources under a single umbrella. It’s a freeware so <a title="Download ginipic" href="http://www.ginipic.com/download" target="_blank">download ginipic</a> now and see yourself what ginipic has to offer. <p></p> <h2>Here is a list of useful features of ginipic - </h2> <dl><dt> <h3>Search Photos from Multiple Sources</h3> </dt><dd>Use ginipic to search photos from your favorite photo sharing sites or search engines, like Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa, Yahoo, Google, Bing and also from your local storage. </dd><dt> <h3>No Duplicates in your Search Results</h3> </dt><dd>Ginipic filters all search results for duplicates.</dd><dt> <h3>Unlimited Results per Frame</h3> </dt><dd>Browse hundreds of pictures in a collage style frame. <br /><br /> <img title="ginipic screenshot collage" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="295" alt="ginipic screenshot collage" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_Z6NrDUR8Snw/S1HrSE3b4yI/AAAAAAAABaM/kPtov3K11Fc/ginipicscreenshotcollage20.png?imgmax=800" width="414" border="0" /></dd><dt> <h3>Advanced Search Options</h3> </dt><dd>With advanced search options, you can customize every photo source.</dd><dt> <h3>Browse Computers for Images</h3> </dt><dd>Quickly and easily browse images from your computer's local and network folders.</dd><dt> <h3>Copyright Info, Tagging, Aspect Ratio, Resize away</h3> </dt><dd>You can view copyright details of images appeared in search results, tag images to easily find them from Favorites, see images in original Aspect Ratio and resize preview window size. <br /><br /> <img title="ginipic_preview_window" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="340" alt="ginipic_preview_window" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_Z6NrDUR8Snw/S1HrYo2VXeI/AAAAAAAABaQ/VGzzckA-FG4/ginipic_preview_window%5B8%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="414" border="0" /></dd><dt> <h3>Drag and Drop, Post to Blog, Save Locally, Open In, Share, Set as Wallpaper</h3> </dt><dd>Drag and Drop feature enables you to easily move picture to and from different workspaces, post online images to your Blog by clicking "Copy Link as Html" from copy option in preview window and then inserting the code as HTML in your post, save online images locally using the save option in preview window, Open images with your default picture viewing software by double clicking them in the preview window, share online pictures by email or social networking sites, set images as desktop background from preview window.</dd></dl> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr /> <a href="http://technoenigma.blogspot.com">Techno Enigma</a></div>Snehasis Patrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15518791023809004877noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4612725525435419098.post-90646789712360595442009-12-05T17:37:00.004+05:302010-01-19T19:51:34.803+05:30Free Google Search and more on Mobile and PC<img alt="Google India" border="0" height="216" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_Z6NrDUR8Snw/SxpNFCFivOI/AAAAAAAABZQ/ZaT8Zi0QCyE/Google%20India%5B45%5D.gif?imgmax=800" style="border-width: 0px; display: inline;" title="Google India" width="377" /> <br />
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If you are a subscriber of Airtel mobile and got a GPRS enabled phone then you are eligible to browse and use <a href="http://www.google.co.in/" target="_blank" title="Google India">http://www.google.co.in</a> for free. You can also connect your phone as modem and browse Google India in PC. All you need is the <a href="http://www.opera.com/download" target="_blank" title="Download Opera">Opera</a> browser, since Airtel is blocking other browser user-agents to access their service. The handset settings to browse this service is same as Airtel Live settings. <br />
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For mobile browsing use your default browser not <u><b>opera mini</b></u> and configure your mobile with the above settings (Airtel Live Settings). As for Browsing in PC, connect your phone as modem to PC using “airtelfun.com” APN, after that you have to configure proxy settings of Opera, that is Tools>Preferences…>Advanced>Network>Proxy Servers> tick HTTP and HTTPS, then enter the above proxy address and port number and after that you are ready to use Google Search and lots of other Google India services for free. <br />
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<b>List of useful Google India services other than Google Search:</b><br />
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1. <a href="http://www.google.co.in/news" target="_blank" title="http://google.co.in/news">http://www.google.co.in/news</a><br />
2. <a href="http://www.google.co.in/movies" target="_blank" title="http://www.google.co.in/movies">http://www.google.co.in/movies</a><br />
3. <a href="http://www.google.co.in/maps" target="_blank" title="http://www.google.co.in/maps">http://www.google.co.in/maps</a><br />
4. <a href="http://www.google.co.in/books" target="_blank" title="http://www.google.co.in/books">http://www.google.co.in/books</a><br />
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<u>Airtel impose data charge if the subscriber is browsing any website that is not under <b>google.co.in</b> or <b>Airtel Live</b> wap portal domain. So try it at your own risk don't blame me</u>. <br />
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<a href="http://ala42.cdfreaks.com/MCSE/" target="_blank" title="Download MediaCodeSpeedEdit">MediaCodeSpeedEdit</a>(MCSE) a software that allows you to change/edit the read and write speed of your DVD Writer by modifying your DVD-Drive firmware. You just have to load the firmware of your drive then MCSE will show you the available options for your drive that you can modify, like RPC1 patch, Read speed, Bitsetting etc.<br />
<b><a name='more'></a><br /><br />RPC1 patch:</b> Patches your RPC2 DVD drive Firmware to RPC1 or Region Code free at Drive level. <br />
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<b>Read Speed:</b> Increase or Decrease your drive read speed, by increasing read speed coping files from disc will be faster, but not suitable for certain drives like for my old a retired ASUS 1608P3S. <br />
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<b>Bitsetting:</b> Useful when burning DVD+R media, because using bitsetting DVD+R media book type can be set as DVD-ROM, which is useful incase of playback compatibility issues on old DVD Players/ROMs.<br />
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<b>Change write speed</b>: For example incase of your drive media code SONY16D1 supports 16x speed for burning and SONY08D1 media supports 12x speed for burning, then you can replace SONY08D1’s write strategy with SONY16D1, just double click SONY08D1 then a pop up window will appear where you can choose the media code SONY16D1 to replace the write strategy of SONY08D1. Remember you can only replace write strategy of same type of media like DVD-RW to DVD-RW, DVD+R to DVD+R etc, also changing write strategy will increase the chances of burn process failing and hence increases the chances of making coasters. It’s recommended when replacing write strategies try to choose same manufacturer media code for optimal write performance.<br />
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Note that all options may not be available for your drive, because of limited number of supported manufactures, also don’t forget that if you are going to apply the modified Firmware to your drive then your <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u>warranty will be void</u></b>, so do it at your own risk.<br />
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<a href="http://160by2.com/" target="_blank" title="Visit Site">160by2.com</a> offers free sms up to 80 characters to be sent to any mobile number (Both GSM & CDMA) in India. With ads displayed on the rest 80 characters. It features fast sms delivery, online contacts/phonebook and SMS storage facility, free sms alerts (e.g. birthday alerts, reminders, IPL score update etc). It also features a free mobile Java application that can be installed in almost any phone with Java support and you can send free SMS via that mobile application using SMS or GPRS/EDGE/Internet.<br />
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A new feature added to 160by2 is SMS via Email, which allows 160by2 users to send free SMS via Email. To send free sms using 160by2.com you have many options, you can use your computer or mobile and point your internet browser to 160by2.com or use the mobile application or Email.<br />
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If you are unable to download the app from above link try this <a href="http://server.co.in.googlepages.com/160by2.jad" target="_blank" title="160by2 mobile app direct download">direct download</a> or download the <a href="http://server.co.in.googlepages.com/160by2.jar" target="_blank" title="160by2.Jar file">Jar file</a>.<br />
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<b><i>*</i>Note:<i> </i></b>If you don't have Internet/EDGE/GPRS then you can use the mobile application to send <b>free SMS via SMS </b>(using your mobile operator). <b>Using this feature you will be charged by your mobile operator for sending free SMS</b> because you are using your operator's SMS service to send free SMS. So it’s clever to send a SMS to multiple (up to 10) recipients at a time because you will be charged for single SMS only. <a href="http://160by2.com/160by2_mobile_application2.aspx" target="_blank" title="160by2_Mobile_Application info">Click here</a> for more info on the mobile application.<i></i><br />
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<b>Update: </b>160by2.com now offers free SMS service to any mobile in India, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Philippines and Malaysia. Also now they provide a <a href="http://m.160by2.com/app/" target="_blank" title="160by2 New App Download">Symbian app</a>, which can be downloaded using your Symbian Phone and the character limit per SMS has been increased from 80 to<b> 140 character per SMS</b>. <br />
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Gif animation is widely used in web animations, user avatars, smileys etc.</p> <p>This guide will help you to create custom gif animations from slides of still pictures or video using <a title="Get GIMP" href="http://www.gimp.org/" target="_blank">GIMP</a> and <a title="Get VirtualDub" href="http://www.virtualdub.org/" target="_blank">VirtualDub</a>.</p> <p></p> <h4>Creating Gifs using still pictures</h4> <h5>Step 1</h5> Open GIMP->then open the stills in GIMP using Open as Layers… option from File [Ctrl+Alt+O] and then browse and select the image files to be opened, click open. <h5></h5> <h5>Step 2 </h5> <p>Press Ctrl+L to open the Layers window for viewing and applying delay to the slides/layers of images. This delay is the duration of time for which the layer will be displayed and after that next layer will be displayed.</p> <p>Just right click each layer and then click Edit Layer Attributes… to enter a delay value.</p> e.g. if you wish to have a delay time of 500ms then enter it in this format (500ms) as Layer name. <h5>Step 3</h5> <p>To preview the animation click Filters from GIMP menu bar, then select Animation->click Playback.</p> <p>Now to save the animation click File->Save as->then give a file name of your choice and .gif as the extension name->click Save->select Save as Animation->then click Export->Save.</p><p><br /></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p><img title="GAE" style="display: inline;" alt="GAE" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_Z6NrDUR8Snw/SSmjWK21IwI/AAAAAAAABR0/uAxGIqOV9mw/GAE%5B1%5D.gif?imgmax=800" width="444" height="58" /></p><br /><p></p> <strong><span style="font-size:85%;"> <h4>Creating Gif from Video</h4> </span></strong> <h5>Step 1</h5> <p>Open VirtualDub->click File->Open a video file->then browse and select a video file, then click open to open it.</p> <h5>Step 2</h5> <p></p> <p>To save the whole video as Gif animation click File->Export->Animated GIF.</p><p><br /></p> <p></p> <strong>* </strong><em>Saving a whole video as gif is not a good idea if the video is of long duration (greater than 2 min), because it require more time and storage space to encode and save the video as gif. So its better to choose a selection of video for exporting into gif animation.<br /><br /></em><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr /> <a href="http://technoenigma.blogspot.com">Techno Enigma</a></div>Snehasis Patrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15518791023809004877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4612725525435419098.post-45319462398120475602008-09-18T11:13:00.001+05:302008-09-22T01:31:48.299+05:30Nokia Monitor Test - Tweak your monitor and get sharpest possible display<br /><img title="Nokia_test_splash" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="242" alt="Nokia_test_splash" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/snehasis.patra/SNHqN_s9B6I/AAAAAAAAA-o/UvM0XY9BhbE/Nokia_test_splash%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="452" border="0" /> <div class="blogger-post-footer"> </div> <br /> <p><a title="Download Nokia Monitor Test from SOFTPEDIA" href="http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Other-VIDEO-Tools/Nokia-Monitor-Test.shtml" target="_blank">Nokia Monitor Test</a> the ultimate monitor calibration tool to tweak any type monitors and have the best possible display configuration. This tool supports adjustment of brightness, contrast, geometry (width, height, Tilt etc), color, readability etc.</p> <p>It also got a little option for testing system sound configuration.</p> <br /> <p><img title="Nokia_test" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="340" alt="Nokia_test" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/snehasis.patra/SNHqZMFAPcI/AAAAAAAAA-s/O8OMxfShJJ8/Nokia_test%5B5%5D.png?imgmax=800" width="452" border="0" /></p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"> </div> <p>Nokia Monitor Test is no longer supported by Nokia and future development have been stopped, the final version is 1.0.0.1 </p> <br /> <p></p> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:6a49afa0-2501-4c0f-8564-93ea94f417f1" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Monitor+Calibration" rel="tag">Monitor Calibration</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Tweak" rel="tag">Tweak</a></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr /> <a href="http://technoenigma.blogspot.com">Techno Enigma</a></div>Snehasis Patrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15518791023809004877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4612725525435419098.post-86338527094616682292008-09-11T19:47:00.001+05:302008-09-11T19:47:41.133+05:30Free unlimited sms to India using - Way2SMS<br /> <p><img title="way2sms" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="107" alt="way2sms" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/snehasis.patra/SMkofcl6-7I/AAAAAAAAA-k/uM97ZxdvuRc/way2sms%5B5%5D.gif?imgmax=800" width="185" border="0" /></p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"> </div> <p></p> <p></p> <p> </p> <p><a title="Visit Way2sms.com" href="http://www.way2sms.com" target="_blank">Way2sms</a> offers free and <strong>unlimited</strong> sms to any Indian mobile numbers (GSM & CDMA). Unlike other online free sms service providers Way2sms have no restrictions on amount of sms to be sent. Way2sms also have premium paid service where you can use your name as sender.</p> <p></p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr /> <a href="http://technoenigma.blogspot.com">Techno Enigma</a></div>Snehasis Patrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15518791023809004877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4612725525435419098.post-16217299395507141582008-08-24T01:16:00.003+05:302010-01-19T19:52:45.620+05:30What’s is the best search engine? – Some more Google gags…<p>Almost everybody knew about <a title="Google Bomb wiki" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb" target="_blank">Google bombs</a>, like if we search for "miserable failure", Google will brought up the official George W. Bush biography page to number 1 position among other all results.</p> <br /><img title="Google_Bomb_Miserable_Failure" style="border-width: 0px;" alt="Google_Bomb_Miserable_Failure" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/snehasis.patra/SLBoSFnRkpI/AAAAAAAAA94/wPLl2Miul-0/Google_Bomb_Miserable_Failure6.gif" border="0" width="452" height="314" /> <br /> <p>Though at present many of these so called bombs are not available in search results. </p> <br /> <p>I just thought to explore some more in this bombing aspect and all of a sudden decided to search for query <em>“best search engine“</em> using Google search.</p> <br /> <p>Guess what I got in the results…</p> <br /> <p><strong><img title="Best_search_engine" style="border-width: 0px;" alt="Best_search_engine" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/snehasis.patra/SLBofPJS-4I/AAAAAAAAA98/ic6xlQ-YDSQ/Best_search_engine7.gif" border="0" width="452" height="740" /> </strong></p> <br /> <p>As you can see Google Search isn’t visible in the results page, except something mentioning <em><strong>“Best US Shopping Search Engine Winner: Google's Froogle”</strong></em> and <em>“www.dogpile.com”</em> appeared in the top of all results.</p> <br /> <p>Seeing these search results motivated me to search some more queries related to <em>“best search engine”.</em></p> <br /> <p>Look what I found….</p> <br /><br /> <p><strong><u>Search Query</u><em> “top search engine”</em></strong></p> <br /> <p><img title="Top serch engine" style="border-width: 0px;" alt="Top serch engine" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/snehasis.patra/SLBor90mD6I/AAAAAAAAA-A/ao4C3WwR5HQ/Topserchengine5.gif" border="0" width="452" height="830" /> </p> <br /> <p>Once again <em>“www.dogpile.com”</em> appeared in top 3 and still no mention of <em>“www.google.com”.</em> Though two websites got the term Google.</p> <br /><br /> <p><strong><strong><u>Search Query</u></strong> <em>“web search”</em></strong></p> <br /> <p><img title="Web_search" style="border-width: 0px;" alt="Web_search" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/snehasis.patra/SLBo5loHDKI/AAAAAAAAA-E/b4lOP-D6XnE/Web_search4.gif" border="0" width="452" height="701" /> </p> <br /> <p>At last in this query <em>“www.google.com”</em> was visible, though in the 10th position…….</p> <br /> <p>Once again <em>“www.dogpile.com”</em> was in the top.</p> <br /><br /> <p><strong><u>Search Query</u> <em>“online search”</em></strong></p> <br /><br /> <p><img title="Online_Search" style="border-width: 0px;" alt="Online_Search" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/snehasis.patra/SLBpFP5iEKI/AAAAAAAAA-I/q6OddWb7SmA/Online_Search%5B3%5D.gif" border="0" width="452" height="752" /> </p> <br /> <p>In this query AOL Search is the topper. I think that’s because AOL was formerly called America Online, Inc. and Google thinks it is what I am after.</p> <br /><br /> <p>In the end the tagline I got is <u><em><strong>“Google is too shy to show himself as best search engine in its own search results”.</strong></em></u></p> <br /><br /> <p>I got these results because Google generally don’t manually modify it’s search results [visibility of a site in search results depend on their pagerank and some other criteria defined by Google]. </p> <br /><br />So I hope I got something new similar to Google Bombs……. <br /> <p>Google Gags may be….</p> <br /><br /> <p>You may also try some more queries like <em>“ultimate search engine”</em>, “<em>search engine”, “top 10 search engines” </em>etc.</p> <br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr /> <a href="http://technoenigma.blogspot.com">Techno Enigma</a></div>Snehasis Patrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15518791023809004877noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4612725525435419098.post-18081501551965560912008-08-21T17:21:00.001+05:302008-08-21T20:04:01.134+05:30EyeDefender – avoid eyestrain and prevent Computer Vision Syndrome<br /><a href="http://www.eterlab.com/eyedefender/" target="_blank"><img title="" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="81" alt="" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/snehasis.patra/SK1Wzg-zTwI/AAAAAAAAA8E/74bDFV1A1wo/Eyedefender%5B7%5D.png?imgmax=800" width="79" align="right" border="0" /></a> <p></p> <p></p> <p><a title="EyeDefender homepage" href="http://www.eterlab.com/eyedefender/" target="_blank">EyeDefender</a> is a freeware which can protect your eyes from <strong><a title="Computer Vision Syndrome wiki" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_vision_syndrome" target="_blank">Computer Vision Syndrome</a> (CVS)</strong>. </p> <br /> <p>CVS is a temporary condition resulting from focusing the eyes on a computer display for protracted, uninterrupted periods of time. Symptoms of CVS include headaches, blurred vision, neck pain, fatigue, eye strain, dry, irritated eyes and difficulty refocusing the eyes. These symptoms can be further aggravated by improper lighting conditions (i.e. bright overhead lighting or glare) or air moving past the eyes (e.g. overhead vents, direct air from a fan).</p> <p> <br /><em>“EyeDefender can also help you prevent other problems related to computer use, which require a computer user to take short breaks. These problems include Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) or Occupational Overuse Syndrome (OOS), also known in the USA as Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) and in Europe - Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSD).”</em></p> <br /> <p>EyeDefender runs automatically in the system tray and guides a computer user to take a break, when it’s really needed to protect your eyes from CVS.</p> <br />I think EyeDefender is very useful software because nowadays many hardcore computer users (including me) often face these problems, though EyeDefender is only available for Windows based PCs. <div class="blogger-post-footer"> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr /> <a href="http://technoenigma.blogspot.com">Techno Enigma</a></div>Snehasis Patrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15518791023809004877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4612725525435419098.post-5412973561166320822008-08-21T03:20:00.001+05:302008-08-21T03:29:10.628+05:30DevalVR - view 3D Interactive Virtual Reality Panoramas<br /><img title="" height="226" alt="" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/snehasis.patra/SKyTosdc-2I/AAAAAAAAA7g/uDzF6t-cEAU/DevalVR%5B19%5D.gif?imgmax=800" width="350" border="0" /> <div class="blogger-post-footer"> </div> <p></p> <a title="DevalVR homepage" href="http://www.devalvr.com/" target="_blank">DevalVR</a> is a browser plugin for <a title="QuickTime_VR wiki" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTime_VR" target="_blank">QuickTime Virtual Reality</a> (QTVR) files. <p>DevalVR features high quality viewing capabilities for panoramas in JPEG or QTVR format.</p> <p></p> <br /> <p>After installing the plugin view the above animated preview in its original <a href="http://www.devalvr.com/paginas/soporte/clickablevideo.html" target="_blank">3D interactive</a> format.</p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr /> <a href="http://technoenigma.blogspot.com">Techno Enigma</a></div>Snehasis Patrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15518791023809004877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4612725525435419098.post-70586451434599494732008-08-20T20:16:00.001+05:302008-08-20T20:23:24.867+05:30GrandCentral – One number to ring all your phones<br /> <p><img title="" height="49" alt="" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/snehasis.patra/SKwuIPSMyLI/AAAAAAAAA7Q/5cV-E41XUA4/GrandCentral3.gif?imgmax=800" width="200" /></p> <br /> <p><em>“GrandCentral: The New Way To Use Your Phones”</em></p> <br /> <p><a title="GrandCentral homepage" href="http://www.grandcentral.com" target="_blank">GrandCentral</a> is a free service which allows it’s users to use a single number (GrandCentral no.) to route all the incoming calls to an user specified list of phone numbers. The user can specify these phone numbers depending on callers, time of day or personalized contact groups.</p> <br /> <p>  </p> <strong><u></u></strong> <p><img title="GrandCentral_Groups" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="193" alt="GrandCentral_Groups" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/snehasis.patra/SKwuNwjrw6I/AAAAAAAAA7U/7kVXqjdVZGk/GrandCentral_Groups%5B18%5D.gif?imgmax=800" width="452" border="0" /> </p> <br /> <h3>Main Features of GrandCentral</h3> <br /> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="448" border="2"><tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="149"><strong>Control <br /></strong>Your phones through the web <br /></td> <td valign="top" width="149"><strong>Personalize <br /></strong>How to treat your callers<strong> </strong></td> <td valign="top" width="149"><strong>Explore <br /></strong>New ways to use your phones</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="149"> <p><b><a href="http://www.grandcentral.com/howitworks/screening" target="_blank">Screen Callers</a></b> <br />Know who's calling and screen unknown callers </p> </td> <td valign="top" width="149"> <p><b><a href="http://www.grandcentral.com/howitworks/forwarding_phones" target="_blank">Ring Different Phones</a></b> <br />One number that rings different phones based on who's calling</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="149"> <p><b><a href="http://www.grandcentral.com/howitworks/webcall_button" target="_blank">WebCall Button</a></b> <br />Let people call you from a web page without showing your number </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="149"> <p><b><a href="http://www.grandcentral.com/howitworks/listenIn" target="_blank">ListenIn<sup>TM</sup></a></b> <br />Hear why someone is calling before taking the call</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="149"> <p><b><a href="http://www.grandcentral.com/howitworks/greetings" target="_blank">Greetings</a></b> <br />Personalize your voicemail greetings by caller or group</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="149"> <p><b><a href="http://www.grandcentral.com/howitworks/callswitch" target="_blank">CallSwitch</a></b> <br />Switch phones in the middle of a call </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="149"> <p><b><a href="http://www.grandcentral.com/howitworks/call_record" target="_blank">Call Record</a></b> <br />Record calls on the fly and access recordings online </p> </td> <td valign="top" width="149"> <p><b><a href="http://www.grandcentral.com/howitworks/ringshare" target="_blank">RingShare<sup>TM</sup></a></b> <br />Go beyond the ring and choose ringback tones for your callers </p> </td> <td valign="top" width="149"> <p><b><a href="http://www.grandcentral.com/howitworks/click2call" target="_blank">Click2Call</a></b> <br />Call from your addressbook and save your typing </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="149"> <p><b><a href="http://www.grandcentral.com/howitworks/spam_and_blocked" target="_blank">Block Callers</a></b> <br />Unwanted callers won't be able to reach you anymore </p> </td> <td valign="top" width="149"> </td> <td valign="top" width="149"> <p><b><a href="http://www.grandcentral.com/howitworks/mobile_overvw" target="_blank">Mobile Access</a></b> <br />Visual voicemail for your mobile phone</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="149"> <p><b><a href="http://www.grandcentral.com/howitworks/notifications" target="_blank">Notifications</a></b> <br />Receive voicemail notifications via email or SMS </p> </td> <td valign="top" width="149"> </td> <td valign="top" width="149"> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <br /> <p></p> <p><strong><em>GrandCentral is in BETA and only available within US.</em></strong></p> You can use this <a href="http://www.grandcentral.com/signup/not_right_now" target="_blank">email notification</a> option to get notified when GrandCentral service is available in your country. <div class="blogger-post-footer"> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr /> <a href="http://technoenigma.blogspot.com">Techno Enigma</a></div>Snehasis Patrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15518791023809004877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4612725525435419098.post-33094803802219923242008-08-20T00:36:00.002+05:302010-11-01T06:08:39.554+05:30Blue Screen of Death – get it on your PC<p> <img title="" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="340" alt="" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/snehasis.patra/SKse-9SVXHI/AAAAAAAAA7M/89uAJGuo_Ps/Windows_XP_BSoD_TE%5B16%5D.png?imgmax=800" width="452" border="0" /></p> <p>    </p> <p></p> <p>The famous <a title="BSoD wiki" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_screen_of_death" target="_blank">Blue Screen of Death</a> (BSoD) or STOP error is a critical system error, which prevents your PC to boot into Windows and displays an error message like the above one.</p> <p></p> <p><strong>Now you can get this error as a screen saver and use it to amaze your friends and scare your enemies!</strong></p> <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897558.aspx" target="_blank"><em></em></a> <p></p> <p><a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897558.aspx" target="_blank">Get BSoD</a></p> <p><a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897558.aspx" target="_blank"><em></em></a></p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr /> <a href="http://technoenigma.blogspot.com">Techno Enigma</a></div>Snehasis Patrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15518791023809004877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4612725525435419098.post-53350889448233278192008-08-18T15:51:00.001+05:302008-08-18T17:20:31.284+05:30Twitter – What are you doing?<br /> <p><img title="Twitter" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="49" alt="Twitter" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/snehasis.patra/SKlNJeWRNRI/AAAAAAAAA6I/AQHLNKSUW6E/Twitter%5B13%5D.png?imgmax=800" width="210" border="0" /> </p> <br /> <p><a title="Twitter homepage" href="http://twitter.com" target="_blank">Twitter</a> a free social networking service that asks only one simple question “What are you doing now?” and allows it’s users to post updates or tweets as answer. These tweets are displayed on user’s profile page. Users can receive another users tweets by following them. These tweets can be delivered via <a href="http://twitter.com" target="_blank">twitter</a> website, IM, RSS, e-mail, SMS. Several other applications such as <a title="Twitteroo for Windows" href="http://rareedge.com/twitteroo/blog/" target="_blank">Twitteroo</a>, <a title="Twitbin FireFox extension" href="http://www.twitbin.com/" target="_blank">Twitbin</a>, <a title="Twitterrific for MAC" href="http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific/" target="_blank">Twitterrific</a>, <a title="Twitter Widget for mobile" href="http://www.widsets.com/twitter" target="_blank">Twitter Widget</a>, <a title="twitter for Facebook" href="http://apps.facebook.com/twitter/" target="_blank">twitter</a> for <a href="http://www.facebook.com" target="_blank">Facebook</a> etc offers twitter service on various platforms.</p> <br /> <br /> <p><strong>So why are you waiting?</strong></p> <br />Start using <a title="Start tweeting" href="http://twitter.com" target="_blank">twitter</a> and let the world know what are you doing now… <div class="blogger-post-footer"> </div> <a title="View my tweets" href="http://twitter.com/Snehasis" target="_blank"><img title="My_tweets" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="34" alt="My_tweets" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/snehasis.patra/SKlgC_QlMgI/AAAAAAAAA6M/169Evwzmkug/My_tweets%5B5%5D.png?imgmax=800" width="83" border="0" /></a> <div class="blogger-post-footer"> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr /> <a href="http://technoenigma.blogspot.com">Techno Enigma</a></div>Snehasis Patrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15518791023809004877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4612725525435419098.post-43222259034637599992008-08-17T22:13:00.001+05:302008-08-17T23:41:31.086+05:30PookMail.com - disposable email account for Easy and Anonymous e-mail<br /><img title="PookMail.com" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="115" alt="PookMail.com" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/snehasis.patra/SKhXEnNHYPI/AAAAAAAAA5k/dHSapGycO1Q/PookMail.com%5B17%5D.png?imgmax=800" width="358" border="0" />        <br /> <br /> <p><a title="Visit PookMail.com" href="http://www.pookmail.com" target="_blank">PookMail.com</a> provides free and anonymous disposable email service.</p> <p>Where anyone can create an email account @pookmail.com (e.g. xyz@pookmail.com) and then use it to receive emails and reply to received emails. User cannot send an email from his PookMail.com account to any email address or cannot compose new emails to be sent. I think this is done to stop PookMail.com users to spam or abuse PookMail.com services. Users just have to enter their username to log in or create a new account at PookMail.com (<em>i.e. No password protection</em>). You can receive your PookMail.com emails directly to your desktop via RSS feed.</p> <br /> <p></p> i.e. <p><a title="PookMail Rss feed format" href="http://www.pookmail.com/rss/email_account.xml" target="_blank">http://www.pookmail.com/rss/email_account.xml</a> </p> <p></p> <br /> <p>PookMail.com is like a disposable inbox because your account will deleted after 24 hours with all stored emails. So you must save important emails before that time.</p> <br /> <br /> <p><strong>So why use PookMail.com?</strong></p> <br /> <p>PookMail.com service is quite useful when you have to give your email id you unknown persons or web sites whom you don’t trust for spam or other reasons.</p> <h3></h3><div class="blogger-post-footer"> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr /> <a href="http://technoenigma.blogspot.com">Techno Enigma</a></div>Snehasis Patrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15518791023809004877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4612725525435419098.post-46790205651825805912008-08-16T23:02:00.001+05:302008-08-17T23:29:45.342+05:30Windows 7 is going to be the successor of Vista<br /> <p><img title="win7desktop" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="340" alt="win7desktop" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/snehasis.patra/SKcPOYGS_cI/AAAAAAAAA5c/xEfSK-C8IVo/win7desktop%5B10%5D.png?imgmax=800" width="452" border="0" /> </p> <br /> <br /> <p></p> <p></p> <p><a title="Windows 7 wiki" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7" target="_blank">Windows 7</a> code named <b>Blackcomb</b> and later <strong>Vienna </strong>is the next version of Windows as the successor to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista" target="_blank">Windows Vista</a>.<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7#cite_note-1"></a></sup></p> <br /> <p></p> <p></p> <p>Windows 7 is expected to be released late 2009 or near January 2010. A server variant, code named <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Server_7" target="_blank">Windows Server 7</a>, is also under development.</p> <p> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr /> <a href="http://technoenigma.blogspot.com">Techno Enigma</a></div>Snehasis Patrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15518791023809004877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4612725525435419098.post-43533633178772119952008-08-16T05:05:00.002+05:302008-08-25T10:52:14.414+05:30BitThief – cheat BitTorrent, Steal Every Bit without uploading<br /> <p><img title="bittorrent_BitThief" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="314" alt="bittorrent_BitThief" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/snehasis.patra/SKYSppLOWUI/AAAAAAAAA5Y/3EbG1WSzBss/bittorrent_BitThief%5B17%5D.png?imgmax=800" width="433" border="0" /> </p> <br /> <br /> <p></p> <p><a title="BitThief homepage" href="http://dcg.ethz.ch/projects/bitthief/" target="_blank">BitThief</a> is a BitTorrent client developed by Distributed Computing Group at ETH Zurich, it offers torrent downloads without uploading (seeding). Its simply cheats the BitTorrent protocol, allowing it's users to download like a selfish giant. You may get better download speed with BitThief on well seeded torrents and slow internet connection (you will be able to use your full bandwidth for download), though just imagine if everybody starts using BitThief then the torrent itself will be dead.</p> <br /> <p>BitThief poses a great threat to BitTorrent Peer 2 Peer (P2P) file sharing and can be considered as a torrent leeching client software. The point raised by the developers of BitThief is <em>“We argue that the </em><a title="BitTorrent" href="http://www.bittorrent.com/" target="_blank"><em>BitTorrent</em></a><em> protocol has to be modified in order to effectively prevent selfishness.”</em> </p> <br /> <p><a title="BitTyrant" href="http://bittyrant.cs.washington.edu/" target="_blank">BitTyrant</a> another torrent client similar to BitThief, though BitTyrant do seed, but only to the peers having high upload speeds. <br /> <br /><strong><a title="Download BitThief" href="http://dcg.ethz.ch/projects/bitthief/download.php" target="_blank"><em>Download BitThief</em></a></strong> </p> <br /> <p>To use BitThief you must have Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed, because BitThief is Cross-platform and written in Java.</p> <br /> <p><em>Get latest version of </em><a title="JRE Download Page" href="http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp" target="_blank"><em>Java Runtime Environment (JRE)</em></a><em>.</em></p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr /> <a href="http://technoenigma.blogspot.com">Techno Enigma</a></div>Snehasis Patrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15518791023809004877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4612725525435419098.post-90446739895123903662008-08-05T10:36:00.001+05:302008-08-17T10:46:24.806+05:30ZSoft Uninstaller - Uninstall programs with ease<p><img title="ZSoft_Splash" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="196" alt="ZSoft_Splash" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/snehasis.patra/SJff4KUrtZI/AAAAAAAAA4U/bO0qtftqNGE/ZSoft_Splash%5B11%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="324" border="0" />  </p> <p></p> <p>Do you ever faced, that you’re unable to uninstall certain programs from Windows Add or Remove Programs options? Or you have uninstalled the program though it’s uninstall entry is still present in Add or Remove Programs.</p> <p>The main causes of these errors are damaged installations or software bugs in the programs.</p> <p></p> <p>Many of us have faced these problems. There is one easy solution available to this problem, ZSoft Uninstaller allows you to easily uninstall programs and works as an alternative to Windows Add or Remove Programs option. You can also delete left over uninstall entries using this program. </p> <p></p> <p>If you are unable to uninstall a program, then just manually delete the files of that program from your HDD (generally from C:\Program Files) and then use Zsoft Uninstaller to remove the uninstall entry.</p> <p></p> <br /> <p></p> <br /> <p><strong><u>The main features or ZSoft Uninstaller are following:</u></strong></p> <br /> <p></p> <li>Search (search the list of installed software) </li> <li>Delete entry's from programs that is no longer installed </li> <li>Automatically find entry's from programs that are most likely already uninstalled </li> <li>Hide entries from the list that you are never going to uninstall (Windows updates etc.) making the list smaller and therefore easier to manage. </li> <li>Automatically find entry's that are considered "crap-ware" </li> <li>Export the current list to a TXT file </li> <li>Show more information than available though add/remove </li> <li>Find and delete temporary files </li> <li>Analyse an installation so it can be completely uninstalled <p></p> <p> </p> <p><a title="ZSoft Uninstaller" href="http://www.zsoft.dk/index/software_details/4" target="_blank"><em>Click here</em></a><em> to download ZSoft Unistaller for free. </em></p> <p> </p> <p><a title="ZSoft Homepage" href="http://www.zsoft.dk" target="_blank"><em>Click here</em></a><em> to view ZSoft homepage (incase the above link changed/dead or you want to try other programs from ZSoft).</em></p> <p></p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"> </div> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> </li> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr /> <a href="http://technoenigma.blogspot.com">Techno Enigma</a></div>Snehasis Patrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15518791023809004877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4612725525435419098.post-72547892737309448362008-08-02T02:06:00.001+05:302008-08-17T23:47:40.155+05:30.kkrieger the 96K free first person shooter game<strong><img title=".kkrieger screenshot" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="317" alt=".kkrieger screenshot" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/snehasis.patra/SJNzwFarFqI/AAAAAAAAA28/o_iJGx7PfmE/full1%5B13%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="446" border="0" /></strong>  <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p><strong>.kkrieger</strong> is just <strong>96KB</strong> in file size, though its a good and free alternative to other first person shooter games like Serious Sam which eats lots of MBs of your hard disk space. But you still need a good graphics card with at least pixel shaders 1.3 and 128 MB VRAM, 512MB or more RAM, 1.5Ghz Pentium3/Athlon or faster processor, DirectX 9.0b.</p> <p></p> <p><a title=".kkrieger home page" href="http://www.theprodukkt.com/kkrieger" target="_blank">Click here</a> to download .kkrieger and play it yourself.</p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr /> <a href="http://technoenigma.blogspot.com">Techno Enigma</a></div>Snehasis Patrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15518791023809004877noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4612725525435419098.post-89290226699776073522008-07-31T17:44:00.001+05:302008-08-02T17:12:40.384+05:30Windows hibernation facts<p></p> <p>Many of us are unaware that Microsoft Windows has a option called hibernation. This allows you to save your current working session without closing a running program or file. Then you can resume that session anytime when you start your PC. It’s somewhat like the stand by mode of Windows. Though stand by mode requires power, so we can’t unplug the PC from power because doing so may result in data loss and the user will not be able to resume the session. Hibernation doesn’t require any power and uses the hard disk drive to store entire RAM contents. So how much disk space will hibernation eat depends on the size of RAM you have. Generally hibernation is faster than regular shut down and start up.  </p> <p>In Windows XP <strong>hibernation is hidden</strong> and can be enabled by the following process:</p> <p></p> <p><strong>Right click on your desktop->click Properties->Screen Saver->Power->Hibernate->tick Enable hibernation->Apply.</strong></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>Now after enabling hibernation to hibernate instead of regular shutdown, press the Shift key when the Turn off computer option appears on screen.</p> <p></p> <p><img title="Hibernate" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="200" alt="Hibernate" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/snehasis.patra/SJPjgk0F_sI/AAAAAAAAA3A/D2yGOAus3bc/Hibernate%5B1%5D.png?imgmax=800" width="315" border="0" /></p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr /> <a href="http://technoenigma.blogspot.com">Techno Enigma</a></div>Snehasis Patrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15518791023809004877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4612725525435419098.post-28922120555450478252008-07-28T08:32:00.001+05:302008-08-02T17:38:17.662+05:30Beijing Olympic 2008 goes Hi-Tech<p align="center"><img title="Olympic 2008" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="215" alt="Olympic 2008" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/snehasis.patra/SI020TQ8W8I/AAAAAAAAA2A/sa4rDh9GpAc/Olympic%202008%5B4%5D.png?imgmax=800" width="174" border="0" /></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>Beijing Olympic 2008 will use latest cutting edge technology for athletes, visitors, surveillance and broadcasting. The whole event will be produced and broadcasted in high-definition television with support from Panasonic. Also the <a title="Live Webcast" href="http://www.sohu.com/" target="_blank">live broadcast</a> will be available on internet and text alerts and video feeds are available for mobile users. Those who miss the action don’t have to wait for repeat telecast; they can easily watch it on online video sites like <a title="Visit YouTube" href="http://www.youtube.com" target="_blank">YouTube</a>. The use of Wi-Fi and other wireless technologies has broadened the surveillance network. Also China will offer 3G services during Olympics, though it will be only for Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games (BOCOG) affiliated persons who got one of the 15,000 handsets of Samsung, which Samsung (one of the sponsor of the game) gave to BOCOG and so international 3G handset users will not be able to use their handsets in Beijing. The official web <a title="Beijing 2008 Official site" href="http://en.beijing2008.cn" target="_blank">site</a> of Beijing Olympic 2008 has an IPv6 version of the <a title="Beijing 2008 IPv6" href="http://en.beijing2008.cn/ipv6/" target="_blank">site.</a></p> <p></p> sources: <a title="View Article" href="http://www.computerworld.com.sg/ShowPage.aspx?pagetype=2&articleid=8180&pubid=3&tab=Home&issueid=128" target="_blank">Computerworld</a> ,<a title="View Wiki" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Summer_Olympics" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>. <div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr /> <a href="http://technoenigma.blogspot.com">Techno Enigma</a></div>Snehasis Patrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15518791023809004877noreply@blogger.com0