Archive for August, 2007

Playing with the CAM

Took some time off to visit a place in river side… Took some snaps also…. Lets share them with world… the place from where I am posting has only a Narrowband Dial up, so No better of bigger size can be posted at this point of the time…

 

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Free Download 180 days Trial Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2

Microsoft offers free trial download of Their mnost softwares, one of that is highly powerful server system Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2

Its a 2 CD OS, you ma download 180 days of Trail for x86 and x64, all you have to do is registrar and download your Copy from Microsoft free of Charge to give the Full version of these OS a trial run….

Download the ISO Installation CDs

Register to Obtain CD Key

Good bye AutoPatcher

Microsoft Finally shuts the door on AutoPatcher Project which was backed by neowin.net…. Details are yet to come, one may check out the official page for AutoPatcher ….

AutoPatcher.com

Bad and trully sad news for those who are in Narrow Band Connection…. !!!

Installing 2nd IDE drive as Master / Slave Configuration using jumpers

Some time I see people asking for solution how to install 2nd IDE driver under one channel ?? It could be a 2nd Hard Disk or a 2nd Optical drive as Writer of ROM….

Here is a Basic Guide for that…

You need to open up your desktop cabinet, locate your IDE Cable… You IDE cable (Standard one) would look like this,

IDE Cable

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Windows / Server ( XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008) x64 Editions

Many will notice that, when you look in to an Modern OS like Windows XP and later, or any new versions of Linux, you may see there are 2 version on each, as x86 (32 bit) and x64 (64 bit). Many may wounder, what really these 2 are and which one to go for ?

I will try to explain a little, from an END user point a view, that why would one need Windows x64 or what change you may see from Windows x86 to Windows x64 as from an end user.

The 1st x64 end user processor came from AMD on 2003 as in Optron field, quickly followed in desktop range of their Athlon series as the brand name of AMD64. Intel Matched AMD in 2004 by their new Pentium 4 with their version of 64 architecture naming EM64T.

You may read more about the new Architecture of these products from these bellow links,

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Play with Widgets - Real time Local Weather Information on you Desktop

Weather Widgets 

WeatherBug

If You are using Windows Vista with Side Bar enabled, this is one of the must have Widgets… It will allow you to view your local weather information right on your Desktop….

WeatherBug Widget 

The best thing is this one will receive data from 2800 Live feed back station all over all word… So even I am in Kolkata, India, I can find a Weather hot spot from which its taking live feed back is just 6KM way from my home… So data is very very much accurate and also the weather predication shown tooo….

The setup for WeatherBug Widget is very simple, just inputting the asked details about you place, like if you are in US / UK / Canada, just input the zip code else if like me in a country other than those (for me Indian) so, City and Country name, like for me, Calcutta, India, and then just selecting the available nearest weather feed back Center….

WeatherBug Setup 

Though you will need constant Internet connection to keep the widget running with lastest feeds…. 

GPhone / The Google Phone to be in India by September 2007 ??

 Google

One of the Business daily quite sources in side the major service providers in India like Bharti (AirTel) / Hutch (Vodafone) and BSNL than Google is having talks to lounch the phone as bundled with their connections… Details was not revealed also no official announcement either, how ever you may read more on the news here at from the source I am quoting the news…

Business World and also here at the Information Weak

Windows Vista Widget to Change wallpaper automatically

This is one cool Widget of Windows Vista, ads one native option without any other 3rd party application to change your wallpaper automatically in specified time to time basis…


Desktop Wallpaper

Click to download the Widgets to install that in to your Windows Vista system…. After you install it should appear under Windows Vista side bar…

Widget Config Button

Now click on the Config button to launch the Configuration utility… There you can specify the time interval under which you want your Desktop wall paper to get changed, and most important you can specify your wallpaper folder too… 

Configuration utility of the Desktop wallpaper Widget

Have fun !!! 

Windows Vista Hidden Boot Screen

Windows Vista comes with some hidden goodies, one of them is one Hidden Boot Screen. Lets try and enable that one,

How to Enable the Hidden boot Screen under Windows Vista ???

Type “msconfig” in the search box of Start Menu. When the configuration window opens navigate to the “Boot” tab, and then enable option, “No GUI boot” under it…

and now when next time you reboot you should see this bellow as your Boot Screen….

Now problem though at every start you may receive warning message that, “System configuration is currently in Diagnostic or Selective Startup mode. To start Windows normally and undo the changes you made, select Normal Startup mode on the General tab and restart your computer“…..

How to Over Clock / Basic Over Clocking Guide for Core 2 Duo

If you Google you may find many better in detailed guide on Over Clocking, therefore I would just try to list the Very Basic Over Clocking tips which will help to get going…

What will you need ??

1. Hardware setup
2. Softwares for the process

Hardware Setup

This guide will cover mainlly Intel Processors… Basically Intel Core based ones, such as,

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Where to buy Windows Locally ??

We see when buying Branded Laptop or Desktop windows comes pre-installed, but in India Maximum of Computers (desktop) sold are assembled ones….

Most of the time these systems comes with Pirated Windows and Office System… while using Internet users gets the unfortunate information that their version of Windows is a non genuine one… Many ignore but some do care and think of buying one Genuine Windows…

Where to Get Genuine Microsoft Software in India ??

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Change the Default Save File Format on MS Office 2007

When you save a document under Microsoft Office by default MS Office 2007 applications uses a new file format to save the file, for example

Microsoft Word 2007 will use new file format .docx
Microsoft Excel 2007 will use new file format .xlsx
Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 will use new File format .pptx

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Open MS Office 2007 Documents in Older Version of MS Office

Microsoft office compatibility Pack is one of the Must install if you are running Microsoft Office Pririor to MS Office 2007.

The Office 2007 application such as Word, Excle, PowerPoint, will no more than use the Older File Extention like .doc for Word, in fact the new Word 2007 uses .docx as its Default format…

So even if you dont have any thing to do with MS Office 2007 but your clients of contacts may use the new office now when they save a file ex. in Word 2007, they will find file saved as Default format .docx, so when you receive such file this free update will allow your older Office setup, like Office 2000, Office XP and 2003 to access those files and open them for you…

Download the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats.

How to make 700 MB or 1.4 GB (1 CD or 2 CD) DVD RiP


I have seen many people asking this in many forums over and over, how to back up the DVDs by making Smaller DVD rips ??

Its pretty simple though, one may archive great quality DVD RIPs with available free tools. I would try to list a tutorial on it from start to end how to do it…

Software Requirements ??

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Transformers… The Movie…

I never Consider my self as a Critic of movies, it will be a very small preview of the movie what I felt…

My friends called up today for the movie, Rs. 60/- for the movie and 0/- on the food …lol…

So What I Felt ??

Its certainly worth the money to watch the action…
The story is certain one which is a big let down…

but for guys like us, who are really busy with either study or work presure, its a break one should take….

 

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