n00bbook - technology for n00bs: October 2010

Wednesday, October 13

Resetting all the themes of windows

Let’s go to the flashback while installing the windows, do you remember 1 thing? We are asked for the language, Time and currency. On this basis windows sets the wallpaper and install the themes according to the location we give. Example: If you choose US (United States) then you will get United States as the installed theme.

Now there is a simple way to get all the countries theme installed so that we can use them to randomly change our background besides sticking to 1 preset theme.

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GOD MODE IN WINDOWS 7

We can see that Windows 7 have done lots of change in its control panel. So it often becomes difficult for us to find all the options and applets that we might need at times. GodMode in Windows7 offers an easier way to get though everything you want from a single folder. This feature allows user to access all the operating systems control from a single folder. You can do everything from this single place. If it’s changing the mouse pointer or making a new hard drive partition. All can be done from here.

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Sunday, October 10

HOW TO INSTALL WINDOWS 7 FROM A USB DRIVE

The size of Windows 7 ISO file is about 2.24GB. So, Windows 7 has a bootable DVD but not a CD. And DVD drive is not always feasible at your place(or at times your DVD drive may not work). So the best alternative you have is to install Windows 7 from your USB drive. You need a 4GB pendrive for it.

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Friday, October 8

HOW TO CHANGE THE WINDOWS 7 LOGON SCREEN MANUALLY

sorry about the bad pixels. camera's battery was down, so had to take care of it via my Nokia 5530

Want a custom Windows 7 logon background like mine above? Piece of cake. You can keep any picture on your logon area. Interesting, isn't it? There are a lot of third party tools to do it already, but I am going to discuss on how to change your Windows 7 logon background manually.

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SAVE YOUR FACEBOOK CHAT HISTORY

Many times you might want to go back to the chat that you have had with someone from the beginning. But Facebook do not store the chat conversation. It might have disappointed you. This is surely annoying. The conversation remains only as long as you open the browser. As u end the current session the chat conversation is gone. Unluckily, there are no ways to retrieve back the chat history. Facebook also don’t have any plan to permit users to save the chat conversation in future.

Fortunately, Mozilla Firefox can help you here. This browser has an add-on which can store Facebook chat conversation. Till date only Firefox supports this feature. The name of the add-on is Facebook Chat History Manager. It integrates right into Facebook and captures the chat conversation. You have to be chatting by keeping the add-on enabled. You can see the chat history in both online and offline mode.

Here is the way to install the add-on.

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Thursday, October 7

ENJOY AN EASY CHAT EXPERIENCE ON FACEBOOK IN FIREFOX WITHOUT OPENING THE FACEBOOK SITE.

We all love Facebook chat. We can send instant messages to online friends on Facebook. But I do not like the chat bar being on the bottom of the page. What to do if still want to be chatting with my online friends even after I leave my Facebook. Now here is a solution if you use Mozilla Firefox for your Facebook. It supports Facebook Chat at the sidebar.

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Wednesday, October 6

CREATE A TOY BUG FROM COMPUTER SPARES

Hello! People. Got some old computer spares and useless stuffs in your home? Well instead of throwing away electric items lets turn them into something cool . What do you think?

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Tuesday, October 5

23 KILLER WINDOWS 7 SHORCUTS THAT NOBODY KNOWS ABOUT

Shortcuts make your life easy. Too bad there ain't shortcuts for a successful life. But we do have some killer shortcuts for Windows 7. So let us use what we have than contemplate on what we don't. Keyboard guys are gonna love this. Mouse guys are gonna love this too. Check these out.

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WHAT DO YOU THINK IS TECHNOLOGY?

Technology is called the knowledge and the use of mechanics and science. But this doesn't complete the meaning. Technology is a broad concept that includes information which deals how can an individual utilizes the available resources and tools for making something somehow control and become a part of his/her environment. We generally relate technology to engineering, computer and science but it is not totally correct way as technology can also involve in arts, agriculture, economic development, architecture and all other places that involve the use of machines and is becoming the part of the system and technique of organization.

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DOWNLOAD TORRENTS FROM YOUR PHONE??

Sounds interesting? Totally is. I always wanted to download my torrents when I am roaming around the city on my mobile phone(with various free Wi-Fi services of course). But that seemed to impossible until I found out these various ways to download torrents via mobile handsets.

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Monday, October 4

ADSL routing blues..

We can find most of the homes having ADSL as their internet connection. We always encounter a problem and that is many time due to misconfiguration of the ADSL router. So I was thinking why not we learn the basic configuration of the ADSL router ourselves. Then we don't need to get help from anybody.
So let’s see a tutorial on installing an ADSL router on a computer. For this you first need to get a userID and password which will be given to u by ADSL Company for accessing the internet from your home.

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Friday, October 1

FOURSQUARE : find where your friends are

As our hunger for social networking is growing everyday, Foursquare is just the perfect feed for us Social Networking Enthusiasts. So what you can basically do with this is check-in at locations you are in, so that your friends know exactly where you are at the moment. Sounds cool? IS cool!

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FINGERPRINT PENDRIVE : use your finger wisely

We get various types of pen drives(flash drives, or whatever-you-call-it drives). And they sure do not have the protection service from the data theft. This means you can easily lose the data from the flash drives, which may lead to loss of many of your important, sensitive and confidential data.

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SIXTH SENSE

From the early periods of time when computers used to cover the whole room, we have been seeing many mind blowing inventions. Now that when we come across the sixth sense technology it’ll surely make you super excited. The technology in which we do not need to carry heavy devices like computer, watch, camera, etc. We can take beautiful pictures of anything anytime that too with no use of camera. You can talk to your long distance friend without carrying a cell phone. We can see the time without the need of the watch. Everything you do is with the help of sixth sense. It is sixth sense technology that is making these all things possible.

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ANOTHER WINDOWS TRICK - DISPLAY YOUR NAME ON THE TASKBAR

Hey everyone. Ever wondered what you can do with windows? No, I’m not talking about windows of your house, I mean Microsoft Windows. Well I was just hanging around and you know what I’ve found crazy simple but 'don’t know about' it trick. And that is adding your text in your taskbar(the area where your clock resides). So here’s how you do it.

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