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Google Wave ! Features and Invitation
Google Wave is a real time communication & collaboration tool that is termed as the next evolution of email. It combines aspects of email, instant messaging, wikis, web chat, social networking, and project management to build one elegant, in-browser communication client. You can bring a group of friends or business partners together to discuss how your day has been or share files. A wave can be both a discussion and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps. Wave builds on the concept of cloud computing.
Assign Keyboard Shortcuts for Programs
Application can be assigned a shortcut key in Windows 7. The application would launch when the combo of keys is pressed which you entered as the Shortcut Key for that application.
Fwd mails from gmail to another email account automatically
Many Corporate channels have mail clients like Google,yahoo banned. You can check mails on such clients by using auto forward form those mail boxes. You can Fwd mails from gmail to another email account automatically
Extend the Windows 7 Trial from 30 to 120 Days
You can also extend the Windows 7 trial mode to 120 days, without requiring a key.The basic way this works is that at the end of the 30 days, you’ll need to run a small command and reboot your computer, at which point you’ll have 30 more days, up to a maximum of 120 days.You can extend Windows 7 trial period by a command prompt command: “slmgr –rearm”.
What do CTP, RC, RTM, RTW mean during Development
I always wanted to find the precise meaning of the acronyms Microsoft uses to refer to the stage of a product in the software release life cycle.
- Community Technology Preview/CTP
- Release Candidate/RC
- Released to Manufacturing/RTM
- Released to Web/RTW
- Fully Supported Out-of-Band release
- Service Pack/SP
How to disable restrict USB/Flash Drive in Windows 7
Recently one of my friend asked me how can a USB drive be disabled on a particular computer.So its a pretty much Registry Tweak to disable the access to USB port, in windows XP ,Vista and Windows 7.
H1N1 Influenza A: Symptoms & Precautions
Although I am deviating from scope of my Blog , but I believe since my blog is read by many of my freinds I wish to share Some info regarding H1N1.
- Measures to consider, particularly when you are in an area where flu is rampant in the community
- To reduce the spread of flu
- The symptoms of H1N1 swine flu
- You can refer these links for more Information
Yahoo Messenger 10 Beta Features
Yahoo’s popular instant messenger Yahoo Messenger version 10 Beta is available for download.A lot of changes have been included especially a greatly improved video chat and the social-oriented Yahoo Updates.Also Video call conversation support has been added to this version.Also there are lot of small changes and improvements added like sorting of Contacts according to activity or availability.You can control the types of updates you want to see in Updates Tab.Here you can manage all the updates from a particular user like Twitter updates,Personal Info updates etc.These updates would be popped up immediately on Right side Lower corner of your screen as soon as they are posted.
Windows 7 : Restoring your Computer
Restore Whenever you install application, or software update, you make changes to your System files. Sometimes that change may make your system unstable due to incompatibilities or conflicts amongst files of the newly installed program & older files.The system may also start not responding and you may start getting error messages like “application is not responding.Restart”In this situation you can use a feature of Windows “System Restore” to restore the original state of your Operating system.Every time you are about to do a major change in your OS it makes a check point prior to it.These check points are referred to as Restore points in Windows.System Restore which is very similar to an undo command takes your computer to any previous checkpoint and rollback the changes next to that checkpoint.However it does not affect your document files.
Backstage Concept in Office 2010
Office 2010 also replaces the old File menu with a new interface called Backstage. This view, which is triggered by clicking the application button, takes up the entire application window and represents the “behind the scenes” operations that you can perform on the currently loaded document.” It’s also the place where you can access application options and other items that were previously found in the File menu, including Print, another essential, or core, Office capability. (In Backstage parlance, the document content is considered “on stage.”)
Pop Up message when Windows Boots
When a user gets logon You might want to have a message pop up to display a Welcome message. This can be used to display Instructions,Company Policy,User related information,any alert,warning or anything you wish to do .
There’s an easy way to backup your blog.This link the last N number of posts from the blog.Instead of N, type the number of posts. If your blog has less than 1000 posts, you can save this page:http://blogname.blogspot.com/search?max-results=1000
this will have a single page which has all the posts (1000 in this case)….Simply save that page and your Posts Backup is there.
Windows 7 command prompt can be used with a clip utility that can used to copy the contents of the command prompt output into clipboard.It is very much similar like the way ‘tee’ command works in Unix.Tee command pipelines the output of a command in unix to another file.In Windows 7 we can use the ‘Clip’ utility to copy the text of command prompt.Adding clip next to any command copy the output.
Syntax for Clipping the Cmd prompt output : “Command | clip ” .You need to type the command followed by Clip in the Command prompt.
Create New instance of an Application in Windows 7 Super Taskbar
In windows 7 Taskbar instance of an application can easily be created by using Win + NumberKey. here number key signifies the position of the Application in the Taskbar.
Firefox : Add Bookmarks With a Single Click
Adding a bookmark in firefox is much easier now. Internet Geeks often maintain a good collection of favorites and they bookmark them regularly as well.In firefox Keeping track of the sites you like has gone better and time saving as well with one-click bookmarking.
Find Out How Healthy Your Battery is on Your Windows 7 Laptop
Its a well known fact that as the age of lithium battery increases its charging capacity decreases and it wont charge to its full potential as when it’s new. We can find out exactly how much the battery of laptop is giving now.We can use the powercfg -energy to find out how health your battery is.
Office 2010 : Take Screenshots from Word, Excel, PowerPoint inbuilt
Microsoft Office 2010 has a Built-In Screen Capture Tool through which screen shots of the currently open windows can be taken easily and attached in the document from where it is taken.Word, Excel & Powerpoint have the ‘Screenshot’ feature under ‘Insert’ & it snaps screen shots of the currently open windows for one-click insert. This screenshot may be saved for further use as well.
How to Install / Run Google Chrome OS on your Windows
Chrome OS was recently open sourced by Google. It has been compiled and is available at few websites as well. It can be installed and run on Windows using Virtualization softwares.The source code by self you can check out instructions at Chromium OS blog.Also softwares like Virtual Box or VMWare can be used to run an already compiled Chrome image installed in a VMDK (Virtual Machine Disk).
Encrypt USB drive using BitLocker
Since Windows Vista, Windows comes bundled with a security feature BitLocker, a hard drive encryption scheme designed to protect sensitive data from being accessed on lost or stolen computers mainly laptops.To protect important data stored on USB drives, Windows 7 features the encryptions scheme called BitLocker To Go. It allows USB drive encryption and restrict access to it with a password. During the encryption process, Windows 7 installs a special reader on the USB drive. When you connect the USB drive to a computer running XP or Vista, the BitLocker To Go Reader takes control, prompts for the password, and then basically makes the USB drive a read-only device.