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MAKE YOUR COMPUTER SOUNDS LYK A TYPEWRITER



Remeber those old Typewriters, they make sound everytime when you press any key. So here is a small program KCLICK that will certainly make typing a fun and its very appeling to typewriter users.

If KClick is active and you're using the keyboard to edit documents, each time you press a key you will hear a sound. Actually there are 5 soundsOne of them sounds like a typewriter, others sound like organizer beeps.

The main window contains a checkbox (to turn your sounds on) and a test edit box. Clicking in the circles (check boxes) to the left of the sound choices will let you hear those sounds. To use your sound, click the Active checkbox to enable the keyboard click.

You can download it free. Here is link for downloading kclick free.. have fun..

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SPYPIG - GET A NOTIFICATION WHEN PEOPLE READ YOUR EMAIL



Have you ever wondered that whether your friend read your mail or not? He/she is not replying or didnt see your mail. Wheteher your important mail reach to its destination. If yes then here is Spypig for you.

Spypig is a cool email tracking system that sends you a notification mail whenever recipient read your mail.

Its very simple to use just follow these steps:

1). Open www.spypig.com .

2). Here enter your Email id and message title.

3). It provides special image which contains tracking code, select 1 of the image provided. If you dont want that your recipient know about this tracking then select blank (white) image provided
there.

4). Select no of notifications you want and then press activate.

5). Now it will generate an image copy that image in your mail.

6). Send it.
Its done.

Now whenever your recipient open that mail you will got a notification email.

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MAKE A FOLDER NAMED "CON" OR "PRN" - COOL COMPUTER TRICKS



Do you know that you cant make a folder named as "con" or "prn". If u dnt believe then try to rename a folder give its new name con. It will give error that 'Specified Device name is invalid'. There are many words like con. Some of are them PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1
COM2,COM3, COM4, COM5,COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2,
 LPT3, LPT4,LPT5, LPT6,LPT7, LPT8, LPT9.
These words are windows inbuilt reserved device names. so we cant use them.

But here I provide you a trick by which you can name a folder by any of the above specified names, So go n challenge your friends and prove your superiority..

Here is solution, follow these steps:

1) Open Command Prompt (Type cmd in Run).
2) Type md \\.\d:\con to create a con folder in d drive, You can replace d with any drive .
Its done.




Now for deleting it Type
rd \\.\d:\con

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ACCESS YOUR FOLDERS AS DRIVES - COOL COMPUTER TRICKS



You can create Virtual Drives in your Computer. Now you can access your Favorite Folders as a drive in My Computer.
Just Do The Follwing :
1) Start >> Run

2) Type cmd and hit Enter.
This will open Command Prompt.
3) Type subst Z: E:\picture and hit Enter key.
Here Z: is your desired New Drive Letter (Do not use existing Drive letters) and E:\picture is path of your favorite folder.
4) Now, type exit.
Its done.
This will create a new drive ! When you open this , it will open your folder !!!

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USE KEYBOARD SHORTCUT TO SAFELY REMOVE HARDWARE (PENDRIVES)





If you use pendrives frequently and find bit typical to click on the task bar and then safely remove the pendrive then here is a trick for you to create a shortcut for safely removal of pendrives. Just follow given steps:

1). Right click on desktop, Go to new -> shortcut..
2). In Create shortcut window, Type RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll.

3). Click next and then .
shortcut is created.
Now you can use this shortcut to remove pendrive or you can assign a shortcut key to it.
For assigning shortcut key,
1). Right click on shortcut icon.
2). Select properties.
3). In properties window, click on shortcut tab.
4). Assign a shortcut key to it(it will take clrt + alt by default)eg: if you press A shortcut will be ctrl+alt+A.

5). Click ok.

Its done.
Now you can use your keyboard shortcut key to safely remove your pendrives.

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QUICKLY SWITCH BETWEEN GOOGLE ACCOUNTS



If you have multiple Google accounts—a Gmail with Google Apps account and a regular Gmail account, for example—streamline them with this script for Firefox with Greasemonkey. The script adds a “change user” drop-down bar in place of the “sign out” link.

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MAKE FOLDER OR FILE WITHOUT A NAME - COOL COMPUTER TRICKS

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Do you know how to make a folder without a name? is it possible? Yes it is possible you can make a folder or a file without any name. Just try this

1). Click the folder or file which you want to have no name.
2). Right click on it and then click rename and delete the old name.
3). Press ALT button from your keyboard and type 0160(holding alt) after that press enter. Note that while you will type 0160 it will not appear, but continue typing and press enter.. thats it.

Its Done.

Make sure that you are using the number pad, using just the row of numbers above the qwerty doesn’t work. For a laptop, if you dnt have number pad then check and see if there’s a pseudo-numpad that uses the fn key. then you can just hold down the fn and alt at the same time while typing in 0160.

For deleting this folder you have to rename it by using command prompt. rememver dont use space use alt+0160 as current file name.

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CHAT IN HINDI IN GOOGLE TALK + MORE LANGUAGE OPTIONS





Do you want to chat with your friends in hindi ??? or want to set your tagline in hindi???if yes then now you can do it easily. Google released Chat bots to translate English into Hindi. So now you can send text in Hindi to your friends during chats. For this you have to add google transaltion bot to your friend list. just follow this..

1) Send friend request to en2hi@bot.talk.google.com .
2) You will have a new buddy added as en2hi@bot.talk.google.com, Start Chat with it.
3) Type anything in English and it will translate it into Hindi and reply.


so you can copy the text from this window and can paste it anywhere...in chat windows or even in your status message..

Even you can chat in any language by using different google bots. Here is list of bots for some popular languages

English to German  en2de@bot.talk.google.com .
English to Spanish  en2es@bot.talk.google.com .
English to Franch    en2fr@bot.talk.google.com .
English to Italian  en2it@bot.talk.google.com .
English to japanese  en2ja@bot.talk.google.com .
English to Russion  en2ru@bot.talk.google.com .
English to chinease  en2zh@bot.talk.google.com .

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FIND WHO IS INVISIBLE IN GMAIL CHAT (GTALK)

If you want to know that your particular friend is online and invisible or he/she is offline. Then here is an easy way to find this :

Open your gtalk application and type this email address of your friend in top search textbox
Click his/her profile, it opens in new chatting window.
Click on the down arrow button in the top right corner of the window, here ther is one option Go off the record, click on it.



And then leave any msseage to your friend.

If you get a red text showing the person is offline , can’t receive the message right now that means person is offline and if you dnt recieve such kind of any message then your friend is invisible

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GTALK CHAT SHORTCUT - COOL COMPUTER TRICKS



If you chat very frequently with one of your friend then now you can make gtalk chat shortcut on your desktop. It willl initiate a chat with only one click. On click it opens a chat window where you can chat with your friend. But unfortunately this trick works only in window xp nt in window vista.
Here are steps to follow:
1) Right click on your desktop and go to New > Shortcut.
2) In create shortcut window, type gtalk:chat?jid=username@gmail.com. Where username is gmail id of your friend.
3) Click ok.
Its done.
You can also make shortcut to call your friend for that you have to writegtalk:call?jid=username@gmail.com.

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CREATING KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS TO OPEN FILES, FOLDER OR BROWSER

You can create a keyboard shortcut that can automatically open a folder, a program or a word file or any application or browser through your keyboard even when you have other windows like Internet explorer, Office maximized. This is very simple trick and very usful save lots of time. Here are steps:

1). Create a shortcut of the folder / program / file on the desktop.
2). Right click the shortcut on the desktop, and then click Properties.
3). In the Properties dialog box, click the Shortcut tab.
4). Now in the Shortcut key textbox, enter a key combination for example CTRL+ALT+R or CTRL+SHIFT+R or whatever you like.


Its done.

Now when you hit the key combination just specified, the folder / program / file will open even if other program windows are maximized.

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PLAY FLV FILES IN WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER


Windows Media Player by default does not allow to play FLV (Flash Videos), after downloading YouTube videos you have to use either K-Lite pack or download other FLV Players to run Flash videos. But now no need to install other flv payers, now it is possible to play FLV files in windows media player. For that you need to install Windows Media Player plugin called PlayFLV.

PlayFLV is a windows media player plugin that enables WMP to playback FLV files. It has all default functions, such as zooming, skipping and full screen view, also its very easy to install and to operate. play FLV is open source, so freely available on internet you just need to download it.


Click here to download playFLV

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LOCK YOUR PC WITH USB DRIVE - COOL COMPUTER TRICKS

Here is a cool trick to lock your PC with USB drive. It can be done with the help of a free program called USB PC Lock Pro. It works on Windows only and needs to be installed on the computer and not on the USB flash drive.


USB PC Lock Pro Turns any USB Flash Drive into a key that prevents unauthorized people from using your computer. USB pc Lock will automatically lock your computer and perform other actions when you step away from it.

It Stops streaming media traffic, Mute audio and Start/Stop event logger. 

This program is freely available on internet. You can download it from anywhere and have to installed it on your computer. 

Click Here To download USB PC Lock Pro

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10 Cool Tricks with USB Flash Drive


Any ordinary USB memory device can do a lot more than you probably thought it could. It can carry programs, encryption and even a full installation of Windows XP! Here is our tenlist for the coolest things you can do with a USB thumb drive:

Take your programs with you


We all know how frustrating it is when we take your files to another computer just to discover that the software required to read the files is not installed.
Here’s the simplest solution – take your programs with you – on your USB thumb drive. Here’s how to do it with Portable Apps:
1. Go to the Portable Apps website and download the installer, choosing the software you want to carry along.
2. Run the installer and install the software to the root of your USB thumb drive.
And you’re done! As soon as you connect your thumb drive into a computer, Portable Apps will open up automatically.
Surf anonymously

With Portable Apps and Firefox, you can surf the web without leaving any trace on the computer you are using. If you want extra security, install a Firefox security plugin such as FoxyProxy. To iput Firefox onto the drive, just copy-paste the Firefox folder from you computer, or install Firefox onto the thumb drive.


Set a program to run automatically (autorun)

Using autorun, you can set a program to start up automatically when you connect the drive to a computer. You can also use the same script for a data CD-ROM. Note that some computers have autorun disabled for security purposes. [Here's how to disable autorun.]
Open up notepad and paste the following script:
[autorun]
ShellExecute=filename
Label=description
UseAutoPlay=1
Make sure you replace filename with the full path to the file. For example, a file called program.exe in a folder called “programs” on the thumb drive would be /programs/program.exe
Replace description with a short description of the program, for example, My Jukebox or Mozilla Firefox.
Save the file as autorun.inf, making sure you select “All Programs” from the save menu, not “Text document”!


Help! I’m lost!

Ever lost a USB drive? Even if you haven’t, there’s a pretty good chance you’ll lose a few during your life. And with all the important information on it, it could be a disaster to have it fall into someone’s hands.
A good idea is to encrypt all the information on the drive, but you would still want it back, wouldn’t you? Luckily, the folks at the Daily Cup Of Tech have come up with a solution.



Save a program called “Help! I’m Lost!” on the drive, that a finder just can’t get around opening. The program opens a message box with your personal “I’m lost” message. It’s a good idea to offer the finder a bigger reward than the drive itself, so that they’ll be interested in contacting you.



Hide the drive inside something



Why not surprise your friends and co-workers by sticking something that looks like a broken USB cable into the computer’s USB drive?
You’ll be sure to get a few shocked faces when you start to play a movie from it.
The guys from Technobuzz.net show us how to do it. (You are gonna need an unbelievably small thumb drive for this…)


 
Secure your PC

Just like with an RFID badge, you can use a USB drive to lock and unlock a PC. Insert it to begin working and pull it out when you’ve finished, locking the computer. There are several programs for this . Rohos, a commercial program and WiKID, a semi-open source one.
If you really need to secure your computer with a USB drive, I suggest you give Rohos a try, as WiKID is rather complicated.


Portable jukebox

Don’t just carry the music with you, also carry the player! You can install audio programs such as WinAmp and CoolPlayer+ on your thumb drive. Just unextract the ZIP folders to the USB drive.
If you want the jukebox to start up automatically when you connect the memory stick to the computer, use the autorun feature shown tip 3 and point it to the exe of your audio player.

 
Encrypt your data

If you carry any sensitive indormation on your USB memory stick, a good idea is to encrypt it. Hardware-level encryption will help, but it will cost extra. You can get a free program to encrypt your data just as securely. For this I recommend TrueCrypt, but most others will also do.
You will need admin access on the computer you want to use your encrypted thumb drive on, so this it’s usability a little.



Run a standalone OS for dedicated tasks

The easiest OS to boot from a USB drive is probably Linux. There are many small capacity Linux versions out there that will fit on your drive. The best 3 are Puppy Linux, Damn Small Linux and Webconverger.
Make sure you select a version that needs less space than your USB drive’s maximum, so you have room for files and software.
And this leads us nicely to the final tip…

 
Run Windows itself from a USB thumb drive

Modifying Windows to work on a USB drive is quite difficult, but luckily there are some tools that will do it for us. Note that you will need a separate Windows license for this, as Microsoft only lets you use one for each single computer, and a USB drive is treated by them like a computer…
What you’ll need:

1. A licensed copy of Windows


2. A USB device, min. 1GB (We recommend a USB hard disk, as a flash memory stick will become unusable after 100000 writing processes. Assuming that only 2 processes are used per second, the drive will last only 60 days with 8 hours of work each day… A hard disk doesn’t have this problem.)
 
 
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