How To Play FLV Files In Windows Media Player

Whenever we want to play FLV files then we have to use standalone Flash/FLV player application or simply FLV player since FLV files can't be played on windows media player.So if you are a windows media player die hard fan or user and still want to use media player as application to play FLV files then there is a Freeware plugin called PlayFLV that enables Windows Media Player to play FLV files.

PlayFLV Features
* Plugin that enables Windows Media Player to playback FLV files
* Features all default functions, such as zooming, skipping and full screen view
* Creates file association: Double-click FLV files to play them in Windows Media Player
* Very lightweight plugin
* Free and open source

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How to download full books from Google book in a single click

When we read or search books at Google Books then we found that it provides an easy way to search books and magazines that have been scanned by Google but there is a problem with that, the books and magazines can be viewed online but there is no direct way to download the whole book at the same time though it is possible to save the single page that is being displayed to the local computer but that would mean that it is available in html format with an extra folder for additional elements which is not really handy.

That can be very frustrating for user to save page by page foe downloading a whole book but now there is a better alternative for this.There is a software program Google Books Downloader that can be used to download parts or entire books in pdf format. The process requires some manual work on part of the user. Books and magazines are identified by an unique ID which is displayed in the address bar. That unique ID has to be copied and pasted into the software. Everything else is done automatically by the software. The program will scan all pages of the selected book or magazine and display all pages in its interface.

Each page can be selected for download separately which is useful if only selected parts of the book or magazine should be downloaded. The other option available is to download the full book or magazine right away to the local computer.

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Download Windows 7 beta,its activation key and activation patch

Today i found some windows 7 beta activation keys and i decided to share those keys with you.First of all i would like to inform you that even a activated windows 7 beta would remain in action only till aug 1st,2009 after that windows 7 beta will expire.But till that date these windows 7 beta activation keys will be useful for you.

J7PYM-6X6FJ-QRKYT-TW4KF-BY7H9
D67PP-QBKVV-6FWDJ-4K2XB-D4684
HQDKC-F3P6D-C9YYM-HRB89-QDBB7
76DX2-7YMCQ-K2WCP-672K2-BK44W
2RG93-6XVFJ-RKHQ7-D2RTT-3FMQT
TT63R-8JGWP-WWT97-R6WQC-4CVWY
YQJX6-D6TRM-VWBM7-PHDJK-YPXJH
Q7J7F-GQHBT-Q42RQ-2F8XV-2WKKM
KH4X7-JY8G7-RCD7G-BYDJW-YTPXH
WYBJ8-8QVP3-24R82-VV2VP-72Q9W
9DP2R-W78GJ-GJBKW-CKR46-H3WYT
CXB7F-WWCM4-BP9V3-2YH43-RK8Y6
W9BYV-K2TB8-4YDJT-QBQWP-KFDHB
WGDJW-B8DYC-WVKX4-6MKF4-B8PK8
2PHXF-9PBDW-D3WWY-CPDKD-XG87V
JYDV8-H8VXG-74RPT-6BJPB-X42V4
482XP-6J9WR-4JXT3-VBPP6-FQF4M
7XRCQ-RPY28-YY9P8-R6HD8-84GH3
D9RHV-JG8XC-C77H2-3YF6D-RYRJ9
RFFTV-J6K7W-MHBQJ-XYMMJ-Q8DCH

Some of these keys might not work but still some of them are working.Along with these there is a windows 7 activation patch that u can download here and here is how to use it.
1. Right click exe and choose Run as administrator
2. Wait for RED + BLACK screen to appear to finish completely
3. Reboot.
4. This works 100% when you use as instructed.

NOTE: GENUINE ACTIVATION needs to be run in SAFE MODE! Remove any previous cracks first!!!

Those who don't have windows 7 beta and want to download it.They can download the torrent of windows 7 beta by following links.

ISO for Windows 7 Beta 32-bit (English):
7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD.iso

ISO for Windows 7 Beta 64-bit (English):
7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULXFRE_EN_DVD.ISO

ISO for Windows 7 Beta 32-bit (German):
/7000.0.081212-1400_client_de-de_Ultimate-GB1CULFRE_DE_DVD.iso

ISO for Windows 7 Beta 64-bit (German):
7000.0.081212-1400_client_de-de_Ultimate-GB1CULXFRE_DE_DVD.iso

If you prefer torrent download then you can also download the torrent of windows 7 beta.

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Download Windows Media Player 12 ( WMP) of windows 7 for windows Vista

Officially Windows 7 will be launched with the next media player version 12.Till then no windows version or update will not contain windows media player version 12.But if you are a windows media player fan then you can download version 12 and run it on Windows Vista only.Its not available as a separate download but it had been extracted from Windows 7 builds and works on Vista.This does not work in XP but you are a geek u can modify it to run on xp.

You can download from here. Before installing this don't forget to create a restore point. So that if anything goes wrong you can access the previous settings like current version of Windows Media Player.

* Backup wmploc.dll from C:\Windows\System32
* Backup Windows Media Player folder from C:\Program Files
* copy wmploc.dll from downloaded files in C:\Windows\System32
* copy Windows Media Player folder from downloaded files to C:\Program Files

This has been taken from the Windows 7 build i.e. Windows Media Player 12.0.7000.7000 original files from Windows 7 Build 7000.

( via Devian Art)

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How to increase loudness, volume of mp3 ringtone, songs

Few days back i got a MP3 ring tone from my friend that was very nice but the problem was that it was not loud enough means that even when my phone volume was set to maximum level,this ring tone was not so loud that i can detect or feel its sound in crowdy place.Because of this some of my incoming calls remain unnoticed.So i think of increasing it loudness,for this i downloaded some tools from Internet like sony soundforge but since i don't know anything about sound editing and tools were highly complicated and having many many options so i failed many times and finally give up.

At that time i changed the ring tone and used a loud ring tone.But what would you do if you have any custom mp3 files or a file which has no replacement ? How would i increase the volume and make the mp3 file sound louder without much knowledge of sound editing?

"Where there is a will there is a way".I found Vloud which is an online service which does this job for you. All you need is to select how loud you want the final mp3 file you will get. It accepts only MP3 songs and gives you 4 options : light , loud, louder, loudest.

This site claims that it "make any song very, very, very loud.upload an mp3 and get your song.".Well it worked fine for me and i got that beautiful ring tone with much loudness that was sufficient for me.

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How to findout the gender of a blogger

You might be aware of a tradition where authors used to write books or novels with a nick name to protect their identity,whatever is the reason for this cause.Now a days some of the bloggers also follow this act.But gone are the days, that time it was quite hard to gather some information about your favorite writers.Now If you are a reader of any blog then you might be interested in knowing whether the person who's post and articles you are reading is either man or woman.

For finding gender of your favorite blog writer just log in to genderanalyzer.com and enter the address of his/her blog.Then it will show you the result.I tried it on mine so here is my result which is damn right.

I also applied it on my friends blog allin123.blogspot.com and result is this.

These result are based on the use of Artificial Intelligence to determine if a homepage is written by a man or woman. Behind the scene, a text classifier hosted over at uClassify.com has been trained on 2000 blogs written by men and women.Though it might not yield best results but these results are right upto an extent.

You can also go for a gender test for a personal computer user by using its browsing history.The tool based on analysis of browsing history of an individual yields nice results.

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Chrome Unchrome,an identity issue for end user

Google Chrome has came out as a success for Google and it has been termed as fastest growing web browser ever.It is fast,runs script very quickly,consumes very less memory and so many nice things which the blogosphere is talking about Google Chrome.Yes they all are true and i praise Google's effort of developing a web browser like chrome even though they have been supporting Mozilla Firefox for a long time.

But there are some issues regarding its use by Google.Last time it was authorship over any content published on internet using Chrome, and this time it is not very different.When you download Chrome, Google assign a ID number to your browser. Chrome collects informations about your web surfing habits and in combination with the ID number Google gets a nice profile about you.

Some experts says that this is a common approach for Google.Google emphasize on collecting some kind web browsing related habits and history by its various means like web history and other services. According to Google they save it for 2 years after that it is automatically removed from their system and they don't collect any kind of personal information as claimed by rivals and critics.

If you don't want your history to be saved by Google Chrome then you have to remove this ID added by Google in Chrome.Though it is very hard to remove this but we have better option, Unchrome it.Unchrome replaces your unique ID with Null values so that your browser cannot be identified any longer. The functionality of Google Chrome is not influenced by this. You only need to apply UnChrome once.

I hope this is a better option as per todays situation but it would be more better if Google gives you a choice if you want to get a ID or not.That would be a faithfull step towards its user.

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How to add Yahoo Buzz button to your blog or site

In my last post i mentioned insider of Yahoo Buzz.Like digg or other social bookmarking sites this Yahoo tool can bring an decent amount of traffic to your blog or site.But for this first of all you have to add Yahoo Buzz button to your blog or site.Those who are not sure about the amount of traffic which they can receive from Yahoo buzz should read my last post.And according to many top bloggers this yahoo service should be tried at least.Here is full tutorial how you can add this Yahoo buzz button to your blog.

Step 1. Choose the desired button from Yahoo! Buzz that fitted well with your site design (large button with vote count - Square Button - is highly recommended), then click “Get Code”.

Step 2. If you have selected the Square Button the code will be like this

 <script type="text/javascript" src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js"
badgetype="square">ARTICLEURL</script>

Step 3. Replace the ARTICLEURL with . After replaced, your code will look like this

 <script type="text/javascript" src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js"
badgetype="square"><data:post.url/></script>

Now place this code in your blog or site template accordingly.For blogging platform users : Place this code above or below data:post.body .Hope this works fine for you as it worked fine for me.Still you have any problem,let me know by writing comments

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How to Minimize any running application to desktop as thumbnail

What happens when we minimize a running application in our computer system, it goes down to the windows taskbar.While some other software are programmed to minimize down directly to the traybar or system tray like Utorrent client.This helps task bar to remain uncluttered in a situation where lots of applications are running.There are some third party software also that can minimize any desired program to traybar.But if your traybar too is cluttered with these applications and programs,then one possible solution is to close some less required applications, but if you don't want to close any of those running application (its bad !!!!) then then there is a third party freeware miniMIZE of just 349 KB for you.

miniMIZE is a small desktop enhancing application that catches windows that you minimize and puts a thumbnail of the main application window on your desktop so it minimize a running program to desktop as thumbnail.

miniMIZE supports exclusion list to ignore windows and applications that you don’t want to minimize to desktop as thumbnail. It also has hotkeys to cycle thumbnail levels, minimize all windows and show/hide thumbnails.But this won't work on Vista, for windows vista users there is a software Thumbwin which works similar to miniMIZE.

ThumbWin is very much the same as miniMIZE. You can set the software to be excluded from minimizing as thumbnail, supports hotkey, arrangement method and thumbnail size. But one very noticeable feature that only ThumbWin has is the fade-in/out effect. When a running program has been minimized to desktop as thumbnail, moving your mouse over to the thumbnail will make the image fade-in/out.

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Power of I am Feeling Lucky button of Google

Its true that most of internet user do not actually know about how to use I am feeling lucky button of Google present on its homepage.Actually The "I'm Feeling Lucky" button is one of the very few things that stand out on Google's minimalistic homepage. It automatically takes you to the first search result and it's helpful for navigational queries.Though only 1% from Google's searches bypass the search results page and go straight to the top result, Google will keep the strange button on the homepage as it has become a part of its brand.This is some info about I am feeling button of Google.And one more thing "I'm feeling lucky" button costs Google $110 million per year.

You might think that this information does not state any kind of power of this button that i mentioned in title.Well if you want to feel the power of this magic button,visit Google, paste below mentioned strings in Google search box and then press I am feeling lucky.

google l33t, elgoog , find chuck norris , google gothic , ewmew fudd , xx-klingon , xx-piglatin , google bsd , google linux , google easteregg , google gizoogle , google bearshare , google microsoft,
google april fool's , google finnish , google black , google christmas.

Hope you feel that why this button is more special inspite of less use.

Thanks Harsh

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How to hide blogger Navbar in old & new blogger

Though there is lot of material available on this issue on the blogs that talk about blogger hack and tips and tricks only since one of our reader asked how to remove blogger navbar, so i am answering his query.Though he asked me about new blogger but i am also telling you about how to remove or disable navbar for old or classic blogger both.

New blogger:

Just add the following lines anywhere in your Blogger template enclosed by style tags and the blogger navbar will be removed

#navbar-iframe {
        height:0px;
        visibility:hidden;
        display:none;
  }

Old blogger:

Insert this CSS code in your old or classic Blogger Template to disable or remove the Blogger Navbar.

<style type="text/css">
#b-navbar {
  height:0px;
  visibility:hidden;
  display:none
}
</style>

Hopefully this will remove the blogger navigation bar aka navbar for both new and old blogger templates.If you still face any problem in this then contact me

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Guess the winner,CCTV or balloon

I usually do not write these kind of post but this image was compelling for me that's why i decided to share this with you.I found this at William lamson's art project.

For most of us it is not hard to guess the winner of this situation.This simple trick using helium balloon makes the CCTV partially blind, well for making CCTV completely blind i would suggest a dark coloured balloon would be more effective.

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10 Skills You Need to Succeed at Almost Anything

What does it take to succeed? A positive attitude? Well, sure, but that’s hardly enough. The Law of Attraction? The Secret? These ideas might act as spurs to action, but without the action itself, they don’t do much.

1. Public Speaking
The ability to speak clearly, persuasively, and forcefully in front of an audience – whether an audience of 1 or of thousands – is one of the most important skills anyone can develop. People who are effective speakers come across as more comfortable with themselves, more confident, and more attractive to be around.

2. Writing
Writing well offers many of the same advantages that speaking well offers: good writers are better at selling products, ideas, and themselves than poor writers. Learning to write well involves not just mastery of grammar but the development of the ability to organize one’s thoughts into a coherent form and target it to an audience in the most effective way possible.

3. Self-Management
If success depends of effective action, effective action depends on the ability to focus your attention where it is needed most, when it is needed most.Strong organizational skills, effective productivity habits and a strong sense of discipline are needed to keep yourself on track.

4. Networking
Networking is not only for finding jobs or clients. In an economy dominated by ideas and innovation, networking creates the channel through which ideas flow and in which new ideas are created.
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15 Most popular firefox addons

Firefox addons gets the same attention as the Firefox itself receives.We all know that firefox 3.0 is most downloaded web browser in 24 hrs time span on d-day.Don't you think about the most downloaded Firefox addons.Here is the list of top 15 most downloaded Firefox addons.

1.Video downloader:The easy way to download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites. This works also for audio and picture galleries.

2.Adblock Plus:Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.

3.FlashGot:Download one link, selected links or all the links of a page together at the maximum speed with a single click, using the most popular, lightweight and reliable external download managers.

4.Noscript:The best security you can get in a web browser! Allow active content to run only from sites you trust, and protect yourself against XSS.

5.downloadthemall:The first and only download manager/accelerator built inside Firefox!

6.Piclens:Full-Screen, 3D -- PicLens transforms your browser into a visually stunning experience for finding and viewing online photos and videos. Our "3D Wall" lets you effortlessly search and zoom your way around thousands of images, videos, news feeds, sports feeds, and more.

7.IE tab:IE Tab - an extension from Taiwan, features: Embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox.

8.colorful tabs:The most beautiful yet the simplest add-on that makes a strong colorful appeal.Colors every tab in a different color and makes them easy to distinguish while beautifying the overall appearance of the interface.

9.Firebug:Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page... Firebug 1.2 requires Firefox 3. Firefox 2 users should install the older 1.05 version of Firebug.

10.Fast Video download:Download video files from popular sites like YouTube, Dailymotion, Break.com and more.

11.Greasemonkey:Greasemonkey Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript.

12.Foxmark bookmarks synchroniser:If you use Firefox on more than one computer, you'll want Foxmarks. Install Foxmarks on each computer, and it will work silently in the background to keep your bookmarks synchronized. You can also log in to my.foxmarks.com to manage your bookmarks from any computer.

13.All-in-One Sidebar:All-in-One Sidebar (AiOS) is an award-winning sidebar control, inspired by Opera's. It lets you quickly switch between sidebar panels, view dialog windows such as downloads, extensions, and more in the sidebar, or view source or websites in the sidebar.

14.Fast dial:Fast access to your favorite sites through thumbnails, like Opera Speed Dial.

15.Download Statusbar:View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar - without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing.

This is official list of most downloaded Firefox addons.

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5 tips to make firefox 3 address bar more awesome

Most of firefox fans are aware of awesomeness of Mozilla Firefox 3 address bar but few are aware that this awesome bar can be upgraded by using some Firefox addons and can be made more useful.

Here is the list of 5 Firefox 3 addons which can improve the working and efficiency of your Mozilla Firefox 3 address bar.

1.oldbar - Oldbar makes the location (URL) bar look like Firefox 2. If you need another alternative to this, try out Old Location Bar. Oldbar just makes the location bar look like FireFox 2 Old Location Bar makes it ACT like Firefox 2.

2.Hide Unvisited - You too can hide pages bookmarks that you haven’t visited , since deleting or clearing history, from showing in the Address Bar.

3.Enter Selects - This Extension allows you to press enter in the Address Bar to select the first result without pressing down.

4.Hidden Places - Stop URLs from specified domains being added to places and the Address Bar.

5.Edit Middle - Show AwesomeBar results when editing in the middle not just at the end.

I personally feel that even without addons firefox 3 is a nice and safe web browser compared to others.

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How to improve the quality of videos online by Fixmymovie

If you feel that the video you are watching or video clip that you have recorded by using your camera phone is not of good quality or it contains more than required darkness then do not worry, there is a web application named Fixmymovie that allows users to improve the quality of the video to a very good extent.Though we have many free video editing tools but it is completely automatic so for non geeky users it is better and easy to use.

What you have to do is just upload the video clip to FixMyMovie and correction is then performed automatically and once it is done then you can download the improved video clip. FixMyMovie automatically cleans and fix your movies with the MotionDSP’s advanced video technology. FixMyMovie can increase your movie resolution up to 4X bringing more details out. One the movie is uploaded, you can pause it and take a screen capture at any moment.

Fixmymovie also increase movie clip resolution by adding more pixels, brighten up dark clips, convert to any video format, allow you to capture photos from any video and it accepts video clips up to 640×480 and 100 MB size.

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How to watch movies from torrent files without downloading them

I prefer a torrent download when i have to watch any movie.Just search torrents at one place and then select the desired torrent file from top torrents and download it after that i download the whole movie using torrent client and that torrent file.This was my way to watch movies but now you can watch the movie from torrent files without actually downloading them.

RARPlayer [Download] is a multimedia torrent player, which will allow you to watch high quality movies without actually downloading them.It has many built in features that may sound great to any one like RARPlayer does not consume much CPU resources which ensure that DVD quality playback for movies which can be enjoyed on comparatively slow computer systems also.

It has a huge list of formats that it supports, actually RARPlayer supports all popular video and audio media file types, containers and formats like DivX, AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, Xvid, 3ivx, QT QuickTime MOV, RM Real media, OGM, Matroska , mkv, asf, wmv, DV, m1v, m2v, , mp4, mpv, swf, vob and wav, mpa, mp1, mp2, mp3, Ogg, aac, AC3, aif, ram, wma etc .

Since this is a freeware utility so you have to just download the .torrent file of any movie that you are intended to watch and just play it with RARPlayer.

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How to recover damaged system files without reinstalling windows

Over the period of time our windows powered computer system start facing increased number of problem more frequently.Up to a limit we try to fix them or some time if they are not that important,we try to ignore them,but if the problem is related to windows system files then we just reinstall a fresh copy of windows because we don't know how to fix them or we just try to avoid a geeky session of experimentation. Fixing or recovering damaged system files in windows is not as hard as it seems.

Actually Windows has built in tool called System File Checker that will reload our systems file. This System File Checker has become a part of windows after the version Windows98.

To fix this problem follow the following steps carefully.
1. Disconnect the internet connection.
2. Turn Off all programs including virus protection and security programs……
3. Insert the Operating System CD.
4. Click START
5. Select the run command

6. In Run command type SFC /Scannow
7. Click OK
8. Then a system file check up will start. This may take up to an hour to be completed.
9. After the completion of scanning, remove the Operating System CD and restart the computer.
10. Then your problem will be fixed.

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Dos command to find out your login time and install date of windows

During my initial days of computing i usually install a fresh copy of windows each time i got some kind of error like if my folder options is not working because of any virus activity,or some kind of booting problem.But after becoming a Tech blogger and computer engineering student now i emphasize on solving the problem rather than installing a fresh copy of windows.

It has been a long time since i installed a fresh windows.Today i tried to find out the last time of my windows installation.For finding this i goggled my query and i found out a dos command which is very useful for finding system information.

Go to Run-->Cmd and then type systeminfo | find /i “install date” to know the date when your installed Windows on the PC. (see image)

and if you want to find out last time when you booted your windows xp PC then go to cmd and type systeminfo | find /i “boot time” .This will show the time when you last rebooted the computer.

Alternative, you could start Windows Task Manager (Alt+Ctrl+Del), switch to the Performance tab and you should see a field that says “Up Time” that’s even more convenient but some computers have Task managers disabled.

Extra tip:If you would simply type "systeminfo" without quotes in cmd,then you will lot of information about your system.Filter it your self.

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What is natural browsing support of mozilla firefox 3.0

Natural browsing support is a feature of Mozilla Firefox 3.0 which emphasize on reducing the amount of URL we have to remember and the mistakes that we commit while typing URLs in our address bar.Typically for accessing a website we have to enter its address in web browser's address bar like http://www.nytimes.com/ but Mozilla Firefox 3.0 allows users to access website by just mentioning their names like you can access or open http://www.nytimes.com/ by just typing "NY times" in the address bar without quotes.

Similarly you can access http://facebook.com can be accessed by just typing facebook. you can also try orkut, Wall Street Journal, Disney Land, Yahoo Mail, eBay, etc.This thing is called natural browsing support.Actually The URL bar of Firefox is integrated with Google’s Browse By Name search feature that allows us to open a web site by typing its name.Presently this is available for some popular websites but in future we can expect a better natural browsing support.

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