The Mouse Click. It is indispensable……….really ?
Can you imagine surfing web without a mouse click. Hard to imagine, but it can be true. And it is nicely demonstrated by www.dontclick.it.
It makes the mouse click totally redundant and lets you know how deep rooted is the habit of clicking in today’s Internet users.
A must-visit website. Who knows tomorrow’s Internet will be like that only.
Windows XP asks users to enter their username and password before log on. This feature is very useful if you are working on a shared computer and other users also use that computer. However, if you are the only user using your PC, then you can skip this step and go straight to your desktop.
How to :
1. Click Start > Run.
2. Note the username displayed above the Startup bar. You will need it later.
3. In the Open dialog box, enter control userpasswords2 and click OK.
4. In the next dialog box, Clear the Check box, which says “Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer”. Click OK
5. Now you will be asked to enter your username and password. Enter them, which you use to log on to windows XP (as you have noted in step 2).
And now, you are through.
Reminder: Please don’t use this trick if you work on a shared computer.
WWW is beautiful, its nice, its useful….
But it is ugly also.
There are many facets of its ugly face and SPAM is one of them. The most common type of spam is e mail spam. It is true that spammers target emails easily, but at the same time it is also true that most of the spam spreads only due to our lack of knowledge and negligence.
Here is a tip, which can effectively reduce your exposure to email spamming. But before that, let us know that the first step towards spamming is to collect valid, and genuine email addresses, which are currently under use by the real people.
How to block e mail spam
Many email messages contain pictures embedded within the message itself. Out of them, some are transmitted along with the messages. But sometimes only the link to the picture is actually sent via the email and when the email is opened, at that time the link connects to the server where the picture is actually hosted and then sends the picture.
So what is the difference ?
There is a big difference in two cases.
In the second case, when you open the email, the sending server comes to know that the email has been opened by somebody, while in the first case server does’t get such intimation.Now the interesting part… In the second case, the server comes to know that the since the email has been opened, this means that the recipient email address is a genuine one and hence can be spammed.
So, what is the remedy.
It is simple. Just explore through your email client program and look for the option, which blocks automatic downloading of pictures and images. Activate it, and now before showing any image, the email client software will ask your permission. If you are satisfied that the message is not a spam, grant the permission, otherwise not so as to block the unwanted e mail spam.
Simple.
Last time, when I transferred photos of the birthday party of my daughter from my digital camera to the PC, they were stored with a series of some unrecognizable names like DSCZ123 and so on. It was a pain to rename them one by one because there were about 85 of them.
It triggered me to search for an easier method, and lo… there was it.
Just select multiple files to whom you want to rename, right click the mouse and select Rename. In the Dialog box, type any name say abcde and click OK, then all the selected file will be renamed like abcde(1), abcde(2), abcde(3) and so on.
That’s what exactly I wanted. Now those photos are named as Birthday (1)…….to Birthday (85).
Yeah…..may the life would also have been that simple.
Bonus Tip: If you want that the names should start from a fixed number n, say Birthday(12), Birthday(13) and so on, you have to write Birthday (12) in place of only Birthday in the rename files dialog box.
Yes, this is the name of the web tool featured in this post. You can’t think of a more appropriate name for this utility, which does exactly what it says. May be a useful tool for your smartphones.
Caution: Use it at your own risk, because it is a new website, yet to establish itself. Although it says, that it doesn’t stores your email address, but who knows…
One of the striking feature of today’s web life is the rapid spread of social networking. Tens of new social networking websites pop up everyday, where you can share your views, information, photos, files and everything else with others. One reason of their rapid spread is that they are user driven. Content is not created by the website owners, but it is created by the users. These websites provide a platform to users for sharing their content. What does the users get in return ? They get the exposure, they get the visitors to their websites and blogs. This is a win-win situation for both the social networking website as well as the users.
Another feature of today’s web world is the increasing use of email accounts for different purposes. An email is no more a simple email account. Now it is like a passport, a gateway, a method to establish your identity on the web (refer the versatility of a Google Account). And this very fact has prompted people to carry multiple email accounts.
But all these facilities and features come at a cost. Cost in terms of pressure on memory to remember multiple username and passwords, cost in term of hopping from one website to another.
So what is the solution…?
Question is answered partly by Fuser.
Fuser is a place, where you can fuse all your email accounts as well as social networking accounts and check out the developments. Instead of hopping from one website to the other you just check in at Fuser, and you can access all your accounts here itself.
Simple, but a useful tool on the web.
Foxit Reader is a free light weight application for handling PDF documents. It is small in size, only 2.1 Mb and a rich feature set. The best part is that it is amazingly fast to load. Foxit Reader supports all Windows platforms like 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista.
Now no more waiting periods to open pdf files through Adobe Acrobat reader, which was a pain when opening in Firefox Browsers. Its breezing fast speed will surely amuse you.
Another useful feature of Foxit is that it allows you to make annotations. i.e. now you can write notes or comments or highlight text on a PDF document very easily. It is further claimed that it is spyware free, while some other freely available pdf readers often connect to Internet to share your important data.
There are several new features in its latest version Foxit Reader 2.2 like interactive form filler, multi-language UI support, on-demand download of add-on, self upgrade, Javascript support, improved printing speed, streamlined UI and much more., which you can check out on its download page.
