Animate Windows Vista Menu Pictures

Microsoft has introduced many new features in its latest operating system Windows Vista like 3D flip, Windows Aero, windows dreamscene, Cardspace ,one click search etc. In brief Windows Vista is multimedia rich. So what's lacking in Windows vista still pictures in Start menu items ?



So its the time to animate these all in style. 3D User Picture is nice freeware utility which animates the start menu pictures. Download the 3D User Picture, Extract the files and 3duserpic.exe and then open the Start menu hover the mouse over the links.....Wow pictures are animating.

Note: 3D user Picture requires a DirectX 9 capable graphic card.

Make windows Vista Experience Index score 9.9

The Windows Experience Index measures the capability of your computer's hardware and software configuration and expresses this measurement as a number called a base score. A higher base score generally means that your computer will perform better and faster than a computer with a lower base score, especially when performing more advanced and resource-intensive tasks.
Each hardware component receives an individual subscore. Your computer's base score is determined by the lowest subscore. For example, if the lowest subscore of an individual hardware component is 2.6, then the base score is 2.6. The base score is not an average of the combined subscores. So higher score is better and my current Windows Experience index 3.0. Let's make it 9.9, the ultimate. The results of Windows Experience Index are stored in an XML file and with easy modification in this XML file change your Windows Experience Index to 9.9.
Here is the procedure.

1. Navigate to C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore.

2. Open the most recent file in that folder.

3. Parse the file looking for the WinSPR entry. These are the items you want to edit. The max value you can use is 9.9.

4. Save the file and open the Windows Experience Index to see 9.9 score. Friends are u Watching 9.9......

Source: Steve Sinchak

Now Add a video to blogpost directly from blogspot post editor

In recent times blogger is adding new features to its blogspot to make it better for the bloggers blogging on the blogspot and provide more options for easy and better blogging. Blogger has continued this tradition and now introduced the Add video option on blogspot editor itself till now only Add image option is available.

With this Add video option you can upload video directly from your blog editor to your post and publish it. You can upload a video up to 100 MB and AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, Real, and Windows Media are the supported formats. You can even give title to your uploaded video. Just check the option box besides the terms and conditions and once you press the upload video button, video starts to upload to Google video and time of uploading video depends upon its size. You can continue to edit your post during upload, but can't close this window or publish until it's finished.

I have uploaded a Windows vista dream scene video to just check how it works ?

Think twice no thrice before pressing Ctrl + C

Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V are the most common keyboard shortcuts used by every computer users in today's world. While filling forms or logins we find it easy to copy and paste the information like credit card number, password or user name instead of typing these manually where the chances of mistyping are more but these shortcuts can run you into serious trouble. how ?

Every time your copy something is copied to clipboard and site using combination of javascript and ASP (or PHP, CGI) can access your clipboard and get all the copied text from clipboard like passwords, user name or credit number etc. which you have copied and pasted while filling forms or for Web site login and this is enough for anyone to misuse your login id or rip of your hard earn money. Visit this site to know what's in your clipboard http://www.sourcecodesworld.com/special/clipboard.asp(at the end of this post you will find my blogger login ID and Password access by the site from the clipboard)

Now how to tackle this problem ?

First we have to see what's copied to clipboard, run Microsoft Word go to edit and select clipboard and clipboard appears to right side showing the copied data.

Using Windows Vista:
If you re using Windows vista then when you visit above mentioned site a pop up will appear "Do you want to allow this web page to access your clipboard" if you allow access then only this website access your data copied to clipboard otherwise not. So Windows vista takes care of this problem itself.

Using Windows XP, 2000:
But if you re using windows other than Windows vista i.e Windows XP, 2000 then you can easily tweak this problem.

• Open Internet options
• Select security tab
• Choose custom level
• And in security settings, select disable under Allow paste operations via scripts.

Now you can easily do Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V safely. Just joking...........nothing is there i.e. Blogger ID and Password.

Create rounded corners image in Adobe Photoshop- Very easy

Rounded corners images look very good and beautiful give an edge over rectangular images and very easy to create rounded corner image from a rectangular image. The only thin you need is Adobe Photoshop. So lets get started.

Open image in Adobe Photoshop. To create rounded corners select the Rounded Rectangle Tool from Tool palette.

Now go to the radius option and give radius in Pixels more the radius more will be the rounded corners and then select the shape layers option if it is not selected. Now draw the rounded rectangle on the image. You will see rectangle filled by color go to fill slider and make it zero to show beneath image.

Now in Path palette and right click and choose Make Selection. In Make selection box let the everything default and click OK.

Now you will see that rounded rectangle turned in to a selection.

Final step go to edit menu choose Copy Merged and press ctrl + N to open a new Adobe Photoshop document and increase the width and height of new document atleast by 3 pixels otherwise full rounded corners will not be visible this is happens because every time you open a document to paste something in it then Adobe Photoshop will open a new document of exact size of copied image, click Ok. Now you will see a neat and clean rounded corner image.

Google All Set to Trap Local Search Market in India

Google Inc., the world's largest Internet company is all set to capture the local search market in India. It has started building a huge database of local infirmation such as restaurants, shopping centres, eating joints, businesses recreation centres etc in various cities and towns spread across India.
The world's largest company aims at a larger share in the "Local market search" in India, which is the fastest growing market in India.
As per research, the majoirty of internet users search for the information which is related to local restaurants, martkets, eating joints, businesses etc. for which not much of information is available on the net.
Most importantly, the information that will be hosted by Google on Indian local market will be reliable as the company will be verifying each information so hosted by sending its executives to verify the location, street etc.
So, very soon the local search is all set to become more exciting and informative.

A Very Happy Independence Day

Writing this post after returning from my office which is at Gurgaon and the time is exactly 00.00 AM. So the 15-Aug-2007 has arrived and its time to say A Very Happy Independence Day to all of you. Celebrate this day with Zeal and Zest and don't forget the freedom fighters who scarified their life in order to achieve Independence for India and also don't forget to listen the Prime Minister speech from the Red Fort early morning. I have found a very patriotic wallpaper for this occasion and dressed my PC with it, you can download it too. Once again A Very Happy Independence Day.

Google adds another star to its Google pack adds Star Office 8

Google Pack is collection of necessary utilities to make your computer work better and efficient. Google Pack contains Google earth, Norton Security scan, Google desktop, Firefox with Google toolbar, Adobe Reader, Skype, Google toolbar for Internet Explorer, Sypware doctor, Picasa, Google Photos screensaver, Google Talk. Now Google has included another very useful software called Star Office devloped by Sun to its famous Google Pack for free download otherwise cost you around $ 70.

StarOffice 8 office suits contains a word processor, a spreadsheet , drawing and calculator tools, databases and presentation tools. Google has integrated its search toolbar in Star Office 8 applications. Download the Google Pack from the below link.

Nokia Prism (7500 Prism and 7900 Prism)

Finally Nokia has revealed its new phone "Prism". It truly looks alike a prism (Diamond). This phone is latest in its category and en marks a launch of new "Prism" series from Nokia. These phones will be truly "Style Accessories" for those who keep on looking for the latest and upgraded models.

Prism series have been launched with two models for a start, "Prism 7500" and "Prism 7900". Both these models are prefect combination of Style and updated technology. This series is launched in China and will be available in India at the end of third quarter.

The Nokia Prism collection is full of revolutionary colors, materials and graphics. It has diamond-cut design that have sharp-angled lines, geometric patterns and graphic light-refracting colors, which makes it a first choice of cell phone lover.

Nokia 7900 Prism is available for EUR400 (Approx. 22,200) and 7500 Prism is available for EUR210 (Approx. Rs. 11,500)(excluding taxes and subsidies).

The 7900 Prism, apart from regular features, supports whooping 16 million colors and has added OLED(Optical LED) display.

The other features are:

Working frequency
GSM Triband EGSM 900 MHz GSM 1800 / 1900 MHz

Dimensions
Volume: 71 cm 3Weight: 82 grams Length: 109 mm Width: 43.9 mm Thickness: 14.4 mm

Display
16.7 million True Colour 240 x 320 pixel screen

User Interface
S40 user interface3D buttons (left and right selection key)

Imaging
2 mega pixel camera, with 8x digital zoom and a built-in flash.Full-screen viewfinder window
Horizontal mode camera DVD quality video playback (H.265, MPEG4, WMV)

Multimedia
Playback for the following video formats: 3GPP, H.263 video, MPEG-4Integrated music player for MP3/AAC/eAAC+/WMA formats
Integrated FM radio
Visual Radio

Memory Functions
30 MB internal storage space Options to expand memory up to 2GB with micro SD card

Messaging
Multimedia messaging: MMS for creating, receiving, editing, and sending videos and pictures Email: Supports SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, and APOP protocols. Support for attachments (view jpeg, 3gp, MP3, .ppt, .doc, excel, and .pdf files)

Text messaging: Supports concatenated SMS, picture messaging, SMS distribution listAudio messaging: Record your own voice message and send to compatible devicesNokia Xpress audio messaging: Send a spontaneously recorded voice clip via MMS

Java applications
Java MIDP 2.0

Ringtones
Supported file formats: MP3, AAC, WMA files and AMR voice, 64-chord/voice polyphonic MIDI ringing tones

Connectivity
Bluetooth 2.0 standard editionUSB 2.0Local / remote SyncML Data Synchronization

Web Browsing
Version 1.1 Full OMA Client provisioning normsOMA Digital DRM 2.0OMA DRM 2.0 Digital

Data Transmission
EDGE: grade Class B, multi-slot class 10 ratingGPRS : Class B rating, multi-slot class 10 ratingHSCSD (High-Speed Circuit - Switched Data, high-speed circuit-switched data) / CSD (Circuit - Switched Data, circuit-switched data)

Voice Features
Voice DialVoice commandVoice recorderSIND (Speaker Independent Name Dialing, non-language specific names of people who dial-up)

Personal Information Management
Alarm clock Memo Timer ToDo Calendar

Other Features
Vivid natural screen logoAnimation wallpaperOffline mode : All transmission and related functions will be closed

Sales Package Contents
Nokia 7500 Prism Phone Two Colour Change Theme Clips Nokia Battery BL-4BNokia Standard Charger AC-3Nokia 7500 Prism headset HS-47User Guide 512 MB microSD

Power Management
Battery: Nokia Battery BL-4B
Talk Time: up to 2.8 Hours
Standby Time: up to 280 Hours

Make your iGoogle more Customized by iGoogle skins

iGoogle skin- British summer

As we all know that Google personalized homepage is now called iGoogle. Google personalized page or iGoogle is page where can choose to show items of your choice like Weather, driving directions, joke of the day, quotes of the day, Google calender, Gmail, date and time etc with Google search and also enable you to change Google logo on iGoogle page.You can even make iGoogle more customize by choosing a skin form iGoogle skin according to your taste or mood.

iGoogle skin- Sunset

Note: These iGoogle skins submitted by the various users who submit it to Google and can access to your Google cookies while searches and preference settings for other programs once you enable custom iGoogle skins. Visit iGoogle

How to access mails of Gmail when your Office blocked the Gmail?

Google Mail indeed one of the most common and widely used web mail available on internet worldwide. This web mail has many features to be highlighted.
AUTO FORWARD is also one of the most unique features that Gmail offers to its user’s. This feature allows user to forward the mail received in the Gmail inbox to any other one e-mail address. Although this feature is available with other web mails as well but what distinguishes Google mail with others is that Google mail retains, in the inbox, the mail so forwarded automatically. And also doesn’t populate the sent items box with any mail so forwarded.
Whereas in other web mails, the mail so received is forwarded to new address and nothing is retained in the inbox as if no mail has been received in the inbox.

To activate this feature in Gmail just follow the following easy steps:
1. Click on the "Settings" on upper right side of the inbox page of Gmail.

2. Then select the "Forwarding and POP" tab.

3. In the first half of the page select "Forward a copy of incoming mail to" and write the e-mail address in the space so provided.

4. At last save the changes by clicking "Save Changes" at the bottom of the page.

Now, Gmail is all set to forward all your incoming mails to the requested e-mail id of your choice from where you can easily keep a track of all the mails in Gmail and can even reply to those mails.

Latest iMac PC from Apple

Apple Inc. a well recognized and heard name for eye-catching iPod’s and iPhone gadgets in the recent past has now returned to its heritage –Computers- with a new line of consumer machines and software which aims at winning over more users of Windows-based PCs.

At an event at its corporate headquarters in Silicon Valley on Tuesday, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs unveiled a sleek new aluminum – and – glass look for its main desktop computer line, the iMac, which reflects the company’s emphasis on design panache. It also introduced a line of consumer software for the Mac for creating home movies, Web pages and other content that Apple strongly believes will further distinguish Macs from rival PCs using Microsoft Corporation’s Windows operating system.

The new iMacs comes with a brushed-aluminum shell and a glass screen, replacing the mostly plastic casting that it used on earlier iMacs. The Apple products which include a new spreadsheet program called numbers that will compete with Microsoft’s Excel program are part of year’s long campaign by apple to convert windows users through spiffy products and high-profile television commercials.

“A lot of Windows users are going to switch because of this stuff” Mr. Jobs said.

It has been noticed that many windows users have switched to Macs however the number is still not clear but the Apple’s Macintosh business has been on rise lately, outpacing industry wide growth in new PC shipments of 13% in the second quarter by nearly three times.

Apple’s new suite of computer software, called iLife’08, showed further signs of growing collaboration between Apple and search-engine giant Google Inc., another Microsoft nemesis. One program in the suite for designing web pages, called iWeb, lets users join Ad-Sense, a Google service that allows users to display advertisements on their websites. Apple and Google have also worked together on mapping and search software for the iPhone, Apple’s new cellular phone. Visist Apple iMac

Google Calender

Google has one more diamond in its archive – GOOGLE CALENDER. Just imagine all your important appointments remembered online and that too in a very easy way. Great !! isn't? We generally use a daily/Month/year planner to plan and save appointments and other related tasks so that we do not miss them. But one major problem is that we ourself need to remember to see the planner for any appointments. Most of us can not afford any personal secretary who would see and remind us for the upcoming appointment or friends/Wife’s birthday, marriage etc.

Google calendar acts as a personal secretary. We only once need to mark and save an appointment in the day planner and rest all is taken care by Google Calendar. This calendar will remind you by sending the message on your pre-saved cell number absolutely free of charge. If you are online and logged in at Google calendar, it will also give a popup of all the appointments saved in it.

The message so sent by the Google is free of cost.
All what one need to do is to have one Gmail Id and a cell number.

Just log into the GOOGLE CALENDAR and save the cell number first. Then add and save the appointments for day/month/year(s) whether recurring or not and start doing your work. The smart Google calender will itself let you know the coming up appointments for you by sending messages to your cell.

Related Post: Google Calender for Mobiles

Sucess of CD's and DVD's

CD’s and DVD’s are everywhere these days and are being used for storing Office/Personal Data, Movies, Music Files, Software. These Compact Discs (CD) and DVD’s have become a most common medium for storing the large quantity of Information.

Why CD’s/DVD’s have become more popular? – The answer to this question lies in the storage capacity of the medium. This medium (CD/DVD) have very large amount of space for storage.

The initial medium Floppy drive had only 3 megabytes of storage space where as one Standard CD has 700 megabytes of storage space. One can imagine how much data on floppy discs can be stored on one CD. To surpass this as well one standard DVD has 4.2 gigabytes of storage space or say one DVD can store data equal to 6 CD’s.


History

1979 Prototype CD system demonstrated in Europe and Japan.

1980 Compact Disc standards proposed by Philips and Sony.

1982 Introduction of CD’s in Europe and Japan

1983 Compact Disc technology in introduces in U.S.

1987 Video CD format Created.

1988 CD-recordable disc/recorder technology introduced.

1990 World CD sales close to one billion.

1997 DVD technology released.

1999 DVD-video becomes main stream.

2002 DVD-video ousts VHS-video; CDs continue to dominate software market.

Buying a Good PC was never so easy

If you're planning to buy a new computer but has no basic knowledge about computer or feel stuck in computer terminology or can't able to decide which Computer is best for your needs i.e. a office Computer, Personal computer or power packed computer for satisfying your gaming needs.

Also not sure of where to buy it from and which brand to buy or go for assembled computer. Then the solution is just a click away to make buying a new computer a very simple task. Visit My Right PC.

This website has all the stuffs and information that one would needs when buying a new computer. Just surf the site and you can easily understand which is the right computer for you based on your needs and requirements. This site also suggest you the right hardware configuration and also helps you to locate reliable retailer in your area.

Once you done with the computer hardware configuration, site will send you an email with the hardware specification and right version of the Windows Vista and estimated cost. You can also choose to have the retailer contact SMSed to your mobile for easy reference and in case, you are too lazy to visit the retailer, you can leave your contact details and let the retailer of your choice call you.

Very Rare pictures of The Taj Mahal

Vedic design on ceiling of Taj Mahal

Huge ventilator sealed shut with bricks in Taj Mahal

Rear view of the Taj Mahal and 22 apartments

Red lotus at apex of the entrance of Taj Mahal

Secret bricked door in Taj Mahal

Secret walled door Taj Mahal

Staircase that leads to the lower levels of Taj Mahal

The Music House of Taj Mahal

The OM in the flowers on the walls of Taj Mahal

Close up of the pinnacle in Taj Mahal


Pinnacle pattern in courtyard of Taj Mahal

Front view of the Taj Mahal and dome

Close up of the dome of Taj Mahal

The interior water well of Taj Mahal

A locked room on upper floor of Taj Mahal

A marble apartment on ground floor of Taj Mahal

One of the 22 rooms in the secret lower level Taj Mahal

300 foot long corridor inside apartments in Taj Mahal

Aerial view of the Great Taj Mahal

Palace in Barhanpur where Mumtaz died

Vedic style corridors of Taj

And now the beauty of Taj Mahal captured