Very Useful Windows Notepad Trick

If you have edited a text file using windows notepad, you have no ways to find out when the editing has happened. Just follow the steps mentioned below to enable this facility in Notepad

1) Create a new text file with the following text, '.LOG' and save the file.

2) Now close the file and reopen the file and add some text. You will notice that the notepad adds the current date & time now.

Sharing & Finding eBooks

If you have a big collections of eBooks, just dont keep it in your machine. Share it to the world by uploading it to www.scribd.com . It is a nice site with unlimited storage.

In addition to that, you can use the site to find any book you want and download it quickly. Happy Reading !!!

View FLV in full screen

Most of FLV players available in the market does not have the capability of playing FLV files in full screen mode. If you wanna play FLV file in full screen mode, just download the FLV player from http://www.flvplayer4free.com/ . It is available for free.

Download Audio from Streaming Sites

If you want to download your favorite music from streaming sites, just down the following software, Internet Download Manager , IDM in short. IDM has an unique capability of grabbing audio streams (& Youtube videos) and save as ".wma" file besides increasing the download speeds.

Once you have .wma file ready, all you need to is use http://media-convert.com/ to convert it to MP3. Thatz it! Now listen to your favorite song offline.

How to record Video Streaming to Disk?

How to download Video stream so that we would be able to play the video offline? Just download a free software called Streaming Download Project, in short SDP.
Choose any video stream URL , click OK. Click Go, the program will now download the video and save it as .asf file (which can be opened with Windows Media Player). Easy isn't it?

Free SMS to Indian Mobiles

http://indyarocks.com/ is a new website which offers sending unlimited free SMS to mobiles inside india. All you need to do is to register yourself for free. When registering, you have to provide your india mobile number (strictly india mob number not others) where the site will send you an authorization code. Once the code has been sent, login and edit your profile and go to account setting and provide this code to activate. Thats it! Start messaging right now!

Burn your Feed!

Once your blog becomes ready, the next step is to share your blog. How are your buddies goin' to subscribe to your blog? . Make their job simple by making it easy for people to subscribe by using Feed Burner.

Another advantage of burning your feed is the content are properly formatted & can be easily consumed wherever they are. Also, the traffic can be easily analyzed to see the geographical distribution of the subscribers.

How to quickly search & download movies from the web?

Most of the indian movies & hollywood movies are available in the web, thanks to file sharing sites like rapidshare.com,rapidshare.de,megaupload,etc. So if you want to quickly search for any latest movies, don't waste time in googling. Instead just go the following sites and search for the movie name you are looking for. You'll be really surprised!.

www.rapidbolt.com
www.rapidshare1.com
http://www.rapidoogle.com/beta/

My personal favorite is the last site. Itz really wonderful. It even finds out whether a rapidshare link is alive or not. Amazing isn't it?

How should I find out if my site is included in the Google Search?

To check if your site is included in google index, just perform a Google Search for its entire URL.

For eg, put a search for "site:www.yahoo.com". If the site is displayed as a result when you perform a Google Search for your URL, it's included in Google index

Record VOIP Conversations with solicall

Recently, i have installed a freeware called SoliCall 1.2.2 which was able to record Voice chat/ VOIP conversations with very much ease. It is a light weight software with in-built voice pass filter which helps in reduction of noise and enhances the final output.

I tried recording of Google Talk voice chat conversations. It worked perfectly. You can even try recording voice conversations from your favorite IMs. Be it Skype,Yahoo! Messenger or Windows Live Messenger / MSN Messenger.

Visit http://solicall.com/ for more information

Basic Google Search Techniques

1. Use of double quotes

If you are searching for a big phrase, then enclose the entire phrase in quotes like the following, "vedic civilization in India" to narrow down the result

2. Don't use 'AND' since google automatically assumes 'AND' operator between keywords

Crafty Google Search from g2p.org

G2P.org offers a new easy approach to finding files that are indexed within Google. Using G2P.org allows users to download the songs straight from the web. Although not everything can be found, I have had a bit of success in finding newer released songs.

Here is an example of how to use this search facility

Step 1: goto http://www.g2p.org/

Step 2: in the 'looking for' put 'Tamil' (avoid multiple words. it doesn't work most of the time) if you are looking for new tamil MP3 and click search.

step 3: I'm pretty sure you will hit some index page of a Mp3 hoster (my search hit 'http://nijatamil.com/mp3/B' as 6th or 7th result)

step 4: Traverse to the index page by clicking on the 'parent directory'

That's it. Now searching MP3 is pretty simple!!!!

Increase BROADBAND download speed

This is for broad band connections. I didn’t try it on dial up but might work for dial up.
1. make sure your logged on as actually "Administrator". do not log on with any account that just has administrator privileges.
2. start - run - type gpedit.msc
3. expand the "local computer policy" branch
4. expand the "administrative templates" branch
5. expand the "network branch"
6. Highlight the "QoS Packet Scheduler" in left window
7. in right window double click the "limit reservable bandwidth" setting
8. on setting tab check the "enabled" item
9. where it says "Bandwidth limit %" change it to read 0

Effect is immediate on some systems, some need to re-boot. This is more of a "counter what XP does" thing. In other words, programs can request up to 20% of the bandwidth be reserved for them, even with QoS disabled, this is no big deal and most programs do not request it. So, although QOS has caused a big stink because people think it reserves 20% of their bandwidth, you can still disable it, just to be sure, hehe.

5GB of Freespace from eSnips.com

If you are looking for a store which could upload any file type you want, then this is the place, http://www.esnips.com.
You can make your files private or shared with your group or with the world.

Using eSnips is free and signing up takes a few seconds.

Free Unrar tool

For the guys who use Winrar and other paid softwares for unraring, the good news starts here.

There is an alternate beautiful unrar tool available for free on the web. Its name is 'Rarzilla Free Unrar'.

Download the software from
http://www.download.com/RarZilla-Free-Unrar/3000-2250_4-10754904.html?tag=lst-1

For more information, point your browser to the tool's homepage
http://www.philipp-winterberg.de/software/rarzilla_free_unrar.php

Why Rarzilla?

Simple. It is 100% free and very user-friendly.

Free fast online file conversion

If you would like to download a youtube video,will you be able to download it without installing any software in your machine?
The answer is yes and it is possible by pointing your browser to http://www.zamzar.com/url/.

Provide the source URL,required format of the video ( i typically give mpg(MPEG Layer-2)) and your email address. Believe me! the conversion happens lightning fast and the download URL would be sent to your email address.

Limitations

1. All files will be stored only for 1 day from receipt of mail from Zamzar
2. Only 5 concurrent conversions can be done at any point of time

Best Site for converting audio files, video, presentation, document, spreadsheet online

Now you don't require any softwares to be installed in your machine to convert videos,audios,documents,etc. All you need to have is an internet connection.

Yeah! just logonto http://media-convert.com/ and start converting.Media-Convert is a 100% free website.

Now you can upload upto 1 GB Videos in youtube

Now you can upload upto 1GB size video using youtube.

Another facility which has been introduced is that you can now upload multiple videos using the 'Multi-Video Upload'. Install the multi-uploader from the following link and start uploading more videos...

http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_multiupload

Lock any folder without using any software in Windows

1. Suppose you have a folder named test in D:\test.

2. In the same folder-level, create a new notepad file with the exact statement
ren test test.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}

3. Now save this text file as lock.bat

4. Create another notepad file and type
ren test.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} test

5. Save this as key.bat

6. Now there are two batch files. Double click lock.bat and your folder icon will be changed to Control Panel and its contents cannot be viewed .

7. To open the folder double click key.bat and you get back your original folder.

8. For more safety keep the key.bat in another location .For unlocking copy paste to the original location and double click.