Windows XP Tip: Preventing New Processes From Stealing The Focus (Spanish)

New processes often steal focus away from the window you are workin in, as they pop up. It can be irritating if you r doing something like drafting a letter or editing an image that more... requires uninterrupted concentration. This behavior can be checked, watch the video. Windows XP Tip: Preventing New Processes From Stealing The Focus - The funniest videos clips are here

Windows XP Tweak Reveled: Speed Up System Performance (Spanish)

If your machine has 512MB or more of RAM, you can boost its performance by setting it up to keep the core system in RAM and deal less with (slower) hard disk.Watch the video for instructions. close Windows XP Tweak Reveled: Speed Up System Performance (Spanish) - The best video clips are here

Windows XP Tip: Hiding A XP Computer From Network Neighborhood (Spanish Video)

If you want to share files from a XP computer, yet want to prevent it from showing up in the Network Neighborhood just follow the steps in the video: Windows XP Tip: Hiding A XP Computer From Network Neighborhood - Funny videos are here

Windows XP Professional Trick: Renaming Administrator Account (Spanish Video)

Watch the video for instructions on how to rename Administrator account on a Windows XP Professional system. Windows XP Professional Trick: Renaming Administrator Account (S - Click here for the funniest movie of the week

Windows XP Tip: Speed Up Start Menu Items (Spanish)

Just follow the steps below and you will see XP start up menu load it self quicker. Trick is to remove resource hungry and quite dispensable shadows from menu items. Windows XP Tip: Speed Up Start Menu Items (Spanish) - The funniest videos clips are here

Windows XP Tip: Password Recovery Disk (Spanish Video)

Password Recovery Floppy disk bails you out of situations where you have forgotten the password to your XP account and cant log in. more... Here is how you create it. Now If you forget your password in future, turn your system on normally. On the login screen, click on the green arrow next to the password box. You will be prompted to insert the password recovery disk you just created with which you can set a new password to override the old password you've forgotten. close Windows XP Tip: Password Recovery Disk (Spanish Video) - Click here for another funny movie.

Windows Vista: How To Install IIS 7 on Windows Vista

All of us who are using using ASP.NET for web applications development, the very first thing we need is IIS on windows Vista, as continued from windows XP, Vista does not install IIS by default, so just follow the steps given below to install IIS 7 on Windows Vista. Note: It is possible that your version of Vista may not shipped with IIS. In my case i am using Vista Ultimate edition. First, go to Control Panel, and then click on Programs. Here you will notice a link  with caption “Turn Windows features on or off”. Click on this link. Select the items you want to install (same as Add/Remove windows components in XP). Click OK. It will begin the installation procedure as shown in Figure below: Once finished, you can test the installation from your browser by typing http://localhost. Happy Development !!

Professional C# 2005 (Wrox)

I liked this book for its compactness. Reading each chapter is worth its while as it does not state the obvious and gets to the point immediately. The title says "Professional" and the book lives up to it. I think this version didn't miss any thing, I've been reading this book since its edition on C# .NET 2003, most of the authors have been retained, which means that this one is a well researched and worked upon piece of literature.Its shows. I give it five stars. Professional C# 2005 (Wrox) Other Good Books

Visual Basic 2005 Black Book - An evolved book,

An evolved book. It seem to have summed up all there is to VB 2005 in a single compilation. I have been reading VB Black Books since there very fist releases. Where earlier version were more or less skimmed msdns, that very convinently stayed away form anything 'serious'; this one dares to present in its own way topics like Security, Assemblies, Remoting etc. It interests you to see such topics been discussed in such an easy to follow manner. The book, however maintains its character, i.e. this one too, like its predecessors, is skimmed msdn, but examples are better with some of them really interesting. Like that stop watch program which intrigues you with its interesting interface. Easy to follow, modular, compact - characteristics of Black Book series. Despite the fact that some of the code samples didnt work, I give it five stars. Visual Basic 2005 Black Book Other Good Books

Blogger Hack: Hide Blogger navbar in simple steps

This is a very simple hack to hide blogger bar from you blog, just follow thesteps given below: Login to your blogger account Select Layout from Dasboard as shown in Figure 1 Below Select Edit HTML as shown in Figure 2 below: Click on expand widgets to check it as shown in Figure 3 Now insert the following code just after the body section in textarea as shown in Figure 4 #navbar { height:0px; visibility:hidden; display:none } Save the changes by clicking the SAVE TEMPLATE button as shown in Figure 5 Its done. View your blog in browser and you will find that blogger bar is no more visible as shown in Figure 6 Happy Blogging

Must have Free Applications for your PC: Part IV

RSS Readers: Ablion - http://www.fileheaven.com/Abilon/download/14059.htm BlogExpress - http://www.usablelabs.com/productBlogExpress.html Feedreader - http://www.feedreader.com/ FireANT - http://www.antisnottv.net/ GreatNews - http://www.curiostudio.com/ RssBandit - http://www.rssbandit.org/ RSSOwl - http://www.rssowl.org/ RssReader - http://www.rssreader.com/ RSS Xpress - http://rssxpress.free.fr/en/?page=&idNews= SharpReader - http://www.sharpreader.net/ Pop-up Blockers: Google Toolbar - http://www.google.com/ Privoxy - http://www.privoxy.org/ NoAds - http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/ PopUp Stopper - http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html Proxomitron - http://www.proxomitron.info/ Webcam Software: booruWebCam - http://www.booru.net/ Dorgem - http://dorgem.sourceforge.net/ grabMotion - http://www.grabmotion.com/ Pryme - http://www.hilo.dk/pryme/ Graphics: Aqsis - http://www.aqsis.com/ Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/ Houdini (Free Edition) - http://www.sidefx.com/apprentice/index.html Now3D - http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm OpenFX - http://www.openfx.org 3Delight Free - http://www.3delight.com/index.htm Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/ POV-Ray - http://www.povray.org/ Terragen - http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/ Toxic - http://www.toxicengine.org/ Wings 3D - http://www.wings3d.com/ Audio Creation Jesusonic - http://www.jesusonic.com/soft.php KRISTAL Audio Engine - http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/index.php Gungirl Sequencer - http://ggseq.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage HammerHead - http://www.threechords.com/hammerhead/introduction.shtml orDrumbox - http://ordrumbox.sourceforge.net/ Tu2 - http://www.brambos.com/news.html Audio Players: Mixere - http://mixere.sourceforge.net/ Mixxx - http://mixxx.sourceforge.net/ monoRAVEik - http://www.mono211.com/monoraveik/mr1200.html MoreAmp - http://sourceforge.net/projects/moreamp/ XMPlay - http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html Zinf - http://www.zinf.org/ Musik - http://musik.berlios.de/ musikCube - http://www.musikcube.com/ 1by1 - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch Billy - http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy CoolPlayer - http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/ DeejaySystem MK1 - http://www.deejaysystem.com/prod_mk1.asp DeliPlayer. http://www.deliplayer.com/ QCD Player - http://www.quinnware.com/ Sonique - http://sonique.lycos.com/ CD/DVD Burning: CDBurnerXP - http://www.cdburnerxp.se/ CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/ CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/ Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/ Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/ Burrrn - http://www.burrrn.net/ DVD Decrypter: http://www.dvddecrypter.com/ Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/ Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD - http://www.paehl.de/cdr ImgBurn - http://www.imgburn.com/ Compression / Decompression: FilZip - http://www.filzip.com/ Info-Zip - http://www.info-zip.org/ bzip2 - http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html ExtractNow - http://www.extractnow.com/ IZArc - http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/ UPX - http://upx.sourceforge.net/ Zip&Go - http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm QuickZip - http://www.quickzip.org/ TUGZip - http://www.tugzip.com/ Zipgenius - http://www.zipgenius.it/ Photo manipulation and image design: ColorPic - http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/ ArtRage - http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html Artweaver - http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?en_version JPEGCrops - http://ekot.dk/programmer/JPEGCrops/ Delineate - http://delineate.sourceforge.net/ Inkscape - http://www.inkscape.org/ Paint .NET - http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/ PhotoFiltre - http://www.photofiltre.com/ Pixia - http://www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight/ Pixie - http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html Sodipodi - http://www.sodipodi.com/ xWax - http://www.debugmode.com/wax/ The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/ Tuxpaint - http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint Wink - http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ WinMorph - http://www.debugmode.com/winmorph/ Programming: Eclipse - http://www.eclipse.org/ ActivePerl - http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl BlueJ - http://www.bluej.org/download/download.html Crimson Editor - http://www.crimsoneditor.com/ Code::Blocks - http://www.codeblocks.org/ Context - http://www.context.cx/ Freepascal - http://www.freepascal.org/ JCreator LE - http://www.jcreator.com/download.htm jEdit - http://www.jedit.org/ Metapad - http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/ Notepad++ - http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm Notepad2 - http://www.flos-freeware.ch/ Dev C++ - http://www.bloodshed.net/ Dev Pascal - http://www.bloodshed.net/ Pelles C - http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/index.htm PHP Hypertext Parser - http://www.php.net/ Programmer’s Notepad - http://www.pnotepad.org/ Digital Mars C++ - http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html ExamDiff - http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff xOpen Watcom - http://www.openwatcom.org/ Python - http://www.python.org/ Ruby - http://www.dm4lab.to/~usa/ruby/index_en.html SharpDevelop - http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/ WebMatrix - http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/ PSPad - http://www.pspad.com/ WinMerge - http://winmerge.org/ Web servers: SimpleServer:WWW - http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/sswww.htm Smart Cache - http://scache.sourceforge.net/ Abyss - http://abyss.sourceforge.net/ Apache - http://httpd.apache.org/ xSambar - http://www.sambar.com/ Savant - http://savant.sourceforge.net/ TinyWeb - http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.html Apache2Triad - http://apache2triad.net/ HTTP File Server - http://www.rejetto.com/sw/ Xitami - http://www.xitami.com/

Free Applications from Microsoft

Some of the Free applications from Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool  Windows Defender CD Slide Show Generator  Easy Camera Calibration Tool  GroupShot  Image Resizer  Photo Story  LifeCam Microsoft Agents  Alt-Tab Replacement Calculator Plus ConferenceXP Feeds Plus User State Migration Tool Virtual PC Baseline Security Analyzer Egypt Nile Theme. European Union Flags Screensaver. Final Fantasy XI Desktop Theme. FolderShare GroupBar My Font Tool   Snip IT Taskbar Magnifier  Tweak UI  USB Flash Drive Manager Virtual Desktop Manager  ActiveSync   Clear Cache Feature for Internet Explorer  ClearType Tuner  Mount ISO Files Virtually Shared Computer Toolkit SyncToy Flight Simulator X Screensaver Historical Monuments of Québec Theme. Holiday Snowflakes Screensaver. Webcam Timershot  Windows Live Writer XML Notepad 2007 Italian Pasta Theme Pack.  The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth Skin for Windows Media Player 10  MSN Screensaver  Nunavut - Desktop Theme  New Zealand Bliss Office Dinosaur Screensaver. Ontario Canada - Desktop Theme Windows XP Screensaver. Zune Desktop Theme.

CA Antivirus 2007, Its a life saver, found it better than Nortons

I've been using Norton, actually its the only Anti Virus I ever felt relying on. Good for benign homey environment but you ask for even a little more and it refuses to oblige with a straight face. Happened to me when a client complained of a CD which I had compiled at home, being infectious. I scanned it many times to no avail. I scanned it with McAfee my brother has on his System still no trace. I tried pacifying my client who gave me that techy's look (that I use to give him) and asked me to scan it with CA. Ya, I got this advice from my client. But CA's virus defination are more comprhensive. Its light wait to boot. It scans the system without slowing it down that much. I'm yet to explore its internet security thingy but with CA standing guard for my system, I'm more at piece with secrutity senerio at home. I give it five starts. CA Antivirus Other Good Software

Must have Free Applications for your PC: Part III

List goes on: Category: Internet Browsers  Microsoft Internet Explorer (Freeware) FireFox (Freeware) Opera (Freeware) Opera Mini (Freeware) Avant (Freeware) Category: File Sharing, P2P  Azureus (Freeware) Ares (Freeware) BearShare (Freeware) BitComet(Freeware) eMule (Freeware) uTorrent(Freeware) Shareaza( A very nice and handy tool) (Freeware) LimeWire (Freeware) iMesh(Freeware) Category: Compression Softwares  Winzip (Freeware) Winrar (Freeware) WinUHA (Freeware) 7-Zip (Freeware) KGB Archiver (Freeware) Universal Extractor (Freeware) Category: Audio/Video  Audacity (Freeware) Audiograbber (Freeware) BSplayer (Freeware) DivX Player (Freeware) Windows Media Player (Freeware) Real Player (Freeware) Apple iTunes (Freeware) JetAudio (Freeware) K-Lite Codec Pack (Freeware) Quick Time (Freeware) VLC Media Player (Freeware) Winamp (Freeware) Foobar2000 (Freeware)

Must have Free Applications for your PC: Part II

List of some more great application you can use in free in your daily life: Category: File Transfer Core FTP LE (Freeware) FileZilla (Freeware) FlashGet (Freeware) SmartFTP (Freeware) Download Accelerator (Freeware, Ad Supported) Category: Productivity Tools AbiWord (Freeware) Adobe Reader (Freeware) OpenOffice (Freeware) Corel® WordPerfect Lightning (Freeware) Google Desktop Search (Freeware) MSN Desktop Search (Freeware) Microsoft SMS Sender ( A very nice and handy tool) (Freeware) Nokia PC Suite (Freeware) W.Blogger (Freeware) Picasa (Freeware) CDEX Audio CD Ripper (Freeware) Category: Security AntiVir Personal Edition (Freeware) Avast! 4 Home Edition (Freeware) AVG Free Edition (Freeware) BitDefender Free Edition (Freeware) CA eTrust EZ Antivirus (Freeware) Comodo's Firewall (Freeware) Outpost Firewall (Freeware) PeerGuardian IP Blocker (Freeware) Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall (Freeware) Sygate Personal Firewall (Freeware) ZoneAlarm Free Edition (Freeware) Ad Aware Personal Edition (Freeware) Spybot Search and Destroy (Freeware) Windows Defender (Freeware)

Must have Free Applications for your PC: Part I

In today’s world, we have plenty of choice available towards us in terms of software applications. Here is a quick list of them based on my personal opinion, All of them are free and you only need to pay for your operating system (if using Microsoft Windows): Category: Instant Messengers Yahoo Messenger (Freeware) MSN Messenger (Freeware) Google talk (Freeware) Gizmo (Freeware) (This supports free* international calls from your PC to mobile or landline) AIM (Freeware) ICQ (Freeware) Miranda (Freeware) Skype (Freeware) Trillian (Freeware) Category: Email Clients Eudora (Freeware) Thunderbird (Freeware)

Windows XP Tip: Automatically Ending Non-Responsive Tasks

Start Regedit Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\AutoEndTasks Set the value to be 1 In the same section, change the WaitToKillAppTimeout to the number of milliseconds you want.

Windows XP Tip: Common Command Console Utilities

WindowsXP comes with quite a few console utilities you can easily run from the command line:   Computer Management - compmgmt.msc Disk Managment - diskmgmt.msc Device Manager - devmgmt.msc Disk Defrag - dfrg.msc Event Viewer - eventvwr.msc Shared Folders - fsmgmt.msc Group Policies - gpedit.msc Local Users and Groups - lusrmgr.msc Performance Monitor - perfmon.msc Resultant Set of Policies - rsop.msc Local Security Settings - secpol.msc Services - services.msc Component Services - comexp.msc

Windows XP Tip: Disabling Hibernation

If you don't want to use up the disk space taken by Hibernation, or don't need to use it at all, you can easily disable it.   Open up the Control Panel / Power Options icon Click on the Hibernation icon Uncheck Enable Hibernation

Windows XP Tip: Windows XP Command Line Utilities

While there are a lot of command line utilities in WindowsXP, here are some that I have been using lately.   bootcfg - Configures, queries, or changes Boot.ini file settings. driverquery - Displays a list of all installed device drivers and their properties. getmac - Returns the media access control (MAC) address and list of network protocols associated with each address for all network cards in each computer gpresult - Displays Group Policy settings and Resultant Set of Policy (RSOP) for a user or a computer netsh - You can use commands in the Netsh Interface IP context to configure the TCP/IP protocol schtasks - Schedules commands and programs to run periodically or at a specific time systeminfo - Displays detailed configuration information about a computer and its operating system