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Yahoo! introduced a new service called Pingbox , a live chat box (in the form of a Flash Widget) .You can embed it in any website or blog including your MySpace, Friendster, Hi5, Blogger, live space, etc...
You can customize your Yahoo! Pingbox through the dozen or so themes available in the Pingbox studio. The Pingbox widget will automatically become unavailable When you go offline or set your status as ‘invisible’
Mobile Master is a powerful PIM and synchronization tool for mobile phones and iPod. You can synchronize mobile phones (addresses and calendar) with Outlook Outlook Express, Windows address book, Windows contacts, Lotus Notes, Thunderbird/Sunbird, Palm Desktop. You can load, edit and save your phones address book, calendar and notes. Browse through the phones file system and copy files. Synchronize your iTunes playlists and files or copy WinAmp playlists to the phone.
Use Mobile Master and its practical browser and drag-and-drop functionality to transfer iTunes playlists or individual songs and to synchronize playlists from iTunes with walkman phones: As soon as your phone is connected, the personal music collection on the phone is updated. This also applies for photos: Mobile Master checks whether new photos have been taken and transfer then to your PC every time you synchronize .Full features & Supporting phones list here
Vista has the option to encrypt and decrypt files by accessing the properties dialog. But there is a better and faster way to do it—just add these options to the context menu. Open the Registry editor and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced 
In the right pane, create a new 32-bit DWORD value called Encryption Context Menu and give it a value of 1. Now whenever you rightclick
a file, you will see a new option,Encrypt, which will let you encrypt it
(along with the parent folder, if necessary). Once it’s encrypted, when you right-click on it, you will see the Decrypt option.
Windows Vista comes with Disk Management, which even lets you shrink or expand volumes without destroying data on them. No need to buy expensive third-party utilities! Open the Control Panel, type in
partition and press [Enter]. You will immediately see the link Create and format hard disk partitions under Administrative Tools. Click on it to launch Disk Management. Right-click on a partition and you will see the Shrink as well as Extend options. You should defrag the partition before doing the shrinking or 
expanding to achieve the best results, since the operation is dependant on the amount of contiguous free space available.
Adding system memory ( RAM) is often the best way to improve a PC's performance, since more memory means more applications are ready to run without accessing the hard drive. However, upgrading memory can be difficult and costly, and some machines have limited memory expansion capabilities, making it impossible to add RAM.
ReadyBoost is a disk caching technology first included with Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system. It aims to make computers running Windows Vista more responsive by using flash memory on a USB 2.0 drive, SD card, CompactFlash, or other form of flash memory, in order to boost system performance.
ReadyBoost uses the flash drive to store information that is being used by the memory manager. If you are running a lot of applications on a system that has limited memory, Windows ReadyBoost will use the flash drive to create a copy of virtual memory that is not quite as fast as RAM, but a whole lot faster than going to the hard disk. What is very cool here is that there is nothing stored on this flash disk that isn’t also on the hard disk, so if you remove the flash drive, the memory manager sees the change and automatically goes to the hard disk. While the performance gain from ReadyBoost is gone, you don’t lose any data and there is no interruption.
Here are the requirements for a ReadyBoost-compatible USB Device:
Windows ReadyBoost relies on the intelligent memory management of Windows SuperFetch and can significantly improve system responsiveness.Windows SuperFetch enables programs and files to load much faster than they would on Windows XP–based PCs.
SuperFetch monitors which applications you use the most and preloads these into your system memory so they'll be ready when you need them. Windows Vista also runs background programs, like disk defragmenting and Windows Defender, at low priority so that they can do their job but your work always comes first.
NOTE: Superfetch is enabled by default.
1. Open the Start Menu.
2. In the white line (Start Search) area, type services and press Enter.
3. Click Continue button for UAC prompt.
4. Scroll down and right click on Superfetch and click Properties.
A. To Disable Superfetch -
1) Click the Stop button and click Disabled under the Startup type: drop down menu.
2) Click OK.
B. To Enable Superfetch -
1) Click Automatic (Under Startup type) and click the Apply button, then click the Start button.
2) Click OK.
3) Close Services window
1. Restart your computer with either Vista CD 1 or your Vista DVD in the drive, if you don't you will be prompted to pick an operating system. Once into setup, choose repair console from the first screen (not install).Now the last option is for a DOS prompt, pick that. A DOS prompt appears, and type the following:
bootrec.exe /fixmbr
*this will essentially remove XP from the Vista bootloader
bootrec.exe /fixboot
*this will check that XP is no longer present in Vista's boot.ini
Restart and there will be no more XP
2.By using VistaBootPro
If you're running Windows Vista and want to install a second OS or delete a second OS or manage your boot configuration without directly editing the BCDEdit file you might find it tougher than you thought.
Windows Vista has made this task somewhat complicated for most users. VistaBootPRO was developed to make changes to the Windows Vista Boot Configuration Data (BCD) registry quickly and easily, doing the job in a fraction of the time it would take using the alternative.
VistaBootPRO allows users to easily and neatly organize their boot configuration entries from with in all flavors of Windows.
Download VistaBootPro | SysReq:.NET Framework /WinXP/2003/Vista| 1.7MB
3.By using EasyBCD ver 1.7
Download and install EasyBCD. Launch the app and go to Add/Remove Entries. Under Add/Remove an Entries" select the entry to remove .
Download |Freeware |741 KB| Windows XP/Vista
UltraVNC is an easy to use computer program that can display a screen of another computer (via Internet or network) on your screen. UltraVNC will allow users you to use their mouse and keyboard to control the other PC remotely. It means that you can work on a remote computer, as if you were sitting in front of it, right from your current location.
uVNC is extremely full featured and easy to set up. The quality of the image coming across is wonderful, it feels as if you’re sitting right there in front of the computer
|Installation Guidelines |Freeware
World is shrinking, and so are the data storage devices. One common device which every one use is USB devices like thumb drive, PEN drive, USB Hard disks etc...
After floppy disks which were earlier prone to many viruses, now it is time for USB Devices. Below are some safety precautions that you may perform before transferring data from USB devices.
1) When you plug in the USB device in your system (Desktop / Laptop), you will most likely be prompted by a popup window as shown below.
2) Dont select any of them, simply click cancel.
3) Goto Start -> Run and type cmd to open the Comman Prompt window
4) Now double click My Computer Icon (which is usually present in the desktop). It should show the list of drives available in this machine. Check the drive letter of the inserted USB Device. (As in above case it is (I:))
5) Go back to the command prompt and type the drive letter and hit Enter.
6) Now type the below command and hit Enter. This command displays all the hidden files and folders in the current working drive (I: Drive in our case)
I:\> dir/w/o/a/p
7) You will be able to see a list of files, after you run the above command. In the list, check if you see any one of the files mentioned below,
- Autorun.inf
- New Folder.exe
- Bha.vbs
- Iexplore.vbs
- Info.exe
- New_Folder.exe
- Ravmon.exe
- RVHost.exe
or any other unknown .exe files that you are unaware of and you have not copied to the device earlier.
8) If you find any one of the files listed above, you are right!!! you have got a virus in your USB device. Don't panic, it will be transferred to your system and start its duties only when you start copying the files to your computer's hard drive.
9) Now that you have confirmed that you have virus in your USB device, now type the following command and hit enter
I:\> attrib -h-r-s-a *.*
attrib command is for displaying and changing the attributes of the files.
10) Now Delete each of the files that you were not aware of and found to be on the above list by using the below command and hit enter
I:\> del <filename>
For eg. I:\> del Autorun.inf
11) That's it, you did it!!!!!!!! now your USB Device is free of virus.
Note: Some viruses are vulnerable to antivirus softwares. When unnoticed these viruses sits in system registry and doesnot allow the antivirus software to locate the source file. But it generates a virus child file in all the folders of the system. Antivirus software may detect the child file and delete it, but it keeps on generating. It cannot be stopped until source virus file is removed.
A small utility that enables you to remove the Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications tool.
RemoveWGA will enable you to easily remove the Microsoft "Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications" tool, which is calling home and connect to MS servers every time you boot.
SysReq: Windows XP |14KB| Freeware
Like most application launches, Circle Dock comes with a list of icons for frequently used programs, like the Control Panel, your default browser, and the recycling bin. You can add shortcuts by dragging them from your desktop or quick launch bar and customize to your heart's content. 
Circle Dock has a ton of visual customization options as well. You can either display your icons in concentric circles, or as a spiral. You can add a rotating animation effect to the spiral to make yourself dizzy. There are a more than 30 skins to choose from.
This attractive freebie turns the usual ribbon-like dock inside out. Its default shape is a set of concentric circles, but it can also take the form of a spiral. You can further personalize the look with included skins and your own icons. The settings window offers useful tweaks as well, such as conditions for hiding the dock and a Portability Mode that lets you tote Circle Dock on a USB drive
Drag and drop your files, folders, and shortcuts onto a circular or spiral dock.
Rotate the dock with either your mouse wheel or the keyboard arrow keys.
Change the image shown for the icons and change the skins (compatible with icons and skins for Rocket Dock, Object Dock, etc.)
Ability to run the program from a portable USB memory stick and have the links in the dock point to the documents on the USB memory stick.
Ability to synchronize the links on the dock with the files, folders, and shortcuts on your desktop or other folders in real-time.
The dock appears where your mouse is by pressing a hotkey.
Works on computers with multiple monitors
Download |7.81MB |Freeware
Sys Req:
Do you having hard time to safely remove your USB devices from your Windows and often encountered this error message, “The device cannot be stopped right now. Try stopping the device again later”? How can you put an end to this problem?
Well, I frequently ran into the same problem too last time but now not anymore after I’ve found Unlocker. You can read my previous blog entry to learn more about this small but useful utility. Using Unlocker is one of the solutions for this problem. The reason why this happen is that there are still programs that run from the USB device during the moment you try to eject the USB device.
Besides Unlocker, EjectUSB is another essential Windows tool that you can try out. This open-source program will close all programs running from your USB device and then safely eject the USB drive. Click here to see EjectUSB in action. Other functionalities that EjectUSB offers are flushing the file cache, closing Explorer windows and removing registry entries and Recent Document shortcuts referencing the specified USB drive.
To use EjectUSB, you need to first extract the content of the downloaded zip file onto your USB device. Next, you need to run the “EjectUSB.exe” from the USB device that you are attempted to eject. Then, let the program take care the rest of the task. So easy!
EjectUSB is compatible with all Windows OS. If you ask me which one do I prefer between Unlocker and EjectUSB, I will pick EjectUSB.
Download EjectUSB Now! | 252 KB
Do you know where is your Windows XP product key hiding inside the Windows XP CD? If you have no idea where is it, let me show it to you. Follow the instructions below to locate the product key.
Insert Windows XP CD into your computer.
And there you go, your Windows XP Product Key.
To add the Arabic language support in English version of Windows you need to follow these instructions:
double-click on "Regional and Language Options" icon and click on the tab "keyboard and languages". Note: If you add more than one keyboard to the same language; you will notice a keyboard icon in the language bar which enables you to switch between the language keyboards.
Now, I want to show you a better windows XP’s trick. Still, you will learn how to create an invisible folder but now with security protection. You will need to provide password to reveal and open your folder. You will do this without using any software.
If you are interested, just follow the instructions below.
cls
@ECHO OFF
title Folder Personal
if EXIST “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}” goto UNLOCK
if NOT EXIST Personal goto MDLOCKER
:CONFIRM
echo Are you sure u want to Lock the folder(Y/N)
set/p “cho=>”
if %cho%==Y goto LOCK
if %cho%==y goto LOCK
if %cho%==n goto END
if %cho%==N goto END
echo Invalid choice.
goto CONFIRM
:LOCK
ren Personal “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}”
attrib +h +s “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}”
echo Folder locked
goto End
:UNLOCK
echo Enter password to Unlock folder
set/p “pass=>”
if NOT %pass%==pwd123 HERE goto FAIL
attrib -h -s “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}”
ren “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}” Personal
echo Folder Unlocked successfully
goto End
:FAIL
echo Invalid password
goto end
:MDLOCKER
md Personal
echo Personal created successfully
goto End
:End
You can change the name of the password-protected folder. You need to edit the batch file before you run the batch file for the first time, replace the word “Personal” with your desired name. There is a total of 6 words to replace. If you don’t prefer the default password, change the “pwd123″ with your desired password.
Note : Anyone can open the batch file and view your password. For precaution, you might want to keep the batch file on separate directory or on pen drive. When you want to open the password-protected folder, you can copy the batch file to the location where you keep the protected folder and run it.
Besides the emoticons that you frequently use from the emoticon menu on Yahoo! Messenger, there are a set of hidden emoticons that you won’t find in the emoticon menu. Maybe some of you already knew about it, but for those who don’t, please check out the list of available hidden emoticons for Yahoo! Messenger. You can use them by typing the keyboard shortcuts directly into your message.
Those who has Megabytes of sensitive files on the USB drive and seriously concerned with data security cannot imagine their USB stick without the hidden volume that is created using this tool.
Rohos Mini Drive creates hidden and encrypted partition on the USB flash drive memory or on your computer. You work with the files on the hidden partition without opening a special program. Those who have megabytes of sensitive files on the USB drive and seriously concerned with a data security, cannot imagine their USB stick without the hidden volume that is created using this tool.
Main Features:
» Creates a virtual encrypted partition volume (disk) within a USB flash drive free space.
» Automatically detects your USB stick config and creates encrypted partition.
» Program does not require installation to work with encrypted partition on a guest computer. You can start it right from USB drive.
» Encrypted partition is protected by password.
» Encryption is automatic and on-the-fly.
» Encryption algorithm: AES 256 bit key length. NIST approved.
» Rohos Disk Browser to open encrypted partition without having Admin rights
Disk-on notifications helps you to know when this volume is visible or disabled. If you click on the balloon the Explorer window will be opened on the disk.
If you need to open secured volume on a guest computer, you just click Rohos icon on the USB flash drive root folder and enter disk password. Rohos will start a volume and will sit near the system clock to close the disk when you’ll finish. 
Despite the name “Mini” the program provides a decent USB flash drive password protection, has all necessary functions and wonderful user interface.
SysReq:Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/ USB 1.1/2.0 port /USB flash drive
Smart Antivirus 2009 Technical Details
Smart Antivirus 2009 is undoubtedly based on some other tricky stuff. Therefore, there all reasons to suspect this malware in facilitation invasion of related rogues. Subsequently, it is preferable that you apply complex tool to remove Smart Antivirus 2009. Follow the link below to launch free scan for malware and get rid of Smart Antivirus 2009.
Download Smart Antivirus 2009 Removal Tool
Smart Antivirus 2009 manual removal should be successful, provided that all the instructions were applied correctly and in full. However, subject to your skills in managing such tasks, such removal may take too long time as for your opinion. In addition, scan for other malware is recommended to ensure overall safety of your PC.
Remove Smart Antivirus 2009 files and dll’s:
SmartAntivirus2009.exe
Unregister Smart Antivirus 2009 registry values:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SmartAntivirus2009
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SmartAntivirus2009
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “SmartAntivirus2009″
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “SmartAntivirus2009″
Meeting new people and chatting with them on Google Talk can be a very enriching experience. The problem comes when that person and you don’t speak the same language and the communication flow is frequently interrupted by vocabulary lapses and constant dictionary look-ups. Google became aware of this issue and decided to solve it in a really handy way: by enabling a bunch of bots that automatically translate any text you type in into the target language.
The translating bots in Google Talk work in a very simple way. You only have to select the ones you’re interested in from the bot list and add them to your Google Talk contact list, as if they were just another friend. There are quite a few combinations to choose from, and the email address you have to use to add them always follows the same pattern: [source language]2[target language]@bot.talk.google.com. Thus a bot that translates from English to German would be en2de@bot.talk.google.com, one that translates from Spanish to English would be es2en@bot.talk.google.com and soon.
| Languages | Bots | Bots |
| Arabic - English | ar2en | en2ar |
| Bulgarian - English | bg2en | en2bg |
| Czech - English | cs2en | en2cs |
| Danish - English | da2en | en2da |
| German - English | de2en | en2de |
| German - French | de2fr | fr2de |
| Greek - English | el2en | en2el |
| Spanish - English | es2en | en2es |
| Finnish - English | fi2en | en2fi |
| French - English | fr2en | en2fr |
| Hindi - English | hi2en | en2hi |
| Croatian - English | hr2en | en2hr |
| Italian - English | it2en | en2it |
| Japanese - English | ja2en | en2ja |
| Korean - English | ko2en | en2ko |
| Dutch - English | nl2en | en2nl |
| Norwegian - English | no2en | en2no |
| Polish - English | pl2en | en2pl |
| Portuguese- English | pt2en | en2pt |
| Romanian - English | ro2en | en2ro |
| Russian - English | ru2en | en2ru |
| Swedish - English | sv2en | en2sv |
| Chinese - English | zh2en | en2zh |
| Traditional Chinese - English | zh-hant2en | en2zh-hant |
| Traditional Chinese - Chinese | zh-hant2zh | zh2zh-hant |
* don't forget to add @bot.talk.google.com.
Once you’ve added a bot, open a chat with it and type in the sentence you want to translate. The bot will reply with the translation, ready for you to copy on your friend’s chat window. Needless to say, you can use these automatic translations for multiple purposes: from being able to communicate in several languages to playing a joke on a friend or – only for the most cheesy ones – saying “I love you” in a dozen different languages.
I like customizing my computer to a certain extent – wallpapers, fonts, a few colors and that’s it – but some people seem to be addicted to customization. They change almost every element on the PC, from a complete visual theme to the icons used for every single app. Thinking about these customization addicts, I’ve come up with a simple trick that lets you put any text on the system tray, beside the Windows clock. Want to know how?
All you have to do is open the Control Panel and click on the Regional and Language Options icon. Then click on the Customize button on the window that’s just opened and select the Time tab.
This is the Windows time settings menu, but we’re going to use it in a slightly different way: simply use the “AM” and “PM” fields to enter whatever text you want to show up on the system tray. You can type in anything up to 12 characters.
When you’re done, click on the OK button and the text will immediately appear beside the Windows clock. Besides being an ultimate customization tip, you can also use this trick to play a joke on someone.
It’s a crazy situation - and one that you feel only Microsoft could have created - but there are many users who feel that Windows Vista is so bad, they’ve actually gone to the effort of replacing it completely with Windows XP. It’s a controversial step that shouldn’t be taken lightly because Microsoft have now discontinued production of XP.
However, if you’ve decided you just can’t take Vista resource hogging, sluggish performance and software incompatibility issues anymore, here are some steps to downgrade to XP. Windows doesn’t allow you to install an older version of it over a newer one so normally, downgrading would involve a lengthy and drastic blanking and reformatting of your hard drive. However, here’s how to do it in 6 steps without having to reformat anything at all.
1. Backup your entire hard drive - Just in case - I recommend using Norton Ghost.
2. Get an XP installation CD - You’ll either have to buy this or borrow it from a friend.
3. Insert the disc into your drive - You’ll be prompted if you want to to “boot from disk”
4. Press “R” while XP is booting - Enter your admin password to get the XP Recovery Console
5. Prepare your hard drive - Type the following commands remembering to press Enter after each one: “fixboot, fixmbr, cd \, ren windows winvista, exit”.
6. After restart boot from the XP CD - Continue with XP setup normally and you’re done!
The only thing that’s left to do is manually move all of your old folders and documents from the old C:\Winvista folder to your new C:\WinXP folder. Of course, you’ll also have to install any programs or applications again but this is a far more expedient and hassle free way of downgrading to Vista without formatting your hard drive.
