By holding down alt, then typing numbers on the number pad (right of the keyboard) you can create special characters. If you hold down alt, then press 1, then let go, you got the ascii character 1. You try some randomn numbers. This goes all the way up to 255. Open a dos prompt, and type md (alt+1+9+4)someword. md is the dos command to make a directoy, now try and open the directory in Windows, you can't. To open it, type ren (alt+1+9+4)someword someword (ren is the dos command to rename).
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Create Ringtones Online
Cellsea is a web based Ringtone maker. Using their cool service you can quickly create ringtones for yourself by uploading your audio files (MP3, MIDI, M4A and AAC are supported). If your lazy to upload, they will get the audio file for your from a remote URL or even a Google Search.
After uploading, you can crop your audio files and listen to preview before sending it to production. The ringtone will be saved to Dashboard, you can either download it to your machine and then upload it to your cellphone over Bluetooth, Data Cable or IR. An simpler alternative would be point your browser to wap.cellsea.com and then entering your download code.
Note: The maximum upload size for audio files is just 5 MB, since most MP3s thesedays are under 5 MB, this shouldn’t be an issue.
After uploading, you can crop your audio files and listen to preview before sending it to production. The ringtone will be saved to Dashboard, you can either download it to your machine and then upload it to your cellphone over Bluetooth, Data Cable or IR. An simpler alternative would be point your browser to wap.cellsea.com and then entering your download code.
Note: The maximum upload size for audio files is just 5 MB, since most MP3s thesedays are under 5 MB, this shouldn’t be an issue.
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Mobile Phones Tips
Find the IP address of the sender in Gmail, Yahoo! mail or Hotmail
When you receive an email, you receive more than just the message. The email comes with headers that carry important information that can tell where the email was sent from and possibly who sent it. For that, you would need to find the IP address of the sender. The tutorial below can help you find the IP address of the sender. Note that this will not work if the sender uses anonymous proxy servers.
Finding IP address in Gmail
1. Log into your Gmail account with your username and password.
2. Open the mail.
3. To display the headers,
* Click on More options corresponding to that thread. You should get a bunch of links.
* Click on Show original.
4. You should get headers like this:
Gmail headers : name
Look for Received: from followed by a few hostnames and an IP address between square brackets. In this case, it is - 65.119.112.245. That is be the IP address of the sender!
5. Track the IP address of the sender.
Finding IP address in Yahoo! Mail
1. Log into your Yahoo! mail with your username and password.
2. Click on Inbox or whichever folder you have stored your mail.
3. Open the mail.
4. If you do not see the headers above the mail message, your headers are not displayed. To display the headers,
* Click on Options on the top-right corner.
* In the Mail Options page, click on General Preferences.
* Scroll down to Messages where you have the Headers option.
* Make sure that Show all headers on incoming messages is selected.
* Click on the Save button.
* Go back to the mails and open that mail.
5. You should see similar headers like this:
Yahoo! headers : name
Look for Received: from followed by the IP address between square brackets [ ]. Here, it is 202.65.138.109. That is be the IP address of the sender!
6. Track the IP address of the sender.
Finding IP address in Hotmail
1. Log into your Hotmail account with your username and password.
2. Click on the Mail tab on the top.
3. Open the mail.
4. If you do not see the headers above the mail message, your headers are not displayed. To display the headers,
* Click on Options on the top-right corner.
* In the Mail Options page, click on Mail Display Settings.
* In Message Headers, make sure Advanced option is checked.
* Click on Ok button.
* Go back to the mails and open that mail.
5. If you find a header with X-Originating-IP: followed by an IP address, that is the sender's IP address Hotmail headers : name, In this case the IP address of the sender is [68.34.60.59]. Jump to step 9.
6. If you find a header with Received: from followed by a Gmail proxy like this
Hotmail headers : name
Look for Received: from followed by IP address within square brackets[].
In this case, the IP address of the sender is [69.140.7.58]. Jump to step 9.
7. Or else if you have headers like this
Hotmail headers : name
Look for Received: from followed by IP address within square brackets[].
In this case, the IP address of the sender is [61.83.145.129] (Spam mail). Jump to step 9.
8. * If you have multiple Received: from headers, eliminate the ones that have proxy.anyknownserver.com.
9. Track the IP address of the sender.
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Speed up your internet by 20%
Microsoft reserves 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes like Windows Updates and interrogating your PC etc.
You can get it back:
Click Start then Run and type "gpedit.msc" without quotes. This opens the group policy editor. Then go to:
Local Computer Policy>Computer Configuration>Administrative Templates>Network>QOS Packet Scheduler>Limit Reservable Bandwidth.
Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the 'Explain' tab i.e."By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default."So the trick is to ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO. This will allow the system to reserve nothing, rather than the default 20%.It works on Win 2000 as well.
You can get it back:
Click Start then Run and type "gpedit.msc" without quotes. This opens the group policy editor. Then go to:
Local Computer Policy>Computer Configuration>Administrative Templates>Network>QOS Packet Scheduler>Limit Reservable Bandwidth.
Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the 'Explain' tab i.e."By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default."So the trick is to ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO. This will allow the system to reserve nothing, rather than the default 20%.It works on Win 2000 as well.
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Secret Codes of Nokia 5110
WARNING :
Using secret codes may be harmful to your phone and result in disabling or worse. One of our users had that bad experience.
IEMI
If you need to know the IMEI code of your phone, simply press:
* # 06 #
To get additional information from your phone you can use the so called "warranty code", try typing:
*#92702689#(= *#war0anty#).
Now you are in service menu where you'll find:
1 IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identification)
2 Made MM/YY (date of production of the phone mm/yy)
3 Purchasing Date (here you can enter the date of purchase. If you enter an incorrect date, you cannot correct it later !
4 Repaired (date of repair, if there was one)
5 Transfer user data?
*3370# EFR will be activated after a reboot of the phone ( consumes more power )
#3370# EFR will be switched off after a reboot of the phone.
*4720# Half Rate coded will be activated after a reboot of the phone ( better standby time )
#4720# Half Rate coded will be de-activated after a reboot of the phone
If you press the "Power on" button for a short moment, the menu with the profiles is shown on the display.
If you press one more time, the mobile turns itself off.
You can use the up and down cursor keys to scroll and enable a different alert setting.
Using secret codes may be harmful to your phone and result in disabling or worse. One of our users had that bad experience.
IEMI
If you need to know the IMEI code of your phone, simply press:
* # 06 #
To get additional information from your phone you can use the so called "warranty code", try typing:
*#92702689#(= *#war0anty#).
Now you are in service menu where you'll find:
1 IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identification)
2 Made MM/YY (date of production of the phone mm/yy)
3 Purchasing Date (here you can enter the date of purchase. If you enter an incorrect date, you cannot correct it later !
4 Repaired (date of repair, if there was one)
5 Transfer user data?
*3370# EFR will be activated after a reboot of the phone ( consumes more power )
#3370# EFR will be switched off after a reboot of the phone.
*4720# Half Rate coded will be activated after a reboot of the phone ( better standby time )
#4720# Half Rate coded will be de-activated after a reboot of the phone
If you press the "Power on" button for a short moment, the menu with the profiles is shown on the display.
If you press one more time, the mobile turns itself off.
You can use the up and down cursor keys to scroll and enable a different alert setting.
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Secret Codes of Nokia 8810/8850/8210
WARNING:
Using secret codes may be harmful to your phone and result in disabling or worse. One of our users had that bad experience.
IMEI number
*#06#
Software Version
*#0000#
1st Line - Software Version
2nd Line - Date of Software release
3rd Line - Phone Type.
Serial Number
*#92702689#
1st Screen - Date of phone manufacture
2nd Screen - Serial #, IMEI
3rd Screen - Purchasing date
4th Screen - Last Repair Date.
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Secret Codes of Nokia 6110/6150
WARNING:
Using secret codes may be harmful to your phone and result in disabling or worse. One of our users had that bad experience.
IMEI number
*#06#
Software Version
*#0000#
1st Line - Software Version
2nd Line - Date of Software release
3rd Line - Phone Type.
Serial Number
*#92702689#
1st Screen - Date of phone manufacture
2nd Screen - Serial #, IMEI
3rd Screen - Purchasing date
4th Screen - Last Repair Date.
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Mobile Phones Tips
Friday, December 14, 2007
Get rid of Shortcut Arrow from Desktop Icons
Have you ever noticed shortcut icons in desktop ? It has an arrow in the corner of each icon. Today’s tips will let you remove it completely. OK, let you follow the steps.
1. Open the Registry Editor program by running regedit, click Start > Run and type regedit then press Enter.
2. Find the key path.
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile
3. Click on the lnkfile folder, you will see IsShortcut key in the right page like the picture below.
4. Right click on IsShortcut and choose Delete. Click Yes button.
5. Log off and then Log on Windows XP again.
6. Now the shortcut arrows are disappeared.
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Computer Tips
Hide specific Drives
This tutorial illustrates how to hide and show your computer drives from Windows XP. You can hide or show as you want both drives in your computer and drives in the computer network. This way can be safe for data in your computer and prevent others from accessing to your drives that may contain important information. This example I will hide drive D and you can apply this method to another drive you want, just change a value that I will explain “how to” in detail. Let you hide drives now.
1. Access to the Registry Editor program, running regedit.
2. Find the path like below,
HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Software>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Policies>Explorer
3. Right click on the Explorer folder and select New > DWORD Value.
4. Name the registry NoDrives.
5. Double click on NoDrives which is in the right page.
6. In the DWORD Value window, select Decimal.
7. In this case I want to hide drive D, so I must fill 8 in Value data. The number you filled varies with drive you want it to be hidden. If you want to hide the other drives, you must put the drive-related number like below,
Note :
A=1, B=2, C=4, D=8, E=16, F=32, G=64, H=128, I=256, J=512, K=1024, L=2048, M=4096, N=8192, O=16384, P=32768, Q=65536, R=131072, S=262144, T=524288, U=1048576, V=2097152, W=4194304, X=8388608, Y=16777216, Z=33554432, All drive=67108863
For example, I can hide drive J only if I put the number 512 under selecting Decimal. What to do in case I prefer to hide more than one drive ? That is easy just plus the numbers. To illustrate, I want to hide drive C and E so I put the result number of 4 plus 16 that is 20.
8. Click OK button and close the Registry Editor program.
9. Log off and Log on your computer. Finish !
1. Access to the Registry Editor program, running regedit.
2. Find the path like below,
HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Software>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Policies>Explorer
3. Right click on the Explorer folder and select New > DWORD Value.
4. Name the registry NoDrives.
5. Double click on NoDrives which is in the right page.
6. In the DWORD Value window, select Decimal.
7. In this case I want to hide drive D, so I must fill 8 in Value data. The number you filled varies with drive you want it to be hidden. If you want to hide the other drives, you must put the drive-related number like below,
Note :
A=1, B=2, C=4, D=8, E=16, F=32, G=64, H=128, I=256, J=512, K=1024, L=2048, M=4096, N=8192, O=16384, P=32768, Q=65536, R=131072, S=262144, T=524288, U=1048576, V=2097152, W=4194304, X=8388608, Y=16777216, Z=33554432, All drive=67108863
For example, I can hide drive J only if I put the number 512 under selecting Decimal. What to do in case I prefer to hide more than one drive ? That is easy just plus the numbers. To illustrate, I want to hide drive C and E so I put the result number of 4 plus 16 that is 20.
8. Click OK button and close the Registry Editor program.
9. Log off and Log on your computer. Finish !
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Thursday, November 22, 2007
How to Create a Control Panel components Desktop Shortcut
Control Panel menu in Windows XP has many components, such as User Accounts, Add/remove programs, Security Center, and many more. Now, the question is, how to create a desktop shortcut for the componenets? If you find yourself using any of these frequently, and you want to access them from the desktop, you should be create a shortcut, but how?
Follow this simple step: First, go to this directory ---> \WINDOWS\System32, and find these files:
appwiz.cpl -----> Add/Remove Programs
desk.cpl -------> Display Properties
firewall.cpl ---> Firewall Settings
inetcpl.cpl ----> Internet Options
mmsys.cpl -----> Sound and Audio
ncpa.cpl ------> Network Connections
nusrmgr.cpl ----> User Accounts
powercfg.cpl ---> Power Options
sysdm.cpl ------> System Properties
wscui.cpl ------> Security Center
wuaucpl.cpl ----> Automatic Updates Configuration
Those are control panel components files. To create the shortcut, you just right click the files, and then choose Send To ---> Desktop (Create Shortcut), now, in your desktop was added a shortcut that refer to control panel components you have choosen. If you want, you can change the icon of the shortcut with windows standard icon or the icon you were created...
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Computer Tips
Removing Properties Menu on "My Computer"
"My Computer" context menu (will be appear when we pushed right click of "My Computer"), by default, will shown properties menu. As we known, in the properties menu of "My Computer", there are some important setting for computer. I will tell you how to make the properties menu disappear from "My Computer" context menu. These are the instruction you can do:
Open Registry Editor by click (Start > Run), then type regedit. Find the following key on your registry editor:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Software>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Policies>Explorer
Then create new DWORD Value on the key. Then give the value name by NoPropertiesMyComputer. Double click the value, and set the data value by 1. Close the registry editor. Logout from your account or restart your PC to take the effect. Now when you log in again, there isn't properties on "My Computer" Context Menu.
Hope this could help you!!!
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Computer Tips
Blocking Application to Prevent from Execution
Now I will give you a trick, that's blocking application to restrict it to execution. This is an useful trick I think to System Administrator or who have a PC that they want to protect their privacy...
Open your registry editor, then find the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Software>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Policies>Explorer
If you have found the key, add new DWORD Value and rename it to be DisallowRun. Double click the value and set data value to be 1. Then create new subkey under Explorer key, so the complete key will be like this:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Software>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Policies>Explorer> DisallowRun
On DisallowRun key, create new String Value, and rename it to be (example: application1). Double click the value and set the data value by application that you want to block. Example winamp.exe, cmd.exe, or regedit.exe. Close your registry editor. Logout or restart PC to take the effect.
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