Windows Media Player - Cool gadget!

Windows Media Player is perhaps one of the world’s most simplest and elegant media players. It’s an inescapable part of the Windows experience. No matter how many players are there which are more classy and more featured, yet there is nothing more simple that windows media player on the Internet, it’s hard to resist the urge to turn to the simple, no-fuss attraction of good old WMP.It works without much fuss and it plays your files without hassle.

Today we have rounded up 10 tips that will surely help you get more out of your windows media player.

Enable Streaming

Subtitles

Not only is it in your best interests to make sure that your system is set up for Homegroup sharing (click “Stream” and the “Turn on media streaming…” option), but you’ll also want to enable the back-and-forth connections that allow WMP to automatically see other devices on your network (and vice versa). Hit up the Network and Sharing Center via your Control Panel and click on “Advanced Sharing Settings” on the left side of the window. Turn on Network Discovery and Media Streaming.

Removing Library Restrictions

BM Productions is two-for-two in this little Windows Media Player tome of knowledge. The creators of the aforementioned Windows Media Player Plus! Application are at it again, armed this time with a plug-in that gives your common application access to even more file formats than it could previously support!

Yes, that’s right. Their plug-in called WMP Tag Plus will unlock the ability to add MPEG-4, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, and WavPack files into your WMP library. You won’t be able to play them, however—check out some of the “additional packages” that BM Productions recommends if you really want WMP to be your default audio gateway for your massive FLAC collection. Shoot, we were happy enough to be able to edit FLAC metadata within WMP.

Hotkeys

It’s not that difficult to use Windows Media Player’s built-in hotkeys to control elements like song playback, rewinding, looping, et cetera. So what’s the problem? You have to actually switch over to the application in order to use said shortcuts—you can’t just jam CTRL+P inside any window to pause or play a particular song in question.

WMPKeys fixes that by giving you new, global hotkeys for a few of WMP’s more commonly used features. Mash the correct combination and you’ll be able to skip tracks, play music, and even rate songs no matter what window or application you’re staring at.

Lock Your PC

Let’s face it. Life is short. One doesn’t always have time to pause a sound file or otherwise stop one’s jam session when more important issues beckon for whatever reason. That’s where the third-party app MonitorES comes into the picture. If you have to jet away for a period of time, just lock your PC (with the handy Windows Key+L shortcut combination, to note). MonitorES will not only pause your music in Windows Media Player, but it’ll also flip your monitor off and set the status of your instant messaging clients to whatever you’d like. Easy as pie.

Codecs

Good question. If you go to play a movie file on your hard drive, only to find that Windows Media Player is giving you the soundtrack instead of the visual picture to go with it, then odds are pretty good that you lack the appropriate digital resources to decode your file into an actual video. In short, you’re missing the right codec.

Rather than get trapped in the big, “should you install them or not?” argument when it comes to codecs, we will leave you with this: the Combined Community Codec Pack is easy to install, simple to set up, and comes with no external trappings, obtrusive toolbars, or annoying clutter. If you want to watch every video under the sun, install it!

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Be A Smart Web Surfer

Internet or Web is the endless source of information and entertainment! One of the most powerful inventions of twentinth century that touches lives on every corner of the globe where there is habitats of people. Most amzing part of the Internet revolution around the globe that its cheap. So every other day the net traffic increases by leaps and bounce.
But its not trouble free! Security of your invaluable data are often in danger. So if you are a new Internet user please remember the security risks you may face at the Web.Identity theft, Email Spamming, Chat Room etc are some of the common traps people fall in to. One only needs to be careful while surfing Internet in order to save time and to remain at the safer side. If you are someone wanting to start your web journey then make a note of these common mistakes to avoid when surfing online.

Make sure you always have updated antivirus software in place.

Avoid accessing account through any email link as it can be risky. If the email turns out to be fraudulent then cyber criminal will have access to your account information.

Avoid using unsafe site that does not come with term ‘https‘. The “S” stands for secure and you should always make note of it before accessing any site.

Avoid login on third party applications which require email logins.

Avoid downloading free stuffs such as screen saver and those stupid smiley faces. Such things are very dangerous to your PC and you will soon notice it has turned slow then earlier. Sites like microsoft.com are safe to use.

Be careful with those phishing mails, they may create a sense of urgency as “Your Account is in Risk” or an “Unauthorized transaction has taken place” so send your account details. Remember any bank will not ask your account detail via mail.

Always check with your bank if they have any additional security for your online transactions, such as IPIN’s or Zero liability card.

Avoid clicking on pop-ups that says “Your Pc is Insecure”, such links can have malware automatically downloaded to your PC.

Always have your CC details save in real world. Do not share it with anybody via sending mails or over even on telephone.

Never forget to delete the system’s cache, passwords or history, it could easily lead to identity theft and stolen bank and email information.

You have won a lottery and or an IPod are the common terms used by spammers to trap you, avoid falling to such traps.

Don’t ever click on the Close window without logging of your account especially if you are at cybercafé for accessing Internet then you are more at risk.

Always blacklist the spammers you come across in mails without just deleting the spam mails.

Avoid having single password or PINs for accessing all your online accounts, this can again lead to identity theft.

Avoid believing in those brainless “Microsoft Is Sharing Its Fortune” kind of mail, they are just spammers requiring your details to trouble you more.

Never forget to scan the attachment you receive in your mail box. Virus attacks are mostly through such attachments.

Always have a habit of not clicking on phishing email, the goal of phisher is to fool you for entering your details into something that actually appears to be safe and secure, but in reality is just a fake site set up by the scammer.

Avoid giving your full name, home address, phone number, Social Security number, passwords, names of family members, credit card numbers online. Best is to remain anonymous and enjoy surfing

Always have a back up for your emails just as how you keep a hard copy of your important docs and other things.

Social networking sites are something we cannot avoid these days, yet it is always secure to follow known person on Twitter or to add on Facebook. Don’t forget to do security check if you tend to add unknown person.

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Who is This Girl?

Name: Kristina Svechinskaya
Address: hmm... guyz please don't chase........
Phone No: Well see at the last..........
Who is She?/What she does?
(please find in this page!)



Guyz! I'm too shy to tell my address or phone no. Kisses.....



She is the Prettiest known hacker till today! What she hacks? Guyz! don't lie...tell us didn't she hacked your hearts!!



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The Powerhouse - Google!

Amazing things You Could Do with Google

Google is amazing . There are some things you probably didn’t know Google can do. Take your time and read the information below. You’ll likely learn a few tips and tricks that will make you appreciate Google even more.

10. Find a beautiful wallpaper for your desktop resolution with Google images

Here’s how you do it:

1. Go to Advanced Image Search
2. Next to “Exact size” click on “Use my desktop resolution”. Then, next to “Content types” select “Photo content.”
3. Enter some words. If you want to find cows, enter beautiful cows Let’s see the results:

Notice that many of the images in the results are from wallpaper sites. Google Images makes it very convenient to go through these types of sites and browse them like a gallery instead of going to each gallery site separately.

9. Create unlimited disposable email addresses with Gmail

Take the following example:

That’s right, you can add one or more dots ANYWHERE between your username and send messages to that ‘new’ email. All of those messages will arrive to your old (without dots) email. Hard to explain without a picture. But somehow Google did find a way to do it…

Sometimes you may receive a message sent to an address that looks like yours but has a different number or arrangement of periods. While we know it might be unnerving if you think someone else’s mail is being routed to your account, don’t worry: both of these addresses are yours.
Gmail doesn’t recognize dots as characters within usernames, you can add or remove the dots from a Gmail address without changing the actual destination address; they’ll all go to your inbox, and only yours. In short:

• homerjsimpson@gmail.com = hom.er.j.sim.ps.on@gmail.com
• homerjsimpson@gmail.com = HOMERJSIMPSON@gmail.com
• homerjsimpson@gmail.com = Homer.J.Simpson@gmail.com

All these addresses belong to the same person. You can see this if you try to sign in with your username, but adding or removing a dot from it. You’ll still go to your account.

Yep, this is an explanation from Google itself. Now that you understand this, let’s keep going.

8. Search videos durations using Google Video

I’ve noticed there’s not a single video site that allows you to search videos by duration. Let’s say I want to learn Spanish and I want comprehensive videos for that (longer than 20 minutes.) To search, I go to Google Advanced Video Search page and select “Long” next to “Duration”. Here’s what happens:

Now all that’s left is to get some free time and watch those…

7. Want to find an iPad alternative using Google Search?

Sure, you can write ‘iPad alternative’ in Google but that won’t give you the best results. Instead, try this:

Using “better than product” where product=any product will give you not only alternatives but better alternatives to a particular product. Very cool.

6. Detect any unknown language with Google Language Detector

I have a big problem:

What’s the solution? Google language detector.

Another good way to detect and also translate is to use Google Translate and the “Detect Language” option:

5. See what the Dutch haven been searching for recently using Google Insights

Google is the most popular search engine in almost any country in the world. Google Insights (like the name suggests) gives you ‘insights’ of what people have been searching for around the world. For example, Netherlands:

Hyves is a Dutch portal and social network. Weer seems to be a weather portal.

4. When did Google become more popular than Microsoft? Google Trends has the answer

Google Trends helps you discover the trends on various topics and see what people have been searching for over time. In this case, you can see when people started searching for Google more than Microsoft in early 2005.

3. Hate opening PDF files? Google Docs is the solution

So you’ve been searching on Google for a particular topic and found a PDF file:

Instead of opening the file in Adobe Reader (which is a painful process), you can click on “Quick View” and open the file in Google Docs! It takes seconds to open and it’s way more flexible. If you choose later, you can always save the file as PDF by choosing the export option in Google Docs.

2. Scan and Read your RSS feeds like email messages in Google Reader

You probably know how easy it is to open and read email messages in Gmail thanks to the list view. Well, you can do the same in Google Reader:

The default view in Google Reader is ‘expanded’ which makes the items pretty difficult to scan and read. If you change the view from expanded to ‘list’, then it becomes WAY easier to SCAN items and pick what you like.

1. Google can tell you the answer to life and the universe

I wish it was so simple

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Explore Windows XP hidden commands

Delve a bit deeper and uncover some of Windows XP’s
secrets.

1. It boasts how long it can stay up. Whereas previous
versions of Windows were coy about how long they went
between boots, XP is positively proud of its stamina.
Go to the Command Prompt in the Accessories menu from
the All Programs start button option, and then type
‘systeminfo’. The computer will produce a lot of
useful info, including the uptime. If you want to keep
these, type ‘systeminfo > info.txt‘. This creates a
file called info.txt you can look at later with
Notepad. (Professional Edition only).
2. You can delete files immediately, without having
them move to the Recycle Bin first. Go to the Start
menu, select Run… and type ‘ gpedit.msc‘; then select
User Configuration, Administrative Templates, Windows
Components, Windows Explorer and find the Do not move
deleted files to the Recycle Bin setting. Set it.
Poking around in gpedit will reveal a great many
interface and system options, but take care — some
may stop your computer behaving as you wish.
(Professional Edition only).
3. You can lock your XP workstation with two clicks of
the mouse. Create a new shortcut on your desktop using
a right mouse click, and enter ‘rundll32.exe
user32.dll,LockWorkStation‘ in the location field.
Give the shortcut a name you like. That’s it — just
double click on it and your computer will be locked.
And if that’s not easy enough, Windows key + L will do
the same.
4. XP hides some system software you might want to
remove, such as Windows Messenger, but you can tickle
it and make it disgorge everything. Using Notepad or
Edit, edit the text file /windows/inf/sysoc.inf,
search for the word ‘hide‘ and remove it. You can then
go to the Add or Remove Programs in the Control Panel,
select Add/Remove Windows Components and there will be
your prey, exposed and vulnerable.
5. For those skilled in the art of DOS batch files, XP
has a number of interesting new commands. These
include ‘eventcreate‘ and ‘eventtriggers‘ for creating
and watching system events, ‘typeperf’ for monitoring
performance of various subsystems, and ‘schtasks’ for
handling scheduled tasks. As usual, typing the command
name followed by /? will give a list of options –
they’re all far too baroque to go into here.
6. XP has IP version 6 support — the next generation
of IP. Unfortunately this is more than your ISP has,
so you can only experiment with this on your LAN. Type
‘ipv6 install‘ into Run… (it’s OK, it won’t ruin
your existing network setup) and then ‘ipv6 /?‘ at the
command line to find out more. If you don’t know what
IPv6 is, don’t worry and don’t bother.
7. You can at last get rid of tasks on the computer
from the command line by using ‘taskkill /pid‘ and the
task number, or just ‘tskill’ and the process number.
Find that out by typing ‘tasklist’, which will also
tell you a lot about what’s going on in your system.
8. XP will treat Zip files like folders, which is nice
if you’ve got a fast machine. On slower machines, you
can make XP leave zip files well alone by typing
‘regsvr32 /u zipfldr.dll‘ at the command line. If you
change your mind later, you can put things back as
they were by typing ‘regsvr32 zipfldr.dll‘.

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How to Make Laptop Screen Transparent!

You may say it’s impossible but everything is possible with creativity.
Here are detailed instructions on how to do it







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