Tricks

Bypass 140 Character Limit in Twitter

Twitter is an awesome tool which increases your site reader but one thing which I don’t like about Twitter is that it has a 140 characters limit. So using this loop-hole of Twitter another site called PageTweet , will help you out to bypass 140 character limit. What it actually does is make you enter your message along with your url and nickname and then gives you a short url for that message.

Wherever You Go, Carry Your PC With You (But How??)

You will be quite amazed to view the heading but how can you actually carry your PC with you. This post will give you the easiest way to install almost every application on your USB 2.0 storage device, such as iPods, USB flash drives, portable hard drives, USB-enabled cell phones, and USB-enabled digital cameras. MojoPac turns any USB 2.0 into a portable computing environment. MojoPac is a software virtulization product that supports popular applications such as Firefox and Microsoft Office, and it is also high performance enough to run popular PC Games such as World of Warcraft and Half-Life 2.

Create Dummy Folder and Protect Pen Drive from Viruses

The protection of pen drive from viruses,trojans etc. is a matter of utmost importance as they carry a lot of useful stuff in a small space. But if you are using your pen drive on public computers there are high chances that you can caught by viruses. So what will you do? Read this post for the best possible solution that I found while surfing on net.Well the basic concept that why virus attack the pen drives is that they contain some amount of free space which makes the virus to attck and copy itself in the drive and harm the executable files.

Easily Resize a Partition in Windows Vista

Well as you all might be aware that the softwares like Partition Magic don’t work in Windows Vista, you will have to look to different approach which I am going to mention in my today’s post. To do this follow the following steps: Click on the Start menu and Right click on Computer and click on Manage.  Click continue to give the permission. Expand the storage and click the Disk Management where, you will find your partitions for your disks.

Hide Items in TaskBar

There are ‘n’ number of situations where you don’t want anyone to jump to your shoulder and see what are you doing(I don’t ask why!!!!). So what you do is ,you close that window!!. What if you have a option so that you don’t have to close that window and also retain your privacy. So providing you with the software Hide-Win. This is a freeware and you can upgrade to HideWindowsPlus by going to the site mentioned below.

Gtalk Shortcuts

****This post will provide you the shortcut for the most popular IM, Google Talk. This will enhance your Geeky capabilities. All in all these all 18 shortcuts which I m going to provide you. For writing anything bold, just include that word into asterisks e.g. *Go Hi-Tech* will become Go Hi-Tech For writing anything in italics, just include them in underscores e.g. _Go Hi-Tech_ will become Go Hi-Tech CTRL + Mousewheel up/down will change the font size in a conversation window.

Keyboard Shortcuts For Windows Media Player and Winamp

By using these keys, you can increase the working speed in media player, otherwise require a conventional mouse to select menus and buttons options. Basically keyboard shortcuts keys help you to save time and you can perform any tasks without leaving the keyboard keys. WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER Shortcut keys Action ALT+1 Adjust zoom to 50 percent ALT+2 Adjust zoom to 100 percent ALT+3 Adjust zoom to 200 percent

Customize Your Send to Menu

Right clicking on any folder and then pointing to Send to menu reduces our job of doing Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V to some extent only. We have a limited number of options by default like Bluetooth device, Compressed zipped folder, desktop, documents and mail recipients. But many of you don’t know that the send to menu is also customizable. To do this just type the following code in the search bar of Windows Vista Start Menu without the quotes “%UserProfile%\Appdata\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Sendto” Once you type that in, you should arrive at the Send To folder.

Reduce your Typing Effort by Using Texter

Texter is an AutoHot key script made by LifeHacker.com. It is a very great tool for all bloggers and also good to try out for some of the people, who feels lazy about typing. You can get the download link and more details about how to use this software at LifeHacker website.From here you can get its source code as well as an installation package. I’ve made a short video on how to add a string to Texter, you can see that here.

Convert an Ebook to Audio Book

Now in this Electronic going world, people are shifting towards E-books and Audio books, as they are portable and available Free on site such as Project Gutenberg. Recently , I was reading some E-book and found that it will effect my I eyes, as I was watching it on my PC. So, I thought of a way to convert an E-book to Audio book and Googled it out.