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Remember the Milk + Gmail = Task Management Nirvana

December 23rd, 2007

You would have already came across Remember the Milk, an online task management software. Guess what ever since I have started using Remember the Milk…. in one word its “priceless”.

Remember the Milk + Gmail = Task Management Nirvana

I’m pretty sure you are loving this, Remember the Milk directly integrates into Gmail, so you can manage your tasks right besides your emails. It full integrates with your contacts , and calendar contacts, and Google Calendar events).

Once installed, you’ll see a new pane over to the right also know as the Tasks pane, which lets you customize to show tasks, sort tasks or to group the tasks.

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How to Make VLC Player to Work in Vista?

December 21st, 2007

VLC player is my favorite media player not just because its a free, open source alternative to WMP or other alternatives, but due the fact that it supports almost all audio or video files out there. But the problem is that it doesn’t always work correctly on Windows Vista.

Normally you would face problem with some video extensions. But with some small tweaks, I’m sure it will work in most cases.

1:First up, open VLC Player, Click Settings -> Preferences

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Installing Mac OSX Leopard on your Intel PC.

December 20th, 2007

Thanks to skilled hackers or I should say geeks! Leopard comes to your PC. Well it happens because the latest patched Leopard DVD comes with the amazing PC-EFI built in. For all those novices out there, PC-EFI allows users to enjoy OS X on normal PC’s without compromising on features or future updates.

With the EFI patch, the hackintosh can boot off “vanilla” (unmodified) OS X kernel and use vanilla kexts, which gives a more clean room and great peace of mind for future system updates.

To Know more about PC-EFI visit the OSX86 Wiki.

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Restart Windows from Task Manager! No hard resets

December 19th, 2007

You might have encounter Windows completely freezing not letting you even open the start menu to restart. Doing a hard reset isn’t good for your PC components especially the hard drive. Here’s how you could restart your PC without having to do severe damage to your PC.

You can bring up Task Manager using the following keys:

  • Hit Ctrl+Alt+Del and click on Task Manager
  • Hit Ctrl+Shift+Esc to bring up Task Manager

Restart Windows from Task Manager! No hard resets

Once the Task Manager pops up, you could either restart or shutdown a hung process from the process list, or you could click on Shutdown> Restart to restart the computer.

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Mac OSX Expose clone for Windows Vista

December 17th, 2007

As you would probably know Expose is an application for Mac OSX which lets you quickly tile windows and with a flick of a key you could go to your desired window. But hey could we do that with Windows Vista too….. Yes! you can. With a cool application named Switcher your life could be little easier.

Switcher lets you select between three views firstly, default tiled view that Mac purists are accustomed to.

Mac OSX Expose clone for Windows Vista

Next up is the Dock view that is more like a switching between tiles in a parallel manner on the top of the desktop. All you need is to hit the tab key to switch between windows.

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Search for MegaUpload and Rapidshare files using Google

December 15th, 2007

No chit chat i go straight to the details.

For MegaUpload, put the following in Google:

Video files:
avi|mpg|mpeg|wmv|rmvb site:megaupload.com

Music files:

mp3|ogg|wma site:megaupload.com

Programs/Applications files:

zip|rar|exe site:megaupload.com

eBooks files:

pdf|rar|zip|doc|lit site:megaupload.com

For Rapidshare, put the following in Google:

Video files:

avi|mpg|mpeg|wmv|rmvb site:rapidshare.de

Music files:

mp3|ogg|wma site:rapidshare.de

Programs/Applications files:

zip|rar|exe site:rapidshare.de

eBooks files:

pdf|rar|zip|doc|lit site:rapidshare.de

You can narrow down you search for what you looking for in the first part of your code. Say if you searching for Linux Tutorials in Rapidshare use the query:

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How to Hide Drives in Windows XP

December 15th, 2007

Ever wondered if its possible to hide a particular disk drive (disk partition) that houses your important documents that you don’t want to expose. Hell…yeah! you can hide them. Windows Xp has a simple utility that does just that.

  1. Go to Start > Run > Type “diskpart”
  2. after a command prompt window comes type in “list volume“.
  3. Now for example you wanna hide C, then type “select volume 2
  4. Now type “remove letter C” (most cases it works instantly, but sometimes restart may be required)

How to Hide Drives in Windows XP

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