Its long when Gadgets has been covered here, So this time Inforids.com brings to absolutely amazing remote controlled LED-based hard drive clock build by a Polish tinkerer. The way this hard drive is used with LEDs is very unique to show you the time. Check it out.
The work put to build this, is really appreciable. Nice work, Polish tinkerer.
CDs, DVDs & PenDrives containing viruses or malwares make use of the AutoRun feature in Windows to infect your computer as soon as they were loaded. AutoRun was introduced with Windows 95 so a CD or DVD that contained a file called autorun.inf would start up when it was loaded in the CD drive.
AutoPlay was added in Windows XP and is also in Windows Vista. AutoPlay brings up a dialog box when any removable media like CDs, external hard drives or USB memory sticks are attached to the computer. The dialog box gives the user a list of possible actions like open as a folder, cancel, autorun a file, and more.
For the computer user who wants to avoid all possible means of having his or her computer infected the safest thing is to turn off autorun or autoplay.
Go with the following simple steps to turn off Autorun in Windows:
1. Go to Start, Click Run & type gpedit.msc and click OK.
2. It will open the Windows Group Policy. Now in the Group Policy, Click Administrative Templates,
Then Double click on Turn Off Autoplay.
3. Now In the Autorun Properties just popped, select Enabled & then select All Drives in the drop down.
Thats it. Now your windows is safe from unexpected viruses & malwares that infect the windows services using the Autorun feature.
India is a land of Innovators who are changing the world by contributing in business, in technology & to the society. Innovations are leading industries & businesses to explore new arenas with greater bounds & fueling competition driven environment globally. There are foundations which are seeking latest innovations worldwide, bringing them out to the world & awarding them. One of such in India is Marico Innovation Foundation, will hold its 3rd edition of the Innovation for India Awards to be held on 12th March 2010 in Mumbai.
The Marico Innovation Foundation was created in March 2003 under the stewardship of Dr. Ramesh Mashelkar. The Foundation’s Mission is to Fuel Innovation in India, by providing the nation with a belief that Innovation is possible and is the way to leapfrog India into the center stage of global business leadership. The Foundation also believes that a framework will enable leverage innovation for quantum growth. The foundation is steered by a governing council that oversees both its vision and direction.
Marico Innovation Foundation (www.maricoinnovationfoundation.org) will hold its 3rd edition of the Innovation for India Awards to be held on 12th March 2010 in Mumbai. Any Indian company, social organization, government body and/or individuals who have successfully conceptualized and nurtured a brilliant idea, made it work and brought it to market is eligible to participate.
The three categories under which Innovation will be awarded are – Business Innovation (Products/Services, Business Model and Innovation in social space by a business organisation) and Social Innovation (innovation by a social organisation). Public Services Innovation (innovations by Central or State governments or any wing of the government including public-private partnership) The Award winners will get felicitated in Mumbai in the presence of industry stalwarts and some of the best innovators in the country. Besides cash prize of Rs 1 lakh, the Foundation would also extend its illustrious Governing Council’s support as mentors to the winners and a platform with VCs and angel investors.
To apply for the Awards visit: Marico Innovation Foundation
The Foundation believes that the only way to disseminate is to first learn. It therefore intends to undertake cutting edge research into Innovation in India. To get to the heart of the matter, to understand how it really happens. It then intends to propagate these findings through large-scale mass platforms across India.
Making online your own animated movies is easier & is a game of few clicks now. Watch this joke. Adding information in an easy way that is more understandable, with putting things in an animated way in a movie is very helpful than just saying it in another way.
D- film( Now DVolver) is a really useful website for creating online free animated movies. The site makes it very easy to create short animated movies with colourful characters and cartoon style dialogue in bubbles. Dvolver helps you create movies also allowing you to add flavors of creativity into the movie.
The site is really easy to use and you just click your way through various screens selecting backgrounds, characters, scenarios, soundtrack and credits. You also type in your own short dialogues. Then when you are ready a single click turns the whole thing into a Flash movie.
You can make short single screen animated movies or longer ones by adding more scenes. You can then email the link to your movie either to yourself or to your students etc.
So, Here Is one which I created. Enjoy.
Reading Magazines is always interesting & a good source of knowledge. You can read latest issue of popular magazines like PC Magazine, MIT Technology Review, Mac World, Reader’s Digest, Popular Photography, etc up to 23 magazines for free.
Zinio offers free access to the digital prints of popular magazines only to the iPhone users, however you can read and download these high resolution magazines for free from your browser. What you actually have to do is trick the website that you are using iPhone browser. If you are Firefox user you can do this by using User Agent addon. Lets see how it is done in Firefox.
Step1: Download User Agent addon from Firefox addon site.
Step2: After installing restart your brower, goto Tools > Default User Agent > User Agent Switcher > Options.
Step3: In the Options window, select New>New User Agent.
Step4: In the Description: field add “iPhone Win XP” without quotations.
Step5: Add the following text In the User Agent: field
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543 Safari/419.3
and click OK to close the User Agent Switcher Options window.
Step6: Now switch user agent from default to iPhone via Tools > User Agent Switcher > iPhone Win XP to activate it.
Step7: Just go to the link http://imgs.zinio.com/iphone/ to read 23 popular magazines. Enjoy.
When you click on any magazine you will be asked to enter email address to get latest iPhone updates from Zinio, if you don’t want to give email id, just type any letters that are in email address format like abc@abc.abc to bypass. You have to confirm your age if you want to access PlayBoy and PentHouse magazines.
Other Browsers:
Apple Safari has built in User Agent switcher in the Develop menu, for more info see How to read popular magazines on your desktop for free – by Amit agarwal.
Chrome users has to do some work around see this article Change Google Chrome User-Agent String, Read popular Magazines for free – by Andrew.
Is your PC a victim of the Autorun.inf virus? How to Remove Autorun.inf completely explains the simple way of removing Autorun.inf virus by using Autorun.inf Eater software. Deleting autorun.inf is effective only if the computer you are using is clean otherwise the autorun.inf will simply bounce back.
PDF is a very pupular & useful format for distributing and sharing documents as it can keep the originality of the documents. Most of the files (manuals, tutorials, etc.) downloaded from the internet are usually in PDF format.
You can use PDF reader to open such files and read them. However on some occasions, if pdf reader not works or you need to convert pdf format to other formats like word or more simple format like HTML, then you need some application specifically doing the conversion. But today it can be done online which is the most easiest & fastest method.
Introducing a very nice pdf conversion website which allows you to convert PDF file online & then converted format can be downloaded very easily. Convertpdftoword allows conversion of PDF format to Word.
The site is itself connected to another conversion sites through a nice navigation menu(shown above) which do the following conversions of file PDF file formats:
Simple browse to the PDF file, Select it & Press the convert button. The Converted format will be available to you for download in just few seconds. Easy & fast.
Running multiple copies of same Instant Messangers is quite interesting & many a time useful too. Windows Live Messenger 8.5 Plus! Live also provide you one such facility. Messenger Plus! Live does more than just allowing multiple copies of Windows Live Messenger, functions like protect preference with password, application transparency, personalized status and much more are also included.
[1] Download and install Messenger Plus! Live
[2] Launch Preference settings
[3] Choose Messenger tab, on Main check on Allow me to connect to several accounts simultaneously
[4] Done, double click the icon again to launch another copy of the live messenger
Have you Formatted your PC ? How many times ? Each time you have re-installed a number of useful softwares that are necessary to work everyday? Yes, many of us undergo through this boring, time taking process, once formatted the system. & what if you don’t have any backup of essentials & softwares that come in use day to day. Going for the download of each software from internet separately, pushes more work load & time consuming. For that situation Super Installer Pack can be a boon.
Super Installer Pack is a completly free program that installs about 100 most useful programs used everyday like Google Chrome, Yahoo Messenger, SunJava, Pidgin, Gmail Notifier, FileZilla FTP Client, Firefox, Winamp, WinRAR, Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash Player, OpenOffice, CCleaner, PC Tools AntiVirus Free Edition and more in one go.
Just download the Smart Installer Pack and choose by clicking on the icons of software you wish to install. Once selected, you are ready to download and install the softwares.
Easy, intuitive user interface design
Contains usual start-up software
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Visit & Download Software Installer Pack v1.5
Gmail is the most widely used popular email service after its launch in 2004. Now you can use Gmail with its extented ability to be accessed in the offline mode(when your network is not connented to Internet) with the arrival the Google Gears plug-in for Firefox and Internet Explorer.
Yes, Offline Gmail. So even if you’re offline, you can open your web browser, go to gmail.com, and get to your mail just like you’re used to.
(Credit: Google)
Once you turn on this feature after installing Google Gears, Gmail uses this to download a local cache of your mail. As long as you’re connected to the network, that cache is synchronized with Gmail’s servers. When you lose your connection, Gmail automatically switches to offline mode, and uses the data stored on your computer’s hard drive instead of the information sent across the network. You can read messages, star and label them, and do all of the things you’re used to doing while reading your webmail online. Any messages you send while offline will be placed in your outbox and automatically sent the next time Gmail detects a connection. Having your mail on your hard drive makes fast work of archive searches that can take several seconds when interacting with Gmail’s servers.
After you install Gears, you’ll see an Offline option under the Labs tab in Gmail’s Settings. Choose the Enable button, and when you restart your browser, you’ll see an “Offline 0.1″ link in the top-right corner of the main Gmail window. Click this link to begin the installation. (You’ll also be prompted to download and install Gears, if you don’t already have it on your PC.)
(Credit: Google)
After the initial sync completes, click the Offline icon to the left of the Settings button to check your online status and view your options (choose Show Actions to see all available options).
Note: Gmail’s offline capability is still experimental & may not work sometimes as expectations.
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