Tuesday, June 24, 2008

IQ League


IQ League is a web site that checks your IQ. It is based on a 60Sec IQ Test comprising of 10 questions and then ranked smatest in the world on basis of your performance. There are IQ Awards and Certificates provided also. Visit http://www.iqleague.com .

Icon Look


IconLook.com is a powerful search engine for icons. They search any terms and get related icons. It is mostly appreciated by programmers and web designers. To avail more features visit http://www.iconlook.com.

Indi Career



Indi Career is a portal on education in India. They provide information on various career options available in India along with the colleges providing those degrees. Information on part time courses and distance education is also provided. Students aspiring to pursue careers abroad are also guided here. So solve all your career related queries visit http://www.indicareer.com.

Earth Calender



Earth Calender is a daybook of holidays and celebrations around the world. The events can be viewed as the ones being observed on today or by date, country or religion. Do visit to know the events around the world on http://www.earthcalendar.net.

Facebook Chat Plug-in Integrates Facebook with Pidgin [Featured Download]



 
 

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via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on 6/18/08

pidgin-facebook-chat.pngWindows/Linux: The Facebook Chat for Pidgin plug-in connects the popular open-source chat application Pidgin with the new Facebook Chat instant messaging service. Facebook integration is one of the marquee features of Digsby, an up-and-coming IM app with an emphasis on social networking sites, but if you're a part of the majority who still prefers Pidgin, this plug-in will bring you the Facebook integration you want and you won't need to change horses to get it. The Facebook Chat plug-in is free, works wherever Pidgin does. Want to beef up Pidgin even more? Check out the 10 must-have Pidgin plug-ins. Thanks Larry, Donal, and Jacob!

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Transfer Your Firefox 2 Passwords into Firefox 3 [Firefox Tip]



 
 

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via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on 6/18/08

The Ultimate Geek Girl blogger enthusiastically updated to Firefox 3 yesterday, but found that her passwords just didn't copy into her new profile for some reason. The solution? Head to your Firefox profile folder (usually located in %APPDATA%/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/xxxxxxxx.default/ in Windows, for example), copying all the data in the signons2 file, opening up the signons3 file, pasting the data into signons3 and saving. Those who haven't upgraded yet could also try a solution like Password Exporter, or take Mozilla's own advice on transferring data to a new profile.

Firefox 3 Saved Passwords [Ultimate Geek Girl]



 
 

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HOW TO: Delete an Undeletable or Locked File

Have you ever run into a situation where you wanted to delete a file, but Windows simply wouldn’t allow you to do it? Personally, these things happen to me all the time, especially when I’m at a client’s house trying to get their machine clean of malware. Have you ever tried deleting a locked file using common windows commands? If so, then you’ll know that this is just not possible.
The main reason behind this is that the explorer.exe process locks files that are in use, effectively preventing you from deleting them. Usually, these files should not be touched, but sometimes, situations arise when you really need to erase some troublesome ones.
Fortunately, there are a few easy solutions to delete those files.
Solution #1: Kill explorer.exe
Open a command prompt
Navigate to the location where the locked file is
Press CTRL-ALT-DEL, click on “task manager”, select the Processes tab
Kill the explorer.exe process via the “End Process” button
Go back to the command prompt and delete the file
Bring up the task manager windows again
Select file->new task
Type explorer.exe in the “create new task” field
Press OK.
Solution #2: Use The Windows Recovery Console
Just stick your Windows CD in your CD tray, boot on it, and at the “Welcome to Setup” screen, press “R“. Once the recovery console has started, navigate to the location of your locked file, and delete it. Since WRC does not really start the system, the files will not be in use, and you will be able to delete them
Solution #3: Use unlocker
Unlocker is a very useful freeware that will allow you to unlock any files that are currently in use by Windows. You’ll know if this is happening if you are getting any of these messages when trying to delete a file:
Cannot delete file: Access is denied
There has been a sharing violation
The source or destination file may be in use
The file is in use by another program or user
Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use
Unlocker will make things right again for you.
You’ll notice that right after installing the software, a new option named “unlocker” will appear when right clicking any files or folders in Windows Explorer. To unlock a locked file, just right click it, select unlocker, and the unlocker software will start. Then, click “unlock all” and close the software. Now that your file is unlocked, just delete it in Windows Explorer, as you always do. This is much simpler than solution #1 or #2, isn’t it?
I hope these three solutions will help you get rid of those hard to delete files. If you’ve got any additional suggestions, the comment section is open for your comments!

DotSIS



 
 

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via New in Internet World by noreply@blogger.com (Keerthi) on 6/18/08


DotSIS is a forum for symbian cell phones softwares. You can discuss on questions related to mobile, games, sms, mms, pocket pc. Also downloads are available of various softwares, cam tools, browsers and much more. Visit http://www.dotsis.com.


 
 

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Templateswise



 
 

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via New in Internet World by noreply@blogger.com (Keerthi) on 6/19/08


Templateswise.com is a collection of backgrounds, templates an dmore inspirational free stuff to build stunning presentations in PowerPoint. All templates are available for free to download and includes 2 or more slides ready to use. You have to just download, unzip and simply cut and paste your text and the work is there. So hurry and visit http://www.templateswise.com.


 
 

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Themes XP



 
 

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via New in Internet World by noreply@blogger.com (Keerthi) on 6/19/08

Themesxp.com is a collection of free XP themes, styles, logins, screensavers and much more. You can download the available themes or else you can design your own theme and share it with other. So visit http://www.themexp.org.


 
 

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Guruji Music



 
 

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via New in Internet World by noreply@blogger.com (Keerthi) on 6/19/08

Guruji/en/music.html is a a search engine where in you can search for any music since 1932. Search can be done on basis of song, album, singer. Combination of various artist can also identify a song. All these features can be availed using various other languages except english like hindi, tamil, malayalam, gujarati, etc. Visit http://guruji.com/en/music.html.


 
 

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Switch Your XP Firefox 3 Theme to Vista (or Vice-Versa) [Themes]



 
 

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via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on 6/19/08

vista_xp.jpgThe CyberNet blog points out that any Firefox 3 users unhappy with the way their XP/Vista-specific skins look can adopt their browser using two nifty themes—one for re-creating a Vista look on XP, another for XP on Vista. Both themes are experimental and require a Mozilla account, but, as CyberNet points out, that can be bypassed with a quick BugMeNot search.



 
 

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Four Extensions That Tweak Firefox 3's "AwesomeBar" [Firefox 3]



 
 

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via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on 6/19/08


Firefox 3's new Smart Location Bar earns its unofficial title of "AwesomeBar" right out of the box. The location bar suggests web site addresses as you type from your bookmarks and history, and learns as you surf, ranking pages you visit more often higher. Still, there aren't a whole lot of ways to configure the "AwesomeBar"'s behavior in Firefox's default options dialog—but there are a few new Firefox extensions that can do it for you. Here are four Firefox 3 add-ons that adjust the smart location bar's behavior in small but useful ways.

editmiddle.pngEdit Middle 2
By default the "AwesomeBar" suggests URLs based on what you type, but not if you go into a word and edit it in the middle. (For example, if you type "lofe" instead of "life" when looking for Lifehacker, and go back and change that o to an i, the drop-down of suggestions doesn't update.) The Edit Middle 2 extension makes middle edits refresh the suggestion list. [via gHacks]


OldBar
If you don't like the new look of the location bar drop-down—which includes both web page titles and URLs—OldBar can revert it to the sparser, Firefox 2 look, which just includes URLs.


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Hide Unvisited

Narrow down the "AwesomeBar"'s number of suggestions with the Hide Unvisited extension. Hide Unvisited excludes pages you have not visited—that is, aren't in your history since the last time you deleted it or cleared it.

enterselects2.pngEnter Selects 2
(Experimental, requires Mozilla Add-ons site login to install.)
Skip having to hit the down arrow to select the "AwesomeBar"'s first URL suggestion with Enter Selects 2, which maps the Enter key to the first result. Warning: If you're a big Firefox keyword bookmarker, this will interfere with keyword searches. Otherwise, if you've trained the smart location bar's suggestions to be always right on the first result, just hit Enter to get there with Enter Selects 2.


Location Bar about:config Tweaks

For a couple of about:config tweaks for the location bar, check out the previously posted power user's guide—there you'll learn how to adjust the number of suggestions the "AwesomeBar" offers you, and also how to stop automatically selecting the current URL.


How awesome has the smart location bar in Firefox 3 been for you? You loving or hating it? Anything you wish it did or didn't do? Let us know what you think in the comments.



 
 

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