Send self-destructing messages or notes

Have you ever wanted to send confidential information at your office,or to your family members but were afraid of some people like hackers tracing them out?

We all might have seen the concept of self destructing messages in the movie Mission Impossible.But have you ever think of sending self destructing messages that gets destroyed automatically after reading.There will be no piece of evidence that someone sent a particular message saying particular thing.

 

Yes,there is a service that lets you send self destructing messages.

Privnote  is a free web based service that allows you to send secret messages over internet.Also it does not require any registration,password at all.

Just write your note and you will get a link containing that message.Just copy that link and paste it into email or  chat.Whenever the person see the note in their browser the note will automatically gets destructed.Which means that link is inaccessible again or won't be working anymore.If the link is not accessed for 30 days,the message will be automatically destroyed considering it as read.

Also there is an option of being notified if the other party has read your note by giving your email and a reference for the note.

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Useful shortcuts for Desktop and Browser

Operating a computer using shortcuts saves you a lot of time.They are also very useful when you don't have a mouse to operate.
Operating a computer using shortcuts gives people happiness and feeling of geek.
Here are some useful shortcuts that are useful to people in their daily life of browsing and operating computer.

Desktop:

Start Menu    :  Windows Logo    (or)   Ctrl + ESC

My computer : Windows Logo + E

New Folder   :  Ctrl + Shift + N

Switching Through Applications : Alt + Tab

Switching Through Applications without always hitting alt + Tab  :  Ctrl + Alt + Tab

Switch through open applicatons : Alt + tab (or)  Windows Logo +Tab (aero effect in windows7)

Switching through applications in aero mode : Ctrl + Windows Logo +Tab  & use mouse to scroll.

Switch focus between applications  : Alt + ESC

Run                : Windows Logo +R

Desktop         : Windows Logo + D

Minimize all windows : Windows Logo + M

Restore all minimized windows : Windows Logo + Shift + M

Flip window to left / Right : Windows Logo + Left arrow/Right arrow 

Lock Screen  : Windows Logo + L

System Properties :  Windows Logo +Pause

Adding different Monitors : Windows Logo + P

Close a window : Alt + F4  (or)   Ctrl + W

Full Screen   :  F11


Task Manager  :  Ctrl + Alt + Del   (or)   Ctrl + Shift + ESC

Minimize window  :  Alt + Spacebar & then N

Close window :  Alt + Spacebar & then C

Restore window : Alt + Spacebar & then R

Copy,Cut,Paste : Ctrl + C,X,V

Rename File / Folder : F2



Browser:

New Tab  : Ctrl + T

Go to address bar  :  Ctrl + L  (or)   Alt + D  (or) F6

Switch between tabs  :  Ctrl + Tab / Ctrl + Shift + Tab

Go to nth tab  :  Ctrl + 1,2,3,...9

Search for keyword  :  Ctrl + F / F3

Downloads  :  Ctrl + J

History  : Ctrl + H

Clear History Page  : Ctrl + Shift + Del

View Original size of page  :  Ctrl + 0(zero)

Zoom in or out web page  :  Ctrl + '+'  Ctrl + '-'

Bookmark a web page : Ctrl + D

Directly go to GOOGLE.COM  :  www.google.com/ncr

Refresh Page  :  F5 (or) Ctrl + R

Go back / forward  :  Alt + Left / Right arrow

Open a file in your computer : Ctrl + O

Browse one page down/up  :  Spacebar / Shift + Spacebar

Developer Tools  :  F12

Open Source code  :  Ctrl + U


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Test if your antivirus is working properly or not?

We all purchase or download different antivirus softwares from internet.But most times we probably have the doubt whether it is working properly or not.We can conclude,the antivirus software is working properly if it finds some virus in our computer.

But testing antivirus with some real virus in our computers will damage our computer.It is similar to setting fire to some things in your office and checking whether smoke alarm is working or not.

But is there any test that tests the proper working of antivirus??

EICAR STANDARD ANTIVIRUS TEST is the basic test that checks if the antivirus is working properly or not.Every antivirus vendor tests their product with EICAR test file before releasing the product into the market.The file is a legitimate DOS program, and produces sensible results when run (it prints the message "EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!").

Performing test:

open notepad and copy the following text and save the file with any extension like .txt , .com , .exe.
If the antivirus program in your computer catches the file immediately,then you software is working properly.Otherwise you should definitely change your antivirus program.

X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H* 

The file is not dangerous and it doesn't do any harm to your computer.

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Understanding ATTRIB Command in cmd ( windows)

Attrib command can be used to assign or remove permissions to files or drives in our computers.

We have previously seen this command in retrieving files hidden by virus by making them into shortcuts.

The command we used there is attrib /s /d -r -a -s -h *

Understanding attrib:

To add permission we can use + symbol.
To remove permission we can use -  symbol.

R-Read-Only
A-Archive
S-System
H- Hidden

/S -> Process matching files in current folder and sub folder.
/D ->Process the folders.

* ->Refers to all files and folders in a directory.

You could also find the help page for attrib command from the command prompt:

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Download Adobe Photoshop CS3 Portable : No installation,No key required

Adobe Photoshop is one of the best software to make and edit photo's.Photoshop delivers a comprehensive package of professional retouching tools, and is packed with powerful editing features.

Interesting Things about Photoshop

• It is written in C++ Language.

• Photoshop Images are stored with .PSD Extension.It has a maximum limit of 30,000 pixels of height and width & Length limit of 3GigaBytes(GB).

• Photoshop Images are also stored with .PSB Extension supporting 3,00,000 pixels of height and width & Length limit of 4ExaBytes.

Know Features of Adobe Photoshop CS3

Free Download of Adobe Photoshop CS3 : No key and no installation required

Learn Photoshop tips from Official Adobe Website

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Mozilla : New Feature:Security Tab in the Web Console

The Web Console, part of the Firefox Developer Tools, shows errors and warnings filtered into different categories.Web developers need better tools to help them debug security issues.Also Security is not a part of web developers education.

So,Mozilla took an initiative for providing the developers with a new tab called SECURITY in it's web console.

Right Click on any web page and click on  Inspect Element and one can go to console tab over there.
The security tab will look as shown below.It is marked with red to indicate the web developers that there is a Security Vulnerability to your site.

Different Buttons in Web Console

Some of the Goals fulfilled are:

1. Warn developers about altered site behavior that is due to a security feature (for example, resource loads blocked by the Mixed Content Blocker or the Same Origin Policy).
2. Warn developers about mistakes made in implementing security features (for example, using deprecated CSP headers, or mistyping an HSTS header).
3. Warn developers about common security risks (for example, putting password fields on insecure pages).

Below are example Screenshots of some of the security messages and they are currently available on Firefox Nightly Only and  they will be made available to next stable releases.

Warning for detected password field on an insecure page.

Warnings for loading mixed content

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Removing Internet Explorer from your computer

Internet Explorer is the default browser that everyone gets when someone installs Windows Operating Systems.But due to lot of reasons we may not be using the Internet Explorer after obtaining a good browser.

It is being used only in one way for installing the additional software like search toolbars that come packed with some software during their installation.

But many people don't know that they can Uninstall Internet Explorer.It is actually not uninstalling,instead we are going to hide internet explorer.

Hiding Internet Explorer:

Go to Start
Type turn windows features on or off and hit enter
you can see a window similar to following one

 

Unmark Internet Explorer 9 and then click ok.

The computer need to be restarted to see the changes.

During restart you may see the screen like this.

After you boot into your computer you can see that Internet Explorer is nowhere seen.

Similar way one can hide the games that comes default with the Operating System by unmarking Games.

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Useful Gmail Tools

Operate Gmail Using shortcuts:

 
Shortcuts are often the easiest way to use your computer or anything.They save you a lot of time.There is a way you can operate your Gmail account using shortcuts.
  Open your Gmail and type ? you can see a window showing shortcuts that you can use in Gmail as below.It says that the following shortcuts are currently disabled.Click Enable to enable them.It has easy ways to goto compose box,inbox and many others.

Users can also customize the existing shortcuts by going to SETTINGS and then Keyboard Shortcuts
Choose what shortcut you want to edit and click on Save Changes at the bottom of the page.

Know If your friend is Online through Desktop or through Android Mobile:

Go to Settings Page and go to LABS tab

Go to Green Robot Lab and Enable it and you can see in your chat box,a Green Android Robot symbol if anyone is online through mobile.

Enable Right Side Chat:

Improve your chat experience by bringing traditional left side chat box to the right side similar to Facebook and you need not scroll much to find out your favorite chat contact.


Go to Settings Page and go to LABS tab

 Go to Right-Side Chat and Enable it.

There are a lot of Tools that are available in Gmail Settings which you can explore further. :)

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Google's Project Loon : Ballon Powered Internet for Everyone

Many of us think of the Internet as a global community. But two-thirds of the world’s population does not yet have Internet access. Project Loon is a network of balloons traveling on the edge of space, designed to connect people in rural and remote areas, help fill coverage gaps, and bring people back online after disasters. 

WHAT IS LOON :

Project Loon balloons float in the stratosphere, twice as high as airplanes and the weather. They are carried around the Earth by winds and they can be steered by rising or descending to an altitude with winds moving in the desired direction. People connect to the balloon network using a special Internet antenna attached to their building. The signal bounces from balloon to balloon, then to the global Internet back on Earth.

Project Loon began in June 2013 with an experimental pilot in New Zealand. A small group of Project Loon pioneers tested the technology in Christchurch and Canterbury.

Each balloon can provide connectivity to a ground area about 40 km in diameter at speeds comparable to 3G. For balloon-to-balloon and balloon-to-ground communications, the balloons use antennas equipped with specialized radio frequency technology. Project Loon currently uses ISM bands (specifically 2.4 and 5.8 GHz bands) that are available for anyone to use. 


Follow Project Loon on Google+

Checkout the Stanford University's Balloon Project

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Adding Multiple profiles or users in Firefox

We had previously seen adding Guest account in Chrome browser now,we shall see a hidden feature in Firefox that lets users add a different profile and users sync their data.

There is no need to Install extension for getting profiles in your Firefox.

Setting up profile:

All Firefox Windows must be closed before performing this.

1. Go to Run(win + R)
2. type firefox.exe -p
3. You can see a window looking like the one below
   
   Click on create profile and and proceed with steps giving profile name and choose folder where to store the data associated with that profile and click on finish to create the profile.
   
   
   
   

   

   
   Every time you start Firefox,Choose which profile you want and click on start Firefox,otherwise last selected profile will be opened by default.
   
   Setting Up Firefox Sync :
   
   Click on Firefox menu at the top left corner and Click on Options and goto sync tab.Create a Firefox sync account and you can save your Bookmarks,History,Passwords,Addons to your Firefox account.You can choose what data to be synced.
   
   Next time you re-install Firefox,all your data will be synced.
   
   

   

   
   

Hiding DRIVES or LocalDisks in your computer without softwares

Due to some reasons we dont want our content to be seen by others and we want to hide the content.Every one of us will have a drive in our computer for our personal stuff.We can hide that drives from other people using our computer without any software.There is a default tool in Windows Operating System that lets you complete the task.The tool is DISKMANAGEMENT.

There will be no loss to data in this procedure.

Procedure to hide the drive:

Follow the simple steps below

1. Go to Start
2. Type Disk Management
3. Right click on any drive and click on  Change Drive Letter and Paths
4.  Click on Remove button,then a pop-up will rise click yes.

Now you can open MyComputer and see that your drive have been hidden.

Demo:

Hope you enjoy this tutorial ;)

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Blocking a website on your computer without software

We all want to block some websites on our computer that may be distracting us during our exams or that we are spending a lot of time on that or you dont want your friends to use that site on your computer.It's pretty simple and we can do that without softwares.We just need to edit the hosts file located at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

Procedure to Block website:

1. Open Command Prompt in administrator mode
   (Click on start,type cmd,right click and Run as Administrator)
    
2. Type the following instructions
   cd \
   cd Windows\System32\drivers\etc
   edit hosts
   
3. Go to last line of the file and add the following
   127.0.0.1  www.yourwebsitename.com
   127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com
   (you can add multiple websites in different lines)
4. Go to File and click Save.
    
5. Go to File and click Exit.
    
6. Now,open the browser and try going to that website and u can see that the browser cannot connect to that website.

Demo:

Note: Editing hosts file should be done in administrator mode only.Otherwise file cannot be saved.It  says that the file is read-only.

If you want to block website using softwares,which support content filtering also,go to following link.
WEBSITE Blocking software

Hope you enjoy the tutorial :)

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IRCTC official app for WINDOWS8

Microsoft and IRCTC have jointly launched exclusive Windows 8 App that will run on Windows smartphones, Tablets as well as Windows 8 based PCs.Press release said that “The app has been made available exclusively for Windows devices”.There is no info whether the app will be released for Android & IOS.

The app is built on Windows Azure platform for all the services between the app and IRCTC servers.
The app is fast unlike the WEB platform.Ticket booking is very fast using this app.Hope people will feel free booking tickets through this app.

IRCTC App features

• Make train enquiries
• Plan your travel
• Make railway reservations
• Check PNR status
• Check booking/cancellation history
• Check ticket availability
• Quick Booking
• Cancellation
• Preferences
• Favourites
• Store and retrieve frequent traveler info
• Live Notifications
• Check recent history of your travels 

Download IRCTC App for Windows8 PC

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User Guide for Desktop

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Creating Guest account in GoogleChrome

Usually a lot of people like family members,friends will be using our computers and they will also be using the browsers.Usually people choose a Google account to sync their Data,Bookmarks and we don't want our family members or friends data to be synced to our accounts.

So,we can add guest accounts in Google Chrome and can create a separate user and have their data and bookmarks synced with their accounts.Doing so,we eliminate omnibox suggestions and history to the users of computer.Also there is no need to logoff and go to guest account in our computer.

Creating Guest account/adding new users:

1. Goto settings.
    
2. Locate Users.
   
   
3. click on the Add new user button.
   
   
4. Choose a name and picture to the guest account and click on create and a desktop shortcut to new user will be added automatically.
   
   
   
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Listen to webpages in Google Chrome

All of us will be reading a lot of articles on internet.But sometimes we may get tired reading lengthy articles or may be the fonts don't appeal to us.Our eyes may feel strain reading lengthy articles and we may feel if someone could read the article and tell us the matter in it.

So,here is a wonderful extension for GoogleChrome that helps users in reading out the content of the webpages.All you need to do is to highlight the content you want to hear.Then,click on the speaker icon after address bar.The extension internally uses chrome's Text-to-Speech API for reading the content loud.

Restart browser after installing this extension to work.

This extension cannot work on encrypted web pages.( https connection).

The extension supports nearly 50 languages and detects them automatically.

Extension Page for chrome : SpeakIt!

WEBPAGE reader for firefox addon : reader

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Write and send e-mails in any language inside Gmail

Emails are the convenient and easiest way to communicate with friends or family members.Friends and Family members may be staying in different parts of country or world.So,it would feel good if we communicate with them in their local language.Sometimes,finding the right words and typing them becomes difficult.

So Gmail has introduced "INPUT TOOLS" providing support for users to type in any language of their wish using a single keyboard.You need not have a keyboard of other language to type the languages.

Google added 100 virtual Keyboards,Transliterators and IME's into Gmail for better Language support.Users can toggle across languages of their own.They can mix up different languages and write emails.

        Enabling Input Tools for Gmail

1. Click the gear in the top right.
2. Select Settings.
3. In the General tab, select the checkbox next to “Enable input tools” under the “Language” section. (If you don’t see Enable Input Tools, you may need to click on the Show advanced options link next to “Display Language” menu.)
4. In the “Input Tools settings" window that appears, double-click the input tool you'd like from the "All input tools" field, and it'll move to the "Selected input tools" field. You can also select the input tool and use the grey arrows to move them between the two fields. Reorder your input tools by selecting any input tool and clicking the up and down arrows.
5. Click Ok, then Save Changes at the bottom of the Gmail settings page.
   
   You can edit these selections at any time by returning to your settings and clicking Edit tools in the “Language” section.
   
   
   Using the Input tools in Gmail

Once input tools are added to Gmail one can see in the right top corner a setting like this

To turn the Input Tool on or off, click the button. If you've enabled multiple input tools, you can click the down-arrow menu to switch between them.

If you want to use the input tools anywhere in the webbrowser add the CHROME EXTENSION.

Google Input tools are also available for WINDOWS with support for over 22 languages.

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Search for any file in your computer very fast

Every one of us usually be downloading Movies,Pictures,Songs or will be getting files from our friends and we sometimes forget where we have kept them in our computer.

Sometimes some of the DLL files required to start the game might be missing but they will be somewhere in the computer only in other directories.

If we are going to search our computer for that file using the default windows search,the chances are less to trace  the file.

So,there is a software that can efficiently search all files / folders / archives in your computer with in no time.It is EVERYTHING.The software displays all your files at a place.When you search for a file it displays all the files containing part of the name of the file,be it at starting,or middle or ending with in seconds.

Highly useful tool for searching in unorganised computers or for game files.

Support : Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, Windows 7 and Windows 8.

Note : LINUX users can also make use of this software by using WINE and formatting their drives
            with NTFS file system.

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Retrieving data from pendrive containing shortcut files

Often people see that the data in their pen-drives are converted into shortcuts making them unable to see the data.It is due to virus which is changing the permissions to the files in the drive.It can be observed that capacity of the pen-drive is occupied but the files are not visible.

Then in that case just perform these steps to retrieve back your original data.

1. Go to command prompt (win+R ->cmd)
2. Go to the directory of pen-drive (If it is G: drive, then type G: and hit enter)
3. now run the following command.
4. attrib /s /d -r -a -s -h * Now you can see that the data in your pen-drive is visible.
   Have a backup of that data and format the drive and use it further. :) 
   
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Download Youtube videos without Software or Downloaders

Every one of wish to have the best videos with us that we see on youtube or some other websites on internet.We have many softwares to download the videos.But we don't need them all the time as we occasionally be downloading them.

So,here is a method to download videos from youtube without any software.

1. Right click on the video and "copy link location."
2. Go to SSYOUTUBE.COM
3. Paste the link address in the box provided at the top of the page and click download button.
4. you can find download options for downloading video's with different quality and different formats at the right side.
5. Click on one of them and your video gets downloaded.
   
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