How to enable and disable Hibernate in Windows Vista

Sometime people find it hard to enable and disable the Hibernate feature in Windows Vista because it is not same as in windows XP. Here is a small DOS code that will easy up your job.

Open Run
Type “CMD” without quotes.
Type
powercfg /hibernate on   : This will enable the hibernate option

How to Disable Hibernate option in Vista?

Disabling Hibernate option in vista is again the same. Follow the above procedure and Use” “Off” instead of “On”.
powercfg /hibernate off

Hope this small DOS trick was useful for you.

Take Phishing and Spam IQ Quiz

Chances are that in the past weeks you've received an e-mail in your inbox that pretends to be from your bank, e-commerce vendor or other on-line site. Hopefully you've realized that many times this e-mail is fake - a phishing or spam e-mail. The sender (phisher) of these fake e-mails wants you to click on the link in the e-mail and go to a phishing Web site - which will look just like the Web site of the company being phished.

Once on the phishers Web site they hope to obtain your account, financial, credit and even identity information. Of course not every e-mail you receive is a phish. In fact you should expect your bank or e-commerce vendor to send you legitimate e-mail. But how can you tell the difference? Well that's what the Phishing IQ test is all about - Do give it a try.

SonicWALL Phishing and Spam IQ Quiz

What is RT (retweeting)?

I have quite recently joined Twitter and just gathering some knowledge about using it these days. Here is one of the basic term of it, explained for the beginners:

"RT" or "retweeting" is simply taking a twitter post from someone else and forwarding (rebroadcasting) it to your followers. Here are a few common ways to retweet a message (all do the same thing):

RT @originalsender: original message
retweet @originalsender: original message
retweeting @originalsender: original message

Retweeting can be a great way to add followers, as it pushes your @username into foreign social graphs, which in turn results in clicks back to your profile. You can also track your retweets using retweetist.

To retweet this post, type:

 retweet @techack: Retweeting explained: http://tinyurl.com/retweetexp

 P.S. You can join me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/techack

How to get read receipt for your sent E Mails

SpyPig is a free email tracking system which can send you a notification when your friends read your email. SpyPig is a simple email tracking system that sends you a notification email as soon as the recipient opens and reads your message. It works with virtually all modern email programs: Outlook, Eudora, Yahoo Mail, Gmail, Hotmail, AOL Email and many others.

Basic Requirements:

Both you and the recipient must use an HTML email, not plain-text or rich-text email. Visit the Requirements & Limitations page to learn more about SpyPig limitations and basic requirements. 


To use SpyPig, simply provide them your email address, then type your message title (this is for better tracking so that you can know which email has been read). You can then choose your SpyPig image (if you don’t want your recipients know you are tracking the email, choose a blank image). After that, you can paste the tracking image on your email message and then send out the email.

SpyPig - Free Email Tracking System

Add Twitter button in FeedDemon 3

By default, FeedDemon does not allow you to send links to Twitter but with this simple hack you can increase the functionality of FeedDemon 3 by adding Twitter button in it.


Open the "SendTo" folder present inside the default installation folder of FeedDemon 3:
C:\Program Files\FeedDemon\Data\SendTo

Create a new file "twitter.xml" in this folder and copy-paste the following text inside this file:

  template="http://twitter.com/home?status=Reading {title} {url}" />

Now restart FeedDemon and you’ll see a new "Twitter" option under the Send to menu.

RapidShare Manager - RapidShare Windows Download / Upload File Manager

Rapidshare has introduced Windows based Rapidshare manager that allow users to upload and download files to and from Rapidshare.com on with a new size of 4000 MB per file. However, this rapidshare is gather for premium account user easily downloading and uploading from Rapidshare network.

On Rapidshare Manager interfaces, users can add, remove, pause and resume file transfers and select bandwidth limits for uploads and downloads files from Rapidshare. The interface shows the file name, size, speed, time remaining and progress completion bar.

Features include :

• Add or remove files downloads from the upload/download list
• Pause and resume file transfers
• Control Bandwidth speed and number of simultaneous downloads
• Register rsm:// protocol for Rapidshare Manager
• 100MB limit for free accounts and 4GB limits for paid accounts

A nice utility for the Premium users.

NOTE: Ms .NET 2.0 Framework required prior to installation.

Download RapidShare Manager
 

Download and Stream Online Videos Faster

Bywifi is a free program for downloading, transcoding and accelerating video streaming. It supports downloading, transcoding and P2P accelerating videos from all video websites, such as Youtube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, MySpace, Yahoo, Justin.tv, etc. Lots of advanced network technologies like P2SP (peer-to-server-and-peer), multiple tasks, web sensitive, intelligence caching are used in the software. The bitrate of video streaming is 3-5 times faster with bywifi than without it. Moreover, it can transcode videos into mobile formats for mobile phones and PDA.

All you need to do is just install Bywifi, restart your web browser and it’ll automatically speed up the video streaming whenever you view an online video. If you want to download the video, just move your mouse cursor to the video and a small bywifi toolbar will appear on the screen.

The first button is speedup. You only need to use this button if you’ve turned off automatic speed up. Second button is download where you can manually download the video and save on your hard drive. The third button is for you to transcode. Meaning you can convert the FLV video format to 3GP, MP4, AVI, ASF, MP3 and etc.

Download ByWifi

Rapidshare HappyHours For Premium Customers

Rapidshare premium users were very disappointed when the leading file-hoster decided to cut heavily on premium users daily download bandwidth. To provide some relief to heavy-downloaders the service has now announced Rapidshare Happy Hours for Premium customers, during HappyHours only 10% of data downloaded will be counted to your traffic balance for example if you download 500 MB during HappyHours, only 50 MB will get deducted from your daily traffic-limit, same applies to use of RapidPoints and TrafficShare for your downloads.

Currently HappyHours will be effective from 2 A.M. to 10 A.M. Central European Time, daily unused traffic accumulation limit is also relaxed to 15 GB from earlier 12 GB.

How to Install Windows Media Player 11 Without WGA Validation

Windows Media Player 11 is available for free download officially at Microsoft website, However, If you are having trouble installing Microsoft Windows Media Player 11 because of Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) check failure here is an simple trick to bypass the WGA installation.

1. Download Windows Media Player 11 installer from official website here.
2. Download and install Winrar.
3. Right-click the downloaded file wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu.exe and choose Extract to wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu.exe/ from Winrar/Winzip shell context-menu.
4. Now, open the extracted folder - wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu, and delete the WGA file LegitLibM.dll.
5. Now, launch wmfdist11.exe and install the media player runtimes.
6. Once runtime setup is completed launch the WMP11 setup wizard by executing - wmp11.exe and complete the setup process.
7. Enjoy, using your Windows Media Player 11.

Unlock iPod Volume Limit Without PIN Code

Apple iPod allows setting maximum volume limit with support for PIN code locking to prevent unauthorized changes, However, if you forgot your volume limit unlock code here is a little trick you can use to remove the lock without restoring your iPod :-

1. Connect your iPod to your computer.
2. Open "My Computer" and navigate to folder "iPod_Control" and then go to "Device" folder.
3. Delete the file _volumelocked located inside "Device" folder.
4. Now, Eject your iPod and restart it.
5. You can now change the iPod Volume limit without unlock code by navigating to Settings -> Volume Limit on your device.

ABC Amber NBU Converter

ABC Amber NBU Converter is a useful tool that converts messages from your NBU (Nokia Backup) files to many document formats (PDF, MS Word, HTML, RTF, TXT and others).

All you have to do is select the messages to convert, choose the desired document format and click a button to save the message(s) in the new format. You can choose to convert and export single messages, or multiple, combining them all into a single file. 

Features List

• reads NBU (Nokia Backup) files
• exports selected messages to a single file of any document format: PDF format (Adobe Acrobat doesn't need to be installed), RTF format (also doesn't require MS Word to be installed), hypertext HTML format, text format, MS DOC format, popular CHM format, 
• supports column sorting (Tel, Subject and Date columns) in ascending and descending order. It is important to sort the messages if you wish to get a well-readable document
• supports multiple PDF export options (document information, 40/128 bits PDF encryption, advanced PDF security options, page size, page orientation and page margins, resolution mode, compression mode, viewer options)
• HLP format, email EML format, and many more
• generates contents with bookmarks and hyperlinks in the output file

Download ABC Amber NBU Converter

Related:
How to read / open .nbu files

Find Any Files on Local Area Network Shared Folders

LAN Search Pro is a powerful utility for fast file searching across your LAN. You can search for specific file names or for specific file types (e.g. all MP3 files). It comes with a built-in password manager to store your network logins for resources with restricted access. Besides the file searching capabilities, LAN Search Pro offers features that allow you to perform actions on the found items - copy, move, rename etc. Additional features include result sorting, filtering, export, search within results, minimize to tray, and more.



LAN Search Pro Features:

• Search according to the specified criteria, search filters
• Ability to search the hidden resources, IP subnetworks, LAN FTP servers
• Ability to search the resources with restricted access (the ones you need a login and password to access)
• Ability to ignore some computers (e.g. slow servers) when performing the search. You can also search for specific servers only
• Ability to search specific network folders and much more
• Save, load, sort, navigate, and perform any other actions on the search results
• Fast multithreaded search engine
• Support of large amounts of data - the list can now contain up to 2,000,000 files! 

You can run LAN Search Pro on Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 (32bit and 64bit). There are two version of LAN Search Pro, the installer and portable.

Download LAN Search Pro

How to Fix Google chrome.exe The application failed to initialize properly 0xc0000142

Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google. It is fast and supposed to be stable. But if you are getting The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000142) message try these workarounds.

You can either use the --no-sandbox or --in-process-plugins switch when launching Google Chrome. Both should fix the crashing problem but there is a huge difference between this 2 switches as each has its own pros and cons, so you should decide yourself which option is more important for you.

You can either use the --no-sandbox or --in-process-plugins switch when launching Google Chrome. Both should fix the crashing problem but there is a huge difference between this 2 switches as each has its own pros and cons, so you should decide yourself which option is more important for you.






By default Google Chrome enables Sandbox security. Using the --no-sandbox option leaves your computer more vulnerable to flaws or security exploits on those pages.

As for the --in-process-plugins, by default, Chrome runs plug-ins in separate processes from the browser itself. An advantage of doing this is if a plug-in crashes, it won’t cause the entire browser to crash. So the --in-process-plugins switch tells Chrome to run plug-ins in the same process as the browser. This switch is more suitable for users who is not able to determine if the website they visiting is dangerous or not.

Here is how to run Google Chrome with these switches.

1. Make sure you close all running programs.

2. Right click on the Google Chrome icon at your desktop or Start Menu and select Properties.

3. Go to the Shortcut tab if you’re not already there, add the switch at the end of the target. By default the last character is double quote, so you’ll need to add a space then followed by --no-sandbox OR --in-process-plugins. Do take note that there is two dashes.

Rapidshare API Completed

In an interesting development leading one-click file-hoster Rapidshare.Com announced public release of Rapidshare Application Programming Interface (API) meant for developers to create Rapidshare based applications.

From Rapidshare:

The RapidShare API is completed and has just entered the external Beta testing state. We hope to release the whole documentation, thus opening the API to the public within a few weeks. We encourage programmers to use the API then and help us avoid situations as mentioned below. This API makes it possible for programmers to utilize internal RapidShare functions in a very handy format in order to make own programs even more comfortable and powerful.

How to read / open .nbu files

.nbu files are the backup files created when you create the backup for your Nokia Mobile.  It is created using Nokia PC suite and later can be restored to your phone. Only problem is we can’t open the .nbu files without any nokia device.

To overcome this problem, use Noki. Noki is a utility to explore and extract Phone book, SMS, Calendar, Memo, Bookmark and other user files from the backup file of Nokia phone (using  Nokia PC Suite).

Features:

• Supports .nbu, .nfb and .nfc.
• contacts.cdb: Symbian Contacts Database for all Symbian phones (include Nokia, Siemens, Sony Ericsson etc.).
• backup.arc: mass storage/SD card backup file.
• Softpedia security certified.

Download Noki

Free Application WebHosting From DreamHost Limited Offer

Leading budget hosting provider DreamHost is offering free web-application hosting during beta phase of their brand new product DreamHost Apps, the new hosted application service supports nine different web-applications featuring single click installation with plans to increase the number of applications in future, currently supported web-applications include - Wordpress, Drupal, phpBB, ZenPhoto, MediaWiki, Google Calender, Google Docs, Google Sites, iGoogle and Google Mail.


Users are able to use their existing domain, register a new domain through DreamHost or simply use the free sub-domain provided by DreamHost, once out of beta the service will cost $50/year but will remain free forever for signups done during the beta.

Participation in DreamHost Apps Beta is invite only and requires you to get the hard-to-find limited invite codes to register, the good news is that DreamHost Apps has now opened its gates for 10,000 new signups without the code, simply follow the instructions at the end of the post to get your free for life beta signup.
To benefit from the offer without invite-code hurry and get your free account from

DreamHost Apps Beta registration here.

The Worldwide Credit Crisis Explained in Simple English

Whenever the ongoing credit crisis is referred, you often hear or read words like "Subprime mortgaged", "Leverage" etc. If you are not from a finance background but still like to understand the whole credit crisis, just watch the following video (animated story) that explains the entire story of the Credit Crisis in Plain English.

Free Utility To Synchronize Non-Apple MP3 Players With iTunes

iTunes is a great, useful and free music player and organizer. It enables many non-iPod MP3 players to be used with iTunes. The project enables you to synchronize your MP3 player with an iTunes playlist automatically, or with two small mouse-clicks.

iTunes Agent is a small application resting in your system tray constantly looking for new MP3 players and other music capable devices connecting to your system. When a device it recognizes is connected to the system, it will create a play list for the device in iTunes and it will synchronize that list with tracks on your device. You may then modify this list, add and remove tracks, before you tell the iTunes Agent to synchronize the list with your player.


Download iTunes Agent 1.3

RipDev Releases iPhone Anti-Piracy System

RipDev has released a new iPhone anti-piracy system to prevent iPhone Applications and Games from getting cracked by Crackulous, named Kali Anti-Piracy the service lets iPhone developers protect their work from getting cracked and pirated. The Kali anti-piracy system is a server-side service allowing developers to wrap their applications using the anti-piracy wrapper for protection from crackers, RipDev team also assured that underground hacker communities and trends will get constantly monitored to make sure that Kali anti-piracy system remains effective and uncrackable.


To make iPhone applications uncrackable the developer need to purchase Kali protection and use the downloadable SDK to protect their work, developer's unique product code will get automatically processed by the Kali Anti-Piracy algorithm and if the product gets pirated it will cease to launch or function properly.

Download Windows 7 Beta And Free Genuine License Key

Microsoft Windows 7 Beta 1 which got leaked and cracked earlier is now officially available as a public download, Microsoft is also giving away 2.5 million free legitimate keys to let users try the first Beta of their upcoming operating system.

Here is what you have to do to get your Windows 7 Beta Download and a Free License Key. Windows 7 Beta expires on August 1,2009.

Download Windows 7 Beta 1 ISO Images via these direct links - Windows 7 (32bit) and Windows 7 (64 bit).

1. Visit this TechNet page and SignIn using your Windows Live ID.
2. Copy paste the url below in same window to get your product key:
• Windows 7 Beta 32 Bit Key
• Windows 7 Beta 64 Bit Key
3. Don't forget to patch Windows 7 Beta with KB961367 patch to avoid MP3 data corruption issue.