Multiple Instances of Yahoo! Messenger

Basically, Yahoo! Messenger doesn’t offer multiple instances. Use this tiny registry hack to use multiple instances. This works for all versions up to 9.0. We’ll be using Registry Editor and a DWORD value to override it’s default single instance. (more…)

NTFS Conversion for Newbies

If you have come across File Systems, you surely must be knowing a file system known as NTFS. NTFS stands for New Technology File System.

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Multiple Instances of Google Talk

Many of you should be knowing this. This trick (based on a parameter) helps you open multiple instances of your GTalk (Client/Software version) which basically is limited to a single instance. To override this, you will have to run Google Talk’s executable file (exe) with a parameter. You can do this in many ways – by directly passing the parameter or by creating a shortcut to Google Talk with its parameter. (more…)

Dr.Watson Registry Tweaks

Everyone knows this famous doc that detects and diagnoses application errors and stores them in files User.dmp and DrWtsn32.log. The DrWtsn32.log file is appended (added to the existing information) each time an application error occurs and the User.dmp file is overwritten (replaced) each time. The log produced by it may shoot up to several GBs leading to low disk space on your Windows drive.. (more…)

Facebook’s New Treat

Facebook, one of the best social networking sites, has come up with 2 new treats for its users. One is the awesomely cool Orkut Friends Importer and the other is Facebook in Indian Languages targeted to India. I would rather say both of these are targeted to Indians as Orkut’s traffic is primarily from India with 23.4% of the total site visitors (Source) out of which Chennai, Bangalore, Bombay and New Delhi are the toppers! (more…)

Your Own URL Shortening Service

URL Shortening is extremely useful when it comes to sharing URLs on IMs or Twitter and is easy to be read and remembered by humans. And TinyURL has been doing this for years and is perhaps the most famous Shortening Service with its easy-to-use API along with Bit.ly.

Shorty is a very simple PHP based URL Shortening script. As this works on PHP, you’ll obviously need Linux Hosting / Apache Server. If you don’t have, you look for some free PHP Hosting. You’ll also have to create a MySQL Database to store shortened addresses and its link. You’ll learn about it in the next few steps. (more…)

Ubercool LG GD900 (Crystal)

After using LG KG800 (Chocolate) for a while, I started to hate LG for its slow Processing especially when it comes to GIF Animation, as it takes years to process every single frame and display them on screen. Few other things that I hated are – terribly slow scrolling inside the web-browser, keypad, slow response, too many ‘Done’/'Settings Changed’ pop-ups and finally, incompatibility with most JAVA Applications/Games. Contrary to this, few other things made me love the phone – touch sensitive keys, stylish outer case and awesome clarity on its 1.3MP camera and its crystal clear display. And here’s yet another coolest phone from the family of LG. Its LG GD900 a.k.a. Crystal for people who need style on a high-end tech phone. The phone has bundled with it, the latest in technology – camera, display, connectivity and other internal features. (more…)

How to: Setting up POP/IMAP Mail Access

Before we set up mails clients to download email, we need to know 2 important protocols (a set of rules). They are POP/IMAP and SMTP. POP stands for Post Office Protocol, IMAP for Internet Message Access Protocol and SMTP for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. POP and IMAP are the protocols to retrieve messages from server and SMTP is the protocol to push messages to the server. Here, server is your Email provider (GMail/Yahoo!/Your ISP). (more…)

Free Mail Alerts as Text Message (SMS)

Yes, you read it right! Get Email alerts on your mobile as an text message (SMS) irrespective of the service/email provider! You’ll just have to make sure your email provider supports Mail Forwarding. This could be found somewhere inside your Mail Options/Settings. If you are a Yahoo! user, you’ll be able to find it in your Mail Options –> Forwarding and for GMail, this will be located in your Mail Settings –> POP and Forwarding Tab. This works for Google Apps users as well. And this works on Way2SMS platform. (more…)