Archive | May, 2009

Multiple Instances of Yahoo! Messenger

28 May 2009

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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.

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NTFS Conversion for Newbies

28 May 2009

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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

28 May 2009

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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 – [...]

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Dr.Watson Registry Tweaks

13 May 2009

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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 [...]

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Facebook’s New Treat

10 May 2009

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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 [...]

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Your Own URL Shortening Service

8 May 2009

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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 [...]

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Ubercool LG GD900 (Crystal)

6 May 2009

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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, [...]

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How to: Setting up POP/IMAP Mail Access

4 May 2009

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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 [...]

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Free Mail Alerts as Text Message (SMS)

3 May 2009

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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 [...]

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