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Are you fade up of looking as same boot screen each time your computer boot? Do you think that it’d be better if nothing came when your computer boots. Well, there is a way to change the boot screen too (the manual process is a little complex but a thiry-party s/w might make it a lot easy) but I’ll be tweaking you through the process of just disappearing it. Here are few steps that you need to follow and walla …you never will be seeing the boot screen unless you want to.

First of all unhide all the hidden files and folders

• Go to your OS is installed drive
• Open the file ‘boot.ini’ with notepad or wordpad
• Search for the line ‘multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=”Microsoft Windows XP Professional” /noexecute=optin /fastdetect’ and ‘/sos’ to it’s end without any quote
• The new line should look like this ‘multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=”Microsoft Windows XP Professional” /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /sos’
• Save the file and restart

For all the mobile users, this software is a must. SmartMovie is a package of 2 softwares. One is the converter which converts the video clips from your PC to a playable format on your mobile device and other is its supplementary player which obviously allows to playback the converted video onto your mobile device.

3 steps to play your videos on your mobile device, anywhere, anytime:

• Convert any video file on your PC into a phone-friendly video file.
• Upload video into device/memory card.
• Play the video in SmartMovie Player installed on your mobile device.

Minimal requirements:

• PC with Windows XP, 2000, ME or 98.
• DirectX 7 or above.
• Mobile device with one of supported operating systems (Symbian, Windows Mobile, Palm)

Just for the record and all who might not know, Opera is the only browser that is available for most of the devices from PC, almost every mobile phone, and other networked devices. I was going through Opera’s official site and I was quite happy to know that on April 2, 2008, it released the beta preview of Opera Mini 4.1. The browsing is easier and more fun in compare to its previous versions taking your mobile browsing to a new level of interactivity with both the phone and the Web.

Features:

• Opera Mini 4.1 is up to 50% faster than Opera Mini 4. So, Opera has definitely worked on speed.
• The addition of auto complete feature is time saving and finger saving as well.
• You can also save pages and view later during offline time.
• The new Opera mini now lets you find the content that you want on such a small screen in no time.
• Last but not the least is that with Opera Mini 4.1, download and upload can be handled without any restrictions. The final blow to your phone’s native browser.

1,2,3…10. Out!!! Phone browser loses the new Opera wins.

You can download the beta version at http://www.operamini.com/beta.

You may never want to know this but an extra tip won’t so any harm. There might be times when your parents may tell you that you’ve been playing PC games for a long time and you may have sit just few minutes ago. So, this might help you out to convince your parents that you’ve not been playing for long. The command is simple.

1. Open a command prompt screen (start -> run -> type ‘cmd’ without quotes and enter)
2. In the command prompt, type ‘systeminfo’ and enter

A long list of information will be displayed but the one we are looking for is System Up Time which somewhere down in the middle. There are other information too that you might use.

Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 is the business publishing program that helps you create, design, and publish professional-looking marketing and communication materials like Advertisements, Award Certificates, Banners, Invitation Cards, Calendars and so on. You can create these materials for print, e-mail, and the Web with an intuitive, task-based environment that guides you from initial concept to final delivery in-house without professional design and production expertise.

For e.g. Microsoft Office Publisher makes it easy to produce effective business cards, whether you create your own design or use one of the Publisher designs. You can use color schemes and font schemes to select the colors and fonts that reflect your company’s image. You can further customize your business cards for specific market segments or locales, and you can add names and job titles for new employees as your business grows.
For creating simple web sites, now you need not to know html tags. You can simply build your site within few minutes. Just open a template provided by publisher, modify the contents, add the extra pages required and just publish these pages to web.

Office Publisher 2007 is designed to help businesses create professional-looking publications in-house quickly and easily. Even a beginner can create a publication for print, e-mail, or the Web. You can create your own publications with the professionally designed Publisher templates, customize the templates as needed, and then change from one type of publication to another by clicking a single button.You can save your publications as Portable Document Format (PDF) files and XML Paper Specification (XPS) files and share them as read-only publications. This makes it easy to share your publications with customers, colleagues, or family members who do not have Publisher installed on their computers.
When you save publications as high-quality PDF files or XPS files, you can print them on your own high-quality printer, post them in a viewable, fixed format for visitors to your Web site, or use the Pack and Go Wizard to take the files to a commercial printer in a format that the printer is sure to be able to professionally print.

In this era of inter networking, work groups and digital highways, it becomes more and more important to protect personal sensitive data from malicious or unintended harm.

More and more documents and information are migrated to the computer in the form of files stored in the hard disk.

More and more computers are linked together, exposing those files to dangers of being destroyed, examined, or adulterated intentionally or not by other users (hackers) of the network.

The PC Security for Windows ™ utilities are custom designed to help you protect your system against such intrusions.

The PC Security for Windows ™ offers comprehensive data security protection by performing the following functionality:

• File locking.
• Folder locking.
• Internet locking
• Window locking.
• Shortcut/Program locking.
• System locking (the whole computer) with different timers and Hot Key.
• Explorer Control.
• Restricted System.
• Intruder Detection with Alarm.
• Context Menu support (mouse right click to lock and unlock).
• Flexible and complete password protection.
• Drag and Drop support.

You can try PC Security for Windows ™ with no fear. If you decide not to use it, it has an uninstall feature that removes it completely from your machine!

Hardware/Software Requirements:

Computer: IBM or compatible

Processor: Pentium/compatible or higher

RAM 32MB or higher

Operating System: Windows XP/95/98 or higher, Windows NT 4.0 or higher

To view the software version details, in standby mode, enter *#0000#.

Symbian smartphones always have several disks as C, D, E, … which is just like PC.

Copy text:

To copy letters or words in your phones:

• To select letters or words, press the edit key (the key which looks like a pencil in your mobile phones keypad), and scroll left or right. To select rows, scroll up or down.
• To end the selection, release the scroll key.
• To copy the text, continue to press and hold the edit key, and select Copy.
• To paste the text to another document, press and hold the edit key, and select Paste.

Delete items:

In most applications, to delete items such as files, folders, or applications, scroll to the item that you want to delete, and press <C>. You need not to visit Application Manager to uninstall or remove the application installed earlier in your phone memory or memory card. If you remove an application, you may not be able to open files created with that application.

Use dictionary:

When editing text, to activate predictive text input, press the edit key, and select

Predictive text on.

To write the desired word, press the number keys once for each character. The word suggestion changes after each character.

If the word is correct, press 0 to insert a space and continue with the next word.

If the word is not correct, press * to see the matching words one by one.

If the ? character is shown after the word you have entered, the word is not in the dictionary. To add the word to the dictionary, select Spell, and enter the word.

Record your phone talks:

To record a phone call, open Recorder during the call, and press the scroll key. Obey all local laws governing the recording of phone calls. Both parties of the call hear a tone every 5 seconds during recording.

PhonePoint allows you to remotely control a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation (*.ppt file) from your phone.

System Requirements :

• Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 or later
• Windows 2000 or Windows XP
• Bluetooth PC support
• A Symbian OS, Series60 Phone (Nokia 3650/3600, 6682, 3660/3620, 6680, 3230, 6681, 6600, 6670, 6620, N-Gage QD, N-Gage, 7610, 6670, N70, 6260, N90, 6630, Lenovo P930, Panasonic X700, X800, Samsung SGH-D720, SGH-D730, Siemens SX1, Sendo X). This software should work with all Series60 Version 1.x and 2.x devices.

First Ensure Bluetooth is enabled on both the PC and the Phone.

• Install PhonePoint.msi on the PC
• Launch the PhonePoint.exe application from the Start menu, an icon will appear in the system tray.
• Open the PhonePoint application by clicking on the slideshow icon in the PC’s system tray.
• Enter your license code by pressing the “Enter Code” button. If you don’t have a license code PhonePoint will run in trial / evaluation mode.
• Create a phone installation file (a SIS file) by pressing the “Create SIS File” button.
• Send the installation file to your phone with the “Send To Phone” button, this will launch a Bluetooth file-transfer wizard. If prompted, browse to the PhonePoint.sis file (default location C:\Program Files\PhonePoint\Sis\PhonePoint.sis). If the phone does not appear in the Bluetooth device list, ensure the phone has Bluetooth visibility “shown to all” (In “Connect.” -> “Bluetooth”).
• The installation file will be sent to the phone’s inbox. Navigate to the inbox and open the PhonePoint.sis message.
• Install the phone application on either the phone or the memory card.
• Goto Control Panel-> Bluetooth Devices-> Options -> Turn discovery on (checked)-> COM Ports -> Add Incoming Port (COM10)
• Launch the PhonePoint application on the phone (labeled “PPT” in Grid view).
• Either open a PowerPoint presentation on the PC or from the phone application’s Options Menu, select “Open Presentation”. This will open PowerPoint on your PC and load the most recent slide show (*.ppt file).
• Use the phone’s joystick to navigate through the presentation.

Please ensure Bluetooth is correctly functioning on your PC (i.e. you can browse other Bluetooth devices), and that Bluetooth is enabled on your phone. Bluetooth must be enabled when creating SIS files with the PC application. If problems persist it may be prudent to update the Bluetooth drivers on your PC to their latest revisions. PhonePoint supports the Widcomm Bluetooth stack from version 1.3 onwards and the Microsoft stack (which is included as part of Windows XP from Service Pack 2). Most Bluetooth devices are upgradeable – refer to your Bluetooth supplier’s website.

Before reading this post, please try out this first. Right-click in your System Tray /Task Bar and click on ‘Task Manager’. Is it grayed-out? This means that your Task Manager has been disabled? This is a very familiar scenario if your PC is suffering from a virus. Even if you are logged in as an administrator and you haven’t manually done anything to disable the task bar, the viruses do this so that you aren’t able to see or end the background processes that it is running and get rid of it.

So, how can you enable the Task Manager? There are 2 easy methods.

Method 1- Through Group Policy Editor

• Go to Start -> Run
• Type ‘gpedit.msc’ without quotes and enter. (Group Policy Editor will open)
• Navigate to User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Ctrl+Alt+Del Option
• In the right pane you will see an entry ‘Remove Task Manager’, double click it (Remove Task Manager properties will open)
• Select ‘Not configured’ and click OK and that’s it your task manager will be enabled.

Method 2 – Through Registry Editor

In this method we are going to change the “registry” settings. So, before making any changes make sure that you have backed up the registry properly in case you might change something else whose result can be not so pleasant.

• Go to Start -> Run
• Type ‘regedit’ without quotes and enter (Registry Editor will open)
• Navigate yourself to ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Policies\ System’
• In the right pane there is a DWORD value ‘DisableTaskMgr’
• Double click it and change it’s value to ‘0’ (0 is for enabling and 1 is for disabling the Task Manager)
• Exit the ‘Registry Editor’ and you are ready to use the ‘Task Manager’

You can use any of the above process according to your preference to enable the ‘Task Manager’.

With a 3 inch TFT display, Japanese technology brings a new device with both functionality of Mobile phone and TV as well. The new Mobile TV phone by a huge electronic manufacture company PANASONIC integrated TV Mobile phones and TV technology together for a people who are willing to watch TV in their mobile phone handsets and named it after the company’s line of LCDs and plasma displays, VIERA.
With Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) feature, it is possible to keep yourself updated with TV news, reviews. Now you won’t lose any of your favorite TV programme and you won’t miss any of your phone calls. The handset works on GSM and W-CDMA networks and weighs 135 grams. It means its lighter as other mobile phones. It has the same design that most of the “TV phones” made in Japan have: a simple, rectangle shape, to easily integrate the biggest screen possible.
Features:

• 3 inch internal screen,
• 16:9 display with a 480 x 854 pixel resolution
• an external 0.77 inch, 96 x 25 pixels display
• 5.1 Megapixel CMOS camera with Auto focus
• a secondary camera
• Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR (Enhanced Data Rate)
• E-mail
• Internet browsing
• about 200 minutes of talk-time
• up to 340 hours of stand-by on GSM networks
• up to 580 hours of stand-by on W-CDMA networks

3 inch internal screen is perfect screen size for perfect videos and TV. An external 0.77 inch display is provided for viewing information like incoming phone calls or any missed calls without opening the phone. 5.1 Megapixel CMOS camera with Auto focus is sure to make good picture clicks and video capturing. A secondary camera is just for video calls, or you may use it to capture low resolution photos and videos to send as MMS. 200 minutes talk time is awesome. Overall, its good phone with TV facility to busy users who can now stick with TV, no matter how much busy s/he is.