Showing posts with label Hacks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hacks. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Crazzycool learn to create basic videos

Creating a intro video can cost you lot and it is time consuming. Also, required special skill set. If you are smart enough you can create professional intro video without spending lot. Lets see a simple easy and fun way to create a video to your business, product or service. It is an effective way to get people attention, spread through social media. Believe me it is fun.



Yes, creating a video can be expensive. it can easily cost you couple of thousand dollars. However if you break the process into the following processors it might sounds simple and inexpensive. You can do it with couple of hundreds.

1. Video Script

Writing the video script can done by your self. If you are not a professional writer just like me, you can always get it done for a reasonable price. 


  • Fiverr can be a good place to find your ideal script writer for five dollars. Oh you might end up using little bit extra.  
  • Crowdcontent is another great place to get quality content for a reasonable price. 


2. Presenter
Now who is going to present it. Can you do it or you are not comfortable in front of a camera just like me. Do not worry you can find someone who is willing to read your script in front of a camera send you the video. 


  • Again Fiverr is the ideal place to find a presenter for your script. You can either select a male or female model, select the dress or even the background.

3. Create some still images 


You can add couple of still images at the begging and end. You can start with your logo, business name and end with call of action. Always remember to create the still images same size as the video frame width and height. Right click on the video file and go to properties and then go to Details tab to find the frame dimensions. 




  • Photoshop or image editing tool - You can use a photo editing tool and create couple of images. You can purchase some stock image for less than ten dollars or twenty dollars. 
  • Even you can go back to fiverr and hire some one to create some images for you. 

4. Intro and background music track

This is really optional but important to have a intro music or background music. Do you want to get a unique music just for your video? You can apply the same trick and get it done for five dollars. Also, there are sites where you can download loyalty free intro videos for your video.

  • Fiverr is a good place to find composers will to compose a small audio track for you.
  • You can download loyalty free audio from here:
     http://www.accelerated-ideas.com/FreeMusicTracks/download-free-music-intro.aspx
  • Also you can find some music from Youtube. 

5. Basic video editing tool


Now you have all the components required for the video. Now its time to combined all these stuff together and create final product. You need a video editing tool. I prefer Windows Movie Maker for this task. It is simple, easy to use and free. 

Something basic I want to add here. Do not forget to create new folder for each video project and move all the files (videos, still images and background audio files) in to that folder before starting to edit it on Windows movie maker. 

Also, make sure you same the movie maker project files in case you want to do any alterations later. 

Select all the videos and still images and arrange it properly and add the background music. Result would be something like this. Enjoy.

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Why you should Not Buy iPad 3G version (Money Saving Tip)

This is the simplest iPad hack that will allow you to save money over buying a iPad and enjoy all the top range benefits. You do not have to spend extra to buy iPad 3G option anymore.

Advantage of buying a iPad 3G -

You can use a micro SIM card with a data plan to connect to Internet while you are on the road. When you do not get access to WIFI. Don’t try to hack into secure WIFI hot spots using your iPad. That is illegal and unethical, but less chance you would get into trouble. There is a better hack to get a portable WIFI with you.

Comparisons between the iPad 2 WIFI and the iPad 2 3G

Before we move ahead lets compare the iPad 2 WIFI and iPAd 3G versions. Apple website itself has given out a better comparison of the two versions of iPad. Therefore, I will only note down what iPad 2 WIFI version missing.


Whats iPad 2 WIFI missing

iPad2 WIFI lost 0.01pound comparing to iPad 3G. All of you you consider your health and figure would love to reduce your weight. People who are looking for portability in tech gadgets will love light weight devices. However, this is not much difference.

Under wireless and cellular you are missing the UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA (850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz); GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz). What? That means the 3G Data connection.

You will be badly missing the Micro-SIM card tray. May be you hate the Micro-SIM card.

Is that all? Yes, technical specification point of view those are the only features you will miss from iPad 2 WIFI only model. If you are note sure check it out at Apple iPad comparison page.

Lets move to the iPad price conparison.

iPad 2 with Wi-Fi + 3G 16GB $629.00
iPad 2 WIFI only 16GB $499.00


iPad 2 with Wi-Fi + 3G 16GB $729.00
iPad 2 WIFI only 16GB $599.00


iPad 2 with Wi-Fi + 3G 16GB $829.00
iPad 2 WIFI only 16GB $699.00


If you can go for the Wifi only model can sacrifice the 3G option you can save $129 dollars in any model. Good news is that you do not have to feel bad that you are missing Internet connection while you are on the road just because of $129.00. We will show you how to hack Wi-fi using your iPad.

Wireless 3G modem

You will only required a wireless 3G modem. It is getting popular these days as you can connect your smart phone, tablets, iPads to a portable wireless 3G modem. So, you can enjoy the Internet without 3G connection.

Huawei Wireless 3G Modem -


Operating frequency(3G): HSUPA/HSDPA/UMTS 2100MHz
Operating frequency(2G): GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900MHz
Speed: HSUPA 5.76Mbps; HSDPA 7.2Mbps
Interface: USB 2.0 high speed
Dimensions: 95 mm × 48 mm × 13 mm
Weight: 90g
Receive Diversity: HSUPA/HSDPA/UMTS 2100MHz
Micro SD card slot: Yes (Up to 32GB)
OLED: Yes
Equalizer: Yes
WiFi: 802.11.b/g
Encryption: WEP, WPA, WPA2
OS: Windows 2000 SP4 / XP SP2 / Vista; Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 with latest upgrades

There are other wireless modem devices as well. Most of the Internet service providers having this solution as well. Even, you do not have to stick to a contract, simply you can use a pre paid data plan.

II would like to hear what you think and whats your experience with this tech hack.


Thursday, April 28, 2011

How do the hackers hack credit card online?

Credit card hacking has now become a latest security threat for the credit card customers facing troubles with the transaction issues with the raise in the proportion of duplicity being increased over time. Banning credit card number hacking is made vital with importance to hacking issues. Protective safety system is to work on safeguarding the system security terms to keep up protection on user’s credit card info.

Method of hacker actions

Credit card hackers implement many techniques to make their moves to hack credit card information. The most common among the hacking techniques or hack tutorials includes the Phishing method, where the hacker acts like an officer in the organization collecting the credit card info. The hacker sends email alerts reading instructions for account holders to follow that fetches the credit card info calling for a threat of card getting cancelled. People who are not aware of this sort of fraudulence following the instructions getting struck up with the credit card hackers.

Other method of hacking includes the hacking via website, when the hacker gets hold of the account user’s info form the system it becomes easy to get access to the credit cards over time. The hacker search for data on the database from retailer stores that restores info on the users accessed in the near future transaction.

The next way credit card information gets hacked is via online process of purchasing. As some sites are more attractive that calls for a registration or identification details of your credit card that permits to enter you for access on purchase of products.

With the help of more sophisticated technology improvement one can focus more on how to hack credit card online easily. A carder can be the one to steal off info on the users while performing a face to face transaction obtaining the needful info on special scanners. The device is specific to read magnetic strip of credit cards that traces the info from the blank card from several identity cars stores.

Credit card Security

Secret services and FBI has brought in some special instructional statements to be followed to keep up security over credit card hacking. Disabling SQL stored procedure calls and cutting down access to external anonymous URL is appreciable. Locking the account on the mainframes after login attempts is important. Firewall helps in blocking the internet and intranet access for database systems supporting in securing data present in the computers, restricting the external access to your system attempted by the password hacker.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

An Alternative Way to Hack Into Your iPhone and Android

Despite the fact that generally there tend to be several probable techniques to hack into a smartphone, even now they have much less difficulties with hacking and viruses compared to personal computers. It's about time to ask the question again "whether your smart phone is hack proof?" Computer security specialists believe they have discovered a complete innovative method to break into smartphones, one that could possibly turn into a large problem for Apple and mobile phone manufacturers using Google's Android operating system.


In a demonstration arranged for Black Hat conference in Washington D.C., University of Luxembourg research associate Ralf-Philipp Weinmann states he plans to present his innovative method by using an iPhone as well as an Android phone, demonstrating the way in which they could end up being transformed into clandestine spying systems.

"I will demo how to use the auto-answer feature present in most phones to turn the telephone into a remote listening device," he mentioned in an e-mail interview.

Weinmann claims he is able to accomplish this simply by breaking the mobile phone's "baseband" processor, utilized to deliver and obtain radio signals mainly because the mobile conveys on its cellular network. He has discovered loop wholes in the approach the firmware applied in chips sold by Qualcomm and Infineon Technologies processes radio signals on the GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) networks utilized with the vast majority of the world's cellular service providers.

Cellular phone attackers and hackers had concentrated on another part of the smartphone: the applications and os's which functions on the actual handset's Processor. By fooling anyone interested in browsing a harmful Web site, attacker could possibly get benefit associated with the Web browser bug on the phone, then begin messing around with the phone memory.Utilizing baseband hacking, security professionals tend to be seeking at a different approach to get directly into phone memory.

The mobile phone's radio conveys along with the cellular phone tower. Therefore, in Weinmann's attack, first of all he should create a bogus cell phone tower and then get the targeted phone to be connected to it. Then he can send out his malicious code. Couple of years ago device makers did not think about this kind of attacks, for the reason that it used to cost tens of thousands of dollars to built a cellular tower. This can be a dangerous task as well. However the exploration towards this area is definitely beginning to explode. Latest open-source application known as OpenBTS which allows practically anyone to put together their very own cellular network radio tower system approximately US$2,000 worth of computer equipment. In couple of months time Vancouver's CanSecWest, will request hackers to hack into mobile phones utilizing a low power transmitter. In the event that their baseband attacks function, will open a new chapter in mobile phone security.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Kinect Hack Revealed [Video]

Price money to build a open source driver for Kinect has increased to $2000. Hackers are working on it not just because of the price money but the possibilities with the device.
Microsoft says that it is hard to jailbreak or tamper Kinect. However, it is just a matter of time. Recently released video is a prime example and it is so closed.



Some of the great thoughts about Kinect ....

[Diego Spinola] Can’t wait to see the 3d scanners that are going to be made with it!


[chango]Next step is to turn that height field into a mesh and map the color camera onto it. Then it will be obvious what’s going on here.

[starlino] Stereo Vision can be implemented easily with 2 cheap usb camera and opencv (as explained for example here http://www.starlino.com/opencv_qt_stereovision.html), the fact that Kinect has the infrared and probably hardware processing is a great plus which is a bonus for many robotics applications.I will not be surprised if Microsoft releases a driver for their Robotics Studio soon…

Many more can be found at hackaday.com

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Is iPhonetable Real?

The iPhone is attached via the standard dock connector – immediately after it is attached, the magic starts to happen. The entire content of the iPhone’s screen will be projected onto the multitouch table, still giving full access to all the touch gestures using multitouch technology.This is not a rumor. This is real. This is a product not from Apple but from group of German hackers.


With iPadtable you can view your application in 58" capacitive multi touch surface. You just have to connect a jailbroken iPhone 3GS or iphone 4 to this special table. They are yet to release the Video Demo of the iphone table; Changes everything. Big time.




This will be a much practical solutions to Microsoft surface which is more complicated and expensive. Ideally same technology can be develop for all the other mobile OS such as Android as well as touch screen enabled OS (Apple OSX Lion, Windows 7)

For more information and Video Demo launch visit Table.connect (for iphone) blog.

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Touch Enable Windows for your Tablet PC

Here we come to the Tablet PC age. Main advantage of the tablet PC is the mobility and give a larger screen to work. Remote desktop your computer at office or home is a key advantage of using a tablet PC. However, I have some problems working in the older windows versions ( Windows Xp ) or Windows Server version as they are not touch enabled. Here is the temporary solution I used to overcome this problem.


You can touch enable Windows 7 without any problem. However there is not direct method to touch enable Windows XP. There for you need to increase the font size, icon size to make it easy to work with the touch screen. It makes the life so much easier as you can easily select the files programs you want to work with. Increa

Go to the Windows computer that you want to access remotely from your ipad or tablet pc. Right click on the desktop and go to properties and go to Appearance tab, click on the Advanced button to change individual Items. I always make the icons bit larger and increase the space between the icons. you can even increace the menu bar and the scrollbar size so you can easily work from the touch screen.

However, there is not direct way to enable fancy multi touch options like zoom in zoom out or scroll down and up touching touching any place in the window. At this stage only option is to upgrade to Windows 7.

Friday, September 24, 2010

Jailbreak Amazon Kindle 3

According to MobileRead forum you can jail break the Amazon's latest reading device Kindle 3 to unlock some cool features. Ninety percent of the limitation come from the software side. That is clear as we can see hacks and jailbreaks for each modern devices they release with some crazy limitation.

Kindle 3 Jailbreak and Hack will allow you to add and change some extra fonts, USB Networking and some screen saver hacks.

Following is the list of programs used in this hack.


clarknova for the first 2.5.x jailbreak & screensavers hacks
porkupan for one of the first bind mount based fonts hack
kukyakya for the usb watchdog & update-safe tweaks
jyavenard for the packager
tedsan & blogkindle for their fonts hack

You can read more about this one mobileRead and try it on your own risk. Personally I will not jailbreak unless I really need to test and use a test environment where I can afford to loose.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Internet Explorer 9 Beta looks Great

What is best Internet browser? What is the most fastest and secure browser? Some of the questions and arguments going around. I am not going to talk about browser war. This is all about the Internet Explorer 9 Beta. Has Microsoft has done a pretty good job this time? Lets find it out.

Download and Installing IE 9 Beta

It was a pretty smooth and fast installation and required to restart the computer as usual. Download and Installation took less than 5 minutes. IE9 is only supporting later version of Windows (Windows 7 and Windows Vista). It dose not support Windows XP. I think it is a good move as Microsoft badly need to move forward with Windows 7.


First Time
It was a pretty quick start and gave options to disable the plugins and add-ons to make it load faster.

IE9 Looks and feel

IE9 looks pretty similar to Google Chrome. Simplified interface provide the maximum space for the website. Compact search and URL to one box with Security view Compatibility view reload page and stop loading buttons. You can customize the search to your favorite search engine. Unlocking the toolbar will give you a option to resize the address bar.

IE 9 Tab Hacks
IE9 given the maximum functionality to its tabs. You can arrange the tabs as you want and you can drag a tab out side, so it will open as new window ( Just like in Google Chrome). Double click on the tool bar will open a new tab for you.




Memory usage

Without any add-ons and plugins memory usage is pretty low comparing to Google Chrome and FireFox. However, it totally depend on the open website and number of tabs. I tried my best of control these factors by opening the same webpage and number of tabs.

Overall Microsoft has done a good job in IE9 in terms of Loading time and look and feel of the web browser and user friendliness. Security level of IE9 is yet to be revealed.



If you are interested and running Windows Vista or 7 download IE 9 and give it a try. 

PSP games on PS3 are REAL

Russian console gamer successfully work around a way to play PSP games on PS3. Yes, this is jailbreaking your PS3. He has already released the video proof.

According to GameSuper it was a really complicated and time consuming process by using tools which are not leaked to public.

"It was very hard 'cause I changed a lot in game files and a lot on PS3 internal HDD to get it work. Unfortanally I can't describe here how to do it manually - it's very long and hard and some components are needed which are not leaked to public, and I'm not gonna leak them either." Says GameSuper.

He is going to release a tool which will to convert EVERY game from PSP ISO to PS3-compatible version automatically. At this stage I am not sure whether it is legal or illegal process. We will be able to see it as soon as he release the jailbreak.

His project will contain of 2 parts:
1). A PC tool in which you specify input PSP ISO and output directory and just press Convert and wait 5-7 mins. After that you get full PS3 compatible game. It can be done with EVERY game.

2). A homebrew PKG for PS3 which needs to be launched only once to make some changes and copy some new files on PS3 internal HDD.

Enjoy his first video Showing GTS: Chinatown Wars launching on PS3.



Source: PSX-Scene.com

Monday, September 20, 2010

Know Your PC Configuration

There are many cases that you have to find out the exact configurations of your PC. Most of the time you will not be able to figure them out just by looking at the System Properties. Piriform Speccy, simple light weighted software will give you all the information you would like to know about your computer.

May be you require to buy new hardware to upgrade your computer or replace old parts. Specially if you are buying RAM for your computer it is important to match the RAM Type, Frequency exactly. Sometime you need to find out the hardware information when you try to troubleshoot problems. In my case alway I need to find out the hardware information to download and install drivers after reinstalling Windows. In any of these cases Piriform Speccy will come handy.

It is a piece of software that need to be downloaded and installed (fairly simple) and run to find out all the hardware and operating system information you required.

It can give your the

  • Serial number and exact version of your operating system. 
  • CPU details 
  • RAM 
  • Motherboard 
  • Graphic Card
  • Hard Drive 
  • Optical Drives
  • Audio Drivers
  • Peripherals like mouse key board 
  • Network Card. 
In addition, you can save snap shot of these setting in a safe place in case you need to find out the PC configurations in case of emergency.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

5 Simple data recovery tools

Professional data recovery bill can be huge and normally you will get charge per mega byte. If you have the correct set of tools it is much easier process. I will consider data recovery as an advanced topic as it requires you to master trouble shooting skills and a better understanding of how data storage media works with a operating system.
Pandora Recovery - Mobile
Recover deleted files

Simplest and most common data recovery scenario. Lets look at some simple and free tools that can be used.

STOP! As soon as you noticed that important file is been deleted stop working with that computer ( Copy, Cut, paste files or restarting computer). However, you have to take a risk to download your file un-delete tool and install it. Use another computer to download the files, copy it to flash drive and install in the affected computer to minimize the risk.

WARNING! If you do not want to spend money to buy a full version, don’t install the trial versions. 99% Recovery software trial version require you to purchase the software to recover files.

1. Recuva is a effective tool to bring back deleted files. Make sure you run a deep scan (Options) to recover all the possible files. It is worth to run the Deep Scan even though it takes some time. [Download Recuva]

2. Pandora File Recovery is another handy tool. It make sure you check the Recycle bin before you run the lengthy recovering process. Then it gives you three options to either browse, search or deep surface scan. Deep surface scan method will effectively recover drivers with corrupted file tables, recently formatted hard disk, memory sticks, jump drives, memory cards, CD’s and DVDs. [Download Pandora File Recovery]

Recuva Vs Pandora File Recovery - There are different strong points for each software and personally I keep both in my portable hard drive.

3. If you are looking for a paid option I would highly recommend R-Studio file recovery software. As R-Studio introduction it recover files from

  • FAT12/16/32/exFAT, NTFS, NTFS5 (Windows 2000 /XP /2003 /Vista /2008 /Win7) 
  • HFS/HFS+ (Macintosh) 
  • Little and Big Endian variants of UFS1/UFS2 (FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD/Solaris) Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 FS (Linux) partitions. 
  • local and network disks, even if such partitions are formatted, damaged or deleted. 
I have used this cool software in many occasion in different conditions and it always manage to save my day. 

[Buy R-Studio]

Recover Files when your computer crashed

If you were too lazy to back up your files and now cannot boot up your computer (Only if your computer start up but your OS is crashed and cannot access any of files try the following data recovery solutions.

4 . Slax - Your Pocket operating system will boot up your computer from the CD ROM and give you full access to copy all your files to a external hard drive (How to mount NTFS hard drive). Linux based live CD which is already loaded with essential recovery tools and collection of pre installed software is a effective way to get back all your important files from your crashed computer. It even manage to recover files when file table was corrupted. 

[Download Slax]

5. UBCD4Win - Ultimate Boot CD for Windows is a Windows XP Live CD if you really need a windows environment. You require a Windows XP SP1 or SP2 (Prefer SP2) CD to create this live CD. It comes with collection of file recovery and Windows Administration tools that can be used to recover your computer. 

 [Download Ultimate Boot CD for Windows]

Slax Vs UBCD4Win - I prefer Slax as it is faster and easier to use comparing to UBCD4Win. However, I don't forget to carry both live CDs in my CD pack.

Forensics Data Recovery 


Forensic Data Recovery is challenging and require set of skills and procedures. You need to master then over the time with different conditions. Most challenging part is that under any condition or reason you cannot change the original data (data source). Always you require to use special Forensic data recovery Live CDs.

6. Helix - e-fense - Cyber Security was one of my favorite forensics live CDs used to grab hard drive image and recover files. However, it is no longer available for free. [Try Helix]

These are not the only available data recovery tools but list of simple and easy to use data recovery tools you can try in various situations. Feel free to share your best data recovery tool you have used...

Friday, September 10, 2010

5 tips for using Priority Inbox

Gmail has recently introduce the priority inbox where you can have a separate inbox only for VIP emails. Here are 5 ways to make the maximum out of it. You will able to save lot of time you waste to read all the email.

1. Customize your selection

By default, Priority Inbox has three sections: "Important and Unread," "Starred" and "Everything Else.” But that doesn't mean you have to leave them that way. You can make a section show messages from a particular label (like your “Action” or “To-do” label), add a fourth section, or change the maximum size of any section. Visit the Priority Inbox tab under Settings to customize your sections, or do it right from the inline menus.

2. Train the system
If Gmail makes a mistake, you can help it learn to better categorize your messages. Select the misclassified message, then use the importance buttons at the top of your inbox to correctly mark it as important or not important.

3. See the best of your filtered messages
You can set up Priority Inbox to show you not just the best of your inbox, but also the best of messages you filter out of your inbox and might otherwise miss. Just change your Priority Inbox settings to “Override filters” and Gmail will surface any important messages that would otherwise skip your inbox.

4. Use filters to guarantee certain messages get marked important (or not)
If you read and reply to a lot of messages from your mom, Gmail should automatically put incoming messages from her in the “Important and unread” section. But if you want to be 100% sure that all messages from your mom (or your boss, boyfriend, client, landlord, etc.) are marked important, you can create a filter for messages from that sender and select “Always mark as important.” Similarly, if you regularly read messages from your favorite magazine, they should automatically get marked as important. If you’d rather they end up in the “Everything else” section, you can create a filter to never mark them as important.


5. Archive unimportant messages quickly
One of the features that can help make you more efficient is the ability to archive all of the visible messages in the "Everything Else" section at once. Just click on the down arrow next to "Everything Else" and select the "Archive all visible items" option. If you want to be able to archive even more messages at once, you can increase the maximum number of messages that show in that section from the same drop-down.


5 tips for using Priority Inbox - Official Gmail Blog

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Use Google to learn alternative products

Are we fully unitized Google to learn things? Most probably the answer is YES. Because every time you come a cross something that we are not familiar with, you Google it. Are we using Google to to learn things that we haven't heard before? May be not. As we don’t know what to search. In this post I will show a trick that will help you to come up with something you don't know from what you already know.


Specially if you are looking for some alternative products or services this method will come handy. For example I will take one of my favorite free software that I use to clean up my computer and make it run faster; CCleaner. I would like to know what else I can use.

Simple go to Google and type “CClearner Vs ”. Remember the trick to add “Vs “ to bring up the alternative suggestions from Google. I did not had to go through blog posts, articles or forums to find out ten different alternative product to CCleaner. Here is some of the products I found : cleanup, glary utilities, tuneup, ncleaner.

You can try it for any other product or service that you can think of. Some examples I tried.
Is Apple the only alternative solution for Microsfot? Microsoft Vs
I do not like iPhone need something else? iPhone Vs
What are the other Search engines out there? Google Vs

This can apply to anything you can think of and see what Google is suggesting for you. If you come cross some interesting findings do not forget share it with us.

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Computer Troubleshooting Secrets Revealed

You might be trouble shooting the computers from time to time to over come the challenges and make things work as it is. I have been doing this for over 10 years and every day I find it quite challenging and fun. Solving a problem will make you happy and bit prouder and it all depend on how challenging it is. If you enjoy challenges and trouble shooting or even you hate it but have no choice, you will find this post useful.
It can be a error message, data loss, Internet connection loss or dose not connect, pragmatical error or it can be any sort of issue or problem you need to know only one generic method to solve it. Knowing this system will make your trouble shooting life easy.

First step is knowing there is a problem in your system. It is obvious that if there is a error message or things are not working as they suppose to be mean there is a problem in your system.

Secondly you need to identify the problem. This need good observation skills. If there is a problem you need to know more details about the it in order to figure out a solution. This is a straight forward process. Simply by looking at the error message or observe the way system react for a input or a change of state will give you a good idea about the issue. In cases, error message nor system behaviour may not reflect the real problem. Your experience and your trouble shooting skills will come handy.

You can argue that the first and second step are the same. In real trouble shooting scenarios you will not notice big difference between these two step as you switch between these steps really fast.

However, skipping the second step is a common mistake we do most of the time. Specially if you do not have any computer back ground you tend to think that fixing a computer problem is hard as making a space craft. 60% of the computer problems do not require special skills. Even if you call for professional help, identifying the problem will give you a good advantage explaining the issue to someone and get help.

How many times you were disappointed after calling a support line. I am not pointing the finger at you only but if you can explain the problem well to the persona who is in the other end it is always easy to get a better solution. For example, “My computer is not starting”, “My computer is slow”, “I cannot go to mywebsite.com” or similar statements dose not make much sense. If you have asked couple of questions from yourself, in most cases you might able to solve these problems by your self. Worst case you can explain it clearly. In case your computer is not starting in computer language “not booting”, here is the couple of general questions you can ask.

Dose the power is on to the computer? Dose the power light of the computer is on?
Is your monitor is on? Monitor power light is on?
What is the last screen you see on the monitor? Is it completely black?
Is there a blinking line appears on your screen?
Dose it come to the Windows logo screen and stop working?
Dose it come to the log in screen and stop from there?

You do not require any computer knowledge to get answers to any of these questions. Do you? It is just general knowledge, Now you will realise how much more you know about your computer and the current problem.

Find the possible solutions for your problem is the third step. Information you gathered from the second step will come handy here. It is really hard to find a solution with out knowing the problem. Now you know the problem and need to know techniques to find the solutions.

Before I come to the techniques I would like to let you know couple of secrets.

* You are not the first one to experience this problem
* Don’t panic, patience is the key to solve problems

Google is the best place to look for the solutions to your computer and Internet issues. There are so many resources out there giving you step by step tutorial to solve problems or get something done correctly.

Another great place to look for how to fix solution is YouTube. Not only images and instructions, you can see how someone is fixing a it. What else you required.

As you identify the problem in step two, now try describe it in couple of words.For example “Computer stop booting from windows logo screen”. You can try this in google and check out the results you get. Key here is to give couple of good words that describe the issue. If you are getting a error message best way to search is to type the exact error message. You will be surprised the number of solutions given for a single problem. That is because you are not the first or only person to experience it. In any case you find something that no one else has experienced make sure to put it as a blog post. Will go one step back word. Try search you first explanation of your problem, in my case “computer dose not start”. You end up with lot of possibilities which you don't want to go through. This is the best way to become a Google ninja. Be more specific and describe it with couple of keywords.

There are lot of possible solutions in front of you. However, I will not apply any of them still or try to fix things up randomly. Because, it can create more issues. For example if my computer is not booting up and if I factory set the computer or reinstall Windows in first place I will loose all my data. Even though I may have fixed one problem it created a worst problem. Now I have to spend time and money to recover my data.

Here we come to the final step where you apply the solution you found. You required to go through the solutions carefully and first check how comfortable are you applying it to computer. I suggest this is the best place you should decide whether to get some professional help or not. Even if you go for professional help you will able to fix the problem easily as you know the situation very well and also you know the possible solutions as well.

If you have a computer background or you like to learn more about computers you should not afraid to take a risk. Saying that you should always know your worst case scenario and the limitations. I would not experiment thing on my work computer or someone else computer where I cannot afford to loose anything.

However, if it is a simple solution that really dose not have a risk I will definitely try it out knowing what exactly I am doing.

In this way you can easily trouble shoot your computer. I am sure you can apply thins on your day to day life as well. Give it a try and I would like to hear your story as well. Share it with me.

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Will Computer Age Really End on 2012?

Day by day planet earth and its species including humans getting closer to day 20th of December 2012. Mayan long calendar ends on the exact day. Mayans is not the only prehistoric civilisation that predict this day. Egyptian, Hopi, India, Aborigines civilisation and individual Nostradamus are trying to tell something about exact day. As we already lost most of these ancient languages and other documents are just drawings we always end up with questions not answers. Therefore, some predict world is going to end, another group predict that is just the end of present civilisation and others argue that nothing is going to happen in 2012.
What is really going to happen in year 2012? Are we already seeing the changes? This video, presentation at the 2012 Conference by Graham Hancock will answer most of your questions.




Many interesting facts were revealed in his video. Our world is keep on changing its shape time to time. It happened and it will happen in future. We cannot stop that or change it. Our technology hacks tricks will not be enough. Every culture has the same story but in different format. Is that mean something common happened all over the world during the same time period.

Another important thing he mentioned in his presentation [1:05:44] is the book Hamlet's Mill (first published by Gambit, Boston, 1969) by Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend. It is amazing how all the sacred places on earth is linked with the same series of numbers coming up again and again. 72 is the hurt beat of the circle and you will be amazed how Mysterious Egyptian Pyramids, Temples around the world is base on number 72. Not only that all the myths and stories use the same numbers. Is it a coincident?

Graham Hancock point out another important fact about our present life style. We are after day to day problems and solving them and out lives are base on nothing but money. Without even knowing we live a life that is not connect with earth. I think it is time to change and think out of the box to have better life.


Related Readings 


Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge And Its Transmission Through MythThe Complete Prophecies of NostradamusThe Lost Book of Nostradamus (History Channel)Fingerprints of the GodsThe Mayan Code: Time Acceleration and Awakening the World Mind

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Use your Sixth Sense with your Computer

Most of us are used to using a computer the normal way - fingers tapping away on a keyboard, and having to use a mouse to click at the screen. But soon, we wont have to use either a keyboard or a mouse!

'Sixsense' is a wearable gestural interface program that digitizes the physical world around us and lets us use natural hand motions to interact with that information.

Thats how Pravav Mistry describes his new gadget - a device that abandons the limits of computer mice and keyboards and which allows the user to interact with information. After viewing the video a user will probably feel that using any normal device (mobile phone, mp3 player, or laptop) is a waste of time in comparison.

With Sixsense you will be able to add certain information to objects that you use everyday, and it will also lock in and follow your finger movements. You can move text, graphs and pictures from paper to computer and computer to paper with this amazing tool.


Possibilities/Implications with SixthSense

You will be able to obtain information, including personal information, from strangers just by looking at them! If someone were to view you using Sixsense, and if you were a registered sex-offender, then you wouldnt be able to hide.



It can be used as an aid in speaking (for example, this would be perfect for thyroid cancer patients, like Roger Ebert).

It can interpret sign language motions to actual vocal words/phrases

It can be used as a real-time translator (you can go to a foreign country and have no problems with getting around, because youll be able to read street signs).

You wont have to pay attention to your environment very much, since Sixsence will be able to give you information about your environment in real time (e.g. not knowing what street youre on).

You wont have to necessary need to hold a book or manual in front of you (Sixsense can project informational material onto a nearby wall).

Of course, there are downsides to having such fantastic technology readily available:

You might accidently throw out or project your personal information if you dont know what youre doing with the Sixsense gadget.

Hackers may see this as a grand opportunity to gain quick access to a persons personal information

People might be inclined to turn their brains off, since they essentially have a device that can feed them answers by their own finger movements.

Yet this is one of the coolest innovatiions I have come across. and has a lot of potential to change lifestyles.

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Make money online being a freelancer

At present there are various online sites offering freelancing opportunities that helps to make money online. Freelancing is the best option for earning money from home and earn some paypal cash selling articles. If you are a housewife or need of some part time job then there is no best offer than freelancing. You can start your online earning journey by being a content writer or web designer. Content writing is one of the best opportunities to take up because it involves no investment and extra money for starting up. To make money online is very easy, if you are ready to take up freelancing work! How to Make Money on the Internet: Get Rich Online

Friday, May 28, 2010

Can you get this in Gmail


It is really hard to fill over 8GB with email. That is what Gmail is offering and once they were saying that GMail is providing infinity plus storage. So couple of days ago I had came cross this message.

"You have run out of space for your Gmail account. You will not be able to send or receive any emails until you delete some items"

So I start deleting the emails and it was taking some times to delete the email and problem was not fixed until you empty the deleted emails as well.

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Can I steal Your Twitter Followers?

This is a quick question I am going to ask. Can I steal your Twitter followers? Whether it is yes or no I can steal most of your followers by following them. However, the question is that is it a good way to increase the number of followers?

Simple and quick way to increase Twitter Followers

Following as many as twitter users will make them follow you in return. That means you do not have to be a popular name to have hundreds thousands of followers. You can use couple of tricks to find related and quality Twitter followers. That is to choose some related twitter users and follow their followers. In return you will get some of their quality followers.

It all sound easy and fun. However you need to provide interesting tweets regularly to build your brand and use the twitter followers you already got. If you sounds bit boring then you can easily loose the followers.

Remember this is not a good way to increase the twitter followers, but it is a nice and easy way to have many followers in early stages.

Then comes the big question. How to make money from Twitter?

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