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.

hacks tricks and tweaks - March 20, 2010

Welcome to the March 20, 2010 edition of hacks tricks and tweaks.

Case Ernsting presents The White-Hat Search Engine Optimizers Guide to Article Marketing posted at MetaSpring Blog.

Ana Paula presents 100 Business Experts You Should Follow on Twitter posted at AccreditedOnlineColleges.org.

chris presents How to Save Passwords as Text posted at Blog H.Q.


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Running CPU temperature that is safe for your Netbook is ~50c

Well the maximum temperature before your CPU is in immediate threat of being deep fried is 90c for most of the Intel Atom chips that are present in Netbooks.. I would no where recommend testing that limit on your cpu.

It is important for your system's health to keep it cool. Cooling also helps with longer battery life I suppose.

I always tend to keep my eee pc under 45c but on some occassions it heats upto 56c where I start closing the used applications taking up CPU cycles.

Also, I use applications like HDD Health and Speed Fan to monitor the temperature as it seems to work with most of the CPUs.

Do not waste time use e.ggtimer

Are you wasting time doing nothing in front of the computer, but busy reading the news articles email and switching between windows? There are so many distraction that can easily keep you out of your productive work. How to avoid it and manage your time.

It is quite simple as always. You just need to use simple trick. TIMER. Yes timer that will indicate the time slots. So you can allocate each time slot (eg 10 minutes) to each task.

For example it will like this.

10 minutes - Read Email
10 minutes - Go through the News
10 minutes - Write a blog post.
10 minutes - Write a blog post.
10 minutes - Take a break.
10 minutes - Double check the blog post and publish.

You will be force to get things done is small time slots. So you know you do not have whole day to check email or news papers. Who is going to do the count down?



E.gg Timer is simple but effective tool that you can use. No, it is not a software that you need to download. It is a website where you can define a time and it will start count down and alert you when time expired.

Have a look and you might find more tricks using the E.gg Timer. Do not forget to share it with us. Ok e.ggtimer says my time expired for the blog post. I need to click the publish button.

How to Print Labels Using Word and Excel

It is quite frustrating to print thousands or even hundreds of labels manually. Holiday season is coming around so it would be good to have a quick and easy way to print labels. Lets see how you can do it in style.


If I say there are no better softwares than Words and Excel for manage data I think I am correct. Knowing all the Excel hacks and tricks you can get any sort row data in to organize manner. Arrange it exactly you want. Using Word you can arrange them to print it the way you want it. This is exactly what you required to print labels without wasting time.

First you must organize the information you have. This includes identifying the needed information and collect correct and up to date information. Google Docs Forms will come handy on collecting information. Because straight away it puts into Excel Spread Sheet. No need to spends time organizing the gathered information.
For example if you need to collect all the mailing addresses of your friends, relatives or even business partners to send seasonal greetings simple you can create a Google Doc Form with relevant field (Name, Address, Suburb, State) send the link to everyone to fill. You will end you with nice and clean excel full of names addresses.

After collecting all the required information and organize them we need to look in to a way to print it as labels. I will move all the collected data to Microsoft Excel from Google Docs as we going to used Microsoft Word for formatting. Microsoft word to print labels from Excel Step by step guide will give you a idea how to do it. Here are couple of tips that will clear things out.

When you create the original Excel make sure you create heading in vertically. (eg: Row 1) Then the data for each heading going downward.That means if you take one row it contains all the information required for one label.

Mail Merge Recipients dialog box will takes you through all the steps. When it comes to select the label type make sure you give exact information about the label you need to print. I find it easy to keep actual paper in front of me and provide the measurements accordingly.

If you want to print couple of labels in one sheet then you need to specify in the Label Options. All the standard labeling sizes can be found there already.

Each template need to be copy and paste into the other labels in the same page with the <> to display next available record in the next label. Then you can directly print it out.

It is quite easy process and if you have any questions I would be happy to help you out.

Quickly find out when Windows was last shutdown/rebooted

Every wondered to find out when your desktop was shutdown or rebooted by your mischievous sibling?

Here's a quick way

To find out last reboot
1) Open command prompt and type in

net statistics workstation | more

The second line will say


Statistics since ....

You can find out since when the machine is up

To Find out last shutdown

The easiest way to determine the last shutdown date/time is to check the event logs. When you shutdown a computer Event ID 6006 is written to the Event log which denotes a clean shutdown.

Popular Web 2.0 + Apps Easter eggs

If you are looking for the hidden easter eggs on the Web 2.0 then you have come to the right place :) Here's a list of some of the cool ones!

Flickr: Click on a picture. Then go to the address bar and type in ?snow=1

e.g.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremyarthur/3898855277/?snow=1

if the original picture is

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremyarthur/3898855277/

Google loves Microsoft:

Try www.google.com/ibm

- It returns Page not found!

Try www.google.com/microsoft

- It still returns something

Reg file on Google: http://www.google.com/google.reg

What is it??

Firefox Book of Mozilla Easter Egg

type about:mozilla

You get A quote from the "Book of Mozilla" about the birth of Firefox.

Google Flight Simulator:

Get Google Earth 4.2

Hit Ctrl+Alt+A

Wola, you can a full on flight simulator and a plan and airport to choose!

Answer to the life, the universe and everything ... according to Google

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=answer+to+life,+the+universe,+and+everything+&btnG=Search&hl=en&rlz=1C1GGLS_enAU301AU303&sa=2

Wolfram Alpha Easter Eggs

Where did I put my keys?

What do Men want?

FireFox 3.5 Tweaks

Everyone is excited about FireFox 3.5. Even though you cannot see major change from outside they have worked hard to get thing in real shape by making it really faster and add some missing items from FireFox3.0.

Google Chrome is giving the maximum area for the web page than any other web browser. You can get a similar web browsing experience from FireFox3.5.

Right click on the Toolbar and select Customize and you can drag and drop all the components from other toolbars (Navigation Toolbar and Bookmark Toolbar) to the first tool bar. Then you can go to View and then to Tools bars and un-select Navigation Toolbar and Bookmark Toolbar.I would like to make the status bar disappear as well but it would be a bad idea as you cannot see the links where they heading to before you click.

DownloadSquad has come up with a cool FireFox3.5 Tweak that will keep your FireFox open even after the last tab was close.

Type about:config into the location bar and you will get a warning and always you click on I'll be careful I promise! and you will get all the FireFox configuration settings there. Copy and paste browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab on Filter and double click on browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab to make it false. Your FireFox will not close just because you close your last tab.

Another feature of FireFox3.5 is that it allows you to move your Tabs between FireFox windows.

Hope you are enjoying FireFox3.5 and you are always welcome to share your FireFox3.5 tweaks with us.

How to Speedup Your Web - Google Secret revealed

Google web pages loads really fast. What is the secret behind it? Official Google Webmaster blog revealed the tools they use to optimise the web pages that will help them improve the loading speed. If you are looking for hacks tricks and tweaks to speed up your web site this will be the tool for you.

Page Speed and Firebug are the two secret tools now available for anyone to download and add to FireFox Add-on list. It is quite simple and east to use tool. 

Page Speed provides you the optimised images that can be used in your website or blog and gives suggestions on optimising JavaScript and CSS files. 

Web Performance Best Practices gives out all the methods you can be used to make your web page load faster. 

Following is the result given by Page Speed for CrazzyCool. I will be busy optimising the blog and I am sure you will find this Google Secret tools interesting. Do not forget to share your experience with us.

[Trick] Promote your Blog via GMail

This is simple trick to promote your website or blog using one  of GMail Lab features. If you have a website  or blog I am pretty sure you are using a link to your blog or website. 

Tip: It is always effective to send out different links with your email to your Friends as they wont be boring seeing the same link all the time. 

Lets see how we can add a link to a random post from your blog or website to your email signature

Gmail Lab Feature: Random Signature, Signature tweaks

*Log in to your GMail account. 

*Go to the Gmail Lab Page.

*Find the Random Signature and Signature tweaks.

*Enable both labs.

*Click Save Changes and Gmail will reload. 

*Go to Settings 

*Go to General

*Under signature select the signature box and type you name and other information you would like to display in your email. 

*Then check the check box Append a random signature from feed and add the feed URL to your blog or website. 

* click "Save Changes"

This is add random links to your post with the title from your RSS feed. Simple but quite effective method to add a random link to your signature from your blog or web

How to Play FLV (Flash Video) Files in Windows Media Player?

How to Play FLV (Flash Video) Files in Windows Media Player?

By default Windows Media Player (WMP) will not play flv and report that it does not have the correct codecs to play it.

There are two options (either of these two will work)

1) Downloading codecs package such as K-Lite . K-Lite is a tremendous codecs package that supports for various file formats such as 3gp, mp4 etc. Almost any movie format that you can think of or find on the internet, K-Lite will have a codec to play it. Installing the package will enable Windows Media Player to decode and play the file.

K-lite can be downloaded from here

2) Download a simple FLV plugin for Windows Media Player with no extra bells and whistles. The plugin is very lightweight and does exactly what it says - Plays FLV files and nothing extra.

PlayFLV plugin can be downloaded from here

FREE File Conversion

Do you need to convert from PDF to DOC? DOC to PDF? MPG to AVI? WAV to MP3? or in hundreds of different format?

Well you can do it now using a free online webservice. You will not be required to install a single software on your computer! Now that is Crazzy as well as Cool!

Visit

http://www.zamzar.com/

Archive and Preserve any webpage or website

Archive and Preserve any webpage or have your own backup so next time when a webpage is taken down or the site disappear you still have a copy of it.

visit www.iterasi.com

follow these simple steps

1. Create a free user account - all you really need an existing email address to signup
2. Download a small bookmarklet into your browser. Google search for bookmarklets if you need more info about them. They are essential a bookmark which when you click on invokes a javascript which does all the talking to the server - in this case to the Iterasi server to capture the website you are currently visiting
3. Go to the webpage you want to archive . e.g. https://crazzycool.blogspot.com/ and click on the bookmarklet that you downloaded from iterasi. You can add it to folders and also add tags to it for your organising purpose. Click OK and it will save the page on iterasi server in couple of seconds.
4. Visit My Pages on Iterasi under your account and you can view any of the pages that you saved using the iterasi viewer. You have your own backup of the webpage!

No matter what changes happen on the webpage you will have your own backup or a snapshot forever!

Windows Group Policy (gpedit.msc) explained (Part 2)

These gpedit tricks will come handy if you want to control IE settings.

You can find the gpedit setting in the following location

Administrative Templates
>Windows Component
>>Internet Explorer

Some Interesting Settings

Enable Disable changing home page settings will disable uses changing the home page. First change the Internet Explorer Home page to what you want and enable this.

Enable Disable changing of Auto-Proxy scripts

Enable Disable changing Advanced Page Settings will add more security

Enable Disable changing proxy settings will stop users changing the proxy Settings from IE.

Administrative Templates
>Windows Component
>>Internet Explorer
>>> Toolbars

Disable customizing browser toolbar buttons & Disable customizing browser toolbar will stop users adding or deleting any toolbar buttons or doing any changes to the toolbar.

Administrative Templates
>Windows Component
>>Internet Explorer
>>> Internet Control Panel

Disable the Security page
Disable the Content page
Disable the Connection page
Disable the Programs page
Disable the Privacy page
Disable the Advanced page

These setting will come handy if you want to block someone being changing the Security setting, Privacy Setting and Advance settings for Internet Explorere.

Windows Group Policy (gpedit.msc) explained (Part 1)

Oracle 10g Hints for Performance Improvement

List of Oracle 10g Hints for the Oracle Optimizer so that you can dictate the execution plan of a query/statement..

Undocumented Hints ( You won't find this mentioned under Oracle Official documentation).. They are TOP Secret!

• bypass_recursive_check
• bypass_ujvc
• cache_cb
• cache_temp_table
• civ_gb
• collections_get_refs
• cube_gb
• cursor_sharing_exact
• deref_no_rewrite
• dml_update
• domain_index_no_sort
• domain_index_sort
• dynamic_sampling
• dynamic_sampling_est_cdn
• expand_gset_to_union
• force_sample_block
• gby_conc_rollup
• global_table_hints
• hwm_brokered
• ignore_on_clause
• ignore_where_clause
• index_rrs
• index_ss
• index_ss_asc
• index_ss_desc
• like_expand
• local_indexes
• mv_merge
• nested_table_get_refs
• nested_table_set_refs
• nested_table_set_setid
• no_expand_gset_to_union
• no_fact
• no_filtering
• no_order_rollups
• no_prune_gsets
• no_stats_gsets
• no_unnest
• nocpu_costing overflow_nomove
• piv_gb
• piv_ssf
• pq_map
• pq_nomap
• remote_mapped
• restore_as_intervals
• save_as_intervals
• scn_ascending
• skip_ext_optimizer
• sqlldr
• sys_dl_cursor
• sys_parallel_txn
• sys_rid_order
• tiv_gb
• tiv_ssf
• unnest
• use_ttt_for_gsets

Documented Hints

• all_rows
• first_rows
• first_rows_1
• first_rows_100
• choose
• rule
• full
• rowid
• cluster
• hash
• hash_aj
• index
• no_index
• index_asc
• index_combine
• index_join
• index_desc
• index_ffs
• no_index_ffs
• index_ss
• index_ss_asc
• index_ss_desc
• no_index_ss
• no_query_transformation
• use_concat
• no_expand
• rewrite
• norewrite
• no_rewrite
• merge
• no_merge
• fact
• no_fact
• star_transformation
• no_star_transformation
• unnest
• no_unnest
• leading
• ordered
• use_nl
• no_use_nl
• use_nl_with_index
• use_merge
• no_use_merge
• use_hash
• no_use_hash
• parallel
• noparallel / no_parallel
• pq_distribute
• no_parallel_index
• append
• noappend
• cache
• nocache
• push_pred
• no_push_pred
• push_subq
• no_push_subq
• qb_name
• cursor_sharing_exact
• driving_site
• dynamic_sampling
• spread_min_analysis
• merge_aj
• and_equal
• star
• bitmap
• hash_sj
• nl_sj
• nl_aj
• ordered_predicates
• expand_gset_to_union

Print Dynamic Pages Using JavaScripts

Print specific part of the web page become very handy when you want to keep the layout of the website in the printer friendly web page as well. For example you might not want to remove the navigation. This technique can be useful to print Dynamic web pages.
First you have to select the area you want to print. Mark the selected area using “div” html tag. Do not forget to specify the DIV tag as well using id attribute.


Tip: 1. Do not forget to specify the width of the print area to 595 as it is the best width for A4 size paper.2. You are free to use any CSS as you can change it when it sends to the printer. However, it is safe and clear to use the same CSS as reader can have clear idea about how it will looks like when it print.
Now we should get the help of JavaScript to do the printing.

Click here for full sample code : javasript print example

UNDO: Recalling Sent Emails

Ops I have sent the wrong email to wrong person. I know you have done the same thing and vish you could have bring back the sent email.

Acctually it is not impossible but you cannot do it in every Email Services or Softwares Related to Sending emails. It is only possible in Outlook. Not even in outlook express.

Hot to do it (Simple) Outlook 2003

1. Go to "Sent Items" Folder.
2. Open the email you want to recall
3. Go to "Action" in menu
4. Click "Recall This Message..."
5. It will give you two options
1. Just to delete the message
2. Delete and replace the messege
6. Click "Ok"

However you can do this only if they have not read it. Otherwise, there is no point. of doing this.

Also it will show that there was a message been deleted. So you better have a good excuse.

Change My Document and Desktop folder locations

Why you should move MyDocument and Desktop to another Drive or Partition

1. Keep Windows Partition Nice and clean

2. Format and reinstall Windows without loosing any data.

3. Easy to manage and backup files.

4. Easy to provide security if there are more than one user.

How to Change My Document Path

1. Creat a new Folder. You can give any name you want in any location. Apply security settings if needed.

2. Right Click MyDocument Folder

3. Go to Properties

4. Click "Move" and Select the new location.

5. If you have old file Select Move with the current files. Otherwise you may loose your files in the my document folder.

How to Move Desktop to a Different Place

This need bit of registry changes. You need to be careful when you play with registry. If you back up the registry and leave it in a safe place if anything goes wrong you can restore the backup.

1. Open Run (Start > Run ) then type "regedit" to open the regedit.

2. Go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorere\User Shell Folder

You can select each folder and change the path as you wish. It will creat the folders if it doesnt excist.

You need to log in from the user account to do these changes. You might need administrative rights as well. You can move back to different user account type after the changes.