network/internet bandwidth sharing

Bandwidth Manager is an excellent tool for shaing network bandwidth. I use a 256kpbs broad band connection which is shared among 6 different users including my self.

Generally, if any one or two users start some video/heavy net surfing, the entire network becomes slow and this frustates all other net users. Additionally, I get a monthly bandwidth of 1gb max and when i cross it, i need to pay extra.

If you are facing a similar situation, you can try Bandwidth manager which helps a lot. You can download it from Softperfect web site as a trial.

nice tool.

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A few command line commands in Windows Xp

Most of us are using the Windows XP Operating system for our daily work. We know that, For almost every kind of work in Xp, we just go to the appropriate menu item, and click it to start working.

But here is a list of commands which you can use as shortcuts to use from Xp command line. I just found it somewhere and all credit goes to the original list creator.

Btw, to use them, you dont have to goto MS DOS prompt in Xp. Just goto Start and select Run, In the Run text box, type your command and click OK to run it.

The commands list is here..

Accessibility Controls
access.cpl

Add Hardware Wizard
hdwwiz.cpl

Add/Remove Programs
appwiz.cpl

Administrative Tools
control admintools

Automatic Updates
wuaucpl.cpl

Bluetooth Transfer Wizard
fsquirt

Calculator
calc

Certificate Manager
certmgr.msc

Character Map
charmap

Check Disk Utility
chkdsk

Clipboard Viewer
clipbrd

Command Prompt
cmd

Component Services
dcomcnfg

Computer Management
compmgmt.msc

Date and Time Properties
timedate.cpl

DDE Shares
ddeshare

Device Manager
devmgmt.msc

Free web hosting to the extreme!

I just wonder how all these free hosting providers pay their hosting bills. Except the hosting people with ads, i think no body can survive in the long run. But it seems there are hosting people who can survive this.

For example, take a look at the offers being made by free hosting company's at free hosting world. They seems to be crazy. If one offers 1gb space a nd 20gb bandwidth with no ads(ooblez), the other offers 5gb and 65 gb with ads(cybertoad). There is an offer from i6networks with 5gb space and an incredible 1terra bytes bandwidth hosting!

I really hope all of them stay in business.

Interesting Microsoft - Bill Gates spam mail

Here is an interesting spam message i received today. In brief, the message says "Send Spam and Bill gates makes you a millionaire!".

For many newbees, the falling factor is the testimonials attached with the message which says "I received a few thousand/million dollars today blah blah blah..."

Just read it, it is really funny!

Dear Friends,

Please do not take this for a junk letter. Bill Gates is sharing his fortune. If you ignore this you will repent later. Microsoft and AOL are now the largest Internet companies and in an effort to make sure that Internet Explorer remains the most widely used program, Microsoft and AOL are running an e-mail beta test.

When you forward this e-mail to friends, Microsoft can and will track it (if you are a Microsoft Windows user) for a two week time period.

For every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will pay you $245.00, for every person that you sent it to that forwards it on, Microsoft will pay you $243.00 and for every third person that receives it, you will be paid $241.00. Within two week! s, Microsoft will contact you for your address and then send you a cheque.

Regards.

Now, some testimonials attached with the message. Un arguably, they are very creative i should say. And almost every newbee will fall for these testimonials.

I have removed all email id's given with the mail to protect the poor guys from receiving a million spam messages.


From: Udapudi, Bheemaraj (Cognizant)
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 10:% AM


Guys It's working


I have got $10000 .


Deepak



I got 450 $ credited in my HDFC account today only. Yahooooooooooooooooooo!!! hurreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Regards,
Apurv Gangwar
Cognizant Technology Solutions


Hai this is not joke i got 4672$ credited in my ICICI account last week

Frnds I got $2163 today only.
So I am forwading to u frnds
Don't miss this chance
Regards,
Sathish kumar.


I got $9386. Was shocked!!!
Hey!!!!!! Am not joking................
This really works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------



From: Amit Midha
Sent: 03/10/2005 6:24 PM

Dear Shiva n
This is really amazing I also got 5000 dollars via DD from HDFC, thot it was fake but it really worked..........the amount has been created to my account, what did you get.
Thanks for forwarding this mail

Amit Midha
Front Office Manager
Jaipur - 302002

I got $12,101 credited with this months salary, that is why I am sending this to you guys. I am almost going mad. Planning to quit TCS and start a new company. You guys can join hands. What to say yarr????


Love,
Ajay Joy
Tata Consultancy Services Limited
----- Forwarded by Ajay Joy/CHN/TCS on 09/02/2005 05:09 PM -----




-----Original Message-----
From: Praharsh
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 2:35 PM
To: Yamu; Renjini; Rani; Raji; Pallraje; Nithya; Nimi; Mukesh; Mohan; Meryn; Lakshmi; Kutty; Krishnaraj. Pillai; Krishnan; Jyotsna; Jojo; Jayasree; Jais; Divya. Rajan; Dhanya; BRAHMA; Binu; Annie; Ananth ; Madhu; Manuprabhaa; Sunil; Vivek; Yusuf; Rahul; Satya; Seeja; Sekhar; Snoyi; Vidya; Vinod; Vinu; Anz; Divya_G
Subject: RE: UK Requirement

Hey guys !!!
this is cool
really really cooollllll
I forwarded this mail to three chaps just half an hour back and i just forgot about it..
then i saw my salary slip, checked my account in the net.
i was wonder stuck to see $30000/- added to my account !! transferred from ms office thru western money transfer !!!
its amazing guys !!!
Go for it.
Act fast. at least before this stupid bill gates gets bankrupt..........
and in case this is true, there is not much time left.....
so congratulations in advance....
for becoming a millionair so easily...
like me......


Subject: RE: UK Requirement
Hey dudes and dudettes.......this is truly amazing........I got $12,545 a few weeks back......it indeed works.....and hope it works out for all of u...........for details contact me...........

Thnks & Rgds,

Dinesh.



Subject: FW: UK Requirement
Importance: High

Hi,
I got $9386. Was shocked!!! This is cool.
Please forward...

Regards
Ajay

From: Naveen Kumar Gupta
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 12:02 PM
Subject: RE: UK Requirement

I have also gotten 34271$ cheque last week for the same knid of mail.You can also try your luck J


Thanks,
Naveen Gupta.

_____


From: Ashish Gangwar
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 11:59 AM
Subject: RE: UK Requirement

I have gotten 17934$ cheque some time ago for the same kind of mail. You can also try your luck J

Airtel GPRS settings

This week i had a problem accessing the net thru my Sony Ericsson mobile. Everytime i actiavated Airtel Mobile Office, I just could not get the Mobile Office settings to my phone!

I trid contacting airtel customer care. As usual, they just did not know anything other than sending or recieving activation/deactivation SMS and price. The customer support guy told me to wait first for 1/2 hour and then around two hours to get my settings. Even one of the customer care stupid fellow told me that My little Sony Ericson Z550i phone can't be used with Mobile Office! Hats off to his technical knowledge!

After this waste of time, I thought i try on my own to tinker with my swedish brick. Just went on checking all settings and deleted all my existing data accounts. Then I sent an sms ALL to 2567. Within 2 minutes I recieved all the required settings including Mobile Office.

It is time to get some knowledgeble customer care guys and gals at Airtel support desk. Currently It is just pathetic support for a novice there.

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I know what you are thinking!

Yes it is true. Researchers from Germany, London and Tokyo have
developed a method which can scan a persons brain and predict his
intentions.

By observing brain patterns and analysing them, complex computer
softwares and brain imaging techniques are said to predict what we are
about to do, before doing so with upto 70% of accuracy.

The technology after development can be used mainly in civilian,
medical, police and military applications ( may be to know your
girlfriends intentions ;) ).

Read the complete story here..
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/brain-breakthrough-can-read-intentions/2007/02/10/1170524342871.html

Samsung f700 Vs Apple iPhone

Well, Samsung is going for a head to head competition with Apple's iPhone.

Its new F700 GSM phone is getting very good reviews everywhere. The
F700 is having touch sensitive screen, 5 Mega pixel digital camera,
sliding querty keyboard, HTML browser, etc. It is interesting to see
where this competition takes mobile wars.

For the curious one, here is a preview picture of the F700..

You can read the full story at http://www.tgdaily.com/2007/02/09/samsung_f700/

World wide Free Phone Calls for everyone

There are many sites which claim to provide free world wide free phone
calls. But, Most of them are providing limited free call facility
only.

Here is the one which i found and provides free phone calling facility
to almost everywhere in the world. It is called Gizmo call and is
based on the same VOIP(Voice over IP) concept.

By the way, you are not going to get unlimited free calls. They say,
they allow everyday 10 minutes(Upto 30 minutes per week) the users
will be able to call anywhere around the world. I think, for most, it
should be enough.

You can reach gizmo call over here.. http://www.gizmocall.com

Note : Requires Adobe flash player 9 download which is free to
download from Adobe website. Also, Please leave your feedback on
quality of service in comments.

Njoy!

Free video conversion, all video formats supported

I just found this really amazing service which converts almost any
kind of video file to the other formats which we specify. And the best
part is it is really free.

MUX is the name of the service which is available for any online user
for free online video conversion. You can convert almost any known
video format to the other including avi, mpg, wmv, mp4, 3gp, mov, flv
etc.

MUX video transcoder is powered by Amazon, EC2 and S3. And for
conversion you just need to specify type, size, bitrate and frames per
second. MUX can also convert your video and send it to your mobile in
3gp format or your email id.

You can reach mux at http://www.mux.am

Enjoy!

Finding Shortcut Keys in Ms-Office

If you would like to know the short cut keys used in Ms-Office
products like Ms-Word, Ms-Excel or PowerPoint, you can use three
different methods as follows..

1. Goto Help Menu, Select "Contents and Index" Item, Search for "keys,
shortcut keys" phrase. This opens a small dialog where you can select
which type of shortcut key list you want. Select the required type and
Click "Display" button to see the shortcut key list.

2. Open the menu which contains the required item and see the right
side of menu. If there is a shortcut key for that item, it will be
shown there for your reference.

3. Goto View menu, select Toolbars and click Customize... option. This
opens customize dialog box. Select "Options" there and Turn on both
"Show ScreenTips on Toolbars" and "Show Shortcut key in Screentips"
items. Now everytime when you point mouse to any toolbar button, you
can see the name of the item with a shortcut key(if available) for
that item.

Windows Vista and Bill gates

I just read the news on Bill gates commenting on Windows Vista and its features. He says something like "Vista is going to rule the pc's like Windows 95 did when introduced". I really find nothing of interest in Vista.

All the features including the increased multimedia capabilities are already available for the pc user in the form of different softwares. May be Vista is going to combine all of them into a single package.

If Vista will be a big success, it will be because of Microsoft's marketing techniques rather than a ground breaking new Operating System. Let's wait and watch what they have in store with Vista for us.

Free SMS to India

It is indeed very hard to find a free sms sender facility to India.

Most of the providers who offer free sms are limited to few mobile networks only. Here, I tried collecting a list of free sms facility providers. If you know any new ones, Please leave it in feedback.

1. http://www.atrochatro.com => Supports all networks to India

2. http://www.mig33.com => Only for mobile internet users(World wide
any network support).

3. http://messenger.yahoo.com => Install messenger and send daily 3
messages to selected mobile network users.

4. http://www.rediff.com =>
Install rediffbol messenger and send 2 messages daily to any mobile network.

Opera Mini for Mobile Phones..

My Sony Ericsson Z550i mobile has a built in NetFront Web Browser.

But the biggest problem with it is, it can't handle web pages having large sizes.

Opera Mini, the browser for all java enabled mobiles and devices from Opera browser creators is the solution for the problem. It uses a powerful proxy of its own which increases the browsing speed incredibly with very good page rendering.

For downloading opera mini go to www.operamini.com

Sony Ericsson Z550i

This is the mobile usually I use for net browsing. It is a little, cute, 1.3 mega pixel camera phone with enough features.

First, Lets have some tips and tricks which i came to know while using the phone.

Be default, the phone will automatically receive a call when you unfold it. You can turn off the same using following method..
* Start the Menu system and select "Settings" option.
* Goto the 4th tab namely "Calls" tab.
* Scroll down and select "Open to answer" menu item.
* Goto "Off" option and click select button.

Now when you are receiving a call, you have to unfold and press
Answer button to answer the call.