Thursday, October 28, 2010

Free Online Storage reviews

Free Online Storage reviews

http://tomuse.com/ultimate-review-list-of-best-free-online-storage-and-backup-application-services/

Comparison of online backup services
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_online_backup_services

MegaUpload – Free 200 GB online storage with file manager which can be upgraded to 1000 GB for $9.99 per month

adrive 50 gig free
http://www.adrive.com/

In.solit.us – Gives you unlimited disk space and bandwidth usage, allows you to store an unlimited number of files,

MediaFire – An online storage and sharing service offers a very generous set of features and benefits for their free account including unlimited storage, 100 MB file size limit, unlimited uploads, unlimited downloads, unlimited bandwidth, embeddable sharing widget, and image galleries.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Large Google map capture http://www.dq.winsila.com/tips-tricks/how-to-capture-large-maps-from-google-maps.html

http://www.dq.winsila.com/tips-tricks/how-to-capture-large-maps-from-google-maps.html

How to easily capture large maps from google maps

Google Maps is a great place to find vastly detailed street maps. But it is basically an online tool and Google doesn’t offer a way to save a map.

You could use the Print option to save the map as a pdf file but the limitation is that you would be able to print only what is visible on the screen. That means, if you want to cover a larger area, you would have to zoom out far, losing out on the details. And, if you zoom in to a comfortable level to view the details, you would lose out on the size of the map.

This tutorial will teach you how to capture a map as large as you want.

Tools Required:

* Firefox Browser.
* ScreenGrab extension for Firefox : It will capture what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame… basically it saves webpages as images – either to a file, or to the clipboard.
* Notepad.

Let’s Start:

1. Open up Firefox and install the Screengrab extension.

2. Go to http://maps.google.com/ and open a map of the location you want.

3. Zoom to a level that would be right for whatever purpose you are finally going to use the map for. Just don’t bother about the size of the map now. We will deal with that later.

4. On the top right hand side of the map you would find a link called…..’Link’. Click on it. In the little pop-up that appears, click on ‘Customize and preview embedded map’.

googlemap_link

5. A new pop-up window opens up where you can customize the size of the map. Select the ‘Custom’ option and enter the width and height (in pixels) that you want your final map to be. For example, you could change the values to 5000×4000. The preview map will change to reflect the new size.

googlemap_customsize

6. Once you are satisfied with the size of the map, copy the html code that appears below the preview map.

googlemap_htmlcode

7. Open Notepad and paste the above code. Name the file anything you want but make sure you save it with the extension .html. For example, you can call the file mymap.html.

(Tip: In the Save dialog box enter the name as “mymap.html” including the quotes to force Notepad to save the file with the extension .html and not .txt)

8. Open the html file you created in step 7 in Firefox. You would see your map displayed in the same size you selected in step 5. Of course, much of the map would probably be beyond the screen and you may have to scroll horizontally and vertically to view the hidden area.

9. Now that we have the map of our desired size, all we need to do now is to capture and save the map as an image file. Here is where the ScreenGrab extension for Firefox comes in handy. Assuming that you have already installed ScreenGrab, you would find the ScreenGrab icon at the bottom right corner of Firefox. Click on the icon and choose Save>Complete Page/Frame. After a moment, a save dialog appears. Save the image as a PNG or JPG file.

googlemap_screengrab

That’s it. Your large size map is ready.

The above trick can be most useful for grabbing maps for use with your GPS enabled mobile phones . Of course, you would need to calibrate the image file before use with the GPS device.

Friday, October 22, 2010

How to share a directory in windows vista with everone

Right click on directory and pick share.
Security
Click add type everyone

In explorer turn off "tools->folder options->view->use sharing wizard"
Share
Sharing
Advanced Options
Permissions
Click add type everyone
Modify of full control

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Watermelon lowers blood pressure, study finds

Watermelon lowers blood pressure, study finds

Turn off indexing on particular hard disk drive searchindexer.exe turn off

searchindexer.exe turn off
Turn off indexing on particular hard disk drive


1. Open up “My Computer”. Or open “Windows Explorer” and then expand Computer tree.
2. Right click on the hard drive to disable indexing (i.e (C:) drive letter).
3. Select Properties on the contextual menu.
4. Click on General tab if it’s not already selected.
5. Untick (unselect) the check box for Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching option.
6. Click OK, and wait for the index removal process to complete, which may take a few minutes.
7. Repeat the steps for other hard drives if applicable.

Disable the Indexing Service in Windows XP

1. Open “Control Panel”, select “Administrator Tools”, and open Services applet. Alternatively, type services.msc in the Rn text box from Start menu, and then hit Enter.
2. Scroll down and locate Indexing Service service, and then double click on it.
3. Click on Stop button to immediately stop the indexing service if the service status shows “Running.
4. Under the “Startup Type”, select Disabled to permanently disable the indexing service so that it won’t run again.
5. Click OK.


1. Open up “My Computer”. Or open “Windows Explorer” and then expand Computer tree.
2. Right click on the hard drive to disable indexing (i.e (C:) drive letter).
3. Select Properties on the contextual menu.
4. Click on General tab if it’s not already selected.
5. Untick (unselect) the check box for Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching option.
6. Click OK, and wait for the index removal process to complete, which may take a few minutes.
7. Repeat the steps for other hard drives if applicable.

Disable the Indexing Service in Windows XP

1. Open “Control Panel”, select “Administrator Tools”, and open Services applet. Alternatively, type services.msc in the Rn text box from Start menu, and then hit Enter.
2. Scroll down and locate Indexing Service service, and then double click on it.
3. Click on Stop button to immediately stop the indexing service if the service status shows “Running.
4. Under the “Startup Type”, select Disabled to permanently disable the indexing service so that it won’t run again.
5. Click OK.

searchindexer.exe turn off
Turn off indexing on particular hard disk drive