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Want to tweak your installation of Windows Vista regardless whatever version it is ? (Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, Business). Then I recommend you to read the free book (in PDF format) by Tweak Guides. Designed for novice and advanced users alike, it is written in plain English to help you genuinely understand all aspects of your Windows and your PC, and best of all it’s free.

A good read if you want to optimize your Windows Vista or Windows XP (is also available) in my opinion since it’s readable offline and the guide itself is very comprehensive that I call it as the bible for Vista.

Download ‘Windows Vista Bible’ : Click here

This trick is simple but it is really geeky. Did you know that you can hiding your files in JPG image? Here I will show you how. But before we can proceed, prepare our tools first.

Tools

* WinRAR
* Command Prompt
* Hidden files (Eg: password.txt)
* A JPG image file (Eg: nerd.jpg)

Ok, now we move on how to do this trick. Btw here is my nerd.jpg.


1. Put your hidden file and your image file in the same folder. Here I have password.txt and nerd.jpg. Both I put in a folder I named it Secret in drive D.

2. Put all these files into a RAR archive. I named this archive as Hidden.rar

3. Open Command Prompt and go to the folder where you place the files. Type the following command,


copy /b nerd.jpg + hidden.rar cool.jpg

where nerd.jpg is our original image file, hidden.rar is our RAR archive and cool.jpg is the JPG image file that we want to create.


4. Now you will have 4 files in the folder. nerd.jpg, password.txt, hidden.rar and cool.jpg

5. If you open cool.jpg file, you will see the same image like nerd.jpg.

6. If you open cool.jpg file with WinRAR, here is what you will get.











Secret files in JPG image file.

7. Try open the file with WinRAR and read what I wrote in the password.txt file.

Btw if you want to make it more secure, use encryption when you create the archive file.

Edit: You also can use WinZip to do this trick. Thanks to iCalvyn.

Red Hat released Fedora 7 today, a new version of their Linux operating system developed in partnership with the open source community and Red Hat engineers. This is Fedora's first release to merge the Fedora Core and Fedora Extras package repositories under one set of packaging policies. Another first for Fedora 7 is all the software used is released under a free license, and all decision-making is made in public.

The big innovations touted for this release are:

• Revisor tool - a graphical appliation built on top of Fedora's other build tools that gives flexibility to build an ISO, a live CD, etc. Mike Spevack, Fedora's project leader, feels this is Fedora's crown jewel. Customized versions of Fedora are now possible to an extent that was not available previously.

• Live CD - first time for Fedora, (however not an industry shake-up here).

• Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) technology has been integrated with the Fedora graphical virtualization manager tool. KVM provides a full virtualization solution, and users have a choice between KVM and Xen, along with Qemu, in this release.

You can pick up a copy of this new version at the

Download Now Fedora Project.

thanks downloadsquad

Firefox 2.0.0.4 released

All of you FireFox users (and there is a lot of us), today the next update for the 2.0 branch was released. Firefox 2.0.0.4 is available for download, and brings several important fixes. On the Windows side, several changes were made to Windows Vista support, though there are still a few unresolved issues such as a slightly broken IE7 migration and no WMP integration. Five security fixes have been included for all platforms, only one of which was rated critical, and a few other minor changes have been included. You can read the details in the 2.0.0.4 release notes, or you can just download it.

Trackmania Nations is a free racing game for Windows that distinguishes itself from normal racing games by introducing a number of additional elements to the tracks. Do you remember Stunt Car Racer for instance ? The game where you were driving through loopings and made big jumps across the screen.

This game introduces all those elements again to a racing game but provides normal tracks as well. You may start with the 90 solo missions that remind me a little bit of the Gran Turismo missions. They are divided into Beginner, Advanced and Expert Training missions and award medals if you beat the tracks in a certain amount of time. This alone is very challenging.

Besides the solo missions you can play Hot Seat, Lan and Internet as well. The real fun begins when playing on the Internet competing against human players. Several servers are suggested after connecting to the main server offering modes such as Time Attack and Rounds.

Players compete for the best time in the Time Attack mode while Rounds is basically a race for a certain amount of rounds. Team games also exist but I was not able to find out what they do.

You do need to download the game from the official site which transferred the game in great speed to my system and the latest Trackmania United patch after installing the game.

download click here official site

patch Trackmania United patch

thanks to ghacks

Google starts Official Google Channel on YouTube

Google announcement


""The Google Channel on YouTube

Much has been made of the 'YouTube' phenomenon, which has emerged
thanks to relatively inexpensive and easy to operate video cameras,
faster computers with more storage space (to hold all that footage)
and easy uploading. The creativity and fun factor are worth
celebrating -- but don't lose sight of online video's ability to show,
tell, teach, and share information quickly. Increasingly, businesses
are showcasing their products, promoting their initiatives and
exposing their employees via video. You may learn something or you may
dislike the marketing messages, but either way, better get used to it
- corporate use of popular online video channels is here to stay. In
Google's case, we've chosen to share quite a few talks by technology
gurus and popular authors, conversations with presidential candidates
(all of whom we've invited to visit our Mountain View campus), and
other presentations and product demonstrations -- and we're adding
more material all the time. Enjoy the view.

http://www.youtube.com/google
"

Google Launches Google Gears

At Google Developer Day 2007 on Thursday, Google is launching Google Gears, an “open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using JavaScript APIs”. Gears works across all platforms: Macs, Windows, and Linux with Firefox or IE, providing the ability to store and serve application resources locally, store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database and run asynchronous Javascript to improve application responsiveness. In short: it’s an easy way for developers to create web applications that work offline.

The first app to be “gears enabled” will be Google Reader, which will grab all your feeds when you’re online, and continue to work once you’re offline. If you read all your feeds while you’re disconnected, Reader will sync up once you reconnect, meaning all your online feeds are marked as read. This functionality is going to be extremely useful for web office apps that assume 100% connectivity - I can’t wait until GMail starts working offline.

It’s another welcome release from Google: see the developer site for the technical info.

Other launches at Developer Day include a new mashup editor that competes with Microsoft PopFly and Yahoo Pipes. Google’s attempt is a little less visual than the others, but the intention is the same. Last but not least, there’s a new version of Google Web Toolkit. For devs, Christmas came way early this year.

Download Google Gears

Joox.net is an online repository for videos–mostly television shows and movies that seemingly elude copyright agreements.

You can find quite a few episodes of The Simpsons, or Grey’s Anatomy, and the second half of Pirates of the Carribean 3: At World’s End. Content is added by Joox users, in what looks to be a somewhat complicated process. You’ll have to first play your video in the provided player, and add it to Joox directly from the player. The clip will need to be confirmed before becoming part of the Joox library, but you can still watch these upcoming videos. As Joox is probably not based in the U.S. (the domain is reportedly registered in Sweden), Joox may manage to avoid a few copyright infringement suits for a while. Also to keep in mind, you’ll need to download a divx file as Joox does not operate in flash, and doesn’t have the best quality either.

Check Joox.net

some blollywood filims in joox.net check it

Deligio is a search engine that is dedicated to finding software, and has recently announced its launch.

Deligio is looking to provide the largest downloadable exchange worldwide, so providing relevant search results is key to the goals set out for the company. Beyond simply returning a list of results, you can see how other users have rated the software, and how many times it has been downloaded. Filter search queries by tag word or popularity. Viewing another user’s profile shows a list of their favorites, as well as a tag cloud. Users can submit software to be included in Deligio as well.

The community aspects of Deligio make this a recommendation service as well. In this regard, Deligio is much like a social bookmarking tool. This niche social search engine could be integrated into another search service, offering up search results based on the specifics of software. This tactic can prove fruitful if done correctly, which we’ve witnessed with blinkx for video search.

Deligio is similar to Wakoopa in its recommendation capabilities, and is similar in concept to SourceForge, which recently partnered with Krugle to power the search for SourceForge’s 145,000 open source projects.

Check http://www.deligio.com/


thanks to mashable

Nokia has applied for a U.S. patent for a lightning detector system designed for use in mobile phones, adding a new feature that could detect imminent lighting strikes.
This involve the use of radio frequency receivers in the mobile phones, such as FM radio, Bluetooth, FM, tri-band GSM, Wi-Fi and RFID , to detect radio waves emitted by lightning. Typical lightning bolts produce frequencies between 10Hz and 5GHz.

A special software program designed by Nokia analyzes the signals, calculates the distance to the lightning and informs users of imminent strikes.

Details of the invention are available in the company's patent application.

"A lightning detector wherein the detector uses at least two separate channels or frequency bands for lightning detection, characterized in that the lightning detector is a mobile RF device provided with radio interfaces for at least two communication channels or frequency bands, whereby at least one of which is normally a telecom channel/frequency range and wherein these channels/ranges are used in lightning detection." (United States Patent Application)

According to the National Severe Storms Laboratory, an average of 67 people are killed by lightning each year and about 300 are injured.


With this innovation, looks like cell phones will no more remain only a communication and entertainment device, but will play the role of an indispensable safety device for people when they are out-of-doors.

written by Cristian L.

TAHNKS TO helpero.com

John the Ripper is a fast password cracker based on dictionary attack with a wordlist currently available for many flavors of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting different architectures), Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt(3) password hash types most commonly found on various Unix flavors, supported out of the box are Kerberos AFS and Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 LM hashes, plus several more with contributed patches.

Download link:

John the Ripper 1.7.0.1 for Windows

"StartBtn Renamer" is a simple utility for renaming the [Start] button under Windows XP. With this freeware tool, you can change default label of the [Start] button with your own text. StartBtn Renamer also is Open Source. This means that the source code of the program is presented with it, so that you could change it according to your own taste and wish, therefore you can add more possibilities on it.
Rename Start Button Under Windows XP

Simply run the standalone program "StartBtn.exe" and then type your desirable label in the "New Label" field. By pressing the key, or clicking on the "Rename It" button, the [Start] button will rename with the new Label.

You can also rename the [Start] button by running the file "StartBtn.exe" from the MS-DOS command prompt. To do this, you must go the directory which you have been installed the application, use this syntax to run the program. To change the default [Start] to Raymond, you just need to run the commmand "StartBtn.exe site-maps".
StartBtn Rename, a neat and simple tool that works ONLY on Windows XP.

[ Download StartBtn Renamer | RapidShare Download Mirror ]

A.k.a Google Calendar for mobile phones is one of the latest services offered by Google for Mobile World.
We all know that almost phone has a calendar app included for years ago but they all miss the simplicity and the portability of the Google Calendar.

"We realize that more people in the world have mobile phones than have computers, and people take their cell phones with them everywhere. Since one of our main goals on the calender team is to make planning your events and maintaining your schedule as easy as possible, starting today, you can access your Google Calendar account from your cell phone!"


Just visit calendar.google.com from your phone, and you'll see your agenda of upcoming events, complete with details like date, time, location, description, and guest list.


written by Florin C.


thanks to helpero.com

A few days ago, Google Blogoscoped noticed a new YouTube player from a video that was embedded into a blog.

The new player appeared these days on several blogs and you may seen it already.


Youtube's new player will show you a thumbnail for recommended videos right within the player. You can also play those videos from the player instead of being directed to the YouTube site.

It seems that the guys from Youtube are making a very good job.
I enjoy the idea of being able to play the related videos right from the same player and the new look for the youtube player is just great.

written by Florin C.

Ubuntu Community has come up an all new e-magazine called Full Circle which talks about Ubuntu, Open Source and Technology. Issue #0 is already available for download. It is 17 pages in lenght and takes you a few years back and talks about Ubuntu’s history. Then, it covers Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn and its new features. Download Full Circle

Download now .