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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Google Guru-Search from Gtalk!

Google Talk Guru is an experimental service that allows people to get information like sports results, weather forecasts, definitions etc via chat. It works on many popular chat applications that support Google Talk.Google Guru is actually a bot which returns the search results typed in Google Talk chat window.

To start using Google Talk Guru:

1. Sign into a chat client that supports Google Talk
2. Send a chat invitation to guru@googlelabs.com
3. Find guru in your contact list and send chat queries to guru using the examples below:

Sport scores:	score arsenal
Weather:	weather Nairobi
Calculate:	123 * 45
Currency:	120 KES to USD
Definition:	define laptop
Translation:	translate earth to French
Web result:	web Mount Kenya
Help:	help translate

How to Watch TV Online Using VLC Media Player

Source:CallingAllGeeks
VLC media player is one of the most famous open source media players. Did you know that you can use VLC media player as a television and watch tv channels on it? In this post I will show you how you can do that with an easy tutorial. So, lets begin.
1. Open up VLC Media Player. Don’t have it installed? Download VLC player from here –> Link.
vlc How to Watch TV Online Using VLC Media Player

Samsung Galaxy 10.1-The World's Slimmest Tablet

Confirming the rumours that were prevalent Samsung unveiled the Galaxy 10.1 Tab which has been routed to be the thinnest tablet in the market. The Galaxt Tab packs in the latest Android Honeycomb(also called as the Android 3.0).The tab has a 10.1 inch screen with a superb resolution of 1280x800 pixels which provides crisp images.The world's thinnest mobile tablet measures just 8.6mm and weighs only 595gm.

The tablet is super fast 1Ghz dual core Tegra application processor.It also has a 3 megapixel rear camera and a 2 megapixel front camera.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Remove the pen drive virus which turns folders to shortcuts

Have you encountered a problem in which all the content of your pen drive has been replaced by merely some shortcut icons? Then beware, your pen drive has been infected by virus. But still you can recover all your content (Thanks to command prompt). Here is the procedure:If you did not format your flash drive, then check whether the files are not in hidden mode.
Click on “Start” –>Run–>type cmd and click on OK. Here I assume your pendrive as G:
Enter this command – “attrib -h -r -s /s /d g:\*.* ” without quotes

Note : Replace the letter g with your flash drive letter.

Now check for your files in Pen Drive.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Computer Prank to Eject your Optical Drive infinitely

This tutorial explains how to make vb script that eject your CD-DVD drives …. infinitely.

1) Run Notepad

2) Copy and Paste VB script code into notepad

Set oWMP = CreateObject("WMPlayer.OCX.7" ) Set colCDROMs = oWMP.cdromCollection if colCDROMs.Count >= 1 then do For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count - 1 colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject Next ' cdrom For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count - 1 colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject Next ' cdrom loop End If

3) Save as name_what_ever_you_want .vbs , for example ejectCD.vbs