Techspace: August 2011

Make free international calls from PC to mobile

How it would be, if we were able to call any number from our PC for free?Is it really possible? Yes, this will be surely possible.

Things which you need to have or connected to your system are

Internet

Yahoo Messenger

Microphone

What all you need to do? Below are the steps to carry out.

Install Yahoo messenger in your PC. Download it from here.

Sign into your yahoo account. If you do not have account, create a new account.

Dial 18003733411 number and press enter.

Now you hear an recorded voice and that will be an advertisement. They say some of the service options. In the they say free call. After they say Free call, via microphone say Free call (Say it little loudly).

Now you hear

Avast 6.0.1203 with registered serial key free Download

Avast one of the best antivirus for windows has released its newer version 6.0.1203. Avast it found to be one of the good antivirus in the current market. It helps us to get rid of lot of viruses and also provides protection against internet spammers and etc...

Download Avast 6.0.1203 with registered serial key from here.

Install Gnome 3 on Ubuntu 11.04

Gnome 3, the new desktop environment that claimed before release that it would revolutionize the desktop environment, is released. Little late to post this but better late than never.

GNOME 3 is good. A very attractive desktop. Some awesome features but all at the same time, didn't click as much as it expected. Even Linux Trovalds moved from Gnome 3 to Xfce and made an official statement that he doesn't like Gnome 3. But to me, GNOME 3 is cool and very attractive to look at. Very sexy. But then, there are drawbacks too. The desktop doesn't hold anything,you can never have any icons on your desktop (which i hate because my desktop is almost always full of icons), no built-in support to tweak the theme (some work-around is possible though), and panel management is quite poor.

The developers team has maintained its ppa repository from the early development version. The same repository now contains the fully finished Gnome 3. If you had problems earlier installing Gnome 3 from this repository, then you can probably try this again because the earlier versions were unstable and possible that it may not have worked before.

To install GNOME 3 on Ubuntu 11.04, execute the following in Terminal.

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

sudo apt-get install gnome-shell

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Here are some screenshots from my desktop -

GNOME 3 no matter how good it is, it is still kind of incomplete and I would like to stick with GNOME 2.

Installed software's Product Key Finder - Windows

We will install lot of softwares in our system and there are chances of losing the serials of those softwares or we may need the serials of those softwares to use it in future. So we need to find the key and we should be able to have a copy of it for future reference. How can we do this?

Magical Jelly Bean's Keyfinder portable software helps us to find the key.

Download this software from here.

This software is compatible with all versions of windows. This is the best keyfinder available in the market. You can snapshot of the software below.

Delete Undeletable files from PC using ANY FILE REMOVER

We would have come across a problem saying "Access denied", "Windows could not delete the file", "Windows was not able to delete the file. Some other process might be using" and etc.. stuffs lot of times while using windows. Even if we restart the system and try to delete the file, it may not get deleted. What is the solution for these kind of problems?

Techspace has a solution for this problem and it it given below.

Download Any File Remover software from here.

Browse and select the file which u want to delete.

Click on remove and your file will be deleted easily.

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Video News Alerts from Tata DOCOMO

Tata DOCOMO has launched new Value Added Service (VAS service) called Video News Alert. The users can download news in the form of video via 2G or 3G network connection. The users can use this feature to like it, participate in polls and share their views and opinions.

To subscribe to this service customers need to SMS VIDEO NEWS to 53333 (Toll Free) or Via IVR by Dialing 155223, after that they would receive confirmation. They would receive 3 video alerts per day in the form of WAP links that could be used to stream or download the video. To unsubscribe SMS ‘UNSUB VIDEONEWS‘ to 53333.

This VAS service would work on all WAP enabled mobile phones. There are no charges to subscribe or use this service, however data charge of 10kb/10p would be charged for viewing or downloading videos.

Yet another Projector phone - Micromax X40

When the big brothers of mobile industry stays away from projector phones, here comes Micromax's new projector phone Micromax X40. After Intex, Spice and G'Five, Micromax debuts its first projector phone. X40 has more features than just the projector. It comes with support to read multiple office format documents like Word, Excel, Powerpoint and even PDF.

Phone features -

- Dual SIM Capability

- a QVGA 2.4" screen 240 x 320 pixels with 262k colors.

- 2 MP camera with resolution 1600 x 1200 pixels

- Bluetooth and USB connectivity

- WAP, GPRS, EDGE support

- FM Radio, MP3 Player

- 80MB inbuilt memory expandable upto 4 GB

- Multi format document reader supporting Word, Excel, Powerpoint and PDF documents

- Preloaded applications like Facebook, Nimbuzz, Opera Mini, Snaptu, Mundu Radio etc..

Price: Approximately Rs. 4800

The phone also comes with a portable Tripod and Transceiver. Price looks competitive to its specifications.

Nokia announces budget phones Nokia 100 and 101

Nokia has announced two new phones Nokia 100 and Nokia 101. Nokia though fails to compete with the higher end phones with its Symbian, it is doing quite well in budget range mobile phone segment. Nokia 100 and 101 look identical but Nokia 100 is totally a basic phone with not much features.

Nokia 100 and Nokia 101 are aimed for the population that travels and finds difficult to recharge the battery every often. Nokia claims that these two phones are going to give a 35 hours stand by time.

Nokia 100

Symbian Series 30 Operating System

1.8" TFT display with resolution 128 x 160 pixels with 65k colors

500 phone book contacts

FM Radio

Torch Light

Price: Approximately Rs. 900

Nokia 101

Symbian Series 30 Operating System

1.8" TFT display with resolution 128 x 160 pixels with 65k colors

Dual SIM ( but not Dual Stand-by)

MP3 Support

FM Radio

3.5 mm Audio jack

Memory Slot - Memory expandable up to 16GB

Price: Approximately Rs. 1200

With this Nokia 100 probably becomes the cheapest phone to be released in India.

Get Windows 8 Start button in Windows 7

Windows 8 is the next major release of Microsoft and Windows 7 is the successfully running OS in most of the computers today. The one who is interested in changing the Start button of Windows 7 to make it look as Windows 8 start button, then below are the steps to carry on.

Steps:-

Download this Windows 8 metro pack from here.

Extract the .zip file you downloaded.

Now download Windows 7 Start Orb Changer utility from here and extract this file.

Open Windows 7 Start Orb Changer utility and then click on Change button and browse to Windows 8 metro pack extracted folder and select big.bmp.

This will automatically replace the old Start button with new button. Once done, you will see “The Start orb has been changed successfully” message.

Facebook Improves: Photo tagging requires approval

Facebook, in its "The Facebook Blog" has posted a whole list of improvements that is going to roll out into Facebook in the coming days.

After a long day at work, you return home and log in to your facebook account to see that you are tagged in a picture where you're looking awkward. Worst part is that it even appears on the profile page as well. You go delete it but you are already late. How embarrassing could it get?

This happens to everyone and was one of the major requirement the users have been asking Facebook for a long time. But facebook has finally heard from the users and is soon to roll out this new feature by which before any of those tags appear on your profile, you get to review them. Here is a snapshot of how it would look.

This clearly means that you don't have to worry about being tagged in pictures that you do not want to appear on your profile. Whenever you are tagged, you get to decide whether you want it or not before anybody sees it.

Facebook has also released lot other features. Some seem to be derived specially to compete with Google+. Some other updates include these.

1. You get to control visibility of every part of your profile with a new inline menu that decides which set of people can or can not see.

2. Not a major update, Facebook changed the label "Everyone" to "Public".

3. You can now change the visibility of status updates anytime, even after posting it.

4. You can now add location to your updates.

You can get more information on what has changed in the tagging department here - facebook.com/about/tagging.

You can already see heated arguments in the comments section of facebook blog post between the google+ lovers and the facebook lovers.

So, what's your opinion?

Facebook Improves: Photo tagging requires approval

Facebook, in its "The Facebook Blog" has posted a whole list of improvements that is going to roll out into Facebook in the coming days.

Facebook has also released lot other features. Some seem to be derived specially to compete with Google+. Some other updates include these.

1. You get to control visibility of every part of your profile with a new inline menu that decides which set of people can or can not see.

2. Not a major update, Facebook changed the label "Everyone" to "Public".

3. You can now change the visibility of status updates anytime, even after posting it.

4. You can now add location to your updates.

You can get more information on what has changed in the tagging department here - facebook.com/about/tagging.

You can already see heated arguments in the comments section of facebook blog post between the google+ lovers and the facebook lovers.

So, what's your opinion?

Facebook improves. Photo-tagging requires permission

Facebook, in its "The Facebook Blog" has posted a whole list of improvements that is going to roll out into Facebook in the coming days.

Facebook has also released lot other features. Some seem to be derived specially to compete with Google+. Some other updates include these.

1. You get to control visibility of every part of your profile with a new inline menu that decides which set of people can or can not see.

2. Not a major update, Facebook changed the label "Everyone" to "Public".

3. You can now change the visibility of status updates anytime, even after posting it.

4. You can now add location to your updates.

You can get more information on what has changed in the tagging department here - facebook.com/about/tagging.

You can already see heated arguments in the comments section of facebook blog post between the google+ lovers and the facebook lovers.

So, what's your opinion?

RIM announces Blackberry Curve phones

Research In Motion has announced three new phones to the Blackberry Curve series. Blackberry Curve 9350, 9360 and 9370. All the three phones are identical in looks and almost similar in features except for the network capability and the built-in memory. Blackberry Curve 9370 is capable of both CDMA and GSM connectivity with 1GB built-in memory while the other two, Blackberry 9350 and Blackberry 9360 support only CDMA connectivity with 512MB of built-in memory.

All the three phones have -

A 2.44" display with 480 x 360 Resolution

512 MB of RAM

800 MHz processor

BlackBerry OS 7.0

5MP Camera with LED Flash and resolution 2592х1944 pixels

VGA Video recording

Bluetooth, Wifi 802.11n, A-GPS and NFC

The three phones are expected to arrive at the end of September 2011 and aimed to be available at lower prices.

Install GIMP 2.7.3 on Ubuntu using ppa

Earlier on Techspace we posted article on the release of 'The Gimp' 2.7.3. The 2.7.3 is a development version and not stable yet. The next stable version would be 2.8. But you can still try this development version, give feedback or report bugs to the developers of GIMP.

GIMP 2.7.3 is now available on PPA. You can install GIMP by executing the following instruction in your terminal -

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install gimp

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GIMP development version 2.7.3 Released

'The GIMP' is one of the most popular and open source software available across different platforms to edit photos and create graphics. GIMP's previous stable version was GIMP 2.6 and then they dedicated the whole 2.7.x series to development versions which are unstable. Like GIMP has promised, GIMP released its latest development version 2.7.3 with a new single working window. So no more annoying floating windows. Being a development version, GIMP 2.7.3 comes with new features and most of them are still incomplete but still getting closer by day to achieve the stable v2.8.

Single working window

You can refer to this page for the full list of latest improvements since its previous version 2.7.2.

The version is incomplete and development is still going on. So you can always post your feedback or report bugs.

Protect USB drives with USB disk security

Afraid of viruses which comes from Pen drives or memory sticks? Most of the virus affects our system by pen drive. We copy something to our pen drive from someone's PC and then we come and insert pen drive to our system and right away our system will be affected by virus. This is really annoying. What is the solution for this? Solution is usage of USB DISK SECURITY.

What does USB disk security do?

100% protection against any threats via USB storage.

Prevent unauthorized persons from stealing your data.

The best solution to protect offline computer.

Fastest and lightest on system resource.

Compatible with other security software.

Compatible with all popular Windows platforms.

Prevent unauthorized person from stealing your data.

Prevent unauthorized person from connecting usb drive to your system.

Password protect your system so that usb access is denied till you provide correct password.

Free updates for customers.

Download this software from here.

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Solution for Double click on drive opens Search or defragment in windows explorer

A perfect windows system will open and show us the contents of the corresponding when we double click on the drive but sometimes, due to error in windows or because of virus, it may open Search or defragment option in windows explorer always. Techspace has a solution for this problem and is given below.

Solution

Open run or use shortcut by pressing Windows+r keys on keyboard.

Type regedit

Browse down to

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell

Double-click on the default and set it to none as shown below.

Now open command prompt and type

regsvr32 /i shell32.dll

That's it. Problem solved.

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Solution for power policy manager unable to reserve hibernate file

Windows platform has more affinity towards the errors, bugs and viruses. Something or other will always happen with windows OS. This tutorial is to provide you solution for the hibernation error when you try to activate hibernation option via control panel.

When you try to activate hibernation, then windows may provide you error saying "Power policy manager unable to reserve hibernate file". This error encounters because of the virtual drive software installed in your system like Alcohol, deamon tools and etc.

How to get rid of the above problem?

First find the virtual drive software like Alcohol or deamon tools or etc. installed in your system.

Uninstall it from control panel or using any un-installer softwares.

Now Go to Control panel-->Power Options-->Hibernation and check mark on Hibernation and click on Apply and ok.

Now re-install you virtual drive(If you wish to) and you are done.

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Windows media player 11 look for VLC player

VLC is the best media player available in the market and has lot of goof features built into it. Windows media player's GUI looks better and eyecandy. So one's who is interested in having look of windows media player for VLC in both ubuntu or in windows platform can go through the steps provided below.

Steps under ubuntu:-

Download this skin.

Open VLC player and right click to choose skins or use shortcut

Hit Alt+F2 and type

vlc -I skins2

Right click on the title bar area and choose Select Skin/Open Skin, and choose the skin file that you have downloaded.

Steps under Windows:-

Download this skin.

Open VLC and then go to Tools-->Preferences

Click on Interface on the left bar and then select use custom skin option in the right and then click on choose button and select the downloaded skin and click on save.

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Solution for BOOTMGR is missing

Not able to use system because of windows crash or file missing error saying BOOTMGR missing? Here is the solution for it.

Solution:-

Boot with your windows installtion dvd.

Windows setup will ask you for language and keyboard layout information.

Then you will be asked to Repair for fresh install windows. Click on Repair button.

Now click on StartUp repair and windows setup dvd will takecare of everything and finally you will be able to proceed with usage of windows without any error or problem.

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Solution for Msvcp71.dll And Msvcr71.dll Missing Error In Windows 7

When we try to run some program, windows will show error "The program can't start because MSVCP71.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem" or "The program can't start because MSVCR71.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem".

Solution for above problems under Windows 7 32-Bit OS is

Download this file.

Unzip and copy files to Windows/System32 folder.

Solution for above problems under Windows 7 64-Bit OS is

Download this file.

Unzip and copy files to Windows/SysWOW64 folder.

Problem solved :) Please do comment if you are helped with this article.

Dell's thinnest LED monitor 9.9mm thick

Dell has released his atmost best LED monitor which is thinnest of all the monitors of its productions. Dell has given the name for it as "Dell S2330MX".

Features of Dell S2330MX:-

9.9mm thick.

Weighs 3.76kg.

Aspect ratio is 16:9

2ms response time.

Can display 16.7 million colors.

Conenctivity -> VGA and DVI ports.

1080p output using a 1000:1 static and 8 million:1 dynamic contrast ratio coupled with a brightness rating of 250cd/m².

power 27 watts.

Tilting option -> from up to 4 degrees forward to 21 degrees backwards.

Cost -> $249.99 with 5 year advance exchange warranty.

Android Tablet for 99$

People once thought, in a country like India tablets can never click a good monopoly here. But they're proven wrong. Not just by ipad or samsung tablets, India is now being a competitive market for tablets. Even the Government of India has shown its support with the 35$ tablet, cheapest tablet in the world. But now, a not-so-known company called LACS has released a tablet named Magnum Pepper M74V for 99$. That would be around Rs. 4500.

Magnum Pepper M74V Specifications -

Not many photos are available as of now. More details can be found on their website.

Stay tuned on Techspace for updates on Magnum Pepper.

16GB HP Touchpad for $99

Google launched music site - MAGNIFIER

The Giant Google has now come up with music discovery site called MAGNIFIER which will be surely loved by music lovers. They are neatly organized based on music genre. Free music can be found here.

All of the free music on Magnifier can be accessed through Music Beta, a service from Google that lets you upload your personal music collection to the cloud and listen to it on the web and your Android devices. You can add free music to your account by signing in and can listen it from web or android devices.

But the limit is that a user can add maximum of 20000 songs to his account. You can just upload the songs and listen from web browsers without downloading. Currently, this facility is only available for US users and that too with invitation only. This feature will be soon available for all users.

How to install Kernel v3.0 on Ubuntu 11.04

Kernel v3.0 is out there and will be released with Ubuntu 11.10 and yet, there are no kernel updates for Ubuntu 11.04 after Kernel v2.6.38. If you are very eager to install kernel 3.0, then you can build them directly from the source code. Or just use the packages that are used to install Kernel 3.0 on Ubuntu 11.10. Since the latter approach is simple and easy, I will mention step by step instruction to install Kernel v3.0 on your Ubuntu 11.10 Natty Narwhal.

Step 1: Download the debian packages from here.

For 32 bit users -

1. linux-headers-3.0.0-0300rc2_3.0.0-0300rc2.201106081532_all.deb
2. linux-headers-3.0.0-0300rc2-generic_3.0.0-0300rc2.201106081532_i386.deb
3. linux-image-3.0.0-0300rc2-generic_3.0.0-0300rc2.201106081532_i386.deb

For 64 bit users -

1. linux-headers-3.0.0-0300rc2_3.0.0-0300rc2.201106081532_all.deb
2. linux-headers-3.0.0-0300rc2-generic3.0.0-300rc2.201106081532_amd64.deb
3. linux-image-3.0.0-0300rc2-generic_3.0.0-0300rc2.201106081532_amd64.deb

Step 2: Once you have downloaded all the files, place them into a single folder. Browse to that folder from your terminal and then copy paste the following code into the prompt.

sudo dpkg -i linux-*

The execution will continue to install kernel 3.0 on your Ubuntu 11.04. Just in case kernel 3.0 mess up, do not remove previous versions. You can always choose from the previous versions in the grub.

If you have or happen to install this, then please comment on the power consumption and other pros and cons of kernel 3.0.

Dont like the new scrollbar in Ubuntu 11.04 ??

Of all the changes made in Ubuntu 11.04 , the most dumbest would be the overlay scroll bar.

At times it just fails to show up and its damn irritating.

Here is a solution to get back your old classic scrollbar

Steps :

Open synaptic package manager.

search for "liboverlay-scrollbar" and remove it.

restart to get your classic scrollbar.

Gmail to come with a new login screen

Ever since the launch of Google+, Google has gone on to change the UI of lot other google products. First it was the google search itself and then blogger, then gmail(through a preview theme) and now the login screen for Gmail. The new gmail login screen was available for preview and here is how it looks -

Click on the image to enlarge.

The new interface looks similar and matches the Google Search template. So google is probably planning to have the same interface to all the other google services.

Sharing files between two ubuntu systems through local router

I have a old desktop running Lubuntu 11.04 and it is connected to internet through a wireless router. While I store lot of information on this computer, I also have a laptop running Ubuntu 11.04 that I most of the times work on and it is also connected to internet through the same router. Transferring files between these two machines is important to me. There are countless ways you could do it, but I preferred ssh to have a safe and reliable connection through the local router. If you are willing to do the same then here's how you do it.

Step 1: Install ssh on both the machines. Run this command in terminals of both the linux machines.

sudo apt-get install ssh

Step 2: Learn the IP address of your desktop. This can be done by right clicking the connection icon on the panel and then on "Connection Information".

Otherwise you can just run the following command and read for "inet addr:" field.

ifconfig

In my case, it is 192.168.1.3.

Step 3: Go to your laptop. Find "Connect to Server" option.

If you are using GNOME then you find this on "Places -> Connect to Server".

If you are using UNITY then you find this option by opening Nautilus. Go to File -> Connect to Server.

You get this window -

Step 4: Fill details into the fields and click Connect.

Service type must be selected to SSH.

Server field takes the address of the computer to which you want to connect to.

Port is 22, which is TCP standard for SSH Connections.

Folder that you want to share.

Username to access the desktop.

You can add a bookmark and give it a name for you to access it next time.

Step 5: Once you are done, click on "Connect". It prompts for password. Enter it and you are done. You have successfully established file sharing from your desktop machine to your laptop machine. You can do the vice versa by following Step 3, 4 and 5 on your other machine.

PS: I have used terms 'laptop' and 'desktop' everywhere. But this need not be the case and procedure is same for any two machines connected through same router.

Manual Partitioning while Installing Linux

Linus Trovalds created Linux, but ever since its there in the open source world, there have been countless varieties and versions and the list is exponentially growing. Unlike Windows, Linux is a playground where people can tweak around, experiment (and mess it up). Whenever there's a new version or a distribution which makes lot of fuss on the Internet, users tend to move on to the new version. Quite obvious they want to.

Being into Ubuntu evangelism for quite a long time, I often come across people who complain that they lose their home folder contents on installing a different version or a distribution. So how do we not lose home folder contents then?

Rather explaining each individual I thought I write it down. The problem lies in specifying partitions during the installation. Here's my advise. While installing any Linux, it is of best practice to have these three partitions -

swap

Without specifying this partition, you will not be allowed to install any Linux distribution. When you start an application installed on your hard disk, the application's required resources are first brought to RAM before it runs. When your RAM is overloaded, a bit of unused data from RAM is transfered to swap space making room for the application to run. And when its done, the data moved to swap space is brought back to your RAM thus acting like a secondary RAM. If you have a huge capacity of RAM, then a small hard disk partition is enough for swap. It is ideal to keep your swap partition as big as your RAM capacity.

root (/)

root file system, represented by a forward slash (/) is the top most node of your directory tree. This contains the linux kernel, device drivers and every other files that you install. This is where your actual linux is running from. This is similar to the C drive of your windows where windows and other programs (C:\Program Files) are stored. The size of this partition depends on the size of the linux distribution you are about to install. Minimum requirement will be specified in its documentation but the partition size must have a few extra bytes for you to install extra applications. For starters, 5GB of space is more than enough, but if you have a really huge hard disk space, then you can always keep some room for more applications.

/home

This is the final partition which will hold /home directory. Every user will have his/her own directory under /home. If your username is 'john' then your home folder will be at the path '/home/john'. All the user specific files will be stored in their respective home directories. Every document you create, pictures you download or any files specific to you are stored in your home directory.

Strictly speaking, you can install Linux without specifying partition to /home but in which case, the /home will be mounted under root (/) and is erased next time you reinstall.

Now that you have the idea of these three partitions, you should remember that whatever you install (like GIMP, VLC media player, any application) is stored in your root directory while whatever you download or create (like documents, pictures, music, webpages) is stored in your home directory.

Once you install linux with these three partitions, you can save as much content as you want in your home directory and next time while installing Linux, it is enough to specify your root and swap partitions. This way, your /home partition remains untouched and you don't lose any data.

Android Secret Codes

PC which can understand your feelings and emotions

If someone understand your feelings and help you to solve the problem or help you to feel better, then we obviously feel good. In the same way, if some device understands your feelings and emotions and react based on that, then we apparently feel good. Yes, here is a PC which can understand and react based on your feelings. This is still under research but sooner or later, we can use and feel it.

IBM, the greatest company in the field of research and also in the development of computers have researched and building the PC which can sense the inner feelings and emotions with the help of sensors and react bases on the sensed inputs. This PC can sense anger, fear, sadness, revulsion, happiness, and surprise through an input device mouse.

The following picture briefly describe what all will be sensed and where actually the sensors are located on the mouse.

This takes around 10-15 seconds to sense and know how the user feels. This system can be soon available for end users. Share the article and please like us on facebook and comment if you liked this post.

USB Mouse acts as a weighing machine

We have used our computer mouse just as a mouse but have you ever used it as a weighing machine? No right? But here is a USB mouse which can be used to weigh small objects.

The mouse works in the same fashion as that of other mouse but when you open the outer case of mouse, then the same mouse can be used as a weighing machine to weigh small objects. While working, if you want to weigh some small objects, then you can get it done with a single device i.e the mouse. This mouse contains a digital scale which clearly shows the weight of the object placed.

Features:

USB Optical Mouse

Integrated Scale

Easy Calibrate

Back light

Scale Max Capacity: 500g

Scale Readability: 0.1g

Scale Units: g, oz, gn, ct

Scale is power by 2 x AAA batteries (Included)

Dimension: 120 x 64 x 35mm (approx.) (For Mouse)

Dimension: 59 x 59 x 20mm (approx.) (For Scale)

Weight: 84g (Only for Mouse)

Weight: 63g (Only for Scale)

Teeny tiny pen drive by Transcend

Transcend, a largest manufacturing company of pen drives has kept one more step ahead in the field of technology of making a teeny tiny pen drive. Yes, its true. Transcend has released JetFlash T3S pen drive which is based on CoB (Chip on Board) manufacturing technique. This provides the minimized size of the pen drive.

This pen drives weighs only about 4grams and the thickness is about 3mm.

Capacity and Cost:

4GB -->Rs 590

8GB -->Rs 910

16GB -->Rs 1560

Size:

29.35mm x 12.3 mm x 3.05 mm

Weight:

Interface:

USB 2.0

Transfer Speed:

4GB: Read: 15MB/s (max.), Write: 4MB/s (max.)

8GB: Read: 15MB/s (max.), Write: 5MB/s (max.)

16GB: Read: 18MB/s (max.), Write: 5MB/s (max.)

How to enable Laptop mode on Ubuntu and extend your battery life?

Its a very common issue among people who use linux on their laptop. The linux kernels are supposedly resource intensive and take lot of hard disk spins which actually drains the laptop battery at a faster rate than it should take. After a little googling I found out that the linux kernel has a laptop mode that can be enabled. Laptop mode was discouraged since Edgy 6.10 due to heard reasons of hangups found in few laptops. This mode can still be enabled by installing a package called laptop-mode-tools.

How to install laptop-mode-tools?

Step 1: You should first make sure your current version of kernel is compatible with laptop-mode-tools. Any version starting from 2.6.6 will be compatible.

Step 2: Install the package laptop-mode-tools by executing the following instruction in Terminal

sudo apt-get install laptop-mode-tools

Step 3: The installation creates a configuration file at location /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf

Step 4: Configure this file by executing

gksudo gedit /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf

The Configuration file laptop-mode.conf is pretty much self described with lot of comments. You get to configure options such as ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE_ON_AC, ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE_WHEN_LID_CLOSED etc. For more details on configuring other parameters of this file, you can refer the man pages by executing the following instruction in your terminal -

man laptop-mode.conf

Or just check out the online man page here.

Vodafone 3G service comes to Bangalore

Frustrated by using very slow internet connection? Gets frustrated while downloading large size of files from internet using very slow 2G connection? Then here is a good news for you. Applicable for Bangalore Vodafone users.

Bangalore people, here is a good news for you. The largest mobile network provider Vodafone has started to provide 3G service in bangalore. 3G service provides the user to browse internet and make video calls easily but the price is little more. Price has become constraint for 3G users in here.

Vodafone has started to provide 3G service in Bangalore currently and this service will be extended to all parts of karnataka very soon.

Price list

Prepaid Users:-

Minimum recharge of Rs 28, for which they will get 28 MB data for a day.

Maximum recharge of Rs 4,250 for which users will get 18 GB data for 180 days.

Range of Rs 101 to Rs 1,000 with data access of 100 MB to 5 GB.

Excess usage will charge 10paisa for 10KB.

Video calls at 3Rs/minute.

Postpaid users:-

Rs 100 for which they will get 100 MB data for 30 days.

Rs 1,250 per month will give 5 GB access.

Rs 3,250 for 6 GB data and Rs 4,250 for 18 GB and Rs 6,250 for 30 GB data access over 3 months.

Excess usage will charge 2 paisa per 10 KB.

Video calls at 3Rs/minute.

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XVideoServiceThief - Download videos from video websites

xVideoServiceThief (a.k.a xVST) is a tool for downloading your favourite video clips from a lot of video websites. xVideoServiceThief also provide you the ability to convert each video in most popular formats: AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2, WMV, MP4, 3GP, MP3 file formats.

More screenshots here on their webpage

xVideoServiceThief currently supports downloading videos from 76 websites with plugins installed. The software is free and available for Windows, Linux and Mac. XVideo service can be downloaded and installed from their website here.

Seagate GoFlex

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This is for those who have lots of movies and music, in short and brief for people like me :P. GoFlex Satellite wireless storage system is a battery backed, HDD based portable storage and creates its own Wi-FI network. It can directly connect to your mobile devices like iPad wirelessly without the help of any Wi-Fi router/ access point.

GoFlex Satellite comes with 500GB of storage, 5 hours of battery life and has the flexibility of USB 2.0/3.0 / SATA interface for loading the content. It is priced at Approx Rs. 9000

i'm WATCH

Guys, Think about this for a second, You wearing a android based phone on your wrist as a watch, How cool is that :P

It can actually be a reality, the image above shows a collection of random wrist watches which is also a android operated phone called "I'm", thats right its pronounced "I am". It comes in 2 versions- "I'm Color" (in white,black,red,yellow,green,light blue and pink) and "I'm Jewel" (in yellow, gold, pink gold, white gold and diamonds, titanium ,black gold). You can use the watch to do phone functions like making and receiving calls, text messages and as speakerphone for handsfree use. You can view Facebook, Twitter as well as photo gallery. The device features 1.54" colour TFT diplay, 4 GB of built-in storage, 64 MB of RAM and Bluetooth 2.1.If you think thats the best part, wait till you read this........ The watch can connect to both iPhone 4 and Android smart phone via Bluetooth. I'm Color starts at Approx Rs. 15,759 and I'm Jewel at Approx Rs. 37,930-76,094

Check which services are enabled/disabled on your Ubuntu System

There are various services that an OS provides. If it is Ubuntu then you may at times want to know which one is enabled and which one is not. The best way to know it is chkconfig.
chkconfig provides a simple command-line tool for maintaining the /etc/rc[0-6].d directory heirarchi by relieving system administrators of the task of directly manipulating the numerous symbolic links in those directories. chkconfig has five distinct functions: adding new services for management, removing servicesfrom management, listing the current startup information for services, changing the startup information for services, and checking the startup state of a particular service.
When chkconfig is run without any options, it displays usage information.
To install chkconfig on Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install chkconfig

To check which services are enabled, just type chkconfig in the terminal and press return. It will list all the services available.
chkconfig can be used with options. More can be learnt from the man pages or here.

Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 3 Released - What's new?

Alpha 3 version of Ubuntu 11.1

Install Ubuntu Tweak on Ubuntu 11.04

Ubuntu Tweak is a charming application that allows you to tweak your Ubuntu easier than any other way. It is an application used to config Ubuntu the easier way so that no one has to worry about running blah blah blah command in the terminal or editing the system files. It provides many useful desktop and system options that the default desktop doesn't provide.

Installation

1. From their website -

Download the .deb package straight away from their website and double click on the file to install it. Their website is ubuntu-tweak.com.

2. By adding the PPA to your repositor -

This is a more recommended way as it is easier to upgrade the version with the new releases.

Step 1: Open your terminal by going to Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal

Step 2: Execute the following instructions in the order

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sudo apt-add-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak

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Once it is installed, you can find Ubuntu Tweak at Applications -> System Tools -> Ubuntu Tweak.

Ubuntu Tweak is a must have if you are a beginner.

How to recover your boot menu ???

Most common used OS is windows and by far no one can argue about it either , and not many wanna try different OS like Mac-OS , or one of those many Linux flavors which are available for free. But some do try and dual boot ie. have two or more OS on their single hard disks.

So those who dual boot usually have windows pre installed then try new OS on their HDD.

And my observation is that most Linux flavors are very friendly in cases of dual boot. Many would have observed at the end of installation , the grub loader is installed and it detects other OS on the HDD and adds them to its boot menu.

What is Boot Menu???

Boot menu is the one that displays all your available OS choices during startup.

And as usual the egoistic and competition oriented windows OS doesn't do this operation when compared to Linux flavors.

So there is no problem faced when one installs linux flavours after windows installation as the grubbootloader loads all OS choices.

But if at all your installing windows after installing Linux flavors , then your bound to boot directly into windows next time you startup.

The windows bootloader replaces the grubloader instead of adding it.So one doesnt recieve any boot menu having their choice of OS installed on their systems.

How to get back the boot menu ???

simple :

1. Somehow you got to boot into your Linux flavor .

Methods to do this :

*) Use your Linux Live CD and click on try OS without installing.

*) Dont have a Live CD , no problem .. one can use your alternate CD or install CD as well.

2. So once into the Linux OS. Do the following .

*) Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal .

*) Once into the terminal . need to open either "grub.cfg" file or "menu.lst" file.

*) "menu.lst" is the file if you have a grub loader and "grub.cfg" is the file if you have a grub2 loader.

*) files can be found in /etc/default folder

*) type in the terminal :

sourabh@ubuntu:~$ sudo gedit /etc/default/grub

*) once the file is opened . navigate to the 25th line

#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480
change it to

GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480

*) basically you remove the # symbol ,it is used to comment a line.

*) next type in the terminal :

sourabh@ubuntu:~$ sudo update-grub

*) this detects all existing OS and adds it to the boot menu and updates the grub.cfg file.

So your done. Just reboot and find your boot menu choices .

Other methods :

Recover Ubuntu after Windows Installations

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Nokia 101

swap

root (/)

/home

How to install laptop-mode-tools?

Price list

Installation

1. From their website -

2. By adding the PPA to your repositor -

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