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Monday, May 16, 2011

Make USB Disk Bootable – Create MS-DOS Bootable USB Drive From Windows XP System Files

Make USB Disk Bootable is a console based free tool which lets you create a MS DOS bootable USB drive which is created by using the system files on any windows xp PC. This bootable USB Disk is actually a MS-DOS Bootable USB Drive from the users XP source files.


This free tool uses HP USB Dos Format Tool to make the USB disk bootable, if you do not have HP USB Format tool installed then it will download it from the HP Website and install it on your computer.

Note: You must accept the HP End User License Agreement during setup.

Here is the step by step procedure to do the same





1. Download Make USB Bootable Tool and extract the zip package in separate directory
2.  Right click mkboot.cmd file and click edit to change the attributes in the config file.
3. Change USBDRV value R: to the drive letter that is been currently used by your USB Drive when you plug it in your computer.
5. Exit and Save then double click on mkboot.cmd to run this tool.

Note: ** MAKE SURE THE USB DRIVE LETTER IS CORRECT WHEN YOU RUN THE TOOL **





Alternative Link To Download Make USB Disk Bootable [ Softpedia ]

Direct Download Links For Microsoft Office 2010 Mondo Beta 1 (Technical Preview v14.0.4302.1000) For x86 and x64 Full Setup Installer

Recently a new beta build of office 2010 has been leaked the exact build number is Microsoft Office 2010 Build 14.0.4417.1000 you can see the screenshots however there is not much change in it yet, but some bugs have been fixed but still it is beta. So if you want to try office 2010 on your computer, we would recommend you to download the more stable beta build called as office 2010 technical preview which is accepted as office 2010 beta 1 build everywhere andquite stable too.

14.0.4417.1000_Mondo_office_2010_beta

Both the links to 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) are full setup installer for Microsoft Office 2010 Mondo version 14.0.4302.1000 also known as technical preview is available for download.


 

Download Links of Microsoft Office 2010 Mondo (Technical Preview Beta 1) v14.0.4302.1000

Update: Download Links Updated and working now. Thanks for lettin us know about it





You can refer this page and this page for the downlaod links to Microsoft Office 2010 Mondo (Technical Preview Beta 1)

Install and Run Internet Explorer 6 On Vista, Windows 7

Installing IE6 can be a big deal and both vista and windows 7 as it is not compatible with both of these operating system, as many people need to install IE6 on their vista and windows 7 machine for testing purposes or they are more used to the interface of internet explorer from long time, it is quite difficult for them to adopt to the new interface of IE7 and IE8 which comes pre installed in these operating system.
There can two ways with which one can install or use Internet Explorer on vista and windows 7, either you can install windows xp with virtual pc or you can try this free tool called IETester which allows you install a standalone independent browser in vista or windows 7 which will show you how a site renders in IE6.



 

Virtual PC Method – You will need download and install Virtual PC 2007, create the new machine with default settings and then point to the virtual pc image of windows xp sp2 pre activated which contains Internet Explorer 6 


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Another method involves the simple tool which is only 24 MB of download, very easy to install and use.IETester is a free Web Browser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Windows 7, Vista and XP.

ietester





Download IETester [ Direct Link ]

Add Folder Links In Places Bar In Windows With Places Utility

Places Utility is a simple free to use utility which lets you place custom folder links in the places bar in windows save as dialog box, by default provides five places to save your files at History, My Documents, Desktop, Favorites, and Network.

Default-SaveAs-dailogbox

But when it could a great trouble for people who want to save files at some other places which could be a different folder altogether, then they normally end up browsing the folders each time they save the files though save as dialog box.




Places utility allows you to customize the folder links in the places bar.

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Here is how a customised save as dialog box will look like after replacing the locations where you can save files instantly with save as dialog box.

 

Note: This program does not work under Windows 95,98,Me.

You can also use tweak UI with windows xp for the same purpose, but this works for windows 7 and vista too.





Download Places Utility

Copy Windows Setup Files On USB Drive With WinToFlash | Install Windows From Flash Drive On Your Computer Without CD Drive

WinToFlash [ via Life Rocks 2.0 ] is free to use software which lets you copy windows setup files from windows to your USB flash drive, this application can really come handy when you want to install an operating system like windows 7 or any other windows version on your netbook.

win-to-flash



It lets you transfer windows xp, windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2008, Windows 7 setup from CD or DVD to your Flash drive.





Download WinToFlash

Search and Download Youtube Videos Directly To Your Desktop with Free Youtube Utility

Free Youtube Utility is a free to use nice small program which lets you search and download videos fro youtube to directly to your desktop, this application works on all windows including windows 7 so you can run this tool on any windows machine. By default it searches the first five page results and lets you download the videos on that pages.

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Any youtube Video can be downloaded and converted into 16 different output formats including iPod, PSP, 3GP, iPhone, DVD, AVI, VCD or Mp3 formats, but you cannot control over the video quality or the conversion settings. In order to download a specific video just copy paste the path of the video in the search box to download.


Note: It can download multiple youtube videos together with this application     


 


In all this software is free to use and complete in all terms in downloading youtube videos and then putting them on the device like iphone, psp , mobile phones or on your computer for watching.

Key Features
1. You can Search and download videos from YouTube without your web browser.
2. It will integrate itself with Internet Explorer to download youtube Videos with in single click.
3. Convert downloaded videos to play on your PC, iPod, PSP, 3GP mobile phone formats
4. It Plays most of the videos and 100% Free program





Download Free Youtube Utility

Free Duplicate Music Files Finder – Find Duplicate Music MP3 Files Based On Name and MP3s TAGS and Delete Them To Get Free Space

Duplicate Music Files Finder is a free to use application which lets you find duplicate music mp3 files. This small application uses a advanced algorithm which can detect duplicate files based on the file names and even find out duplicate files depending on mp3 tags when files names are not same.
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Still you can check the files to be duplicate or not by playing them in your favourite media player to actually check whether files names are really duplicate.



The program comes with a specific module which can be used to quickly rename bad formated music files, you just need to load one folder and DMFF will detect the bad formated files and you can rename those files.





Download Free Duplicate Music Finder

Hide SMS Preview In iPhone With 3.0 or Newer OS Firmware | Disable SMS Preview On iPhone 3GS, 3G | Cannot Find SMS Preview ON / OFF Toggle Under Settings >> General >> Passcode Lock

To hide SMS preview can be really very important feature some times, if you don’t want other to read your messages when some one else is using your iPhone, however iPhone by default does not hide the preview of the SMS received but gives you easy to set option to turn on or off the SMS preview.

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Before iPhone 3.0 firmware was released the show SMS preview option was used to be under Settings >> General >> Passcode Lock in iPhone but recently after I upgraded my iphone 3g to 3.0 OS I came to know that this option of show SMS preview has been moved under Settings >> Messages


 

In iPhone with Firmware Less Than 3.0 i.e 2.0 .2.2 or 2.2.1 iphone firmware
 
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In iPhone with Firmware 3.0 or Newer Firmware




 


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So in order to hide SMS preview on your iphone with 3.0 firmware installed go to Settings >> Messages and toggle Show Preview

Extract Images From SWF Flash Files With SWF Picture Extractor

SWF Picture Extractor is a free to use software which lets you extract images from any SWF flash file, that means you can extract all the images from the beautiful animated swf files.

swf-picture-extractor



This application is very easy to use, you just need to browse the SWF file on your computer after clicking open file option on the program interface, after locating the file this swf picture extractor will show all the images embedded in the swf file and lets you save any of the image or all the images in that swf flash file.


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By default it will create a folder with the same name as of the swf to place store the images you extract in the root C: directory on your computer, you can configure the output path for extracted images.





Download SWF Picture Extractor

Create Ubuntu Live USB Drive From Ubuntu ISO Image Or CD Drive On a Windows PC With Ubuntu Live USB Imager

Ubuntu Live USB Imager is another cool software which lets you create Ubuntu Live USB drive which you can use just like the live ubuntu cd on any computer, moreover this program can create live USB form other ubuntu variants also. Creating Live USBs for Kubuntu and Xubuntu can also be done with this free utility.

ubuntu-live-usb-imager

An Ubuntu Live USB drive which you create with this tool, allows you to run Ubuntu Linux operating system anywhere you need this could help you a lot in windows troubleshooting, as if run into a problem where you cannot boot Windows then you can use an Ubuntu Live USB drive to boot your computer into a nice Linux GUI environment and backup your files with the Live USB Ubuntu running from your portable USB drive.






The application very simple and easy to use
 
1. Firstly, you will need to browse ISO image or CD/DVD source.
2. Then you choose the USB Drive connected to your computer on which you want to install Ubuntu with ISO / CD / DVD image as source. 
3. Now, select the size of a persistence file which will store the documents you create while using the Live Ubuntu.

Note: There are various persistence file sizes ranging from 128MB to 4096MB you can select as per your thumb-drive capacity.





Download Ubuntu Live USB Imager | Alternative Link To Download Ubuntu Live USB Imager

[ Fixed ] Stop / Block / Remove Hp Easy Internet Sign Up Pop Up On HP Vista Laptop | Kill HP Easy Internet Sign Up Task


Hp Easy Internet Sign Up pop up is so much annoying which pop every other minute even if you ignore it and set not to ask again, it still pops up and annoys many hp laptop and hp computers which has vista installed. Believe me this pop up can really make you mad as the pop window does not have a close button and it comes in the center of the screen to annoy you in whatever work you are doing.

http://www.technixupdate.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/hpeasyinternetsignup.png

The program that runs as Easy Internet Sign-up runs with the following named HP SDP Application Module (HPSdpApp.exe).



 

What is Easy Internet Sign Up On Hp Laptop or Computer ?
Easy Internet Signup is a small helper app for you if you want to sign up with any of HPs service partners, and even if you don’t want to by clicking the option No,  please do not remind me anymore it will do exactly opposite keep popping up after every 30 mins or less and there is no end to it. :| Then I figured out the how to kill this pop up on my hp vista home premium laptop, here is how you can do the same.

1. Open Vista Start Menu, type Scheduler in the search field, and click Task Scheduler when it appears.
2. In left column, now click Task Scheduler Library.
3. Click the task in the center column which says InternetServiceOffers

http://www.technixupdate.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/stopeasyinternetservices.png

4. Right click and click Delete, and then click Yes to confirm deletion.

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5. Close the Task Scheduler window.

Download Free Kaspersky 2010 Anti Virus Free License Key Serial Number For 6 Months – A MSN Hotmail Account Required [ For China Only ]

Kaspersky 2010 anti virus is really good and has been released with some amazing features with windows 7 support, among all other anti viruses it is one the best rated anti virus and also very effective in protecting your computer against viruses. Since the day kaspersky 2010 anti virus has been launched there are different promotional schemes available on internet with which you can get a free license of enough time period like 6 months, in which you can test the antivirus properly before you can make a purchase.
I came to know about this promotional offer of getting free kaspersky serial number valid for 6 months at [ webtrickz ]. This offer actually offered to Chinese or Japanese people who have a registered msn hotmail or windows live account.

But even if you have a hotmail or windows live account you can get a free serial number for kaspersky 2010 anit virus for free, here is how it is done. Firstly download kaspersky 2010 anti virus


The over all process is quite simple, follow the procedure given below.



1. Go to the kaspersky 2010 promotional page
2. Now a page in some Chinese or Japanese language will open up ,dont read any thing just click the orange coloured button (as shown in the image below)
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3. Now, it will open up another page where you can login with your msn hotmail account username and password and after login you will be automatically redirected to a new page containing the free license of kaspersky which you can use and it is valid for 6 months.

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4. That’s it done.





Note: I have just erased mine license key for kaspersky 2010 anti virus which is functional for next 6 months from date you go this key

Update:  This hack is not working now for users outside china

Create a Bootable USB Drive With XP Recovery Console With USB Recovery Console

USB Recovery Console is a free command line based tool which allows you to make your device bootable and also installs recovery console on the USB drive itself so that you can trouble shoot some basic problems using the recovery console on the USB drive.


usb-recovery-console

This tool uses the HP USB Dos format tool to create bootable USB drive, and that file is not included with the tool and is copyrighted to HP. so this script will download and run the HP USB DOS format tool setup if you don’t already have that on your computer. It will be downloading direct from an HP web site.

Note: You must accept the HP End User License Agreement during setup when it asks and you need administrator rights and windows xp machine to run this tool.

Step By step procedure to run this tool




1. Download USB Recovery Tool and extract the zip package in separate directory
2.  Right click mkrecovery.cmd file and click edit to change the attributes in the config file.
3. Change USBDRV value R: to the drive letter that is been currently used by your USB Drive when you plug it in your computer.
4. Change XPSRC to the path of your Windows XP Setup folder that could be placed on the cd inserted or on your hard disk.
5. Exit and Save then double click on mkrecovery.cmd to run this tool.

Note: ** MAKE SURE THE USB DRIVE LETTER IS CORRECT WHEN YOU RUN THE TOOL **





Download USB Recovery Console Tool Direct Link | USB Recovery Tool Home Page | Alternate Link USB Recovery Console

Apply Any Picture as Windows 7 Lockout Screen Wallpaper | Change Windows 7 Logon Screen Background with Windows 7 Logon Controller

Windows 7 Controller [ via BlogsDNA ] is another free small utility for windows 7 which lets you select any jpg image to set as background wallpaper on windows 7 login screen or lockout screen. Another good feature is this utility is that you can any time revert to the original windows 7 login screen any time with in a single click.




logon-controller-windows-7 

Previously, we had written about some other similar tools like Windows XP Logon UI Changer , 7 Logon Changer and some other tutorials on how you can Create your own Windows 7 Login Screen.  





Download Windows 7 Logon Controller Direct Link

ChromePlus – Enhanced Google Chrome Like Browser With Mouse Gestures, IE Tabs, Super Drag and Download Tools Supported

ChromePlus is a feature enhanced browser which look like google chrome, but it is not google chrome. However it is based on the chromium build just like google chrome. It is aimed to provide the most easy to use browser based on chrome.
It has some amazing features which were lacking in google chrome from a long time, I hope after seeing these features in action google chrome development team integrate these features in google chrome upcoming builds.

Key Features Of ChromePlus are




1. Double click a tab to close the opened tab – With these feature got into action you don’t need to click the cross button on the tab, you can double click anywhere to close it.
2. Super Drag – This feature allows to drag any link on the page to anywhere and you can even create a new tab with that link opened in that tab. Moreover you can also drag and drop a block of text.



3. Mouse Gesture – With easy mouse gestures you can make efficient commands which can work on google chrome. With some practice mouse gestures can save you quite a lot of time in performing various activates.



 
4. IE Tab – This is one the most required feature with which you use IE Controls and open  a specific page as a IE tab which means it will load like as it loads in Internet Explorer.



5. Download Tools Supported – ChromePlus browser also supports a variety of download accelerators like NetAnts, Orbit, QQ Xuanfeng, IS, FlashGet3, FlashGetMini, NetX, WebThunder, Xunlei. You will find the link to these items on the right click context menu if you have these tools installed.



All these features are not that big, but they make a big difference in the browsing experience so I would suggest you try ChromePlus once you might like it.





Download ChromePlus

How To Connect To Internet Automatically With Reliance NetConnect Broadband + On Your Computer




In order to configure reliance netconnect to dial the connection automatically you will need to make the dial up connection created by reliance netconnect broadband + the default dial up connection to connect to internet.

Lets see how it is done

In vista
1. Open Start Menu >> Run and type ncpa.cpl and press Ok
2. This will open up network connections, right click the dial up connection created by reliance netconnect broadband + and set it as default connection. ( as shown below)

reliance-default-connection

For XP
1. Open Start Menu >>  Control Panel >> Network Connections
2. Do the same thing explained in the above step 2 for vista


 

For Vista and XP Both
3. Open Internet Explorer, go to Tools >> Internet Options and then click the Connections tab (as shown below in the image)


connect-default-dail-up-connection 
 
4. configure the dial up connection here to connect automatically when disconnected by checking the option which says Dial whenever a network connection is not present

Note: Now you will need to configure the service corresponding to the same to start automatically, which can allow dial up connection to connect automatically





5. Open start menu >> run and type services.msc and press ok
6. Locate the service named Remote Access Connection Manager


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7. Right click on the service and select Properties
 

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8. Set the startup type for this service to be automatic and click ok

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9. That’s now when ever you open your browser to access internet reliance netconnect broadband + dialup connection will connect to internet automatically.You will see windows as shown in the image below.

 connect-reliance connect-automatically

Block or Customise Yahoo Updates In Yahoo Messenger 10

Yahoo messenger 10 beta has been recently released with some amazing features including high quality video chatting and a new feature called yahoo updates. Yahoo updates track your broadcast your activity around different web services like delicious, mybloglog, twitter and yahoo avatars etc.


All your yahoo messenger contacts gets to see you, what ever changes you make in your yahoo profile, they will get to know about new connections you make on yahoo network. These yahoo updates can be customised directly through yahoo messenger 10 interface very easily.

yahoo-updates 

Here is how you can customise yahoo updates which are being broadcasted to all those people who are connected to your yahoo network.




1. Login into yahoo messenger 10 and click on tab Y! Updates 
2. Now click on yahoo updates tab as shown in the image below

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3. A new window will open up where you can select the services which you can for which you want to send yahoo updates to your friends and you can also select which of your friends you want to see updates they sent.





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4. Set the options and click ok to exit

This is the way you customize your yahoo updates from yahoo messenger 10

Block Ads In Yahoo Messenger 10 Beta version 10.0.0.525 By Yahoo Messenger Tweaker After Replacing With Yahoo Messenger 10 10.0.0.331 Ad Removed Executable

In order to remove ads firstly you would need to replace the executable of the yahoo messenger with the cracked exe of yahoo messenger previous version 10.0.0.331

A blog named devirusare posted about how to remove the ads in yahoo messenger 10 beta in a step by step procedure but as this is in another language other than English you might not able to understand it.

Here is the same tutorial explained step by step in plain English





1. Firstly if you have yahoo messenger 10 beta installed download full setup from here and install it.
2. Now download the ad removed cracked exe of yahoo messenger 10.0.0.331  
3. Replace the yahoo messenger 10 beta exe with the download cracked executable in step 2 above.
Path where you can find the yahoo messenger executable is given below
C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\
4. Don’t try to launch yahoo messenger now, as to remove ads you will need to download yahoo messenger tweaker
5. Run it after installation and Check the checkboxes which says remove ads and optionally you can also enable multiple instances of yahoo messenger and do a lot more with this tool.
[ Note: you would need to place the yahoo messenger tweaker in the same folder where you have replaced the yahoo messenger exe i.e C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\ ]

yahoo-messenger-tweaker

6. click apple and check the box which says Restart Yahoo Messenger 





At the end you will see the yahoo messenger running without ads as shown in the image below, but if your check the about in yahoo messenger it will say 10.0.0.331 but the features of beta will be there without any issues.

yahoo-messenger-10-beta-witout-ads     

How To Transfer Camera Roll Pictures From iPhone to Computer Automatically | Automatically Sync iPhone Camera Pictures With Windows Live Photo Gallery On Windows

From day one I had no problems in syncing up and transferring the camera taken pictures in my iPhone 3g to my computer,  it automatically detects all the new pictures which I took after the last sync and transfer the new images only as per the last sync.

So, every time when I connect my iPhone to my computer it automatically asks to import the new found pictures on my iPhone in the camera roll folder and I just need to click on the import button on the asking dialog prompt to start the copying of photos and after the transfer it will show up the images copied from my iPhone.

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Each time when windows live writer found some new camera taken pictures on your iphone it will create a folder in my pictures by default with the current date and transfer all the new photos to that folder.
So, you can configure the same thing on your computer so that it sync your camera pictures automatically on your computer, here is how you can do it.




1. Firstly download windows live gallery offline installer and install it on your computer, and restart your computer after installation.

2. Now you will first need to make sure that your iPhone is connected to your computer and now open Start Menu >> Control Panel >> AutoPlay

3. Scroll down through the list to find autoplay action for your iphone

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4. Make sure to set the autoplay action for your iphone from the dropdown as to import pictures and videos using windows live gallery as shown in the image above.





5. That’s it done, the next time you connect your iphone to your computer via USB cable windows live gallery will prompt you to import all the newly found camera pictures on your iphone and will display the imported pictures(as shown in the image below)

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Sunday, May 15, 2011

Download Yahoo Messenger 10 Beta Full Setup Standalone [ Offline Installer ] For XP, Vista and Windows 7

Recently Yahoo messenger 10 beta, this time it has been released with some amazing videos chat features. You can make high quality video calls and conferences for free, it has the feature to swap videos windows, side by side and various other views are offered. Since then it has been released I have been trying to find out the offline installer for yahoo messenger 10 beta.

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Another very good feature added this time is that you can turn off or on the updates from your friend if you want to disable these updates go to Messenger > Preferences > Yahoo! Updates.




Some More New Features Added To Yahoo Messenger 10  Beta

  • You can make High-quality video calls
  • Turn on or off the yahoo updates view of your contact list
  • Change your language easily of yahoo messenger
  • New ways to sort your contacts
  • New icons in the IM window
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So like others, me too hate the web installer for yahoo messenger as it causes the pain of downloading all the files for yahoo messenger again and again on every computer where you run the web installer and it need to be connected to internet.





Download Yahoo Messenger 10 Beta Full Setup Standalone Offline Installer Setup [ all thanks to Sandip for digging this out :) ] or if you still want to download yahoo messenger 10 beta from official link here is the link to the web installer of ymessenger 10 beta

Update: Here is the official link to download yahoo messenger 10 beta

Youtube Added New Feature – Watch This Video In A New Window | Detach Embedded Video In Youtube WebPage


Youtube has recently added a new feature which was previously implemented with the help of some grease monkey script called youtube video detacher and another free app called DetachVideo which lets you see videos in different window. But now you don’t need any third party software or client side browser scripts to see the video on in separate window (click the image below to see where this option appears on youtube page).

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Finally youtube itself has added this option to make it simple to see the video only without any adds and related windows.

 

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In order to see any youtube video in a separate window without any other disturbance, click this red arrow button on the right top corner of the video frame ine the youtube video page.

Improve PS3 Video Display Quality On HDMI | Enhanced PS3 Display With RGB Full Range On HDMI | Improve PS3 Output Over HDMI | Enable Y Pb/CB Pr/Cr Super White (HDMI)

Its been not so long that I got a new ps3 and had been applying various and hacks and tricks on it from day one, its always feels good for a geek like to achieve any thing which is not possible in traditional ways on my ps3, previously I figured out how which includes the hack to update ps3 offline and play all video and other files stored on USB Drive on ps3

Today I will tell you how to improve the over all display quality over HDMI on your ps3, it relates to changing some display settings on your ps3, it helped me a lot to get some real good effects and display on my Full HD Samsung monitor, might help in your case too.


 

If you are getting the output to your ps3 with HDMI cable and still not seeing the some good effects and colours on your HD capable monitor then you should definitely try this simple ps3 display setting.
Start your ps3, log in with any user account and go to Settings >> Display Settings – now scroll down to the second last settings which says RGB Full Range (HDMI) – set it to Full now Enable Y Pb/Cb Pr/Cr Super White (HDMI) – set it to On if your TV or the display monitor is compatible with super white output.

On the other hand putting RGB Full so that it displays the full range of colors on the screen, but whether to turn on RGB to full mode make you can apply the following rule.





Rules For RGB Full Or Limited On PS3
  • If black sometimes appears bright and sometimes appears pale on the screen when [Limited] is selected, set this option to [Full].
  • If black appears dull on the screen when [Full] is selected, set this option to [Limited].

How To Create A Media Server For PS3 and XBOX 360 | Enable Media Sharing Enable On Windows | Access Music, Videos and Photos From PS3 On Your Computer

Recently I got a sony PS3 for myself, from that day I have been searching for various hacks and tricks for ps3, some time back I figured out how to access and play the media on my computer via wireless network at my home. There is one simple way in windows to do it and various other softwares which can help in this case to share photos, videos and music files across your network which can be accessed by sony ps3.

In this case your computer connected to the wireless network will act like a media server, lets find out how to do that on Windows, Linux and MAC




You can share media via windows media player, but you will need windows media player 11 at least. If you don’t have it installed download it from here .With the use of media player you can make your music collection, your photos and your videos as shared on your computer acting as media server.

Follow the procedure to know how.

1. Open and Run Windows Media Player 11

2. On the toolbar, click Library (down arrow) then click Media Sharing

3. Check "Share my media"

4. Run PS3 – Under Each of Video, Photos or Music section, select the option  "Scan for media server"

5. Once the scanning is complete, check your PC, and you will see a balloon pop up message showing an unknown device trying to connect.
6. Allow the device(your ps3) on your computer, and then you will get access to all the songs, videos and photos shared on the computer from your sony ps3
Another way to achieve the media sharing on your windows computer for ps3 can be done by a free media server program like FUPPES or else you can go for the paid program which can provide easy configurations options for the same purpose called Nero Media Home





Note: Fuppes will also help if you are running LINUX on your computer, and it by chance you have MAC OS then you can use another free media server software for like Allegro Media Server and TwonkyMedia if you have any issues with the former two softwares in mac and then try Elgato Eyeconnect which seems to work well, as suggested by some of my friends.

Resize Multiple Photos At Once | Batch Image Resize | Retain Quality While Resizing Photos | Resize Images Simple With Right Context Menu Entry

There are many situations when you may need to resize a multiple photos at once, Resize My Photos is a free to use software which lets you resize multiple JPEG files at once just with the help of right click context menu entry.


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More over you can also select multiple folders and image files to resize, specify a prefix or suffix for output images. You can pre configure the image quality for the output images.



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As shown in the image above, you can select the resize method, size, naming method, image quality and output directory. After you done with selecting with all the options click Start button to start the resizing process for all the images.




Requirements To Run: This application requires  
  • Windows XP, Windows Vista
  • Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or later





Download Resize My Photos

Change Your Wallpaper From System Tray | Apply Random Wallpaper On Desktop – Wallpaper Randomizer

Wallpaper Randomizer is a free to use utility which lets you change the current wallpaper on your desktop from taskbar system tray, it can apply any random wallpaper out of your collection of wallpapers.


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You can set the wallpaper to change at a specific time interval as shown in the options of wallpaper randomizer in the above image, moreover you can see the next wallpaper manually by pressing Win+F5 abd Win+Shift+F5 for the previous wallpaper.



It is very small and easy to use little utility which solves the purpose of refreshing the desktop wallpaper.





Download Wallpaper Randomizer