Record made of ice

Ever heard to a record made of ice?? you heard it right.. A song is recorded on ice. Shout out loud's Blue ice song has been recorded on ice and here it is Shout out loud's Blue ice project. It is just incredible!!!
Well, ever heard of the term cool music.. it makes sense in case of this song.. ;)

Review on Windows 8.1

Well Microsoft has released a new version of Windows 8 operating system, Windows 8.1. But most of the reviews stated that it didn't make much of changes regarding the issues of Windows 8. Of course it has some features added to Windows 8. But can you really upgrade your OS to win 8.1? So here is a review given by CNET on Windows 8.1. Hope this would help..

Cnet Review on Windows8.1

Make your system read for you

If you want your system to read text files for you, 

here is a tip..

Just follow these steps..

1. Open notepad

2. Copy the code below and paste it there

Set sapi = CreateObject("sapi.spvoice")

Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

path = Inputbox("Enter path for the text file to read:", "?#?Expert? Hackers")

If Not (fs.FileExists(path)) Then

X = Msgbox("The specified file does not exist!", 48, "ERROR!")

Else

Set a = fs.OpenTextFile(path)

text = a.ReadAll

sapi.Speak(text)

a.Close

End If

3. now save this with any name but with .vbs extension

4. Now run this .vbs file

5. It will prompt for a path so give the exact path of your text file completely i.e with .txt extension

6. Now you windows will start reading the file for you

7. To stop this, end the wscript process from your task manager

Google url gws_rd=cs

Did you ever wonder why google has got an add-on on its URL?

Well don't panic guys!!! Its not any virus or something. It might be just used to analyse the traffic. And don't doubt this "might be" statement because the URL add-on is explained here and you will agree with my statement.

Well this add-on "gws_rd=cr" is seen in your google from quite few days. So google url is www.google.co.in/?gws_rd=cr

gws - google web server

rd - getting redirected

cr - by country (other than US)

Google has not yet given any official statement regarding this. But it is sure that there is no need to panic about this mysterious URL add-on. No need to check your anti-virus. Happy browsing!!!

( Use Blackle instead of google and conserve energy)

IBM worklight

Came to know about IBM's WORK LIGHT. For the app designing freaks and all the interested guys over there.. this would be very helpful to you... This is a mobile application platform that will help you develop your applications in any of the three platforms.. You can directly work on WORK LIGHT or you can install plugins to your eclipse work space. Enjoy coding and developing.. :)

Prezi - a beautiful alternative for Power Point

I just got through a new service to make our presentations, rather i would say prezis.. Just sign up and find new and magical way of presentations. The animation of the presentations and the templates are rather interesting and impressive. The technical people who are interested in innovative things and who need a very good presentation will like this i guess.. ;)

so just take a look at www.prezi.com for this.. have good time making your prezis.. 

Links for all computer utility books

I just found a link of a pdf. And it has got link for almost all the programming language guides. Really of great use.

http://nilachakra.org/documents/books.pdf

SIM Categories

This may not be a computing thing but definitely related to tech. So, just took a look at what the hell is this 32k 64k sim.. and all.

They define the capacity of the sim. ofcourse not the memory.

All the categories of SIM have same memory and can save same number of contacts. This classification indicates its network detecting capacity. 64k sim can automatically detect a stronger network in your location. So if you are having a sim of a weak network, a 32k sim sticks to that network, but, the 64k detects and switches to the stronger one. So are the higher capacity sims.

The usual categories of SIM are 16k, 32k, 64k, 128k as of now.

Clear history automatically after closing your browser

Make your browser forget your history.. 

Make your browser clear all the history automatically when you close it.

For Chrome Browsers:

for chrome browsers i.e google chrome , torch there is an extension that you can add to your browser that is click&clean. This deletes the entire history when the browser is closed and also it provides many other options.. This tool is cool to use

You can get this in the link Click&Clean

Just add this to your toolbar

For Mozilla firefox:

Click firefox tab on top left corner. Goto options and select the options

In privacy tab, for the option "firefox will " select never remember history. Here you can have your custom settings also.

And your firefox browser will never remember the history

Challenge 2 : Peter and fare

Peter likes going by taxi. For him, it is not only the pleasure of a fast and comfortable ride, but also the opportunity to bargain with the driver over the fare. The bargaining between Peter and taxi drivers always follows the same scheme:
— To the airport! I pay 150 roubles.
— No, I won't take you for 150. Let's go for 1000.
— Are you crazy? I haven't got that much on me! Ok, let it be 200.
— Are you laughing? I agree to 900.
— Well, I'll give 250.
— Guy, do you know how much gas is? Pay 800 and off we go!
…
Such a dialog continues until they agree on the fare. Peter always increases his amount by the same number, and the taxi driver decreases it in the same way. The driver would not ask a sum that is less than that offered by Petr. In this case, he will agree with Peter's offer. Peter will act similarly.

Input

The single input line contains four integer numbers: the initial Peter's offer a, Peter's raise to his offer b, the initial fare required by the driver c, and the driver's reduction of his fare d; 1 ≤ a, b, c, d ≤ 10000.

Output

Output the amount of money that Peter will pay for the ride.

Sample Input

150 50 1000 100

Sample output:

450

Here is the code I've written for this challenge

click here

Challenge 1 : The star line

Write a program which takes 10 numbers 0 to 9(number may repeat any number of times) as input and display the * s where the no.of stars should be the frequency of the number in the list.

Sample Input: 1 1 2 3 1 2 1 5 7 9

Output:

          *

          *

          *        *

          *        *        *                 *                 *                 *

_        _        _        _        _        _        _        _        _        _

0        1        2        3        4        5        6        7        8        9

Here is the code I've written for the above challenge

click here

Change start up programs in windows OS

We might be very irritated with all the programs and applications that run automatically on system start up and fill your desktop with unwanted windows and alerts.
Get rid of those unwanted stuff by removing them from startup list. Here I can help it with windows operating system..

For Windows XP or Windows 7:

Goto start
In run type msconfig and run it
In that select the start up tab and make the changes required.

For Windows 8

You can follow the same process in windows 8 also OR
You can directly goto TASK MANAGER and in task manager start up tab will have all the programs listed that would run on system startup.

Just select the one you want to remove and click disable

These changes will apply when you restart your system and that is obvious..

NOTE: Take care that you are clear with what applications you want to disable. There may be applications of system requirement that run on system startup.

Make a home page on firefox and try blackle

I just now came to know that.. in firefox it is so simple to make a page your homepage.
Don't get confused or vexed with the traditional method.

Just drag the globe symbol on the left side of  URL to the home symbol on the right side of the same tab. Confirm the page. And it will be your home page.

And friends I suggest you to use BLACKLE which is a power efficient search engine by google.  A black screen is always power efficient. So blackle would be of better use and gives almost same results as google. GO GREEN !!!!!!

Alarm on your PC

We often use alarm or timer in our mobiles.. Why not use the same on our PC??

If I want to put an alert for some task or something do I need to have my mobile phone definitely with me??

We might be lazy to pick it up if it is a bit far from us.. and in fact i am one in them..  ;)

Well then we can have an alarm on our laptop or PC

We may have many apps for an alert on our system (well I don't know whether there are any), but I have tried one on my own.. Its good to have something, that we made, working for us, right?? So, I have been using this from quite few days.. 

You can download the source code and a music file which I set as ring tone for this application in the link I have given below.

To make look more convincing make a batch file for the program

Compile and run the source file.

Make sure that the music .wav file we use to set as alert tone is in the same folder in which the source and class files are present

now open notepad

Type the following code as it is making changes where mentioned
 @echo off

(the following steps are written assuming that the source file is alarm.java and it is in a folder named java in  F:\ drive)

F:

cd java

javac alarm.java

appletviewer alarm.java

exit

Save the file with name alarm and .bat extension

Create a shortcut for this batch file(.bat) on desktop

Go to properties of shortcut and in shortcut tab click on change icon

In the windows default icons you can see a symbol similar to a clock. You can choose that or you can browse for any icon (.ico) file in you system.

Now if you run this short cut, Directly the applet opens prompting for the alarm time.. 

DOWNLOAD THIS HERE:   AlarmApp

Secure certificate problem and media players problem solved at a single step

My laptop got repaired and was kept aside for almost one and a half month. I had my mother board and processor changed. When I turned on my laptop after such a longtime, the catalyst center stopped working.
Not even a single browser opened in secure mode. so couldn't open gmail or facebook or any other secure sites.
All the media players stopped working.

The solution I came across for catalyst center is the making the 'appdata' folder in C:\users\admin(if you have given a name it would be the name of subdirectory instead of admin) visible.
Malware will make the appdata folder hidden and so catalyst center can't access it. I've changed the properties.

The issue regarding the browsers, it showed a error message that secure certificate will not work until ______(some date).
I have just changed my system date to the date beyond the warning date and every issue was set.
The browsers started working fine.

And surprisingly my media players also starting working. I couldn't know how.  If you ever face this problem, try this as one of your troubleshooting methods.