RockMelt Browser

Be ready for new way to surf the internet. The latest browser RockMelt.com definitely will improve the web experiences for millions of surfer with new way of navigating the internet. The browser is built o the foundation that most peoples today are surfing the facebook, searching on google and microblogging on twitter. It is like all-in-one browser for facebook, google, twitter, etc.

In order to use the browser, u need to connect to your facebook account at RockMelt website. After that, they will email your invite in the next few days.

Windows LIVE Writer – Must Have for Blogger

As a regular writer to update your blog, i will recommend you to install the Windows LIVE Writer. This application come with many great features, including special inserting tools, whereby allow you to insert tables, images, videos easily. Another feature is offline control of your blog, means you can edit your post offline, then later only publish it online. The Writer also come together with spell checker, so now you should not have spelling error in your blog!

PS: This post was written using Windows LIVE Writer

You may follow below guide to setup your Windows LIVE Writer.

pic 1: start installing Windows LIVE Writer

pic 2: only tick on Writer, other options let it blank

pic 3: select the blog service that you’re using

pic 4: type the url of your blog & user name & password to login your blog

pic 5: installation in progress

pic 6: Edit mode to create/edit your post

pic 7: Preview mode to preview your post

pic 8: after you click the Publish button, above screen appear

Useful Microsoft Word Shortcut Keys

In order to speedup your daily jobs, you need to know some commonly used Microsoft Word shortcut keys, below is the list

Ctrl + A Select all contents of the page.
Ctrl + B Bold highlighted selection.
Ctrl + C Copy selected text.
Ctrl + X Cut selected text.
Ctrl + P Open the print window.
Ctrl + F Open find box.
Ctrl + I Italic highlighted selection.
Ctrl + K Insert link.
Ctrl + U Underline highlighted selection.
Ctrl + V Paste.
Ctrl + Y Redo the last action performed.
Ctrl + Z Undo last action.
Ctrl + L Aligns the line or selected text to the left of the screen.
Ctrl + E Aligns the line or selected text to the center of the screen.
Ctrl + R Aligns the line or selected text to the right of the screen.
Ctrl + M Indent the paragraph.

For a complete list of all the Microsoft Word shortcut keys, you can visit Microsoft's website.

HealthMap - Track Swine Flu H1N1

Lost track on news regarding swine flu H1N1? In fact you can have a clear overview of the cases around he world by using HealthMap. It is a Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP application using google map technology to provide users with a better visualisation of outbreak in different geographical areas. The map is not restricted to provide outbreak data for swine flu, but also for diseases like fever, dengue, avian influenza, hepatitis, etc.

AntiFreeze Your Windows

Sometimes our Windows will hang and become unresponsive. I believe we all encounter this problem before. If you are working on something really important and urgent, and the Windows hang, what do you do IF you did not save your work? Maybe you can try the Windows Task Manager, with the hope it can unfreeze the Windows. But most of the times, Windows Task Manager is not helping.



AntiFreeze offers you last recourse when you find your computer in a hung state. All you need to do when your computer hang, just press hotkeys (ALT+CTRL+WIN+HOME) and it will start the AntiFreeze Task Manager. You can kill some of the applications by pressing the 'End Process' button to unFreeze your Windows.

Currently AntiFreeze is free for non-commercial use only.

Update Your Driver Frequently

Remember when is the last time you update the drivers for your computer? Or you totally never update your drivers before since the day you bought the computer? Why updating driver is so important? Driver acts as a crucial element to rely information between hardware, software and Windows. Without a proper driver, some of your computer peripheral equipments may not function. Sometimes installed the wrong drivers may cause your computer to hang. (to unfreeze your Windows, read my post here)



The fast and easy way to update computer drivers is by using DriverCure. The software application will scan your computer, to determine which driver your hardware needed and update the latest version for you. But this is NOT free, it will cost you $9.95.

In order to save your $9.95, you can try the DriverCure InstantScan for free, then go to the vendor's site to manually update your driver with latest version.

Disable Read & Write to USB diskdrive/pendrive

In response to query from Bojovic based on my previous post Disable Write to USB Drive Harddisk & Pendrive



Below are steps to totally disable the use of USB harddrive and pendrive from your computer.
1) run the regedit
2) Navigate to the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR

3) then locate for name 'start', type 'REG_DWORD' and set the value to 4

note: if later you decide to allow the use of USB harddrive and pendrive, just set the 'REG_DWORD' value to 3.

How to Snoop into Google Security Cameras

Try below keywords in Google search for hacking into Google's security cameras.
1) inurl:"ViewerFrame?Mode=
2) intitle:Axis 2400 video server
3) inurl:/view.shtml
4) intitle:"Live View / - AXIS" | inurl:view/view.shtml^

After the search, open the search result in new web browser, then you can take control of the camera.
You can try below url:
1) http://125.206.34.118/cgi-bin/ViewerFrame?Mode=Motion&Resolution=640x480&Quality=Motion&Interval=10&Size=STD&PresetOperation=Move&Language=0

2) http://www.cherrytreeinn.com:8080/ViewerFrame?Mode=Motion&Language=0

3) http://24.39.100.161:82/ViewerFrame?Mode=Motion&Language=1

4) http://129.125.136.20/view/index.shtml

Enjoy!

Open Source Proxy Server

Do you know that you can setup your own proxy server on Google App Engine with GAppProxy for FREE. GAppProxy is written in Python and run on the Google App Engine. The greatest advantage of the application is you do not need a dedicated server and the speed is very fast.

Before begin, you must register a Google App Engine account and create an application as GAppProxy. Then go to http://code.google.com/p/gappproxy/downloads/list to download GAppProxy, run gui.exe, configure your web browser with HTTP proxy set to 127.0.0.1:8000. Now, you can access the internet via the proxy server.

Disable Write to USB drive Harddisk & Pendrive

Nowadays USB port & pendrive become very common. It creates security concern for large organizations that anyone can simply plug-in a pendrive or USB harddisk to steal the corporate data.

In fact there is a registry hack that can disable the read/write access to USB devices altogether. User cannot copy data to the USB disk storage, nor able to read any files and documents from the USB drive.



But, if you only want to disallow write access and allow read access, then there is another registry hack of WriteProtect in StorageDevicePolicies registry key that you can make use of. Just follow below few steps:
1) run the regedit
2) Navigate to the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control

3) Create a New Key named as StorageDevicePolicies

4) Highlight StorageDevicePolicies, and then create a New DWORD (32-bit) Value named as WriteProtect

5) Double click on WriteProtect, and set its value data to 1.

What is ChessTweets?

ChessTweets is the newest generation of correspondence chess. ChessTweets uses the Twitter API to send chess moves remotely to your opponent by using any of Twitter's versatile status update methods. With a Twitter account, play a quick game against a friend or start a correspondence game for free and without any registration required!


You need to be patient because it takes some times for the moves. Currently, moves in public games are tallied manually on a rough 24-hour basis. Once hit a critical mass, moves will be tallied by some automated time schedule, whether it be exactly once every 24 hours or after x valid move votes have been submitted.

Inactive private games are kept on ChessTweets for 10 days. If a game is inactive for longer than this period the game will be resolved in one of two ways:

• If the game has progressed less than 5 full turns (10 valid moves by both White and Black), the game will be deleted with no stat collection or elo rating changes.
• If the game has progressed more than 5 full turns (10 valid moves by both White and Black), the inactive player will be forced to resign, and the corresponding stat collection and elo rating changes will take place.

Retrieve Hotmail via Google Mail

Now, you no longer need to access hotmail account in order to view your email in hotmail. What you need to do is just perform a simple account setup in Google Mail to retrieve your hotmail emails.

Technically this can be done is due to hotmail now support POP3 partly & Gmail will download the hotmail emails using POP3.

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Pic 2

Follow steps below:
1) Click the Setting, then Account
2) click 'add a mail account you own' in the Get mail from other accounts column (ref: pic 1)
3) then enter your hotmail address
4) then set username=hotmail username, set POP Server=pop3.live.com, and set port=995, at last, select all the three checkbox below (ref: pic 2)

URL Redirection Services - FREE

Like other link shorteners, BurnURL will shorten your long url in the form of in the form of http://burnurl.com/xxxxxxx.

The service is useful when you have a long url and need to post it at twitter or facebook. Twitter only allow 140 characters for each tweet. After you 'burned' your url, it will generate a direct link (useful in twitter, facebook), html code (useful in myspace, personal website) and BBcode (useful in web forums).