December 26, 2009

Error in mshtml.dll for IE8 and Yahoo Messenger

Few days back in my computer yahoo messenger started to crash. I'm using the latest version that is of cause version 10 for yahoo messenger. I have reinstalled the program, but it didn't fix the problem. So, I have check the event viewer on the computer for more details about this problem. This is what I found on the log.



December 11, 2009

Unable to open drives by double clicking

Most of the time this is caused by a virus or malware. This type of viruses and malwares mostly spreading through a flash drive which you are taking everywhere. The problem is when you have removed the virus or malware using a virus remover or malware remover still you can't open drives by double clicking on them. This happens because the changes that happen to registry values not been set to normal by the virus or malware removing software. So we need to manually correct them.


November 12, 2009

How To Change the iPhone’s Root Password

If you have Jailbreak & Unlock your iPhone or iPod Touch you have a big security issue on the device. This haven't been revealed until a Dutch hacker gain access to an iPhone when it is jailbroken using the SSH service. No harm was done in the action and the users have to pay 5 euro's to get the instructions to remove the message that appears on their device. But later he cahnged his mind and setup a website to provide the instructions free for hacked users. On these days there is a worm called RickRoll pretty much doing the same thing. So, the best thing to do is change the default Root Passwords for your iPhone or iPod Touch.


November 8, 2009

Event ID 52 Hard Disk

On your Windows XP computer, Administrative tool section on the control panel might be a place you haven't checked for a long time. It contains some nice tools that you can track everything about your computer. It requires little bit of IT knowledge to handle those tools but you can always use a search engine for dig more about them.



November 4, 2009

Jailbreak & Unlock iPhone 3G - 3GS On New Baseband

If you have accidentally upgrade your iPhone 3G or 3GS in to new Firmware 3.1.2 with baseband 05.11.07 and if you want to Jailbreak & Unlock it Blackra1n now has the ability to do that. If you are reading my blog I have posted a article about Jailbreak with Blackra1n earlier. On that time Blackra1n was not supported for New Baseband. Blackra1n will work on Both PC and MAC and the steps to Jailbreak & Unlock the iPhone is very simple.



October 27, 2009

New Facebook Share Button

Sharing stuff on Facebook is nothing new to you. According to Facebook developers blog, Each week users share more than 2 billion pieces of content on Facebook. In order to do this most of the time users click share on Facebook button which found on many of the current websites. One of my old blog post explained why these sharing buttons are important to placed on your blog. Now speaking about share on Facebook buttons Facebook has just released a new Facebook Share Button which includes a live counter that tells you how many times an item has been shared.

October 24, 2009

Windows 7 Release

Windows 7 Release is an old news now since it happens on 22nd of October 2009. But the excitement to have a newer Microsoft Operating system is always very huge. With the bad feed back which they got for their previous Operating system "Windows Vista" Microsoft promise this will be the replacement for all those problems. But Apple (Other main competitor in Operating system industry) is not sure about this promise and decided to use this for their new commercial. But Windows 7 become the biggest pre-order item in the history of Amazon UK. After 8 long years since Microsoft has released Windows XP now Microsoft users have a solid operating system that can replace their Windows XP computers.

October 16, 2009

Can't see Google ads on blog or website

There are many possibilities which cause this problem. First of all you need to check that you have latest Java and flash player installed on your computer.

Download latest Java from here

Download latest flash player from here

Most of the time this will fix your problem. If this doesn't fix it there are few more things that you can try.


October 12, 2009

Jailbreak iPhone 3.1.2 Firmware with Blackra1n

On last Thursday (October 8th 2009) Apple releases their newest iPhone OS. So, it will bringing the current version of the OS to 3.1.2. Three bugs has been fixed with this update. If you like to know what are the updates that has been done on new iPhone OS please click here. Yesterday On the iPhone blog posted a news about releasing a jailbreak called blackra1n for this new Apple OS 3.1.2. This will only work in Windows operating systems and if you already have a unlocked iPhone 3G or 3GS don't use this on them. Do not upgrade to 3.1.2 using iTunes if you want to keep your iPhone unlocked.

October 7, 2009

Google Redesigned

Gmail introduced themes back in November 2008. If you still didn't use themes for Gmail please read this article about how to use Gmail themes. Google Redesigned is a CSS style which redesign Gmail interface. This will also dress up Google Calender and Google Reader. Google Redesigned is built for Mozilla based browsers (Firefox) and other browsers are not supported.

To install this on your computer First install Mozilla Firefox web browser if you don't have it already on your computer. Then click here to start installing it. You can also install it from Firefox add-on page.

October 5, 2009

Facebook and Games

People spent more than 6 billion minutes on Facebook each day. From 300 million+ active users, approximately 150 million users log on to Facebook at least once each day. (Source Facebook Statistics) Apart from basic Facebook activities like comments, photo upload, video sharing the best thing to keep you occupied on Facebook is Facebook Apps. Especially Facebook games. Multiplayer games like Farmville, Mafia Wars, Texas HoldEm Poker are on the top of the list.



In my country farming games like Farmville, Farm Town, Barn Buddy and Farm Pals are more popular and Facebook users spend most of their time on them. Normally girls don't like to play computer games but on Facebook it's a different story. There are lot of girls playing these online games.

Personally I'm not interested in Facebook games even I'm a PC gamer for long time. But for the people who love it here is the Facebook game page which contains all the Facebook games.

September 30, 2009

Free Virus, spyware & Malware protection from Microsoft

Recently Microsoft has released a free virus, spyware and malware protection utility called Microsoft Security Essentials. Microsoft claims that it will run quietly and efficiently in the background without interrupting your work. Automatic updates and real time protection will keep your computer more secure all the time. Microsoft Security Essentials will work on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. This is a very good freeware to try out if you like to use a Free Virus protection program.

Download your free copy of Microsoft Security Essentials from here.


September 28, 2009

NVIDIA Ion Powered Nettop Out For Sale

A nettop is a very small form factor, inexpensive, low-wattage desktop computer designed for basic tasks such as surfing the Internet, accessing web-based applications, document processing, and audio/video playback. But when it's equipped with Nvidia ION, which means GeForce 9400M GPU it can do many more things that does not include in the above standard definition. These NVIDIA Ion Powered nettop allows you to Watch 1080p HD movies, play DirectX 10 games at great frame rates, and enjoy all the 3D capabilities of Microsoft Windows Vista Premium. Click here to read more about NVIDIA Ion platform.

September 26, 2009

An Easy Way To Protect A Laptop In Public Places

There is an easy way of making your laptop safer while you're in a coffee shop, library or other public place. Chaining up your laptop to a table would be helpful to protect your laptop. However, if you do not want to carry a heavy duty laptop cable and lock, you can try free laptop alarm software. No metal cable and lock to buy and carry. The alarm software will emit a loud siren sound when your laptop is disconnected from a power outlet or a USB flash drive, which is fastened to a table. For example, when a thief snatched your laptop while you're in washroom or paying no attention to your laptop.

Click here to see how to arm the alarm.



The alarm software also offer other features that could prevent your sensitive information and your identity from being stolen such as destroying data on a stolen laptop, alerting laptop theft danger to a cell phone. The free laptop alarm software LAlarm is available at: www.lalarm.com/LaptopAlarm

September 25, 2009

iphone mms update in U.S.

For United States iPhone 3G and iphone 3GS users finally gets the Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) from AT&T. Multimedia Messaging Service(MMS) was a standard feature for most phones and networks for a long time. This feature will be enabled on Friday, September 25 Late morning, Pacific Time and the new carrier settings update enabling MMS should be live and ready to download through iTunes.




Look for newest updates on AT&T Facebook page.

September 20, 2009

How To Add Share On Facebook Button In To Your Blog

As I explained you on my previous post Facebook is the number one sharing site on this year. There is a big chance that your website or blog visitors want to share your website content or blog posts with their friends. Adding a Share On Facebook Button In To Your Blog or web site might be a good idea during this time. Most of the websites and blog templates comes with social networking tools now. But for those who don't have this buttons, here is a way to add Share On Facebook Button to your web site or blog.

September 18, 2009

How To Use Facebook To Increase Your Blog Traffic

With 250 million active users Facebook is the most popular site for sharing content for this year. Yes that's true. According to a blog post in Digital Inspiration Technology blog 29.4% of users used Facebook to share their content. Traditional emails are in the second place with 13.8% and twitter is in third place with 11.1% Today I'm going to explain how to post your blog posts automatically to your Facebook Profile. From that you'll have more readers coming to your blog across Facebook.


September 15, 2009

Intel Core i5 Processors and P55 Express Chipset

On this September Intel launched their new "Lynnfield" based Core i5 and i7 800 series processors, and the accompanying P55 Express chipset. The whole idea is to target mainstream computing segment in the market. In United states Core i5-750 processor price is floating around $200 which is more affordable comparing to Corei7. (Click here to shop for Core i5-750 processor) Speaking about the P55 express chipset, because the Core i5 and Core i7 800 series processors feature integrated memory controllers and 16 PCI Express 2.0 lanes, virtually all of the functionality previously integrated into a northbridge is now on the CPU. As such, the P55 Express is essentially a southbridge chip, linked directly to the processor.

September 13, 2009

Facebook Lite is Launched

Facebook lite is officially launched in US and India for testing. If you don't know what Facebook lite is it's the new simplified Facebook interface. Facebook lite offers you basic functionality such as making comments, accepting friend requests, writing on Walls, and viewing photos. This Lite version of Facebook will be super fast comapring to the current Facebook. (Read my old post about Facebook lite) I have tested it yesterday and I was able to log in using my existing facebook log in information. Click here to log in to Facebook Lite.




September 12, 2009

Monopoly City Streets Game Play

To day I have checked the Monopoly City Streets Game site and it was working. So, to take a look at it I have registered on the website. This game is based on Google maps and you can purchase streets where ever you want and you can build buildings on your streets. Remember, not all streets and countries included in to the game play but most of the countries exist. You'll start the game with 3,000,000 monopoly dollars. You will receive chance cards during the game play. You will earn from the rent you received from your properties and every day when you log in to Monopoly City Streets you'll get free 1 million monopoly dollars.








September 10, 2009

Google Wave Arrives This Month

On September 30th Google will start sending 100,000 invites for the early test of Google Wave. So, there is chance for more people to experience this personal communication and collaboration tool which was announced at the Google I/O conference on May 27, 2009. It can import Twitter, provide real-time chat, play back past conversations, and even allows for drag-and-drop file uploads. I'm so excited about Google Wave and hoping to use it soon.




This is how it's explained in Wikipedia.
"It is a web based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wiki, and social networking. It has a strong collaborative and real-time focus supported by extensions that can provide, for example, robust spelling/grammar checking, automated translation between 40 languages, and numerous other extensions."


In this small Video Google wave is explained very well.

September 9, 2009

Google Monopoly - City Streets

Google is taking over the whole word. Just to prove that now they are come up with a online version of classic popular board game called Monopoly. Yes that's true. The board game Monopoly is about to launch an online version with Google Maps. The release date set to September 9 (which is today) and still I was not able to view the teaser site.




According to the Monopoly City Streets Blog due to heavy traffic there website is down for the moment. But they are asking from us to be more patient and keep trying to log in to the website.
So, Quit farming on Facebook and try to register on Google Monopoly - City Streets website.

Fujitsu Esprimo Q1500


Fujitsu Esprimo Q1500 is the latest Mini PC from Fujitsu. If you see it from outside you will never belive it is a PC that can play HD video. But Fujitsu was able to fit mobile Core 2 Duo CPU, slot-loading Blu-ray drive, 4GB of memory and a 320GB hard drive in to this tiny PC. It has a HDMI out and it will play 720p video's in your big monitor or TV without any problem.



Starting price for this monster will be $998 (699 Euro) when it will release later this month.

For more Photo's and videos please click this link.

September 6, 2009

Remote Control Your PC From Anywhere


If you have a internet enable computer, using some free software you can remotely control it from anywhere in the world. You'll see its desktop and be able to use all the applications on your remote computer as if you were sitting in front of it. In this post I'm going to explain about how to use TeamViewer free service to remote control your PC from some where else.



September 5, 2009

Fixed nv4_disp stuck in an infinite loop problem

If you are reading this blog you may know that I have a problem on my computer. I'm getting a BSOD (Blue Screen Of Dead) saying "the device driver got stuck in an infinite loop" while loading the desktop icons. Earlier I have posted a tip to prevent this occurring again. (Read my previous post about nv4_disp stuck in an infinite loop from here) But unfortunately it didn't work for me too long. During last week i faced this problem over and over again. Since there was no correct solution anywhere I have to uninstalled the display drivers and use my computer for time being. It was so difficult.

I don't want to believe that my VGA card was damaged some how because without drivers it is working fine. But just to make sure it's condition I have decided to take a look at the inside of my computer. I have not open the case for many months and it's full of dust. So I have blow out the dust using a blower and then removed the VGA card from the mother board. I have checked the circuit board and every part of the card and couldn't find any problem. So I have clean it up also and fixed it back to the mother board. Then I have boot my system back and installed the drivers for the VGA card once again.



Wow ! This time it worked. Drivers installed without any problem and my desktop load after the restart without any problem. I'm using my computer for weeks now without any problem. So, here is my tip if you are having the same problem on a older computer. Please clean your computer, clean your VGA card, clean the slots then give it a try again. Let me know if that worked for you. Good Luck !

Clean up your computer with CCleaner

Every computer need a good cleanup at least every three months. Your computer will gather too much unwanted stuff that make it work slower over the time. Good cleanup program will remove those unwanted stuff from your computer with few clicks. You can use disk cleanup that comes with your windows operating system. But today we are going to talk about a freeware called CCleaner that do the same job much faster and cleaner.

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool.It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. CCleaner will clear the Temporary files, history, cookies on Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and safari web browsers. Also it cleans Recycle Bin, Recent Documents, Temporary files and Log files in windows.

August 28, 2009

Sony PlayStation 3 Slim

Sony has come back to the gaming console market with Sony PlayStation 3 Slim. Sony was left behind in the gaming console market with competitors like Wii and Xbox. But now Sony has come up with slimmer, lighter and compact newly designed PlayStation 3 which will available on 1 st of September 2009. Best thing is PS3 slim is more affordable than its previous models. The 120GB model is coming with a price tag of $299.



This will allow you to run all games in high definition. It has Blu-ray and DVD player, built in Wi-Fi, 120GB hard drive, HDMI output with 1080p support, no external power supply, built-in Web browser and free online gaming service. So now Sony is giving you the more options for less price. The new PlayStation 3 Slim Lacks backward support for PS2 games. So, you won't be able to play your old PS2 games in here. Other than that you have actual buttons to turn PlayStation 3 Slim on and off and to eject the CD's. Classic PlayStation 3 80GB model price is also cut down to $299 but I don't think any body will bother to buy it. Mean while Microsoft is slashing the price of its Xbox 360 Elite game machine from $399 to $299.


August 26, 2009

Nokia Booklet 3G

Nokia, the world famous mobile phone manufacturing company announced their first mini laptop called Nokia Booklet 3G. It's a very nice looking 10.1 inch netbook. comparing to the other netbooks Nokia Booklet 3G comes with many connectivity options including integrated 3G, a swappable SIM card, A-GPS, Bluetooth and WiFi. On 2nd of September Nokia will officially announce the price for this netbook but, some websites announcing that it will cost $799



Apart from that Nokia Booklet 3G will run on 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z530 processor and has a 120GB hard drive. This will have 12 hours of battery life. When considering that this is a netbook, is shocking but if it comes with Windows 7 Home Premium.

August 20, 2009

Which Twitter Applications Are You Using ?

I'm using twitter for some time and it is a great tool to gather new information. I'm not usually tweet personal things on to my twitter account but many do. I'm using twitter to spread the news about my technology blog to fellow twitter users. The Basic idea is to send all my new posts which I put on my blog to twitter. For some twitter is a great tool to get visitors to their sites. Normally Twitter is web based tool that you can type 140 characters. But using few web base applications we can do many things with twitter. Here are few twitter applications that I'm using. How many of them are you using ?


August 16, 2009

Facebook Lite

Facebook Lite is the new simplified Facebook interface that they are testing these days. This lite version offers you only basic functionality such as making comments, accepting friend requests, writing on walls, and viewing photos. This Lite version of Facebook will be super fast comparing to the current Facebook. Because still they are testing it not everybody is allow to use it. Only few of the selected people got the invitation to use it. Now back to our story, This simplified interface will help most users to interact with it more quickly and save some time for their other works. Most of people are addicted to Facebook applications and spend hours of their time on them. This makes current Facebook website to function slower. Because it is slower more people attracted to Twitter. Which gives you similar service. So my guess is Facebook is trying to be simple and faster like twitter. Here is the Facebook Lite interface.

Update :
Facebook lite is now available as an app for Android & Apple users officially.

August 15, 2009

What Is the best Netbook to buy

Netbooks are small portable computing device, similar to a notebook, and are great for surfing the Web and checking e-mail. If you are a business man, traveler or may be a student who love to stay connected with the internet and do your work on the go Netbook is the most preferred way to do that. Netbooks are designed to be light and to give long battery life. Because of this typical Netbook contains Intel Atom processor, 1 GB of RAM, 10" screen and 80-160 GB Hard Drive, Ethernet port, Wireless card (some times Bluetooth and 3G) and some USB and VGA ports. But the price tag stays under $500 so, way more cheaper than a standard notebook.

Here I'm displaying some of the best Netbooks reviewed on the web.

ASUS EEE PC 1000HE ($399)



Asus Eee PC is still in the lead on the Netbook market. This Netbook contains 92% size keyboard and a 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD, 1.3MP webcam, 10.1" display, Wi-Fi b/g/n and Bluetooth for connectivity, and weighs in at 3.2 pounds. You can expect at least 6 hours of battery life on this Netbook.


Acer Aspire One ($349)



This Netbook contains 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, 10.1" display, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD, WiFi b/g, SD/MMC card reader, and a weight of 2.95 pounds. The Aspire can be upgraded to access WiMAX and 3G networks. The down point on this Netbook is its 0.3 MP webcam. The 6 cell battery on this Netbook can hold this up to 5 hours.


MSI Wind ($329)



The MSI Wind has a 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, 10.1" display, 1 GB RAM, 160 HDD, WiFi b/g, Bluetooth, 4-in-1 card reader, 1.3 MP webcam and weighs in at 3.2 pounds.
The included Face Locker software allows you to program your face into the computer, so whenever you're not sitting in front of the computer, it will automatically lock itself and go into power saver mode.


Samsung NC10 ($399)



NC10 comes with a 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, 1GB of RAM, 160GB HDD, WiFi b/g, bluetooth, a 1.3MP webcam and weighs in at 2.8 pounds.It packs three USB ports, an SD card reader, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The keyboard is 93% the size of a standard laptop keyboard and has silver particles embedded into the keys to make them anti-bacterial. The touch pad has a dedicated section for scrolling and it might make your internet browsing much easier.


August 12, 2009

Google Voice

For my point of view Google Voice is great free service that we all should have. It's still on Beta testing and you can only get it by an invitation. Google voice is basically phone redirecting service. You'll have a Google phone number and all your other phone numbers are associated with it. You can decide which phone should ring according to who's calling. It can be your home phone, Office phone or your cell phone. You also get standard features like call forwarding, Voice mail, SMS and call conferencing with Google Voice. Best thing is if you change your cell phone number, Office phone number or may be your home phone number you just have to change it within the program, So you don't have to bother to send the news to everybody that you have changed your number. Your Google number will remain same no matter what.



If you interested on it click here to see how Google Voice works with your phones.

Click here to find out what's new on Google Voice.

If you are lucky enough to have a Google Voice account click here to log in to your account.


August 11, 2009

PC To Phone Free Internet Phone Calls

With the growing use of the internet, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)is heavily used for voice communication. If you don't know what VoIP is I bet you know about Skype. Skype uses VoIP technology to provide PC to PC free calls and cheaper calls to land lines and cell phones. There are lot of software that will allow you to make PC to PC free calls. For example you can use Skype, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk or Windows Live Messenger. But on this post I'm going to explain how to make free phone calls to regular land phone lines using your internet enable PC.


August 9, 2009

Windows 7 Release To Manufacturing

Microsoft announced that you'll be able to get the final shipping product for Microsoft Windows 7 on October 22, 2009. If you need to try it before you buy it, still there is a chance. You can still download the Release Candidate (RC) but you can only download it until August 20, 2009. Like to know more about Windows 7 release candidate ? Click here to go to my older post about Windows 7 Release Candidate. If you have access to MSDN or TechNet Plus subscription Windows 7 RTM is available for you to download. Currently only the English version is available to download.




According to the Windows 7 Team Blog On October 1st, the remaining languages will be released. You can download Windows 7 Starter, Windows 7 Home Basic, Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Enterprise or Windows 7 Ultimate both 64 bit (X64) and 32 bit (X86) editions from there. So, even this time they made 6 editions to make it difficult to choose one as same as they done with Windows Vista release earlier.

For more information,

Visit Microsoft Windows 7 Official website from here

For a cool Tour in Windows 7 click here


OpenID

What is an OpenID ?

Open ID is an open standard which can be use to log in to different services on the web using a single digital identity. With this technology you don’t have to memorize each and every user name and password you used to log in to your favorite online services. This may reduce the frustration on users caused by forgotten usernames and passwords and it may simplify the overall web experience. It is estimated that there are over one billion OpenID enabled user accounts with over 40,000 websites supporting OpenID for sign in.

August 6, 2009

Terminal Server Printer Redirection Wizard Tool

If you are not sure what is Terminal Server Printer Redirection is let me explain it to you. If you ever logged in to your working place terminal server to worked from you home computer or may be from your laptop? Most of the time you'll use the remote desktop tool in order to connect to the terminal server. Did you able to print something from the server to your personal printer at your home or wherever you are ? Most of the time you can't. Printer redirection help you to achieve this task. But you may need assistance from your system administrator. Because you need to install the printer drivers on the server first. If it is not printing after that you may want to use this tool on your terminal server. I'm highly recommending this tool for system administrators out there who's facing these types of printing problems.

August 2, 2009

Related Posts For Blogger Using LinkWithin

Displaying related posts near to the main stories are very common among professional Blogs. It will attract your readers to dig more in to your blog to read similar stories. More digs means more page views. I'm pretty sure that you all love it. You will be able to find these widgets on some of the blogger templates. But LinkWithin related post widget is way more different than the others.

LinkWithin related post widget retrieve and index all stories from your blog archive, not just recent stories, then display them under each post with photo thumbnails. It's really easy to implement on your current blog and it does not requires any sign-ups. This widget is minimally styled (Black or white is the only options available) and blends in with your site design.



How to place this widget on your blog

You need to visit LinkWithin website to grab this widget. Fill the information on right hand side of the page and click the Get Widget button. It supports few main blogging platforms including blogger.

If you are using a simple blogger template just Install Widget button. It will automatically placed under blog posts. If not go to the blogger dashboard click the layout button and you can move the newly added HTML / Java Script box.



If you are a advance user select other from the platform drop down. This will show you the Java Script code and you can copy paste it where ever you like.


July 31, 2009

How To Protect Your Wireless Network

People more likely to have wireless devices rather than wired devices. Because of that more wireless devices coming out to the market everyday. Setting up a wireless device or wireless network will be more easier than setting up a regular wired network. Most people know how to setup a simple wireless network. But they don't know how to protect it from unauthorized users. Because of this your internet connection and your shared data on computer might be a easy target for others.

July 25, 2009

nv4_disp stuck in an infinite loop

I'm using a old GeForce 6200 AGP video card on my computer. I'm using latest drivers downloaded from NVIDIA website. Couple of weeks back I got a BSOD (Blue Screen Of Dead) saying "the device driver got stuck in an infinite loop" while loading the desktop icons. It didn't go away no matter what I did. I have tried to look for a answer to fix it from the web but none of them helped me to solve it. So I decided to do it by my own.

July 24, 2009

How To Unlock iPhone 3GS

You all may know by now the newest Apple smart phone Apple iPhone 3GS only supported by few mobile networks. If you are in US you have to use AT&T. So It's limited to certain mobile networks. For all other users it will be impossible to use a iPhone 3GS on other GSM networks until now. Thanks to iPhone Dev Team now we have a method for unlocking iPhone 3GS for all GSM networks.

Here is the instructions on how to proceed with iPhone 3GS jailbreak & unlock. You have to download few files from internet so obviously you should have some sort of a internet connection. Also to unlock the phone you need to download a file using your iPhone 3GS. Because your current Sim is not working with your iPhone 3GS (is the main reason why we are unlocking the phone)the only option is to use the Wifi. So make sure you are closer to a wifi source.

1. If you are a MAC user download Redsn0w from here

2. If you are a Windows user download Redsn0w from here

3. Download iPhone 3GS firmware IPSW for MAC from here

4. Download iphone 3GS firmware IPSW for Windows from here

To explain you how to do it I thought to add this video. It should be more interesting than reading.

After jailbreaking, to unlock the iPhone, add repo666.ultrasn0w.com to sources in cydia. Go into changes and install ultrasn0w. Insert GSM SIM and enjoy.



For more information visit dev team blog from here.

To know more about Cydia application click here

July 19, 2009

How To Manage Photos Uploaded to Blogger

As a Google Blogger you may already uploaded hundreds of photos to your blogs. Did you ever imagine that you can see all of those pictures you have uploaded in one place ? or may be to delete some of the photos that you are not using anymore on your blog ? Picasa web albums from Google will hold all those pictures for you. You can manage all your uploaded photos from there.

You can sign in to it using your Google Account. Once you get in you can see all of your photos uploaded to your blogger blogs. Photos uploaded to your blogs are contained in different folders according to the number of blogs you have. The folder name will be your blog name. If you delete an image from the Blogger album here, the image will be removed from your Blogger blog as well, so please delete images with care!


July 18, 2009

Common Errors When Converting a Windows File System

I have posted a article about Convert Windows File System to NTFS on this blog some time ago. To day in this post I'm going to discuss few of the error messages that you might get in the process of converting your drives in to NTFS.

Error 1 - "Access denied as you do not have sufficient privileges. you have to invoke this utility running in elevated mode"

Resolution - You might get this error especially if you are using Windows Vista.

Go to Start Menu -> All Programs -> Accessories - then click right mouse button on command prompt and get the menu.

You'll get "Run As" as the second option.

Then Select the option "The following user" -> Select Administrator -> Type the password if you have one or leave it blank if not.

It will run the command prompt as the administrator.


Error 2 - "Enter current volume label for drive"

Resolution - You can find the Volume label just before the drive letter on My computer window. If it's saying "Local Disk" you can leave volume label empty. If it has anything else showed up in there you need to type exact same thin under the volume label.


Error 3 - "This drive is dirty and cannot be converted.you will need to clear the dirty bit on this drive by running CHKDSK/f or allowing AUTOCHK to run on it the next time you reboot."

Resolution - Right click on your drive and select properties -> Go to tools tab -> Under the error checking section click the "check now" button. Most of the time it will say "disk check will run on next time you boot the computer". Restart the computer. Leave the disk check run while the boot up. Let it scan and fix your drive.

July 12, 2009

How To Synchronize With Yahoo Autosync

Yahoo Autosync synchronizes the information you store in Yahoo Address Book, Calendar, ToDo List, and Notepad with your Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, or Palm Desktop. Yahoo Autosync compares your Yahoo data to the data in your application and makes whatever changes are necessary in either system to make sure that they both contain the same data. That way, when you add or delete something in one system and not the other, Yahoo! Autosync adds or deletes it in the system that needs updating.

July 8, 2009

Watch Michael Jackson Funeral Live Online

The historic funeral service will take place at 10:00 a.m. P.S.T on Tuesday, July 7th although there will likely be plenty going on running up to the service, and long into the night afterwards.

The iconic musician and legendary dance is to be buried at the Forest Lawn Cemeter, about 13 miles away from the public memorial at the Staples Center. He will be buried in a $25,000 Promethean, a solid bronze and gold-plated casket. The coffin will feature a blue velvet interior and a hand-polished, mirror finish. The coffin is based on the same casket used to bury James Brown.

Watch live broad cast using following links. Some links are serving only to some parts of the world.

CNN - Watch here

CBS - Watch here

Justin.TV - Watch here

USA Today - Watch here

BBC - Watch here


July 7, 2009

Spyware, Malware and adware removing solutions

Spyware, Malware or Adware infections are very common in these days. Especially if you are browsing internet, visiting porn and illegal software websites. Spyware infections are very common with nowise users and internet beginners that used to click every thing and anything that they see on the screen. Removing these infections are little bit difficult sometimes. Earlier I have posted a article about best spyware removal software. You can try one of those if you have spayware, Malware or Adware problem in your computer. To day I'm not going to talk about spyware removing tools. This article is about a website that provide you information about how to remove these infections from your computer.




This web site is called remove-malware.net and it contains hundreds of instructions to remove Spyware, Malware and Adware. I'm using this site more often to get help to remove infections off from my customers computers and I honestly think this will help you to resolve many of your problems. Some times you have to have some sort of advanced knowledge to perform the instructions given on this website. But, you can safely do that if you read them carefully and follow the instructions step by step. For most users I'm recommending to use a some sort of a spyware removing tool to clean their computers. If you are a advanced computer user this might be the best site if your on to spyware, Malware or Adware problems.

July 4, 2009

Most Powerful 17 Inch Gaming Notebook in the Universe

Packed with two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M graphic cards the new Alienware M17x is the most powerful 17 inch notebook in the universe. But you won't get this setup for the $1,799 starting price of this notebook which I think is too much. But, with it's nice look and performance it will be a great gaming notebook.

For the $1,799 base model you'll get a M17x notebook with Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 2.4GHz(3MB Cache, 1066MHz FSB) processor, Single NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M, 1GB graphic card, 4GB Dual Channel DDR3 RAMS at 1066MHz memory clock, 250GB 7,200RPM Hard drive, Slot-Load Dual Layer DVD Burner and with Windows Vista Home Premium (64 bit)



Alienware laptops usually comes with there unique software. With the use of Alienware Command Center you can customize the lighting on your notebook and AlienFusion allows you to manage power consumption of the notebook. This is equipped with AlienSense technology that identifies numerous distinguishing features of your face through its web cam and verify biometric measurements in the notebook.



If you wish to learn more about this system or customize it to your specifications please visit this website.

Firefox 3.5 and Its Features

Mozilla Firefox, the famous web browser released its latest version on 30th of June 2009. It's the version 3.5 so, they have jumped from 3.0.11 to 3.5 They have made it to work super fast and it has many new features. Lot of older features are also tweaked in the newer version.



The new Java script engine called as TraceMonkey is letting this browser to perform faster. They have added private browsing feature in Firefox 3.5 so you can browse the
web without leaving any trace. It supports HTML 5 also. New location awareness feature lets you to get more relevant results in your web search. Everybody love the address bar in Firefox which calls awesome bar now finds site for you much better. With its customizable features, add-ons and productivity features like spell checking (Which I love most), Download manager and session restore this browser will be the ultimate web browser of the future.

If you are a existing Firefox user you can update your browser by going in to Help menu and selecting the option called Check for updates or else you can visit Mozilla Firefox website and download it for free.




June 20, 2009

Windows Installer CleanUp Utility

While you are working on your computer, did you ever failed to install a program? And then when you try to install it for the second time was it keep failing every time. May be you have some programs on your computer that can’t be removed. This problem may occurred if you have corrupted installation files for those programs which you are trying to uninstall.

June 19, 2009

iPhone OS 3.0

The newest Apple iPhone OS the version 3.0 is released on 17th of June 2009. Finally long awaited cut, copy and paste functions are now included in to the latest iPhone OS release. Besides that cool function, it now has Landscape keyboard mode, MMS, Spotlight search feature, Voice memos and improved calendar. Also they have added improvements to their safari web browser and now you’ll have stereo Bluetooth, automatic Wi-Fi login, Sync notes, Parental controls, YouTube login, New Languages and another cool feature called shake to shuffle. What this does is you can give a shake to your iPhone and it shuffles to a different song in your music library.

So this is how you can upgrade your existing iPhone OS to the current OS version 3.0 (Click on the picture to make it bigger)



You have to use iTunes 8 to do this update. You can download iTunes 8 from here.



For my point of view Apple iPhone is a remarkable gadget that you should have. With its touch features it will be fun and easy to use in your day to day life. Currently you have two models that you can choose as your iPhone. They are iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS. They have some differences basically from the capacity and the camera.

iPhone 3G comes in 8GB capacity and with a 2 megapixels camera. But the iPhone 3GS comes with 16GB or 32GB in capacity and with a 3 megapixels camera. Click here to get more information about the iPhones models available today.

To get a closer look at the iPhone 3GS click here

June 12, 2009

Facebook User Names

Facebook is about to allow their users to have their names as a part of the URL which contains their profiles or pages. So it will replace the weird numbers and letters that are on your current facebook profile or facebook page URL. The whole idea of this is to have a easy to remember way to find you on facebook. You will be able to use this facebook usernames even on popular search engines to find your friends easily.




Starting at 12:01 a.m. EDT on Saturday, June 13, you'll be able to choose a username on a first-come, first-serve basis for your profile and the Facebook Pages that you administer. You'll also see a notice on your home page with instructions for obtaining your username at that time.

Your Facebook username must meet these criteria

  • You can only choose a single username for your profile and for each of the Pages that you administer.
  • Your username must be at least five characters in length and only include alphanumeric characters (A-Z, 0-9), or a period or full stop (".")

Once it's been selected, you won't be able to change or transfer it. So be carefull.

Click here to set your Facebook vanity URL (Your new facebook profile URL)

June 9, 2009

ICC World Twenty20 2009

The 2009 ICC World Twenty20 is a Twenty20 cricket tournament taking place in England in June 2009. It is the second ICC World Twenty20 tournament, following the inaugural event in South Africa in September 2007. As before, the tournament features 12 teams - the Test-playing nations and three qualifiers.

If you wish to watch these cricket matches live through the internet read rest of the post.




Click on the one of these links to view the live streaming. If the streaming got stopped please refresh the screen or try an other link. I have also embedded one of the streaming links directly to this post. Enjoy !

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June 4, 2009

Can't Open My Blog On Internet Explorer

For Past month I have faced some problems with my technology blog to get it open on the Internet explorer web browser. When I tried to open it using Internet explorer it gave me an "Operation Aborted" error. I couldn't open it. But I was able to open my other blog in the internet explorer without any problem and also for other web browsers like Firefox or chrome don’t seem to have this problem. Because this is becoming a frustration for my readers who uses internet explorer as their web browser I decided to search about it.

I have read many web sites and blogs and finally found some answers for it. This problem mainly caused by Followers Gadget or may be because of a third party Java Script. For my case it was the Followers gadget.

Since this issue was not fixed yet the only option is to remove the Followers gadget from your blog and if it didn't solve the problem try to remove other third party Java scripts you added to your blog.

I know this is not an easy thing to do. Removing certain things might impact the appearance of your blog badly. But for the time been this is our only hope. If you really wish to keep the Followers gadget try to put it in as low as possible position on your side bars. It fixed the problem for my other blog. I'm trying to do the same on this blog also.

You can find more information about this problem and any other problems you have with Blogger from this blog

June 1, 2009

Google Chrome 2

If you are tired with your current web browsers, Try newly released Google Chrome version 2. It's been a beta test for this since March and now they have released the final version of it. It's super fast and stable also they have fixed lot of problems that came with the first release. From the speed it's only one step behind on Apple Safari web browser. That means it has beaten the Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

So, How to install it on your computer ? Probably you are having a older version of Chrome running on your computer. If you have it open the browser and go to tools button on the browser then press About Google Chrome option. It will open up a window and in there down at the bottom you'll find a update now button. If you are new to Google Chrome please go to this website and download it to your computer. Follow this video if you have difficulties following my steps.


Is it time to upgrade your PC ?

Computer technology is changing very quickly. New Hardware parts releasing very fast and even the Software is also changing very fast. So if you want to keep up with the phase you need to upgrade your computer more often. But if you are on a very tight budget this is not possible. But if you like to play newer computer games and like to use newer versions of software you'll definitely have to have a good hardware on your computer. Because not everyone is good at computer hardware knowledge they usually buy a new one. For my point of view this is wasting money. But in some cases you have to throw away your PC and have to buy an new one. For example, I'm still using a old Pentium 4 computer with DDR1 Rams and AGP Video card. So in my case there will be no upgrade. I have to buy or assemble (Which I always do) a new one because the technology changed so much that i can't use my old parts anymore. So, how will you decide when to upgrade your PC ?

If you are not in to Gaming or any other computer related professional work actually there is a very less chance that you want to upgrade your existing PC. If you are using it to surf the internet, listening to music or to word processing surely you want have to upgrade it. But one disadvantage of using a older system is if you want to replace a hardware part on it it will be really difficult or may be the price for that part may be too high.

May 22, 2009

The Royal Wii

The Nintendo Wii has positioned itself as the gaming console for everybody. As it turns out, that includes the Queen of England. Recently Famous game company THQ gave a special version of Wii for Queen as a gift. What makes the Queen's "Royal Wii" different? It's gold-plated, no more white plastic for Buckingham Palace. There was a rumor that she was "addicted" to playing Prince William's Wii last Christmas. Now she'll have one of her own a gold plated Wii.



According to the VG Chartz web site here are the gaming console sales. As you can see Wii is still in the lead. For me, I'm still using my PC for gaming.