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It happens quite a lot of time that you listen a good song on Internet and you want to download it and save it into your mobile. But downloading it and then send it to the Mobile phone using data cable or with some other media is a lengthy and tedious service to do. But Now….

You can now easily send any mp3 file to your mobile phone with just the click of a button with the Load2Mobile using Firefox or Internet Explore.

Just you have to registered to the site from here

Then add some song into your Locker, it may be from any website or from your computer.

Then uploading will continue…

Now if you want to listen this song online then you can do with available option on your mobile and if you want to send this file to your Mobile phone then select send this file. The following screen will be there….

When you provide your number it will make a process and show you the screen saying Song Sent Successfully.

That’s it.

Microsoft Released Live Search Maps for India on 03-11-2008.

Microsoft Live Search Maps for India, offers users access to detailed listings and street maps for 9 Cities, business listings across 29 Cities and access to highway networks to 20,000 cities and towns. Live Search Maps for India is on Microsoft’s Live Search Service, thereby allowing users to search for geographical information, places of general interest and business listings both on the PC and Mobile at

http://maps.live.co.in and

http://m.live.co.in.

Microsoft provided the facility to search the destination according to two option as…

1. By Location

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2. By Business

This is the first version of its local mapping service for India with the key features developed by the Microsoft India Development Centre (MSIDC) based in Hyderabad.

Microsoft have updated their Office Accounting application to version 2008 and it comes in both Professional “paid for” and an Express “free” version.

If you run a small business with international clients, you might want to shell out a few bucks for the professional accounting package with support for things like multiple currencies and multiuser access. But if you’re self employed and are just looking for a way to manage accounts, track invoices and bill payment, and a few other basic business features, the free version looks pretty nice.

Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2008 is a free, easy-to-use accounting software that works with our existing Office suite of applications which helps us to manage our small and home-based businesses.

You can get your task started in minutes with the help of a step by step interview wizard. You can create invoices, track time and expenses and bank online, plus share it with other Microsoft Office system programs.

You can easily import your data from Microsoft Money, Office Excel etc as earlier to start working from right where you left. You won’t even have any difficulty finding features and tools since most of them are very similar to Microsoft Office.

This free version of Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2008 is designed for US and UK based small businesses only and does not support local requirements outside of these two countries.

It works with Windows XP/2003 and Server/Vista and the setup file is of 225MB. You can…..

Download from here

Windows XP has services that make it possible for other people to access your computer remotely.But if your PC is not part of a network, it’s best to turn them off. Here’s how:

1. Go to Start – Settings – Control Panel
2. Double-click the System icon
3. Select the Remote tab
4. Uncheck Allow Remote Assistance invitations to be sent from this computer
5. In the same tab click Advanced
6. Uncheck Allow users to connect remotely to this computer
7. Click Apply, then click OK

That’s it.

It sometimes happens to the user that he want to user his desired picture to be displayed at the thumbnail of the folder for may be for his remembering function, or for some other reason.

In Windows Explorer window, when files and folders are listed in Extra Large Icons, Large Icons, Medium Icons and Tiles view, Windows Vista/XP can show a preview thumbnail on the icons of folders itself using content inside the folders, normally image and photo or file type icon if there is no graphic file inside the folder.

The thumbnail preview picture on folder’s icon listing in Windows Explorer window allows user to have a quick yet comprehensive glance about the file contents that may contains inside the folders. However, sometimes, the thumbnail preview image is not the one that user wants. In this case, user can customize or self define a picture to be used, placed and showed on the folder icon.

1. In Windows Explorer, at folder parent level, right click on the folder that want to change its preview image on folder icon, and then select Properties.
2. Click on Customize tab.
3. Under Folder pictures section, click on Choose File button.
4. In “Browse” dialog box appears, select an image file to represent the folder and to show on the folder icon when viewing directory listing in supported views, and click Open.
5. The selected picture will be used as thumbnail preview image on folder icon with immediate effect.
6. Remove the user-set folder picture, click on Restore Default button instead.

[Via: mydigitallife]

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical naming system for computers, services, or any resource participating in the Internet. It associates various information with domain names assigned to such participants. Most importantly, it translates humanly meaningful domain names to the numerical (binary) identifiers associated with networking equipment for the purpose of locating and addressing these devices world-wide.

Many times there comes a error while debugging or developing web-sites that “Unable to resolve” - DNS requests. This can be very unpleasant. As long as that failed entry is in your DNS cache, your box will continue to give you a “Unable to resolve” error. For that you have to clear your DNS cache. For that do the following…

• Got to Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt.
• If you are not logged in as Administrator than Right click on Command Prompt and ‘Run As Administrator‘.
• Type the following and hit enter:
  ipconfig /flushdns
• You should be able to see a confirmation dialog window:Windows IP Configuration.
  Successfully flushed the DNS Resolver Cache.

That’s all you have to do.

If you have an application that is hanging or crashing, or a system that is misbehaving due to hangs, high CPU, severe slowness, etc, you may be asked to create a memory dump - perhaps of the application that is believed to be having issues, or of the entire system if the computer is misbehaving (or of both an application and the whole system!). This post is meant as an instruction manual on how to gather data if you are going to post for help on resolving one of these types of problems.

The first three things to do, before doing ANYTHING else below:

1. Download and install the “Debugging Tools for Windows” for your Windows platform:
- x86 version.
- x64 or Itanium (64bit)

2. Create a directory called c:\websymbols

3. Create a SYSTEM environment variable as follows - you can do this from Control Panel > System > Advanced tab > Environment Variables button > System variables > New… button:

Variable Name: _NT_SYMBOL_PATH
Variable Value: SRV*c:\websymbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols;c:\websymbols

Once you’ve done the above, here are instructions on how to create the appropriate dump if you are so asked:

Memory dump from an application/process that is HANGING (not crashing):

1. Create a directory called c:\adplus

2. Open a command prompt and change to the directory where you installed the debugging tools. By default, this is “C:\Program Files\Debugging Tools for Windows”

3. Type the following command in the command prompt:
cscript adplus.vbs -hang -pn appname -o c:\adplus (where “appname” is the .exe name of the application that is hanging)

4. Once the debugger has finished (this can take some time), the command prompt window(s) will close, and you will have data in your C:\adplus folder that can be analyzed.

Memory dump from an application/process that is CRASHING (not hanging):

1. Create a directory called c:\adplus

2. Open a command prompt and change to the directory where you installed the debugging tools. By default, this is “C:\Program Files\Debugging Tools for Windows”

3. Type the following command in the command prompt:
cscript adplus.vbs -crash -pn appname -o c:\adplus (where “appname” is the .exe name of the application that is crashing)

4. Once the debugger has finished (this can take some time), the command prompt window(s) will close, and you will have data in your C:\adplus folder that can be analyzed.

Memory dump of the entire system:

1. Create or set the following registry value:
Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt\Parameters
Value: CrashOnCtrlScroll
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 1

2. Right-Click on the “My Computer” icon on the desktop and select “Properties”, then click the “Advanced tab. On the “Advanced” tab, click “Settings” under the “Performance” header. Click the “Advanced” tab, then click “Change” under “Virtual Memory”. Set the pagefile to be located on the partition where the OS is installed, and set it to be equal to Physical RAM + 50 MB.

3. Also in the “System Properties” window on the “Advanced” tab, click the “Settings” buttun under the “Startup and Recovery” header. Make sure “Complete Memory Dump” is selected (see 3a if this is not in the list). You can change the location of the memory dump file to a different local partition if you do not have enough room on the partition where the OS is installed.

3a. If the “Complete Memory Dump” option in step 3 is not available, you will need to manually set this registry value:

Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl
Value: CrashDumpEnabled
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1

4. You will need to reboot for these changes to take effect.

5. The next time that the system is exhibiting the problem you were asked to dump the machine for, hold down the RIGHT CTRL key and press the SCROLL LOCK key twice to cause the machine to bugcheck and create a memory dump. After the box comes back up, you’ll find the resulting memory dump file in %systemroot%\memory.dmp that can be analyzed.

To get to Folder Options go
Start < Control Panel < Folder Options

In the General tab there are three sections, “Tasks”, “Browse Folders”, and “Click items as follows”.
Under “Tasks” chose “Use Windows classic folders” to remove the side panel of common tasks that are not use are needed, the choice it yours, but that is what I recommend. Under “Browse folders” chose “Open each folder in the same window” to stop too many explorer windows opening. Under “Click items as follows” select “Double-click to open an item (single-click to select)’ to keep the normal double click an icon to open a program, this stops accedence.

In the View tab there are two sections “Folder views” and “Advanced settings.”
Under “Folder views” you can set the courent folder view (details, list, icons, tiles, thumbnails) if you press “Apply to All Folders”. You can also restore the default settings if you press “Reset All Folders”

Under “Advanced Settings” I tick / select

• Do not show files and folders <–This is under hidden Files and folders, this prevents files that have been set to hidden form showing. This is best because they have been hidden for a reason.
• Hide protected operating system files (recommended) <– You don’t need to see these files.
• Remember each folder’s view settings <–This mean if I set a folders view (details, list, icons, tiles, thumbnails) it will be the same next time I come back to that folder
• Show Control Panel in My Computer <–Just another way to get to the control panel.
• Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color. <–Means I know if some thing is encrypted because it is green or compress because it is blue.

Things I don’t tick / select

• Automatically search for network folders and printers <–This is what adds to the list of shared folders in My Network Places < Entire Network < Microsoft Windows Network I don’t like it doing so, and this adds to network traffic.
• Display file size information in folder tips <–This is a matter of personal preference, if you look at folder tips tick it.
• Display simple folder view in Explorer’s Folder list<–Dose not seam to do anything.
• Display the contents of system folders<–Unless you know what you are doing you should not be looking in system folders.
• Display the full path in the address bar <–Matter of preferance, I nomaly untick it.
• Display the full path in the title bar <–Matter of preferance, I nomaly untick it.
• Do not cache thumbnails <–This makes Thumnails load slower.
• Show files and folders <–This is under hidden Files and folders, this makes files that have been set to hidden show. This is not advised they have been hidden for a reason.
• Hide extensions for know file types <–If you tick this a file could show up as filename.bmp in stead of filename.bmp.vbs, and you would think that the file is a picture when it could realy be a virus.
• Launch folder windows in a separate process <–It starts another process which is undeened.
• Restore previous folder windows at logon <–Means all the Explorer Windows that I forgot to close open when I start my computer.
• Show pop-up desciption for folder and desktop items <–This annoys me, if you like it keep it, it dose not make much of a difference.

Hope you find this tweak useful

Turn your Caps Lock Key into Another ctrl Key - no more unwanted Capitals !

If you have to look at your keyboard to type, like me, how many times have you looked up at the screen and realised you have accidentally hit the Caps Lock key and will have to retype all those Capitals ?

Not any more !

Download this :- http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/Ctrl2Cap.zip

Unzip all the files to a Folder.
Open a Command Prompt and navigate to the Folder* you just made.
Type this :- ‘ctrl2cap.exe /install’ (without the quotes) and press Enter.

Now your Caps lock key has been turned into another Ctrl key, so no more unwanted Capitals !

This isn’t what the program was intended for but it works great.
If you want your Caps Lock key back just run ‘ctrl2cap.exe /uninstall’.

*another quick tweak, download this :- http://www.petri.co.il/software/doshere.zip
Unzip the Doshere.inf file, right click on it and then click on Install.
Now when you right click on a Folder you will have a ‘CMD Shell’ option which opens a Command Prompt window at that Folder