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How to Use Greasemonkey in Opera

Joel — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:36:35 +0000

I’m sure most of you are aware of Greasemonkey, well if you don’t then it’s a Firefox extension that allows Firefox users to install scripts that make quick changes to web pages. Using this extension you can add new functionality to web pages and web sites like adding an HTML signature in Google, bypassing image verification in Orkut, changing an orkut theme or a Gmail theme, etc.
If you’re an Opera user then there’s a good news for you. Opera supports Greasemonkey scripts! These user scripts work exactly how they work in Firefox. You can simply import them into Opera unlike in Firefox you where you need to install the Greasemonkey addon. Here’s an easy tutorial which will guide you to do so:

1. Download the Greasemonkey script you want to use.
2. Now, rename the script so that it ends with “.user.js”

3. Open Opera and go to Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Content and click the JavaScript Options button.

4. In User JavaScript files field, choose the location of your scripts folder and click OK.
5. Restart Opera for the changes to take effect.

How to Format a USB Drive/ Pen Drive in Windows

Joel — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 09:13:16 +0000

Here’s a short and easy tutorial which will guide you through formatting a USB thumb drive, pen drive, flash drive or USB drive as you call it. I know most of you know how to do this. But recently I was surprised to see my friend struggle when I asked him to format his pen drive in my pc when he had come to my place. I asked him “How do you usually format your pen drive?” He said, “I do it using a software”. The shocking part was that he wasn’t aware of the format option that is available on right clicking on the drive. Well, here’s a tutorial if you didn’t know how to format your drive.

Firstly, Insert the pen drive and open My Computer. Right-click the USB drive and select Format

Now, Select the File System that best suits your needs, and give the drive a name in the Volume label field. I would prefer NTFS. Click Start to format the drive.
Click OK on the warning window. Now the formatting will begin, once done click OK. Your Pen drive is now formatted. Pretty easy isn’t it?

How to Add Command Prompt to the Right-Click Menu in Windows Explorer

Joel — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:07:49 +0000

Majority of us open command prompt by going to Start> Run but here’s an easy way to start it. You can add an option in the right click menu in Windows explorer to start command prompt. Here’s how you do it:

Firstly, open notepad and paste the following:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\CommandPrompt]
@=”Command Prompt”
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\CommandPrompt\Command]
@=”cmd.exe /k cd %1″

Now save it as “commandprompt.reg” anywhere you like.
Now close notepad and double click on commandprompt.reg that you created.
It will ask you whether you want to add information to the registry, simply click OK.
That’s it! Now you can right click on any folder and start command prompt.

How to Hide Drive Letters or Partitions in My Computer

Joel — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:18:54 +0000

Sometimes when there are many people who use the same pc, you would like to hide certain stuff from them especially if they are kids or maybe non geeky users. They usually mess up installed programs files, documents, and other stuff. So the best way to prevent such problems is to hide drives from appearing in My Computer. Here’s a quick and easy tutorial to do so:

Using Tweak UI:
1. Download and install Tweak UI.
2. Now start Tweak UI and go to My Computer> Drives.
3. Uncheck the drive that you want to hide. Click OK.
4. That’s it now the unchecked drive won’t appear in My Computer. If you want it to appear again run Tweak UI, go to My Computer> Drives and check the hidden drive letter.

Via Computer Management:
1. Go to Control Panel> Administrative Tools> Computer Management.
2. Expand Computer Management (Local)> Storage> Disk Management.
3. Right click on D: drive partition and select Change Drive Letter and Paths.
4. Select D: drive, click Remove button and click OK.

Access Blocked Web Sites via Email

Joel — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:20:02 +0000

Few companies and organizations don’t allow their employees to access the internet. In such cases it’s not possible to view websites other than the ones allowed by the firm. Well, few months back I had written an article which explained 5 cool things you could do using email. One of them included browsing a web page directly in your email. Sounds cool isn’t it? Certainly! Well, Let’s have a look at it again.

There’s a web service known as WebToMail which allows users to have a look at a particular web page directly in their email. It’s pretty easy to use, here’s how you do it:

Firstly send an email with the URL of the web page as subject to send@webtomail.co.cc. For instance: www.bbcworld.com
Wait for a few minutes for the mail to arrive with the webpage.
WebToMail is fast, free and there are absolutely no limits on usage.

Control System Volume with your Mouse Scroller

Joel — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:51:06 +0000

Don’t like to adjust your system volume by going to taskbar or settings? Here’s a simple way for lazy people like me. You need to have a mouse with scroller in order to do this, well most of us do have. There’s a free utility known as Volumouse. Using this little softy you can adjust your system volume by just moving scrolling your mouse scroller up and down.

Volumouse provides you a quick and easy way to control the sound volume on your system - simply by rolling the wheel of your wheel mouse. You can set key combination to make the scroller work. For instance, you can control the volume by holding the Alt key and then rolling your mouse scroller. There are several other combinations which you can try. It’s definitely worth a try if you adjust the volume quite often.
Download Volumouse

Pismo File Mount: Mount ZIP, ISO Files into a Virtual Drive

Joel — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:16:41 +0000

You might have come across several utilities which allow you to mount ISO, MDF, etc files into virtual drives. Today, I’m going to speak about yet another utility known as Pismo File Mount which allows users to mount files on to virtual drives. So what’s so special about this software that makes it different from others? Well, you can even mount ZIP files into a virtual drive! Pretty cool isn’t it?

Mounting images into a virtual drive using Pismo File Mount is pretty easy. All you need to do is first download Pismo File Mount and then install it. Once done you can easily mount any ZIP or ISO file into a virtual drive by just right clicking on it and selecting Mount or Quick Mount from the context menu. You can also launch Pismo File Mount first and then browse for the files you want to mount.

Once the file is mounted, you can easily view files in Windows Explorer. You can also set read/write or read only access to the archived files.

Download Pismo File Mount

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Quickly Install Fonts in Windows

Joel — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:13:06 +0000

If you like to download and try out different fonts in your pc you might get bugged with the fonts installation process in Windows. The default way to install new fonts in Windows is to click on the Font entry in the Windows Control Panel and to select Install New Font from the File menu. But I usually install new fonts by dragging and dropping them into Fonts in Control Panel. I feel it’s pretty convenient. Well, if you have saved fonts in different locations then it will certainly take a lot of time to install new fonts.

Today, I came across a small Windows app- ClickFont which makes installing fonts easier. It allows easy installation of TrueType, OpenType and PostScript fonts with just two mouse clicks, from anywhere in the system. To install new fonts all you need to do is just right click on the font and select “Install Font”.

You can also right click on a particular folder with fonts and click on “Install fonts” to install all the fonts in the folder.

Download ClickFont

Download Pwnage 2.0- Unlock iPhone 2.0 Firmware

Joel — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:29:31 +0000

The wait is finally over, the iPhone 2.0 Pwnage Tool is now available. iPhone Dev Blog has announced the availability of Pwnage Tool 2.0, you can now easily jailbreak and unlock older iPhones, and jailbreak iPhone 3G and iPod Touch with 2.0 firmware. The tool is around 20MB in size. Download links listed at the end of the post.

If you’re getting confused over what the tool actually does,
The tool unlocks and jailbreaks older iPhones with 2.0 firmwares.
The tool only jailbreaks iPhone 3G and iPod Touch with 2.0 firmwares.

Download links-
Link1
Link2
Link3

NOTE: If you get Error 1600 from iTunes, try: mkdir “~/Library/iTunes/Device Support” ; if that directory already exists, remove any files in it. Then re-run the PwnageTool.

How to Disable SuperFetch in Vista

Joel — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:43:34 +0000

The SuperFetch feature in Vista preloads system’s memory with the applications that you use most often which helps to launch such applications faster. Well, it isn’t clear that enabling or disabling it will increase performance. But if you open and close lot of applications then I guess you should disable it. Here’s a short and easy tutorial for disabling the Superfetch feature in Vista.

Type services.msc into the Start menu search or run box.

Now, double-click on Superfetch in the list to open up the properties, and then change the drop-down to “Disabled”. You can also click Stop to immediately turn it off.

How to take iPhone or iPod Screenshots

Joel — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:52:14 +0000

You might have noticed many people posting their iPhone screenshots especially in iTunes app store. You might have been wondering how they managed to do that. Well, it’s actually simple with iPhone 2.0 firmware. It doesn’t require any app. Here’s how you do it:

Follow the above pic

Now you’ll notice the screen “flash” quickly indicating that the screenshot has been taken.

Click the Photos icon in your iPhone or iPod Touch to go to your Photo Albums.

Here, In Saved Photos album you’ll find all the screenshots taken.

NOTE: If you’re taking screenshots of any program or game then you need to be quick in pressing the buttons. Clicking both at the same time will help.

Get File Browser in Firefox 3 using Firefly

Joel — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:54:34 +0000

Few minutes back I came across an awesome addon for Firefox known as Firefly. It allows users to have access to a comprehensive file manager within Firefox which can be used to view, open, edit, delete, move and rename files. It’s easy to use and reduces wastage of time as well. When you start Firefly you get a page with all drives in it. You can also add other drives and folders of your choice. As Firefox searches for available devices at startup you don’t need to add drives and optical drives.

To browse files and folders you can simply click on them like you would do it Windows explorer. The most interesting part that I found in Firefly was the ability to play multimedia files within the browser itself. In addition to this you can also preview files by just hovering over them. Another interesting feature that I found was the ability to view two folder paths in split screens which makes copy paste operation easy.

Firefly addon is still in development stage, it looks pretty stable though, I didn’t find any probs or bugs while using it. If you would like to try it you can download it from here. It’s 1.4MB in size. Well, I guess it’s the biggest addon at present, but it’s certainly worth a try.

Download Firefly

How to use a Screensaver as Wallpaper in XP

Joel — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:18:07 +0000

Bored of same old static desktop wallpaper? I guess it’s time to get it into life. So, how about setting a screensaver as your desktop wallpaper? Good idea isn’t it? By default there’s no such option to set a screensaver as wallpaper in XP. But don’t worry, there’s a software known as Vital Desktop which does the job. Here’s how you do it:

Download Vital Desktop and install it.
Now double click on VDConfig.exe to start the program.
Choose a screensaver of your choice and apply it.
Right click on desktop and go to Vital Desktop> and check the option “Enable Vital Desktop”
You can also check the option “Load at windows startup” option from the System tab to start it when Windows starts.

Download Vital Desktop

How to Restrict User Logon Hours in Windows XP

Joel — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:19:05 +0000

Sometimes if your children use a lot of computer you might want to restrict their windows logon hours so that they have control over their computer usage and concentrate on studies. Well, it’s not just children, you might also like to control any users logon hours on your pc. You can do this either by using a software or by a simple windows command. If you wanna go the software way then you gotta pay. So, let’s go the easy way, i.e. by a simple windows command. Here’s how you do it:

Go to start> Run

Now type cmd and hit enter.

You need to make use of the net user command, check out for some examples below:
net user joel /time:M-F,08:00-17:00
net user joel /time:M-F,8am-5pm
net user joel /time:M,4am-5pm;T,1pm-3pm;W-F,8:00-17:00
net user joel /time:all (this allows user to logon at any time, on any day)

Type any one of the above and replace joel with your windows username.

Note: You can only restrict the user by one-one hour (for instance 14:00, 17:00, not 14:30 or 17:45). You also use the abbreviation for the day (that is, M,T,W,Th,F,Sa,Su)

How to Create a List of Files and Folders in a Directory

Joel — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:15:22 +0000

We have several files and folders in our computers. Sometimes we may require a list of files and folders in a particular directory. Looking for each file and folder and listing them isn’t easy. But there’s an easy way to generate or create a list of files and folders in a location. Here’s how you do it:

Go to Start> Accessories> Notepad

Now type the following:

dir /s > output.txt

Save the file as “genfile.bat”, close Notepad.

Now to generate a files and folder list of a specific location, simply paste genfile.bat into it and double click on it. It will create a new text file in same place with the name “output” which will contain the list of all the files and folders present in the location. It not only shows the names of files and folders but it also shows the date on which they were created, their file size, etc.