Saturday, July 25, 2009



Gtalk is the Widley Used Messenger all over the Internet ,People are now switching to Gtalk slowly and slowly leaving yahoo messenger due to some enhanced feature.So its necessary for new gtalk users to know more about Gtalk ,for this we have created a short Gtalk Tutorials that will help users while surfing gtalk .

Send Bold Text: Text embedded between two * characters is displayed as bold text. Example: This is a *bold* statement.

Send Italics Text: Text embedded between two _(underscore) characters is displayed as italics text. Example: This is an _italics_ statement

Insert Line Breaks: If you want to have a message that spans multiple paragraphs, just hold shift and hit enter

Send mail: Press F9 to send a mail to the contact with whom you are chatting

Restore Google Talk Window: Press Windows Key + Esc to restore Google Talk window from system tray

Call a Contact: Press F11 to start a voice call with the chat contact and F12 to end the voice call

Insert Line Breaks – If you want to have a message that spans multiple paragraphs, just hold shift and hit enter. You can add as many new lines as you want to create.

Switch Windows – Hitting tab will cycle through open windows. It will select minimized conversations, to expand them just hit enter. If you just want to cycle through IM’s and don’t care about the buddy list, control-tab will do that and will automatically expand a minimized conversation if you settle on one.

Length Of A Single Message – A message can be max 32767 characters long.

Use Keyboard shortcuts while talking in Gtalk ,It will make yours work fast and talk Easy ,Below are some keyboard shortks for Gtalk User.

  • Ctrl + 5 (KeyPad) - Selects all the text typed.
  • Ctrl + 1 (NumPad) - It goes at the end of the last line.
  • Ctrl + 7 (NumPad) - It goes at the begin of the last line.
  • Ctrl + F4 – It closes the current window.
  • Alt + F4 - It closes the current window.
  • Alt + Esc – It Minimize the current open window.
  • Windows + ESC – Open Google Talk (if it’s minimized, or in the tray).
  • F9 - Open Gmail to send an email to the current contact.

Nickname & Status Message:You can’t change your nickname in a way that other people will see it change. Every nickname in the Google Talk contactlist is the part that is before @gmail.com (only the alphabetical characters are used) or the name you chosen for your GMail account. To change the nickname need to go to your Gmail account and change the name there. Choose Settings, Accounts, and then Edit info. Click on the second radio button, and enter your custom name. As a result all of your emails will have that nick as well, there is no way to seperate the two. You can add a website in your custom message, it will be clickable when someone opens a conversation window with you.

  • F11 – It initiates a telephonic call with your friend.
  • F12 – It cancels a telephonic call.
  • Esc – It closes the current window

How To Make Conference Calls:To have conference calls in Gtalk: Open up a copy of Google Talk on all computers with which you wish to conference. After one copy is opened make a new shortcut for Google Talk but at the end of the target add /nomutex. If you installed it to the default folder then your shortcut should read

C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe/nomutex.

Open Second instance of the software on every user’s computer.After this start a chain: User 1 should connect on one instance to user 2. User 2 will connect on his second instance to user 3. User 3 will connect using his second instance back to user 1. With this chain everyone is connected to everyone.

Login to multiple Google Talk accounts simultaneously with a very easy hack. Follow these steps

  1. Create a shortcut of Google Talk messenger on your desktop or any other preferred location .(To create a shortcut, right click on your Google Talk messenger application select Send To–>Desktop(create shortcut) )
  2. Right click on the Google Talk messenger icon and select Properties option
  3. Modify target location text “c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe” /startmenu to

“c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex

  1. Click Ok and you are done with this .

Contacts: Don’t need to say yes or no when someone wants to add you as a friend; you can simply ignore it, the request will go away. (On the other hand, someone with whom you chat often will automatically turn to be your friend, unless you disable this).

Wierd: The Gmail account ‘user@gmail.com’ can’t be invited as your friend.


Article Idea: http://info.scrapur.com/internet/gtalk-tricks-guides-and-tutorials/

Sunday, July 19, 2009



The word ampersand is a corruption of the phrase "and per se and", meaning "and ( symbol which by itself (is) and". The Scots and Scottish English name for & is epershand, derived from "et per se and", with the same meaning.

Traditionally, in English-speaking schools when reciting the Alphabet, any letter that could also be used as a word in itself ("A," "I," "&" and, at one point, "O") was preceded by the Latin expression "per se" (Latin for "by itself"). Also, it was common practice to add at the end of the alphabet the "&" sign, pronounced "and". Thus, the recitation of the alphabet would end in: "X, Y, Z and per se and." This last phrase was routinely slurred to "ampersand" and the term crept into common English usage by around 1837.

Through folk etymology, it has been claimed that André-Marie Ampère used the symbol in his widely read publications, and that people began calling the new shape "Ampere's and."

Saturday, July 4, 2009

I read a really good Sardar Joke in the tamil weekly magazine Kumudam. Here's the english version for you.

A Sardarji comes up to the Pakistan border on his bike. He's got two large bags over his shoulders. The guard Iqbal stops him and says, What's in the bags?'

'Sand,' answered the Sardarji.

Iqbal says, 'We'll just see about that. Get off the bike. Iqbal's guards take the bags and rips them apart; empty them out and find nothing in them but sand. He detains the Sardarji overnight and has the sand analyzed, only to discover that there is nothing but pure sand in the bags. Iqbal releases the Sardarji, puts the sand into new bags, heaves them on to the Sardarji 's shoulders, and lets him cross the border.

A week later, the same thing happens. Iqbal asks, 'What have you got?

'Sand,' says the Sardarji. Iqbal does his thorough examination and discovers that the bags contain nothing but sand. He gives the sand back to the Sardarji, and crosses the border on his bike. This sequence of events is repeated every day for three years.

Finally, the Sardarji, doesn't show up and one day and the guard meets him in a 'dhaba' in Islamabad. 'Hey, Buddy,' says Iqbal, 'I know you are smuggling something. It's driving me crazy. It's all I think about...I can't sleep. Just between you and me, what are you smuggling?'

The Sardarji, sips his Lassi and says, 'bikes'. . . . . . . . . . . .



An Indian walks into a New York City bank and asks to see the loan officer. He says he is going to Europe on business for two weeks and needs to borrow $5,000. The bank officer says the bank will need some kind of security for such a loan, so the man hands over the keys of a new Rolls Royce parked on the street in front of the bank.

Everything is checked out, and the bank agrees to accept the car as collateral for the loan. An employee drives the Rolls into the bank's underground garage and parks it there. Two weeks later, the man returns, repays the $5,000 and the interest, which comes to $15.

The loan officer says, "We are very happy to have had your Business, and this transaction has worked out very nicely, but we are little puzzled.

While you were away, we checked you out and found that u are a multimillionaire. What puzzles us is why would you bother to borrow $5,000?"

The Indian replied," Where else in New York can I park my car for two weeks for 15 bucks?"

Proud to be an Indian !!!

Article from: http://arun-kumaar.blogspot.com/2009/03/indian-brain.html

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Keyword Fight

Here's a wonderful website, which lets you find out amongst two keywords, which is the most searched.

Here it shows a short fight between two stickmen and then it shows the result.



A good way to find out which keyword is searched more in Google.
Google Fight

My laptop had been infected for long by a virus. I had identified it to be the recycler virus couple of weeks ago. But I had never really been trying to remove it. Yesterday evening, the virus had started virtual memory hijacking (ie., loading more memory for other processes). I could not bear it any longer.

So I started to search about the recycler virus. And I have made a small tutorial on the steps to remove the virus.


Goto your drive(in command promt C:\ or D:\)

Type ATTRIB -S -A -H -R.

1. You should be able to see your root drive root drive which is c: or d: etc.

2. Ensure that you are able to see hidden files by going to Tool>Folder Option>view and checking off hidden files.

3. System Volume Information and Recycler should be visible in your root drive (c: d: or whatever drive you use) .

4. Go to your drive and right click on RECYCLER folder and click delete.It was not deleted in my case, since it was being used by some other process. Force del is a useful application to override this error and delete the folder.

5. Right Click on System volume information folder and go to Properties. Go to the tab labeled Security, If your user name is not there then add your username that you use for XP . Give yourself all security rights as well as the SYSTEM user. Then press okay. If you cannot see the security tab and you are using XP professional then go to Tool>Folder Option>View uncheck box "Use simple File sharing" then select Apply.

If you have no clue of what step 5 was, there's a simpler way of doing it.

  1. Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then click OK.
  2. Make sure that you are in the root folder of the partition for which you want to gain access to the System Volume Information folder. For example, to gain access the C:\System Volume Information folder, make sure that you are in the root folder of drive C (at a "C:\" prompt).
  3. Type the following line, and then press ENTER:
    cacls "driveletter:\System Volume Information" /E /G username:F
    Make sure to type the quotation marks as indicated. This command adds the specified user to the folder with Full Control permissions.
  4. Double-click the System Volume Information folder in the root folder to open it.
  5. If you need to remove the permissions after troubleshooting, type the following line at a command prompt:
    cacls "driveletter:\System Volume Information" /E /R username
    This command removes all permissions for the specified user.

6. Go to the recycle bin the desktop and right click. Choose properties then check the box " Do not move files to the recycle bin. Remove files immediately when deleted." Press Apply.

7. Go to the System Volume Information folder and delete the last folder. These folders are where Xp has taken a snapshot of your system in order to restore it. The virus is hiding here in the event that you restore it is also restored. If you are sure which folder to delete, don't worry. Deleting all the folders in System Volume Information will just delete all the restoration points.

8. You should now open the registry editor and remove the virus from here so that when you restart the virus is not recreated.

9. Open the registry editor. Start >Run> then type regedit in the box and select OK The registry will now open.

10. Hit Ctrl+F Type Recycler (iuhi64 should also be searched) in the search box . Delete the entry when found. Press F3 to find the next occurrance of Recycler(iuhi64) and delete.

11. Close regedit.

12. Go to all installed harddrives and so steps 2- steps 6, steps 8 and steps 9.

13. Run your virus software. You should be able to update any virus software that was previously unupdatable.

14. Restart your computer

15. Verify that that the reycler folder is deleted from you root drive.

16. Then you can uncheck the box in the recycle bin that you checked in step 6. To keep all you deleted files in case you need to restore a file that was accidentally deleted.

My findings:

This virus is recreated using the methods of the recycle bin. Everytime you delete a file it recreates itself because it looks in the recycle bin and restores or copies the virus information inside. If the virus is not able to be stored inside and is immediately removed when you check the box in step 6. Then it cannot recreate itself and all of its power is lost. So erasing it from the registry and drive ensures that it cannot return. It has two copies one in the recyler folder and another one in system volume information. Deleting both the folders does the trick.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_remove_recycler_virus_found_in_hard_disk
http://www.winmatrix.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=13021
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309531

These were the three most useful links for me to understand about the recycler virus and delete it.

Spending an evening with the virus ensured that, my laptop was free of recycler virus.

Friday, June 12, 2009

Read this in singer Chinmayi's blog. It was pretty cool.

Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is the husband!


Don't marry the person you want to live with, marry the one you cannot live without, but whatever you do, you'll regret it later.

You can't buy love, but you pay heavily for it.

(Especially this one!!) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Woman: Is there any way for long life?
Doctor: Get married..
Woman: Will it help?
Doctor: No, but then the thought of long life will never come.

It's funny when people discuss Love Marriage vs Arranged. It's like asking someone, if suicide is better or being murdered.

Source:Loved this....!

Tuesday, June 2, 2009



Have you ever wondered how to check whether the rapidshare link really works? Even I have wondered abut it. Accidentally I found this site(http://tubenow.net/link-checker/) which gives us this feature.

Monday, June 1, 2009

In VB.Net there's a feature for commenting multi lines. The toolbox has the provision for that. It is one handy feature in .net.