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Browse or Extract a .gho Symantec Ghost Image

Karthikeyan — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 04:31:00 +0000

Symantec has a freely-available utility that can be used to view files within a .gho image or extract files/directories from a .gho ghost image. You can download it here:

ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english%5Fus%5Fcanada/products/symantec%5Fghost%5Fsolution%5Fsuite/2.5/updates/Ghostexp-B1597.zip

Context Menu Add Ons

Karthikeyan — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:06:00 +0000

I needed to create list of files in a folder from context menu. The process is

Open Folder Options in Windows Explorer

Click “File Types” Tab.

Choose “Folder” and Click Advanced Settings.

Click New and Give name as “List Files”

Type Action as cmd /K dir “%1″ /A /B > “%1″\list.txt

Press O.

From now on, you can create the list of files inside the folder in list.txt

There are some other Useful context menu add ons with installer.

See this link: http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-right-click-context-menu-add-ons.htm

Reverse Dictionary

Karthikeyan — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:04:00 +0000

Sometimes, we need to find a Word which has a specific meaning. In that case, We have “Reverse Dictionary” which helps to find a word having the meaning that we enter.
Some of Online Reverse Dictionaries are.

1) http://www.reference.com/reverse/

2) http://www.onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml

A hack in free website hosting

Karthikeyan — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:22:00 +0000

Recently, i found out a small hack to avoid loading the Javascript & css of free site domains(which are used to display ads/ track sites functionality too by free website domains).
I found in most of the sites that “These Javascript code are embedded at the end of the html file”.
When we edit the html code of our page, this “Javascript codes” will not be visible. The free website server will ad the script when viewing the pages.
What i did was, I just added a html comment “-” marker at the end of my code (html/php or anything).
This disabled the any html code including javascript that is added by the server.
This also makes the page load faster, if your page does not contain much javascript/css etc.
I tested its functionality in 110mb.com and t35.com.

Control PC using Twitter

Karthikeyan — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:21:00 +0000

Here is an Application to control your PC using Twitter posts. TweetMyPC
Not only you can control, you can get tweets from computer too.
It is free, opensource software, download and install it.
Log in using gmail id.
I don’t know why the developer only allowed gmail users to login.
For setting up first time, you need to do a authorization step. You need to enter the id and click “Sign in with Twitter” which will take you to authorization step. That’s it,

For List of supported commands, see here
http://tweetmypc.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Commands
You can log off, shutdown, hibernate, end any task, download any file, take screenshot, & even turn off monitor.
If you tweet “os”, your PC will tweet you what is the OS and its version.
You can also create your custom command to run any program.
Now you can control your computer from anywhere using Twitter.

Download TweetMyPC
Alternative Download link

Best Security Scanner for Professionals

Karthikeyan — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:57:00 +0000

Network Mapper (NMAP.ORG) is the one of the Best Security Scanner which is used by system and Network administrators.
It is Free, Open source and powerful. It supports huge list of operating systems including Linux, Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, IRIX, Mac OS X, HP-UX, NetBSD, Sun OS, Amiga, and more.
For Beginners, GUI tool may be helpful. For Advanced users, most will find the command line easy.
nmap also comes in a lot of Movies such Matrix Reloaded.
If you are interested in hacking, then this tool will one of them you use for it.
Download Link: http://nmap.org/

25 GB Free Storage + SkyDrive Uploader

Karthikeyan — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 06:12:00 +0000

I had almost 22 GB of photos and i needed to have a backup online. I googled a lot fo photo storage Sites. None of them is convincing. Some sites compressed my images. Some sites had file size limit. some sites does not allow me to download pictures as a folder or zip. Then i foudn Skydrive.

All these Facilities are FREE in SKYDRIVE.

Skydrive is Microsoft Online storage service available free for all who are having Windows Live ID.

Some Features of Skydrive are

25 GB Storage – upload any file.

Private/Public sharing and sharing with only selected persons.

Upload Photos in Original size/standard sizes.

Viewing photos as thumbnails.

Download any folder as Zip file

Browser Uploading & Third Party Applications for Folder Uploading.

Create Office Document Files.

Sign Up for Windows Live Id in Famous @HOTMAIL.COM & start using Skydrive.

A Third party Batch Uploader (Folder) makes the Work very easy to upload.

SDExplorer Advances Beta integrates with context menu and you can queue the Folder/Files.

When you install SDExplorer, a network drive will be added and you can browse using normal windows Explorer. (Tested in Windows XP)

Now, to add a full folder to upload you can follow the screenshots.

Related Links:

http://skydrive.live.com

http://www.cloudstorageexplorer.com/SDEUploader.php

(You get 3 days trial only. Change date to future and install it and then change date back )

Adding igoogle Gadgets to Google Desktop sidebar

Karthikeyan — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:49:03 +0000

The Story: Adding Google Tasks as desktop gadget.
In Browser, I was using the “Tasks” of Google in Gmail interface. I wanted to place it in my desktop as gadget so that i don’t need to open my browser to check my tasks every time. I searched for igoogle gadget and found the link for the tasks gadget.
http://www.google.com/ig/modules/tasks.xml
I used Desktop web item (in Windows XP) which gave my desktop an ugly look by disabling transparency of icons. I installed the Google desktop and searched for “Tasks” in Add gadget search. I could not find it.
Today, I found this tutorial from web which shows how to add any igoogle gadget as google desktop gadget.
I just searched http://www.google.com/ig/modules/tasks.xml in Google desktop add gadget search, and i added it. Now i can add the tasks from my desktop and i can see anywhere in the world. Even we can see Tasks in mobile by visiting gmail.com/tasks in mobile.
The Content:
1. Find the gadget you want in iGoogle, and add it to your “home”.

2. Click on the drop-down menu, and pick “Share this gadget”

3. Click the “Or copy and paste a link to this gadget »” link.

4. Copy the “url=” portion of that link, starting with http, up to, but not including, any additional parameters.

5. Open the Google Desktop’s Add Gadget dialog

6. In the “Search” box, enter the URL

7. Click Add.

(Note:Some gadgets need you to Sign in. So open internet explorer and sign in permanently. )

Comment if you like it..

Youtube downloader extension in Chrome.

Karthikeyan — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:35:00 +0000

Yesterday, I was searching for an easy, (no install), youtube downloader. I found an chrome extension in chrome store. but unfortunately it was removed the next day after i added to my chrome. The extension name is “youtube downloader”. I still can’t find that extensions anywhere in internet. so, i have some other alternative extensions.
These extensions have similar functionality.
You can download the videos in respective image resolution and format (FLV and MP4 and also MP3)
choose whichever is suitable for you.
The extensions are

1. Chrome YouTube downloader

2.Easy Youtube Video Downloader

3. Download YouTube Videos as MP4/FLV

The extension that i downloaded is from this link: youtube downloader. But it is not working.

The Download button for video appears below the video (near embed). Just click it to download.

All other softwares are such as Orbit’s Grab it, and You downloader software are not easy as these extensions.

Reading Spreadsheet using PHP

Karthikeyan — Mon, 30 May 2011 03:31:00 +0000

I was developing a mobile application to upload spreadsheet (xls file) from mobile to web and extract the data in the file. I searched internet for PHP code and i got a code. Unfortunately it did not work. I edited some part of code and luckily, it worked.
Download from here: XLS READ PHP.zip

This zip file has a module which decodes the data and gives you in an array. Two example code is given to display the content of xls file. For decoding your own xls file, replace the file jxlrwtest.xls with your own file (but under same name). or write your own code to upload the file and decode it.