Tricks4all: September 2010

CONVERT TEXT TO SPEECH IN YOUR MOBILE

YOU CAN CONVERT TEXT TO SPEECH IN YOUR MOBILE

Text-to-speech Software read the text on the screen aloud in a
natural voice, provides you a convenient accessibility to your mobile phone menus and functions, short messages, e-mail messages etc.

Note: Text-to-speech is available for Series 60 and Series 80 phones with a Symbian operating system.

Compatible WITH SOME PHONES LIKE :

* Nokia 3230
* Nokia 3250
* Nokia 3650 / 3600
* Nokia 3660 / 3620
* Nokia 5500
* Nokia 5700
* Nokia 6110 Navigator
* Nokia 6260
* Nokia 6290
* Nokia 6600
* Nokia 6620
* Nokia 6630
* Nokia 6670
* Nokia 6680
* Nokia 6681
* Nokia 6682
* Nokia 7610
* Nokia 7650
* Nokia E50
* Nokia E60
* Nokia E61
* Nokia E61i
* Nokia E62
* Nokia E65
* Nokia E70
* Nokia N70
* Nokia N71
* Nokia N72
* Nokia N73
* Nokia N75
* Nokia N80
* Nokia N90
* Nokia N91
* Nokia N95

Funny mouse trick

WHILE USING INTERNET
YOU CAN SCROLL PAGES FASTER USING THIS TRICK

Just, Hold ctrl and scroll your Mouse Wheel !!!!!

Scroll UP : To Go Forward
Scroll Down : To Go Backward

HOW TO DOWNLOAD VIDEOS FROM YOUTUBE & GOOGLE etc

As we all know that none of the video sharing sites provide a link to download their videos. So we will have to do some trick to download the videos.

so
1)Here are some ways to download any video from the internet , they are based on the common hack (Right-click -> "Save Target As" OR copy the link into your download manager, but change the file extension to .flv)

2)Youtube Links, Download, google video Links, Youtube songs, google Video songs, download from Youtube & google Video.
Method 1: One of the easiest ways is to copy your video URL and paste it on KeepVid Lite. When you click submit, you will be provided with a link to save the video as an FLV file.

Method 2: For Firefox Users - Install the VideoDownloader Extension from Mozilla Add-ons website - It downloads all embedded objects on a webpage including the video clips. This is very easy for beginners.

Using these tricks you can easily download videos from Youtube or Google Videos or Metacafe.
Youtube Links, Download, google video Links, Youtube songs, google Video songs, download from Youtube & google Video.
Now some more questions that arise are:
Youtube Links, Download, google video Links, Youtube songs, google Video songs, download from Youtube & google Video.
How do I play FLV files on my computer - They dont open with windows media player or winamp or itunes or real player ?
Youtube Links, Download, google video Links, Youtube songs, google Video songs, download from Youtube & google Video.
You can download free FLV players to watch FLV files locally. A good FLV player has a simple and easy-to-remember name - FLV Player. Another nice alternative is the Riva FLV player.Try them out.

How to convert FLV videos to Windows AVI or Quicktime MOV or 3GP formats ?
The free Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer software from Super can convert FLV files to practically any other video format including MP4, MOV H.264, AVI, ASF or Flash SWF animations. Super video convertor

How to convert AVI, MPEG, MOV, 3GP movie clips back to FLV format ?
Youtube Links, Download, google video Links, Youtube songs, google Video songs, download from Youtube & google Video.

Say you complete editing your movie in Windows Movie Maker or Avid and now left with an MOV file that you want to convert to FLV. Just get the free Riva FLV encoder and relax. The Riva encoder even lets you select parts of the video that you want to convert to FLV and crop the rest.
Youtube Links, Download, google video Links, Youtube songs, google Video songs, download from Youtube & google Video.

I have three-four small video clips that I download from Google Videos and now want to join them into one single video -How do I merge FLV files ?
There is no free software that lets you join FLV files other than the expensive Macromedia Flash Professional. However, here's a simple trick to join several flv video files - convert individual flv files to avi using Super [as mentioned above], then join the multiple Avi files into a single avi file using free VirtualDub and finally convert this avi back to FLV using Riva FLV encoder.Its done.

How to watch Youtube Video on my iPod, PSP or Television ?
Again we'll make use of the Super Video Encoder mentioned above. Just convert the FLV file into a corresponding format (like Apple iPod or Sony PSP or MPG) and transfer it to your gadget

BLOCK USB DRIVES

a simple registry TRICK TO BLOCK USB drives (do it with care)

1. Go to Start –> Run, type Regedit.
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlset\Servic es\USBStor
3. In the right pane, look for value Start and have value as 0000000(3)
4. Double click on that and change that value to 4.

You might be required to restart the PC, and then you are done with it, USB is now blocked.

In case if you want to get the USB unblocked, just change the value again to 3

FONT TRICKS

wanna write like this ███?????steps:1. press and hold alt. press nos 7,3,1 one after the other. release altsimple as it is.....

███████████
easily make hearts! with 2 keys only!press alt.
hold it there
n in the num pad press 3.
ull get ♥ ? try making ?
wanna write like this▒▒▒▒▒▒▒
steps:1. press and hold alt. press nos 9,4,5 one after the other. release alt.. try it.

FACEBOOK USE BOLD & UNDERLINE FONT IN CHAT

ery few people know that you can use even bold fonts or underlined fonts in facebook chat.

To use bold fonts type your message between two asterisks.

e.g. *TRICKSCAFE.BLOGSPOT.COM*

To type underlined messages type your message between two underscores.

e.g. _TRICKSCAFE.BLOGSPOT.COM_

ALSO YOU CAN USE SMILIES

How to recover folder option

1: Here's how you can get Folder Options back..

1: Open Start menu and from there select Run

2: type gpedit.msc and hit enter

3: now in the Group Policy window, from the left pane, select user configuration->Administrative Tempelates->windows components->Windows Explorer by highlighting it with the mouse cursor..

4: now in the right side you will see an option which says "Removes the Folder Options menu item from the Tools menu"

5: right click on this option and select properties

6: now in the properties under Setting tab, select Disabled and hit OK

The Medicine when Folder option vanishes.....

Method

1: Here's how you can get Folder Options back..

1: Open Start menu and from there select Run

2: type gpedit.msc and hit enter

3: now in the Group Policy window, from the left pane, select user configuration->Administrative Tempelates->windows components->Windows Explorer by highlighting it with the mouse cursor..

4: now in the right side you will see an option which says "Removes the Folder Options menu item from the Tools menu"

5: right click on this option and select properties

6: now in the properties under Setting tab, select Disabled and hit OK

........................................................................................................................................................................ Method 2 run

>>gpedit.msc

>>user configuration

>>administrative templates

>>system

disable "prevent access to registry editing tools"

....................................................................................................................................................................... Method 3 regeditOpen your registry and find the key [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]Create a new DWORD value,

or modify the existing value named "NoFolderOptions" and

set it to equal "1" to hide the options or "0" to show the options.

Log-off or restart Windows for the changes to take effect

hide ur folders without the usage of folder lock

(THIS IS REALLY WONDERFUL TRICK ..................)
hide ur folders without the usage of folder lock :

suppose u want to hide a folder named abc which is in D: of ur computer

go to command prompt
start--->run--->cmd-->d:

after changing it from C: to D:

type D:/>attrib +h +s abc
the above command is to hide the folder

to show the folder

tyoe D:/>attrib -h -s abc

in this type of hidding the folder cannot be viewed even if we make advance search or even changing the folders menu to (show all hidden files)

(YA FRIENDS ITS REALLY COOL U CAN EASILY HIDE UR FOLDERS)

TRICK to Check Personal Firewall Status

How can you check the status of the connection and the firewall?
Simply open Control Panel from the Start Menu, open Internet and Network Connections, then Network Connections. By default the view is of large icons.
Click the View Menu, and choose "details" in order to reveal several more columns of information about the connections that your computer has.
Check the Status column to see if your connection is currently connected, and whether or not it is "firewalled."
You can even drag the column headings around (I like to slide the Status column right next to the Name column. You can even remove entire columns by right-clicking the column heading and unchecking it.

Making A file of the size you want..

How to make a file of the size you want ?
Let us assume you want to make a file of size 10000kbConvert it to bytes -> 10000*1024 which comes out to be 10240000 bytes
Open calculator (win key+r -> type in calc )
Choose view mode to be Scientific one
Type in 10240000 and convert it to hex it comes out to be 9C4000
Convert this value to 8 digits by padding zeroes to its left
-> so finally it comes out be 009C4000
Open Command Prompt (win key + r -> type in cmd )
Type DEBUG filename.datit'll show file not found error ,ignore itType
RCX -> Enter -> then last four hexadecimal numbers
i.e. 4000 ->EnterType RBX -> Enter -> then first four hexadecimal numbers
i.e. 009C->EnterType W ->EnterType Q ->EnterW stands for write and Q for quitNow check the file you just made by dir command ->dir filename.datUsing the same technique you can make files as big as you wantHere is an image to show how exactly everything can be done

windows media player trick

First, Click Start > Run > and type “regedit” to run Registry Editor
imporatant note: editing the registry may damage ur system, please make a backup from ur registry
To remove recent play list in history:To remove recent files go to address: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Player\RecentFileListTo remove recent URLs go to address: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Player\RecentURLListAnd delete play lists

To hide anchor window:When you are in skin mode, Windows Media Player displays Anchor windowTo hide anchor window, go to address: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsMediaPlayerCreate a new DWORD and name “DoNotShowAnchor” and give value of 1
To disable Upgrade message:Go to following address: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\PlayerUpgradeCreate a new String Value and name “AskMeAgain” and give value of NO
To enable DVD features:Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Player\SettingsCreate a new String and name “EnableDVDUI” and give value of YES.
To change title name:Go to :
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsMediaPlayerCreate a new SRTING and type your name.
To remove WMP features:Go to : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsMediaPlayerCreate a new DWORD and give value of 1 and name according to belowMedia Favorite = NoMediaFavoriteFind New Station = NoFindNewStationRadio Bar = NoRadiaBar
To lock applied skin:Go to : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsMediaPlayerCreate a new String with name of Default Skin for example 9SeriesDefault.wmzCreate a new DWORD and name “SetAndLockSkin” and give value of 1.

DOWNLOAD FAST FROM RAPIDSHARE

Downloading FREE from RAPIDSHARE IS often a headache due to the time delay for FREE downloaders!!!

HERE IS A SOLUTION TO THAT PROBLEM

>>> Click a Download link for Rapidshare !

>>> Click the Free button on Rapidshare Page !

>>> Now as usual the timer starts !!!

>>> Now, go to the address box of your browser.
(Where you type the websites !)

>> In the address box type: javascript:alert(c=0)

>> Click OK on the alert box that arises
UR PROBLEM IS SOLVED........

hide partitions of hard disk

want to hide any partition of your hard disk just follow these simple steps.

1. Goto Start > Run and type diskpart

A DOS window will appear with following description

DISKPART>

2. Then type list volume

All partitions will be listed, there will be also a volume number for each partitions

3. Suppose you want to hide drive E:, type select volume 3 (Here 3 is the volume number of E:, in your pc it may vary). A message will now appear in the window saing "Volume 3 is the selected volume".

4. Now type remove letter E . You may have to reboot the computer. Diskpart will remove the letter. Since Windows XP doesn't have the capability to identify the unknown volume, it won't display or show results from it. To access the content of the hidden drive, repeat the process, but in the foruth step, replace remove to assign, ie., assign letter E

CHECK UR Computer's performance?

Do u want to Monitor ur Computer's performance?

Go to:

>run
>Type: perfmon.msc
>Enter

RENAME MULTIPLE FILES

It is possible to rename multiple file at one TIME.
Just select all the files to be renamed
and then press F2 key.
Give the desired name and then press enter.
You are done, file name has been changed.

YOU CAN STOP VIRUS ENTERING UR USB DRIVE

FRNDS If you have windows XP with SP2,
then you can disable the writing option to USB drives.

WHAT IT WILL DO?
This trick is very useful if you have virus in your computer and want to copy files from a USB Drive but don’t want to transfer virus to the USB.

STEPS to disable the USB writing option:

To edit the computer registry, first you should log onto your computer with administrative rights.

First click on Start button and type “Regedit” in Run option.

Here locate the location to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control

Here in right side panel, click right to create a key with the name “StorageDevicePolicies”.

Now in left side panel, select “StorageDevicePolicies” key, again right click to create new DWORD value then label it “WriteProtect”. Set its value to “1″. But again to enable writing, set its values to “0″.
THATS IT

Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

Restore Previously Open Folders After Shutdown

If you need to access lot of folders on your home PC or on
network regularly, then you can set them re-open automatically
so when you will login, shutdown or restart your computer next time.
There is no need to open regularly used folders manually(it will save ur time)
, for this just have to configure the simple sitting,
your computer will automatically reload all the previously opened windows.

note:By default windows XP disables this option to reload automatically all the previously opened windows, when you login on, shutdown or restart your computer.

steps to configure your computer to reload previously opened folders automatically after shutdown.

> To edit this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights.
> First click on Start button then go to Control Panel.
> Open the “Appearance and Themes” option in control panel then click on Folder Options.
> A small windows dialog box will appear with the title “Folder options”, click on View tab.
> Under the Advanced setting section, scroll down to bottom and click the “Restore previous folder windows at logon” option and then click Ok button to save sitting.
> Now when you log off, restart or shutdown, your computer will automatically open the previously opened folders from the same location as before.

Restore Previously Open Folders After Shutdown

RECOVER DATA FROM YOUR OLD & SCRATCHED CD

hi frnds when you look at ur collection of old cd's you fint that almost all of them have some scratches all over it and most of them have become unreadable.
you might want to copy some data out of it but my pc is unable to read from the CD.

so here is a tool for you
CD Recovery Toolbox supports almost all kind of disks like CD, DVD, HD-DVD, Blu-ray disks etc. This tool actually works when it comes to recovering data from physically damaged CDs. So if you have any damaged CD or DVD and want to recover some data from it give this a try and I am sure you will like it............leave your comments

download it ....
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It’s a freeware and small in size. This tool allows you to copy the part which is not damaged. So if you are copying some song which is not readable this software can copy the song but the unreadable part will be missing.
This can be useful because in Windows even if some small part is unreadable it will not allow you to copy the whole file.

OPEN YOUR CD DRIVE EASILY

hi friends this freeware will be very useful to all of you

If your tray button is not working then you use a pin to open the drive but it is not very convenient to use the pin every time.
So you can use OCTray to open your drive easily.

OCTray is a Freeware using which you can easily open/close your CD/DVD drive.

Double click on the exe file . Doing this will open a window after which you can open your drive by pressing O and close it using C on the keyboard. so easy to use!!!!

OCTray1

Or you can simply double click on the icon in the taskbar and select Open or Close from the context menu.
Download OCTray
note:
If there is a problem with your hardware then you can’t eject your tray even by using this utility.
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PING

we use ping to test internet connection
diffrent Ping options

example ..
goto START MENU
> RUN
>TYPE CMD
In DOS .. c:>ping 192.168.0.2 -t

-t Ping the specifed host until interrupted

-a Resolve addresses to hostnames

-n count Number of echo requests to send

-l size Send buffer size

-f Set Don't Fragment flag in packet

-i TTL Time To Live

-v TOS Type Of Service

-r count Record route for count hops

-s count Timestamp for count hops

-j host-list Loose source route along host-list

-k host-list Strict source route along host-list

-w timeout Timeout in milliseconds to wait for each reply
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SET YOUR PICTURE IN WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER

Set your picture as Album Art for Windows Media Player

JUST FOLLOW THE STEPS GIVEN BELOW

Copy your picture to a Mp3 folder
Change its name to "folder.jpg"
Open a Mp3 in Windows Media Player & Right-click on play window
Select Album Art from the list
DONE!!!!!!!!

Where does Window's Product Id get stored

There are two places at least where ProductId gets stored.

1> To see the first place, open Registry by going to START-RUN and entering REGEDIT and Navigate to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion]. In right pane, look for key by the name "ProductId". This is your Windows Product Id.

OR
2>you can navigate to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion] and still find same field with the name ProductId.

3 MB OPERATING SYSTEM

Kolibri desktop is a small 3 MB operating system
yes just 3mb
it is written in Machine Code (CPU language) and is not based in linux , windows or any other variants.

A huge number of applications are packed in this small Operating System. like games , tables editor , a compiler , a text editor , web browser and many more.
It also includes DOSBOX on which you can run every dos based game.

Recover Information From Any Corrupt File

To Recover Information From A Corrupt File
follow these steps
goto
start > run > type cmd
when command prompt opens type
recover file.ext

where file is file name & ext is extension of file
for eg you want to recover from abc.txt type
recover abc.txt

note:
If you have a disk with damaged sectors, you can recover as much information as possible from the damaged file. Data that is not damaged can be retrieved but data in damaged sectors will be lost.

Remove the bios password

There are many different ways to remove the BIOS password. You may have forgotten the password of your BIOS . Sometimes it becomes necessary to access the BIOS to change system settings.

OK so how to get back or remove the password

1>The simplest way to remove the BIOS password is to remove the CMOS battery for few seconds. because computer uses this battery to remember its settings and date & time when your computer is turned off.

The CMOS battery is the reason why you always get the correct date and time whenever you restart your PC.So When you remove it from your CPU the computer will forget all the settings which includes BIOS password too.doneSo to reset/ remove your BIOS password you just have to remove this battery once and then put it back after few seconds. (i have tried this many times)

If you don’t know how to do this or if you are not familiar with computer hardware dont try the above trick

you can try using this software - PC CMOS Cleaner

PC CMOS Cleaner is an easy-to-use tool to recover, delete, decode and display the superior passwords stored in BIOS whatever the brand is. Most types of BIOS are supported. It’s an bootable CD that runs on x86 and x86_64 computers. No need to pay expensive fees to experts. It’s a useful tool for users to get their lost BIOS password back, or clean passwords from an old computer bought from others.The download file is an iso file so first you have to burn it on a cd and then boot from that cd to recover your BIOS password.

Deleting files in MS

Issue:
How to quickly replace the file extensions of several files.
Reasoning:
It may be necessary to rename several files to allow compatibility with another program. A good example where this could be used is renaming an ASP file to an HTM or HTML file.
Solution:
Use the below command at the MS-DOS prompt or within a batch file.
xcopy *.shn *.wav
This would rename all files with .shn to .wav, while keeping the original files.
If you simply wish to rename the extensions without keeping the original file you can also use a command similar to the below example.
rename *.shn *.wav

CHANGE PROCESSOR NAME

GO TO START>RUN>TYPE REGEDIT>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>HARDWARE>DISCRIPTION>
SYSTEM>CENTRAL PROCESSOR>
ON RIGHT HAND SIDE RIGHT CLICK ON PROCESSORNAMESTRING AND THEN WRITE ANYTHING U WANT IN THAT TEXTBOX .

Add Photo to computer properties

add a photo to properties dialog box

To do this:
1. Open Notepad.
2. Type the following:

[general]

manufacturer=egyptian hak

model=WinXP Professional sp3

[support information]

line1=Name : egyptian hak

line2=mail : egyptianhak@msn.com

.
3. Save as "oeminfo.ini" in the System32 folder.(Without Quote)
4. Create a bmp file(Your Photo) and save it the System32 folder as "oemlogo.bmp"(Without Quote).
5. Now Check your My Computer Properties

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