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Apr 29, 2009

IPL fever can be experienced all over; people rushing from offices to catch the live matches, crowd on the roadside stalls etc. are the couple of examples of this fever.

Well, I don’t have any interest in Cricket, but people around me watch the matches regularly, so I too keep getting the glimpses of these matches, one thing which I am very much interested in is the Vodafone ad campaigns.

These campaigns showcase a cartoon character, and some other members from same community, and these ads talk about alerts and other services on Vodafone.

So if you too like these ads, go ahead and download them, here you can find several other Vodafone ad campaign videos.

Download Funny Vodafone Ad Videos



Windows creates lot of hidden folders including the system folders so as to avoid people from deleting them accidently. However if people are aware of these deature they also tend to create hidden folders to hide some data on your computer which you might not like it.

Special Folders View is a small software which lists all hidden folder in one place, giving you an exact idea of its location. Apart for listing hidden folders it also lists down system folders like temp folders, storing application settings and files, storing Internet files, storing shortcuts to other files etc.

View Hidden Folders

A user might not have to do much with System Folders but he definitely would like to track down if there are any un necessary folders which were made hidden with purpose.  Give Special Folder View a try Via Ghacks



Cuteness.ws has this simple online tool which allows you to give a retro look to your photos, this actually makes your photo look like the one shot using a Polaroid Cameras.

polaroid-o-nize-an-image

This tool named as Polaroid-o-nize an image is very simple and easy to use. As seen in above snapshot, you can add retro effects to your images in few steps, i.e. choose a background color, give the URL for your online photo, define the position of photo, rotation angle, and some text. Finally hit the Onize button, soon the photo will be in front of you.

Now simply copy the image and save it anywhere using any image editor you have.

Try Polaroid-o-nize



In tha latest press release Jane Liles of MS announced SP2 release for Microsoft office 2007 which is available as separate download for everybody.

One of the important aspect of this update is the support for OpenDocument format in Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007 i.e. to read and write  any document in the ODF format can be achieved without use of any third part plugins.Apart from this now we have save to PDF also rolled in.

Here are few more points :

  • Users should notice the improved performance and stability of Outlook, better charting functionality in Excel, and more control over the appearance of SmartArt graphics.
  • Outlook 2007 SP2 is 26 percent faster than its predecessor on a set of common e-mail tasks and is even faster, 35 percent, with larger mailboxes.
  • Several enhancements to the security and performance of SharePoint Server 2007, including support for read-only content databases, improvements to forms-based authentication, and an STSADM command-line utility that enables administrators to scan sites that use the variations feature for errors. SharePoint Server will also feature better support for newer versions of the Firefox browser

You can start download the update sp2 file for Microsoft Office from here



Mar 15, 2009

Keepmeout is pretty cool service if you want to block any particular website on your computer for sometime.  What they say is if you are addicted to visit a site more often and waste your time e.g orkut use this but then they also give you a temporary URL to access it but If i have to access it I will use that url.

Temporary Block websites

Temporarily Block websites

Alternate URL to access blocked sites

Alternate URL to access blocked sites

Instead of that use it to block some sites so that others cannot use it. Lets say you have couple of people who come to use your computer for 10 minutes and end up using for hours on some site,  just block it with Keepmeout.

However remember this site blocks if you visit the site more than once. So make sure you have accessed it once so your friends see it blocked when they try to.