Get Windows 7 Calculator In Vista

<p><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Windows 7 has introduced a completely revamped Calculator program (calc.exe) that has created enough oohs and aahs among users.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Wkb4ZDCaurRNVMzv4Ys8DcYh1QoUV7a2rVvbiCqIhfrFv4OTGMRGF6FCSZNny0o6sK8SADsngTucGWvSAzPeXWKwoTgRqU4QXwa7rh38Hf-tvGLaz8G6k8kBYYHR5-5XDzEiJk0wmyc/s1600-h/c-datecalcduration%5B4%5D.png"><img alt="c-datecalcduration" border="0" height="369" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIS8DbPr_TU5-A5oNXVguzGXVxKIZpYKaNK8LSE6RV7D-ERIeqfipvhyphenhyphenzHzr0ffLe1YTPDdmtdyu5PqZaELiRxvyQPZEChe7N0qKtkSNX5YV74tOJR7-WV9K5zYGon1uqyE-5b-9d8RLc/?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline;" title="c-datecalcduration" width="454" /></a> <br />Lifehacker has done a great screenshot tour of the new calculator, that you can <a href="http://lifehacker.com/5078756/windows-7s-calculator-bundles-real+life-uses">see here</a>.<br />Two new modes got introduced in this version of calculator – statistics and programmer. There are also a number of ‘templates’ that are built-in, using which you can do your normal, everyday calculations like unit conversion, finding gas mileage, wage calculation, mortgage and lease payments more easily.<br />Vista users who want to try out this new calculator can download <a href="http://www.box.net/shared/y7tdnm9y2a#Windows7-calculator">this zip file</a>, extract it to any location and run the calc.exe file. If you wish to replace the existing calc.exe, first make a backup of C:\Windows\System32\calc.exe and replace it with the one in the archive. Similarly, backup C:Windows\System32\en-US\calc.exe.mui and replace it with the one in the archive.<br /><a href="http://www.box.net/shared/y7tdnm9y2a#Windows7-calculator">Download Windows 7 Calculator For Vista</a></div></p>

Windows 7 has introduced a completely revamped Calculator program (calc.exe) that has created enough oohs and aahs among users. Lifehacker has done a great screenshot tour of the new calculator, that you can see here.Two new modes got introduced in t…

Hide Folders in Windows 7 the Geek Way Using God Mode

<p><p><img align="left" alt="image" border="0" height="96" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBUGdZtKIaZdZdQx9oTn4QCl1y3ymFVMAsMV0ssOLRi6kysJtGGowrWk5wU6p4CGMwltZ_nbC3qDxljVZbQpPPSyaRB5G9JZAiom2Degu36sAllIpWBKqYWLgxVM_Pyi2cRjKXUo7EiZs/?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" width="114" /> You probably have heard about the Windows 7 & Vista easter egg about the God Mode. You take any folder and append the magical string “<strong>.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}</strong>” to the end of the folder name and the folder turns into a special folder from where you can control all settings of your PC.</p> <p>Today, we’ll see how we can utilize this little feature to hide some desired folders in our PC. Say, we have some important documents in C:\data\important folder that we would like to hide. Browse to C:\data folder and rename the important folder to  “important.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}”</p> <p>You’ll notice that the icon of the folder changes to a different one. Now try double clicking this icon. You’ll see that you get a settings screen instead of the actual folder contents. Your actual folder contents are now safe from prying eyes.</p> <p>In order to get the contents back, take a command prompt, cd to C:\data and type <strong>ren important.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} important</strong></p> <p>Here, we are simply renaming the file back to its original name. You don't have to type the entire cryptic folder name. Just enter the first few letters of the folder name and hit the tab key. Command prompt will automatically fill the rest of the folder name.</p> <p>Apart from the above mentioned string, you can also use the following list of strings appended to your folder names to create different types of God folders.</p> <p>.{00C6D95F-329C-409a-81D7-C46C66EA7F33} <br />.{0142e4d0-fb7a-11dc-ba4a-000ffe7ab428} <br />.{025A5937-A6BE-4686-A844-36FE4BEC8B6D} <br />.{05d7b0f4-2121-4eff-bf6b-ed3f69b894d9} <br />.{1206F5F1-0569-412C-8FEC-3204630DFB70} <br />.{15eae92e-f17a-4431-9f28-805e482dafd4} <br />.{17cd9488-1228-4b2f-88ce-4298e93e0966} <br />.{1D2680C9-0E2A-469d-B787-065558BC7D43} <br />.{1FA9085F-25A2-489B-85D4-86326EEDCD87} <br />.{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D} <br />.{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D} <br />.{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D} <br />.{241D7C96-F8BF-4F85-B01F-E2B043341A4B} <br />.{4026492F-2F69-46B8-B9BF-5654FC07E423} <br />.{62D8ED13-C9D0-4CE8-A914-47DD628FB1B0} <br />.{78F3955E-3B90-4184-BD14-5397C15F1EFC}</p> <p>There are reports that the God mode crashes Vista running on 64 bit machines. So take care if you fall in this category.</p> <p>Note: If the data is something that you really don't want to fall into the hands of bad guys, we would suggest you encrypt it using tools like <a href="http://www.truecrypt.org/">TrueCrypt</a> rather than using this method.</p> </p>

You probably have heard about the Windows 7 & Vista easter egg about the God Mode. You take any folder and append the magical string “.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}” to the end of the folder name and the folder turns into a special folder f…

How to Prevent Timeout of Image Title Text Tooltip in Firefox

<p><p>Readers of the prominent web comics <a href="http://www.xkcd.com/">xkcd</a> would have had the pain at least once. The author adds witty comments to his comic strips using the html ‘title’ attribute of an image. To read this, one needs to hover his mouse over the comics image and Firefox pops up a little tooltip box containing the text. But the comments are often too long and before one can read it fully, the tooltip will timeout.</p> <p>Unfortunately, this tooltip timeout period is not configurable in Firefox. Not via preferences and neither via about-config.</p> <p>Well, Thomas Bertels seems to have noticed this and he decided to make a Firefox addon just for this. The addon, aptly named <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11233">No Tooltip Timeout</a> removes the timeout of tooltips. That means the rollover text would be visible as long as your mouse is over the image. And to make the tooltip disappear, just move the mouse away from the image.</p> <p>No Tooltip Timeout is a free download for Firefox 1.5 – 3.5 Windows/Linux/Mac.</p> <p><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11233">No Tooltip Timeout</a> [addons.mozilla.org]</p> </p>

Readers of the prominent web comics xkcd would have had the pain at least once. The author adds witty comments to his comic strips using the html ‘title’ attribute of an image. To read this, one needs to hover his mouse over the comics image and Fire…

Hawkscope - Single Click Access To Any File Through System Tray Icon [Productivity Improvement]

<p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK_2dGYPW0ppD4ljk6BgI82sVeGWD79M7WmSs523LLCdTNevdG3lnBVP90B7Eda9PqUklKbc6WQGjlrz3wtzkOg7fC7r5miYORpoARZ4ISf7Ok3BDUFp6iXUmgzAsEL43285yY_DeGisk/s1600-h/hawkscope-screenshot.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="329" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK_2dGYPW0ppD4ljk6BgI82sVeGWD79M7WmSs523LLCdTNevdG3lnBVP90B7Eda9PqUklKbc6WQGjlrz3wtzkOg7fC7r5miYORpoARZ4ISf7Ok3BDUFp6iXUmgzAsEL43285yY_DeGisk/s400/hawkscope-screenshot.png" width="495" /></a></div><br />Windows, Linux, Mac: Hawkscope is a Java based free and open source tool that adds a little icon to your system taskbar, clicking on which opens a pop-up menu using which you can browse your hard disk contents and open them.<br /><br />For the keyboard junkies, there is an option to set a key combination that'll open up this pop-up menu. You can set folders as your favorite ones for much faster quick access. You can also blacklist certain folders so that they are not included in the pop-up menu listing.<br /><br />The application is quite extensible via plugins. Currently, there are plugins to search of Google, check Gmail and (obviously) a plugin to post to Twitter.<br /><br /><a href="http://code.google.com/p/hawkscope/">Download Hawkscope</a></p>

Windows, Linux, Mac: Hawkscope is a Java based free and open source tool that adds a little icon to your system taskbar, clicking on which opens a pop-up menu using which you can browse your hard disk contents and open them.For the keyboard junkies, …

Snapper – An Easy to Use Firefox Extension to Take Website Screenshots

<p><p><a href="http://www.dailygyan.com/search/label/Firefox" target="_blank">Firefox</a> (Windows, Linux, Mac): Snapper is a new Firefox extensions that can capture web pages as images. After installing Snapper, you’ll get a fish icon in your status bar. Clicking on this icon causes the fish to open it’s mouth! Now you are in capture mode. Click and drag around the portion that you want to save as image and a file save dialog pops up asking you the location to save the image.</p> <p>Snapper makes it too simple. Watch this screencast.</p> <p><embed src="http://blip.tv/play/tTaBkuJjAA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" height="350" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2703" target="_blank">Snapper Mozilla Addons Page</a></p> </p>

Firefox (Windows, Linux, Mac): Snapper is a new Firefox extensions that can capture web pages as images. After installing Snapper, you’ll get a fish icon in your status bar. Clicking on this icon causes the fish to open it’s mouth! Now you are in cap…

Prevent NoScript From Displaying the Updates Home Page Every Time it is Updated

<p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8cpa1mZ8lx8XT1vjZhZlT10XzDws1dI2NWr2VHUSOr1vwzwQ3SDlHl-tPlMRlp9atRJIxKanJC4AzhpOovo6loARLh3JcXCNjEJZa_b8okvx42ehE368mKetDHqOuhkMhSZYjnDb6jYQ/s1600-h/noscript-icon.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8cpa1mZ8lx8XT1vjZhZlT10XzDws1dI2NWr2VHUSOr1vwzwQ3SDlHl-tPlMRlp9atRJIxKanJC4AzhpOovo6loARLh3JcXCNjEJZa_b8okvx42ehE368mKetDHqOuhkMhSZYjnDb6jYQ/s200/noscript-icon.png" /></a></div>We really love <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722">NoScript</a> Firefox extension. In our quest to explore even the dark and unknown realms of the internet to gather news for our beloved readers, noscript has been a faithful companion, protecting us from many malicious Javascript coders out there.<br /><br />But still, we shake our heads in despair when NoScript opens its welcome page each time it updates itself. And with the extension author releasing a new version before and after his meal everyday, we are seeing this page too often these days. <br /><br />So we were glad when we found this section hidden in the <a href="http://noscript.net/faq">FAQ</a> section of NoScript:<br /><blockquote>Q: I don't like NoScript redirecting the browser on its release notes page every time I upgrade it. Is there any way to prevent this?<br /><br />A: First time you install NoScript and every time you upgrade it to a newer major version, Firefox opens an additional tab containing the NoScript welcome page, where you can read the release notes, the latest announcements and an introduction to the most important NoScript features (plus a link to this very FAQ...) If you feel you don't need such heads up, you can disable this feature by clicking the NoScript icon, selecting Options and unchecking "Display the release notes on update" in the "Notifications" tab. </blockquote><br />That's it. There is an option in the Options dialog, just for this.<br />For the geeks out there, you can also do this by going into the about:config window and changing the value of <code>noscript.firstRunRedirection </code> to false.</p>

We really love NoScript Firefox extension. In our quest to explore even the dark and unknown realms of the internet to gather news for our beloved readers, noscript has been a faithful companion, protecting us from many malicious Javascript coders ou…

NotMyIp - Best Free Proxy Tool Out There [Daily Download]

<p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUgFfH5aMVdu-OZf9fcOakOwc2yE-HSs_J29dsuZZ7g_2e3OJD6hr9FwzH4s8AQ919W2LEyE7Rg7aG3DXkJgVWKGvZiKJ4mSVcaH7HT_IQ-5pyneO2hWp0Ctj5ypPdbnt9-JHcMk2lW-Q/s1600-h/home-nmip.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUgFfH5aMVdu-OZf9fcOakOwc2yE-HSs_J29dsuZZ7g_2e3OJD6hr9FwzH4s8AQ919W2LEyE7Rg7aG3DXkJgVWKGvZiKJ4mSVcaH7HT_IQ-5pyneO2hWp0Ctj5ypPdbnt9-JHcMk2lW-Q/s400/home-nmip.jpg" /></a></div><br />Windows only: There may be many reasons why people have always felt a need to hide their actual IP addresses. The intentions may not be always malicious. It may be to protect privacy, for overcoming censorships, to browse anonymously, to bypass Rapidshare download limit, circumvent the Megaupload country slot limit etc.<br /><br />So people use proxy servers. When one use a proxy server, the outside world would see the address of the proxy server and not the user's actual IP address.<br /><br />NotMyIp is an application that makes it dead simple to mask one's IP address. This is a freeware version of the popular premium product - Anonymity Gateway. NotMyIp doesn't require any manual configurations. It automatically configures all installed browsers like Firefox, IE, Opera and Google Chrome to use high quality US proxies. This takes the pain away from the user as he longer need to search for free proxies in the internet and configure the browsers manually.<br /><br />Not My Ip is a free for non-commercial use tool, available for Windows only.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.privacy-gateway.com/notmyip.html">Download NotMyIp</a></p>

Windows only: There may be many reasons why people have always felt a need to hide their actual IP addresses. The intentions may not be always malicious. It may be to protect privacy, for overcoming censorships, to browse anonymously, to bypass Rapid…