Month: June 2010

Setup Windows Live Hotmail SMS Alerts

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Windows live mobile

Hotmail users has now something to cheer about, the new Hotmail mobile SMS alerts !! Yes, Windows Live Hotmail is offering free mail alerts via SMS, without requiring a GPRS enabled phone. To get started, follow the steps below:

1. Go this Windows Live Mobile Signup page, login using your Windows Live ID.

2. Now you can add a phone to your Windows Live account. Enter your mobile phone number and click “Next”.

add phone in Windows live mobile

3. You will now receive a verification code as a text message to your phone.

4. Enter the verification code, and select Hotmail under SMS services and click “Save”.

SMS Service Hotmail

You will now start receiving SMS whenever you get a new mail. You can also configure them to receive alerts from a set of recipients and also the time where during which you can receive them.

You can also read, compose, delete and forward e-mail right from your mobile phone using the following shortcuts with Hotmail.

SMS text Shortcuts for Hotmail:

Inbox- I or IA

Compose- C

Read – (msg num)

More – M

Reply – R or RA

Delete – D

Forward – F

Next – N

Previous – P

Mail header – MH

Convert .doc To .docx Using MS Word 2010

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Word 2010

Ever since Microsoft has introduced Microsoft Office 2007, .docx format replaced the classical .doc format which was used with MS Office 2003 on Windows XP based systems. But then, considering the fact that some of the users still use MS Office 2003 and Windows XP on their machines. If you have created a .doc format office document with earlier versions of MS Office, you might want to convert it to the newest .docx format. Here are the steps that you should follow to convert a document into Office Word 2007/2010 :

Steps:

1. Open the .doc format document in Microsoft Word 2010.

2. Click on the File from the menu. Under the Info tab, you can find a option to “Convert”

Convert Doc to DocX in Word 2010

3. Click on the Convert button to start the conversion process, you will be prompted warning window saying that the layout of the document may change if you convert the document to newest format. Click on “OK” to continue.

Microsoft Word 2010 convert

You can now save the document and it will be automatically converted to the .docx format.

Bing Facebook Map App Shows Your Friends Location On Facebook

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Fconnect my friends on bing

Bing Maps team has created a new app called “My friends”, which pulls your data from Facebook profile to show your friends locations on Bing maps.

Just open the My Friends application, login through Facebook Connect, select “Allow” to allow the Bing Maps to connect to your Facebook profile, that’s all you need to. Now the profile pictures of all your friends who have listed a “Current City” in their profile will be pinned to the map,

Current City in Facebook

as you can see here:

Facebook friends in bing

It’s really fun to see all your friends location on a map like this, just click on the “+” sign that may appear above any of your friends profile pictures to see more friends located in that particular city.

Link: My Friends Map App @ Bing

Nokia X5-01 QWERTY Full Phone Specifications

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Nokia X5 blue small

Nokia has today announced a teen-oriented QWERTY music phone Nokia X5-01 at a press conference. This is the second phone of the Nokia X5 series.

Nokia X5-01 is targeted mainly at the youth and it is clearly evident in the wide social networking integration on the phone. X5-01 comes with popular social networking services like Facebook, Twitter, Hi5, and MySpace, along with popular Instant Messengers(IMs) and multiple email accounts.

Nokia X5-01 features a 2.36-inch QVGA resolution display, Series 60 v3.2 UI,  a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard, 5 MP camera with 4x digital zoom and LED flash,  200 MB of internal memory which can be expanded up to 32GB using microSD card (2GB card included in the box), Ovi Music, 3G connectivity (HSDPA), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, A-GPS with Ovi Maps, microUSB and a 3.5 mm audio jack.

Nokia X5-01 will be coming up with excellent sound quality and loud speakers and the music playback on the phone can be controlled with gestures like spinning the phone etc.

Nokia X5-01 Pictures:

Nokia X5-01 pinkNokia X5-01 blue

Nokia X5-01 Full Specifications:

Dimensions 74.3 x 66.4 x 16.8 mm
Weight 129 g
Display – 2.36” TFT 256K colors
– 320 x 240 pixels
– Full QWERTY keyboard
Camera – 5 megapixels with LED flash
– 4x digital zoom
– 2592 x 1944 pixels
Memory – Internal: 200 MB
– External: Up to 32GB microSD
Operating System Symbian OS v9.3, S60 v3.2 UI
Network – 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 (2G)
– 850 / 1900 / 2100 (3G HSDPA)
900 / 1900 / 2100 (3G HSDPA)
Connectivity – 3G HSDPA
– Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
– Bluetooth v2.1
– microUSB 2.0
– A-GPS
– 3.5 mm audio jack
Audio/ Video formats – MP4/H.264/H.263 (Video)
– MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ (Audio)
Extras – Accelerometer sensor
– Flash Lite v3.0
– Doc viewer
– Stereo FM radio
Battery Standard Li-Po battery
Talk time – Up to 4 hrs (2G)
– Up to 3 hrs 30 mins (3G)
Music play time Up to 24 hrs
Stand-by time – Up to 16 days (2G)
– Up to 16 days (3G)
Colors Pink, Azure, Graphite Black, Yellow Green, Purple
Availability Expected release in Q3 2010

Price And Availability:

Nokia X5-01 has been announced on June 14, 2010. The device will be launched first Indonesia during Q3 2010 at a price of €165 ($202). The price of Nokia X5-01 in India is expected to be around Rs.9500 INR.

Nokia X5 is now available in India at Rs 10,499 INR.

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How To Stop Internet Explorer To Stop Asking You To Remember Passwords ?

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AutoComplete passwords

Microsoft Internet Explorer has a default “AutoComplete Passwords” feature that lets you save passwords for different login pages while browsing the internet. But if you are using a shared public computer with many users working on it, you might want to disable this feature for privacy concerns. Follow the steps below to make Internet Explorer stop asking for you to remember passwords.

Steps:

1. Go to Tools > Internet Options, switch to “Content” tab. Click on “Settings” under “AutoComplete” section.

ie content settings

2. Uncheck the “Ask me before saving passwords” option in the AutoComplete settings window.

AutoComplete settings

3. Click OK and close the settings window.

From now on, your Internet Explorer will not offer you the AutoComplete passwords dialogue. To re-enable this feature at any later time, just check the same option in the third step.

New Orkut Upgrade Brings More Facebook Like Features

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orkut logo

Orkut team has yesterday announced minor upgrades to the Google’s social networking site, definitely in a attempt to catch up to the Facebook’s domination in the arena.This is evident since the launch of new version of Orkut with changes like enabling friends to comment on the status updates,auto-magic groups, file transfer in chat etc.

The new upgrade to the site will bring three feature changes:

# Scraps are now being replaced by conversations:

“From now on, all scraps you send to your friends will also show up in your profile, making it easy to start new conversations”

You can even comment on the ongoing conversations that any of your friends have already started, now this conversation will start appearing in your profile, much like that way how Facebook shows them up.

# Private scraps:

You can now send a private scraps to your friends which will be visible to only selected friends:

orkut private scraps

“To keep something secret, just send a private scrap to your friends, and just those people selected will see it”

# Privacy Levels:

Orkut has added privacy settings for each of the individual items like who can see content on your profile, who can send a scrap to you, etc.

orkut_new_privacy_settings

“Every piece of content on orkut (a scrap, photo, video, etc) will be labelled with a privacy level, so you know who else is seeing it or not “

What do you feel about these new changes ? let us know.

Different Ways To Watch FIFA 2010 Football World Cup Live On Your PC And Mobile

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FIFA 2010 World cup

The 2010 FIFA World Cup is all set to kickoff today (June 11, 2010) with the first match to be played between South Africa Vs. Mexico. The best way to watch Soccer World cup matches live is to sit out in your home, relax and enjoy the live action your HDTV. But if you are away from home on your work or for some other reasons, being a big fan of football, you might still want to catch up with the all live action. Here we are coming up with a guide on different ways to watch 2010 FIFA World cup matches live streaming online on your PC as well as on your mobile phone.

FIFA World Cup 2010 Live Online Streaming:

1. ESPN, the leading sports network in the USA is offering online live streaming via ESPN 3. Starting from the World cup kick-off  on June 20th, ESPN 3 will stream all 64 games of FIFA soccer world cup 2011.

Espn live webcast.

2. Canada’s popular national public broadcaster CBC Sports website is set to stream every match live between June 11th to July 11, 2010.

CBC canada

3. TVU networks, popular internet live streaming platforms is also expected to provide live streaming of  FIFA 2010 world cup matches.

TVU screenshot

4. BBC also steps into the live webcast arena with its BBC Sports website and the folks in the UK will be able to watch the live football world cup matches (in high quality) online.

bbc sport uk

5. Apart from BBC, popular commercial television network in the UK, ITV will also be providing the 2010 FIFA World cup matches online streaming via ITV Live. Viewers can  see all 64 matches live including video highlights, real-time stats and much more.

ITV Live FIFA 2010

Live stream on your phone:

1. Optus, the second biggest Australian telecom company will be live streaming FIFA World cup 2010 South Africa matches free to the customers with compatible 3G mobile phones.

Optus_Australia_live_Fifa_3G[1]

2. ESPN Mobile TV will stream 56 2010 FIFA World cup matches live including Kick-off, semi-finals and final with HTC EVO 4G and other Sprint phones ay 3G and 4G speeds. This is also available on

AT&T Mobile TV – $9.99 per month (available on limited phone models)

FLO TV – $14.99 per month

MobiTV –  $9.99 per month

Sprint TV – according to data plan

Verizon V Cast Mobile TV –  10 matches will cost $15 per month (on limited phone models)

ESPN Mobile TV

3. MobiTV [Update: Link expired] is another good application to watch live matches online on your phone. It supports many AT&T, Sprint and Verizon phones and also on T-Mobile with HTC HD2 device.
mobitv

4. If you are using an iPhone, read about Top 6 fee World cup iPhone apps.

Follow FIFA 2010 WC updates on Twitter:

Follow the 2010 FIFA World Cup updates on Twitter from FIFA official Twitter account @fifaworldcuptm.

There are popular sites like Justin and UStream where some users may provide live streaming obviously through some illegal ways (like streaming their TV screen through a webcam etc.). They won’t longer for much time and will be removed by the corresponding administrators of the websites.

Earlier we had covered live streaming of WWDC 2010 event and Oscars 2010 .

[How To] Hide The Windows 7 System Tray Icons

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Windows 7 logo

Notification area or system tray icons in Windows 7 has been enhanced when compared to the earlier Windows versions like Windows XP. However, for some reasons if you want to disable the notification area and save some space (?) on your taskbar, here is what you need to do:

Registry hack:

Follow the registry path given below: (Registry code for hiding tray icons )

registry key notepad screenshot

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\>>Software\>>Microsoft\>>Windows\>>CurrentVersion\>>Policies\>>Explorer  and set  “NoTrayItemsDisplay” DWORD value to 1.

NoTrayItemsDisplay in windows 7

Third-Party Software:

If it’s looks complicated for you, just try this small app Hide SysTray to hide the notification area automatically.

Hide Systray

If you run the app, you can disable your notifications area like this:

notification area disabled

Note: You need to have .NET Framework version installed on your computer to run this application else you’ll end up with the following error.

Hide systray .net error

Run Multiple Versions of Firefox On Your PC

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firefox logo

“How I can run two (or multiple) versions of Firefox on my computer?”

This is the common questions asked by many of the Firefox, especially web developers who need to test their applications in various versions of Firefox.

It also might be a case that you liked an earlier version of Firefox and just want to run it as the secondary version (it’s always recommended to run the latest updated version to avoid any security risks).

While this question has no absolute solution, I’m posting a tip that at least gives us a chance to run two different versions of Firefox (but still won’t serve the purpose fully).

Update: Read How To Run Two Different Versions Of Firefox On The Same Computer, the updated version

One way we can two different versions of Firefox is to install and use a Portable Edition of the Firefox. Just install the version of the Firefox that you want to use on portable device, install it on your USB flash drive. Plug it in and start using the portable version. However you please note that you cannot run these two versions simultaneously. Supposing that you have installed a new Firefox v3.6 on your PC and a portable version 2.0.0.20 on your USB disk, if you are running Firefox v 2.0.0.20 from your USB and you click on the Firefox icon shortcut to open a new window, you will be surprised to see that it’s the v2.0.0.20 that runs and not v3.6 and vice-versa.

Download Firefox Portable Edition

Tip: Always Run A Program As An Administrator By Default

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Windows 7 as a security measure doesn’t allow you run any program as an administrator by default. But sometimes you might need to run a program a program far too many times that requires elevated privileges, and it’s really annoying if to see that you are being asked to run it as an administrator each and every time you run it. However, there is a way to run the program as an administrator by default in Windows 7 (and Vista) that many of us aren’t aware of. Here is how you can do it :

Steps:

1. If you wish the program to run as an administrator by using the shortcuts of a program, you need to right-click on the shortcut, select “Properties”,

Windows 7 right click context menu on shortcut

2. Now click on the “Advanced..” button under the “Shortcut” tab of the properties window.

Windows_7_advanced_properties_shortcut

3. Select “Run as administrator” option under “Advanced Properties” window and click OK. Apply the settings and close all the properties window.

advanced_properties_exe

4. Now run the program again and you will see that it’s running as administrator (See the screenshot of the Windows Command Prompt, and observe the string “Administrator” in the title of the program)
CMD as administrator in Windows 7

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