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Saturday, February 9, 2013

50 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do.

Self-reliance is a vital key to living a healthy, productive life. To be self-reliant one must master a basic set of skills, more or less making them a jack of all trades. Contrary to what you may have learned in school, a jack of all trades is far more equipped to deal with life than a specialized master of only one.
While not totally comprehensive, here is a list of 50 things everyone should know how to do.

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1. Build a Fire – Fire produces heat and light, two basic necessities for living. At some point in your life this knowledge may be vital.

2. Operate a Computer – Fundamental computer knowledge is essential these days. Please, help those in need.

3. Use Google Effectively – Google knows everything. If you’re having trouble finding something with Google, it’s you that needs help.

4. Perform CPR and the Heimlich Maneuver – CPR is an emergency procedure that is performed on people who are suffering from cardiac arrest. The purpose of CPR is to provide a flow of oxygenated blood to the brain until other procedures can be performed to restore the person's heartbeat and breathing. After more than about five minutes without oxygen, the human brain can suffer permanent damage, so this procedure increases a person's chances of making a full recovery. By itself, CPR is rarely enough for the person to survive, because it typically does not restore the person's heartbeat. Rather, this procedure typically is done as first aid to temporarily keep blood flowing to the brain until emergency responders arrive and can begin treating the person. Someday it may be your wife, husband, son or daughter that needs help.

5. Drive a Manual Transmission Vehicle – There will come a time when you’ll be stuck without this knowledge.

6. Do Basic Cooking – If you can’t cook your own steak and eggs, you probably aren’t going to make it.

7. Tell a Story that Captivates People’s Attention – If you can’t captivate their attention, you should probably just save your breath.

8. Win or Avoid a Fistfight – Either way, you win.

9. Deliver Bad News – Somebody has got to do it. Unfortunately, someday that person will be you.

10. Change a Tire – Because tires have air in them, and things with air in them eventually pop.

11. Handle a Job Interview – I promise, sweating yourself into a nervous panic won’t land you the job.

12. Manage Time – Not doing so is called wasting time, which is okay sometimes, but not all the time.

13. Speed Read – Sometimes you just need the basic gist, and you needed it 5 minutes ago.

14. Remember Names – Do you like when someone tries to get your attention by screaming “hey you”?

15. Relocate Living Spaces – Relocating is always a little tougher than you originally imagined.

16. Travel Light – Bring only the necessities. It’s the cheaper, easier, smarter thing to do.

17. Handle the Police – Because jail isn’t fun… and neither is Bubba.

18. Give Driving Directions – Nobody likes driving around in circles. Get this one right the first time.

19. Perform Basic First Aid – You don’t have to be a doctor, or genius, to properly dress a wound.

20. Swim – 71% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water. Learning to swim might be a good idea.

21. Parallel Park – Parallel parking is a requirement on most standard driver’s license driving tests, yet so many people have no clue how to do it. How could this be?

22. Recognize Personal Alcohol Limits – Otherwise you may wind up like this charming fellow.

23. Select Good Produce – Rotten fruits and vegetables can be an evil tease and an awful surprise.

24. Handle a Hammer, Axe or Handsaw – Carpenters are not the only ones who need tools. Everyone should have a basic understanding of basic hand tools.

25. Make a Simple Budget – Being in debt is not fun. A simple budget is the key.

26. Speak at Least Two Common Languages – Only about 25% of the world’s population speaks English. It would be nice if you could communicate with at least some of the remaining 75%.

27. Do Push-Ups and Sit-Ups Properly – Improper push-ups and sit-ups do nothing but hurt your body and waste your time.

28. Give a Compliment – It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give someone, and it’s free.

29. Negotiate – The better deal is only a question or two away.

30. Listen Carefully to Others – The more you listen and the less you talk, the more you will learn and the less you will miss.

31. Recite Basic Geography – If you don’t know where anything is outside of your own little bubble, most people will assume (and they are probably correct) that you don’t know too much at all.

32. Paint a Room – The true cost of painting is 90% labor. For simple painting jobs it makes no sense to pay someone 9 times what it would cost you to do it yourself.

33. Make a Short, Informative Public Speech – At the next company meeting if your boss asks you to explain what you’ve been working on over the last month, a short, clear, informative response is surely your best bet. “Duhhh…” will not cut it.

34. Smile for the Camera – People that absolutely refuse to smile for the camera suck!

35. Flirt Without Looking Ridiculous – There is a fine line between successful flirting and utter disaster. If you try too hard, you lose. If you don’t try hard enough, you lose.

36. Take Useful Notes – Because useless notes are useless, and not taking notes is a recipe for failure.

37. Be a Respectful House Guest – Otherwise you will be staying in a lot of hotels over the years.

38. Make a Good First Impression – Aristotle once said, “well begun is half done.”

39. Navigate with a Map and Compass – What happens when the GPS craps out and you’re in the middle of nowhere?

40. Sew a Button onto Clothing – It sure is cheaper than buying a new shirt.

41. Hook Up a Basic Home Theater System – This isn’t rocket science. Paying someone to do this shows sheer laziness.

42. Type – Learning to type could save you days worth of time over the course of your lifetime.

43. Protect Personal Identity Information – Personal identity theft is not fun unless you are the thief. Don’t be careless.

44. Implement Basic Computer Security Best Practices – You don’t have to be a computer science major to understand the fundamentals of creating complex passwords and using firewalls. Doing so will surely save you a lot of grief someday.

45. Detect a Lie – People will lie to you. It’s a sad fact of life.

46. End a Date Politely Without Making Promises – There is no excuse for making promises you do not intend to keep. There is also no reason why you should have to make a decision on the spot about someone you hardly know.

47. Remove a Stain – Once again, it’s far cheaper than buying a new one.

48. Keep a Clean House – A clean house is the foundation for a clean, organized lifestyle.

49. Hold a Baby – Trust me, injuring a baby is not what you want to do.

50. Jump Start a Car – It sure beats walking or paying for a tow truck.

Have fun!!

Friday, February 8, 2013

Disable "This copy of windows is not genuine" annoying messages in windows seven without using any software

Do you want to disable "this copy of windows is not genuine message" in windows seven? Try this method. It requires no additional software and hardly takes 4~8 minutes. People who are using windows seven whose license period has expired knows very well how disgusting that pop-up of windows is. I mean com'on do we really need to remind every five minutes about the windows that we are using is not genuine?? Additionally, we get banished from setting the desktop wallpaper. "Desktop Wallpaper" guys!! It is kind of stealing the beauty of laptop. And its a big deal!!

You might be searching for the software that can hide “Windows Seven not genuine” notification. Well, did you get success? If your answer is no, here are some easy steps that will allow you to do so without using any software. A lot of promising software are available now a days to fix this but unfortunately none of them works correctly. I'm posting a method that you can do it by yourself and hardly takes 4-8 minutes. Here we go...

Procedure to fix "this copy of windows is not genuine" notification:

The whole process can be divided into two parts:

PART A - Uninstalling Windows Update: KB971033

PART B - Rearm Windows

The so notification is because of Windows Update: KB971033. You need to uninstall it. It will not affect anything else in your system. Follow these simple steps to uninstall it-

PART - A: Uninstalling Windows Update: KB971033

Go to Windows Update
Hit Installed Updates (link at the bottom left corner). If that link isn’t there, hit “view update history” and hit the “installed updates” link at the top.
Scroll down to the section titled “Microsoft Windows” and look for update KB971033.
Right click it and hit “uninstall”. Hit okay.
Reboot
PART - B: Rearm Windows:
1. Click start and simply type COMMAND PR in the start menu’s search box. Right click COMMAND PROMPT and select RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR.
2. In the command prompt window type:

slmgr.vbs -rearm
and press enter. (Note that there is a space between slmgr.vbs and -rearm.)
3. Now reboot and you're good to go.

Be sure to turn off windows update or else you will face the same problem again. Alternatively, you can hide Windows Update: KB971033 in your windows update history. This method is tested by me and it is working fine.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Do you know how New Bill Gates comes out?

The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit educational organization, created in 2006 by Bangladeshi American educator Salman Khan, a graduate of MIT. With the stated mission of "providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere", the website supplies a free online collection of more than 2,600 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching Mathematics, History, Healthcare & Medicine, Finance, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Astronomy, Economics, Cosmology and Computer Science.

Khan Academy "We're a small team trying our best to improve the way the world learns. Too many people around the globe don’t have access to good education materials, or they are forced to learn through a system that doesn't properly cater to their individual needs. We think the technology exists today to fundamentally change this, and we're trying to build the tools and resources every student deserves.

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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

How Do GOOD Programmer or IT Ask Questions?

I spend a lot of time on stackoverflow.com and I've seen my fair share of questions. Some good, others leave you wondering how the hell some people made it this far. Good Programmer have learned how to ask questions to get the best possible answer in the shortest amount of time.

First of all, let me say this. If you consider yourself a developer and don't find yourself wanting to ask questions on a daily basis, you're doing something wrong. Asking questions without being afraid of humiliating yourself is critical.

Let me throw out a few pointers that I've gathered from reading hundreds (if not thousands) of different questions on sites like stackoverflow, experts-exchange, and other various forum-type sites.

Don't be afraid to over-describe your problem. Some people seem to be afraid to muck up a question with speculation, code-snippets, or extraneous details. When, in fact, many times these elements can be vital to help figuring out one's dilemma. Of course there is a limit, don't post your entire class library, unless requested, and expect unpaid volunteers to sift through everything.
Include error messages. If I see another question that has some variation of the phrase "It doesn't work" or "It failed" I'll flip my lid. People need to know precisely how you know something failed. What you think might be the obvious outcome of a particular situation may not be clear to everyone else. So make sure to clearly define in your question What you expected to happen, and exactly what happened instead no matter how trivial it might seem.
Briefly list out your environment particulars. Aside: This is starting to sound a little bit like my other write-up 'Things I Hate - People Who Do-Not Know How to Report Bugs'. Environment variables are far too often overlooked. Take a few seconds and list out a few pertinent details like software used, version numbers, etc.
Speculate! I hinted at this before but narrating your own question can be extremely helpful. Sometimes, your situation may seem so bat-crazy to others that they have no clue what you're trying to accomplish. Including a few blurbs about your thought process can allow readers pinpoint where you went awry and explain why.
Examples. It may not come to this but sometimes examples are the only way to accurately describe your question/situation. Start with snippets of code and expand from there. If you're working with the web it might be worth it to setup a quick and dirty demonstration page that others can view. For things like CSS questions this is sometimes the only way for others to know what you mean.
Phrase the question so that you not only obtain the answer, but learn how to research similar questions in the future. This one really irks me. There are countless habitual abusers of stackoverflow that ask up to 50 questions a day that could be just as easily been placed into Google and click I'm Feeling Lucky. Self-exploration and research should ALWAYS be the first step before posting a question. You will learn tons more by trying to find the answer yourself. Even if you don't find the final solution you were looking for you may discover other unknown tidbits of knowledge or some sort of work-around given by another frustrated developer. Failing that, include your research strategy in the body of your question so that, along with the answer, others can suggest where you may have gone wrong with your Google searches.
Don't get offended by responses. Most of the time, people leaving answers or additional questions are doing so in their spare time (or at work slacking off). If you post a question and someone leaves a response asking if you checked a variable to make sure it contained what you think it should contain don't go off on them. You might be inclined to respond with something like 'Of course I checked. Do you think I'm stupid? That's the first place I checked! You're lame for even asking that!' This may seem over the top but, believe it or not, I've seen worse. Like I said, assume NOTHING when asking questions or posting follow-ups. Unless the user is obviously being malicious or trolling you should always kill them with kindness.

Just a few simple things to keep in mind. Be humble, specific, and realize that everyone has been in your situation at some point. No one has all the answers, and if they did they certainly got some help from those around them.

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

10 Secret Facebook Features You Need To Be Using.

1. Create a group of people to hide your photos from

Using Facebook's "Lists" feature, it's easy to make a list of people you want to hide your pictures from.
Whether it's parents, coworkers, or anybody else, all you need to do is put them all into a "List." To do it, click Account in the top right corner, then click "Edit Friends."
Click "Create a List," then find friends and add them to your new list and name your list something you can remember. Next, click Account again but this time click Privacy Settings afterwards.
Click "Custom" in the left panel, then "Customize settings" below the chart. Scroll down to anything you want to hide, click the drop down menu next to it, then click "Custom" yet again. Yes--this takes a while. Facebook likes people to be open.
Finally, under "Hide" enter in the name of the group you just created, and you're done. To be extra sure, go back to the top of this screen and click "Preview my Profile," then enter the name of a person in the list you created to see how your profile will look to them.

2. Use these quick tips to make viewing photos a lot better experience.

Does anyone actually like the new photo viewer on Facebook?
I'm talking about the one that makes Facebook look like a slideshow.
If you hate it, all you need to do is wait for the picture to finish loading, then click refresh in your browser. You'll be taken to the old fashioned photo page that looks like the one pictured at right.
Another useful photo-browsing tip is using your arrow keys to navigate a ton of pictures. Hold down the left or right arrow key to see your life flash before your eyes.

3. Remove apps you aren't using anymore--they still have access to all your information

When you install Facebook apps or permissions, the apps often get access to your wall, pictures, friends, and more.
It's easy to change your privacy settings, but not as easy to remember that apps can still mine your information even when you're not using them.
Click Account in the top right corner, then Privacy Settings, then "Edit Your Settings" under Apps And Websites in the bottom left of the privacy screen. Then click "Edit Settings" to the right of the Apps You Use panel.
Click the little gray "x" to the right of any apps you no longer use, and they'll no longer have access to your information.

4. Enable these handy security features to make sure your account doesn't get compromised.

Two features we had no idea existed (until we scoured Facebook's settings) were the HTTPS setting and the Login Notifications setting.
If you enable HTTPS, it greatly reduces your chance of getting your password swiped when logging into Facebook on a public Wi-Fi at Starbucks.
If you enable Login Notifications, you'll get an email whenever someone logs onto your Facebook account from an unrecognized.

5. Personalize your Facebook URL, making it easier for people to find you

Many people use Facebook and LinkedIn as the bases of their business lives, and it's nice to have an easy to remember URL you can refer people to.
Click "Account" in the top right, then click "change" next to Username. Type in something you like, then check the availability to see if anyone has taken it.
Your new username will create a URL for you, facebook.com/ellishamburger is an example.

6. See a picture you like? Download it in full quality

Since Facebook switched gears to their new slideshow-ish picture browser, you can no longer drag pictures to your desktop to save them.
Screen grabbing is annoying, so look down in the bottom corner of the picture viewer and click "Download" to get a full-quality copy of the image you're looking at.

7. Wish you could see all your friends' birthdays in iCal, Outlook, or Google Calendar?

This could be a little overwhelming for people with tons of Facebook friends they don't talk to, but for many, this quick tip could be a big time-saver.
All you need to do is access your birthday page by clicking here, then scrolling down to the very bottom and clicking "Export Birthdays."
Click the link to subscribe to the Birthdays calendar using your computer's default calendar app. Or, open up your favorite calendar app and add a calendar subscription. If you don't know how, Google how to add subscriptions for your calendar. Then, copy in the link from Facebook.

8. Grab Facebook's Desktop Notifications apps to always stay up to date

MAC
Using the official desktop notifier for Mac, you'll get a Facebook icon in your menu bar that turns blue when you have a new notification. It's a
PC
Grab Internet Explorer 9 and pin the Facebook website to your taskbar. You'll see a red asterisk whenever you have a new notification. Or, try Facebook Desktop, a more feature-packed solution.

9. Wish you could post to several friends' walls at once?

All you need to do is tag friends in a post on your wall, or on anyone else's wall. Your post will show up on every persons' wall that you tag.
When you're typing a status or wall post, type the @ sign and then a friends' name. It will tag them in your post, and they'll see it on their wall as if it were a normal wall post.

10. Facebook's new Groups feature is a lot more powerful than it used to be

With Facebook's new Groups (which you create by clicking "Create Group" in your left navigation bar), you can essentially create your own listserv for a group of friends.
When you view a group, you'll see updates from friends, have the ability to edit documents together ("Create Doc" in right bar inside your group), chat together in a private chat room, and send out updates.
Create a group for your closest friends, or for your fantasy baseball team, or for anything else. If you want to leave a group, all you do is click the little gray "x" next to its name in the left navigation bar of Facebook.

Thursday, June 30, 2011

How to Protect an Email Account from being Hacked

Today in this post I’ll teach you how to protect your email account from being hacked. Nowadays I get a lot of emails where most of the people say “My Email account is hacked please help…”. Now one question which arises in our mind is: “Is it so easy to hack an email account? OR Is it so difficult to protect an email account from being hacked?”. The single answer to these two questions is “Absolutely NOT!”. It is neither easy to hack an email nor difficult to protect an email account from being hacked.

If this is the case, then what is the reason for many people to lose their accounts?
The answer is very simple. They don’t know how to protect themselves from being hacked! In fact most of the people who lose their email accounts are not the victims of hacking but the victims of Trapping. They lose their passwords not because they are hacked by some expert hackers but they are fooled to such an extent that they themselves give away their password.
Are you confused? If so continue reading and you’ll come to know…
Now I’ll mention some of the most commonly used online scams which fool people and make them lose their passwords. I’ll also mention how to protect your email account from these scams.

1. WEBSITE SPOOFING
Website spoofing is the act of creating a website, with the intention of misleading the readers. The website will be created by a different person or organisation (Other than the original) especially for the purposes of cheating. Normally, the website will adopt the design of the target website and sometimes has a similar URL.
For example a Spoofed Website of Yahoo.com appears exactly same as Yahoo Website. So most of the people believe that it is the original site and lose their passwords. The main intention of spoofed websites is to fool users and take away their passwords. For this,the spoofed sites offer fake login pages. These fake login pages resemble the original login pages of sites like Yahoo,Gmail,Orkut etc. Since it resemble’s the original login page people beleive that it is true and give away their username and passwords by trying to login to their accounts.

Solution:
• Never try to login/access your email account from the sites other than the original site.
• Always type the URL of the site in the address bar to get into the site. Never click on the hyperlink to enter the site.

2. BY USING KEYLOGGERS
The other commonly used method to steal password is by using a Keylogger. A Keylogger is nothing but a spyware. The detailed description of keylogger and it’s usage will discussed in the post Hacking an email account. If you read this post you’ll come to know that it is too easy to steal the password using a keylogger program. If you just access your email account from a computer installed with keylogger, you definitely lose your password. This is because the keylogger records each and every keystroke that you type.

Solution:
Protecting yourselves from a keylogger scam is very easy.Just install a good anti-spyware program and update it regularly. This keeps your PC secure from a keylogger. Also there is a program called Anti-keylogger which is specially designed to detect and remove keyloggers. You can use this program to detect some stealth keyloggers which remain undetected by many anti-spyware programs.

3. ACCESSING YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT FROM CYBER CAFES
Do you access your email from cyber cafes? Then definitely you are under the risk of loosing your password.In fact many people lose their email account in cyber cafes. For the owner of the cyber cafe it’s just a cakewalk to steal your password. For this he just need’s to install a keylogger on his computers. So when you login to your email account from this PC, you give away your password to the cafe owner. Also there are many Remote Administration Tools (RATs) which can be used to monitor your browsing activities in real time.
This doesn’t mean that you should never use cyber cafes for browsing the internet. I know, not all the cyber cafe owners will be so wicked but it is recommended not to use cafes for accessing confidential information. If it comes to the matter of security never trust anyone, not even your friend. I always use my own PC to login to my accounts to ensure safety.
So with this I conclude my post and assume that I have helped my readers to protect their email accounts from being hacked. Please pass your comments…