Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Keyboard shortcuts for VLC media player



  • VLC is one of the common media player. It can play almost every known media format. So here are shortcuts keys for VLC media player. If you are keyboard lover, love to use keyboard more than mouse then just try these shorcuts.

  • Ctrl+ Up/Down Arrow – Increase or Decrease the volume.
  • Ctrl+ Left/Right Arrow – Forward or Rewind the video.
  • A – Toggle video in different aspect ratios;
  • C – Crop the Video;
  • F – Switch to fullscreen and exit fullscreen.
  • G – Subtitle delay, hitting it inserts a 50ms delay, twice 100ms delay and so on.
  • H – This works as reverse process for G.
  • J - Audio delay of -50ms every time you hit ‘J’
  • K – Reverse of ‘J’, i.e. hit ‘K’ to get a +50ms audio delay.
  • M – Mute or un-mute.
  • N – Play next track from the playlist.
  • P – Play the Previous track in the playlist.
  • S – Stop playback
  • T – Show Time played/ Time left
  • V – Enable subtitles (if available).
  • Z – Zoom in and Zoom out.

Save MS Word to PDF Files - Cool Softwares


Pdf files is better than ms word in some aspects, So Here is software Cute Pdf Writer by using this you can convert ms word files into pdf files. Here is link for dowloding of Cute Pdf Writer.
First go and download it free by clicking on the link given below and then install it. After then you can use this software anytime to convert ms word document into pdf files







Steps to convert ms word into pdf

1). Firstly download cute pdf writer from the link given above and install it.

2). Open ms word document.

3). Select Print option.

4). Now select Cute pdf Writer.

5). Check the box all pages and click print.

6). Now select the place where you want to save it.

7). Click OK.

Its done.
Now your pdf file is ready.


Monday, March 29, 2010

Google Buzz keyboard Shortcuts



If you are using google buzz and like to use keyboard more than mouse, then use these keyboard keys for buzzing. Here are some keyboard shortcuts use them..




Make sure that Keyboard shortcut turned on in your gmail account, If it is turned off then you can enable it by clicking turn on keyboard shortcuts in general tab of settings of your gmail account.



Shortcuts:

gb - open Google Buzz in Gmail inbox.Bold

n - goto newer or next conversation.

p - goto previors or older conversation.

j - scroll through displayed conversations or items.

o - open or expand any conversation.

r - add comment to any conversation.

ShifBoldt + l - like a conversation.

Spacebar - page down action

Shift + Spacebar - page up action.

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Turn off Monitor through Keyboard


This is an small, handy and very useful app, by using this you can switch off your monitor by just pressing shift and F1. You can also use this tool for your laptops as most oof the laptops dnt have on off switch for screen, you can save lot of energy by using this.

PushMoitorOff is very easy to use. Whenever you want to switch on or switch off your monitor you just have to press Shift+f1. You can change this shortcut key also using the options provided in the software.

Friday, March 26, 2010

Speed Up Firefox - Cool Tips and Tricks



Having trouble with your firefox speed?? Try this, It will surelyincrease firefox's speed..Just follow these steps:

1). Go to address bar and Type about:config, and then hit enter.

2). Now here Search for network.http.pipelining double click on it, Set it True.

3). Search for network.http.proxy.pipelining, and make it also true.

4). Search for network.http.pipelining.maxrequests, double click on it, I will open window like below, enter some higher value like 30 or 40.


5). Right-click anywhere and select New and then Integer.
6). Name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay, set its value to 0. This value indicates the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.

Its done.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Computer Speak whtever you Type - Cool Computer Tricks




Here is trick which make your computer speak whatever you type, This will create a speech converter software. Just follow given steps:

1). Open a notepad file.

2). Copy the script given below in notepad.

Script:

Dim message, sapi
message=InputBox("What do you want me to say?","Speak to Me")
Set sapi=CreateObject("sapi.spvoice")
sapi.Speak message

3). Save this file wBoldith any name with .vps extension. For ex speak.vps.

4). Now double click on that file, It will open a window just like one given below

5). Type anything which you want your computer speak in text box.

6). Press OK.


Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Forcefully eject Pendrive - Cool Computer Tricks

Here is a free utility called EjectUSB that forcefully stops all the running programs and helps in ejecting pen drives safely.
It is designed to be a simple utility to close all programs running from a specified drive or folder and then attempt ejection if a drive was specified.


Monday, March 22, 2010

Show OR Hide profile visits in Orkut - Cool Computer Tricks


Do you want to visit profile of other users anonymously, dont want to show yourself in their recent visitors?? If yes then this trick is for you. Now you can prevent other users from knowing you have looked at their profile. Bur choosing this setting will prevent you from seeing who has viewed your own profile, You cant see your own profile's recent visitors.
To show or hide profile visits, just follow these steps:

1). Click settings on the top right corner of your profile.
2). Click the privacy tab.
3). Choose to show profile visits or hide profile visits.

4). Click save changes.

The option show profile visits will allow you to see recent visitors to your profile, but will also allow other members to see that you've looked at their profile.

Find your Orkut Membership number

Do you want to know that you are which member to join orkut ????
Orkut provides orkut membership no to every account through this you can easily know about how many people join orkut before you and you are which member to join orkut.

1). Right click on the profile photo.
2). Click on view image info.
3). It would open a window and here you would see a number for your photo, that's the orkut membership no.

For above image it is 18,70,73,500.


Sunday, March 21, 2010

Add Window explorer or Folder to Taskbar - Cool Computer Tricks



If you use some folder very frequently and tired of browsing to find file your files, Then just add that explorer or folder to taskbar, It will display an icon on taskbar which open that folder when clicked. Here are steps:

1). Right-click on the taskbar on the space between Start Menu and the Tray.

2). Click Toolbars and then New Toolbar.
3). New Toolbar Window opens with a list of folders, Select the desired location and click OK.


The task bar now displays an icon for the access of your selected destination, just with a click.

Change Startup & Shutdown Sound - Cool Computer Tricks


Do you get tired of listening same windows startup and shutdown sound?? If yes, then this trick is for you. By using this you can change default windows startup and shutdown sound and can use any of your favorite voice or music as your system's shutdown and start up. Here are steps for this.

1). Choose the track or sound which you want to set as start-up and shutdown sound, But remember that file should be in .WAV format and size of file should not be large it should be smaller than 1 mb otherwise startup will take longer time.
If your file is not in .WAV format then you can easily convert it into .WAV by using jet audio or any other converter.
2). Rename these files as Windows Startup.WAV and Windows Shutdown.WAV respectively.

3). Now Go to C:\WINDOWS\MEDIA, here you will find file Windows Startup.WAV and Windows Shutdown.WAV, move them to some other locations, So tht you can set default sound again in future.
4). Now move files which you have choosen to C:\WINDOWS\MEDIA.

Its done.

Friday, March 19, 2010

Move Mozilla Firefox Automatically- Cool Computer Tricks

Do you want to have some fun and want to impress your friends?? If yes, then this trick is for you. By using this you can move your Firefox window automatically.
Here are steps:

1). Open firefox browser.

2). Just copy the following javascript and paste it to address bar and hit enter.

javascript:a=0;x=0;y=0;setInterval("a+=.01;x=Math.cos(a*3)*2; y=Math.sin(a*2)*2;moveBy(x,y)",2);void(0)

3). To stop moving, just refreash the window or press f5.
enjoy...

Pdf files speak


Do you know the reading feature of adobe reader, Now you have no more need to read the long Pdf files line by line, pdf will read out itself for you.
This feature is available in all 6+ version of pdf, It will read the document in computer generated voice. Here are steps:

1). Open a pdf file using adobe reader. Make sure that you have 6 or higher version of adobe reader.
2). Go to view >> Read out Loud >> Activate Read out loud.
3). Then choose any from read this page only or read to end of document.

4). You can also stop or pause reading any time just by selecting option stop or pause in read out loud.

Here are some Shortcuts for the same:
Ctrl + Shift +V to Read this page only.
Ctrl + Shift+ B to read to end of document.
Ctrl + Shift+C to Pause.
Ctrl + Shift+E to Stop reading.

Enjoy listening...

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Capslock Notification - screen flash and computer beeps

Here is trick for capslock notification, it make your screen flash and computer beeps everytime you press capslock button. It will let you know that capslock is on when you accidently hit it during typing. Its very simple just follow these steps:

For window vista

1). Go to control panel.

2). In control panel, click on ease of acesss centre.

3). Now click on make the keyboard easier to use.


4). Click on turn on toggle key and then click save.


5). Now again go to ease of acess window, then click on use text or visual alternative for sounds.


6). Here choose flash active window and then click save.

Its done.

For window XP

1). Go to control panel.

2). Open the Accessibility Options Icon.

3). On the Keyboard tab, click the Use Toggle Keys checkbox.

4). Click ok.

5) Go to Accessibility Options screen, click the Sound tab and check the Use SoundSentry checkbox.

6). Next click the Settings button and select Flash active window from the Warning for windowed programs drop down box.

7). Click ok.

Its done.

Now whenever you press capslock, your screen will flash and produce beep.