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26 Sep 2008

Top 10 Mario Kart Wii Tips, Tricks and Shortcuts

Top 10 Mario Kart Wii Tricks

In Mario Kart you can see six iterations with over 100 tracks and spawning millions of players worldwide. With its name in top the list, you’ll get as many diverse responses are there are gamer types. And yet, most Nintendo fans will agree that the Kart games are enjoyable single-player experiences and addictive multiplayer ones. Mario Kart Wii offers apparently never ending amount of experience like some of you’ll have to play through a second time ;)

So here are the Top 10 Mario Kart Wii Tricks:
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Read full article. Published on September 26, 2008.
2 Sep 2008

How to Extract the maximum juice from your Graphics Card

How to Extract the maximum juice from your Graphics Card in 5 steps

All the gamers and enthusiasts are familiar with the term Graphics Card. Graphics Card allows you to enjoy gaming on your PC with stunning visuals. As times passes by, our PC’s get older and so does a graphics card and thus it is unable to cope up with high definition visuals provided by the latest games. This leaves Graphics Card owner with only 2 options – either to buy a new graphics card or extract the full juice from your current graphics card. In this post, I will show you how to overclock your graphics card so as to extract the maximum power from it!

First of all head over to ATI Tool and download ATi Tool. The size of the application is only 1.3Mb, so even dial up users don’t need to worry much. Even though the same says ATi, this tool works for Nvidia graphics card as well. So just follow these 5 steps and overclock your graphics card to extract the maximum performance from it:

1) After installing ATi Tool, the first screen will be something like this

How to Extract the maximum juice from your Graphics Card

As you can see from the above pic, my default clocks are 600 and 900Mhz for Core and Memory respectively. Also note that the 58C and 42C in the bottom are my GPU Temps, and GPU ambient temps.

2) First increase the clock speed by 25mhz and then click on Scan For Artifacts and let the tool run for 5mins, if you don’t see any artifacts then increase the clock speed by 10mhz and then again run the Artifacts tool. Keep on following this process till you see artifacts on the screen, then just decrease the clock speed by 5 MHz

How to Extract the maximum juice from your Graphics Card

3) Now click on New and then save this profile with any name
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Read full article. Published on September 2, 2008.
10 Aug 2008

The Best 35 Most Popular Wordpress Plugins

Here i have built The Best 35 Most Popular Wordpress Plugins which are really help full for bloggers to boost your wordpress blogs right from traffic, content, feeds, comments, ajax, make money, sitemaps and more. There are some thousands of wordpress plugins out there but i have included all the top best plugins which i really thinks helps a blogger built a better blog(10 Tips for making your blog more profitableTips for making your blog more profitable) :D

The Top Best 35 Most Popluar Wordpress Plugins

Check out the most popular wordpress plugins below:

  • Get Recent Comments – This plugin displays excerpts of the latest comments or trackbacks of your posts in your sidebar. You will have a comprehensive control on how they appear. It ranges from the number of comments, to the length of the excerpts up to the html layout. This plugin also lets you to order the comments by the corresponding post, or simply sort them by date. Even you can filter the unwanted pingbacks, which originate from your own blog. And it is a widget.
  • Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator – This is really a smart plugin that generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. The generated formats are supported by Google, MSN, Yahoo and Ask.com Search. XML-Sitemaps will help you to get indexed by the major search engines.
  • All in One SEO Pack – This plugin Optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engine Optimization(SEO). To help your blog better index.
  • WordPress Database Backup – WordPress database backup creates backups of your core WordPress tables as well as other tables of your choice in the same database.
  • Gravatars – Automattic, the company behind WordPress, recently acquired Gravatar. In case you don’t know, gravatars—or “globally recognized avatars”—are images that you can associate with an email address, so a picture of your choice can appear alongside your comments on many others’ blogs.
  • Akismet – Who can? You have better things to do with your life than deal with the underbelly of the internet. Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again.
  • AJAX Comment Preview – Other preview plugins don’t know what sort of changes WordPress will make to a visitor’s comment, but this plugin uses AJAX to send each previewed comment through WordPress’ inner voodoo in order to figure out those changes.
  • Subscribe to Comments – Subscribe to Comments is a simple wordpess plugin that allows commenters on your blog to get e-mail notification of further comments. It is one of the most popular WordPress plugins out there for the simple reason that it helps foster a community around your blog by encouraging commenters to come back and stay engaged in the dialog.
  • Comment Relish – This is one of the rare and most wanted plugin for a blogger to boost there feeds. When a reader makes his first comment on your blog then it will send a Thank you mail to his email.
  • Most Commented – Retrieves a list of the posts with the most comments.
  • Skype Smilies with Wordpress – If you are really bored with the normal yahoo and msn smilies then you must try these sweet Skype Smilies which your readers will love to leave a comment with them ;)
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Read full article. Published on August 10, 2008.
31 Jul 2008

Learn How to protect your pen drive from Virus

Just insert your pen drive in the USB port, now a autorun window(usually it includes Open to view Files and
Take no action options) will open to choose the program that will run your pen drive but just ignore it by clicking the Cancel button right after the OK button ;)

Learn How to protect your pen drive from Virus

Now go to Start > Run and type cmd to open the Command Prompt window. Now go to My Computer and Check the Drive letter of your USB drive or Pen Drive.(If it is written Kingston(I:), then I: will be the drive letter)
In the Command Window(cmd), type the drive letter(as above is I:) and now hit enter. Then type the dir/w/o/a/p and Hit Enter

Now you will get a list of files that are in your pen drive. In the list, search if anyone of the following do exist.

  1. Autorun.inf
  2. New Folder.exe
  3. Bha.vbs
  4. Iexplore.vbs
  5. Info.exe
  6. New_Folder.exe
  7. Ravmon.exe
  8. RVHost.exe or any other files with .exe Extension.

If you find any one of the file names as above, Run the command attrib -h -r -s -a *.* and Hit Enter. Now Delete each File using the following Command del filename. Now just scan your USB drive with the anti virus you have to ensure that you made your Pen Drive free of Virus :D

Read full article. Published on July 31, 2008.
27 Jul 2008

10 Tips for making your blog more profitable

I know most of you are looking to make your blog a profitable source? In recent times, blogs have become an excellent tool for marketing and generating profits, you can also read the 5 Reasons Why Blogging is New Internet Marketing Tool. Generating profits from your blogs is catching attention of targeted audiences.

Here are some quick Ten steps that can help our blogs generate revenue without using direct selling methods.

10 Tips for making your blog more profitable soucre

Where should you start?
Are you a first-time blogger? If you are, then you should begin with free hosting services. Starting with a free service allows you in blogging with little or no knowledge of hosting, programming and scripts.

In such cases, you are only concerned with filling quality content in your blog rather than paying high bills. You should upgrade to paid services when you feel that your contents are actually attractive to viewers of your choice.

  1. Using appropriate niche
    Niche is targeted products, services, or topics. You should always be aware of what is suitable for your working style. Choosing areas where enthusiastic writing from your end on regularity is possible can work for you. Through keyword researching services, you should find search topics that are most popular. Even if your topic is interesting, it has no value without any adequate audience support. Again, tedious topics with quality content and viewers support can earn help you in generating profit from your blog.

  2. Regularly updating your blog
    It is one of the most imperative points to remember while thinking about developing a profitable blog. Regularly updating the blog with quality content not only allows unique viewers to increase their visits, it also helps your blog to have an impact on search engine rankings. Posting 2-3 unique content regularly can help you in generating more attention from viewers on the blog.

  3. Generating traffic for your blog
    There is no secret to the fact that you require trafficking in your blogs for generating revenue. There are several techniques for generating revenue on the web. Paid advertisements, free advertisements, search engine marketing, viral marketing and RSS/XML feeds forms some of the ways that can help you in getting the desired traffic. Again, you should use the blog URL in your signatures of forum posts and emails for getting it noticed on the web.

    Submitting the URL to blog directories and search engine can also help in generating the desired traffic. There are some blog owners, who publish their contents in paid or free article submission directories, to accomplish the desire task.

  4. Keeping track of the traffic in your blog
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Read full article. Published on July 27, 2008.
19 Jul 2008

Pimp and remove ads from Google

Hate ads in google then customize google will help you.CustomizeGoogle is a Firefox extension.It enhance Google search results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask.com, MSN etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam).It total configurable according to ones need.View the intro here.

Read full article. Published on July 19, 2008.
11 Jul 2008

5 simple steps to Lock folders without using any software

Encryption of private data has become a need for every user. We often use File hiders or Folder locking softwares to perform this task by making them password protected. Many hackers have developed a trick to enter encrypted directories by breaking the security password. Here, I am writing a tutorial using which you can lock any folder without using any software program.

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Step 1 : Select the Folder to be locked , for example I will select folder “movie” in D drive i.e. D:movie

Step 2 : In the same drive, create a text file and type – ren movie movie.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} and save it as loc.bat

Step 3 : Again you type in a notepad as- ren movie.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} movie and save it as key.bat Read the rest of this entry »

Read full article. Published on July 11, 2008.
25 Apr 2007

17 Quick & Easy Google Talk Tips and Tricks

1. CTRL + Mousewheel up/down: It will change the font size in a conversation window.

2. CTRL + E: Center text

3. CTRL + R: Right justify text

4. CTRL + L: Left justify text

5. F11: Start a call

6. F12: Stop the call

7. ESC: Close the current window

8. For minimizing the current window press ALT + ESC.

9. Some smileys are converted by Google Talk: , :-O, :-x , :-P , :-D , :-) , , B-).

10. To write bold text, type the text like this *TEXT*.

11. To write italic text, type _your gtalk message_

Some secret parameters which you can add to G Talk for performing different functions:

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Read full article. Published on April 25, 2007.