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barcamp blogging

Reporting live from barcamdelhi3 , part1

Barcamp

New delhi, saturday December 8, 2007

It is a great ambiance around to be surrounded by like minded people who like to connect to the world wide web through the blogs.

A beautiful Saturday morning a drive to Impetus technologies Noida.There we entered the hall and we could feel the air of web technologies all around.

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1. GuruGeeks – Building online community of geeks .

2. Amazon – Runing and deploying ec2 on ruby rails.

3. Planning poker – Agile estimation for Dummies. -> Estimation on software development life cycle.

4. TechGazing.com -> Ajay Jain – 4Ps of blog marketing. -> All about how to promote or market your blog.

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barcamp blogging

Delhi Barcamp3 is coming very soon…3 days to go.

May be i am the last person to say about delhibarcamp3 which is going to held on 8th december at Impetus Technologies Noida.

Volunteering first time to be a part of such an event i have also put my name to be one of the live blogger’s there to blog the entire event live just on the spot so, it will be fun.

As per technology it seems to be good event where lot of technology related discussions are going to happen lets see 🙂

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orkut proxy tips & tricks

Access blocked, banned websites like orkut, myspace, facebook from school or office part 1.

Almost most of us normally face the situation when we try access a particular website like orkut, myspace, facebook and any other banned website from school, college or office we get the message at the browser which normally says “This Website is blocked“.

So ,Today i will share the solution:

” How to get access to the websites like orkut , facebook and myspace etc. from your work location part 1. “

Well there are numerous number of ways to do this is to use some free proxy server address that you can hunt for but most of the time they don’t work and if they work you can’t use them for a long time

So one of the most effective method is to use some free proxy software like JAP (Java Anonymity and Proxy ) which switches the proxy server address automatically and lets you connected all the time.

If you like to know how you can use JAP for connecting to blocked websites check out here

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tips & tricks windows hacks xp hacks

What is ctfmon.exe and how disable the service to stop it using the system resources.

If you have ever opened Task Manager you could have seen one of the process running all the time called cftmon.exe ,and even if you stop it or suspend the process it will get started again and again.

Even when you remove it from system startup by running msconfig command it will again kept running after the sytem restart.

What is actually ctfmon.exe ?

CTFMON.EXE is a file get installed with Office XP applications. It actually activates the Alternative User Input Text Input Processor and the Language Bar. The program monitors the active windows and provides text input service support for speech recognition, handwriting recognition, keyboard, translation, and other alternative user input technologies.

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tips & tricks

Fix slow opening of my computer in Win Xp and delayed contents display.

If you are encountering the one of the most common problem of slow opening of my computer in windows xp and contents of my computer as a result display very lately then you will be surprised to know that your computer is not old or slow but there is simple fix to this problem.

Why Does My computer opens slowly ?

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how to tutorials tips & tricks xp hacks

How to enable transparent windows in win xp, vista and win 2000 without aero glass.

In case of windows vista to run cool aero glass effects it normally require a powerful graphic card or some good amount of video memory shared on the motherboard and in case of windows  xp it is not even possible without some modified theme softwares like window blinds.

So, In order to enable transparency effects (aero effects) in win xp you will need a small freeware called glass2k  ,this software is suported on all the windows system windows 2000 onwards.

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how to tutorials tips & tricks xp hacks

How to create shortcuts for shutdown, restart and hibernate in windows xp.

Have you ever wanted, To create shortcuts for the most common actions like shutdown, hibernate or restart on your desktop, so that you could fire up all these commands just by clicking a shortcut placed on your desktop.

All the operations shutdown, restart are nothing but a simple execution command for the system exe called shutdown.exe but with different parameter.

But this is not the same case with hibernate as it is a suspended state off in case of windows xp and it has nothing to do with shutdown.exe

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tips & tricks xp hacks

How to lock or password protect folders in windows xp with and without any software.

I just received a mail from one of the readers of Technix Update asking for a method of locking any folder in win Xp ,this is most often asked question about windows xp and quite important question as per the security point of view.

When you would want some folders to be protected ?

If you share a computer with other users and want some extra security on your folders ? There are two ways to password protect a folder built into Windows XP.

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