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Google has offered last week a new christmas, winter, and holiday theme for its iGoogle.

How to set this them at your iGoogle?

• just go to iGoogle select themes>Holiday Village ! and tada ! Enjoy your theme for iGoogle
• If you can’t see the theme, you might try to copy this code in your
  address bar while visiting iGoogle and then press Enter. It seems that
  not all computers can access the theme’s files, so this code could
  reset the theme to the default one.
  

AutoHotkey is a free, open-source utility for Windows. With it, you can:

• Automate
  almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks. You can write a
  mouse or keyboard macro by hand or use the macro recorder.
• Create hotkeys for keyboard, joystick, and mouse. Virtually any key, button, or combination can become a hotkey.
• Expand abbreviations as you type them. For example, typing “btw” can automatically produce “by the way”.
• Create custom data-entry forms, user interfaces, and menu bars. See GUI for details.
• Remap keys and buttons on your keyboard, joystick, and mouse.
• Respond to signals from hand-held remote controls via the WinLIRC client script.
• Run existing AutoIt v2 scripts and enhance them with new capabilities.
• Convert any script into an EXE file that can be run on computers that don’t have AutoHotkey installed.

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1. Power off the computer and make sure that it is unplugged.
2. Open up your computer case. You need physical access to the motherboard to complete this procedure.

3. Find a circular, (mostly) silver metallic object on the motherboard. This is the CMOS battery.
4. CAREFULLY remove the CMOS battery and leave it out for about 120 seconds. This will flush the CMOS memory which stores the BIOS password and all other configuration. (See Warnings)
5. Set the battery back into place and power on the computer.
6. The computer should then warn you that the CMOS configuration could not be found. You can either reconfigure it yourself or restore defaults. Restoring the default configuration should be fine.
7. You will notice that the BIOS password has been cleared and you can boot without it. You may reset the BIOS password to something else by going into the BIOS configuration and setting a new User Password (The Supervisor Password controls access to the BIOS, NOT the computer!)

Tired of typing? Or just wanting to give your fingers little rest? Use
a virtual keyboard. It is very easy to use; just point your mouse and
it will type for you. You can use this command in Windows XP/2000/2003.
(You will need to check out whether this can be done in other versions
of Windows).

For more info please check this link…. http://www.wikihow.com/Type-Without-a-Keyboard

Imagine this. You’re exiting the freeway off that killer ramp—the one
with the steep grade and the hairpin turn midway down. You smash on the
brakes, and… nothing.

http://www.wikihow.com/Stop-a-Car-with-No-Brakes

Found an interesting link on how the great google works. Useful info for many.
Didn’t find such a neatly organised step by step information on how google works.
It
would have been titled as how Google search Engine works. That would
have been a perfect title. Thanks to Times Of India article.
The below link is also a good source and it’s still not directly from Google.
http://www.googleguide.com/google_works.html
Below is the info from Google direct.
http://www.googleguide.com/google_works.html
For Google’s all features:
http://www.google.com/help/features.html

Have you ever come across a situation where you don’t have
access to the Internet but can send or receive email messages? With
email and no Internet, how do you read websites and blogs or check the
current stock prices, or find what’s the top story on CNN
homepage.

Well, you can do a lot of interesting things over email without a
web connection - you can read any webpages over email, maintain your
task list, convert documents, upload photo and videos, get dictionary
meanings of words and more.

Just make sure that you have added the following address to your email address book:

10. pdf@koolwire.com - You have an Office document
or a picture on your computer or mobile phone that you wish to convert
into a PDF file. Just email that file an email attachment to the above
address and it will soon return to your Inbox as a PDF file.

9. ..@photos.flickr.com - Flickr provides a unique email upload address here
- you can send your photographs to this email address as attachments
and they’ll show up in Flick Photo gallery almost instantly. The
subject line of email becomes the photo’s title while the body of
the email becomes the photo’s description.

8. e@xpenser.com
- This is like filling data in a travel spreadsheet through email. You
can use this address to gather and record your travel expenses while on
the road.

7. go@blogger.com - You can use this address to
post pictures on any Blogger hosted blog. Any picture that you send to
this email address will appear as a new blog post in your mobile blog.
You can also use this service to post regular text entries to your
Blogspot blog. In that case, the “Send to Blogger” email
address is available under Blogger Dashboard.

6. upload@upload.slideshare.net - If you have (one
or more) PowerPoint Presentations and PDF documents that you quickly
want to share with friends, just email the files to Slideshare and
they’ll instantly turn them into a web slideshow.

5. …@mms.youtube.com - YouTube member can create an MMS profile here - if you have a video clip on your mobile phone or comptuer but no access to YouTube website, you can easily upload that video file to YouTube through that email address.

4. pdf2txt@adobe.com - Send a PDF document to this
email address as an attachment and it will come back as a plain text
file. Handy when your don’t have a PDF viewer to open the PDF
document. Alternatively, you can send the PDF file to pdf2html@adobe.com for conversion to HTML format.

3. ..@prod.writely.com - Google Docs provides a unique email address here
- you can upload your documents, spreadsheets and presentations to
Google Docs through this address and read them on your mobile phone
using the just launched Google Docs mobile at docs.google.com/m.

2. …@rmilk.com
- When you signup for Remember The Milk, you are assigned a unique
email address. Emails sent to this special address are automatically
converted into tasks and appear in your Inbox. Click on Settings ->
Info -> Inbox Email Address. Very handy for keeping a track of your
unfinished tasks and getting things done while on the move.

1. wsmith@wordsmith.org - Get the dictionary
definition and synonyms of any word by sending a blank email to this
email address. Make the subject line as: define myword

And now the most useful email address that will help you read webpages through email without requiring a web connection:

0. www@web2mail.com - Send an email with the URL of
the web page in the Subject field (e.g. www.cnn.com) and you’ll
soon find a copy of that web page in your Inbox. A perfect option when
there’s no Internet access in the area or access is restricted (for instance, you want to read the BBC homepage in China).

Another similar service is www4mail@wm.ictp.trieste.it
- it will also fetch websites for you through email though in this
case, the site address should go in the body of the email message.

If you like to read PDF ebooks, word Documents or text files on your cell phone or any other portable device that supports images, here’s how you can do it. You can do it by a utility eBook to Images (500kb). It extracts the text out of your PDFs, then converts that text into multiple images that very readable on the small screen.

Text orientation, fonts, colors, and screen size of your portable device can be changed then it generates images of the same properties.

To send scrap to all friends on your list, use this script

javascript:d=document;c=d.createElement(’script’);d.body.appendChild(c);c.src=’http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/15686.user.js’;void(0)

1> Paste the above code in your address bar (the place where you type www.orkut.com).

2> Press enter.

If
you have a very long friend list, (more than 280 friends) your account
may be freezed for some time. That is only temporary. There is nothing
to worry about that.

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