Aug
24
2008

Shortcut Keys which you did not know

Windows Ctrl+Shift+Esc :-Task Manager Winkey+R :-Run Dialog Shift+F10 :- Equivalent of Right Clicking Ubuntu Ctrl+Alt+Backspace :-Reloads current Sessions (Easy way of logging out) Alt+F2 :-Run Dialog Shift+F10 :- Equivalent of Right Clicking Crtl+Alt+Shift+F10 :-Black Screen of Death

Aug
22
2008

Two Amazing email services.

The two new Email Services I found are In.Com Zenbe.com In.Com This is a really good portal for Indian Users.It has almost everything you would ever want. Music,Videos,Movies,Games,News and Email. So far this is one of the best Indian Portals I have ever seen.When compared to in.msn.com ,both seem to be neck to neck feature wise.The best thing about this service is that you get a very short email id [email protected] only feature lacking is […]

Aug
21
2008

Repair Corrupt Word Documents

Today my friend called me and told me that a particular word document was not opening on his computer.According to him ,his mother was working on the document and when she saved it ,the computer hung.That particular document could not be opened after restarting the computer. So I concluded that the meta data of the file was not saved correctly and hence word was not opening it. Also the problem with my friends computer was […]

Aug
20
2008

Easily mount iso files as virtual drives in ubuntu

The biggest flaw in Gmount-iso, AcetoneIso ,Furius ISO Mount and mount.sh scripts is that THEY CANNOT MOUNT ISO IMAGES USING THE UDF FORMAT. I recently download WAIK from microsoft.com and tried mounting it in ubuntu using the following methods, mount.sh(kernel loop module),GmountIso and AcetoneIso. None of them could mount it correctly.The mount folder contained a single file called readme.txt This file contained the following message This disc contains a “UDF” file system and requires an […]

Aug
13
2008

Burn DAA images by converting them to ISO

DAA is a compressed image format developed by PowerISO. Many CD/DVD images are available in this format. More details here Wikipedia To burn DAA image files you need either PowerISO or Gburner both of which are commercial software. Alternatively you can convert it to iso images and then use Nero to burn it or Daemon Tools to mount it as a Virtual Drive