Saturday, December 27, 2008

Easy Way to Hide your Files in a JPG Image File

There are several ways to hide your important files, but these methods are either time taking or needs some specialised techniques. But there is a very simple technique by which you can hide your files inside a JPG image file in a minute or even less than that. Files to be hidden can be in any format an image, pdf file, office document, txt file, exe files or any other. Basically we will put a compressed form(.zip or .rar) of files(in hidden form) in the JPG file. Here is the step by step procedure.

  1. Put all the files that you want to hide and the image file(in which you will hide the files) in the C:\ drive.
  2. For this step, you will need WinZip or WinRAR or CAM unzip installed on your computer. You can easily download any of these from net and get it installed on your system in minutes.Suppose you use a .rar archive. Now, just make a .rar file in C:\ drive (say secret.rar) with all the files(to be hidden except the image) in this archive.
  3. Now,open command prompt(start->run->cmd->press enter).Go to the root directory using "CD\" command. Now use the given command and press enter : "copy /b image.JPG + secret.rar image.jpg", Where image.JPG is the image file. If you get the message like " 1 file(s) copied" (1 or any other number),then you are done. Your image file now contains all your files but in hidden format.


For getting your files back from the image file, just right click on the image file and click "open with", and open with WinRAR(or WinZip,whatever you are using).Now, simply extract the files and you are done.

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Make your USB Pen-drive a Bootable media

You might have ever repaired your Windows with a Windows bootable cd. This situation comes when your windows faces some serious problem which needs immediate booting. But do u know you can even use your USB pen-drive rather than using any bootable cd. For this to work firstly pen-drive is to be converted to a bootable media.

Makebootable is a free and easy to use software for this task.Here comes the process.........backup all the files on the pendrive.Then,format your pen-drive with fat file system. Now, run Makebootable.exe to finally turn your pen drive into a bootable media.

Go to your BIOS setting and go to boot area.Plug in your pendrive so that it is listed in the boot devices.You can now choose your pen drive as First boot device.Using F10, save and exit of BIOS. Your computer will be restarted and you will be in a position to boot through your pen drive.

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Convert Microsoft Office Documents to PDF format

You must have read many ebooks and documents in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.Today i will let you know how to convert your office documents into PDF file format.You basically need to use an add-in("Microsoft Office 2007 Add-in:Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS") provided by Microsoft for this task.So,first you need to download it.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

Now,open or freshly make an appropriate document,you need to convert.You will find a office logo on the left top corner.....simply click it.Now select "Save as" from drop-down menu,then click "Save as PDF or XPS".Select your desired format and click "Publish" to save your file to desired location.Your PDF file is ready.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Get YouTube Videos on your ipod

Bored of seeing videos in your laptop or desktop.....no worry you can easily get those on your ipod and just enjoy anytime anywhere.Yes its simple you can get it in minutes.Here comes a small and sufficient process.

Create a bookmarklet for downloading the mp4 version of the video and give it some name(as u wish).Now use the following as the location.

javascript:window.location.href='http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id='+swfArgsget_video?video_id

='+swfArgs['video_id']+"&fmt=18"+"&l="+swfArgs['l']+"&sk=

"+swfArgs['sk']+'&fmt_map'+swfArgs['fmt_map']+'&t='+swfArgs['t'];

Next, browse the desired YouTube video's page and click the new bookmarklet and you will get a download prompt,clicking which video will be downloaded with "video.mp4" as its name.

Now just add the video to your itunes library,connect and synchronise your ipod....you are done.You will get the video in the movies section on your ipod.

One thing to take care.....don't use Internet Explorer, as , the bookmarklet won't work perfectly with IE.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Send Sms Via mail

Though there are various sites which offer sending SMS for free,but these sites, usually, put either a restriction on number of SMS or number of characters in SMS or sometimes both.So, i would like you to suggest an alternative method for sending SMS in the form of a mail.

For sending SMS just use the following email addresses as applicable in your case.In all replace "no" with the ten digit phone number.

  1. Virgin mobile: no@vmobl.com

  2. T-Mobile: no@tmomail.net

  3. Cingular: no@cingularme.com

  4. Sprint: no@messaging.sprintpcs.com

  5. Nextel: no@messaging.nextel.com

  6. Verizon: no@vtext.com

  7. US Cellular: no@email.uscc.net

  8. Metro PCS: no@MyMetroPcs.com

  9. Powertel: no@ptel.com

  10. AT&T: no@txt.att.net

  11. Suncom: no@tms.suncom.com

  12. Alltel: no@message.alltel.com


So enjoy SMSing for free and write as much as your heart desire.

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Encode Or Upload Videos In Any Format In No Time

Want to play a video ....tried Windows Media Player, even VLC player ,but failed.Don't worry here comes the solution.....SUPER ©. Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer,i.e., SUPER © is the fastest tool to encode videos to any format still being simple to use.It has all the necessary built in codecs, so you need not install any additional codec.It also plays and saves internet media streames of different protocols.You can also use it for uploading YOUTUBE videos faster.

All these features you get via SUPER © is just for no price and easy to use with one simple click.You just need to download and use the fully working version, that too, is available for free.
So what you are waiting for....download and enjoy.

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Understanding File Compression Technique

Downloading a program or file sometimes becomes very annoying due to slow download speed.Thanks to ZIP files,which not only reduce the number of bit and bytes so that it can be downloaded in less time,but also take less space on disk.Now the question must be arising in your mind....how to use these ZIP files.The solution is quiet simple, you need to use an unzip software such as Winzip to expand the file to its original flavour.It takes only seconds to unzip a file.....and thus saving your valuable time which you would have wasted if you had tried to download the original full size file.

So, let me know tell me you in short how these file compression program works.Let me illustrate through an example.Suppose a file has following information in words.

"Do what you wish and do not do what you do not wish."(seems crazy but just an example)

Here you can see that many words are repeated again and again.A file compression program basically reduces this redundancy.It uses a dictionary-based algorithm to put the repeated words into a numbered index.In our case it is like(ignoring case difference)

  1. do:1

  2. what:2

  3. you:3

  4. wish:4

  5. not:5


Thus the information can be read as:

"1 2 3 4 and 1 5 1 2 3 1 5 4"

Thus the file size reduces.As the size of file increases, redundancy is more thus this algorithm becomes even more efficient.But let me clearify one aspect at this point of time,though i have described the algorithm with the example of repeated words,but the file compression program, actaully, looks for repeating patterns, rather than words,indexing which into the dictionary reduces the file size as much as possible.

So, this is  the way the files get compressed and you enjoy the easy and fast download without getting irritated with your slow internet connection.