Thank you for stopping by my blog. This is my first dip into the blogging trench, started out of my curiosity to know what actually is a blog. I try to put here my readings from various sources; books, blogs, sites. I also grab stuff from here & there and try to showcase it in my own style here. If you'd like my scribblings, please subscribe to my full text RSS feeds.
Currently I am experimenting a few new features on my blog, like Peekaboo and Post Summary; the reason for the slight distortion you see. I am hoping to frame up these soon, please bear with me!
Many people using Microsoft Word might have already faced this problem and did not know how to handle the situation.
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In Word, we normally select the text horizontally, from right to left or vice-versa. But if we wanted to select text vertically, we believed that we didn’t have a choice but to select the desired text of each line manually. For example, if I wanted to underline the first word or the first two words of every line, this solution will prove handy.
To make a vertical selection, hold down the ALT key as you drag the mouse pointer to select the text. If you want to select the first word on each line, hold down the ALT key and drag the mouse pointer up or down to highlight each word. Using this multi-key combination, we can make a vertical selection anywhere in the document.
Fasten your seat belts this November. Get geared up for the new season of furious racing, new heights of excitement with new rules of the game. Need for Speed: ProStreet is supposed to take the Need for Speed series in a new direction. NFS is the creation of the popular EA Games brand that revolutionized racing games forever. Instead of an arcade style of gameplay, ProStreet is said to move closer to racing simulation. Unlike its predecessors, all racing in ProStreet will take place on closed tracks, thus making it the first game in the series not animating illegal racing behaviour, hence there will not be any cops in the game. Performance tuning will take up a large part of gameplay in a way that even small adjustment of the shape of a car's body should impact its performance. There will be thousands of aftermarket upgrades, visual and performance, from real performance brands.
With its slated release this November, it will surely bring a lot of goodies for the diehard gamers as this most awaited and high profile game is going to be out.ProStreet will feature next-generation graphics aiming for a more photo-realistic feel, and more advanced physics. It will also be the first Need for Speed game to include damage modelling since 2000's NFS:Porsche Unleashed. The new damage system is said to be very accurate, a collision with any object in the game world may render a car useless, or damaged. Hence taking the racing challenge to all new heights.
Not much is known yet about what cars will be included, however, there will be over 60 cars from around 26 manufactures, and only 8 supercars, making them relatively rare.
The unofficial list of included cars include:
Mitsubishi Eclipse
Mazda RX7
Plymouth Barracuda
Toyota Corolla GT-S
Audi RS4
Nissan Skyline R34 GT-R
I am waiting...
Learning English online was never so easy. I was casually browsing a few sites to grab some of the best online english learning resources while I stumbled upon these great good sites.
You too can access them for a perfect english. Here they are for you:
Thinkglish
Learn English Online
Using English
Ever wished how you could download that favorite video from YouTube? I always wanted to do so and maintain a collection of my fav videos. Then what? I started RnDing the net and found out a few ways where in you can download those fav videos on to your system. Here’s how you can do it too.
YouTubex: YouTubex is a very simple tool to download videos from YouTube. Find the URL of your favorite YouTube video and paste it in the download box. Done! The downloaded videos are stored in .flv format. You can download a free FLV player or convert it to other formats using the free converter.
Javimoya: Firefox users can use the video downloader extension that allows users to download videos to your computer from YouTube and most other video hosting sites.
KissYouTube: KissYouTube offers the easiest way to download videos from YouTube. Just in front of the youtube.com domain name, insert the word 'kiss'. Hit the Enter key and it will redirect you to KissYouTube website. Click on the download link provided to save the video to your computer. You have to save the video with .flv extension so that you can play it with an FLV player.
Viloader: Simply copy the URL of the video into the download videos box and hit Enter. Save as .flv file and watch the video in a flv player. Else you can use the tool mentioned above to convert the video to other formats.
Even more simple, Viloader provides browser specific add-ons. After adding the specific add-on to your browser, just right click on the screen (while watching the video) and select ‘Download Video’.
Delutube: This service can be used to watch videos that were available on YouTube earlier but have been deleted from its database due to various reasons. Just get the video id and paste it in the View Video box.
How to get ID: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID_HERE
Speedbit Video Accelerator: If you are on a slow internet connection, you might have noticed YouTube videos getting stuck. The solution to this is to use this accelerator. This software will make YouTube videos stream faster and play smoother by reducing buffering problems and video interruptions.
Vixy: With the online video converter hosted by Vixy, you can download audio from YouTube and even convert flv files to other formats. When you submit an URL, this service will download and convert the video to your desired format and lets you download the file on to your pc. Vixy also allows you to download online videos directly to PC, iPod and PSP. Vixy also works with Google Video and Metacafe.
Apart from these listed above, there should be a lot more YouTube tools to enhance the video watching experience and play with the videos. Go...this is a no rule game!!!
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Just discovered. Yahoo also has it's own Easter Egg. Yes, you heard it right.
Hello, are you alredy searching for what an Easter Egg means? For the benefit of one and all, here is what an Easter Egg means. An Easter Egg (in computer terminology) is a hidden message or feature in an object such as a movie, book, CD, DVD, computer program or a video game. This is a free add-in programmed by the manufacturer and hidden in the product to make customers happy. When discovered, customers are taken by surprise and thus associate a happy moment with the vendor. Gotcha????
Now, about the Easter Egg in Yahoo! Make sure your speakers/headfones are on.
Go to Yahoo
Click on the ! mark in the logo
Isn't that nice? This doesn't seem to work for other Yahoo global domains. For more intriguing Easter Eggs on softwares, click here.
How long has it been since you stopped using floppy disks? Loooooong. How long has it been since you erased scratches off your disks? Whaaaaaaa!!! Hhhmmmm, never mind. This was the similar kind of reaction I expressed when I came across this video on YouTube.
Yes, you can clean scratches off your old disks. It's a very simple process. You need not buy those costly imported liquid or foam to do so. All you need is a kind heart to spare some of your trusted good ol' toothpaste. Whaaaaaaa...no, not again!!!
Here's how:
1. Apply toothpaste on the disk surface
2. Spread the toothpaste evenly all over the scratches
3. Rinse with clean water
4. Wipe and dry the disk with a clean cloth
5. Done!!!
Don't believe? Watch this DIY video from YouTube.
Even wished how you could beg on the blog while being 'royal?' When you feel so, PayPal can help you out. Once you have your own running and verified PayPal account, you can create a PayPal donation button. Isn’t this so nice of PayPal?
After I created my own donation button (as you can see on the side bar of this page), I want to share with you how you too can make your own beg button to put on your website/blog.
First, make sure you setup an account from PayPal for yourselves. If you don’t have one yet, register here. Next, follow these steps.
1. Login to your PayPal account
2. Go to Merchant Tools and click on Website Payments Standard
3. Click on Feature List under Website Payments Standard category
4. Under Payment Processing Options, click on Set it Up to setup your donations button
5. You can either leave all options to default or key in your preference
6. Choose your donation button.
7. Click on Create Button Now
8. Paste the given code onto your site template
9. You’re done!!!
You can start begging now!!!
Why not start donating? You can do it here. Hahahahahahhaha...jus' kidding :)