ADTC (Computer)

People like me, would like to have a long address bar. People like me, won't EVER use the search box of IE7 regularly. If you are one among people like me, and want to hide or remove that search box that you never use, and is therefore taking up valuable space, here is how to do it! Close all instances of Internet Explorer 7 before doing this. (You may need to copy this information below to Notepad before doing so.) EDIT: Towards the end, there is valuable information about how to disable the annoying Security Risk message. Shortcut: Click Start > Run . Paste the following line in the Run box. REG ADD "HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\InfoDelivery\Restrictions" /V NoSearchBox /T REG_DWORD /F /D 1 Click OK . Direct way: Click Start > Run Type regedit and click OK . Navigate to the following folder: My Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\InfoDelivery\Restrictions If you cannot find InfoDelivery and/or Restric...

Well, G-news, to be more specific. This is what the latest introduction from Google Labs should be called as. But, they named it, the "Google Reader" . Are you the kind of guy who finds out a new blog, pledges about visiting it every day, bookmarks it, and forgets about it the very next day? Then fear not! Google Reader is here to help! "But hey why Google Reader? Why not some other reader software?" Because... Google Reader's interface is very much similar in structure to G-mail. So reading your RSS feeds in Google Reader would be more like reading your regular mail. (This requires you to turn on the "List View", but don't worry, it's permanent change, and just a click away.) Unread items are white, read items are grayed out. You can star items and apply labels to them. Google Reader is web based. So you can read your RSS feeds on any computer connected to the Internet, just as with G-mail. Google Reader has podcast support. And videos (like Y...

Have you upgraded your Blogger account to the new Blogger Beta ? If not, you're missing out on these: Linking with Google (Gmail) unified account. You don't need to remember your Blogger account details any more. You will be signing into Blogger using your Google account. On the fly serving. Now the pages are no longer "published" as they used to be. Blogger Beta simply stores a database of your posts and everything, and when someone requests a page, Blogger creates it on demand and gives it them. You'll notice the difference when you have lots of posts. Previously, making a template change required you to republish, and that would take lot of time. Now there is no more republishing. A change in template is reflected immediately after the template is saved. Layout. You can replace your template with the new layout system, which allows you to edit your layout directly rather than messing up with the HTML code behind it. Note that upgrading to layout requires you to...

I'm blogging this from Microsoft Word 2007. It's got blogging capability and supports several blog providers like Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, SharePoint Blog, Community Server, TypePad, and WordPress. There is also an Others option with which you can post to a provider which is not available in the list. The latest feature of Microsoft Office is the sparkling new Ribbon. This replaces all the toolbars that were prevalent in the previous versions, with a one inch tall bar which can be changed according to the type of operations you do. There are tabs above the ribbon, and additional tabs appear as you work with certain objects. The tabs categorize the buttons, and only one tab can be open at a time. This helps reduce clutter, yet keep the most used functions of Word easily accessible. Excel and Powerpoint follows the same method. Another new feature about the 2007 Office System is the new file format. But Microsoft took a bad decision to force the format onto the users. The de...

Are you bored of reading stuff on the Internet? Especially with your eyes? Let your eyes rest while you let your ears... READ! That's right, you let your ears read... not listen, but read! Say hi, to podcasts. Well, contrary to popular belief, you don't need an iPod or any MP3 player. You don't need any special podcasting software. Podcast are shared as RSS feeds and almost any of the latest RSS readers can let you listen to them. Internet Explorer 7 has a built in RSS feed reader, and podcast have links to MP3 files of the podcasts. Clicking on them will open them in your favorite media player (Windows Media Player, for example). Maxthon, my favorite browser, embeds a small player on the bottom of it's built-in RSS feed reader which is effectively web-embed version of Windows Media Player. The only reason you should be using a software dedicated to podcasts is that you need to download several feeds and store them in your MP3 player/iPod and listen to them when you jog...

Recently I installed Windows Media Player 11. Notable differences from previous versions of Media Player: Windows Vista-style interface. Ability to automatically create playlist, sync list or burn list from your most favorite songs. Ability to learn your preferences from your use of the next button to skip tracks. Improved library view with albums, songs, photographs etc, shown in a spirally arranged way. Maximising does not display the normal Windows titlebar. Conveniently placed Play, Previous and Next buttons. Compact mode. Seperate repeat and shuffle buttons. EDIT: Ability to resume last played playlist, wherever it was stopped. Useful if you accidentally close WMP. That's about what I noticed, and it's more aesthetically pleasing. Go ahead! Launch WMP and click "Play Favorites". Skip the tracks you don't like. WMP learns from you. Click here to download Windows Media Player 11.

[UPDATE: Links in this blog post are no longer valid as "shrtn.us" is not an active website anymore. Meanwhile, you can visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard ] I did a lot of research for this, and finally made some new improvements on the way you can quickly switch to Dvorak layout on any computer. Basically it just got quicker. Note: You DO NOT need to type the "http://" part in the Address/Location Bar. Just start from the letter "d". The Quickest Way: http://dv.shrtn.us - Directly download the Dvorak Assistant Application. Run it instantly! (after Internet Explorer warnings if they appear). - Also q.shrtn.us (shorten qwerty!), v.shrtn.us (second letter of Dvorak) and m.shrtn.us (one of the two letters which are in same place in both qwerty and Dvorak layouts; "a" was already occupied by some other website :( ) Less Quicker, but directly from the author (SourceForge Mirrors): http:...