Google looses its Gravity

Today I found Google looses its Gravity in DFS community in Orkut.I would like to share it here,

• Go to www.google.com
• Type “Google gravity” and then click “I’m feeling lucky” on Google, the entire page will lose it’s gravity!! Though you can still search on it and play with the webpage.

You can also use Google looses its Gravity directly from below link,

http://mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/google_gravity/

What to See Google Looses it Gravity Again?

 

Just Click over the floating Google Logo. The page will reload, showing how Google looses its gravity again.

Don’t forget to checkout other Google tricks

How to Change the Title Bar Caption of the Command Prompt

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Today lets see a simple trick with windows command prompt.Most of you might have know how to change Title bar text of command prompt.This post is for newbies to windows.By default you can see default path of cmd.exe in windows title bar.

You can open multiple command prompts and give different titles for each command window.Cool isn’t it?

The syntax is,

title “Your Text”

Example:

title www.techpraveen.com

What to know more commands?

Read this article, List Of 185 Windows Xp Commands

7 Facebook Tricks To Avoid Yourself From Getting Hated

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1. Beware! Don’t sync your  Twitter account with Facebook , if you are someone who tweets every 10 minutes will end by flooding the live-stream of your friends and  they will end up marking hide your updates .
2. Do not add people you do not have any kind of relationship, if you ask someone to add it is because you know him or you can have something in common that can make interesting relationship between both of you, and not because he or she has a very good profile picture
3. When you upload a picture don’t tag everyone in the picture.As each comment will give a notification to every one in your contact and this will annoy many of them.Tag only those who are present in the picture.
4. The relatives of your friends are not friends, Facebook is not a popularity race to see if you have more friends.
5. Do not invite all of your contacts to attend events, only those who may be interested and those who are geographically possible should be invited.
6. Each time you use an application on Facebook as a requirement it asks you to send an invitation to your friends do not click on the send button, somewhere must have a button to skip this step (the policy of Facebook require it .)
7. When uploading pictures make sure they have access only to people who should have access to them, your mother is not interested to see how you vomit on your best friend (and probably your boss either.)

Simple Trick to Lock Your Computer Using Mouse

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Today lets see a simple trick on how to lock your PC using mouse click.We normally use Alt+Ctrl+Del or Windows+L to lock our PCs.Instead of trying those windows keyboard shortcut keys to lock Pc, lets now tryout something new .Some might have already know this trick already…

1. Just Right click on the desktop, point to New and click Shortcut.

2. In the Create Shortcut dialog box, copy the following into the ‘Type the location’ of the item text box:

“rundll32 user32.dll,LockWorkStation” remove quotes while typing.

3. Click Next.

4. In “Type a name for this shortcut”, type LOCK MY PC and Click Finish

5. Now just double click on the icon, your desktop will be locked.

Though this is a age old trick.It makes some difference to newbies

Simple Trick to Display Windows Version on Desktop

Most of you might have noticed Windows version on the desktop in the lower right-hand corner during beta releases of windows.Lets now see a quick trick on doing this in your windows platform.I tested this registry hack in Windows Xp, Vista and Windows 7 and its working fine

Steps to show windows version on Desktop

1. Goto Start –> Run (Windows Key + R)
2. Type Regedit and hit Enter.
3. In Registry editor, navigate to this key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
4. Select “Desktop” in left pane and search for “PaintDesktopVersion” in right pane and double-click it.


5. A dialog will pop-up, change the “Value Data” field from 0 to 1.


6. Restart the Windows you will find Windows version printed on the desktop.

Check Windows version on the desktop in the lower right-hand corner.
Note:
If you wish to remove the watermark, just change the “Value Data” field back to 0.

How To Install Samba in Ubuntu 10.04?

Do you wish to share files between your Ubuntu and Windows? Then try out Samba file sharing.Samba is a free software package that gives network administrators flexibility and freedom in terms of setup, configuration, and choice of systems and equipment.

What Is Samba Software?

Samba is an Open Source Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients.Samba is freely available, unlike other SMB/CIFS implementations, and allows for interoperability between Linux/Unix servers and Windows-based clients.

Samba is software that can be run on a platform other than Microsoft Windows, for example, Linux, OpenVMS, IBM System 390, UNIX, and other operating systems. Samba uses the TCP/IP protocol that is installed on the host server.

Install Samba Software in Ubuntu Linux:

Here I will show you two methods of installing this software application.

Method1:(Using Ubuntu Software Center)

1. First Install Ubuntu Software center.

2. Search for “Samba”.

3. Click Install.That’s it

Method2:(Using Terminal)

1. Goto Terminal window.

2. Type the following command,

sudo apt-get install samba smbfs

3. Hit Enter.

In my future post I will show you how to connect Ubuntu and Mac Os X using samba server.

Custom Search MyPaint – An Open Source Graphics Application

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Are you looking for a nice graphics application for Linux? Then go for MyPaint.It’s a fast and easy open-source graphics application for digital painters. You can create excellent artwork using MyPaint application.MyPaint is available for Windows, Linux & Mac OS X operating systems.

Key Features of “MyPaint”:

• Exists for several platforms (Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X)
• Supports pressure sensitive graphics tablets
• Extensive brush creation and configuration options
• Unlimited canvas (you never have to resize)
• Basic layer support
• Comes with a large brush collection.
• MyPaint comes with a large brush collection including charcoal and ink.So start experimenting with all those brushes to create unique design

How To Install MyPaint in Ubuntu Linux?

1. Goto Applications –> Ubuntu Software Center
2. Search for “MyPaint”
3. Click Install.That’s it MyPaint application will be downloaded and installed automatically.:)

Download:

MyPaint for Windows | Linux | Mac OS X

Extras:

Additional Brush Packages | File-ora (GIMP plugin for the OpenRaster file format)