Internet Explorer
Is tabbed browsing cluttering up your life?
In the Tools menu, select Internet Options. In the General tab, under Tabs, click the Settings button. Uncheck the topmost checkbox, which is labelled Enable Tabbed Browsing (requires restarting Internet Explorer), and click OK. To enable the tabbed browsing function later, just go back and select this option, and save your preferences.
Find on the Web Page
If you want to search for a particular word or phrase on the web page you’re viewing and can’t be bothered to read through every paragraph just press Ctrl and F together and type the word or phrase you want.
Display the Address bar history
A handy short cut to display the address bar history on the Internet Explorer is to press F4.
Open the Organize Favourites Dialog Box
To open the Organize Favourites Dialog box, press Ctrl and B together.
Windows Vista
Search for a file in Windows Vista
One of the ways to search for a file on Windows is the Search box available in every folder. You can type in any word associated with the file you’re looking for; Windows will look for that word in the file names, file contents, and file properties of all the files in the current view. To filter your search, say by files modified on a particular date, you can type ‘modified: ’ in the Search box. Similarly, to search only by file name, type ‘name: ’.
Now launch programs by searching for them
Starting up an application was never easier or quicker. No need to go through the Start menu and then several sub-menus. Just start typing the name of the program into the bar at the bottom and have Vista bring up the name of the program you need instantly!
A quicker way to launch your programs
Windows Vista assigns shortcuts to all the items in your Quick Launch toolbar, on its own, depending on the icons’ positions in the sequence. So if you want to open the program whose icon is the fourth in your Quick Launch bar, just press the Windows key + 4.
Clear up your Windows Sidebar
Is your Sidebar cluttering up your life? To get in a little breathing room, right-click gadgets that you don’t use frequently and change their opacity settings to 40 percent. These gadgets will now fade out of view when you are not using them.
Set a new theme for your PC
To change your Windows Vista theme, right-click your desktop and select Personalise. Next, click Themes; in the dropdown menu, choose the theme you want, and click Apply.
Clean up your temporary files
If you’ve recently been doing something with your computer that generates a lot of temporary files, you may want to make sure all those files are cleaned out of your system to free up precious space. To do this, just enter %TEMP% into your Start menu search box and press Enter. The temporary files folder will open, allowing you to delete files and prevent unnecessary clutter.
Speed up your system
Is your PC running slowly? Go to your Power Options control panel and look for the Power Saver setting that is set at 50 percent (default setting in Vista). Change this setting to High Performance and let your PC run faster.
Check for memory issues with your PC
Worried about memory defects in your PC? You can use Vista’s in-built tool to diagnose issues. Enter the word “memory” into your Start menu search box, and you will be taken to the Memory Diagnostics Tool. A dialog box will open and ask you whether you want to reboot your PC immediately or later. Vista will then run the Memory Diagnostic Tool while starting up.
Resize icons on the fly
If you want to resize the icons quickly in Windows Vista Explorer, press and hold the Ctrl key, and scroll up or down with the mouse wheel.
Faster shortcuts in Vista
Go to the Control Panel and search for the term “underline”. In your search results, you’ll get a link for Underline keyboard shortcuts and access keys. Click this, and in the next screen, go to the checkbox for Make it easier to use keyboard shortcuts. Select this. Now, whenever you go to any menu, the access keys for each function will be underlined. Pressing Alt with this key would enable the function.
Coconut Cake
Ingredients:
1-1/2 cups Unsweetened Desiccated Coconut
1 cup Unsalted Butter, softened
2 cups -All-Purpose Flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
1 tsp Vanilla Essence
1-1/3 cups Sugar
1 cup Whole Milk
1/2 tsp Salt
3 Eggs
How to make Coconut Cake:
Preheat the oven to 175 degrees C.
Now grease a 10 by 2 inch round cake pan and line bottom with a round of wax paper or parchment.
Grease paper and dust pan with flour.
Combine flour, baking powder and salt, mix well.
Beat butter with mixer till creamy.
Gradually beat in sugar on medium speed till pale and smooth.
Add vanilla essence to it, keep stirring.
Beat in eggs, 1 at a time, mixture may look curdled at this time.
Alternately beat in flour mixture and milk in 3 batches over low speed.
Raise the speed to medium and beat batter 1-1/2 minutes till soft, now fold in coconut.
Spoon batter into the cake pan and spread uniformly.
Bake cake in the middle of the oven till golden brown for about 45 to 50 minutes at the temp of 175 C.
Cool cake in the pan on a rack for about 1 hour, then invert onto the rack.
Remove paper and invert again onto another rack to cool completely.
Coconut Cake is ready to serve.
Chocolate Cake
Ingredients:
2 eggs
1/2 cup warm water
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 cups sifted cake flour
2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
2/3 cup shortening
1 teaspoon vanilla
2/3 cup milk
1/4 teaspoon salt
Directions:
Grease and flour two medium layer baking pans.
Mix flour, cocoa, sugar, baking powder, salt and soda . Add eggs, shortening, vanilla, water and milk; beat on low speed for 3 minutes.
Pour batter into pans. Bake in preheated 350° oven for 30 to 35 minutes.
Let cool in pans on a rack for 15 minutes; remove and place layers directly on racks. Cool completely.
Rainbows would never be rainbows
If sunshine had never met rain.
No one would ever need comfort
If there was no sadness and pain.
But life holds both sunshine and showers.
The days aren't all bright and fair.
So look through the showers for the rainbows,
You'll always find hope shining there.. Have a Great Day......
My darling, you are the glow in my eyes
You live in my imagination.
I adored you for years. No one else is in my mind
My darling , my darling, my darling glow in my eyes, aah
My darling, my darling, my darling glow in my eyes
You live in my imagination
The most beautiful eyes I ever saw in this universe.
God be with you ... what magic eyes.
Your eyes are with me ...
That is enough ...
They light the nights.
My darling, my darling, my darling glow in my eye, aah
My darling, my darling, my darling glow in my eye
You live in my imagination
Your heart called me and told me you love me
God be with you
You reassured me.
You have the beginning ...
And all the story ...
I will be with you to the end.
My darling, my darling, my darling glow in my eye, aah
My darling, my darling, my darling glow in my eye, aah
ah ... my darling ... my darling ... aah
Have you heard the story
of "The Washer man and the Foolish Donkey"?
To refresh your memory, and for the benefit of those who have not grown up listening to this moral story, it goes like this…
There was once a washer man who
had a donkey and a dog. One night when the whole world was sleeping, a thief
broke into the house, the washer man was fast asleep but the donkey and the dog
were awake. The dog decided not to bark since the master did not take good care
of him and wanted to teach him a lesson. The donkey got worried and said to the
dog that if he doesn't bark, the donkey will have to do something himself. The
dog did not change his mind and the donkey started braying loudly. Hearing the
donkey bray, the thief ran away, the master woke up and started beating the
donkey for braying in the middle of the night for no reason.
Moral
of the story "One must not engage in duties other than his own"
Now take a new look at the same
story…
The washer man ( J ) was a well educated man
from a premier management institute. He had the fundas of looking at the bigger
picture and thinking out of the box. He was convinced that there must be some
reason for the donkey to bray in the night. He walked outside a little and did
some fact finding, applied a bottom up approach, figured out from the ground
realities that there was a thief who broke in and the donkey only wanted to
alert him about it. Looking at the donkey's extra initiative and going beyond
the call of the duty, he rewarded him with lot of hay and other perks and became
his favorite pet. The dog's life didn't change much, except that now the donkey
was more motivated in doing the dogs duties as well. In the annual appraisal the
dog managed a "meets requirement". Soon the dog realized that the donkey is
taking care of his duties and he can enjoy his life sleeping and lazing around.
The donkey was rated as "star performer". The donkey had to live up to his
already high performance standards. Soon he was over burdened with work and
always under pressure and now is looking for a job rotation…
ചൊവ്വ, ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 11, 2009
നടിമാരെല്ലാം സ്വന്തം വിവാഹം ഒരു റിയാലിറ്റി ഷോ ആക്കി മാറ്റാന് പോവുകയാണോ. സംശയത്തിന് കാരണമെന്തെന്നല്ലേ.
ബോളിവുഡ് ഗ്ലാമര് ഗേള് രാഖി സാവന്തിന്റെ വിവാദ സ്വയംവരത്തിന് പിന്നാലെ ഇതാ തെന്നിന്ത്യയിലും സ്വയംവര റിയാലിറ്റി ഷോ അരങ്ങേറാന് പോകുന്നു.
തെന്നിന്ത്യയിലെ ഗ്ലാമര് താരം രംഭ യാണ് പുതിയ സ്വയംവര കന്യക. ഒരു പ്രശസ്ത തമിഴ് ചാനലുമായി ചേര്ന്നാണ് രംഭ സ്വയംവരത്തിന് തയ്യാറാവുന്നത്. കഴിഞ്ഞ മൂന്നുവര്ഷമായി രംഭയ്ക്കുവേണ്ടി വീട്ടുകാര് നല്ലൊരു വരനെ അന്വേഷിച്ചുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കുകയാണ്.
വീട്ടുകാരുടെ ബുദ്ധിമുട്ട് മാറ്റിക്കളയാം എന്ന് വിചാരിച്ചാണോ എന്തോ രാഖിയുടെ സ്വയംവര വാര്ത്ത കേട്ടതിന് പിന്നാലെ രംഭയും സ്വയംവരം ചെയ്യാന് ഇറങ്ങിപ്പുറപ്പെട്ടിരിക്കുകയാണ്. വീട്ടുകാര്ക്കും ഇതില് സന്തോഷമാണത്രേ.
വീട്ടുകാരുടെ പൂര്ണ സമ്മതത്തോടെയാണ് താരം സ്വയംവരത്തിനൊരുങ്ങുന്നത്. സ്വയംവര ഷോയില് നിന്നും ലഭിക്കുന്ന ലാഭത്തിന്റെ പകുതിയാണത്രേ രംഭയും കുടുംബവും ചാനലുകാരോട് ആവശ്യപ്പെട്ടിരിക്കുന്നത്.
രാഖിയുടെ സ്വയംവരം ഒരു റിയാലിറ്റി സംഭവമായി മാറിയനിലയ്ക്ക് രംഭയുടെ കാര്യത്തിലും ഒട്ടും കുറവുണ്ടാകില്ലെന്നറിയാവുന്ന ചാനലുകാര്ക്ക് ഇതൊക്കെ നൂറുവട്ടം സമ്മതം. എന്തായാലും മ്യൂസിക് റിയാലിറ്റി, അഭിനയ റിയാലിറ്റി ഷോകള്ക്ക് പിന്നാലെ ഇനി സ്വയംവര റിയാലിറ്റി കാരണം ടിവി തുറക്കാന് കഴിയാത്ത അവസ്ഥവരുമോയെന്നാണ് പലരും ചോദിക്കുന്നത്.
തമിഴ്, തെലുങ്ക് ചലച്ചിത്രലോകത്തുള്ള പല താരങ്ങള്ക്കും ഇത്തരത്തില് സ്വയംവരം ആയിക്കളയാം എന്നുണ്ടത്രേ. മലയാളത്തില് നിന്നും ആരാണ് ഇത്തരമൊരു സാഹസത്തിന് ഇറങ്ങിപ്പുറപ്പെടുന്നതെന്നേ ഇനി കാണാനുള്ളു
Change Browser Toolbar Background
This tweak Customize the apperance of the Internet Explorer Toolbar
1. Click Start > Run > Type gpedit.msc
2. Click User Configuration > Windows Setting > Internet Explorer Maintenance > Browser User Interface
3. Double click on Browser Toolbar Customization
4. Click on Customize Toolbar Background Bitmap
5. Browse for the new Background
Note: Because you can customize your browser toolbar there isn't a specific size which
you need to make this tweak work. Play around with the size until you get it right.
The Width of your toolbar with be the width of your resolution. 1024 will be your width
if your resolution is 1024x768.
Now you changed the Toolbar Background of your browser and you sure see what you
wrote when you open a New Widow.
Symptoms of Swine Flu
The symptoms of the H1N1 flu virus in people are similar to the symptoms of seasonal flu and include fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. A significant number of people who have been infected with novel H1N1 flu virus also have reported diarrhea and vomiting. The high risk groups for novel H1N1 flu are not known at this time, but it's possible that they may be the same as for seasonal influenza.
Emergency Warning Signs
If you become ill and experience any of the following warning signs, seek emergency medical care.
In children, emergency warning signs that need urgent medical attention include:
1.Fast breathing or trouble breathing
2.Bluish or gray skin color
3.Not drinking enough fluids
4.Severe or persistent vomiting
5.Not waking up or not interacting
6.Being so irritable that the child does not want to be held
7.Flu-like symptoms improve but then return with fever and worse cough
In adults, emergency warning signs that need urgent medical attention include:
1.Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath
2.Pain or pressure in the chest or abdomen
3.Sudden dizziness
4.Confusion
5.Severe or persistent vomiting
6.Flu-like symptoms improve but then return with fever and worse cough
Keep Swine Flu Away with Basic Precautions
Swine flu in India is spreading like wildfire, taking the toll to ten. Officials say there are currently more than 1000 cases of the H1N1 flu strain in India. Governments from all around the world are finding ways to combat this deadly disease. So what can you do to protect yourself? Stay calm and practice these 10 effective prevention tips.
1. Wash your hands frequently
Use the antibacterial soaps to cleanse your hands. Wash them often, at least 15 seconds and rinse with running water.
2. Get enough sleep
Try to get 8 hours of good sleep every night to keep your immune system in top flu-fighting shape.
3. Keep hydrated
Drink 8 to10 glasses of water each day to flush toxins from your system and maintain good moisture and mucous production in your sinuses.
4. Boost your immune system
Keeping your body strong, nourished, and ready to fight infection is important in flu prevention. So stick with whole grains, colorful vegetables, and vitamin-rich fruits.
5. Keep informed
The government is taking necessary steps to prevent the pandemic and periodically release guidelines to keep the pandemic away. Please make sure to keep up to date on the information and act in a calm manner.
6. Avoid alcohol
Apart from being a mood depressant, alcohol is an immune suppressant that can actually decrease your resistance to viral infections like swine flu. So stay away from alcoholic drinks so that your immune system may be strong.
7. Be physically active
Moderate exercise can support the immune system by increasing circulation and oxygenating the body. For example brisk walking for 30-40 minutes 3-4 times a week will significantly perk up your immunity.
8. Keep away from sick people
Flu virus spreads when particles dispersed into the air through a cough or sneeze reach someone else’s nose. So if you have to be around someone who is sick, try to stay a few feet away from them and especially, avoid physical contact.
9. Know when to get help
Consult your doctor if you have a cough and fever and follow their instructions, including taking medicine as prescribed.
10. Avoid crowded areas
Try to avoid unnecessary trips outside. Moreover, avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread this way.
Tulsi can help keep swine flu away: Ayurvedic experts
Lucknow, May 27: Wonder herb Tulsi can not only keep the dreaded swine flu at bay but also help in fast recovery of an afflicted person, Ayurvedic practitioners claim.
"The anti-flu property of Tulsi has been discovered by medical experts across the world quite recently. Tulsi improves the body's overall defence mechanism including its ability to fight viral diseases. It was successfully used in combating Japanese Encephalitis and the same theory applies to swine flu," Dr U K Tiwari, a herbal medicine practitioner says.
Apart from acting as a preventive medicine in case of swine flu, Tulsi can help the patient recover faster..
"Even when a person has already contracted swine flu, Tulsi can help in speeding up the recovery process and also help in strengthening the immune system of the body," he claims.
Dr Bhupesh Patel, a lecturer at Gujarat Ayurved University , Jamnagar is also of the view that Tulsi can play an important role in controlling swine flu.
"Tulsi can control swine flu and it should be taken in fresh form. Juice or paste of at least 20-25 medium sized leaves should be consumed twice a day on an empty stomach."
This increases the resistance of the body and, thereby, reduces the chances of inviting swine flu," believes Patel.
Bureau Report
Sometimes in life, you find a special friend;
Someone who changes your life
just by being part of it.
Someone who makes you laugh
until you can't stop;
Someone who makes you believe
that there really is good in the world.
Someone who convinces you
that there really is an unlocked door
just waiting for you to open it.
Have a Nice Day
My Dear Love,
When you hear me whisper “I love you!”
Please do not take this lightly;
For it is spoken
as loud as a lion’s roar;
as soft as a kitten's purr.
And these words shall travel afar;
for the love I hold for you is
as deep as an ocean’s abyss;
as high as the stars in the sky.
I want you to know -
Whenever you look up at the stars,
I am there,
cheering you for your bravery
also want you to know -
Whenever you look up at the moon,
I am there,
admiring you for your loyalty.
Even though we are far apart,
my love for you continues to grow.
My heart sings songs of victories
as you courageously protect our land.
I look at your picture everyday,
holding it next to my heart.
I see you proud and brave!
I see you blessed with faith!
I salute you,
My Wonderful Soldier!
I salute you,
My Dear Love!
task manager shortcut --> ctrl + shift + Esc.
ctrl + shift + clicking on hyperlink - opens page in new window (works in firefox too!)
ctrl + click a file and then draging it creates a copy of that file.
Windows key + e Opens Windows Explorer
Refresh webpage - Ctrl + R
Windows key + e Opens Windows Explorer
ctrl + shift + click a file and then draging it creates a shortcut of that file.
Alt + F4 close the window currently being used
or
If no windows are open then it brings you to a shut down screen
windows key + m minimizes all windows
windows key + f open the search window
windows key + L locks your station
F9-Volume Up
F10-Volume Down
windows key + pause/break key opens up system properties.
if multiple windows are opened:
alt + tab - will show the next page under the currently viewed one
