Archive for May, 2007

Google Talk keyboard shortcuts

… You don’t know them probably I guess. CTRL + R Right align text CTRL + E Center align text CTRL + L Left align text CTRL + Tab Cycle through open windows CTRL + 1 For single spaced lines CTRL + 2 For double spaced lines CTRL + 5 For 1.5 spaced lines F9 [...]

How to change the title of Internet Explorer?

Internet Explorer, by default, shows the title of a webpage followed by the string ‘Microsoft Internet Explorer’. Like this: How about customizing it? Here’s how: Open the Registry Editor by navigating to Start >> Run, typing regedit.exe and hitting Enter Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main Double click Window Title and change it to what you want [...]

How to rename the Recycle Bin in Windows?

Recycle Bin – I’ve always thought I can give a better name to it. And if you’ve wanted to do the same, why not you go ahead and rename it? Go to Start >> Run Type regedit.exe and hit enter to open the Registry Editor Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ ShellNoRoam\MUICache You’ll find probably something like this: [...]

Weekly links

Another batch of links… How to add and change the default IE Search engine – LyteByte How to convert 3GP Videos to other formats – Nirmal How to get traffic from Image Search engines – News Blog Posting Frequency: Regular vs Sparse posting – Technical Blog How to get rid of the COM Surrogate error [...]

Convert .FLV to .MPEG, .AVI, .WMV and other formats

Video clips that you watch over the internet on many sites like Youtube and others are encoded and delivered in a compressed .FLV format, which might be unplayable directly on your computer or on your movie players. There are many tools available on the internet that let you convert .FLV files in .MPEG and other [...]

MyBlogLog new feature: A tagging system

Earlier, Yahoo! announced that they will be bringing major changes to MyBlogLog, a social networking portal that was acquired by them earlier, to get rid of spammers and other offensive stuff. And they’ve begun with a little step… Did you login to your MyBlogLog page today? If so, you should have seen something new on [...]