X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

and save with name virus.com

I prefer you to save it in desktop. Then open the the file virus.com and if your antivirus find it your antivirus is Ok and you can keep it , but if it doesn’t recognize it like a threat i prefer you to change your antivirus. Try it don’t be afraid , it doesn’t damage any part of computer.

My Antivirus caught it.. how about yours??

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Google a Quick Profile

3. The Giant Web Archieve’s (Wayback Machine) cache on Google.com

Now, I really love this part. It takes you back to the stuff in good old days which we lost over time. >> This link << takes you directly to the Wayback Machine’s page on Google. You can start from this link if you want to see how google looked like at first, it was cached on November 11, 1998 (this is not the first view, but first as far as the Wayback machine lets us )

4. The Google Doodles (Logos)

Google Doodles are as famous as Google itself. Doodles are known as the decorative changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists and scientists. In 1999, Google founders Larry and Sergey started the concept of doodle, they where in search for the right logo for their company at that time. So heres the list of all the Doodles / Logos of Google until now! [Link]

5. The First Post in the Official Blog of Google

Just for the sake, heres the link to the first post in Google’s Official Blog [Link]. It was posted by Jonathan Rosenberg on 4/19/2004 03:19:00 PM. But its not the usual “We are starting the official blogging” stuff I expected when I digged for this link. I wonder what was the reason behind it. If you have any idea please let me know.

6. Google Milestones

So here is the official briefing of the Google Timeline – [Link]. At this page they starts the story from 1995 when Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford University.

7. Google Interactive Timeline

This is really a fun & interactive way explaining the things happened around Google from the very begining. Heres the [Link].

‘Doctor, I have a serious problem and desperately need your help! My baby is not even 1 yr. old and I’m pregnant again. I don’t want kids so close together.’

So the doctor said: ‘Ok and what do you want me to do?’

She said: ‘I want you to end my pregnancy, and I’m counting on your help with this.’

The doctor thought for a little, and after some silence he said to the lady:

‘I think I have a better solution for your problem. It’s less dangerous for you too.’

She smiled, thinking that the doctor was going to accept her request.

Then he continued: ‘You see, in order for you not to have to take care of 2 babies at the same time, let’s kill the one in your arms. This way, you

could rest some before the other one is born. If we’re going to kill one of them, it doesn’t matter which one it is. There would be no risk for your body if you chose the one in your arms.

The lady was horrified and said: ‘No doctor! How terrible! It’s a crime to kill a child!

‘I agree’, the doctor replied. ‘But you seemed to be ok with it, so I thought maybe that was the best solution.

The doctor smiled, realizing that he had made his point.

He convinced the mom that there is no difference in killing a child that’s already been born and one that’s still in the womb. The crime is the same!

If you agree, please share this with your friends… Together we can help save precious lives!!

Hi recently one of my client (iMEDIAMAX) asked me to give them a projected structure of a website for them. They wanted their site to be re-innovated. So here is what I gave them :

Am posting it here so that I can improve on it based on your comments, and someone in a hurry could find this base structure by googling..

Structure of the website

The Portal

• HOME
• SERVICES
• PORTFOLIO
• PRODUCTS
• CONTACT

HOME

• Short info bout the company
• Brief info about the services (Features & Demand)
• Featured works in Portfolio
• Testimonials of clients
• Chat with executive staffs
• Announcements
• Client/Visitor Log-In Area
• Featured / Best Selling products

SERVICES

• Web Design / Re-Design
• Logo creation
• Advanced web development
• SEO & Search engine listing
• Print / Publish Design works
• Media Publishing
• Brand Marketing

PORTFOLIO

• Separate portfolio for each service category
• On each portfolio

• Works done for the client
• Customer testimonial
• Featured / Not Featured work
• Visitor Comments
• Visitor Ratings

• Featured works will be visible at first

PRODUCTS

• Featured products / Product Lists
• Product change log
• Visitor comments, ratings
• If a client logged in, they can download updates / promotional offers / free products
• Submit visitor products

• This feature enables a visitor to add a product for sale under the Terms & conditions and Pricing policies.
• This is a moderated feature. Company should approve it to publish to site.

CONTACT

• Quote for a service
• A simple survey – PROJECT PLANNER
• Complete details about the company with gmap tagging and stuff
• A brief info about the people behind the company

Other Features

• Every page will be en-riched with twitter, facebook or other social media updates in an attractive manner.
• A live chat facility to the visitors using a feature same like facebook.
• Email subscription for the newsletter.
• Attractive design & SEO friendly structure
• Etc…

Please add you ideas and suggessions to improve this structure…

Take the survey directly! Click HERE

To run any of these apps go to ‘Start’ => ‘Run’ and type the executable name (ie charmap).

1. Character Map = charmap.exe (very useful for finding unusual characters)
2. Disk Cleanup = cleanmgr.exe
3. Clipboard Viewer = clipbrd.exe (views contents of Windows clipboard)
4. Dr Watson = drwtsn32.exe (Troubleshooting tool)
5. DirectX diagnosis = dxdiag.exe (Diagnose & test DirectX, video & sound cards)
6. Private character editor = eudcedit.exe (allows creation or modification of characters)
7. IExpress Wizard = iexpress.exe (Create self-extracting / self-installing package)
8. Microsoft Synchronization Manager = mobsync.exe (appears to allow synchronization of files on the network for when working offline. Apparently undocumented).
9. Windows Media Player 5.1 = mplay32.exe (Retro version of Media Player, very basic).
10. ODBC Data Source Administrator = odbcad32.exe (something to do with databases)
11. Object Packager = packager.exe (to do with packaging objects for insertion in files, appears to have comprehensive help files).
12. System Monitor = perfmon.exe (very useful, highly configurable tool, tells you everything you ever wanted to know about any aspect of PC performance, for upper-geeks only )
    
13. Program Manager = progman.exe (Legacy Windows 3.x desktop shell).
14. Remote Access phone book = rasphone.exe (documentation is virtually non-existant).
15. Registry Editor = regedt32.exe [also regedit.exe] (for hacking the Windows Registry).
16. Network shared folder wizard = shrpubw.exe (creates shared folders on network).
17. File siganture verification tool = sigverif.exe
18. Volume Contro = sndvol32.exe (I’ve included this for those people that lose it from the System Notification area).
19. System Configuration Editor = sysedit.exe (modify System.ini & Win.ini just like in Win98! ).
20. Syskey = syskey.exe (Secures XP Account database – use with care, it’s virtually undocumented but it appears to encrypt all passwords, I’m not sure of the full implications).
21. Microsoft Telnet Client = telnet.exe
22. Driver Verifier Manager = verifier.exe (seems to be a utility for monitoring the actions of drivers, might be useful for people having driver problems. Undocumented).
23. Windows for Workgroups Chat = winchat.exe (appears to be an old NT utility to allow chat sessions over a LAN, help files available).
24. System configuration = msconfig.exe (can use to control starup programs)
25. Group policy editor = gpedit.msc used to manage group policies, and permissions

Please note that adding or editing any settings in these tools may harm your computer. Please make sure you know what you are doing..

In my case I love Firefox , its the best I think. Anyway its your choice, but please stay away from IE 6 or earlier. They are really waste to display modern sites.

But look under the hood, and there are a bunch of hidden (and some not-so-secret) tips and tricks available that will crank Firefox up and pimp your browser. Make it faster, cooler, more efficient. Get to be a Jedi master with the following cool Firefox tricks.

1. More screen space. Make your icons small. Go to View – Toolbars – Customize and check the “Use small icons” box.
2. Smart keywords. If there’s a search you use a lot (let’s say IMDB.com’s people search), this is an awesome tool that not many people use. Right-click on the search box, select “Add a Keyword for this search”, give the keyword a name and an easy-to-type and easy-to-remember shortcut name (let’s say “actor”) and save it. Now, when you want to do an actor search, go to Firefox’s address bar, type “actor” and the name of the actor and press return. Instant search! You can do this with any search box. Note : In newer Firefox you have to goto ‘Manage search engines’ then select ‘Edit Keywords’.
3. Keyboard shortcuts. This is where you become a real Jedi. It just takes a little while to learn these, but once you do, your browsing will be super fast. Here are some of the most common (and my personal favs):
   • Spacebar (page down)
   • Shift+Spacebar (page up)
   • Ctrl+F (find)
   • Alt+N (find next)
   • Ctrl+D (bookmark page)
   • Ctrl+T (new tab)
   • Ctrl+K (go to search box)
   • Ctrl+L (go to address bar)
   • Ctrl+= (increase text size)
   • Ctrl+- (decrease text size)
   • Ctrl+W (close tab)
   • F5 (reload)
   • Alt+Home (go to home page)
4. Auto-complete. This is another keyboard shortcut, but it’s not commonly known and very useful. Go to the address bar (Control+L) and type the name of the site without the “www” or the “.com”. Let’s say “google”. Then press Control+Enter, and it will automatically fill in the “www” and the “.com” and take you there – like magic! For “.net” addresses, press Shift+Enter, and for “.org” addresses, press Control+Shift+Enter. Cool right?
5. Tab navigation. Instead of using the mouse to select different tabs that you have open, use the keyboard. Here are the shortcuts:
   • Ctrl+Tab (rotate forward among tabs)
   • Ctrl+Shift+Tab (rotate to the previous tabs)
   • Ctrl+1 to 9 (choose a number to jump to a specific tab)
6. Mouse shortcuts. Sometimes you’re already using your mouse and it’s easier to use a mouse shortcut than to go back to the keyboard. Master these cool ones:
   • Middle click on link (opens in new tab)
   • Shift+Scroll Down (previous page)
   • Shift+Scroll Up (next page)
   • Ctrl-scroll up (decrease text size)
   • Ctrl-scroll down (increase text size)
   • Middle click on a tab (closes tab)
7. Delete items from address bar history. Firefox’s ability to automatically show previous URLs you’ve visited, as you type, in the address bar’s drop-down history menu is very cool. But sometimes you just don’t want those URLs to show up (I won’t ask why ). Go to the address bar (Ctrl-L), start typing an address, and the drop-down menu will appear with the URLs of pages you’ve visited with those letters in them. Use the down-arrow to go down to an address you want to delete, and press the Delete key to make it disappear.
8. User chrome. If you really want to trick out your Firefox, you’ll want to create a UserChrome.css file and customize your browser. It’s a bit complicated to get into here, but check out for this tutorial soon.
9. Create a user.js file. Another way to customize Firefox, creating a user.js file can really speed up your browsing. You’ll need to create a text file named user.js in your profile folder. You can find custom built user.js file at techlifeweb.com.
10. about:config The true power user’s tool, about.config isn’t something to mess with if you don’t know what a setting does. You can get to the main configuration screen by putting about:config in the browser’s address bar.
11. Add a keyword for a bookmark. Go to your bookmarks much faster by giving them keywords. Right-click the bookmark and then select Properties. Put a short keyword in the keyword field, save it, and now you can type that keyword in the address bar and it will go to that bookmark.
12. Speed up Firefox. If you have a broadband connection (and most of us do), you can use pipelining to speed up your page loads. This allows Firefox to load multiple things on a page at once, instead of one at a time (by default, it’s optimized for dialup connections). Here’s how:
    • Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Type “network.http” in the filter field, and change the following settings (double-click on them to change them):
    • Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
    • Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
    • Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to a number like 30.
      This will allow it to make 30 requests at once.
    • Also, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0”.
      This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.
13. NOTE : I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY PROBLEM OCCURED DUE TO CHANGING UNWANTED SETTINGS
14. Limit RAM usage. If Firefox takes up too much memory on your computer, you can limit the amount of RAM it is allowed to us. Again, go to about:config, filter “browser.cache” and select “browser.cache.disk.capacity”. It’s set to 50000, but you can lower it, depending on how much memory you have. Try 15000 if you have between 512MB and 1GB ram.
15. Reduce RAM usage further for when Firefox is minimized. This setting will move Firefox to your hard drive when you minimize it, taking up much less memory. And there is no noticeable difference in speed when you restore Firefox, so it’s definitely worth a go. Again, go to about:config, right-click anywhere and select New-> Boolean. Name it “config.trim_on_minimize” and set it to TRUE. You have to restart Firefox for these settings to take effect.
16. Move or remove the close tab button. Do you accidentally click on the close button of Firefox’s tabs? You can move them or remove them, again through about:config. Edit the preference for “browser.tabs.closeButtons”. Here are the meanings of each value:

• 0: Display a close button on the active tab only
• 1: (Default) Display close buttons on all tabs
• 2: Don’t display any close buttons
• 3: Display a single close button at the end of the tab bar (Firefox 1.x behavior)

Simply follow these steps:

1. Log into your GMail account
2. Now goto your settings panel by clicking on the ‘Settings’ at the top right hand corner of the page
3. Now you are in settings panel, select the ‘Filters’ tab
4. You can see any filters you have created there, If not yet, lets create one to filter out our unwanted mails. Click on the ‘Create a new filter’ link at the bottom
5. Whooshh.. Create a filter panel opens above. Now we have some options. If we know the email id of this guy who sends us the unwanted msg, you could simple enter that id in the field ‘From’ or if you don’t, don’t worry we have more options.
6. We could even block a mail that was also send to some other email id. For example consider you have 2 mail ids you gave both to everyone, what if the other guy sends his mails to both of the accounts? It duplicates right? So you could say, enter anyone of your mail id at the ‘To’ field. Thats it!
7. Another option, Consider you want to block mails with common subject like : ‘Facebook Invitation’, ‘New Offers’, ‘Orkut Invitation’, etc.. just enter the words that comes in as the subject to the ‘Subject’ field
8. Or you could also make that case to the content of the mail. Just enter words to catch in the ‘Has the words’ field. Or vice-versa in the ‘Doesn’t Have’ field
9. Remember that you set the right criteria before proceeding, you always check whether you were right by clicking in the ‘Test Search’ button
10. Click ‘Next Step >>’ when you are done with filling the filters
11. Now.. you are taken to ‘Part B’ of Filtering mails, here you have to select – what to do with the filtered mails. You have some range of options, you can skip it from inbox, mark it as read, apply star, or add labels, or forward it to another mail id, and you could delete it automatically whenever a mail with filtered options received. And finally you can set ‘Never send it to spam’ its only required if your important mail is constantly send to SPAM folder automatically.
12. So when you are done with your choice just click ‘Create Filter’ button. Note: If you also want to delete the current mails which follows the selected criteria check ‘Also apply filter to ## conversations below’ before proceeding.

Thats it!!

Congrats.. you have successfully created a filter that filters your inbox. Enjoy!

Well jQuery features made my eyes open! Wow! It is so simple yet powerful, you could edit the DOM – Document Object Model ‘anytime’ after the loading so easily. and the effects, widgets, themes, all of it makes Web Development a child’s play! So I started playing with it too.  I’m currently renewing my personal website to this ‘Feature-Rich’ environment.

I wanted my website to be creative yet simple. I didn’t wanted it to be a bloggy-style one. So I started checking out for my other options, suddenly I got this idea, why not Vista? I am using one. Why can’t I give my site a ‘Vista Compatible’ mode? So I started working with the ‘Vista Project’. I named it ’WowVista’ please don’t ask me why I can’t answer that, “Trade Secret” ;P

I hope it gives you a Vista look and feel. Enjoy!