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Record Online Internet Radio Stations On Your PC

With Internet radio, you have access to stations world-wide. With this type of access, recording Internet radio stations on your PC will allow you to never miss your favorite show.So how do you record? With a software called Radio2MP3 If you want to record music, every song is automatically saved with artist name, song title, music genre, and album. All songs are then separated into individual tracks. Easily copy songs directly to CDs or transfer them to your IPod or MP3 Player. WHat makes Radio2MP3 stand out from the rest of the competition. The ability to record up to thirty streams at once and create a schedule for automatic recordings. Never miss a show again. No need to use peer to peer services. Other features include a built in CD burner, search stations by genre and bitrate, and adding your own radio stations. The software is easy, simple to use and comes with Tech support and a ninety day return policy. To purchase Radio2MP3, visit http://www.radio2mp3.com/ Radio2MP3 is only a

Description of Svchost.exe in Windows XP

Each instance of svchost.exe process seen in the Task Manager hosts a group of services. To see the list of services hosted by each instance of svchost.exe, you may use the Tasklist.exe console utility available in Windows XP Professional Edition. Click Start, Run and type CMD.EXE Type tasklist /svc >c:\taskList.txt The taskList.txt will contain the list of Processes, their Process IDs and the Services running under each Process. Note: Tasklist.exe is not included in Windows XP Home Edition. You may use Process Explorer to view this information. WARNING: There are viruses circulating in the internet which uses the same name as svchost.exe. The legit svchost.exe will be present in the %windir%\system32 folder.

Google Lunar Challenge

The Google Lunar X PRIZE is a space competition organized by the X PRIZE Foundation, and sponsored by Google. It was announced at the Wired Nextfest on 13 September 2007. The challenge calls for teams to compete in successfully launching, landing, and operating a rover on the lunar surface. The prize awards US$20 million to the first team to land a rover on the moon that successfully roves more than 500 meters and transmits back high definition images and video. There is a $5 million second prize, as well as $5 million in potential bonus prizes for extra features such as roving long distances (greater than 5,000 meters), capturing images of man made objects on the moon, or surviving a lunar night. The X Prize awards the first prize until December 31, 2012, thereafter it awards $15 million until December 31, 2014. Competitors Odyssey Moon Astrobotic Team Italia Micro Space SCSG FredNet ARCA Lunatrex Quantam3 Chandah LINKS TO CHECK:: http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/lunar/about-the-priz

Zebuntu Debuts

Already at their second beta release [German], Zebuntu is an Xfce-based Ubuntu distribution with heavy - you guessed it - Zeta influences. Bernd Korz explains the goals of Zebuntu in the project's announcement."Our goal is to use BlueEyedOS to offer a new platform for our former Zeta customers. In the future, Zeta, BeOS, as well as any future Haiku applications, will run natively on Zebuntu. This also offers a distinct advantage for developers for these platforms; they can use Zebuntu to develop for their platforms while utilising the performance and versatility of Linux." In other words, run BeOS applications on Linux. They have not forgotten about BFS support either. The project is, of course, completely open source. The website is only available in German for now, but Zebuntu developer Leszek Lesner confirmed to me that work is being done on an English variant (there already is an English development blog). Here are some top features: Small slim 4.4 XFCE desktop provi

The Year 2038 problem(Unix Millennium bug)

Test it now... 1. login to yahoo messenger. 2. send instant message to anyone - fine its working... 3. now, change your system date to 19-Jan-2038, 03:14:07 AM or above. 4. Confirm weather your date is changed. 5. again send instant message to anyone... Your Yahoo Messenger crashes.... * * * YES ALL NETWORK BASED APPLICATION WILL NOT WORK NOW * * * The year 2038 problem (also known as "Unix Millennium bug", "Y2K38," "Y2K+38," or "Y2.038K" by analogy to the Y2K problem) may cause some computer software to fail before or in the year 2038. The problem affects Unix-like operating systems, which represent system time as the number of seconds (ignoring leap seconds) since 00:00:00 January 1, 1970[1]. This representation also affects software written for most other operating systems because of the broad deployment of C. On most 32-bit systems, the time_t data type used to store this second count is a signed 32-bit integer. The latest time that can be re

New Intel Skulltrail platform uses AMD chips

Intel has launched a new gaming and high-end computing platform called Skulltrail which includes two quad-core processors and graphic cards. Skulltrail not only holds eight processors; it also gives users a choice of two multi-card graphics solutions - one from AMD's ATI division and one from nVidia. The new platform will be largely welcomed by gamers, along with 3D animators and high-definition video editors, it also will have its place in corporate IT. Intel also officially unveiled its Dual Socket Extreme Desktop Platform at the 2008 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The platform is the latest product to run Intel's 45-nanometre Penryn microprocessors, which hit the market last November. The new platform's motherboard, Desktop Board D5400XS, is being paired with two Core 2 Extreme QX9775 processors. An interesting part of Intel's announcement is the fact that Intel is supporting graphics technology from ATI, which is owned by Intel rival AMD . Lin ks to c

Downloading all the images in a gallery.......

->You should have download accelerator and Mozilla Firefox to perform this trick. The Trick: Most of the sites save the images of a particular gallery with a common name followed by a number for example “image1″,”image2″,”image3″ and so on, first we are going to get the image url and then use a “C” program to produce a html page ( dload.htm) which contains links to all the images in the gallery. Open the gallery which you want to download in mozilla . Now open 3 to 4 images of the gallery , right click on the image and select view image now you will get the url of the image in the address bar compare the urls 3-4 images to find a pattern in them.Now copy the url and replace the url in the code given below with it.Now replace the numbers in the image name which are varying with %d in our case replace “image1″ with “image%d”. You can get the upper limit of “i” by checking the url of the last image compile and run the code given below after replacing the url and open the dload.htm

The Levenshtein distance!!!

Must have seen Google responding intelligently to your query like: Did you mean Google? How does it does that? Simple, PHP has function called Levenshtein that will do it for you provided you have a collection of words to match against for. The Levenshtein distance is defined as the minimal number of characters you have to replace, insert or delete to transform str1 into str2 . The complexity of the algorithm is O(m*n), where n and m are the length of str1 and str2 (rather good when compared to similar_text(), which is O(max(n,m)**3), but still expensive). Try this: -guess.php Enter: // input misspelled word if(!isset($_GET['q'])) exit(); $input = $_GET['q']; // array of words to check against $words = array('apple','pineapple','banana','orange', 'radish','carrot','pea','bean','potato'); // no shortest distance found, yet $shortest = -1; // loop through words to find the closest foreach ($words as $

Hacking Winamp

->Open up winamp -> select preferences[Ctrl-P] -> select DSP/Effect under Plugins on the left pane -> select Nullsoft Signal Processing Studio DSP on the visible right side pane[you will see it if u are using a winamp 5.xx] you should see a window with some text fields, actually a lot. just select "Enable Processing" on the left side, and then in the right lowest pane, "Per sample(or sample-pair):", well that is another place to hack away. if you do have a pair of headphones[would be better] or speakers placed like a audiophile would, paste this in that textbox: l = 0.5*spl0; r = 0.5*spl1; spl0 = 2*l - r; spl1 = 2*r - l; what the above does is cut out a bit of the common channel. DSP enthusiasts will know. so experience wise, the sound "spreads" and the common center image lessens in intensity. beware that this lessens a lot of the common channel, so bass and other common frequencies will be chopped out, but rock tracks are really helped by thi

CV OF THE YEAR

This is an actual job application that a 17-year-old boy submitted at a McDonald’s restaurant in Florida and they hired him because he was so honest and funny! NAME : Greg Bulmash. SEX : Not yet. Still waiting for the right person. DESIRED POSITION : Company’s President or Vice President. But seriously, whatever’s available. If I was in a position to be picky, I wouldn’t be applying here in the first place. DESIRED SALARY : $185,000 a year plus stock options and a Michael Ovitz style severance package. If that’s not possible, make an offer and we can haggle. EDUCATION : Yes. LAST POSITION HELD : Target for middle management hostility. SALARY : Less than I’m worth. MOST NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT : My incredible collection of stolen pens and ‘post-it’ notes. REASON FOR LEAVING : It sucked. AVAILABLE FOR WORK : Of course. That’s why I’m applying. PREFERRED HOURS : 1:30 – 3:30pm., Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. DO YOU HAVE ANY SPECIAL SKILLS? : Yes, but they’re better suited to a more in

Find Out if your Computer is Secretly Connecting to Web

If you are trying to track down why your computer is running so slowly, try using this simple DOS command from Digital Inspiration to uncover a possible problem: • Type cmd in your Windows Run box. • Type "netstat -b 5 > activity.txt" and press enter. • After say 2 minutes, press Ctrl+C. • Type "activity.txt" on the command line to open the log file in notepad (or your default text editor) This .txt file will have a record of everything that has made an Internet connection in the last couple of minutes; you can then check your task manager to find out where it is and take care of it. The file activity.txt will have a log of all process that made a connection to the Internet in the last two minutes. It will also show which process connected to which website in this time. And not just the web browsers (like iexplore.exe or opera.exe), the log will also show your IM clients, download managers, email programs or any software that requires a net connection. Scroll th

Interesting Web Browsers You Have Never Heard Of

Apart from Firefox , Opera and Internet Explorer there is a number of promising alternatives which can improve your flexibility, increase your productivity and enrich your browsing experience.Most of them make use of the rendering engines Trident (Internet Explorer), Gecko (Mozilla Firefox), WebCore (Safari) and Presto (Opera 7 and above). However, some of them offer large fields for experiments and exploration — e.g. 3D Engines, but also really useful browsers with advanced functionalities such as desktop-tools integration.Lets check it out.... Flock (Win/Mac/Linux) What makes Flock unique is its ability to improve the productivity of bloggers. E.g. you can publish your blog posts directly from your browser-window — a WYSIWYG-editor is preinstalled by default. You can also use a Web-Clipboard, Photo Uploader, a Mediabar for Flickr-Fotos etc. Safari (Mac / Win) Safari belongs to Mac OS X just as Internet Explorer belongs to Windows.Since the mid 2007 Safari, with its elegant aqua

Internet Terminology

ASYMMETRIC COMMUNICATIONS: Asymmetric communication refers to the type of communication in which the speed or quality of data transfer is different in both the directions. This usually happens when browsing the Internet. The traffic coming into the user's system is very high as compared to the traffic leaving the system. In the case of symmetric communication, the transfer speed in both the directions is the same. This occurs when people communicate through video conferences or the telephone. NUKING: Nuking is a hacker's technique of causing the Windows operating system to crash, or suddenly terminate by using malicious network data packets. An out of band network packet that the operating system can't process is sent to the target system. This packet is called a 'blue bomb', or 'WinNuke' when Windows crashes, you see the dreaded BSOD (blue screen of death). Blue bombs are sometimes sent by multiplayer gamers about to lose a game, or by an IRC (Internet Rela

g00gle Gears

Google has announced "Google Gears" for developers; an open source technology for creating offline Web applications . Google Gears marks an important step in the evolution of Web applications because it addresses a major user concern: availability of data and applications when there's no Internet connection available, or when the connection is slow or unreliable. Reportedly, the new software will run both online and offline, affording users the flexibility to work anytime anywhere, including at the remotest of locations. All the user needs to do is install a plug-in into Web browsers, and the software will open an offline door to applications that till now were accessible only via an Internet connection. Google hopes that in the long term, Google Gears will help the industry as a whole move towards a single standard for offline capabilities that all developers could use. Eric Schmidt , Chief Executive

Hidden Programs In Windows XP

1- Private Character Editor - This program is for designing icons and Characters(Alphapet) On RUN type EUDCEDIT 2. iExpress - This Program is for conVerting your files to EXCUTABLE files On RUN type iexpress 3-Disk Cleanup - This program used for cleaning harddisk to offer space On RUN type cleanmgr 4. Dr Watson - This program Is for repairing problems in Windows On RUN type drwtsn32 5. Windows Media Player 5.1 - Opens the old media player On RUN type mplay32 6. Character Map On RUN type charmap 7.DirectX diagnosis On RUN type dxdiag 8.Object Packager On RUN type packager 9.System Monitor On RUN type perfmon 10.Program Manager On RUN type progman 11.Remote Access phone book

Google Facts

The name Google is a spelling error. The founders of the site, Larry page and Sergey Brin , thought they were going for Googol .. Googol is the mathematical term for 1 followed by 100 zeros. Initially, Larry and Sergey Brin called their search engine BackRub , named for its analysis of the of the web's "back links." The reason the google page is so bare is because t he founder didn't know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. The company's first office was in a garage , in Menlo Park, California . Google's first employee was Craig Silverstein, now Google's Director of technology. The basis of Google's search technology is called PageRank that assigns a rank to determine how useful it is. However, that is not why it is called PageRank. It is actually named after Google co-founder Larry Page . It would take 5,707 years for a person to search Google's 3 billion pages . The Google software does it in 0.5 seconds. The logos that appear on

Windows Codenames

These are the Codename for different Windows Versions :: Janus Windows 3.1 Kato Windows for Workgroups Snowball Windows for Workgroups 3.11 Chicago Windows 95 Frosting Windows 95 PlusPack Detroit Windows 95 OSR 2 Memphis Windows 98 Daytona Windows NT 3.5 Cairo, SUR Windows NT 4.0 Asteroid Windows 2000 SP1 Whistler Windows XP Mantis Windows XP Embedded Freestyle Windows XP Media Center Harmony

Open ID

OpenID starts with the concept that anyone can identify themselves on the Internet the same way websites do - with a URI. Since URIs are at the very core of Web architecture, they provide a solid foundation for user-centric identity. The first piece of the OpenID framework is authentication -- how you prove ownership of a URI. Today, websites require usernames and passwords to login, which means that many people use the same password everywhere. With OpenID Authentication, your username is your URI, and your password (or other credentials) stays safely stored on your OpenID Provider (which you can run yourself, or use a third-party OpenID "identity provider" (IdP) ). OpenID is increasingly gaining adoption among large sites, with organizations like Google, Microsoft,IBM,Verisign,Yahoo,AOL and Orange acting as providers. In addition, integrated OpenID support has been made a high priority in FIREFOX 3 and OpenID can be used with Windows CardSpace .

Android - An Open Handset Alliance Project

Android is a mobile phone platform based on the Linux Operating System developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance. The unveiling of the Android platform on 5 November 2007 announced with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of 34 hardware,software and telecom for mobile devices.When released in 2008, most of the Android platform will be made available under the Apache free-software and open-source license. FEATURES OF ANDROID: Application framework enabling reuse and replacement of components Dalvik virtual machine optimized for mobile devices Integrated browser based on the open source WebKit engine Optimized graphics powered by a custom 2D graphics library; 3D graphics based on the OpenGL ES 1.0 specification (hardware acceleration optional) SQLite for structured data storage Media support for common audio, video, and still image formats (MPEG4, H.264, MP3, AAC, AMR, JPG, PNG, GIF) GSM Telephony (