Google +1 Added to Website

August 6th, 2011

Today, we added the Google +1 Button to our main website, below is the code you need to insert in your page for your website to have the button also :

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script>
<g:plusone></g:plusone>

Google URL shortner

July 19th, 2011

Back in 2009, google launched its URL shortner services, goo.gl. Now, google has acquired g.co , an URL shortcut that only links to google products and services.

Find below post from Google Blog :

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/gco-official-url-shortcut-for-google.html

Disabling Windows Daylight Saving Time

April 29th, 2011
Pease follow the below instructions to deactivate the daylight savings time mode on PCs that run on Windows® 7 and Windows® XP.
Click on the Date/Time area at the bottom right to open date/time settings
Date/Time
Click on Change date and time settings
Change date and time settings
Click Change Time Zone
Change Time Zone
Choose Cairo from the Time zone drop down menu and ensure that ‘Automatically adjust clock for Daylight Saving Time‘ is unchecked
Cairo
Press OK to apply the new changes
WindowsXP
Double click on the Date/Time area at the bottom right to open date/time settings
Date/Time
Click on the Time Zone tab
Time Zone tab
Ensure that the time zone is ‘GMT+02:00 Cairo’
Change Time Zone
Disable the check box ‘Automatically adjust clock for daylight saving changes
Cairo
Press OK to apply the new change

Nice Google Trick to search for free music online

February 16th, 2011

Just copy and paste text below into a google search text area and replace the “artist or song” with an actual artist or song, and enjoy searching for free online music files :


-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(wma|mp3) “artist or song”

Free anonymous web surfing site

January 26th, 2011

The new rise in demonstrations in Egypt was followed by the government trying to block a number of popular social websites, such as Twitter and Dambuser. But using a remote free proxy, or a site as below link, you can reach these sites with ease :

http://www.sitesurf.net/

http://freenetproject.org/

http://www.privax.us/

Installing Next Generation Java on Linux and Firefox 3.6 and later on openSuSE 11.1 64bits

January 23rd, 2011

First, locate and download latest Java version from Java.com :

http://java.com/en/download/linux_manual.jsp?locale=en&host=java.com

1. Exit Firefox.

2. Uninstall any previous installations of Java Plugin.

Only one Java Plugin can be used at a time. When you want to use a different plugin, or version of a plugin, remove the symbolic links to any other versions and create a fresh symbolic link to the new one.

Remove the symbolic links (or move them to another directory) to javaplugin-oji.so and libnpjp2.so from the Firefox plugins directory /usr/lib64/browser-plugins

3. Install downloaded java plugin

4. Create a symbolic link to the Java Plugin in the Firefox plugins directory.

Create a symbolic link to the Java Plugin libnpjp2.so file in the Firefox plugins directory:

    cd /usr/lib64/browser-plugins
    ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_23/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so

5. Start the Firefox browser .

Type about:plugins in the Location bar to confirm that the Java Plugin is loaded. You can also click the Tools menu to confirm that Java Console is there.

Offline Windows XP, Vista and 7 password recovery and registory editor

January 17th, 2011

Find below a nice utility to :

  • To reset the password of any user that has a valid (local) account on your Windows NT/2k/XP/Vista/Win7 etc system.
  • You do not need to know the old password to set a new one.
  • It works offline, that is, you have to shutdown your computer and boot off a floppy disk or CD or another system.
  • Will detect and offer to unlock locked or disabled out user accounts!
  • There is also a registry editor and other registry utilities that works under linux/unix, and can be used for other things than password editing.

You can get it from here.

Keep window always on top

January 17th, 2011

Small nifty utility for MS Windows. When enabled, it makes a window always stay on top of other windows. This is useful if you want to copy things from one window to another or if you want to look at two documents simultaneously. Tested on MS Windows XP and Vista.

Download Link : OnTop_10

Suse 11.1 bash script to convert files mp4 to mp3

January 3rd, 2011

Find below script that converts MP4 files into MP3 :

Using mplayer and lame :


#! /bin/bash
#
# Converts all MP4 files in the current directory to MP3s.
#
for f in *.mp4; do
newname=`echo $f | tr ' ' '_' `
mv "$f" $newname
f=$newname
mplayer $f -ao pcm:file=tmp.wav
lame -b 128 -q 2 tmp.wav ${f/.mp4/.mp3}
rm -f tmp.wav
done

Source page is here.

Joining *.avi.001, *.avi.002 etc video files

December 10th, 2010

HJSplit is a nice free utility to join or split files for MS Windows, MAC, Linux, Java, DOS and PHP :

http://www.hjsplit.org/

HJSplit can also be useful for backups. A file of e.g. 10 gigabytes in size can be split into smaller parts which then can be burned to CD’s, DVDs, copied to USB sticks or uploaded to an online backup service.