Apr 27th, 2008 | how to tutorials, tips & tricks, windows hacks | 2 Comments
I have been using winamp from a long time as a music player, it is I think the best player which is free also, but initially when I use winamp for the first time I found a issue in it.
Let me tell you how does it happen.
I used to enqueue some songs from different directory locations ,and issue arises when accidentally I double click on any .mp3 file due to which all the playlist which I collected in winamp got evaded in seconds and the only songs which remain there is that on which I have accidentally double clicked. It may have happened to you some time if you have used winamp.
Let’s see why this happens and how can we correct it.
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Apr 23rd, 2008 | tips & tricks, internet hacks & tips | 1 Comment
Yesterday, gmail my inbox was flooded with large number of mails, most of them were comments , TroubleFixers.com readers computer related problems etc.
But I was having a short time to read them they were more than hundreds in numbers, and even after using gmail handy keyboard shortcuts I was not productive enough.
After than I was trying to find out a different way to browse through large number of mails in gmail in some quicker way.
Then, I remembered the google experimental search which I had used some time back to navigate through results in google.
Here comes the key-point that is if you activate google experimental search into your google account , you can automatically use those keyborad shortcuts into gmail if you have gmail on that account.
Let’s see how can you use google experimental shortcuts in gmail
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Apr 20th, 2008 | how to tutorials, tips & tricks | 4 Comments
Recently I came across a cool web application called PicLens, after reading a an article on TechnoSpot.net
What is PicLens?
PicLens is a browser extension or add on which instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen, 3D experience for enjoying photos and videos across the web.
In other words it a different way to view pictures on web specially the 3d experience and the navigation power it provides is awesome. ( as shown in the image below)
PicLens can be used to view photo’s on various image sharing sites like Flickr, FaceBook, Google Images, Picasa Web Albums etc. It supports almost all the famous browsers including FireFox , Safari , Internet Explorer etc.
After experiencing Piclens I was curious to see the images stored on my hard disk and got to know that PicLens does not support it. 
Then I tried some tweaks to open pictures on my hard disk with piclens, and suddenly one of them works, I was able to view the pictures in folder on my hard disk with piclens.
Let’s see how can you do it. I made this work on firefox
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Apr 18th, 2008 | tips & tricks, windows hacks | 3 Comments
Today I have come up with a tweak that I wanted to implement in windows xp from a long time, and today after reading a post on how to geek I got idea to implement it, Thanks how to geek
What I wanted to do?
I want to set the keyboard shortcuts for quick launch items in Windows XP same like as it is there in Windows Vista where all the quick launch items can be launched with the hot keys Win + 1 ,Win +2 and so on according to the order they appear.
You can easily implement this tweak on Windows XP too with an application called HotKeyBind.
What is HotKeyBind?
HotKeyBind is a program that lets you use different hotkeys (shortcut key combinations) to do common tasks: opening a web page, launching applications, opening files and opening your quick launch items with hot keys which you can set.
Let’s see how can you do this.
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Apr 15th, 2008 | tips & tricks, desktop customization, windows hacks | No Comments
We have just received a mail from one of the readers regarding a tweak which a user want to implement.
Vikram says: "I want to create shortcuts on my desktop without the default text Shortcut to"
This happens when a user selects a file or program right click on it and select create desktop shortcut. ( a shortcut is created on the desktop with a default syntax shortcut to <program or file folder name> ).
There can be two ways through which we can implement this tweak to solve this problem.
It is due to the windows registry which always add the text Shortcut to with each and every shortcut we create on the desktop.
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Apr 13th, 2008 | tips & tricks | No Comments
These days, I have started some photo sharing on flickr. I must say its a great place to share your photos with your friends online.
Flickr offers cool features like tagging photo’s creating different sets of photos 
but as I am using a free account it poses a limited bandwidth of 100 mb per month photo upload and some other limitations also. But now, I am so much convinced with the promising features, that very soon I will be buying a pro account of flickr.
Recently I was looking a pictures shared by Brajeshwar of Barcamp 3 Mumbai , I noticed an option which you may or may not be aware. It tells by which camera this photo has been taken. ( as shown in the image below)
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