Use Hotkeys To Switch Programs

If you routinely use a specific set of programs, you can set up hotkeys that will launch or directly switch among them instead of cycling with Alt-Tab. Find a desktop or Start menu shortcut that launches a program and select Properties. On the Shortcut tab, click in the Shortcut key box, and press the key combination you want to use. Be sure to choose key combinations that are not needed by any of your programs; for example, use Alt-Shift-1, Alt-Shift-2.

Use Hotkeys To Switch Programs

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The difference between DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD+RW and DVD-RW

The difference between DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD+RW and DVD-RW explained<br /> <br /> There's DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, and even DVD-ROM! So what's the difference between all of these different names, aren't all DVDs the same? Well, it's not quite that simple.<br /> <br /> Let's first start with the most obvious difference: some have R and some have RW. The "R" stands for readable, while the "W" stands for writeable.<br /> <br /> The main difference between DVD-R and DVD-RW, or DVD+R and DVD+RW is that the R disc formats can only be written to once, and then it is only readable and can’t be erased for the rest of its digital life. While RW discs are can be written to and erased many times, they are both readable and writeable.<br /> <br /> "R" discs are perfect if they are only needed to be written to once, such as giving some files to a friend or transferring them between PCs. "RW" discs have their strength in the ability to be used many times over, which is great for routine system backups, etc. And naturally, the RW discs are slightly more expensive than the R discs, but you'll have to decide if the trade offs are worth the money.<br /> <br /> Now, onto the difference between DVD-R and DVD+R. As I just described above, DVD-R & DVD-RW are sister discs, the difference being one is writeable once, while the other is writeable multiple times. The same thing is true for DVD+R & DVD+RW. So the question is, what's the difference between the plus and minus?<br /> <br /> In order to explain this we must take a trip back in time. When DVDs were first being developed, there was no industry standard. Multiple companies were competing to develop what they hoped would be the dominant form of the future.<br /> <br /> The DVD-R DVD+R difference can easily be summarized by the following:<br /> <br />     * The DVD-R/RW standard was developed by Pioneer, and is used primarily by Apple and Pioneer. These "minus" discs can only be written to in one layer on the discs surface. In addition, this format is supported by the DVD forum, but is in no way an industry standard. DVD-R/RW discs are cheaper than the "plus" format.<br />     * The DVD+R/RW format is supported by Philips, Dell, Sony, HP, and Mcft. These discs can be written to in multiple layers, giving them slightly better and more disc storage than the "minus" format. Because of this additional capacity, they are slightly more expensive than "minus" discs.<br /> <br /> A couple final things to clear up is the difference between DVD-ROM and DVD+RW, or the other DVD formats I mentioned above. The DVD-ROM drive can only read DVDs, while the other DVD drives can read and write data to DVDs.<br /> <br /> And naturally the DVD+RW CD+RW difference can be explained by the "DVD" or "CD" prefix. DVDs, on average, can store up to 4.7 GB of data, while a CD can only store about 700 MB of data, or about 15% of a DVD's capacity. While CDs are slightly cheaper, in my opinion, the benefits of DVDs are much greater.<br /> <br /> So now that you've learned about the difference between DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, and even DVD-ROM, which one is right for you? The easiest way to determine which is more beneficial is to watch the industry trends. A few years ago all pre-built computers were shipping with DVD-ROM drives. Today, most PCs have a burnable DVD drive.<br /> <br /> I feel that the benefits of having a burnable DVD drive far outweigh any additional costs. They store much more data, and they are ideal for storing your home movies to watch on your DVD player.<br /> <br /> My advice is to look at DVD burners that support all of the major formats I've mentioned above, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, and DVD+RW. While a DVD drive that supports all of these formats may be slightly more expensive, it will allow you to use any type of DVD disc to burn to, and you'll be protected from any industry shifts to one format or the other.<br /> <br />

The difference between DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD+RW and DVD-RW

The difference between DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD+RW and DVD-RW explained There's DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, and even DVD-ROM! So what's...

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Secret Backdoor To Many Websites

Ever experienced this? You ask Google to look something up; the engine returns with a number of finds, but if you try to open the ones with the most promising content, you are confronted with a registration page instead, and the stuff you were looking for will not be revealed to you unless you agree to a credit card transaction first....<br /> The lesson you should have learned here is: Obviously Google can go where you can't.<br /> <br /> Can we solve this problem? Yes, we can. We merely have to convince the site we want to enter, that WE ARE GOOGLE.<br /> In fact, many sites that force users to register or even pay in order to search and use their content, leave a backdoor open for the Googlebot, because a prominent presence in Google searches is known to generate sales leads, site hits and exposure.<br /> Examples of such sites are Windows Magazine, .Net Magazine, Nature, and many, many newspapers around the globe.<br /> How then, can you disguise yourself as a Googlebot? Quite simple: by changing your browser's User Agent. Copy the following code segment and paste it into a fresh notepad file. Save it as Useragent.reg and merge it into your registry.<br /> <br /> Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00<br /> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]<br /> @="Googlebot/2.1"<br /> "Compatible"="+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html"<br /> <br /> Voila! You're done!<br /> <br /> You may always change it back again.... I know only one site that uses you User Agent to establish your eligability to use its services, and that's the Windows Update site...<br /> To restore the IE6 User Agent, save the following code to NormalAgent.reg and merge with your registry:<br /> <br /> Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00<br /> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]<br /> @="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"<br /> <br /> Ps:<br /> Opera allows for on-the-fly switching of User Agents through its "Browser Identification" function, while for Mozilla/FireFox browsers a switching utility is available as an installable extension from this url:<br /> help://chrispederick.myacen.com/work/firefox/useragentswitcher/download/

Secret Backdoor To Many Websites

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Remote ShutDown Windows XP

<br /> XP PRO has a lot of fun utilities. One of the most useful ones I have found to date is the ability to remotely reboot a PC. There are 2 ways of doing this. You will need to have admin access to the PC to preform these actions. That being said, here is the first way to do it:<br /> <br /> Right click my computer, choose manage.<br /> Highlight the Computer Management (Local) then click on Action, choose connect to another computer.<br /> In the window that opens fill in the machine name of the PC you want to connect to and click ok.<br /> Once connected right click on Computer Management (Remote machine name) and choose properties.<br /> Go to the "Advanced" tab and click the Settings button under Start up and recovery.<br /> Click on the Shutdown button.<br /> Under action choose what you want to do (you can log off current user, shut down, restart, or power down. you can also choose if you want to force all applications to close, close hung apps, or wait for all apps to close by themselves).<br /> <br /> The second way... Remember dos... that good old thing. Open up a command prompt and enter in the following:<br /> <br /> %windir%\System32\shutdown.exe -r -m \\Machinename. The command prompt has more switches and options. I highly suggest using shutdown.exe /? to see all the posibilities.

Remote ShutDown Windows XP

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Some Google Tricks

A few things you might want to try with Google:<br /> <br /> Hand type the following prefixes and note their utility:<br /> <br /> link:url Shows other pages with links to that url.<br /> <br /> related:url same as "what's related" on serps.<br /> <br /> site:domain restricts search results to the given domain.<br /> <br /> allinurl: shows only pages with all terms in the url.<br /> <br /> inurl: like allinurl, but only for the next query word.<br /> <br /> allintitle: shows only results with terms in title.<br /> <br /> intitle: similar to allintitle, but only for the next word. "intitle:webmasterworld google" finds only pages with webmasterworld in the title, and google anywhere on the page.<br /> <br /> cache:url will show the Google version of the passed url.<br /> <br /> info:url will show a page containing links to related searches, backlinks, and pages containing the url. This is the same as typing the url into the search box.<br /> <br /> spell: will spell check your query and search for it.<br /> <br /> stocks: will lookup the search query in a stock index.<br /> <br /> filetype: will restrict searches to that filetype. "-filetype:doc" to remove Microsoft word files.<br /> <br /> daterange: is supported in Julian date format only. 2452384 is an example of a Julian date.<br /> <br /> maps: If you enter a street address, a link to Yahoo Maps and to MapBlast will be presented.<br /> <br /> phone: enter anything that looks like a phone number to have a name and address displayed. Same is true for something that looks like an address (include a name and zip code)<br /> <br /> site:www.somesite.net "+www.somesite.+net"<br /> (tells you how many pages of your site are indexed by google)<br /> <br /> allintext: searches only within text of pages, but not in the links or page title<br /> <br /> allinlinks: searches only within links, not text or title<br /> <br /> <br /> I hope there is something new in here for you and maybe this infos will be helpfull for ya.

Some Google Tricks

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Google Tips & Tricks, (Utilizing Search Engine)

==================================================<br /> Utilizing search engines<br /> ==================================================<br /> <br /> So much information is on the web, its mind boggling. Thankfully we have search<br /> engines to sift through them and catagorize them for us. Unfortunatly, there is still so<br /> much info that even with these search engines, its often a painstakingly slow process<br /> (something comparable to death for a hacker) to find exactly what you're looking for.<br /> <br /> Lets get right into it.<br /> <br /> I use google.com as my primary search engine because it presently tops the charts as far as<br /> the sites that it indexes which means more pertinent info per search.<br /> <br /> 1. Page translation.<br /> Just because someone speaks another language doesn't mean they dont have anything useful to say. I use translation tools like the ones found at<br /> <br /> http://babelfish.altavista.com<br /> and<br /> <br /> http://world.altavista.com<br /> to translate a few key words I am searching for. Be specific and creative because these tools arent the most accurate things on the planet.<br /> <br /> 2. Directories.<br /> These days everything is about $$$. We have to deal/w SEO (search engine optimization) which seems like a good idea on paper until you do a search for toys and get 5 pornsites in the first 10 results. Using a sites directory will eliminate that. You can narrow your search down easily by looking for the info in specific catagories. (PS google DOES have directories, they're at: directory.google.com)<br /> <br /> 3. Here are some tips that google refers to as "advanced"<br /> <br /> A. "xxxx" / will look for the exact phrase. (google isnt case sensitive)<br /> B. -x / will search for something excluding a certain term<br /> C. filetype:xxx / searches for a particular file extention (exe, mp3, etc)<br /> D. -filetype:xxx / excludes a particular file extention<br /> E. allinurl:x / term in the url<br /> F. allintext:x / terms in the text of the page<br /> G. allintitle:x / terms in the html title of that page<br /> H. allinanchor:x / terms in the links<br /> <br /> 4. OR<br /> Self explanatory, one or the other... (ie: binder OR joiner)<br /> <br /> 5. ~X<br /> Synonyms/similar terms (in case you can't think of any yourself)<br /> <br /> 6. Numbers in a range.<br /> Lets say you're looking for an mp3 player but only want to spend up to $90. Why swim through all the others? MP3 player $0..$90 The 2 periods will set a numeric range to search between. This also works with dates, weights, etc<br /> <br /> 7. +<br /> Ever type in a search and see something like this:<br /> "The following words are very common and were not included in your search:"<br /> Well, what if those common words are important in your search? You can force google to search through even the common terms by putting a + in front of the denied word.<br /> <br /> 8. Preferences<br /> It amazes me when I use other peoples PCs that they dont have their google search preferences saved. When you use google as much as I do, who can afford to not have preferences? They're located on the right of the search box, and have several options, though I only find 2 applicable for myself...<br /> A. Open results in new browser<br /> B. Display 10-100 results per page. (I currently use 50 per page, but thats a resolution preference, and 5X's the default)<br /> <br /> 9. *<br /> Wildcard searches. Great when applied to a previously mentioned method. If you only know the name of a prog, or are looking for ALL of a particular file (ie. you're DLing tunes) something like *.mp3 would list every mp3.<br /> <br /> 10. Ever see this?<br /> "In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the X already displayed. If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included." The answer is YES. yes yes yes. Did I mention yes? I meant to.<br /> <br /> 11. Search EVERYWHERE<br /> Use the engine to its fullest. If you dont find your answer in the web section, try the group section. Hell, try a whole different search engine. Dont limit yourself, because sometimes engines seem to intentionally leave results out.<br /> ex. use google, yahoo, and altavista. search the same terms... pretty close, right? Now search for disney death. Funny, altavista has plenty of disney, but no death...hmmm.<br /> <br /> If you've read this far into this tutorial without saying, "Great, a guy that copied a few google help pages and thinks its useful info" then I will show you WHY (besides accuracy, speed, and consistancy finding info on ANYTHING) its nice to know how a search engine works. You combine it/w your knowledge of other protocol.<br /> <br /> Example:<br /> Want free music? Free games? Free software? Free movies? God bless FTP! Try this search:<br /> intitle:"Index of music" "rolling stones" mp3<br /> Substitute rolling stones/w your favorite band. No? Try the song name, or another file format. Play with it. Assuming SOMEONE made an FTP and uploaded it, you'll find it.<br /> <br /> For example....I wanted to find some Sepultura. If you never heard them before, they're a Brazilian heavy metal band that kicks ass. I started with this:<br /> intitle:"Index of music" "Sepultura" mp3 <-- nothing<br /> intitle:"Index of música" "Sepultura" mp3 <-- nothing<br /> intitle:"Index of musica" "Sepultura" mp3 <-- not good enough<br /> intitle:"Index of music" "Sepultura" * <-- found great stuff, but not enough Sepultura<br /> <br /> At this point it occurs to me that I may be missing something, so I try:<br /> intitle:"index of *" "sepultura" mp3 <-- BANG!<br /> (and thats without searching for spelling errors)<br /> Also try inurl:ftp<br /> <br /> I find that * works better for me than trying to guess other peoples mis-spellings.<br /> <br /> The same method applies for ebooks, games, movies, SW, anything that may be on an FTP site.<br /> <br /> I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, and I saw that recently a book and an article was written on the very same topic. I havn't read them as of yet, but check em out, and get back to me if you feel I missed something important and should include anything else.<br /> <br /> intitle:"index of" "google hacks" ebook<br /> <br /> <br /> Ps. I've said it before, I'll say it again... BE CREATIVE.<br /> You'll be surprised what you can find.<br /> <br />

Google Tips & Tricks, (Utilizing Search Engine)

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How To Get Top Ranking, Search Engines?

The tutorial is all about getting your site listed on top in Search Engines i.e Search Engine Optimization<br /> <br /> First thing you need to do is find the keywords you want to optimize for.<br /> <br /> There is great tool by Overture (/http://inventory.overture.com/d/sea...ory/suggestion/)<br /> <br /> But I would suggest using this free tool called GoodKeywords (/http://www.goodkeywords.com/products/gkw/)<br /> <br /> This one does the same job as Overture does but it also supports other Search Engines (Lycos and Teoma etc..)<br /> <br /> For example if you want to optimize for the keyword "tech news", just search for the keyword in any of the tools specified above... It would show you keywords related to that and not of the searches..<br /> <br /> Pick the keywords which are related to your site.<br /> <br /> For example when you search for "Tech News" you'll see the following results:<br /> <br /> Count Search Term<br /> 11770 tech news<br /> 351 itt news tech<br /> 191 high tech news<br /> 60 news tech texas<br /> 49 computer tech news<br /> 42 bio news tech<br /> 34 in itt news tech<br /> 30 news tech virginia<br /> 29 asia news tech<br /> 25 hi tech news<br /> 25 sci tech news<br /> <br /> Now see what other terms are related to your keyword technology news<br /> <br /> Do couple of searches like that and note down around 15-20 keywords.<br /> Then, keep the keywords which are searched most on the top.<br /> <br /> Now you need Title Tag for the page.<br /> <br /> Title tag should include top 3 keywords, like for "tech news" it can be like :<br /> <br /> "Latest Tech News, Information Technology News and Other computer raleted news here."<br /> <br /> Remember that characters should not be more than 95 and should not have more than 3 "," commas - some search engines might cosider more than 3 commas as spam<br /> <br /> Now move on to Meta Tags<br /> <br /> You need following Meta Tags in web page<br /> <br /> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><br /> <META name="keywords" content="keyword1,keyword2,keyword3"><br /> <META name="description" content="brief description about the site"><br /> <META name="robots" Content="Index,Follow"><br /> <br /> <br /> No need to have other meta tags like abstract, re-visit and all, most people dont read it.<br /> <br /> Now...<br /> <br /> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><br /> <br /> This tag is tells content type is html and character set used it iso-8859-1 there are other character sets also but this is the one mosty used..<br /> <br /> <META name="keywords" content="keyword1,keyword2,keyword3"><br /> <br /> This one should have all your keywords inside starting from keyword with most counts...<br /> <br /> keyword tag for our example would be something like :<br /> <br /> <META name="keywords" content="tech news,technology news, computer technology news,information technology,software news"><br /> <br /> Remember to put around 15-20 keywords max not more than that. Dont repeat keywords or dont put keywords like, "tech news", "info tech news", "latest tech news" and so on...<br /> <br /> <META name="description" content="brief description about the site"><br /> <br /> Provide short decription about your site and include all the keywords mentioned in the title tag.<br /> <br /> Decription tag should be:<br /> <br /> <META name="description" content="One Stop for Latest Tech News, Information Technology News, Computer Related and Software news."><br /> <br /> It can be upto 255 characters and avoid using more than 3 "," commas<br /> <br /> <META name="robots" Content="Index,Follow"><br /> <br /> This is used for search robots..following explanation will help you :<br /> <br /> index,follow = index the page as well as follow the links<br /> noindex,follow = dont index the page but follow the links<br /> index,nofollow = index the page but dont follow the links<br /> noindex,nofollow = dont index page, dont follow the links<br /> all = same as index,follow<br /> none = same as noindex,nofollow<br /> <br /> Now move on to body part of the page<br /> <br /> Include all top 3 keywords here,<br /> I would suggest to break the keyword and use it...<br /> <br /> For example<br /> <br /> YourSiteName.com one stop for all kind of Latest Tech News and Computer Related information and reviews.................<br /> <br /> Include main keywords in <h#> tags <h1><h2> etc..<br /> and start with <h1> and then move to <h2> <h3> etc..<br /> <br /> <h1> tag will be too big but CSS can help you there, define small font size in css for H1,H2,... tags<br /> <br /> When done with page copy, then you need to provide title and alt tags for images and links.<br /> <br /> Use some keywords in the tags but dont add all the keywords and if not neccessary then dont use keywords in it, basically it should explain what is image all about.<br /> <br /> Remember to add Top keyword atleast 4 times in the body and other 2 keywords thrice and twice respectively.<br /> <br /> Now move on to Footer Part<br /> Try to include top keywords here and see the effect, use site keywords as links i.e.<br /> <br /> <a href="news.php">Tech News</a> <a href="software-news.php">Software News</a> etc..<br /> <br /> Now finally, you need to read some more stuff..may be you can all it as bottom lines...<br /> <br /> Site Map - This is page where you need to put all the links present in your site, this is will help Search Engines to find the links easily and also provide link for site map in footer, as search engines start scanning the page from bottom.<br /> <br /> Robots.txt - This file contains address of directories which should not be scanned by search engines.. more info can be found here : /http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion.html search engines line google, yahoo ask for robots.txt file.<br /> <br /> Valid HTML - Your code should have valid html and doc type, Its kind of diffucult to follow all the standards but you can atleast open and close all the tags properly, you can check your page's html online here : /http://validator.w3.org/ or you can use this free software called HTML Tidy : /http://tidy.sourceforge.net/<br /> <br /> All done now, you just need to check your site with this script, its called SEO Doctor : /http://www.instantposition.com/seo_doctor.cfm<br /> <br /> It'll show you the report of your site with solution.<br /> <br /> Now, correct the errors and start submitting the site :<br /> <br /> Start with google : /http://google.com/addurl.html<br /> then yahoo : /http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request<br /> then move to altavista,alltheweb and other search engies..<br /> <br /> Also submit your site to direcories like /http://dmoz.org , /http://jayde.com etc...<br /> Dmoz is must, as google, yahoo and may more search engines uses same directory<br /> <br /> And remember, dont try to SPAM with keywords in these directories, dmoz is handled by Human Editors<br /> <br /> Submitted the sites, but still i cant see you site on top?<br /> <br /> Wait for sometime may be a month or so but keep an eye on your search term, use /http://GoogleAlert.com - this will show whenever google updates for your keywords, it will mail you the new results.<br /> <br /> And also check whether your site is listed on google..<br /> use this tool called Google Monitor, it can be downloaded for free from : /http://www.cleverstat.com/google-monitor.htm

How To Get Top Ranking, Search Engines?

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