Category Archives: Tips and Tricks

Camstudio(Record your computer’s activity)

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CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)

Here are just a few ways you can use this software:

* You can use it to create demonstration videos for any software program
* Or how about creating a set of videos answering your most frequently asked questions?
* You can create video tutorials for school or college class
* You can use it to record a recurring problem with your computer so you can show technical support people
* You can use it to create video-based information products you can sell
* You can even use it to record new tricks and techniques you discover on your favourite software program, before you forget them

You can download it from here.

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Make your Windows XP talk as you type

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Open a text file in notepad and write:

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Dim msg, sapi

msg=InputBox(“Enter your text”,”Talk it”)

Set sapi=CreateObject(“sapi.spvoice”)

sapi.Speak msg

Save the file with a (*.vbs) extension, it will create a VBScript File.

It will prompt you for a text, input the text and press ok.”

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Virtualbox(Run multiple OS Simultaneously)

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VirtualBox is an x86 virtualization software package, originally created by German software company innotek, now developed by Sun Microsystems as part of its Sun xVM virtualization platform. It is installed on an existing host operating system; within this application, additional operating systems, each known as a Guest OS, can be loaded and run, each with its own virtual environment.

Supported host operating systems include Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp, Windows XP or Vista, and Solaris, while supported guest operating systems include FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD, OS/2 Warp, Windows and Solaris.

According to a 2007 survey by DesktopLinux.com, VirtualBox is the third most popular software package for running Windows programs on Linux desktops.

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Shutdown,restart,hibernate shortcut

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Go to your desktop and right click somewhere clear then choose SHORTCUT from the NEW menu.

Enter shutdown -s -t 0 then click next.

For other things here are the codes:
Restart: shutdown -r -t 0
Logoff: shutdown -l -t 0
Hibernate: rundll32.exe PowrProf.dll, SetSuspendState Hibernate

Type Shut Down (Title Name) or whatever you want, Click Finish.

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Activate the keyboard mouse

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Follow the given steps to activate the keyboard mouse:

To edit this feature, first you should log onto your computer with administrative rights.

To activate this feature, press Alt+Shift+NumLock keys at once and you will receive a small MouseKey box.

To keep MouseKeys on, click on Ok button or click on cancel button to cancel MouseKeys box.

Click on Settings button, if you want to adjust the mouse cursor detail settings.

Here a new dialog box will appear with the title Settings for MouseKeys”, now you can manage all mouse settings for example mouse cursor speed, acceleration and some other features.

Now using Numeric keypad, you can move your mouse pointer. The controls are:

*1,2,3,4,6,7,8 and 9 keys are used to move the mouse cursor into different directions.

*Key 5 is used as mouse click button.

*Insert key used to hold down mouse button.

*+ Sign used to double click on any object.

*Delete button used to release the mouse.

*Click on NumLock button to disable this keyboard mouse feature.

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