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Issue about Show Current Music track Gtalk with Windows media player and Winamp [Solved]

“ Show Current Music Track ” is feature of Gtalk which enables you to show the current song you are listing on you computer with Windows Media player and Winamp and the  song name will be automatically set as your  Gtalk status and it will be dynamically changed as the songs will changed in playlist queue.

I found most users facing problems with ‘Show Current Music track‘ is not working with Windrows Media Player and Winamp, so I did a little research and come up with following solution.

For Windows Media player :

  • Open Windows media Player.
  • Then Navigate to Tools Menu  then Select Options.
  • Go to Plug-ins tab.
  • Navigate to Background Category.
  • And Checked the Option “Google Talk Music Plugin”.
  • Then start your Google talk (Gtalk) and play songs with Windows media player.
  • And Set your status as “Show Current Music track” in Gtalk.
  • You are Done!.

For Winamp :

  • Navigate to Winamp Installation Directory.
  • By Default It is located in  C:Program FilesWinamp.
  • Create a new file with notepad and save it as “winamp.m3u”.
  • And then play songs with winamp and start your Gtalk .
  • Set Status as “Show Current Music Track”.
  • You are Done !.

If you liked reading about this, you might like reading about show current music track in Gtalk while Playing songs in Winamp and Ways to auto reply in Gtalk with Predefined Messages.

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10 Health Tips Every Blogger Must Follow

If you’re a blogger or just a computer fanboy (like me!), most possibly your suffering from eye,neck and many other body-part aches, fighting obesity and well, just plain lazy. Those long hours of surfing, yup. Of course this is not healthy in any way. Here are 10 tips that I follow regularly and what-do-ya-know, feeling quite great now, read on.

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Create Restart Icon on Your Desktop to restart your PC with a single click

Restart, is the function that which makes us to start our computer again by clearing any pending errors, or to bring system to normal position in controlled manner, or after finishing downloads few of the software or drivers etc asks for restarting the computer and there are many other reasons for us to restart our computer.

Being such an important aspect which brings system to back normal condition, every PC user will use this restart button. For high configured system, this is not such an important function, but for low configuration systems, it is such an important function which helps the system to return back to its normal condition.

It would be really helpful for us to have Restart Icon on our Desktop to restart our computer with just a single Click.

Note : This trick is tested only with Windows XP Operating System.

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This tricks enables you to set the time at which your PC will start the restart process. With just a single click on the Restart icon will terminate the entire running applications and starts the restart function after a predefined time.

Lets jump into the procedure for Creating Desktop Icon for Restart Function :

  • To creat the New Shortcut icon, right-click at any empty area on your desktop and proceed to New and then to Shortcut.

  • This creates a small widnows dialog box which will appear with name “Create Shoutcut“. In “Create Shortcut” window, type “SHUTDOWN -r -t 30“. This command begins with a 30 second count to restart your computer.

  • In the above command “t 30″ means “Time in seconds“. This command restarts our computer automatically after half minute.
  • Then click on Next Button and then type the name of Shoutcut “Restart” and click on Finish.

  • This creates a Shortcut Desktop icon for Restart function.
  • If you click on it, then a window dialog box will appear as “This system is shutting down. Please save all work in progress and log off. Any unsaved changes will be lost. This shut down was initiated by administrator”.

Benefits :

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  1. Saves Time.
  2. Saves Power as well.
  3. Efficient in process. (100% safe)

In order to stop the times if once you click on the Shortcut icon, Open “Run prompt” and type “shutdown -a” which terminates the timer as well as stops the system from restarting.

Express your views after trying this Trick out, this is a valid trick for Windows XP, if possible just try it out on Windows 7, Vista  and comment about your experience.

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Have you ever “Googled” your name?

Are you famous enough to be on first page of Google’s search result?

Try ‘Googling’ your name or the name of a person you know and check the results shown by Google from their index database. It will most probably display links to the profiles you have on different websites on the internet.

For example, results from forums and discussion websites; like when I Google my name (vishwanath dalvi) , Google displays my Facebook and LinkedIn profile listed on top followed by devilsworkshop author page.

People Google their name to see their blogs, websites and to check its status in Google index database.

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Setting up Google alert:

You can setup Google alert, a service offered by Google which emails you the updates for your Search terms which are continuously updated in Google’s index database,For example, you can setup alert for your name or for your favorite website in Google alert.

Whenever the Google index gets updated you will get email about the search results from Google.

Steps setup Google alert:

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  • Sign in to your Gmail account and then go to http://www.google.com/alerts.
  • In ‘Search Terms’ section, put the term for which you want to receive the updates.
  • In ‘Type’ section, select the type of search; everything, blogs, discussion, videos, news.
  • How often it should happen; daily, weekly.
  • Search result length; top 20 or 50 results.
  • Deliver to your mentioned email address.
  • Create alert.

Google alert for Devilsworkshop

If you liked reading about this, you might like reading about Google alert for twitter and get-google-alerts-on-your-feed-reader.

Now you can get to know Google results for your name and anything that you didn’t know about your name and Google discovers it for you.

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How To Play Top 8-Bit NES Classic Games Online

If you are in search for 8 bit games to play online then there is a free website known as VNES which offers those games free of cost. The games included are Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario Bros., Contra, Super Mario Bros. 2,  Legend of Zelda, Mario Bros., ExciteBike, Dr. Mario, Donkey Kong, Balloon Fight and many classical games.

Playing game is easy. Just click on the link given on the home page sidebar (Links for top 25 games are available on the sidebar). A small flash pop up will appear on the screen. Use arrow keys and “z” and “x” to control the character. There is also a specialty section where you can find your favorite games according to categories.

Play Super Mario Bros. 3

Play Contra game online.

Play Pacman

VNES has a collection of hundreds of vintage NES games you can play online. It’s time to go back to your childhood days.

Note: To play games, your browser should be Java enabled.

Check out vNES to play 8 bit games online.

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5 Goals in FIFA World Cup 2010 geeks can hit

The FIFA World Cup 2010 is underway and I must confess that almost everyone here at rtBlogs is football crazy. Now that the World Cup is underway we have got our computer ready for the football action that will unravel over then next whole month.

Here I am listing 5 things you can do to stay up to date following the World Cup.

#1. Add FIFA extension to your Chrome browser

Chrome browser has an official extension from FIFA which lets your follow the World Cup action live along with other match previews and news related to the mega event.

Download Link: FIFA 2010 World Cup extension

#2. YouTube channels covering the World Cup

YouTube also has some great channels where you can catch the world cup action. The best way is to immediately subscribe to some of the recommended YouTube channels which will show highlights with the ESPN channel. You can also follow up on Christiano Ronaldo’s channel on YouTube.

#3. Bookmark Twitter’s new FIFA World Cup interface

If you are a Twitter lover and love following and interacting with other World Cup followers around the world on Twitter you might be interested in having Twitter’s World Cup forum which streams real time tweets based on the matches taking place. It may be a great idea to bookmark the link to Twitter’s World Cup forum.

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Read more about Twitter’s FIFA forum.

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#4. Catch Google Earth’s 3D layout of World Cup stadiums

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Okay we do not have a television at our office and that leaves us to catch the matches live on the internet. You might want to check out top 5 websites to view World Cup matches for free and get into the world cup environment. But Google Maps allows taking the whole idea of exploring South African world cup venues to another level by allowing users to look up the world cup stadiums in a 3D environment.

Link: 3d Layouts of World Cup Stadiums

#5. Firefox Personas, Themes and Wallpapers

Firefox browser also can also be dressed up with some soccer mania by download and installing the Firefox World Cup 2010 Persona. We covered how Microsoft released FIFA 2010 Windows 7 theme for the World Cup. You can download and install the theme to give your computer a bit of the football fever. There are also a great number of websites which offer free desktop wallpapers to be downloaded. I found Flash screen, Ole Ole, Futbol Wallpapers very useful sites to look up exciting wallpapers.

So if you are spending most of your awake time in front of the computer screen how are you keeping track of the FIFA World Cup 2010? Do let us know through your comments.

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How to Customize Google Search Background

There has been an announcement of launching Customized Google Background option throughout the net. We are happy to announce its launch in India.

Today, Google came up with custom background option in Google Search. I’m really impressed with the addon and hope that every googler will like it. Previously, it narrowed its gap with Yahoo by bringing I-Google and now it has left Bing far behind by bringing the Custom Background option. Now the other search engines don’t have a unique feature other than Google. It seems that Google has started to grab the entire Internet World and Business.

I’m adding the screenshots having details how to add it.

Step 1 : Click : ” Signin to use background image”

Step 2 :  Sign in your account

Step 3 : Choose your picture. You can select over various sources like Google Image Search, Picasa, Public Gallery and Editor’s Picks.

Step 4 : Make a selection from previous step. I chose a picture from Editor’s Picks and it look like below.

Features : You can set multiple images over multiple accounts. Whenever, you login a Gmail Account, you will get your customized wallpaper at Google Search.

This feature is really cool and now Google has met up the only difference which Bing had.

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How to Set Multiple Homepage In Mozilla Firefox

This trick is for the users who want to set multiple homepages with Mozilla Firefox.

If you want your favorite websites (such as www.gmail.com and popular search engines like google.com and bing.com ) that you visit regularly when you start your browser  , to open directly as your browser starts , you need to set multiple homepages.

So here are the steps to set multiple homepages with Firefox browser:

  1. Open your Mozilla Firefox browser.
  2. Then go to Tools >> Options >> General >> Home page.
  3. So to set Multiple Homepages, www.google.co.in | www.devilsworkshop.rsites.dev6.rt.gw | www.bing.com
  4. Paste the above code in Home page as URL.
  5. Then Hit Home button on browser you will get three homepages open at same time.
  6. You can set two or more than two homepages by modifying above code and putting ‘|’ symbol between two URLs.

Homepage is where you set the URL of website that you want at startup of your browser.

Note: These steps are not applicable to Internet explorer, Google Chrome browsers. For these browsers you need write JavaScript code in home page URL.Soon I will be posting the steps to get multiple homepages on IE and Google chrome.

If you liked reading about this tricks  you might like reading about Refresh page automatically with Firefox browser and Get Firefox  browser inside Firefox . There is also a Speed up Firefox browser by managing tabs with BarTab Add-on.

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How To View Passwords Hidden Behind Asterisk Character

Whenever you fill your credentials while login into your online account, due to security reasons it shows only asterisk characters instead of your original password.

In browsers there is a feature to save your passwords. It automatically fills up the login credentials whenever you opened up the login page. But in this case also you can’t see the password of your account. However you can see the password by visiting the options panel of your browser.

Read: Top 5 free softwares to Reveal your Asterisk Hidden Password

Now consider the scenario where you are using public computer where your browser can’t help you by reminding you the passwords. Many web services such as online banking or mail services come with security login feature (https), these services give you only few chance (3 to 5 times) to enter the correct password. If you fail to do so then it may be possible that your account get banned or locked.

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If at first time you know what you password are entering inside the login field, you can easily avoid bad situations. The easiest way to know what is hidden behind asterisk character is using bookmarklet. I found a nice bookmarklet on Hacktrix blog. Here I am explaining one of it.

Drag the below given bookmarklet into your bookmark bar. Below given screenshot describes you how to drag it.

View Passwords

Now visit any webpage in which login is required. For example, let’s say Gmail.com. Enter your Gmail ID and password. Now click on the bookmarklet on the bookmark bar which you dragged in previous step.

A small dialog box appears displaying the password of your account. Here my password is toxicbird. Don’t try to login with this password in my account. Obviously it won’t work. 🙂

That’s how you can easily check the password behind asterisk characters. However this method is limited to web pages only. If you want to check the asterisk characters of tools such as Filezilla, FireFTP etc then check out our previous article Top 5 Free Softwares to Reveal your Asterisk hidden password. If you are a JavaScript geek and love Firefox you might like reading up on How to use Java Script for unmasking passwords on Firefox.

What do you think about services that unmasking passwords? Have you ever had a account blocked because of entering the wrong password 2-3 times inadvertently? Do let us know through your comments.

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Get Firefox browser Inside Firefox browser

This is a guest post by Vishwanath Dalvi, if you too would like to write guest posts for Devils’ workshop, do check out our revenue sharing program.

Mozilla Firefox is the most popular browser used by techies to access  websites when compared to other browsers like Internet explorer and Opera. Most of users use Mozilla Firefox as there default browser.

There are many tricks using Mozilla Firefox this is one of the trick I’m sharing with you, Firefox inside Firefox.

So here , 4 steps to follow to get Firefox inside Firefox.

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  • Open your Mozilla Firefox Browser.
  • Copy and paste the code below into the address bar of your Mozilla Firefox browser.

chrome://browser/content/browser.xul

  • If you want to open another Firefox browser paste the same  above address  into address bar of newly open Firefox tab.
Firefox inside firefox

Amazing isn’t it? This is a  easter eggs that is hidden in Mozilla Firefox browser, so stun your friends by embedding new Firefox browser window inside Firefox browser.

If you liked reading about this easter egg you might like reading about Google Easter eggs and Ninja Mode in Google Reader. There is also a Flight Simulator hidden with Google Earth.

Do you like using and exploring Easter Eggs in software applications? Do let us know through your comments.