.shs files are scrap object files, generally created by MS Office (word, excel etc.)
If you are using Windows XP and MS Office 2003, simply drag and drop that file to MS Word / MS Excel application window.
If you are usnig Windows 7 and MS Office 2007 or later, then change the extension of .shs file to .docx and open it with MS Word. It will give you an error message and then will ask you to extract content. Click yes, and you are done.
Now you can easily post blogger blog post through your Android powered mobile phone / pad / tablet on the go.
Blogger had released a Blogger app for android for blogging that you can use easily.
Download this free app from here -
http://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.apps.blogger
You can use your phone camera to post photographs and manage multiple accounts too with this app.
More details here : http://buzz.blogger.com/2011/02/introducing-blogger-android-app.html
For Net connections, Nokia PC / Nokia Ovi suit isn’t working in Windows 7 for CDMA phones. Nokia had stopped support/update for their CDMA phones.
So, how would you connect to Internet through your Nokia CDMA phones?
It is assumed that you have CDMA Phone with standard Bluetooth Modem - such as Nokia 6275i
Insure that your phone's bluetooth is on, and your computer has bluetooth support, enabled.
In Windows 7, Go to control panel, click on connect to internet, and then from there, create a new connection Say, Reliance (for Reliance India Network) with
standard settings - such as "username" and "password" as your "Mobile phone number" and Dialing Number #777.
1 - Right click on Bluetooth Devices.
2 - Go to modem settings
3 - In modem tabs, you will see many modems here. Click on standard modem over Bluetooth link.
4 - Click on properties.
5 - In new window that appears, click on Change settings.
6 - Again a new window will appear, where you will find Extra initialization command - +CGDCONT=,,"#777". Delete
this, then click OK , Apply and you are done setting part. Now, to connect to internet through your mobile,
7 – On system tray’s Bluetooth Devices, right click on your mobile phone, then click on Dial up networking > Reliance. It will
connect to internet instantly provided you accept this connection in your Phone.
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At times, you try to upload a video on youtube and you get error message after some time that upload failed. Quite annoying? You can solve this by using Google Gears. Download and install Google Gears from here.
Now you can read / download Linux pocket guide in Hindi here all for free. The book is easier than dummis’ and Idiots’ series.
Read in e-paper here: Note that the book is 6+ MB, so it may take a while to load on slow connections.
Linux Pocket Guide in HindiWhile experimenting a little with Windows 7, I happily noticed that my most (even typical ones,) programs installed on the same machine but on different partitions on Windows XP were flawlessly running on Windows 7 too.
What you simply need is to create shortcut of preinstalled programs on you Windows 7 Desktop to run them natively – as they have installed on Windows 7.
It was not the case with earlier windows versions and you need to reinstall all the applications in each and every Windows installations separately!
Windows is learning fast – perhaps with big mistake with Vista?
In Windows XP (not the case with Windows Vista or Windows 7 though), Hindi (read Indic) pages and applications having Hindi GUI looks ugly. Here is how to set your pc for good looking Hindi.
(Default Hindi display)
(Display after applying Hindi friendly settings)
(1) Right click on an empty space on your Desktop, and select Properties. A child window named Display Properties will open. Click on Appearence Tab and select Font Size - Large Font, and click on Apply.
(2) On Display Properties window, click on Effects button. Select Clear type on ‘Use the following method to smooth edge of screen font’dropdown option on the window that appears. Click OK.
(3) On Display Properties Window, click on Advanced button. Click on Active Window on the Advanced Appearece Window that appears. Select Mangal (or any other Unicode Indic font if you wish so) on the Font dropdown list for each item. Select Size 12-14 (you can experiment a bit) as anything less will display Indic font too small. Click OK, then click Apply and finally, click on OK to apply new settings.
Voila. Your PC is now Hindi friendly. Isn’t it ?
Recently My Thunderbird stuck somewhere, and refused to start saying – Thunderbird already running. Close the process to restart or reboot your computer. I rebooted, tried to fix with reinstallation but failed. A quick search at Internet advised to remove .lock or parent.lock file under %APPDATA% directory. But I did not find one in my computer. Now what to do?
I simply removed profile.ini file under %APPDATA%Thunderbird directory, and restarted thunderbird. Voila, it fixed the problem.
Here is no-nonsense quick take to dual / triple boot Windows 7 with Windows XP and Linux.
What you need additionally : Ubuntu Linux Live (or, any Live Linux CD/DVD) CD/DVD. You can download Ubuntu Live Linux CD from here.
Assuming that you are installing Windows 7 on a separate partition in a machine that had Windows XP and Linux installed already.
If your machine had only Windows XP and no Linux, Windows 7 is generous enough to let you choose to boot older version of Windows through its boot manager.
But, it deliberately ignore other non-windows OS and file system, and hence you can’t boot Linux through Windows 7 boot manager.
In such case, you need to restore GRUB boot manager. Follow these steps carefully and restore your old GRUB:
Boot through Ubuntu Linux Live CD/DVD
Start terminal and give following command:
$ sudo grub
You will then enter in grub configuration mode. Here, give following command:
$ root (hd0,0)
Then give following command:
$ setup (hd%1,%2) - here, %1,%2 is the disk volume and partition value of your original Linux installation where /boot/grub is already installed. For example, in my machine, it is on disk 1, partition 6, so the value will be – (hd0,5). So, be careful here else your Grub will not be restored, and you will get error message instead.
Finally, give following command within grub configuration mode:
$ quit
$ exit
Now, reboot (do not forget to remove Linux Live CD/DVD to boot from HDD). If everything had gone right, your Grub boot manager will load and prompt you to choose to boot from either Linux or Windows 7. Enjoy!
I had previously used and tested Google chrome for its Hindi (Indic) capabilities, and had quickly abandoned since it was giving trouble here and there. Recently, after going through a report about browser share – yes, Chrome is gaining share - I tested Chrome again.
To my horror, when I opened about 8-10 tabs in Google Chrome, my laptop’s on-demand CPU cycle remain steady at 100% status and because of this, my laptop goes red-hot and its battery drained more quickly than ever. Instead of usual Two-and-half hour back-up, my laptop’s battery drained completely within an hour.
Probably, this is because, Google chrome opens a new process every time when a user opens a tab, and hence it uses your precious CPU cycle, memory and – Well, your computer’s power at an unprecedented rate.
So, beware – use Google Chrome with caution especially when you are on Battery power.
I have used Opera, Konqueror (in Linux), Firefox, Internet Explorer, Epipheny – and found that Firefox uses least CPU cycles on its heavy usage. And, if you use Opera as RSS reader, otherwise a light browser, it too become bloatware.
Opera browser is notorious in making everything cryptic inside its cache. When it stores internet history in its cache, it renames everything to its liking and you are left behind to guess which file belongs to what.
Still, you can use multimedia files renamed by Opera in such cryptic manner. For example, Multimedia / Youtube video files were normally big in size, and you can easily judge them by their size in cache directory. Oprea cache directory normally located at \Program Files\Opera\profile\cache4\. Under this directory you may find hundreds of files with cryptic names generally started with ‘opr’ prefix. Sort them by size and hunt for the file with a particular time stamp – i.e. the time when you were surfing or streaming a particular audia/video. Copy that file to another folder and rename it with extension swf (if Youtub video) or jpg or mp3 as the case may be. Open the file in appropriate program. If you use Mplayer, then you may directly open files of any media you have copied.
You can do a lot of things through Live Linux CD – including playing Lara Craft game – oh, sorry, you are right – the game had some other silly, non sexy name.
You also can Scan and wipe out viruses off your Windows Machine (both from Fat32 as well as NTFS) through Linux Live CD equipped with F-Secure antivirus.
Download the zip file that contains iso image of the Virus Scanner Live CD from here.
The system scan remain Complete and thorough and hence you may experience it as a bit slower. But Virus cleaning is guaranteed with latest virus database from F-Secure (Need your computer be connected to internet.)
If you want to add your previously collected MP3 files that necessarily may not have MP3 tags such as Album/Artist name, then Zune is notorious enough to not let you set album/artist name, and when you copy these files to your Zune, it keeps all of them in Unknown Artists category. In case you have hundreds of MP3 files then managing them will be next to impossible.
You can use MP3 tag editors to define album/artist name to avoid this. A better way is to use iTunes. In iTunes, select as many MP3 files you want to give album name, and right click on the selection. Click on Get Info.
A window named Multiple Item Information will appear where you can fill down Album name/Artist name / Genre and click OK to save. Then copy these MP3 files to your Zune in usual way. Now you will have album names/genre/artist in your Zune – easy to manage songs now!
Many *nix applications are being now ported to Windows and when you try to run them, they display missing phonon.dll file error messages specially if the program is Multimedia kind.
Here are the files you can download :
Download these files and copy them in application’s directory. For example, if you are using KDE 4 Windows, then place these files in KDE4’s bin directory – where all KDE4 executables are placed.
You can try placing them in Windows system directory too.
If some Firefox extension or add on started giving you trouble, and the trouble is so serious that Firefox simply fail to start, then what to do? Here is the simple way you can uninstall any Firefox extension:
Go to User’s - $Documents and Settings\a\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ directory (the example is for user a under Windows. In Linux, the folder may be stored in your home directory under hidden directory .mozilla). You will find a cryptic directory such as this - p79bty4k.default. Under this directory, you will find a directory named extensions. Within that directory, all your Firefox extensions that you have installed so far were available. Now choose the offended one among the list – that may be an entry or a sub directory – and delete it. Restart Firefox. The offended firefox extension will vanish forever.
If you are lucky one and use English interface, you will see Google Lab menu in Google Gmail Settings.
Click on it and select Old Snakey Radio button and save settings. Do not forget to enable Keyboard Shortcut in Setting>General menu.
Now, simply press & button of your keyboard and play Old, lovely Snakey.
I tied a few time, but, as you see, I need a little more practice!
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