How data can be stored in bacteria ?

Normally whenever you think of data storage, the choices that would come to your mind are Hard Disks, flash drives, CD/DVD etc . However the researchers in Japan don’t think that way . The see something that is very much smaller and much more durable – Bacteria , yeah I am talking about those microscopic organisms which you studied about in your Biology class.

The concept behind

Japanese researchers are developing methods to store the data in Bacteria . According to Keio University professor Masaru Tomita who heads the team of researchers , the four characters - T , C , A , G that represents the genetic coding in DNA works much like digital data . Character combinations can stand for specific letters and symbols — so codes in genomes can be translated, or read, to produce music, text, video and other content.

What can be the advantage

And the good think is that information will be available as long the species stays alive – possible a million years . The team has successfully inserted into a common bacterium Albert Einstein’s Famous ‘E equals MC square’ equation . But mutation could distort stored data, Tomita says data are stored in four places in the bacteria so the data stay intact .

So imagine if this thing becomes possible , data storage will become so cheap as bacteria are all around us , you just need to catch one . And if you are lucky you might catch a bacteria which was lost by someone else and could contain movies etc.

How to add safe mode to your boot list in Windows XP

Safe mode is required when you have to fix a problem such as virus infection or uninstalling drivers in yourwindows XP.Generally we need to use F8 Key to get into safe mode and if not timed properly you will need to restart windows xp again. Here is a small trick which lets you add Safe mode by default into your Boot list. You will see it when you restart your windows xp machine

Steps to Add Safe Mode in Boot list

• Go to control panel > System.
• Click on Advanced Tab.
• Then click on settings under the startup and recovery action.
• Click on edit under system startup to indirectly edit your boot.ini file.

• Add the following entry “multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS=”XP - Safe Mode” /fastdetect /safeboot:minimal /sos /bootlog” without quotes.

Thats it, restart your machine and you will see another label as “XP- Safe Mode” added to the list.

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Add Emoticons to Blogger’s posts

Everyone knows that emoticons add more value to your blog posts by making the communication between you and your readers more personal. They allow you to express your emotions to your visitors.

For quite sometime, I was looking for a way to add emoticons to Tech Bold as well. By using GreaseMonkey extension for Firefox, it is now possible to use emotions with your blogger blog

GreaseMonkey is a specific extension for Firefox which enable you to add hundreds of other scripts to your Firefox, another good reason to use Firefox instead of Internet Explorer.

What you’ll need to use emoticons in your blogger blog:

• Latest Firefox Web Browser. You can download Firefox by clicking on the link on the left sidebar of this blog.

• Next you need GreaseMonkey Extension for Firefox. After installing Firefox, install GreeseMonkey Extension from here.

• And the emoticons GreeseMonkey script. Finally install the script by left clicking here.

Now when you’ll be writing your blog post, you should be able to add emoticons by simply clicking on them. This only works in compose mode, not in text/html mode.
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Save Disk Space By Compressing Folders

Disk Space is something how much you have is always less. New computers does come with hard disks which has boat load of disk space, but many people may have older computer where free disk space is not what it used to be. One option would be to upgrade or buy a new hard drive, but what if you're not that tech savvy.

Another option in Windows XP and Windows Vista is to compress the entire folder, so that every file that is stored on that folder is automatically compressed when saved and decompressed when opened. The beauty of this thing is that you don't need to compress or decompress the files, it is done automatically by Windows. You wouldn't even notice it. It's like working with any other normal folder.

Note: Before you try to compress a folder, make sure that folder is on NTFS file format.

Compressing the Folder to save Disk Space

• Right click the folder whose files you want to compress and click properties.
• Click on Advanced..

• Check the box which says "Compress contents to save disk space".

• At the Confirm Attribute Changes window, select "Apply changes to this folder, subfolders and files". Click Ok

• Did it saved disk space? Of course it did. (see figure below)