Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Rocket Alarm ! ! !

All those sleepyheads who have always tried to get up on time, but didn't succeed, here's something which will do this pretty easily. Presenting the ROCKET ALARM CLOCK.


The launch pad doubles as mission control, where you can set the time and the alarm from the LCD display. When it's time to get up, the red LED lights begin to flash and the countdown begins. 10 - 9 - if you wake up now you can abort the launch - 8 - 7 - 6 - you can still stop it - 5 - 4 - come on you space cadet get up -3 - 2 - 1 -

LIFT OFF ! ! !

If you've failed to abort the mission by now, your soft-headed rocket has launched itself across the room- and the only way to stop the alarm is by getting up and retrieving it.

Get Rocket Alarm Clock from LatestBuy for $29.95

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Sunday, August 3, 2008

Converting a Folder into a Drive


Here's a trick which allows you to use any folder as a drive in Windows. This trick comes very handy when you use a particular folder often, and want to quickly access it like in Command Prompt. It actually adds a new drive in My Computer with your specified drive letter(whatever you specify) and that drive actually points to your designated folder. Once you open the drive, you can access the folder.

The DOS command SUBST is used to create a virtual drive allowing you to add any file path and used as a drive.

SUBST [drive1: [drive2:]path]

drive1: Specifies a virtual drive to which you want to assign a path.
drive2: Specifies a physical drive and path you want to assign to a virtual drive.

For example, to create a virtual drive with a specified path:

  • Find a folder you want to use as a drive and remember its path. For demonstration i will be using ‘H:\sid’ as the path.
  • Open Command Prompt and type “subst drive-letter path
  • For example, type “subst z: H:\sidand press Enter.


Now you can easily access that folder by just typing z:


Removing the Virtual Drive:

To remove the virtual drive, go to Command Prompt, and type subst z: /D.

/D Deletes a substituted virtual drive.

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Thursday, July 24, 2008

Get RAR support on UBUNTU LINUX


Do you have a bunch or RAR files from windows, and want to use them under ubuntu linux?

The rar files are copyright protected, so the native installation of archive manager doesn't come with rar support. But there is a simple solution to get things done with only 2 lines of terminal code:
start your teminal: Applications > Accessories > Terminal
enter or copy and paste line by line: (paste in terminal is SHIFT+CTRL+V)

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rar unrar
That's it. Now you can use rar files in your native gnome archive manager.

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Check if you can play that game or not

Sometimes it is really painful that you buy a game and later on find that your system cannot play that game. Well the Shops wont allow you to test those games before buying it but here's a tool which definitely can tell you by running a small test on your computer. This tells at the end if your computer is compatible to play those games.

Can You run it? Yes that's the name of this online tool which allows you to check your computer against hundreds of games listed on their list.

  • Age of Empires III: Asian Dynasties
  • Alone in the Dark
  • Assassin’s Creed
  • BioShock
  • Call of Duty 4
  • Command & Conquer 3 Kane’s Wrath
  • Crysis
  • DiRT
  • Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
  • Europa Universalis: Rome
  • F.E.A.R. Perseus
  • Frontlines: Fuel of War
  • Galactic Civ II: Twilight of the Arnor
  • Gears of War
  • GRID
  • Guitar Hero III
  • Half-Life 2 Orange Box
  • Hellgate: London
  • LEGO Indiana Jones
  • Mass Effect
  • Microsoft Flight SimX: Accelerator
  • Need for Speed Pro Street
  • Overclocked
  • Pirates of the Burning Sea
  • Rohan: Blood Feud
  • Second Life
  • Sins of a Solar Empire
  • SPORE
  • SPORE Creature Creator
  • S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
  • The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
  • The Lord of the Rings Online
  • The Sims 2 Double Deluxe
  • Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
  • Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
  • Turok
  • UEAF Euro 2008
  • Unreal Tournament III
  • Warhammer 40K - Soulstorm
  • World in Conflict
  • WOW Burning Crusade
  • XIII Century

So if you need to find out anything about the Game and Your PC just move on to Can You Run it and find it.

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