Disabling USB Port

If you are in a need of disabling the USB Ports of your laptop for security purpose,here is a simple trick you can use.

 Registry Method to disable USB drive access

Following registry changes will prevent users from successful connection of USB drive to USB ports on Windows PC. Be careful, do not try this if you don’t know about registry settings.

- Click Start > Run. Type regedit, and click OK.
- Locate & then click the following registry key:
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UsbStor
- In the details pane, double-click Start.

- In the Value data box, type 4, click Hexadecimal (if it is not already selected), and then click OK.
- Exit Registry Editor.

To enable the access again, follow same steps as above and change value to 3 from 4.

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Creating a Bootable Pen Drive

Required:

    * USB Flash Drive (4GB+)
    * Microsoft OS Disk (Vista / Windows 7)
    * A computer Running Vista / Windows 7

Step 1: Format the Drive
The steps here are to use the command line to format the disk properly using the diskpart utility.
[Be warned: this will erase everything on your drive. Be careful.]

   1. Plug in your USB Flash Drive and format it by right click>format (use files system>NTFS) ok
   2. Open a command prompt as administrator (Right click on Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt and select “Run as administrator”)
   3. Find the drive number of your USB Drive by typing the following into the Command Prompt window:
      diskpart
      list disk
      The number of your USB drive will listed. You’ll need this for the next step.  I’ll assume that the USB flash drive is disk 1.
   4. Format the drive by typing the next instructions into the same window. Replace the number “1” with the number of your disk below.
      select disk 1
      select partition 1
      active
      exit
      When that is done you’ll have a formatted USB flash drive ready to be made bootable.

Step 2: Make the Drive Bootable
Next we’ll use the bootsect utility that comes on the Vista or Windows 7 disk to make the flash drive bootable.  In the same command window that you were using in Step 1:

   1. Insert your Windows Vista / 7 DVD into your drive.
   2. Change directory to the DVD’s boot directory where bootsect lives:
      d:
      cd d:\boot
   3. Use bootsect to set the USB as a bootable NTFS drive prepared for a Vista/7 image. I’m assuming that your USB flash drive has been labeled disk G:\ by the computer:
      bootsect /nt60 g:
   4. You can now close the command prompt window, we’re done here.

Step 3: Copy the installation DVD to the USB drive
The easiest way is to use Windows explorer to copy all of the files on your DVD on to the formatted flash drive.  After you’ve copied all of the files the disk you are ready to go.

Step 4: Set your BIOS to boot from USB
This is where you’re on your own since every computer is different. Most BIOS’s allow you to hit a key at boot and select a boot option.

I used these instructions to get my  Acer Aspire 5738G laptop loaded with Windows 7 and it worked fine. 

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Fix for Digsby’s Facebook authentication error

To all Digsby users (ignore this post if you don’t use Digsby):
If you use Digsby with Facebook, you might have noticed that things behave strangely — the program pops up a window looking like this when it tries to connect to Facebook:




Then after you give it your credentials, Digsby still thinks you’re not logged in, and so on.
If you found this page via a google search, there’s a simple hack / workaround you can use to patch up this problem. Basically, instead of using the Facebook protocol to connect, we let Digsby use the Jabber protocol as a ‘proxy’ to connect to Facebook:

1. Go to Digsby -> My Accounts and in the Add Accounts section at the top, select the Jabber icon.
2. You should get a window that looks like this:
   
3. In the Jabber ID box, put your.id@chat.facebook.com, and in the password field, put your facebook password. For example, if your facebook username is at facebook.com/yourname, your Jabber id is yourname@chat.facebook.com.
4. Remove the facebook account from Digsby

At this point, you’re done: Digsby should give you no more problems about Facebook.

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Sony Xperia Tipo shows up on Flipkart for Pre-order

After its announcement in July ,Sony Xperia Tipo now seems to be on its way to the Indian market.As of now,Xperia Tipo is available online for pre-order on Flipkart.
There are two versions- Tipo and Tipo Dual priced at Rs 9499 and Rs 10,299 respectively.Both the devices will be available by the second week of September.

The specifications of the device seems good.The Sony Xperia Tipo runs on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and is powered by an 800MHz processor. The Xperia Tipo has 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen with 320 X 480 pixels resolution, 3.2MP camera, 512MB of RAM, 2.9GB built-in storage (up to 2.5GB user-accessible memory) and microSD card slot that supports storage up to 32GB. The device comes with a 1,500 mAh battery, which is rated to deliver 5 hours of talktime on 2G mode and 4 hours on 3G.

For connectivity, the device supports Wi-Fi, USB and Bluetooth. The Xperia Tipo comes preloaded with various apps such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Gmail, Google Voice Search, Google Talk, WhatsApp, Google Play, Instant Messaging. Full specifications of the Sony Xperia Tipo are available here

Check out the price on Flipkart :

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Understand Website Terminology

You all have heard about websites and their ranking statistics reported by Alexa,Google and various other similar sites.But what is the criteria of ranking these websites ? Some would say its the Hits on the website,the other would stuck on the point of Page views. But what is it which is considered in calculations of web traffic? Today this post will make you familiar with the terms and their importance.

Hits

Hits is also known as request and it’s the total number of files loaded when a single page is requested from the web server. So how hits are calculated? For example – a single web page with 15 images (transparent.gif, header-background.gif, etc)is loaded, that’s 15 hits for starters. The web page has 10 photos (jammie.jpg, group-photo.jpg, etc), that’s another 10 hits. If you add up the CSS files, Javascript files and all the external files, each time a web page is loaded, it can easily build up more than 50 hits. If you clear cache, reload the page, another 50+ hits again.
Hits are rarely used to to judge a website’s traffic nowadays as they are not really accurate. The numbers are big and certainly cool, but generally useless.Measuring traffics in hits usually returns you a proudly large number.

Pageviews

Pageviews is a calculation of how many times a page is viewed. Say a visitor lands on your main page, that’s 1 pageview. Same visitor clicks to About Us page, that’s another pageview. By dividing total pageviews with total unique visitors, you can get an idea how many pageviews each visitor generates.

Impressions

Impression is more or less a marketing term, normally calculated in bulk of 1000. It counts how many times a element (image, text, video) appears on a web page. If a advertisement network is paying $3/CPM (Cost Per Thousand Impressions), that means you are getting paid $3 when the banner appears 1000 times on your web page.

Visits / Unique Visitors

Visits is normally equivalent to unique visitors. Think of it as the number of different people (different IP) that visits your web page. Visits or unique visitors are the most essential numbers of all, when it comes to determine the traffic of a specific site.

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