Fix Your Freezing iPod

Lately my 30gb iPod was acting a bit weird, freezing from time to time until i fixed it. I know alot of people out there must be facing this problem so i thought of sharing my solutions with you guys…

If your iPod has freezed for the first time or happens quite a few times then the easiest way to fix it is to first put off the hold from your iPod and then hold the Menu and the action button together for around 10 seconds until the screen flickers to black for a while and then the apple logo appears.If you are using the older version of iPod, you can try holding the menu and play button to reset your iPod.

This reset technique usually helps most of the time whenever you find any trouble with your iPod.

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Get Smart With Your Windows Vista

Although Windows Vista could not bring much anticipation from the computer world as much as the hype was created but still… some of the computer users after getting their hardware upgraded seems to pretty much like the new Vista edition.

For all the Vista users, I found some awesome tips to save time with your Windows Vista. For Windows XP optimization check out this post.

- With Windows Vista, you can send an email right from your desktop. You can save time by not browsing to your account and create a shortcut to send an email to your most frequent person. To do this, create a new email shortcut on desktop and type in mailto: followed by your recipient’s email address like mailto:admin@gravityblue.com. Click the Next button and give a name to your shortcut and then select finish. When you are done a new shortcut would appear in your desktop on which you can double click and send an email easily. You can also change the mailto: email address in place of a different persons email address.

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iPhone Firmware 2.0.3 Already?

Wow, you too must be thinking of how quick Apple is on releasing Firmwares. It is hardly been a week since iPhone firmware 2.0.1 came out claiming the “bug fixes” and later 2 days back Apple rolled out its 2.0.2 version. Tough all the claimed versions of removing bugs, it did nothing. Although the typing lag was removed while the low signal strength and slow web browsing issue prevailed.

Well now… Apple has planned yet another firmware to be out soon. It was revealed by an Apple insider piece which reveals that another upgrade will be coming in September.

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Must Know Gmail Shortcuts

Earlier I posted some awesome keyboard shortcuts for windows and lately I found this amazing list of Gmail shortcuts. Most of the shortcuts listed are new to me, I hardly knew them, I guess you too won’t know these shortcuts.

To use the shortcuts below, you need to turn these case sensitive shortcuts, on and off from your Gmail Account settings page.

c – Hitting the “c” button on your keyboard takes you to the compose page. You can try “shift + c” to write your message in a new window.
/ – It takes your cursor to the search box on the top of your Gmail account.
n – Takes you to the next message. You can ht enter to expand or collapse the message.
p – Takes you to the previous message.
e – archives you conversation.
s – stars your message or a conversation
! – Marks a message as spam.
r – reply to the message. You can use ‘shift + r’ to open the reply message in a new window.

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Apple Rolls Out iPhone Software 2.0.2

Its hardly been a week since Apple release the iPhone software 2.0.1 which said to have included the bug fixes. After the previous update, the issue of signal strength wasn’t solved and the performance wasn’t impressive either.

So, yesterday Apple rolled out its iPhone software 2.0.2. At the Apple Discussions, people have reported a better browsing speded and no lag while typing. You too can get the update from the iTunes 7.7 easily.

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Make an Image Your Password

It is always difficult remember all the passwords of your different accounts passwords and yet being safe from the hackers attacks of using dictionary to break into the accounts.

Well lately some researchers, came up with different mediums to use them as your password like a picture, a song or your favorite video and the answer came in the form a software; ObPwd

First, let my tell you, this is still an experimental tool and please do not use it with your sensitive accounts, read their disclaimer.

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Turn Your Windows XP into Mac OSX

I found this really interesting trick on how to turn your windows XP to look like Mac OS X, leopard to be precise. Turning your Windows XP in Mac OSX will change your Windows XP interface to Mac OSX while all the software already installed will work fine just like on Windows XP, so its like a transformation which changes the look and feel of you Window XP.

The best transformation pack for turning your Window XP to Mac OSX was Flyakite OSX. You need download this transformation pack. If the site does not work, try using Firefox or Safari.

Once the download in complete, double click the downloaded file to install the transformation pack. During the installation, it will ask you to create a restore point; I would recommend you to do that because if you find any problems using the transformation pack, you can easily switch to your old settings. Make sure you do it because this installation mods a lot of system files.

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Do More With Google

Hello readers, I know I have been writing after an almost a week now, there was some problem with the host, the datacenters went down and we had to wait for couple of days to get the site up. I am glad it is working fine now, and I hope it wont be causing further problems.

About the topic now, I found these interesting things to do with Google and let me tell you this, all of them are amazing, I love them.

First one is using Google as a calculator. Yea… it is possible to do that, I too thought that how can a search engine be used as a calculator but it is works as amazing like a real calculator. You can try it too… open up Google Calculator. Put in 12*12 and you will get the product of 12 and 12, you can even solve this complex equation G*(6e24kg)/((4000miles)^2). This Google calculator works amazing on any equation you put in.

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Get the New iGoogle

Lately Google has been coming up with new stuff and from those lists of betas, Google tried out their new iGoogle version back in June. All these new updates were not made as public and most of the people including me didn’t know about it.

Hongkiat has found out on how to get this new iGoogle version for you guys. This new version comes with some new layouts, canvas view for gadgets and some other stuff. Check out the screenshot below:

Follow the instructions below to try out this new version:

- Open up http://www.google.com/ig and then paste the following code to your address bar and then hit enter.

javascript:_dlsetp('v2=1');
Whoa, you just discovered the new iGoogle too… =D

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Get the Pwnage Tool 2.0.2

Earlier on i posted recommending you guys on not to upgrade as yet and wait for the Pwnage tool to come out to avoid getting your iPhone blocked. Well, the wait is over now, Pwnage Tool 2.0.2 is out now and ready to be used. It came out in response to the new Firmware upgrade rolled out by the Apple lately while the old version of Pwnage was not working with it. The update of the Pwnage tool comes with Cydia and Installer 4 beta. Check out the following screenshot to find out more fixed the update comes with.

To get your update, open your Pwnage Tool 2.0.1 and select Check for updates and it should work fine.
For more details check out their blog.