NASA Unveils Cosmic Images Book in Braille for Blind Readers

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At a ceremony today at the National Federation of the Blind, NASA unveiled a new book that brings majestic images taken by its Great Observatories to the fingertips of the blind. "Touch the Invisible Sky" is a 60-page book with color images of nebulae, stars, galaxies and some of the telescopes that captured the original pictures. Braille and large-print descriptions accompany each of the book's 28 photographs, making the book's design accessible to readers of all visual abilities.The book contains spectacular images from the Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory, Spitzer Space Telescope and powerful ground-based telescopes. The celestial objects are presented as they appear through visible-light telescopes and different spectral regions invisible to the naked eye, from radio to infrared, visible, ultraviolet and X-ray light.

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Coroner launches probe into 'internet suicide cult' after SEVEN youngsters in one town hang themselves

Last Thursday: Natasha Randall, close friend of earlier victim Liam Clarke, hanged herself in her bedroom. Using the tag 'sxiwildchild', she spent hours on her Bebo webpage

A coroner yesterday launched an investigation into the link between the internet and young suicides - as an MP hit out at websites for "romanticising" teenage death.

Phillip Walters, the coroner for the town of Bridgend where seven young people have hanged themselves in a year, fears the teenage sites such as Bebo play a part in the spate of mystery deaths.

Mr Walter said he is "desperately concerned" about the chain of young suicides - and of the connection to teenage social network sites such as Bebo and MySpace.

The coroner said: "I shall be looking at these networking sites myself to see if there is a link between them and the growing number of youngsters committing suicide.

"But in the meantime I want to warn youngsters about the possible dangers these websites can pose.

"I would also like to warn parents to be actively on the alert for signs of their children being influenced by others on these sites.

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SPEED UP YOUR ACROBAT READER (ALMOST LIKE NOTEPAD)

1. Go to the installation folder of acrobat reader
(C:\program files\adobe\acrobat\reader\.. whatever)


2. Move all the files and folders from the "plugins" directory to the "Optional" directory. (I repeat.. cut and paste the files NOT copy & paste).

Also make sure that acrobat reader is not open else it will lock the files and not allow you to move the files).

Now your acrobat reader will load very fast and almost as good as notepad !!

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Hide a file in an image

1. Gather the file you wish to bind, and the image file, and place them in a folder. For the sake of this demonstration, I will be using C:\New Folder
-The image will hereby be referred to in all examples as fluffy.jpg
-The file will hereby be referred to in all examples as New Text Document.txt

2. Add the file/files you will be injecting into the image into a WinRar .rar or .zip. From here on this will be referred to as (secret.rar)

3. Open command prompt by going to Start > Run > cmd

4. In Command Prompt, navigate to the folder where your two files are by typingcd location [ex: cd C:\New Folder]

5. Type [copy /b fluffy.jpg + secret.rar fluffy.jpg] (remove the brackets)

Congrats, as far as anyone viewing is concerned, this file looks like a JPEG, acts like a JPEG, and is a JPEG, yet it now contains your file.

In order to view/extract your file, there are two options that you can take
a) Change the file extension from fluffy.jpg to fluffy.rar, then open and your file is there
b) Leave the file extension as is, right click, open with WinRar and your file is there

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Make System Faster using BIOS

You can speed up your startup procedures by changing the BIOS with the built-in setup utility.

How you run this utility varies from PC to PC, but you typically get to it by pressing the Delete, F1, or F10 keys during startup.

You'll come to a menu with a variety of choices. Here are the choices to make for faster system startups:

Quick Power On Self Test (POST)

When you choose this option, your system runs an abbreviated POST rather than the normal, lengthy one.

Boot Up Floppy Seek

Disable this option. When it's enabled, your system spends a few extra secondslooking for your floppy drive relatively pointless procedure, especially consideringhow infrequently you use your floppy drive.

Boot DelaySome systems

let you delay booting after you turn on your PC so that your hard drivegets a chance to start spinning before bootup. Most likely, you don't need to have thisboot delay, so turn it off. If you run into problems, however, you can turn it back on

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CONVERT A 512 MB duo/produo/MMC CARD TO 640 MB

I guess it works for duo/produo/mmc cards.

Principle:--Your files in duo/produo/MMC is stored in multiple (disk) blocks.
So if you format using 16K block, the space used will be 16K eventhough your file is just 1K.
If you buy DUO/PRO-DUO, it is usually preformatted with 16K block. Therefore a lot of space is wasted as most installed program files are usually less than 2K.

ProCeDure:--
You will need a card reader to do this:-
edit:you can also do it by connecting your phone via usb

1. Connect card reader and copy all your files in the memory card to computer disk.
(Make sure you set the show all/hidden/os files to "on")
2. Do a format of the memory card using command line "format" and use the /A=size option.
Alternative, you can use the Disk Management in Adminstrative Tools to format.
Make sure you select FAT16. For 256MB memory card, smallest block you can use is 4K, 128MB is 2K, 64Mb is 1K and 32MB is 512B.

(Note: You cannot use the phone "format ext.mem" to do this as the format just clear the allocation table and does not change the block size)

3. Copy back all files to memory card.

Now you will find that you will have more space.
I have installed many software to to my 256MB memory card and it is nearly full. After doing above, I got an "extra" 32MB.

For those who have problem with command line format::

Just use the Disk Managament to format

1. Goto Start->control Panel->Administrative Tools->Computer management->Disk management
2. Select your memory card/usb drive. Right-click and select "Format"
3. Select "FAT". Choose Allocation size. For 256Mb MMC select 4K, 128Mb MMC select 2K, 64Mb MMC select 1K and 32Mb MMC select 512B

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Saif to propose to Kareena(Bebo) on a jet? Exclusive

Saif Ali Khan is madly in love with Kareena and makes all the effort to keep his lady love pleased by gifting her precious gift items. The Chotte Nawab is now planning to take Bebo to a new height of love. He has rented a private jet to take Kareena to experience the exotic beauty of Goa and at the same time to make her believe the pinnacle of his love for her in this weekend.

In a span of two months, Saif has gifted Kareena with two huge solitaires for her fingers, one tennis bracelet and a pair of diamond earrings, all worth around a crore. Kareena is totally impressed with Saif’s unique idea of expressing his altitude of love. Grapevine also buzzes that in this romantic journey, Saif would propose Bebo to marry him at the height of 35,000 feet.

Saif and Kareena is the much talked about couple these days. There love story started on the sets of Tashan and has been flourishing day by day. They were spotted together in various awkward circumstances as well. But they were enjoying every single moment of their love life and do not want to miss any chance to remain close to each other. They are going around together like an inseparable soul!!

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Dhamaka Deal! -- Transcend 8 GB Pen Drive - V Series @ Rs. 1,799!

Specifications :

Size:	88mm X 15mm X 33mm (L x W x H)
Data Retention:	Up to 10 years
Shock Resistance:	1000G (maximum)
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How to make mp3 louder (encourage volume)?

Many Readers asked for solution on how to make an existing mp3 file louder (encourage volume). From my experience, I did realized inconsistency in volume of mp3 files in my mp3 collection and it was troublesome to change the volume slider for each song with different loudness.

What I did to rectify this problem was simple. I altered the loudness of the mp3 file, since originally, the mp3 file’s amplitude was predetermined by the recording company. The software that I used, MP3Gain analyzed mp3 files to determine how loud they sound to human ear and then adjusted the mp3 files so that they have the same loudness without any quality loss or change in file size.

1. Download MP3Gain (freeware) from sourceforge and install the software.
2. If you receive this error; “component ‘MSCOMCTL.OCX’ or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid” ; download this additional file and install it.
3. Run Mp3Gain software
4. “Add files” (Only Mp3) to Mp3Gain which you want to make loud, Select Files which you want to make Loud, Adjust volume on “Target Volume” box (enter db above 98 to 108, according to your need. Normal Mp3 Tracks have 80 to 90 db, which is little low volume, You can keep it above 95 db for higher volume, Try your self )
5. Click Track Gain and play the modified file using your mp3 player.

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Connect Google Talk With Yahoo! or Windows Live Messenger

Yahoo! Messenger and MSN (Windows Live) Messenger users can chat with each other easily without changing clients. Similarly, Google is working with AOL to allow users of Google Talk connect with their AIM buddies.Now consider a completely different scenario - how do Google Talk users talk to their friends who are using Windows Live or Yahoo! Messenger ?

Here’s a a possible solution to make voice-over IP calls between Google Talk, MSN/Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger for free.

1. If you are on Google Talk and want to voice chat with someone on Yahoo!, add service@gtalk2voip.com as your Gtalk friend and then send the following message to your new buddy:

CALL xyz@yahoo.com [use your friends Yahoo! ID instead of xyz]

2. If you are on Yahoo! Messenger and want to connect with a Google Talk user, add gtalk2voip@yahoo.com to your Yahoo! buddy list and send the following message:

CALL xyz@gmail.com [use your friends Google Talk ID instead of xyz]

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