I just got this game from one of my friends. I was shocked and amazed at the same time! I am pretty sure you will be surprised too.

This is not a virus or spyware. This is a game. A great 3D game and the size of the file is just 95KB. I don’t have any more words for this game and the developers. They are just superb and award winning.

Click on this link to go to their website http://www.theprodukkt.com/kkrieger. You MUST see this amazing product in order to believe it. I hope this technology would bring a big change in gaming world.

You will find a download link on that page. Download the file and extract the Zip file. There you will find a 95Kb exe file. Run it. It will take a while to load. But you will be one of the people who have seen the miracle of technology.

 

 

Yesterday I went to work without my laptop. I know where I work there would be a lot of other computers to be fixed and I can just play around in one of them. But unfortunately, using someone else’s computer can never feel as comfortable. And worse the situation is if you are actually using a MAC!! I was using a MAC computer. I know how to use a MAC. However, I am not very used to working in it. Finally after couple hours I started missing my own computer. That was when I thought of Remote Desktop Connection. But I was not sure how to do a Remote desktop from a Mac to a PC. I looked for it in www.mactopia.com. There it was, Remote desktop connection for cross platforms. I downloaded it, installed it and got into my own PC computer from a MAC in a matter of minutes. Tell me if that didn’t feel good! So, I thought of sharing the process to you all.

1>     You need a computer that is Remote Desktop enabled. (look for my other posts)

2>     If you are behind a router, you will need the router to forward the remote desktop ports to your PC. (look for my other posts)

3>     You will also need to know the IP address of the router. (Not the computer!). Go to www.whatismyip.com

4>     Now when you are on a PC with windows (like windows XP home) you will find a Remote desktop client that comes with it.

a.       E.g. For XP Home go to Start>>All Programs>>Accessories>>Communication>>Remote Desktop Connection. Fill in the IP that you have and click connect!

5>     But there is no Remote Desktop Client in Mac. As such, you will have to manually download it from mactopia.com

a.       On your hard disk, double-click RDC103EN.dmg to expand it using StuffIt Expander.
Depending on the Web browser that you are currently using, this step might be performed for you automatically.

b.      Double-click the RDC103EN.dmg file you downloaded to mount the Remote Desktop Connection volume.

c.       On the Desktop, open the Remote Desktop Connection volume.

d.      Copy the Remote Desktop Connection folder from the Remote Desktop Connection volume to your hard disk.

e.      If the Remote Desktop Connection folder was copied to your hard disk successfully, you can move the Remote Desktop Connection volume, the .dmg file, and the original file you downloaded (if present) to the Trash.

f.        To complete the installation, run the program by opening the Remote Desktop Connection folder that you copied to your hard disk, and then double-click Remote Desktop Connection.

g.       Below is the screen shot of how your PC will look like in a Mac.

Fill in your IP address (IP address of your router) and get connected.

I am pretty sure you won’t get the best out of it. But the good part is that you won’t have to deal with a MAC and can just have fun using your own PC from a MAC. Thanks a lot to Remote Desktop Connection!!!

 

Picture source www.flickr.com

 

There are various ways to tweak your XP. One of the simplest one that I like is changing the Visual effects settings for best performance rather than best appearance.

Try this:

·         Right Click on My computer

·         Go to Properties

·         In the System Properties dialog box, click on the Advanced Tab

·         Under the Performance, click Settings Button.

·         Under the Visual Effects tab, Click and select the Adjust for Best Performance option

·         Now scroll down the window to the bottom. Put a check on Only  the last three.

·         Hit Apply and OK.

·         This should save a little bit of the resources on your computer for the best performance.

While thinking of compressing pictures, the first thing that runs into my brain is, "Why do you pay more bucks for higher MP cameras?" Okay there is this 12 MP camera and I know the picture looks really awesome in it. But guess what... the size of the pictures taken by such cameras are very big. Also, if you are not going to print a huge poster out of those pitures and you just use the camera for fun not for professional photography, take my words. You DON'T need a camera like that. A 5 MP camera can get the job done for you. However, if you have already bought a camera and looked at the picture size that is eating up your harddrive like a leech in the brain, I have a very cool and free suggestion for you all. Use a picture compressing tool. Picture compresing tools can resize the pictures and make them so that you will save about 400% of your harddrive space eaten by those pictures everytime you use that tool. The are various picture resizing tools in the market. But the one that I like and use all the time is the Microsoft's PowerToy ImageResizer tool. It's fast, reliable, user friendly and FREE.

go to this website for more information and to learn how to download, install and use it. You will only spend 5 minutes of your life to save 400% of HDD space!!! Have fun!

While I was workign at the Helpdesk today, I got a call about "How to turn on the Numlock when windows starts?"

There is a way to do it in the BIOS. But even after the BIOS setting, windows would turn it off as soon as it loads. So, I tried to find it in the control panel>>Keyboards.

I guess it is not supposed to be in there. So, I had to take a walk around. I found the settings in the registry.

Click on START and then RUN. Type in "REGEDIT" hit OK. Scroll down to HKEY_USERS and expand it. Expand DEFAULT, then expand COntrol Panel. Click on Keyboard.

On the right hand side pane there should be a string named "InitialKeyboardIndicators." Double click it and change the Value to:

0 -> caps, scroll, num locks off (default)

1 -> caps lock on

2 -> num lock on

3 -> caps and num locks on

4 ->  scroll lock on

 

I guess XP did not make an easier way to change the lock states. Oh well, may be I was too dumb to find it!