Did you know that you can hide files inside an image file like jpeg? A simple image when opened or previewed looks like an innocent JPEG or any image file, but when uncompressed using any archiving software, it extracts files that were hidden from plain view.
However, in this video, Windows was used. I have yet to discover if this is possible in Linux.
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I may be a Linux user but from time to time, I use Windows since I have it as my workstation OS and my Linux runs as VM. Then I found these tips from technotraits.com that should make my work in my Windows machine a little faster and more efficient.
The best thing about these shortcuts? Some are also applicable to Linux machines.
Windows Explorer
1. F2
Rename files by highlighting the file and pressing F2. Same goes to Linux.
2. F6
Lets you move across various panes of Windows Explorer.
3. Alt + Enter/ Alt+Double Click
Highlight a file in Windows Explorer and hit Alt+Enter or Alt+Double Click to view the file properties.
4. SHIFT+Right Click
Show the right context menu listing alternative commands.
5. SHIFT+Double Click
Runs the alternate default command (the second item on the right context menu).
6. BACKSPACE
Move one folder up.
7. Ctrl+Double Click
Open a folder in a new explorer window.
8. SHIFT+Click Close Button
When using Shortcut #7, pressing Shift while closing the window will close the parent windows as well.
9. SHIFT
Autorun will not start if Shift is pressed while inserting CD/DVD.
10. F3
Hit F3 in Explorer and Search will open to search for files and folders.
11. Ctrl
Press Ctrl Key and drag files to another folder to copy the selected files.
12. Ctrl+Shift
Press Ctrl+Shift and drag a file to another location and shortcut will be created.
13. ALT+SPACE
Open up the active window’s system menu.
Windows Management
14. CTRL+ESC
Open the Start Menu.
15. Windows Key+M
Minimize all open windows.
16. Shift+Windows Key+M:
Maximize all open windows.
17. Windows Key+D
Same with Shortcut #15
18. ALT+F6
Press F6 to switch between windows of the same program.
19. F5
Refresh. Same with Firefox, IE and Linux
20. CTRL+TAB/CTRL+SHIFT+TAB
Switch between tabs of properties window.
Miscellaneous
21. SHIFT+F10
Opens up right context menu. Similar with right click.
22. Windows Key+Pause/Break
Open System Properties Box.
23. Windows Key+L
Lock your current screen.
I tried most of the commands here and they work! If you find these shortcuts useful or otherwise, you can use the comment form below.
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Choosing notebooks is becoming difficult to do because of so many choices and options to weigh. And if choosing hardware is not hard enough, notebook manufacturers bundle their products with softwares that are usually junk or something that you do not need.
One very common example is Windows Vista OS. Vista comes with every notebook, or computer for that matter, and buyers usually have to pay for it even if they do not want it. Some prefer to downgrade to Windows XP while some just have no other choice but to purchase the OS license only to wipe it off from their notebooks and replace it with Linux.
As a consumer, we have the right to choose which products we want to buy. And in some cases, notebook manufacturers do not seem to give buyers to choose if they want to buy OS or not. That really sucks because Vista OS licenses can cost at least $100, and customers are only paying for the license, therefore do not own the software. Why would you want to pay for something that you do not, and will never, own?
Fortunately, there are some people who actually read the End User License Agreement or EULA of Windows licenses and use it to their own advantage. Take for example uncle_benji, the author of equiliberate.org, who bought an HP notebook bundled with Vista. He chose to waive his purchase of Windows Vista license in favor of using Linux, and got his money back, almost the same amount of the retail price of Vista.
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consumerist.com writes about a customer who got charged for his Windows Vista Upgrade for $1,632!
Apparently, Bill, an IT Manager, used the Windows Live Marketplace to purchase the Windows Vista Ultimate upgrade worth $233.15. But each time he tried to enter his payment information, he got the error “please try again” later. And so he did. Unluckily, Bill got charged each time he tried to enter the payment details, which he did 7 times!
Again, that is $233.15 * 7 = $1,632.05. Totally a rip-off!
Bill tried to contact Microsoft support again and again and again to get his money back but only four of the transactions were returned. The remaining three transactions are yet to be refunded.
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This is a little snip from YouTube when Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer was thrown with eggs by a protesting student in Budapest.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was thrown with eggs in BudapestBallmer was giving a talk titled, You Can Change the World, to Hungarian university students when someone from the audience stood up, demanded that Microsoft should return money it has stolen from Hungarian people and threw eggs, right in front of Ballmer’s face. Ballmer scrambles for cover as he dodges the eggs, and luckily, he still has a clean face when stood up from behind the podium. Read the rest of this entry »
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This a short preview of Windows 7, yet another version of Windows set to be released in 2010, three years after Windows Vista official release.
The preview shows some of the new and improved features of Windows like the Explorer. Personally, I am curious about the blog/website designer since I am a blogger myself. Though the features are pretty at this point, expect Windows 7 to be more hardware resource hungry than Vista. Read the rest of this entry »
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Apparently, Microsoft means serious business when it puts its $44B of its money in exchange for Yahoo’s cooperation. The software giant just won’t take no for an answer.
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A post from Creative Labs Forums delivers a message from Phil O’Shaughnessy, Corporate Communications VP, to Daniel_K, an individual who modifies the sound card drivers of Creative to unlock functionalities that are not usually available for Windows Vista users.
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www.networkworld.com writes:
Microsoft’s aggressive defense of its intellectual property, which includes claims that Linux violates a number of its patents, is nothing more than “a marketing thing,” according to Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel.
“They have been sued for patents by other people, but I don’t think they’ve — not that I’ve gone through any huge amount of law cases — but I don’t think they’ve generally used patents as a weapon,” Torvalds said. “But they’re perfectly happy to use anything at all as fear, uncertainty and doubt in the marketplace, and patents is just one thing where they say, ‘Hey, isn’t this convenient? We can use this as a PR force.’”
Torvalds made the comments during the second half of an interview conducted by the Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin on Oct. 16. The foundation is expected to make the rest of the interview publicly available on its Web site Monday. The foundation released the initial portion of the interview in January.
“Another reason why I don’t think Microsoft really seriously would go after patents is when you’re a convicted monopolist in the marketplace you really should not be suing your competitors over patents,” Torvalds continued. “I think that most Microsoft lawyers would say, ‘You know, let’s not do that; that sounds insane’.”
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