Creating Custom Ring Tone in iTunes

Dear All,

As my friend sastry keeps requesting to post on how to create custom ring tone using iTunes, let's have this topic for today.

• Open iTunes
• Go to File --> Add file to library (Ctrl+O) to add your favorite song. In case if you have added already you can skip this step.
• Right click on the song and click on "Create AAC Version" (this is iTunes compact format). This step will create an AAC version of the song which you have selected. It will take 10-30 seconds to create. 

• Once it's created click on "Recently Added" button under Playlist option at your left panel. Now you should be seeing the AAC version of the song as shown below. 

• Now right click on the song and select AAC version (Right click on the song so that you can see the below information to confirm it's AAC)

• Once you confirm this is AAC version then right click on that song or from the above window select "Options". As customs ringtone cannot be >30 seconds give the start and end time as per your wish then click on OK.

• Now Play that song, it would play only that 30 seconds. Upon confirmation again right click on that song then select "Create AAC Version".

• Once the AAC version is created when you notice on the duration of that song it would be 30 seconds. Now goto the path where this song is available. Rename that song from .m4a to m4r. If the file extension is hidden click here to see how to make it visible.

• You can now either drag and drop the song into Ringtones or else you can add from File menu under Ringtones option. In case if you don't see any ringtones in your left pannel as shown below, you need to goto Edit-->Preferences (Ctrl+,) and under General tab Check the Ringtones option.

• Connect your phone and make sure when synchronization this songs are selected under Ringtone Tab. 

If you have any queries please leave me an email  or comment on my blog. Please don't forget to rate this topic.

Login Activity of your Gmail account

It's not an easy way for us to track the IP address and location from where our gmail id is accessed. Google has taken this responsibility on behalf of us and gives this feature to know our login activity of our account.

To know your last logon activity of your Gmail account just scroll down till the bottom of your gmail main screen where you usually see the % of memory used on your account.

You should be seeing a verbiage "Last account activity:" Click on the "Details" link to open up a new window on which you will get the details of IP address and location where you gmail account is accessed. This way you can make sure you are the only user who logs in. Google also notify us if there is any suspicious activity on our account. Click here to know more on that feature.

The Wilderness Downtown

Arcade Fire HTML5 collaboration with Google has did a great job. Just click here to open the site and give the address where you have born (I gave my office address :)  as my hometown doesn't have any street view yet).

Finally i could experience the ultimate animation and the HTML5 magic. Give a try , i am sure you will love it.

Thanks to Google for this wonderful experience.

Extended Undo Duration in Gmail

Dear All,

I know i am late to show you this feature to all my readers, Sorry guys.

This post is regarding gmail's extension in sent items Undo duration. Yes, a couple of weeks before Gmail team has implemented this feature  to all its users.

Once you sent an email to your pals earlier it was like 5-10 seconds given to undo any sent email if you might have enabled that feature, but now it was extended to 30 seconds. Wow!!! We also wish Google to implement recall feature as like Microsoft outlook.

How do we use this feature?

1. Login to Gmail

2. Click on "Settings" on top right corner.

3. Under General tab you should be seeing an option "Undo Send".

4. Check the "Enable Undo Send" box and change the duration b/w 5-30 as per your wish or convenient.

Call to Phone from Gmail for Free

Happy days happy days for Gmail users. Yes, Google has announced that we can call to any US/Canada users for free from our Gmail. For any international calls like U.K., France, Germany, China, Japan—and many more countries—for as little as $0.02 per minute

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Everything works just like our normal dial pad and VOIP features.  You should be having Google Voice phone# to access this feature and that # will be going as your caller ID. Gmail is working to enable this feature in batch. So everyone will be getting in next few days as "Call Phones" under Chat option in your Gmail.

Stop using any other crap services and let's raise our hands together n say "We love you Google"

Search Mails and Docs in Gmail

Gmail has added a new lab feature which allows us to search the mails and any of google docs which matches the keyword in our search result.

To enable this goto Settings  --> Labs and click on "Enable" under Apps Search option.

Once you save the new feature you should be now seeing a new search button as shown below. Bingoooo... Start enjoying this new feature.

VLC Skins

In my previous post i have explained on the Online streaming of videos into VLC player. 

This post will be helpful for the VLC users who get bored by using the standard skins. Yes, We can now change the skins of the VLC player.

1. Click here to download all the available skins ZIP file.

2. Unzip the file and copy into the location where you have installed your VLC player. Eg: C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\skins

 Note: This skin will not work in MAC OS.

3. Open VLC player and choose Tools--> Preference.

4. Select Interface option from left hand side and click on the radio button "User Customs Skin". Now browse the above unzipped folder location and change it.

5. You can choose your desired skin already there or change it when you are in the skins mode by rightclicking somewhere on the skin and going toInterface>Choose Skin.

Note: Restart your VLC to change to skins mode.

Streaming Video in big screens

Dear Readers,

Everyone might have known about the open source VLC media player. The media player that fills all your needs. It can handle DVDs, (S)VCDs, Audio CDs, web streams, TV cards and much more.

Today let's see how to open an online video thru VLC player to watch out in big screen.

1. Open the VLC player from your start menu or from shortcut in your desktop.

2. Click on Media-->Open Network Stream (Ctrl+N).

3. In the Network tab and enter the URL under "Please enter a network URL" then click on Play button as shown below.

4. Once you click on the Play button the video streaming starts and the video plays on the bigger screen.

That's my cute princess that you see in the above picture :) Zaara Razak

No Promotion No salary hike? How does company handles you?

Is you company didn't give promotion/salary hike? Are you planning to move out of that company? Ouch, Hold on, you may be given an good opportunity like this. Recall your resignation :)



Singavettai from Scube Productions on Vimeo.


Thanks to Scube productions for giving one more short movie. Re-recording might have handled good :(

How Google translations are created?

To know more click here

PDF to Excel Converter for Free

Dear Readers,

I know it's long time that i have posted some tools on my blog. Today i have a good deal for my readers.

As many of us have enrolled for paperless billing we may get our phone and bank statement via pdf file. We can now convert those pdf's into an Excel for any of our manipulations. PDF to Excel converter converts the text and numbers into an excel spread sheet.

We can convert thru batch process/partial or with our right click menu option.

All you need is just download this software and register yourself to get the activation code. Limited offer only. This product is worth for $40.

Gmail New look and change in Contacts

Dear Readers,

I am not sure whether you got any chance to look into the new look and feel with your Gmail account, if not please check it right away.

With the improved pixels and new look; Gmail team has introduced us with recent changes in its existing feature on Contacts.

New look has:

• Replaced "compose mail" with a button.
• Mail, Contacts, Tasks moved to top from bottom.
• Select All, Read, Unread other options are moved under a small drop down button which is adjacent to Archive box.

Updates to Contacts:

• As like email, we can now group/un-group contacts + key board shortcuts works with contacts.
• Sorting contacts with last/First name.
• Custom labels on phone#'s but synchronizing with your smart phones are not possible with this feature.
• Undo contacts actions, Structured maintenance,Auto Save and Merging bulk contacts are now easy.

Naked Fear (18+ viewers only)

Dear Readers,

Last week i saw a movie "Naked Fear". this movie was released in the year 2007,the specialty of the movie is the screenplay of the story plus the actress.A big applause can be given to the director and the producer for giving us this movie.I m very unlucky that i saw this movie last week only.

Taking a brave decision is not a simple thing, i really appreciate the actress(Danielle De Luca) for her dedication and her decision to act for this movie.Let me not tell you much let me get into the story now.

Top line of the Naked fear:

Diana kelpers (actress) will be cheated by an agent who promised her to get a good job, but she will be forced by the agent to work as a bar dancer finally. To get the original driving licence  and go out of this job she need to pay the money to him. Considering her family situation and other things she finally agrees to work there.

The tip + salary was not sufficient for her to get out of this job. She was given an accommodation  and her room mate advises her to do prostitution to earn the money quickly and get out of this place. In Parallel there are complaints which is getting increased to police everyday that there are ladies who are disappearing very often. Investigation goes on.

In this situation, Diana kelper decides for prostitution. She looks for a guy in the bar and goes with her. In the mid of the way she change her decision to get back to her room as she couldn't compromise herself into this prostitution business. But the guy she had chosen was a psycho. His nature is to take the ladies to his house, remove their nails from their foot and make them to run on a jungle then kill them. He knows the jungle very well. 

Now Diana Kelper is kidnapped by this psycho. She is into the jungle. He asks her to  run. What happen after that is the rest of the story?

Scenes that i enjoyed:

• When she was dancing in the bar by removing her cloths one by one unfortunately the sound system will get spoiled. The expression from her will be awesome.
•  When she says to her room mate like "If i am missing some day please don't forget to inform someone that i am missing", shows her worry and the fear.
• The police officer when he says that he was not given enough authorization to proceed in the case makes us to get the real feel when our hands are tied though we are good to go.
• The scene when psycho stands on the other end of the river and a poisonous snake aims at Diana will be awesome.
• 80% of the movie Diana will be naked but the talent of the direct + acting of her will not make us to move our eyes below her face.

Watch out!!!

Login by Seeing your computer!!!

Dear Readers,

Don't touch your mouse/keypad to login to Windows OS any more, it's simple and secured. To login to your OS there are softwares which was developed to touch your fingers to authenticate. But now it's time to move a step next by recognizing your face.

Luxand an Artificial Intelligence research company has introduced this new software which works on Windows 7 and Windows Vista to recognize our face to login to windows OS.  Just a webcam is enough to login, you will be logged in before you notice. The login time is very short compared to typing your password/scanning your finger.

Incase if we change our haircut/shave your face or whatever it may be no problem, Just blink it will take you inside :) Cool na...

Try it out the file size is 8.3 MB only.

Click here to view the complete instruction and download option for your 64/32 bit processor.

Very funny Ad that i have enjoyed

Drag and Drop attachments from gmail to desktop directly

Dear Readers,

Let me not write any stories for this post as it's self explanatory.

From now on you can directly drag and drop your attachments from the incoming emails on Gmail to your desktop. Once you receive any emails just drag the attachments to the desktop location where you want to save it for further use.

Happy surfing with Google.

Multiple Sign-on with your Gmail ID

Dear Readers,

I should be having at-least 10 different g-mail account for various point of contacts. I use filters in other accounts to forward other account emails to single account thru which i can manage all the 10 different accounts. We cannot blame on IE/Chrome/Mozilla for not allowing us to login with multi sign-in facility, it's purely with the email provider like Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail. 

Now it's time for me to say once again "I Love You Google!"

Gmail team has work around with various techniques and finally it's out with this feature. We are now allowed to switch between multiple id's that we have with Gmail. We need to turn the multiuser signon option.

Let's see how to setup?

1. Click on "Settings" on the top right corner.

2. Click on "Accounts and Import" tab.

3. Click on "Google Account Settings"  link near to "Change account settings"

4. Now select "Change" under "Multiple Sign-in" option and read the instruction carefully.

Not all the features are allowed to use. We have restriction with Offline & Calender option which are rarely used by many users.

Who is in your Wireless network?

Dear Readers,

Laptop users are increased worldwide and the world is now turned @ 3G/4G wireless networks. All these improvements are linked to the internet with the help of wireless media. 

We use routers for these type of connectivity. It's very important for us to know how many users are connected to our network and the traffic in our network. There are many chances that our passwords may be shared with others or some hackers can easily break our network connectivity to get into our network.

I always recommend my friends to grand access to the network by MAC-ID only. This way we can secure our network for some extend. To know the active users in our network we can have our routers software but these softwares doesn't work 100% to give the right details in that case we may need this to find who are the users connected into it.

Click here to download this tool which does good job in finding unauthorized users in our network.

If you are interested to know how it works then watch out this video.

Free CD/DVD burning solution for Windows

Dear Readers,

I have shared many softwares with you in my earlier posts, as like other posts this software is also one of the good software which will be used to burn CD/DVD for windows OS.

Burning is a new revolution in the world of CD/DVD/Blue-ray. We can write the content of your hard drives into a DVD/CD by burning them. InfraRecorder is a free and good burning solution for any CD/DVD in Windows OS.

It has the following features

• Create custom data, audio and mixed-mode projects and record them to physical discs as well as disc images.
• Capable of recording to dual-layer DVDs.
• Erase any rewritable discs.
• Record disc images (ISO and BIN/CUE).
• Create disc copies, on the fly and using a temporary disc image.
• Import session data from multi-session discs and add more sessions to them.
• Display disc information.
• Save audio and data tracks to files (.wav, .wma, .ogg, .mp3 and .iso).

Click here to download

Happy and healthy living

Dear Readers,

Today i have thought of posting some health related post. Couple of days before i received an e-mail from my friends who are working in WIPRO (Bangalore). Recently they had a chance to chat with Dr.Devi Shetty.

Dr. Devi Shetty is an Indian philanthropist and a cardiac surgeon. Click here to read more on Dr. Devi Shetty.

He has given a clear picture for our generic questions on Heart related issues. Just have a walk on the below Q&A.

Qn: What are the thumb rules for a layman to take care of his heart? 

Ans: 

1. Diet - Less of carbohydrate, more of protein, less oil 

2. Exercise - Half an hour's walk, at least five days a week; avoid lifts and avoid sitting for a longtime 

3. Quit smoking 

4. Control weight 

5. Control blood pressure and sugar 

Qn: Is eating non-veg food (fish) good for the heart? 

Ans: No 

Q n: It's still a grave shock to hear that some apparently healthy person gets a cardiac arrest. How do we understand it in perspective? 

Ans: This is called silent attack; that is why we recommend everyone past the age of 30 to undergo routine health checkups. 

Qn: Are heart diseases hereditary? 

Ans: Yes 

Qn: What are the ways in which the heart is stressed? What practices do you suggest to de-stress? 

Ans: Change your attitude towards life. Do not look for perfection in everything in life. 

Qn: Is walking better than jogging or is more intensive exercise required to keep a healthy heart? 

Ans: Walking is better than jogging since jogging leads to early fatigue and injury to joints 

Qn: You have done so much for the poor and needy. What has inspired you to do so? 

Ans: Mother Theresa, who was my patient 

Qn: Can people with low blood pressure suffer heart diseases? 

Ans: Extremely rare 

Qn: Does cholesterol accumulates right from an early age 

(I'm currently only 22) or do you have to worry about it only after you are above 30 years of age? 

Ans: Cholesterol accumulates from childhood. 

Qn: How do irregular eating habits affect the heart? 

Ans: You tend to eat junk food when the habits are irregular and your body's enzyme release for digestion gets confused. 

Qn: How can I control cholesterol content without using medicines? 

Ans: Control diet, walk and eat walnut. 

Qn: Can yoga prevent heart ailments? 

Ans: Yoga helps. 

Qn: Which is the best and worst food for the heart? 

Ans: Fruits and vegetables are the best and the worst is oil. 

Qn: Which oil is better - groundnut, sunflower, olive? 

Ans: All oils are bad. 

Qn: What is the routine checkup one should go through? Is there any specific test? 

Ans: Routine blood test to ensure sugar, cholesterol is ok. Check BP, Treadmill test after an echo. 

Qn: What are the first aid steps to be taken on a heart attack? 

Ans: Help the person into a sleeping position, place an aspirin tablet under the tongue with a sorbitrate tablet if available, and rush him to a coronary care unit since the maximum casualty takes place within the first hour. 

Qn: How do you differentiate between pain caused by a heart attack and that caused due to gastric trouble? 

Ans: Extremely difficult without ECG. 

Qn: What is the main cause of a steep increase in heart problems amongst youngsters? I see people of about 30-40 yrs of age having heart attacks and serious heart problems. 

Ans: Increased awareness has increased incidents. Also, sedentary lifestyles, smoking, junk food, lack of exercise in a country where people are genetically three times more vulnerable for heart attacks than Europeans and Americans. 

Qn: Is it possible for a person to have BP outside the normal range of 120/80 and yet be perfectly healthy? 

Ans: Yes. 

Qn: Marriages within close relatives can lead to heart problems for the child. Is it true? 

Ans : Yes, co-sanguinity leads to congenital abnormalities and you may not have a software engineer as a child 

Qn: Many of us have an irregular daily routine and many a times we have to stay late nights in office. Does this affect our heart? What precautions would you recommend? 

Ans : When you are young, nature protects you against all these irregularities. However, as you grow older, respect the biological clock. 

Qn: Will taking anti-hypertensive drugs cause some other complications (short / long term)? 

Ans : Yes, most drugs have some side effects. However, modern anti-hypertensive drugs are extremely safe. 

Qn: Will consuming more coffee/tea lead to heart attacks? 

Ans : No. 

Qn: Are asthma patients more prone to heart disease? 

Ans : No. 

Qn: How would you define junk food? 

Ans : Fried food like Kentucky , McDonalds , samosas, and even masala dosas. 

Qn: You mentioned that Indians are three times more vulnerable. What is the reason for this, as Europeans and Americans also eat a lot of junk food? 

Ans: Every race is vulnerable to some disease and unfortunately, Indians are vulnerable for the most expensive disease. 

Qn: Does consuming bananas help reduce hypertension? 

Ans : No. 

Qn: Can a person help himself during a heart attack (Because we see a lot of forwarded emails on this)? 

Ans : Yes. Lie down comfortably and put an aspirin tablet of any description under the tongue and ask someone to take you to the nearest coronary care unit without any delay and do not wait for the ambulance since most of the time, the ambulance does not turn up. 

Qn: Do, in any way, low white blood cells and low hemoglobin count lead to heart problems? 

Ans : No. But it is ideal to have normal hemoglobin level to increase your exercise capacity. 

Qn: Sometimes, due to the hectic schedule we are not able to exercise. So, does walking while doing daily chores at home or climbing the stairs in the house, work as a substitute for exercise? 

Ans : Certainly. Avoid sitting continuously for more than half an hour and even the act of getting out of the chair and going to another chair and sitting helps a lot. 

Qn: Is there a relation between heart problems and blood sugar? 

Ans: Yes. A strong relationship since diabetics is more vulnerable to heart attacks than non-diabetics. 

Qn: What are the things one needs to take care of after a heart operation? 

Ans : Diet, exercise, drugs on time , Control cholesterol, BP, weight. 

Qn: Are people working on night shifts more vulnerable to heart disease when compared to day shift workers? 

Ans : No. 

Qn: What are the modern anti-hypertensive drugs? 

Ans : There are hundreds of drugs and your doctor will chose the right combination for your problem, but my suggestion is to avoid the drugs and go for natural ways of controlling blood pressure by walk, diet to reduce weight and changing attitudes towards lifestyles. 

Qn: Does dispirin or similar headache pills increase the risk of heart attacks? 

Ans : No. 

Qn: Why is the rate of heart attacks more in men than in women? 

Ans : Nature protects women till the age of 45. (Present Global census show that the Percentage of heart disease in women has increased than in men) 

Qn: How can one keep the heart in a good condition? 

Ans : Eat a healthy diet, avoid junk food, exercise everyday, do not smoke and, go for health checkup s if you are past the age of 30 ( once in six months recommended) ....