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I’ve been using Linux for longer than I can remember. Over those years I have written a number of “top 5″ lists for various publications. So I thought it would be fun to share with the Ghacks readers my “top 5 top 5s”. I’ll give the category and a short description of each entry in the list. Hopefully you will find something new or something you had forgotten. With that said, let’s get to the lists.


Top 5 distributions

Ubuntu: Although it is not my desktop distribution of choice, it is my “go-to” distribution in just about any situation. And the only reason it is not my desktop distribution is because of the next entry.

Elive: Elive combines my two favorite desktop tools – Enlightenment and Compiz. Without Elive, these two would not work together.

Debian: It is that which Ubuntu is based. Need I say more?

OpenSuSE: The YaST tool alone puts this distro in just about any top ten.

Fedora: I was a long standing Red Hat user so Fedora is a natural for a top ten distribution. And even though Fedora is “bleeding edge”, it’s still rock solid.

Top 5 applications

Let’s not pick nits and divide into categories. Let’s just see who bubbles up to the very tip-top.

1. OpenOffice: Let’s face it, without OpenOffice Linux, as a whole, wouldn’t stand a chance as a desktop distribution.

2. Firefox: Although Chrome is my weapon of choice, it doesn’t always cut it. And Firefox is one of the most successful open source applications of all time.

3. Claws Mail: If you’ve not used Claws Mail, you don’t know how much email power you are missing out on.

4. Nano: Nano is the text editor for all those who don’t want to have to bother with the cumbersome nature of vi or emacs. And without a tool like Nano, console-only Linux would be a real challenge.

5. Apache: Do I really have to say why Apache is in a top “anything” list for open source (or Linux applications)?

Top 5 desktops

You’ll never see any favoritism in this category. Will you?

1. Enlightenment: All the eye-candy, with have the weight of the big boys.

2. GNOME: If you want a full-featured, reliable desktop, look no further than GNOME.

3. KDE: Although KDE 4 began with a lot of issues, it has grown up to be quite a nice desktop.

4. Compiz: Although not a desktop on its own, Compiz adds such amazing features to your desktop, it must be included.

5. Fluxbox:If you are looking for the lightest weight desktop around, Fluxbox is your tool. It doesn’t offer all the bells and whistles, but it will bring new life to that old machine.

Top 5 commands

1. mkdir: Need to create a directory?

2. cd: Need to change to a new directory?

3. ls: Need to list the contents of a directory?

4. tar: Need to unpack a tarball?

5. man *. Need to find out about a command?

Top 5 places to get help with Linux

1. Ghacks: But of course.

2. Guru: Find yourself someone who knows Linux well and latch on. That’s how I got my start (with a shout out to Marc G.!)

3. Google: When in doubt, Google is your friend.

4. IRC: It’s old school, but there are plenty of Linux chat rooms still alive and filled with over-sized Linux brains.

5. Mailing lists: Just about every distribution has a mailing list. If you have a distro of choice, subscribe to that mailing list and read on.

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Unexpectedly, your old, but unused collection of DVD movies got damaged just when you organized an get together along with your friends to watch some of the best old movies on your LCD screen? Did you know there are other alternative ways to clean and repair DVD scratches which are the root causes for damaged dvd’s?
Here is an complete guide to help you fix and get rid of those scratches on dvd or cd’s and to repair damaged dvd discs, completely.


How to Remove Scratches from DVD
If you’ve an old collection of cd’s or dvd’s that are not playable on your DVD disc then you can be sure of the problem being related to either the larger proportion of scratches on your dvd or your faulty dvd player.
Firstly, you need to examine if the problem is with the particular dvd disc or with your DVD player. You can come to this conclusion by inserting another playable dvd and see it for yourself. If the dvd plays flawlessly, then you’ve got an working dvd player.
Once you’re sure that the scratches on your dvd’s have been causing such an issue then it’s time to eliminate and remove scratches from your DVD disc now!
Ways to Repair Scratched DVD’s
Metal polish and Furniture Polish Repairs DVD Disc

An exceptional way to remove scratches comes with the use of furniture polish and metal polish. You can attempt this by using brasso which is an metal polish or pledge (an furniture polish) that can completely get rid of the scratches from the dvd, alternately you can give a shot at any standard wood cleaner as well.
Use a soft clean cotton cloth and spread it over the dvd proportionally, wash it off gently with water and once again dry it with an soft cloth.
But do remember that brasso can be corrosive, although their is nothing to lose if you are trying this on an unreadable and damaged DVD disc. An recommended way to fix any damaged dvd that are caused due to the scratches.
The Toothpaste removes scratches from DVD as well
Squeeze e a little bit of toothpaste on the front side of the DVD (the shiny portion) and gently spread it all over the DVD using an soft cloth, keep it aside for around 5 minutes.
Now, place the dvd or cd under the flowing tap water, we are doing this slowly so as to get rid off the dry toothpaste. Once you’re done with this, use an soft clean cloth to dry off the dvd.
When it’s completely dry, place the dvd onto the dvd disc player and magically, it should be working now. Additionally, you will have an minty flavored DVD disc
Other ways to fix damaged DVD Scratches

Surprisingly, holding the dvd in front of the sun light and marking the scratches with an extra fine point silver marker or an pilot brand pen has produced an success result of up to 70%.

Of course, there are other ways such as using rubbing an used chewing Gum over the scratched spot to remove scratches from DVD’s, sometimes they might work on dvd’s that are not brutally infected from those nasty scratches. However, the above solutions I’ve mentioned might well easily work for you!
The popular way to remove scratches from DVD is by applying toothpaste or the polish, although this has been one of the effective ways but for repairing bulk DVD discs that have those detailed cuts on the front side of the DVD, it is recommended to get an DVD scratch remover machine.
Products that are used for Cleaning DVD From Scratches
Like I said, there are tons of ways to remove scratches from a dvd, here are the products that have been tested and used by many for repairing dvd, try this at your own risk. But, I prefer you apply these products on an waste DVD or CD initially and if you see an good result then apply it on your main disc..

• Standard polishing pastes
• Hair Gel
• Car Wax
• Any cleaner wax
• Plastic polishes

If you’ve explored any other tips that has completely cured your dvd then let us know..

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How to create a Autorun.inf file ?

How To Changing Icon of Pendrive

How To New Option Appear in the Autorun Menu

How To Run Programs Automatically When USB is Plugged In

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No one like to use their microphone and speakers when they talk to their family and friend in Yahoo messenger, Msn Messenger, Skype, Google Talks and so many instant messenger software. Now you can make use of you mobile as microphone and speakers to talk with you friends and family believe me it's simple and easy, just follow the step by step guide and you will throw you microphone into bin forever.

You don't have to remain in one place to talk with friends an family, if you have USB bluetooth or WIFI router you can remain anywhere in your home and enjoy talking with your friends and save your cost forever.

Here is the step by step guide to make your mobile phone as microphone.
Download the file from This link and read the following steps.
In this file you will get one folder (I_LOVE_DVT) and two separate file. One is for PC application and another is for mobile application.
Install the PC software name as "mobiolaheadset2_wl_s60v3" in PC and install the mobile application name as "headset_s60_v_2_0" into mobile.
Remember if your don't have Blue tooth or WIFI functions, it will not work. Yeah it works for Cable but what is the difference between a cable and normal Microphone.
Installed the application in PC as well in mobile now open the folder "I_LOVE_DVT" and in it you will find two files, one is "keymaker" and other is "runme". Copy these two files into the install directory such as "C:\Program Files\Mobiola Headset for S60" and paste it.
Now run the "runme" and "keymaker" as well. From "runme" copy the Hardware fingerprint something like "373D-BCC0" into "keymaker's" H/W ID and press generate.
Now copy the keys and the name from "keymaker" into "runme" and press ok. It show valid. Now run the PC application and check it.
Than go to control Panel, sound and device. Run the sound and devices settings find the microphones one, select your microphone driver to mobiola and select the speaker driver.
Check your microphone by going to Volume controls and run any song to check your speakers that you can hear the song in your mobile speaker.
Enjoy talking with your friends and family and save your cost.

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PDF is the de facto standard for online reading and publishing and various softwares like Adobe reader and Foxit reader allow you to read PDF files. But PDF creation comes under shady areas and the same softwares either allow for minor PDF modification with watermarked results (Foxit) or constitute a whole new different software package for PDF creation for a premium fee (Adobe PDF creator).However,for professionals,this software may be worth its price tag,general users can create excellent looking PDF’s by the method described before.
What you need -
DoPDF PDF convertor
Any text editor/Word Processor like MS word, wordpad,notepad etc.
About DoPDF (shamelessly taken from official website :P) -
doPDF is a free PDF converter for both personal and commercial use. Using doPDF you can create PDF files by selecting the "Print" command from virtually any application. With one click you can convert your Microsoft Excel, Word or  PowerPoint documents or your emails and favorite web sites to PDF files.
Steps to create PDF -
Download DoPDF and install it.
Open your word processor/text editor and create your document.
Press Ctrl + P or go to File menu and print the document.
The Print menu will open,choose DoPDF as virtual Printer and click on Print.

Choose the location for your document to save and click OK.Your PDF file will be created.

Congratulations..you have created your PDF file for free .

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Windows Live Messenger 8.0, 8.1, 8.5

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If you don't have Utorrent, Get it from here...

Code: http://www.utorrent.com/download.php  
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If anything here is below 80, Change the values in this part to 80...







Now you done that, Click ok...

Now follow these screen shots...



Click apply and ok...



Right click the file like i did with the one in Utorrent and do this...



That is it, You have just tweaked the speed of Utorrent by 80%!

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The program tries to read all possible data smartly skipping unreadable sectors, Using this method most types of files can be made usable even if some parts were not recoverable in the end.

Unstoppable Copier Features:

1. Support for batch process for automating the programs use and save copying/restore jobs.
2. Configurable level of data recovery from Slowest mode to enable very intense data recovery through to Fastest mode for skipping damaged files completely.
3. The data recovery process can be paused and resumed mid file.
4. Logging can be enabled to record details on transfered files, their integrity and offsets of any errors.
5. Multi-lingual support for English, Spanish, Russian, French and German languages.

The free software is just 79 KB in size and requires no installation, the software is fully compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows NT, Windows 9x/Me and Windows 2000.

I used this software when i played the football games.it works and it is still saves in my system


Download Unstoppable Copier to Copy Files & Folders From Damaged Drives or CD/DVD

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this a simple way to lock ur files in windows by command and keeping ur data safe frm unwanted ppl.
even it will b helpful if u r afraid of data loss by childrens using ur system at home.
so come and make ur data safe
note: it will work on NTFS file system only.

1. goto start---->run---->cmd
2. c:\documents and settings\administrator > cd desktop
3. c:\documents and settings\administrator\desktop > (now we are at desktop)

and we have to lock the folder situated at desktop .so we will create a folder at desktop

4. c:\documents and settings\administrator\desktop >md abc (it will cerate the folder abc)
5. c:\documents and settings\administrator\desktop >cd abc (to check that we are able to access newly created folder abc)

6.c:\documents and settings\administrator\desktop\abc > (we are now in abc folder )

the folder is accessible presently

7. c:\documents and settings\administrator\desktop\abc > cd.. (to come back from the folder)
8. c:\documents and settings\administrator\desktop > (now we are again back at the desktop)

now the command to lock the folder "abc"
9. c:\documents and settings\administrator\desktop >cacls abc /d users
10. yes
now your folder is locked. you can check that by clicking the folder on your desktop or by the command given below.
11. c:\documents and settings\administrator\desktop >cd abc (it will give you access denied notification)

now to open this lock give the following command

12. c:\documents and settings\administrator\desktop >cacls abc /g users:f
13. yes

now your folder is accessible again.

same thing u can apply on the files also it works fine and no one can delete these files also.

this is useful when u dont have any folder lock software. as they are risky to use also as problem is if u forget the password u can't back the files back by folder lock software and they also effect your system also by creating "BSOD" (blue screen of death). the very well know problem.

enjoy it!

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* Go to Google.

* In the search field type: "Product name" 94FBR

* Where, "Product Name" is the name of the item you want to find the serial number for.

* And voila - there you go - the serial number you needed.

HOW DOES THIS WORK?

Quite simple really. 94FBR is part of a Office 2000 Pro cd key that is widely distributed as it bypasses the activation requirements of Office 2K Pro. By searching for the product name and 94fbr, you guarantee two things. 1) The pages that are returned are pages dealing specifically with the product you're wanting a serial for. 2) Because 94FBR is part of a serial number, and only part of a serial number, you guarantee that any page being returned is a serial number list page.

See these example searches:

"Photoshop 7" 94FBR
"Age of Mythology" 94FBR
"Nero Burning Rom 5.5" 94FBR

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