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‘Seen’ on Facebook Chat

Social Networking Giant Facebook stumbled with yet another update. It left many users confused as well as outraged. During a instant chat session on Facebook, If you send a message to a fellow user, and if your message is seen by the person on the other side, It displays ‘Seen’  with a check mark and followed by the time, when the message was seen. Picture displaying the New ‘Seen’ Notification on Facebook Chat Many users expressed their discontent as it intrudes the privacy of a user. Kiss goodbye to Ignoring annoying messages from your annoying friends. How to Disable Seen Notification on Facebook Chat Currently, there is no efficient way of disabling this feature.   One way is to avoid opening the chat box .  You can also try reading message’s short description on the message’s page without clicking on it. A friend of mine suggested a way to hide that you’ve the message on Facebook chat by not clicking on the m...

eSata vs Usb 3.0 | The Speed Factor

eSata made it’s debut as an extension for one most the most popular data transfer technology, SATA. On the other hand, USB 3.0 is on it’s way to the top. So you might be wondering which one to choose for your device eSata vs Usb 3.0 | Speed and Performance Usb 3.0 was much of an overhaul of USB 2.0 in terms of speed and performance. It now supports speeds upto  5 GB/sec  almost 11 times that of old school USB 2.0 which hardly reached 500 MB/sec. While on the other hand, eSata finishes the marathon first with bandwidth clocked nearly 6 GB/ sec. But in practical, there won’t much speed variation. eSata handles data writing a little faster than USB but loses to it at reading data. One point that should be noted before deciding on choosing between eSata and USB 3.0 is backward compatibility. USB 3.0 port does support older devices compatible with USB 2.0. Here’s a video which brings out comparison between eSata and USB 3.0 in...

Top 5 Best Legal Websites to Watch Free Online Movies

I know Many of you out here are movie freaks. Do you find DVD rentals too costly or too busy to go to the movie theaters? I’ve compiled list of Top 10 Best Websites to Watch Movies Online absolutely free. No Monthly Fee, No subscription. There a literally hundreds of sites which offer copyrighted movies and TV shows, to protect copyrights and protect the financial field of movie production, I’ve only included Websites to Watch Movies Legally. Best Websites to Watch Movies Online Hulu Hulu  is one of the best Websites to Watch Movies and TV shows online Legally. It contains almost every TV show. Only for US residents  Awesome Playback quality and pretty exhaustive collection of movies Free usage is feature and usage restricted which can be unlocked by subscribing for Hulu Plus, a paid Online Movies and TV Show providing service.  Youtube Movies Youtube Movies  is probably the most popular Movies library coming fro...

Top 10 Tricks and Pranks on Notepad

Scare your friends and make them believe their computer is ‘Possessed’ with these simple Computer Pranks, most of which only require a notepad. Scary Notepad Tricks and Pranks 9. Automatically Close and Open CD/DVD ROM In Notepad, Copy paste the below code and save it as ‘anyname.vbs’ Set oWMP = CreateObject(“WMPlayer.OCX.7″) Set colCDROMs = oWMP.cdromCollection do if colCDROMs.Count >= 1 then For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count – 1 colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject Next For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count – 1 colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject Next End If wscript.sleep 5000 loop You must somehow persuade your friend to open the file or set up a plot to scare your friend with this trick 8. Text to Speech in Notepad – Ghost Voice You can convert Text to Speech in Notepad. Copy and Paste the below code into Notepad and save it as ‘anything.vbs’ Dim msg, sapi msg=InputBox(“You are going to Die”) Set sapi=CreateObject(“sapi.spvoice”) sapi.Speak msg Change ‘You ar...

How to create Wifi hotspot on Iphone

Personal Wifi Hotspot feature is currently available only for Iphone 4.  AT&T Iphone 4 users can create a Personal Wifi Hotspot on their Iphone handsets.  Literally you can turn your Iphone into a portable 3G router.  It is yet another feature introduced by Apple and AT&T to cash from it. To enable this feature, users are levied an extra charge of 20$ per month which also includes 2 GB of usage data.  How to create Wifi hotspot on Iphone legally 1. Contact AT&T or any other CDMA provider which has this feature enabled and get the Personal Hotspot Option authorized. 2. In your Iphone Handset browse to ‘General Settings’ , In ‘Network’ tab slide the Personal Hotspot option to ‘ON’ You can also set a password for the  network. To access this WiFi network in other devices, just select this network from available network list. How to create Wifi hotspot on Iphone without monthly fee Iphone 4′ s Personal Wifi hotspot feature ...