Hi Guys, A friend of mine asked me this question, so I thought I should write about it. I asked him why he don't want to show his timezone to others, He just replied with 2 reason He don't want some anonymous one to know that he is working off late. He said he already changed his location to something else. (hmm.. fishy stuff :)) Second reason he gave me was that of sheer privacy. Oh well! I couldn't understand what he meant there Anyways here is how you hide you time that appears besides you photo when you chat with someone. Advertisement Click on your Name from Top left corner of Skype window and then click on Profile tab on the right as shown below You can also Goto Skype menu > Profile >Edit your profile to bring up the same window on the right Ok now Scroll down where it says Time As shown below Now click on Where it says Contacts only and set it to "Private - Visible only to you" as shown below Ta! Da! You're done! No one can see you computer time now. You can also bluff someone by changing the timezone by clicking My Computers's and then selecting a different timezone to your current one. That will send different time to your contacts :) This is when you want to hide yourself from you wife when you said you are going to Adelaide for a meeting but you went to Perth :) but of course you ticket will say it all when she demands it. I hope this tip helps. Don't forget to +1 if it did. Cheers, … [Read more...]
Skype Where are IMs stored
Hi Guys, So this was a question that was asked by my friend to me. I won't bore you with writing long post but lets stick to the point. Depending you your operation system the path below will change Advertisement On Windows 7 which I am using they are stored in C:\Users\[Current Windows Login Name]\AppData\Roaming\Skype\[Your Skype Name]\ Under the above directory you will find a file called main.db. That's were they are store. Now this files is sort of encrypted, there are few applications that can read this file for you. I've listed a few at the end of my post. On Windows Vista and Windows XP the file path will be C:\Documents and Settings\[Current Windows Login Name]\Application Data\Skype\[Your Skype Name]\ Ok so another question that I may be able to answer is that Like Yahoo, Skype won't store messages on their servers. The only thing that they store is your Contact List. That data is really important to them as its important to you. I hope this helps. Don't forget to +1 this post if this answer your question. Few softwares to decode your skype chat are listed below Google "skypr or even better kudos chat search for skype Cheers, … [Read more...]
Google Drive How to change destination folder location
Hi Guys, Don't forget to +1 (right at the top) this post, if your question is answered. Else you can -1 it :) For one instance I thought there is no way to change once you setup your Google Drive. But I found a way :) I must stop bragging because it was real common sense. Also don't forget to read my comparison on Drive, Skydrive, Box and Dropbox from here Google drive -vs- dropbox -vs- box -vs- skydrive So let me show you how to do it. First left click on that little Tray Icon on the bottom right hand corner of your screen as shown below Advertisement When you click on it you will see this pop up Click on Preferences Now Click on "Disconnect account" Your drive will now be disconnected from Google Servers, Now click on that little tray icon again. And Click Sign In You will get something like this Now Sign In using you account details and Click Next button on Next screen as shown below Next Screen is very important. Click on Advanced button on Next screen as shown below When you click on Advanced Setup button you will get this Beside Folder Location Click Change and select new location and then Click Start Sync. Make sure that the folder you pick is empty. I don't understand the logic behind this but thats how it is now. Now you GDrive has been relocated on your PC. I hope this helps Cheers, … [Read more...]
No Follow vs Do Follow Links
Hi Guys, I am using WordPress and in WordPress all external bound links are by default "No Follow" mainly in the comments section. No Follow means that if Google or any other search engine comes to crawl your site then it should crawl your site only rather than follow the outgoing link. In other words we are telling Search Engines that Please do not follow the links. Why do you need No Follow? As far as my understanding goes it lowers your our website Authority. In other words we are telling Search Engine that if you are hungry then please go next door as I don't have enough food for you. Another know fact is that having No Follow does not really hurt as much but it bring less interest from user to post comments etc. on you site. Mainly No follow is for bots only. Now the big question: how to make a link No Follow and Do Follow? Ok so lets see You normal link look like this By default it is Do Follow link To tell the search engine bots or so called spiders to NOT crawl a link or in other word NOT to follow a link, you need to add the following attribute to the HTML hyperlink code above: rel="nofollow" A link example will be The above link will not be followed by search engines any more Now I am not into business of link building because I only find some time to write my articles and I work full time too so no time to go search Blog to put my junk up there :) But a Tip from me: When you are trying to host a link on another site, watch out if they use No Follow with their external link. From my understanding if its No Follow then weight of that link is relatively reduced but its just a link and humans will click it if they like it. This post is really useful to read http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html I hope that this article will help you understand the login behind No Follow and Do Follow links Cheers, … [Read more...]
How to setup Google Drive
Hi Guys, I hope that you got your GDrive Welcome email from Google. Great! Now lets look how you can setup Google Drive on you PC. First Goto https://drive.google.com/ Ok so you clicked on the above link and then you logged into your Google account. First thing that you will see is shown below. Click on the "Download Google Drive for PC" button, You will see the window below Click on Accept and Install A setup file will be downloaded as shown above. Click on it and you will get another dialog window depending on your operation system. Below is what I got in Windows 7 Click on Run, Installer will now download the GRive Installer from Internet as shown below. This is normal will many setups nowadays. Once the Installer has been downloaded this is what you get Click Close, Time to sign in to GDrive with your Google Account Ok so enter your Email and Password above and click signin Successful Sign in will give you this if you have 2 step verification enabled (Read more about this feature from http://jaspreetchahal.org/make-gmail-hacker-safe-almost/) If you don't have 2 step verification enabled or you verified correctly in above screen then you will get this screen Click Next you will get this screen Advertisement Now you have 2 options. Either to click on Start Sync - this will mean that you sync will start immediately, I chose "Advanced Setup" Here is what I got Pretty much self explanatory but most important thing for me was to choose Folder location. My primary drive has very less space left so I chose my E: drive as you can see. Click Start Sync, Your sync will start now On the bottom right hand corner you will see a little pop up, Left Click on that Icon you will see many options as shown belwo As you can see that it even shows how much space is used/left. Now you … [Read more...]
Windows Increase clipboard memory size
Hi Guys, Well there are times when you try to copy and paste stuff between applications and you are being told that Object is too large to fit the memory. Here is a quick resolution to this problem. Click the "Start" button. Type "sysdm.cpl" into the search box. You can also right click on My Computer and Click Properties and then select "Advanced System Settings" Press the "Enter" key. Click the "Advanced" tab in the "System Properties" window. Click the "Settings" button under the "Performance" label header. Click the "Advanced" tab in the "Performance Options" window. Under the "Virtual Memory" header Click the "Change" button. Clear the check box next to the "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives" option. This disables automatic "Virtual Memory" settings in Windows. Enter a value for the size of the new paging file. Enter a value larger than the current paging file size in the "Maximum Size" field. Please note that this value is entered in Mega Bytes Click the "Set" button and then "OK." Restart your computer for the new "Virtual Memory" settings to take effect. The Windows Clipboard shold now stores more data when copying and pasting between applications. Below is what is expected to see I hope this post may've helped you Cheers, … [Read more...]
SQLYog Could not copy data to clipboard 8. not enough storage is available to process this command
Hi Guys, Just a quick one here. So while I was using my SQLYog version 9.1 or 9.2 I had this message when I tried to copy the result to my clipboard. I got the above error "Could not copy data to clipboard" I thought that It was due to my Clipboard having insufficient memory allocated so I followed these steps that I mentioned in another post here http://jaspreetchahal.org/windows-increase-clipboard-memory-size/ But to no avail because it was failing instantly. Then I tried exploring SQLYog forums and found out that It was sort of a bug in SQLYog and was fixed in current (while time of writing version 9.6.3 stable was available) So then I upgraded to SQLYog 9.6.3 and everything is back to normal. Export to CSV is another option I used while I looked for cause and fix. I hope this helps Cheers, … [Read more...]
Blur Effect in Camtasia 7 Video Tutorial
Hi Guys, First of all I have to tell you that Camtasia is a superb tool for Video recording. This post is all about using blur effect that comes with Camtasia Studio 7. Now the reason vary from use case to use case but I usually use blur effect to hide sensitive information in my video cast. Sensitive information may include User name for an online portal Your email address Any sort of password information Your phone number Address etc. etc. Main thing is that you don't want some crazy eye to see that data. Just to address this I have recorded a video tutorial. Email that I used in the video is Junk. My real email address is jastheenglishleaner [at] gmail.com :) Below is the video and hopefully this will clear things up httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5MZBHJrvZ8 I hope that you liked this video. Pardon my English as I am still learning lot of words every month :) If you have any question please use comments to ask. If I can't answer someone else can if they know the answer. Cheers, … [Read more...]
Configuring BackupAssist to write to your iSCSI destination.
Following up with my previous post that talks about using OpenFiler as iSCSI target http://jaspreetchahal.org/using-openfiler-as-an-iscsi-target In this post I am going to show you how you can configure BackupAssist to use the configured target. Ok so lets get started. I will later do a video on this too but for the time being I will keep it simple. Once you have your iSCSI target configured; BackupAssist should be able to use this as a valid backup destination; provided you use the Zip, Imaging or File Replication engines. This feature is available on on BackupAssist version 6.4+ Install BackupAssist. You will have a free 30 day trial, but beyond this trial period, you will need to purchase a base BackupAssist license to continue using this functionality. To begin this process, create a new BackupAssist backup job. Launch the BackupAssist console and choose File > New backup job from the drop-down menu. Select either Imaging, File Replication or Zip from job type choices and then click ‘Next’ (see screenshot below). Select iSCSI as your destination type and click ‘Next’. Choose a Schedule and click ‘Next’. In the iSCSI target settings: 1. Enter your iSCSI target/portal IP address in the text box provided and click ‘Search’. This should then produce an option under the ‘Target’ after a few seconds. 2. Click on the target which you wish to run the backup to. 3. Select to either have BackupAssist attempt to disconnect the target once it’s finished initializing and testing the connection. Note: The operating system will not always be able to disconnect a target and this is not an error in the software. 4. Enter a username and secret (password) if your iSCSI target has CHAP authentication enabled. If CHAP isn’t enabled then you can leave this blank. 5.Before using an iSCSI target for the first time it must be initialized. Click the “Test connection” button to have BackupAssist connect and … [Read more...]
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