How to disable shutdown in XP ?

OS: Windows XP

This a registry tweak by which you can prevent others to shut down your computer. This can be useful when you are doing some work & don't want your PC get shut down due to interference of other person. If you own a server then this is a tip which you must use as you will not want your server to get down. To apply this tweak follow as given below :

• Open Registry Editor(regedit.exe) in Run under Start Menu.
  
• Navigate to :-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer and to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
• In both these locations create or modify the Dword value 'NoClose' & set it to 1. This will prevent windows from shutting down.
• If you want windows to get shut down again then set the above value to 0.

In case you dont have Explorer in the above entries then you have to create them.

Note: Please have a Backup or save a Restore Point in your Computer before applying the Hack..

Share,Chat,Read & Blog on Thoughts.com

19 May,2008
Are you getting bored of writing on your blog continuously? Yes, many of you will be, as this is the problem which most of the bloggers often face. In addition to this many of have some questions & personal problems which we want sometimes to be shared with the world. The solution for these type of problems these days are Forums.

All of you might have heard this word on net, but what is forum? It's a community space where users share their views , post articles, have debates & blog.

Thoughts.com is an all in one site where you can Blog, share your views , get latest news & lot more. With a vast number of users you can easily get answers to your questions , chat & make friends through Forum easily on this site. Here's what this site offers its users :

• Thoughts.com provides you a free blog where you can post your diaries, photos & anything you like to have on your space & share with friends , family & forum members.
• The features like upload Photo, Video, Podcast directly on your blog helps build good audience.
• The best thing which i liked about blogging on this site is that even if it's your first post you start getting traffic & audience from the very first day , as your posts are displayed on the website for other members to watch your content.
• The website also allows you to comment on other blogs & share your views easily by allowing you to participate in the Forum .
• Forum is also one of the the best offerings of Thoughts.com as you can expose your content to large audience. If you have questions to ask then these forums can easily serve your purpose. You can post your content under any category which includes Entertainment, Lifestyle, Politics, Religions & Beliefs, Writings .
• The Forum are very useful for professionals like software developer as they can share their new tools to the world & painters can show their paintings to other people. These forums not only help in sharing but also help in the improvement of their works.

The advantage of the forums on Thoughts.com is that it is one of the most crowded forums available on Internet with most users ever online= 12,390 at the same time !!. Join thoughts.com click here!

Adobe Photoshop Express goes Online !!

Well guys, adobe has taken an excellent step towards online image editing tool for worldwide users. Adobe Photoshop Express version is not yet equal to desktop version but whats more important is that you can access it no matter where you are in this big world , you just need is a good PC & an Internet connection.


So what's more in this Website Version Photoshop! lets take a brief look : 

• The site offers you a 2 GB space for your account which is enough for anyone to share photos on net.
  
• If you use Picasa Desktop version then you must give this a try too! as it features even more tools for editing your pictures online.
• When you have created your account & uploaded a pic , then you get an option of 'Edit photo' following this you will get some options in front of you, like Basics ,Effects & Tuning.
• For example under Basic settings you get options for improving the exposure of your photo, if you get some red eye in your pics then don't worry there's a Red eye removal tool also.
• Features like auto correct, saturation helps the users to smoothen their images easily.
• The thing which i liked the most was Touch Up feature which was just same as the healing which we sued to ave on the desktop versions & this feature helps to remove any irregularity in the image.
• Even more options such as Soft Focus, Highlight, Sharpen & Hue , Sketch, Pop Color, Tint, Distort options are also there under Tuning & Effects options respectively.
• I think all these tools are sufficient for styling your images for web & sharing with others.

This online version also help you build your blog type homepage like www.your-name.photoshop.com which can serve as good way of doing photo blogging.
Just visit Adobe Photoshop Express & start editing & sharing today!.

How to Modify Ad codes for embedding in Blogger Templates

Blogger ad code converter is a tool tat help you to modify your adcodes of Adsense, Chitika , ADbrite, & many others to directly embed inyour new xml templates without giving any errors.
You just have to paste your adcode in the box & it modifies the code for embedding in the template..


For example if you need to embed adsense 468x60 block into your blog template then you first go into change layout & add javascript or choose adsense.... blah! blah! blah! blah! & if you put the code to embed direclty into your template by going under Edit Template section , then you will always get XML error!! about  characters like '> < 'to be converted into xhtml entities which needs a xml knowledge & of course some time.. To escape from this you can just directly put the code into the box & modify it for your use.. & get your ads embedded in the templates permanently by default. Click here ! for more