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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Get prizes for searching on Live.com! To day is the last day to signup and download SearchPerks.
Working as a Research Engineer at an Automotive R&D center is quite stressful at times. In order to take a break I tend to write blogs to project my thought process and to vent out the humor side of the world from my perspective. Some contemplation and some ideas put together in this blog to give you a brief gist of my internal intentions.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
How to Insert SWF Flash Movies in PowerPoint Presentations
Learn how to how to embed a Macromedia Flash animation (or any swf movie file) into your Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 presentations. You will able this play this PPT slideshow on any computer that has Adobe Flash Player installed.
These instructions for adding Flash files use the PowerPoint 2007 fluent ribbon interface but can be applied to previous version of Microsoft Office as well like 2003 or XP with slight modifications.
Step 1: Open PowerPoint options and check the option that says “Show Developer Tab in the Ribbon”
Step 2: Click the icon in the Developer Tab that looks like a tilted hammer (highlighted in red) and select Shockwave Flash Object from the next window.
Step 3: Draw a rectangle using your mouse on the PowerPoint canvas, right click and select Properties.
Type the full location of the SWF file in the Movie Property – the Flash swf file could be in some folder on your hard drive or you type type a web address (URL) of a swf files that’s available online.
Step 4. If your SWF file contains an animation and you want that to play as soon as the PowerPoint slide is viewed, set Playing=True. Similarly if you want to prevent the Flash animation from entering a loop, set Loop=False.
You are almost done. If you want to insert another Flash movie in the same presentation, insert a new slide and repeat the process. Press F5 to test the embedding.
Troubleshooting: If the SWF Files are not playing, chances are that you haven’t set the right security setting in the Trust Center to play Active X Control.
Working as a Research Engineer at an Automotive R&D center is quite stressful at times. In order to take a break I tend to write blogs to project my thought process and to vent out the humor side of the world from my perspective. Some contemplation and some ideas put together in this blog to give you a brief gist of my internal intentions.
A fully-functional free license key SnagIT 7
If your work involves screen-capture then you must have heard about the leading screencasting software SnagIT, The software is available as a shareware download and requires users to pay $49.95 for the latest v 9.1, However, under a special Christmas giveaway by Avanquest software portal you can grab a fully-functional free license key for older SnagIT 7, no doubt the latest version does include lots of new features and enhancements but version 7 does everything you would ever require to perform common screen-capture activities, you can compare the two versions here, you can also use the trick to first get the free license for SnagIT 7 and then benefit from 50% discount on the upgrade price of only $24.95 compared to $49.95.
To benefit simply follow the steps below:
- Goto the Christmas giveaway page at Avanquest website here.
- Click on Number 13.
- Enter the information and click the Countinuer button as detailed below.
- You should now receive your free SnagIT 7 activation code.
- Download SnagIT 7 installer from here and use the key above to register.
Working as a Research Engineer at an Automotive R&D center is quite stressful at times. In order to take a break I tend to write blogs to project my thought process and to vent out the humor side of the world from my perspective. Some contemplation and some ideas put together in this blog to give you a brief gist of my internal intentions.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
HOW-TO: Use your Gmail account as your hard drive for storing information..!
This is a fairly simple and useful trick to score yourself a gigabyte's worth of free online file storage. If you already have a Gmail account, you can use it as a central file server that is accessible from anywhere you can access Gmail. If you don't have a Gmail account... read on. We're going to install a shell extension that will allow you to mount your Gmail account as a virtual drive on your desktop, so you can perform basic file manipulation operations without having to go through the web-based interface. Drag and drop, batch copy, create folders and delete files as you normally would in Windows Explorer, and be able to access your virtual drive from virtually anywhere.
There are some limitations and caveats associated with this how-to: Gmail doesn't support files larger than 10MB, so you won't be able to store large movie files or anything, but you wouldn't be doing that anyway 'cuz it's illegal, right? Also, the Gmail drive shell extension only functions under Windows XP, but you'll be able to access and download any of your files via any operating system and browser combination supported by Gmail.
Be advised that this trick is completely unsupported by the Google folk and so may cease functioning at any time — particularly following upgrades to the Gmail service. As far as we know this isn't illegal (we actually read the EULA for you — that's love, people), but we can't guarantee Google won't go all RIAA on us and crack down on this app, either, so use at your own risk.
Also, it goes without saying that none of you would dream of using something like this to shuttle around any illegally-obtained or un-DRM'd music, right? 'Cuz that would make you a criminal, and we can't advocate that. This is only for personal use storage of your, uh, extensive Powerpoint collection, k? Buckle in and let's roll.
Ingredients
- Gmail account
- Gmail Drive shell extension Download from [ here ] or [ here ]
- Windows XP PC
- To access your files elsewhere, a browser that supports Gmail. Here's the official list:
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- Fully supported browsers:
- Microsoft IE 5.5+ (Windows)
- Netscape 7.1+ (Windows, Mac, Linux)
- Mozilla 1.4+ (Windows, Mac, Linux)
- Mozilla Firefox 0.8+ (Windows, Mac, Linux)
- Safari 1.2.1+ (Mac)
- Will work with Gmail's basic HTML view:
- Microsoft IE 4.0+
- Netscape 4.07+
- Opera 6.03+
- Fully supported browsers:
First up, download the Gmail Drive shell extension from [here] or [here]. If you're running Windows XP you should be all set with this.
Installation is as simple as running the Setup program. When the installer is finished running, it will tell you you can begin using Gmail Drive right away, but you may actually have to restart your machine before you can access the new drive. If you don't see it in the list of locations under My Computer, just try restarting. Otherwise, you should be seeing Gmail Drive showing up just any regular storage device would:
Double-click the Gmail Drive icon, and you will be prompted for your login information:
Enter your deets and Gmail Drive shell extension will happily enumerate your files and log you in:
If you already have files stored in your account from attachments you've received, etc., you will see them in the Explorer window after you've logged in. Otherwise, if you have no files or if you've just created your brand spankin' new Gmail account, you'll just see an empty Explorer window:
Let's drag and drop some files into our new virtual drive. We'll choose some image files that we shot ourselves because, as far as we know, it's not illegal to copy these yet. Just open an Explorer window with some files you'd like to store on your new file server, select them, and drag and drop them into your Gmail Drive just as you would with any regular file transfer. You'll get a dialogue window with an animation involving a cute little phone that for some reason is sending a letter — some tribute to ye olde modems of yore?
Regardless, it means Gmail Drive is whisking your files happily away and posting them to your Gmail account. When the transfer is finished, you'll see icons for your files in your Gmail Drive:
Fabulous. Now — if you have another Windows XP machine you use regularly — your work PC, for example — you can just set up the Gmail Drive shell extension there and have Explorer-type file manipulation on that machine, as well. This could be a really handy solution for sharing files between your two locations. But since we already know how to use Gmail Drive, let's take a look at what happens when we log in to our Gmail account from a regular old web browser.
Go to the Gmail login and enter your account information:
When you log in, you'll see a number of new messages - one message per file you just uploaded. Messages corresponding to files that have been uploaded via Gmail Drive appear with a "GMAILFS" prefix in the header, following by the filename and the file size:
Since we've uploaded images, we can view our photos right from within the Gmail interface:
From here, we can forward the images on to friends, or download them to whatever machine we are on and have instant access to them at any time. Plus, we benefit from all the handy built-in features of Gmail itself; we can easily search for our files by name and tag them to organize them however we wish. All this from the installation of one simple and free utility.
Working as a Research Engineer at an Automotive R&D center is quite stressful at times. In order to take a break I tend to write blogs to project my thought process and to vent out the humor side of the world from my perspective. Some contemplation and some ideas put together in this blog to give you a brief gist of my internal intentions.
Monday, December 22, 2008
Google Talk Tips and Tricks
With Google talk getting popular messenger these days, I would like to share some tricks ...the unsaid extra features.
Insert breaks - If you want to have multiple paragraphs in a message, hold shift and hit enter. Now you can add as many new lines as you want to create.
Format text - You can make text either bold or italic by surrounding it with * or _.
Example: _hello_ = hello
*hello* = hello
Font size - Hold the control key, move the scroll wheel on your mouse either up or down. But it only works in write are :(
Switch windows - Hitting tab will cycle through open chat windows. Hit enter to expand the window.Cycling again to another window collapses the expanded one.
Innovative Buzz - You must be aware of 'Buzz' option in yahoo messenger. Gtalk doesnot have such feature. Just give a missed call in gtalk . Call a user and End the call immediately. It acts like Buzz :P .
Working as a Research Engineer at an Automotive R&D center is quite stressful at times. In order to take a break I tend to write blogs to project my thought process and to vent out the humor side of the world from my perspective. Some contemplation and some ideas put together in this blog to give you a brief gist of my internal intentions.
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Automatic windows shutdown software download
Description:
AMP WinOFF is an utility designed to schedule the shut down of Windows computers, with several shut down modes and fully configurable. Some of its features are:
* Scheduled shut downs, either at a set time (e.g. 12:00 PM) or after a period of time (e.g. 1 hour and 15 minutes).
* Perform a shut down when the CPU becomes idle.
* Several types of shut down (shut down, restart, close session, power off, administrative shut down/restart, suspend, hibernate and lock computer).
* Immediate shut down and computer lock from the task bar icon menu.
* Several security options including anti-close protection and password protected access to the configuration.
* Option of capturing the screen, executing a program and/or hang up the modem before the shut down.
* Command line support for batch processing.
* Dual English/Spanish version.
http://www.ampsoft.net/files/WinOFF.zip
Working as a Research Engineer at an Automotive R&D center is quite stressful at times. In order to take a break I tend to write blogs to project my thought process and to vent out the humor side of the world from my perspective. Some contemplation and some ideas put together in this blog to give you a brief gist of my internal intentions.
ShortCut Commands for AutoCad
| Shortcut | Command | |
Keys AutoCad 2008 | ||
| ALT+F8 | VBA Run | + – |
| ALT+F11 | VBA Editor | + – |
| CTRL+1 | Properties Palette | + – |
| CTRL+2 | DesignCenter Palette | + – |
| CTRL+3 | Tool Palette | + – |
| CTRL+4 | Sheet Set Manager Palette | + – |
| CTRL+5 | Info Palette | + – |
| CTRL+6 | DBConnect Manager | + – |
| CTRL+7 | Markup Set Manager Palette | + – |
| CTRL+A | Selects objects in drawing | + – |
| CTRL+B | Toggles Snap | + – |
| CTRL+C | Copies objects to Clipboard | + – |
| CTRL+SHFT+C | Copies objects to Clipboard with Base Point | + – |
| CTRL+D | Toggles coordinate display | + – |
| CTRL+E | Cycles through isometric planes | + – |
| CTRL+F | Toggles running object snaps | + – |
| CTRL+G | Toggles Grid | + – |
| CTRL+H | Toggles PICKSTYLE on/off | + – |
| CTRL+J | Executes last command | + – |
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| CTRL+K | Hyperlink | + – |
| CTRL+L | Toggles Ortho mode | + – |
| CTRL+M | (No action) | + – |
| CTRL+N | Creates a new drawing | + – |
| CTRL+O | Opens existing drawing | + – |
| CTRL+P | Prints current drawing | + – |
| CTRL+Q | Exit | + – |
| CTRL+R | Cycles layout viewports | + – |
| CTRL+S | Saves current drawing | + – |
| CTRL+SHFT+S | Saveas | + – |
| CTRL+T | Toggles Tablet mode | + – |
| CTRL+V | Pastes data from Clipboard | + – |
| CTRL+SHFT+V | Pastes data from Clipboard as Block | + – |
| CTRL+X | Cuts objects to Clipboard | + – |
| CTRL+Y | Repeats last action | + – |
| CTRL+Z | Reverses last action | + – |
| CTRL+[ | Cancels current command | + – |
| CTRL+\ | Cancels current command | + – |
| F1 | Displays Help | + – |
| F2 | Toggles text window on/off | + – |
| F3 | Toggles OSNAP | + – |
| F4 | Toggles TABMODE | + – |
| F5 | Toggles ISOPLANE | + – |
| F6 | Toggles COORDS | + – |
| F7 | Toggles GRIDMODE | + – |
| F8 | Toggles ORTHO MODE | + – |
| F9 | Toggles SNAP MODE | + – |
| F10 | Toggles POLAR | + – |
| F11 | Toggles OTRACK | + – |
Aliases AutoCad 2008 | |||
| 3A | *3DARRAY | + – | |
| 3DMIRROR | *MIRROR3D | + – | |
| 3DNavigate | *3DWALK | + – | |
| 3DO | *3DORBIT | + – | |
| 3DW | *3DWALK | + – | |
| 3F | *3DFACE | + – | |
| 3M | *3DMOVE | + – | |
| 3P | *3DPOLY | + – | |
| 3R | *3DROTATE | + – | |
| A | *ARC | + – | |
| AC | *BACTION | + – | |
| ADC | *ADCENTER | + – | |
| AECTOACAD | *-ExportToAutoCAD | + – | |
| AA | *AREA | + – | |
| AL | *ALIGN | + – | |
| 3AL | *3DALIGN | + – | |
| AP | *APPLOAD | + – | |
| AR | *ARRAY | + – | |
| -AR | *-ARRAY | + – | |
| ATI | *ATTIPEDIT | + – | |
| ATT | *ATTDEF | + – | |
| -ATT | *-ATTDEF | + – | |
| ATE | *ATTEDIT | + – | |
| -ATE | *-ATTEDIT | + – | |
| ATTE | *-ATTEDIT | + – | |
| B | *BLOCK | + – | |
| -B | *-BLOCK | + – | |
| BC | *BCLOSE | + – | |
| BE | *BEDIT | + – | |
| BH | *HATCH | + – | |
| BO | *BOUNDARY | + – | |
| -BO | *-BOUNDARY | + – | |
| BR | *BREAK | + – | |
| BS | *BSAVE | + – | |
| BVS | *BVSTATE | + – | |
| C | *CIRCLE | + – | |
| CAM | *CAMERA | + – | |
| CH | *PROPERTIES | + – | |
| -CH | *CHANGE | + – | |
| CHA | *CHAMFER | + – | |
| CHK | *CHECKSTANDARDS | + – | |
| CLI | *COMMANDLINE | + – | |
| COL | *COLOR | + – | |
| COLOUR | *COLOR | + – | |
| CO | *COPY | + – | |
| CP | *COPY | + – | |
| CT | *CTABLESTYLE | + – | |
| CYL | *CYLINDER | + – | |
| D | *DIMSTYLE | + – | |
| DAL | *DIMALIGNED | + – | |
| DAN | *DIMANGULAR | + – | |
| DAR | *DIMARC | + – | |
| JOG | *DIMJOGGED | + – | |
| DBA | *DIMBASELINE | + – | |
| DBC | *DBCONNECT | + – | |
| DC | *ADCENTER | + – | |
| DCE | *DIMCENTER | + – | |
| DCENTER | *ADCENTER | + – | |
| DCO | *DIMCONTINUE | + – | |
| DDA | *DIMDISASSOCIATE | + – | |
| DDI | *DIMDIAMETER | + – | |
| DED | *DIMEDIT | + – | |
| DI | *DIST | + – | |
| DIV | *DIVIDE | + – | |
| DJL | *DIMJOGLINE | + – | |
| DJO | *DIMJOGGED | + – | |
| DL | *DATALINK | + – | |
| DLI | *DIMLINEAR | + – | |
| DLU | *DATALINKUPDATE | + – | |
| DO | *DONUT | + – | |
| DOR | *DIMORDINATE | + – | |
| DOV | *DIMOVERRIDE | + – | |
| DR | *DRAWORDER | + – | |
| DRA | *DIMRADIUS | + – | |
| DRE | *DIMREASSOCIATE | + – | |
| DRM | *DRAWINGRECOVERY | + – | |
| DS | *DSETTINGS | + – | |
| DST | *DIMSTYLE | + – | |
| DT | *TEXT | + – | |
| DV | *DVIEW | + – | |
| DX | *DATAEXTRACTION | + – | |
| E | *ERASE | + – | |
| ED | *DDEDIT | + – | |
| EL | *ELLIPSE | + – | |
| ER | *EXTERNALREFERENCES | + – | |
| EX | *EXTEND | + – | |
| EXIT | *QUIT | + – | |
| EXP | *EXPORT | + – | |
| EXT | *EXTRUDE | + – | |
| F | *FILLET | + – | |
| FI | *FILTER | + – | |
| FREEPOINT | *POINTLIGHT | + – | |
| FSHOT | *FLATSHOT | + – | |
| G | *GROUP | + – | |
| -G | *-GROUP | + – | |
| GD | *GRADIENT | + – | |
| GEO | *GEOGRAPHICLOCATION | + – | |
| GR | *DDGRIPS | + – | |
| H | *HATCH | + – | |
| -H | *-HATCH | + – | |
| HE | *HATCHEDIT | + – | |
| HI | *HIDE | + – | |
| I | *INSERT | + – | |
| -I | *-INSERT | + – | |
| IAD | *IMAGEADJUST | + – | |
| IAT | *IMAGEATTACH | + – | |
| ICL | *IMAGECLIP | + – | |
| IM | *IMAGE | + – | |
| -IM | *-IMAGE | + – | |
| IMP | *IMPORT | + – | |
| IN | *INTERSECT | + – | |
| INF | *INTERFERE | + – | |
| IO | *INSERTOBJ | + – | |
| J | *JOIN | + – | |
| L | *LINE | + – | |
| LA | *LAYER | + – | |
| -LA | *-LAYER | + – | |
| LAS | *LAYERSTATE | + – | |
| LE | *QLEADER | + – | |
| LEN | *LENGTHEN | + – | |
| LI | *LIST | + – | |
| LINEWEIGHT | *LWEIGHT | + – | |
| LMAN | *LAYERSTATE | + – | |
| LO | *-LAYOUT | + – | |
| LS | *LIST | + – | |
| LT | *LINETYPE | + – | |
| -LT | *-LINETYPE | + – | |
| LTYPE | *LINETYPE | + – | |
| -LTYPE | *-LINETYPE | + – | |
| LTS | *LTSCALE | + – | |
| LW | *LWEIGHT | + – | |
| M | *MOVE | + – | |
| MA | *MATCHPROP | + – | |
| MAT | *MATERIALS | + – | |
| ME | *MEASURE | + – | |
| MI | *MIRROR | + – | |
| ML | *MLINE | + – | |
| MLA | *MLEADERALIGN | + – | |
| MLC | *MLEADERCOLLECT | + – | |
| MLD | *MLEADER | + – | |
| MLE | *MLEADEREDIT | + – | |
| MLS | *MLEADERSTYLE | + – | |
| MO | *PROPERTIES | + – | |
| MS | *MSPACE | + – | |
| MSM | *MARKUP | + – | |
| MT | *MTEXT | + – | |
| MV | *MVIEW | + – | |
| NORTH | *GEOGRAPHICLOCATION | + – | |
| NORTHDIR | *GEOGRAPHICLOCATION | + – | |
| O | *OFFSET | + – | |
| OP | *OPTIONS | + – | |
| ORBIT | *3DORBIT | + – | |
| OS | *OSNAP | + – | |
| -OS | *-OSNAP | + – | |
| P | *PAN | + – | |
| -P | *-PAN | + – | |
| PA | *PASTESPEC | + – | |
| PARAM | *BPARAMETER | + – | |
| PARTIALOPEN | *-PARTIALOPEN | + – | |
| PE | *PEDIT | + – | |
| PL | *PLINE | + – | |
| PO | *POINT | + – | |
| POL | *POLYGON | + – | |
| PR | *PROPERTIES | + – | |
| PRCLOSE | *PROPERTIESCLOSE | + – | |
| PROPS | *PROPERTIES | + – | |
| PRE | *PREVIEW | + – | |
| *PLOT | + – | ||
| PS | *PSPACE | + – | |
| PSOLID | *POLYSOLID | + – | |
| PTW | *PUBLISHTOWEB | + – | |
| PU | *PURGE | + – | |
| -PU | *-PURGE | + – | |
| PYR | *PYRAMID | + – | |
| QC | *QUICKCALC | + – | |
| QCUI | *QUICKCUI | + – | |
| R | *REDRAW | + – | |
| RA | *REDRAWALL | + – | |
| RC | *RENDERCROP | + – | |
| RE | *REGEN | + – | |
| REA | *REGENALL | + – | |
| REC | *RECTANG | + – | |
| REG | *REGION | + – | |
| REN | *RENAME | + – | |
| -REN | *-RENAME | + – | |
| REV | *REVOLVE | + – | |
| RO | *ROTATE | + – | |
| RP | *RENDERPRESETS | + – | |
| RPR | *RPREF | + – | |
| RR | *RENDER | + – | |
| RW | *RENDERWIN | + – | |
| S | *STRETCH | + – | |
| SC | *SCALE | + – | |
| SCR | *SCRIPT | + – | |
| SE | *DSETTINGS | + – | |
| SEC | *SECTION | + – | |
| SET | *SETVAR | + – | |
| SHA | *SHADEMODE | + – | |
| SL | *SLICE | + – | |
| SN | *SNAP | + – | |
| SO | *SOLID | + – | |
| SP | *SPELL | + – | |
| SPL | *SPLINE | + – | |
| SPLANE | *SECTIONPLANE | + – | |
| SPE | *SPLINEDIT | + – | |
| SSM | *SHEETSET | + – | |
| ST | *STYLE | + – | |
| STA | *STANDARDS | + – | |
| SU | *SUBTRACT | + – | |
| T | *MTEXT | + – | |
| -T | *-MTEXT | + – | |
| TA | *TABLET | + – | |
| TB | *TABLE | + – | |
| TH | *THICKNESS | + – | |
| TI | *TILEMODE | + – | |
| TO | *TOOLBAR | + – | |
| TOL | *TOLERANCE | + – | |
| TOR | *TORUS | + – | |
| TP | *TOOLPALETTES | + – | |
| TR | *TRIM | + – | |
| TS | *TABLESTYLE | + – | |
| UC | *UCSMAN | + – | |
| UN | *UNITS | + – | |
| -UN | *-UNITS | + – | |
| UNI | *UNION | + – | |
| V | *VIEW | + – | |
| -V | *-VIEW | + – | |
| VP | *DDVPOINT | + – | |
| -VP | *VPOINT | + – | |
| VS | *VSCURRENT | + – | |
| VSM | *VISUALSTYLES | + – | |
| -VSM | *-VISUALSTYLES | + – | |
| W | *WBLOCK | + – | |
| -W | *-WBLOCK | + – | |
| WE | *WEDGE | + – | |
| X | *EXPLODE | + – | |
| XA | *XATTACH | + – | |
| XB | *XBIND | + – | |
| -XB | *-XBIND | + – | |
| XC | *XCLIP | + – | |
| XL | *XLINE | + – | |
| XR | *XREF | + – | |
| -XR | *-XREF | + – | |
| Z | *ZOOM | + – | |
Aliases (Alternative from Release 13) AutoCad 2008 | |||
| AV | *DSVIEWER | + – | |
| CP | *COPY | + – | |
| DIMALI | *DIMALIGNED | + – | |
| DIMANG | *DIMANGULAR | + – | |
| DIMBASE | *DIMBASELINE | + – | |
| DIMCONT | *DIMCONTINUE | + – | |
| DIMDIA | *DIMDIAMETER | + – | |
| DIMED | *DIMEDIT | + – | |
| DIMTED | *DIMTEDIT | + – | |
| DIMLIN | *DIMLINEAR | + – | |
| DIMORD | *DIMORDINATE | + – | |
| DIMRAD | *DIMRADIUS | + – | |
| DIMSTY | *DIMSTYLE | + – | |
| DIMOVER | *DIMOVERRIDE | + – | |
| LEAD | *LEADER | + – | |
| TM | *TILEMODE | + – | |
Aliases (Hyperlink/URL Release 14 compatibility) AutoCad 2008 | |||
| SAVEURL | *SAVE | + – | |
| OPENURL | *OPEN | + – | |
| INSERTURL | *INSERT | + – | |
Working as a Research Engineer at an Automotive R&D center is quite stressful at times. In order to take a break I tend to write blogs to project my thought process and to vent out the humor side of the world from my perspective. Some contemplation and some ideas put together in this blog to give you a brief gist of my internal intentions.