Category Archives: Tips n Tricks

Xp and Vista Tricks n Tips

This guide should help you fix the ‘power calibration error’ if you happened to come across one, which might be the reason you are reading this guide.

power calib error

Their could be several possible reasons and solutions for the above error, basically what is happening is for some reason the CD/DVD burning software is unable to determine the Optimum Power Calibration rate (a small pre-burn test to determine optimal laser power for writing), resulting a disk burn failure. There is no easy way to pinpoint the exact reason, so try all the possible fixes from top to bottom (easy to hard) and see what works:
Read More »

 A fact unknown to many users is that the Gmail or Google’s mail gives two email id’s or rather specifically two domain under the same username.

So suppose you have a email like: myname123@gmail.com
then you also have a email like: myname123@googlemail.com

so the good thing is that sometimes when you get banned from forums etc., You can use alternate id to signup again.

Share your iTunes library over the internet or download songs from other iTunes library over the internet for free.

MOJO - This is one of the latest must have software that is free and damn useful at the same time….

Windows/Mac only: Share any song in your iTunes library and download any song from your friends’ iTunes libraries over the internet with freeware application Mojo. Essentially, Mojo makes sharing music with your friends through iTunes wildly simple, from its simple interface to its brilliant implementation. If you’ve ever used apps like previously mentioned ourTunes to download music from shared libraries, you have an idea of what Mojo does, but you should still prepare to be amazed.

Getting Started

mojo-friends.pngTo get started, you need to download and install Mojo on your computer (it’s fully ready to go on Macs, and currently in beta for Windows). The first time you run Mojo, you’ll be asked to create an account. Do that, then you’ll see the Mojo friends window, which is much like a buddy window on an instant messenger client. Granted, you won’t have any buddies in this window to begin with (unless it’s also been installed by another computer on your local network), but don’t worry, you will.add-friend.pngNext, let’s say your friend downloads and installs Mojo as well. They give you their user name, you hit the little plus (+) sign to add them as a buddy, and they’re sent an approval request. They approve you, and voilà—you now have access to every song in their iTunes library. So what now?
Read More »

I came across this problem that we cannot delete certain folders in vista and it gives the message “Destination Folder Access Denied”.

destination folder access denied pic

This happens because you dont the right ownership to the folder inorder to delete it or make changes to it. what we can do here is to  get the rights back.  Also this can happen when you try to delete  Windows.old or in my instance another directory on a hard drive like Windows or Program Files you want to erase, but Vista won’t let you because you don’t have the proper permissions because the folder ACLs were made for User Accounts with SIDs on an older partition. Even with Administrator privileges

Well you can take ownership back with two command-line utilities:
Read More »