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The present gaming scene was only lacking a proper air combat game now this has been compensated by Ubisoft and TomClancy’s H.A.W.X, scheduled to released this fall on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. The game plot is set in 2012 and you have 50 different planes to perform super-cool fights in sky and have fun.

Now you can easily RIP the blueray cd’s. SlySoft - creators of the famous CloneCD CD/DVD copying application has released a new software “AnyDVD HD” allowing users to copy Blu-ray and HD DVD discs, including decryption of Blu-ray and HD DVD movie content on the disc. The software can bypass the copy protection method BD+ implemented on the Blue Ray disc, designed to prevent video content from being copied and pirated.

The results have started to become visible, more and more high quality Blu Ray DVD rips are starting to appear on file-sharing websites.

Among all the other online tools now you can add the most famous adobe photoshop. Adobe released their brand new web-based version of popular Photoshop image editor, dubbed Photoshop Express the service is currently labeled as public beta, Users are provided with 2 GB free online storage allowing them to store, edit and share images using a simple and easy to use flash based interface.

Photoshop Express users can also upload and download images from popular social networking sites like Facebook, The application provides all the necessary tools for day to day image editing task.

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.

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:

• Try using different brands of quality blank media, most common reason for such error’s is cheap blank media.
• Try burning at lower speeds (Highly effective).
• Disable IMAPI Service (Work’s in most cases):
  1. Launch Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services .
  2. Browse for “IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service“, Right-click on it and select properties.
  3. Chnage Startup Type to Disabled.

  

• Click Apply and Reboot.

 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

To 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.Next, 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?

Browsing and Downloading Music

To browse your friend’s library, just double-click their entry in the buddy window. Mojo will open a new window which shows every song in their library and their playlists, along with their Movies, TV Shows, Podcasts, and Audiobooks. Double-click any song to play it back, and to download a song (or even video), just click the download arrow next to the song or the big download button at the bottom of the screen.
Mojo will download the song and automatically add it to your iTunes library. Additionally, it will even create a playlist in a folder called Mojo containing all the songs you downloaded from that friend.

You may be thinking: Sure, this is impressive, but what else can it do? Well, for one, Mojo automatically detects whether or not you already have a song in your iTunes library. Any song that you’ve already got displays in Mojo in a light gray color. And if your friend has purchased a song from the iTunes Music store, and it’s dripping with nasty DRM—Mojo highlights those tracks in red.

So What’s the Catch?

If you’ve already checked out the Mojo homepage, you may notice that there is a premium version of the application. Luckily for all of the cheapskates out there like me, you really don’t need to buy the premium version to enjoy most of the best features of Mojo. But let’s say you do want to go Pro. Here’s what you get:

• Unlimited friends
• Playlist subscriptions

As far as I can tell, that’s it. Playlist subscriptions, which allow you to subscribe to a playlist in your friend’s library, automatically downloads music in the playlist as your friend adds to it. Crazy cool, yes, but if you don’t want to shell out for it, it’s really not that must-have.

Right now, as I said, Mojo is available and ready for primetime on the Mac, and is currently in beta for Windows users. The app takes practically zero know-how to set up and get started with, and everything it does is near perfect. I’ve only tested it on my Mac so far, so if you give the beta a try on Windows, let’s hear how it’s working in the comments. For another detailed usage overview, check out the introduction screencast from Mojo.

Mojo (Mac version)
Mojo Windows Beta( windows users download this)

Btw use hamachi to be able to see each other’s itunes library….install hamachi then install this…make sure u and ur friends join the same network….

you guys can join the following networks to get many users’ libraries

1——————————–
networkname: dexxter.co.nr
password:12345
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2——————————–
networkname: spawnshare
password: password12345
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if  u are creating a network or you know of any other networks for mojo then please lets us know through comments so we can share them

credits: Lifehacker

Two Arabs boarded a flight out of London. One took a window seat and the other sat next to him in the middle seat.

Just before takeoff, a Marine sat down in the aisle seat.

After takeoff, the Marine kicked his shoes off, wiggled his toes and was settling in when the Arab in the window seat said, “I need to get up and get a coke.”

“Don’t get up,” said the Marine, “I’m in the aisle seat, I’ll get it for you.”

As soon as he left, one of the Arabs picked up the Marines shoe and spat in it.

When the Marine returned with the coke, the other Arab said, “That looks good, I’d really like one, too.”

Again, the Marine obligingly went to fetch it.

While he was gone the other Arab picked up the Marines other shoe and spat in it.

When the Marine returned, they all sat back and enjoyed the flight.

As the plane was landing, the Marine slipped his feet into his shoes and knew immediately what had happened. “Why does it have to be this way?” he asked. “How long must this go on? This fighting between our nations? This hatred? This animosity? This spitting in shoes and pissing in cokes?”

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

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:

takeown - which does exactly that. It allows you (current user) to take ownership of a file or directory

icacls -setsup new ACLs on that directory for you

The best way to do this is to create a batch command like ownrbck.cmd copy n paste,the lines below n save:


takeown /f %1 /r /d y
icacls %1 /grant administrators:F /t


You will need to run this in an elevated command prompt, you can run a command such as:

ownrbck d:\windows

This will reset ownership and ACLs on the windows directory such that a commands like:

del and rd /s d:\windows should work.

and then delete the folder.

the new function in the firefox 3 beta which stops the suspected sites from being shown. thought ill share the screenshots with you guys