I never like writing an image on CD/DVD and then installing an Operating system from CD Drive.I hope you also don’t.Therefore installing windows or any other Operating from CD is just a boring and time taking job.Who wants these slow speed CD/DVDs? when we have GBs of USB Flash Drives.

If you want to install Windows 7 or Windows vista on a computer which doesn’t have CD/DVD ROM on it (e.g. Netbooks).In this case you only have one option available which is Installing Windows Vista or Windows 7 from a USB Drive.

So first of all you will have to create a bootable CD of Windows vista or Windows 7.This is neither a very easy job nor very difficult.You will have to go throught the small process which is mentioned below in this post and at the end you will have a bootable windows 7 or windows vista USB which will be capable of installing these OS.

The Process of creating bootable Windows Vista and Windows 7 USB has been broken down in to multiple steps for your ease.

First of all let me write down the requirements

- 4 GB USB Flash Drive

- Windows 7 (ISO or extracted files) or Windows Vista FIles

1) Download Windows 7 Beta

Download Latest version of Windows 7 or copy windows vista files from CD to your Local Drive (e.g. C:).

2) Format the USB Flash Drive

My computer–>Removable disk(F)–>Right click and choose Format the USB Flash Drive using the NTFS file system.

3) Extract the Windows 7 ISO file

4) Copy BootSect.exe

When you are done with extracting files from windows 7 iso.Open the extracted folder and open the “boot” folder, inside which we’ll find a file called “bootsect.exe” that we’ll need to use.Copy the file (CTRL+C) and then open up “Computer” or “My Computer” and double-click your C: drive.We’re going to paste (CTRL+V) that “bootsect.exe” file right into C: so we can easily access it in a moment.

5) Time to make the USB Flash Drive Bootable

Programs > Accessories and then right-click on Command Prompt and choose “Run as administrator.”

Inside cmd, type and enter the followings:

1. cd\
2. bootsect /nt60 g:

I have assumed the drive letter of your USB thumb drive is g:, so replace “g:” in the above phrase with whichever letter is assigned to your particular thumb drive. Hit enter and you should see:

The thumb drive auto-load when you boot up your computer.

6) Copy the Windows 7 files to the USB Flash drive

Copy all the files from the Windows 7 folder to the USB drive.

change the first boot device to your USB drive in the BIOS.

Reboot the computer and you will be greeted with colorful Windows 7 Installation Screen.Follow the on screen instructions to install Windows 7.

If you have got a PC with some good resources(CPU,Ram and Harddisk) then you should try some different OS on a single machine.Currently Windows XP,vista and ubuntu are the mostly used OS so you should use all of them in a single PC like i m using.Although you can try some different OS using Vmware or microsoft virtual PC but to run different OS in vmware at the same time will require lots of RAM.

The Process of installing all these 3 OS is quite simple let me write it down for you.

Installation of Windows XP

1) Suppose you have a PC with blank Harddisk of 40 GB.

2) Insert Windows XP CD into cd rom and boot from CD.

3) Go through all the steps until you get a screen asking about partition.

4) Now its the time to create some partitions as we have supposed that we have a blank HD.

5) Create 4 partition of equal sizes and select C for the installation of Windows XP.

6) Now as windows XP is installed go to my computer and format the rest 3 partitions by right clicking and select format then NTFS as file system type.

Now lets start the installation of windows vista.

1) Insert windows vista CD in to cd rom.

2) Boot from CD.

3) Continue until you get a partition screen.

4) Now select D for the installation of windows Vista as we have already installed  windows XP in C.

5) Now wait until windows vista gets installed.

6) After the installation of windows vista you will be treated with windows vista boot loader and showing you 2 option to select windows XP and windows Vista.

7) Now start windows Vista.

Now lets start the installation of ubuntu.

1) While running windows vista insert ubuntu CD in to cd rom.

2) You will have a nice looking WUBI installer.

3) Select second option install inside windows.

4) It will ask some of your details username,password and partition to install.

5) Select E for the installation of Ubuntu and begin installation.

6) In some minutes you will have ubuntu installed.

7) Now you will have 3 options in windows vista boot loader Windows XP,Vista and Ubuntu.

Windows XP,Vista and ubuntu has now been installed to your Computer have fun !

iTunes allows us to easily synchronise music or any other files from computer to iPod touch but one of the bad thing is that what to do if you wanna copy the songs or any other files from iPod to your computer.You must have to use any other software for this purpose.In this post i am gonna show you how to copy songs or any other files from iPod to computer.

You can copy songs or any other files from iPod to computer using iPod access.

iPod Access is the premier application for transferring songs from your iPod or iPhone to your computer. Most iPod transfer utilities must fetch ID3 tag information by opening every music file and fetching information. iPod Access is able to utilize the iPod internal database so that it can display your iPod’s contents almost instantly.

First of all you need to download iPod access from the following links.

• iPod access for Windows.
• iPod access for Mac.

1) Open iPod Access.If your iPod is not already in “Manual Mode” the program will prompt you to do so as it is neccessary when ripping your iPod:

2) Leave iPod Access to “Read” your iPod – iPod Access is basically scanning through your iPod finding your files.

3) You will now notice that iPod Access has found all my music:

4) If you scroll through your files you will notice that iPod Access has also recovered your Podcasts and Videos.

5) Now lets transfer all your data back to your PC. First click “Backup.”

6) Choose a directory to copy your files into and click “Ok.”

7) Leave iPod Access to copy your files to your hard drive. This may take some time depending on the amount of songs and videos you have.

A short while later the process will finish and iPod Access will return to the default screen.

Now check the folder you choose on step 6 now you should have all the files transfered to this folder.

Note : This guide works with all types if iPod (even iPod touch) and iPhone too.

As all of us know microsoft has released the latest Service Pack SP3 for windows XP which can be downloaded from microsoft website the size of this Service Pack is about 350-500MB So rather than first installing windows XP SP2 from CD and then install SP3 it would be much better if you create a custom windows XP SP3 Installation CD So SP3 will also be installed at the time of installation.

In this post i am gonna share a tutorial for you for creating windows XP SP3 Installation CD.

First of all lets have a quick look at the requirements you will need to have.

1. Windows XP SP2 (Installation CD)
2. Windows XP SP2 (Can be downloaded from microsoft Website)
3. .Net Framework 3.5 (Can also be downloaded from microsoft Website)
4. nLite v1.4.9 (Download Links given below)

http://nliteos.pcrpg.org/nlite/old/nLite-1.4.9.installer.exe

5.  WMP11 Slipstreamer [for slipstreaming WMP11 to the Windows XP installation files] (Download Links given below)

http://www.boooggy.org/slipstreamer/wmp11slips1.3i.exe

6.  WMP 11 & Internet Explorer 7 (Download Links given below)

http://rapidshare.com/files/161410638/WMP11_Oct08.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/161410558/IE7_Aug.rar

After downloading everything its time to start creating windows XP SP3 Installation CD

1. Install .NET Framework 3.5
2. Install nLite and WMP11 Slipstreamer

Don’t Start WMP11 Slipstreamer yet, the program will work automatically.

3.Create a folder on desktop and Insert Windows XP SP2 CD into CD and copy the whole CD to the folder WinXP_SP2

4. Start nLite and Locate the Windows XP installation files (Should be in folder WinXP_SP2 recently created on Desktop)

5. Import & Load previous settings.

If this is the first time, you can skip this step with just clicking Next button; however, if you want to retouch the Installation CD this option will lighten your next mission.

6. Task Selection

At this stage, nLite wants you to pick the task you want to operate, there are 8 tasks. If you ask me, usually I pick it like this.

But since this is a Complete Mission Briefing, then let’s just pick them all.

7. Service Pack Integration

Now for the first mission, locate the Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 and press open; nLite then extracts and updates the Installation files.

Now You Installation files are ready.

8. Add Hotfixes, Add-ons and Update Packs

The second mission is load your installation files with Windows XP Hotfixes, Add-ons and Update Packs, If you already have some of them then you could add the package by inserting it here. The first priority is to insert WMP11 and IE7 so then you won’t install them if you ever reinstall your Window XP.

9. Integrating Drivers

Usually I skip this task, because you aren’t always share same drivers with everyone then I think it’s safe to just leave it blank. To insert your driver files first you MUST extract them in one folder each, locate the folder by selecting Multiple Driver Folder.

Make sure the Delete After Install checkbox are ticked so Windows will cleanup the files after the installation.

10. Removing Windows XP Components

Firstly you should select the functionality you need in order the wizard to automatically prevent you from accidentally removing related components. Check ‘em all, it’s better to safe than sorry.

Make sure you read the components description before you tick (remove) or leave (use) the component; becareful, don’t tick the red lettered component; those are important components.

11. Unattended

This stage was provided so you could set your installation CD personally, you can set it to suit yourself and yours only. If you fill the blanks now, then Setup will automatically skip the query during the installation process. You can enter the CD-Key, set the owner and the company, create User Account/s, etc.

12. Options

In this stage, you’ll be asked to set the system options. This is one of the most critical phase, false picks or settings will end up in an odd system interface, read the description carefully before you do any changes.

13. Tweaking Windows Settings

14. Applying Changes

Let us see how much you shrunk / grew your installation files.

15. Bootable ISO

The final step, finally you have your own personalized Windows XP Pro SP3 Installation files. In this stage nLite provides the tool for creating an ISO / directly burn the file to CD.

Before you execute the ISO creation / disc burning make sure you check the file folder, there are two files named Last Session.ini and Last Session_u.ini. If you’re not planning to edit the installation files again, make sure you delete/move it somewhere else; if you want to retouch the files, leave those files and skip this step.

If you have 2 computers at home and don’t have any switch to connect both of them for file sharing or playing games as all of us know the power of LAN so it is much better to connect 2 computer using crossover cable rather than spending money on buying an expensive switch.

For connecting 2 PCs via crossover cable first of all you have to make a crossover cable or you can purchase and pre made cable from market but it is always fun to create things by yourself.

To create a crossover cable follow the link given below.

http://www.duxcw.com/digest/Howto/network/cable/cable5.htm

The first end of your crossover cable should be looking like the following image.

The second end of your crossover cable should be looking like the following image.

Note: Look carefully on color coding as a single mistake in color code can cause data loss.

Now as your crossover cable is ready now what you need to do is to connect First end and second to First PC and Second PC respectively.After connecting the cable the network should be enabled.

Go to > Start > Settings > Network Connections and right click on network connection and click on disable.You must be thinking why i am saying to disable the LAN just disable the LAN i you will get to Why in the next step.

Now as you have disabled the LAN on both PCs.Its the time to assign IPs to both of the PCs as there is no DHCP server available.

Right click on LAN connection on PC1 and Click on properties

Double Click on Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)

Select Use the following IP address and in the IP address field enter 192.168.1.2 when you will click on subnet mask it will auto filled.Click on OK button

Now repeat the same process for PC2 the only change will be in IP address field enter 192.168.1.3 in the IP address field for PC2.

When you are done with assinging IPs you are almost done.You need to enable the file and printing sharing to share files accross the PCs.

To Enable file sharing go to > folder options > click on view tab > scroll down your mouse at the end you should see enable simple file sharing check the box and click OK do this for both the PCs.

How to share files.

Right click on any folder which you wanna share and select Sharing and security.

Select the checkbox share this folder on network and click OK your folder will be shared and can be access from another PC.Suppose you have share a folder from PC1 to which we have assigned the IP 192.168.1.2 So you can access the share from PC2 by typing \\192.168.1.2 in Run.

There is a utility available in ubuntu called Unrar.After installing unrar we can easily extract from rar archives by just issuing a command.

To Install Unrar Follow the steps mentioned below.

1) Go to > System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manger.

2) When opened click on Search and enter Unrar in search box and click on search button.

3) Now you will have a package in listing named Unrar right click on it and select mark for installation

4) Now click the apply button and in some seconds Unrar will be installed.

Now as Unrar has been installed succesfully next step is to extract the files.

1) Just go to the terminal Application > Accesories > Terminal.

2) Go to the location where you have place rar files by using CD command.

3) Now issue the following command
unrar x filename.rar
Replace filename with the name of file you wanna extract.

4) As the extraction completes you will have all the extracted files on the same location.

You are Done!

Ubuntu is becoming on of the most popular open source linux distribution nowadays.The main reason is that ubuntu is more user friendly as compare to any other linux distro.I used redhat linux also before somedays but now i am using ubuntu which is far more easy than redhat and i m sure i am  gonna stick with ubuntu.
One of the most good thing is ubuntu is the ease of software installation you can install softwares by just adding a repository and then issuing the command.But there is another cool utility available in ubuntu called synaptic package manager.Not all the softwares can be installed via synaptic package manager but the well known software are available to install.

In this post i am gonna share how to install VLC media player using synaptic package manager.
As all of us know VLC is a well know media player and allow us to play most of the media files in ubuntu

To install VLC media player follow the steps given below.

1) Go to > System > Administration > Synaptic Package manager.

2) When synaptic package manager is opened click on search.

3) Write VLC in the search box and click on search button.

4) Now you will have a listing of some softwares now scroll down your mouse and then you will have a listing named VLC.

5) Right click on VLC And select Mark for installation.

6) Now Click on Apply Button.

7) Now the software will be downloaded and installed in your PC.

Have fun with VLC media player.

I found this cool tutorial on internet now wanna share it with you all the credits goes to Shadowacer 614.

First Download This Package And Extract To Your Desktop.

-Make Sure You Have Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 installed.

-Now you need to install the PSP drivers to your PC.

1) Connect you PSP to your PC and copy the “PSPLink” folder from the “PSP FW 3.XX OE” to ms0:/PSP/GAME3XX folder. If you do not have the”GAME3XX” folder in the “PSP” folder, create it.

2) On you PSP got to “Games” and run “PSPLink”. DO NOT DISCONNET THE USB!

3) On your PC you should see a window that says “New Hardware Device” or something like that. (Should be PSP Type B) A window will pop up–the Install new harware window– hit the “No” bullet first, then next. There will be two options in this part, choose
“Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)”.

4) On the next window chose “Specific Location” (or something like that) and BROWSE for the “LibUSB/driver” folder inside of the “RemotejoySDL GUI” folder.

5) Click NEXT and it should install the drivers. Then click FINISHED. You are now done with the PC part of this.

(If you screw this part up just opposite click “My Computer, go to the “Harware” tab, and you can uninstall PSP Type B from there, and then you can install it again…)

Now For The PSP Plugins.

1) Go to the USB Connection on your PSP.

2) Copy the “SEPlugins” folder from the “PSP FW 3.XX OE” folder to the root of your memory stick.

3) Now open the “SEPlugins” folder and open the “GAME” txt file in Notepad and delete everything on it and add these lines

4) Save the txt file. And turn off the PSP and go into the RECOVERY MENU and enable the plugins. Then restart the PSP.

MAKE SURE THAT USB CABLE IS CONNECTED

5) Load any game you want and make sure you skip the intros and load your save game, if any.

6) After doing that on your PC run the “RemotejoyGUI” from the “RemotejoySDL GUI” folder.

7) A windows should pop up with four options. From left to right it shoudl say “USBHost FS” “PSPSH” “Window Mode” “Fullscreen”

Click start on the “USBHost FS” and then click on “With FPS on the “Window Mode” or “Fullscreen”

9) The game should show up on the PC if not press F3.

By default apple doesn’t allow you to install MAC OS X on a Windows PC.But if you are a big fan of MAC OS X and wanna use it then surely you are not gonna buy another apple PC for MAC OS X it will be much better  nd money saving method to install MAC OS X on a X86 PC. I am sharing the method of installing MAC OS X on a PC (Dual Booting with windows XP)

Requirements:

1. A prepatched OSX 10.4.6 install image
2. An empty dvd recordable (+R or –R, NO Rewritable!)
3. At least 6 GB free space.
4. spfdisk

http://spfdisk.sourceforge.net/Spf2K3rE.exe

5. Acronis Disk Director Suite

The guide:
1. Get an prepatched OSX 10.4.6 install image.

2. Burn the image to an empty dvd recordable (+R or –R)

3. Create at least 6GB unallocated space on your harddisk using Partition Magic:

>> Start partition Magic
>> Click on ‘Resize/Move Partition
>> Move the slider to make the partition smaller and hit OK
>> Click on ‘Apply’
>> Close Partition Magic

4. Click ‘START > Run…’ and type ‘diskpart’ (without quotes)

3. Type in (press enter after you typed in a line):

list disk
select disk [the number of your disk
create partition primary id=af

5. Close the command window.

6. Make sure you have a bootable disk with fdisk (I recommend spfdisk), so that you can change your active partition if it goes wrong! Also: After this step you can’t use your computer for up to 1 hour!

>> To install spfdisk just insert a formatted diskette and open the exe file

http://spfdisk.sourceforge.net/Spf2K3rE.exe

7. Click ‘START > Run…’ and type ‘diskpart’ (without quotes)

8. Type in (press enter after you typed in a line):

list disk
select disk [the number of your disk]
list partition
select partition [the number of your osx partition]
set active

9. Insert the OSX install disk and reboot your computer, follow the installation steps on your screen.

10. Boot into Windows.

11. Install Acronis Disk Director Suite, install the OS selector.

12. Start OS selector, configure (follow on screen steps) it and restart your computer.

13. After the last reboot you should see a nice dual boot menu and should be able to boot OSX.

You can convert your movies from one format to another to decrease its size but not all the formats are good some formats looses the quality of movies and some have codec issues.RMVB is a well know format for movie it takes half of the size in your HD if compare to AVI and also doesn’t looses the quality.In this post i will share the method of converting movies into RMVB format.

1. You must have video file on your HDD
2. Install AnyVideo to RMVB. You can download it here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/112256410/AnyVideo_To_RMVB_flanger.rar

3. Open application and click OK (only first time)
4. Add movie to Convertion
5. Click START
6. 600MB Movie will be converted in ~20 minutes
7. You can find converted file in the same place where you put original video

After Compression 700MB  > 220MB

In progress

After compression

Note : If you have question in mind that in which player RMVB will be played then the answer is Real Player.