Now draw the rounded rectangle on the image. You will see rectangle filled by color go to fill slider and make it zero to show beneath image.
It sometime happens When you click on the “Safely Remove Hardware” icon in the system tray to remove hardware, you may receive an error message ” can not remove it successfully “or “The device cannot be stopped right now. Try stopping the device again later “. The only option left is to shutdown the computer and eject the USB drive and then restart the system again but this process is lengthy. So why windows can’t eject the USB drive on some ocassions and shows an error message. Actually this occur due to open handles with any files in the USB Mass Storage Device are in use by another program which prevent the windows to eject the USB drive. There are two methods to eject the USB from Windows safely.
First Method:
Process Explorer: Process Explorer (Windows Vista compatible) is an advanced process management utility that picks up where Task Manager leaves off. It will show you detailed information about a process including its icon, command-line, full image path, memory statistics, user account, security attributes, and more. When you zoom in on a particular process you can list the DLLs it has loaded or the operating system resource handles it has open. A search capability enables you to track down a process that has a resource opened, such as a file, directory or Registry key, or to view the list of processes that have a DLL loaded.
The unique capabilities of Process Explorer make it useful for tracking down DLL-version problems or handle leaks, and provide insight into the way Windows and applications work.
1 Download Process Explorer. Size: 1.5 MB
2 Click Find, Find Handle or DLL in the tool menu.
• Type the drive letter of the USB device in the Handle or DLL substring textbox, and press Search Button.
• Find the process and its PID in the following box.
• In system process tree view, find the process according to the Find Handle or DLL dialog box.
• Press Ctrl + H to show Handles in Lower Pane View.
• Find the File according with the drive letter , and right click it, choose Close Handle.
Second Method:
Unlocker: Unlocker (freeware/Windows Vista compatible) is a very useful utility which unlock the file or folder which is being used by the another progam(s). Here is some examples:
Cannot delete file: Access is denied
There has been a sharing violation.
The source or destination file may be in use.
The file is in use by another program or user.
Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.
Procedure to eject USB through Unlocker:
1. Simply right click the USB drive icon and select Unlocker.
2. If the folder or file is locked, a window listing of lockers will appear.
3. Simply click Unlock All and you are done. Download Unlocker
The device is used mostly at retail outlets: Bars, Restaurants, shopping complexes and petrol stations. It has been reported that sometimes the employees are involved in the racket of cloning the cards and duping the original owner.
The person who stole the information of the card using the skimmer may use the information on his own or sell the information to a bigger racket. This bigger racket may even use this information to make cards and use in the foreign country. A single skimmer can copy up to 12000 cards information.
How to safe guard yourself from Credit Card related thefts?
Credit card, debit card and related fraud are a multi million dollar industry throughout the world. It’s been reported that fraudsters in UK itself netted 504.80m pounds in 2006 through this crime.
2. Always checks the receipts and bank statements after each transaction made by you. If possible verify by calling up the credit card help line for the recent transaction made.
3. Subscribe to the Alert facility, which comes for free. This will enable you to know the transaction and its amount made from your credit card whenever your card is swiped for any transaction.
4. Interestingly, a credit card receipt is enough to make a replica of the card you own. In US, customers are advised to shred the receipts after verification.
5. Keep changing the PIN number of the card. And never write it on any paper as anyone can access the papers and take advantage. Also don’t use date of birth, anniversary as these can be easily guessed.
6. Don’t use same PIN for all the cards you own.
That’s not enough, in case of ATM’s :
2. If you see a strange object/gadget near the card slot, don’t insert your card. Keep an eye out for the miniature camera (these records your PIN).
It happens sometime while doing some important work on the computer some unexpected things happen which don’t want to occur at this point of time and harm your work progress such as your computer mouse goes out of order. Do not worry Microsoft’s Windows has nice utility that let you control your mouse pointer with your keyboard called ‘MouseKeys’ and its matter of enabling this feature and your work will be back on track. Now how to turn on MouseKeys ?
Press ALT key + Left Shift key + Num lock Key. A pop up box will appear with a system beep and clicking OK will enable the mouse keys and small mouse key icon will appear on left side of task bar. Now you can control mouse pointer by number keys and number 5 key will work as ‘Enter key’. You can change the default setting of MouseKeys by double clicking on the Mousekeys icon on the task bar such as speed of mouse keys or beep sound while enabling or disabling the mousekeys.
You can speed up or decrease the mouse key by pressing CTRL and SHIFT key respectively to speed up or decrease the speed of mouse key but first you have check the option ‘Hold down CTRL to speed up and SHIFT to slow down’ in mouse keys’ setting which is disable by default.
Always try to keep your laptop in a well-ventilated, cool environment and ensure you don’t block the fan grills on the sides, back, or bottom of the laptop at any time.
Avoid touching or playing with your LCD screen.
Whatever you do, don’t drop your laptop. keep it safe inside a carrying case when moving around or traveling.
If you need to have a drink while working or playing, be careful not to spill it on the keyboard(assuming you’re not using spill resistance laptop).
Security wise, make sure you have installed an good antivirus program.
Once in a while, clean the screen and the keyboard with a soft, dry flannel cloth. Don’t use any kind of liquid cleanser to clean your laptop.
Related Post: Handling and cleaning of CDs/DVDs
Today more and more people are adopting Firefox as their default browser than Internet Explorer due its tons of features like Pop-up blocker, tabbed browsing, page info, security, faster response, cleaner interface and thousands of Firefox add-ons provide the additional functionality to Firefox.
But if you are using limited data download plan or low bandwidth internet connection then it becomes necessary to hide the images on the web page in order to save the data download limit and load the web page faster. It’s easy to hide images in Internet Explorer, in case you’re still using Internet Explorer. Here are the steps to hide images in Internet Explorer:
->Open Internet Explorer (obviously)
->Under Tool tab, click Internet options, on the menu bar
->Select Advanced tab
->Scroll down to Multimedia section and uncheck the show Pictures option
->and click OK
->Done
If you want to hide images in Firefox, you have to install Image-show_Hide add-ons (size: 13 KB) available at add ons Mozilla site. Once you installed the Firefox add-on it will be added to toolbar (bookmark toolbar see image below) automatically and turn off and on images on all web pages either by clicking the icon or using keyboard shortcut “Shift key + Z” as said by author Dmitriy Altuhov. But this is not true according to me (as voiced by some other commenter s), you have customize toolbar (right click on the toolbar and choose customize to open customize toolbar) and drag the the image-show-hide icon on the bookmark toolbar (see image below).
Download Image-show-hide add-on for Firefox (size: 13 KB)
Here’s a list of tips on handling and cleaning your CDs/DVDs.
1 Always handle your CD/DVD by the edges. Avoid touching the shiny side of the disc, as this is the side that the laser reads the information.
2 Cheap plastic sleeves may seem like a good idea at the time, but if exposed to extremes of temperature, the disc and sleeve may adhere to each other.
3 Acrylic jewel cases provide good protection against dust, scratches, light, and rapid changes in humidity.
4 Don’t eat, drink, or smoke around your CD/DVD.
5 Never use a ballpoint pen to write on your CD/DVD.
6 Do not try to remove labels from your CD/DVD. The adhesive may pull off the foil on which the data is encoded.
7 To clean your CD/DVD, use a soft clean cloth and wipe from the center hub to the outer edge.
8 Never use solvents to clean your CD/DVD, as they may cause permanent damage to the disc. You may use Kodak Lens cleaner and a lens tissue or soft cloth to clean your discs.
If you’re running out of disk space on your computer’s hard disk and planning to delete some less essential file(s) to accommodate new large file which you about to download from net or cut-paste from other hard disk partition. Stop, don’t delete files, compress them to a very small size using KGB Archiver instead.
KGB Archiver is the compression tool with an unbelievably high compression rate. One of the advantages of KGB Archiver is also AES-256 encryption which is used to encrypt the archives. This is one of the strongest encryptions known for human. See KGB Archivere tests.
Features of KGB Archiver:
- PAQ1 – PAQ7 compression algorithms
- Fast encryption algorithm
- File browser
- Wipe file function (deletes files permanently from hard drive)
- Unicode language support, both for user interface and file names
- And more
Download KGB Archiver compatible with Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista (Size: 1.02 MB)
Note: If you like this program, you can donate to the KGB Archiver project
Here are some great online videos tutorials on Dreamwever uploaded on YouTube.
Dreamweaver Online Video Tutorial 1
Dreamweaver Online Video Tutorial 2
Dreamweaver Online Video Tutorial 3
Dreamweaver Online Video Tutorial 4
Dreamweaver Online Video Tutorial 5
Dreamweaver Online Video Tutorial 6
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Dreamweaver Online Video Tutorial 8
Dreamweaver Online Video Tutorial 9
Dreamweaver Online Video Tutorial 10
Are you confused between a bit and Byte and shaking your head on not getting download speed more than 32 KBps speed on 256 Kbps connection. Here is a brief tutorial on bit and byte.
First thing to remember is 8 bits make a byte and small (b) is used to represent bit and capital (B) is for byte. If you are using 256Kbps (b: bit) connection and whenever you download a file on the net, the speed shown in your browser is always in kilobytes per second, that is, KBps. So a 256 Kbps connection does not mean you will be downloading files at 256 Kilobytes a second. Rather, since 8 bits make a byte you’ ll get a maximum speed of only 256/8 which is 32 KBps and 64 KBps on 512 Kbps connection.
