What happened in your Birth Year

Do you really care to know what happened the year you were born. Well I dont, because I was born which is enough for me to know. But if you really care about it just try out http://whathappenedinmybirthyear.com/
The site is simple to use and its only your birth year which you need to provide and it returns you back the information of various types.
I tried 2012 to check if the world is ending but it said no information available. LOLzzz...

Note: It is still under development and in some cases it might not be able to provide the information.

This is what it returned me for my Birth year 1984.

In 1984, the world was a different place.
There was no Google yet. Or Yahoo.
In 1984, the year of your birth, the top selling movie was Ghostbusters. People buying the popcorn in the cinema lobby had glazing eyes when looking at the poster.
Remember, that was before there were DVDs. People were indeed watching movies in the cinema, and not downloading them online. Imagine the packed seats, the laughter, the excitement, the novelty. And mostly all of that without 3D computer effects.
Do you know who won the Oscars that year? The academy award for the best movie went to Amadeus. The Oscar for best foreign movie that year went to Dangerous Moves. The top actor was F. Murray Abraham for his role as Antonio Salieri in Amadeus. The top actress was Sally Field for her role as Edna Spalding in Places in the Heart. The best director? Milos Forman for Amadeus.
In the year 1984, the time when you arrived on this planet, books were still popularly read on paper, not on digital devices. Trees were felled to get the word out. The number one US bestseller of the time was The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub. Oh, that's many years ago. Have you read that book? Have you heard of it? Look at the cover!
In 1984... US Bell System is broken up. Brunei becomes a fully independent state. The Apple Macintosh is introduced. Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen gets in a serious car accident, severing his left arm. Medicare comes into effect in Australia. NASA crashes a remote controlled Boeing 720 in a Controlled Impact Demonstration. The Sandinista Front wins the Nicaraguan general elections. The popular Transformers toy and media franchise debuts. Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic, solo, in a hot air balloon. Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment. Michael Jackson won a record eight Grammy Awards. Iran accuses Iraq of using chemical weapons; the United Nations condemns their use on March 30. Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours. The Louisiana World's Fair opens. Beverly Lynn Burns becomes the first woman Boeing 747 captain in the world. The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage. The United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China sign the initial agreement to return Hong Kong to China in 1997. The Detroit Tigers defeat the San Diego Padres to win in 5 games. The British Telecom is privatised. A Soviet cruise missile plunges into Inarinjärvi lake in Finnish Lapland. The video game of the day was Paperboy.
That was the world you were born into. Since then, you and others have changed it.
The Nobel prize for Literature that year went to Jaroslav Seifert. The Nobel Peace prize went to Desmond Mpilo Tutu. The Nobel prize for physics went to Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer from Italy and Netherlands for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction. The sensation this created was big. But it didn't stop the planets from spinning, on and on, year by year. Years in which you would grow bigger, older, smarter, and, if you were lucky, sometimes wiser. Years in which you also lost some things. Possessions got misplaced. Memories faded. Friends parted ways. The best friends, you tried to hold on. This is what counts in life, isn't it?
The 1980s were indeed a special decade. The Soviet-Afghan war goes on. Eastern Europe sees the collapse of communism. Policies like Perestroika and Glasnost in the Soviet Union lead to a wave of reforms. Protests are crushed down on Tiananmen Square in China. Ethiopa witnesses widespread famine. Nicolae Ceausescu is overthrown. The AIDS pandemic begins. The role of women in the workplace increased greatly. MTV is launched in the US. There is opposition against Apartheid in South Africa as well as worldwide. Heavy Metal and Hard Rock bands are extremely popular. The rise of Techno music begins. Originally primarily played on campus radio stations, College Rock enters the scene with bands like the Pixies, REM and Sonic Youth. The Hip Hop scene continues to evolve. Teletext is introduced. Gay rights become more widely accepted in the world. Opposition to nuclear power plants grows. The A-Team and Seinfeld are popular on TV. US basketball player Michael Jordan bursts on the scene. Super Mario Bros, Zelda's Link, and Pac-Man gain fame in video games. People wear leggings, shoulder pads and Ray-Ban sunglasses.
Do you know what was on the cover of Life that year?
Do you remember the movie that was all the rage when you were 15? American Beauty. Do you still remember the songs playing on the radio when you were 15? Maybe it was Heartbreaker by Mariah Carey featuring Jay-Z. Were you in love? Who were you in love with, do you remember?
In 1984, 15 years earlier, a long time ago, the year when you were born, the song Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go by Wham topped the US charts. Do you know the lyrics? Do you know the tune? Sing along.
You put the boom boom into my heart,
You send my soul sky high when your lovin' starts.
Jitterbug into my brain,
Goes bang bang bang till my feet do the same.
...
There's a kid outside, shouting, playing. It doesn't care about time. It doesn't know about time. It shouts and it plays and thinks time is forever. You were once that kid.
When you were 9, the movie Last Action Hero was playing. When you were 8, there was Honey, I Blew Up the Kid. When you were 7, there was a Disney movie out called Aladdin. Does this ring a bell?
6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... it's 1984. There's TV noise coming from the second floor. Someone turned up the volume way too high. The sun is burning from above. These were different times. The show playing on TV is Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer. The sun goes down. Someone switches channels. There's Kate and Allie on now. That's the world you were born in.
Progress, year after year. Do you wonder where the world is heading towards? The technology available today would have blown your mind in 1984. Do you know what was invented in the year you were born? The Digital Synthesizer. The Portable CD Player. Phase Distortion Synthesis.
1984
Knockin' on your door
Will you let it come?
Will you let it run your life?
...
That's from the song 1984 by Spirit.
In 1984, a new character entered the world of comic books: Donatello from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Bang! Boom! But that's just fiction, right? In the real world, in 1984, Ashlee Simpson was born. And Avril Lavigne. Chiaki Kuriyama, too. And you, of course. Everyone an individual. Everyone special. Everyone taking a different path through life.
It's 2010.
The world is a different place.
What path have you taken?

Google Buzz - Hide whom you follow and your followers from others

By default Google Buzz shows your friends whom you follow and who follow you on Buzz. You may not want your friends to know your followers and whom you follow. To hide your followers and people you follow from your friends you need to change a setting under your Google Profile.

Steps to hide followers from friends

• Login to your Google Account
• Open your Google profile by tying http://google.com/profiles/me in the Address bar
• Click on Edit Profile link in the top right side of the screen

•  Uncheck the checkbox which says "Display the list of people I'm following and people following me" and scroll down to the bottom of the page and click Save Changes.

Once you are done with this none of your friends would be able to see the links about whom you follow and your followers. To be assured about this you can check your profile page after saving the changes which displays those links but mentions they are only visible to you.

Block Google Buzz Notifications in Inbox

Google Buzz is good to be in touch with people but gets annoying if you end up starting or commenting a post which is updated continuously as all the updates are sent right to your Inbox. Well, incase you are looking for a way to skip getting updates in your Inbox you can use Filters in Gmail to achieve this. Using filters you can decide whether you want to Label, mark as read, delete etc. the notifications.

To do so follow the simple steps as below.

• Login to Gmail account and click the link to create a filter

 

•  In the Subject field enter "Buzz From" and click Test Search to see the Test Results. Once you are satisfied with the results click Next Step.

•  Select what you would want to do with the Buzz Notifications and click Create Filter. In this case the Buzz Notifications will  be marked as read and skipped from Inbox and labelled as BuzzNotify.

You can choose whatever you want to do with your notifications. Click here to read how to turn off Google Buzz.

Turn off Google Buzz

Google Buzz is good to keep in touch with your friends and family. But incase you don't like Google Buzz and want to turn it off for your Gmail account you can do it. To disable Google Buzz just login to your Gmail account, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "turn off buzz"

Google Buzz Review

Google Buzz has launched recently and has got a overwhelming response. Google made a smart move by integrating Buzz within Gmail to compete Facebook. By integrating it into Gmail, Google made sure that people will use Buzz as they do check their emails for sure.  This is something they lacked with their highly hyped product Wave.

Google's previous attempts into Social Networking have been Orkut which went well in some countries but could not compete the leader Facebook and headed downwards. Wave was over hyped and articles were spread all over internet with tips and tricks. Invites were being sold online to get hands on Google Wave. It lasted for a few weeks and died out of the news.

Now it's Google Buzz with some smarter moves from Google. Buzz has some advantages as well as disadvantages. Let's check things one by one.

No Setup needed 
As soon as Google Buzz gets enabled for your Gmail account you automatically start following the people whom you chat and email the most. Similarly those people start following you.
Good: You don't need to start from scratch. Google does something for you so that you can start using it easily.
Bad: Why on earth would one want to follow everyone he email's or chat's the most? Isn't there thing called privacy? By doing this Google shares the information about my contacts,  share details about  whom I chat or email to my other followers till I don't setup my account properly.

Click here to read how to hide whom you follow and your followers from others.

Inbox integration
Whenever a new comment is posted to on your post or anyone else's post where you have commented they are sent right in your Inbox.
Good: Great to be updated with the conversation and keep the conversation moving.
Bad: If you comment on a Post with lots of comments your Inbox gets flooded with emails.

Click to read How to block Buzz Notifications.

Share publicly or privately
Buzz gives you an option to share your ideas with the entire world on a selected few people when posting.  Nice to have feature.

Connect sites you already use
You can connect to the sites you are already using to import the stuff. Sites supported are Twitter, Picasa, Flickr, Blogger and Google Reader.
Good: Allows importing your stuff, feeds etc.
Bad: Could not see Facebook integration. People use FB heavily. Tried setting up Twitter and god knows why but Google never asked me for login details for my Twitter account.

Change Windows 7 Start Button

A 12 year young TWC forum member Kishan Bagaria has developed a tiny and user friendly utility neatly named as "Windows 7 Start Button Changer" using which one can change the Start Menu Button's Image in Windows 7.

Windows 7 was very refreshing at its launch. But as time passes by human gets bored of things we use everyday and need them changed. Similarly if you are bored of the same Windows 7 Start Button icon use Windows 7 Start Button Changer to get a new feel.

Steps to change Start Button

• Download Windows 7 Start Button Changer
• Extract the contents of the Zip file to a location on your hard drive
• Prefer creating a System Restore point so that you can revert back to original settings incase something goes wrong. I never had to revert back but precaution is better. Run "Windows 7 Start Button Changer.exe" from the location you unzipped the downloaded file

•  The downloaded Zip file contains 10 sample ORB's. Click the Windows logo next to "Select & Change Start Button"

• Select the image file you like and click Open and the button gets changed

• If you want to again change the button image prefer restoring to original explorer settings and then performing the above steps to get a new image

Well if you need more Windows 7 start button images you can Google for Windows 7 Start ORB and download them.

Note: The program has been tested on Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit and 64 bit editions.

If the program does not start for you try right clicking the exe file and selecting "Run as Administrator".

If in x64 version, you receive an ‘unhandled exception’ error, please click on Continue or try running it again ‘As an Admin’.

Yessss Its Friday - Bad Boys

Your sister is kidnapped, and you need to go to criminal and save her! Steal cars, rob banks and assassinate politicians. But there aren't any rules: steal ANY car. Kill ANY pedestrian. Drive Fast, Die Young, Baby!

Isn't all this fun?? I mean every gaming jerk likes killing street people, robbing banks,banging cars and all cruel stuff.

Well if you like the same than Bod Boys is just the perfect thing for you. Lets see some playing instructions for the game.

Start playing the game now

Control Remote Computer using Tweeter

Twitter till date was an application to keep your status updated. TweetMyPC has changed what you can do using Tweeter. TweetMyPC is an application using which you can Shutdown, Restart, Log off and do many more things with a Remote PC.

You need a Tweeter account obviously for using TweetMyPC. Provide your Tweeter login credentials to TweetMyPC. Preferably create a new Tweeter account for TweetMyPC. Make sure your password for Tweeter account is not shared and is kept safe as anyone can misuse it. You obviously need internet connection on your Remote Machine. Just install TweetMyPC on the Remote Machine, provide it the tweeter login credentials and keep the machine running.

Now you can tweet the Tweeter account from any machine across the globe with keywords like "shutdown" to shutdown the remote machine. It is that simple.

TweetMyPC checks for status updates every minute and runs most of the time in the Windows system tray.

Download TweetMyPC for free now

Keywords for using TweetMyPC

1. Commands are not case sensitive : Shutdown and shutdown does the same job
2. Replies : TweetMyPC will reply to you after a command is executed. Replies will be in the form of Tweets. Below is a screenshot of how the reply will look for “lock” command
3. lock : This command locks your Windows pc
4. physical memory : As the name says, this command will let you know the Physical Memory of your pc
5. virtual memory : Want to know the virtual memory of your pc? Just tweet virtual memory
6. os : This is one of the command which does not have much value. Tweeting os will make TweetMyPC to tweet about your OS version.
7. ip : Know your pc’s ip from anywhere in the world with this command
8. standby : Don’t want to shutdown? then make you pc go to standby mode with this command.
9. hibernate : hibernate your pc with a tweet.
10. screenshot : Want to know what is happening in your pc when you are not around? Just tweet screenshot and TweetMyPC will take a screenshot of your desktop and post it to Twitpic. Below is a screenshot of how the reply will look like.
11. getprocesslist : This is one of the very useful command. On receiving this command TweetMyPC will generate a list of running programs, along with the process ID, and email it to a predefined email address.
12. kill : This is used along with the above command. Once you recive the process list you can close a program using the kill command.
13. download : Want to download an intresting video but you are on the move? don’t worry just tweet download followed by the download url and TweetMyPC will download it for you and it will be ready when you return back. Note: Twitter automatically converts long urls into short one using bit.ly. TweetMyPC can download files only if the url is in the short form. Please use bit.ly to shorten your url before posting.
14. getfile : Missed an important document and you are travelinlg some where? No problem. Just tweet get followed by the file path and TweetMyPC will email the file as attachment to a predefined email. Don’t know the path? dont worry. Just checkout the next command.
15. getfilelist : This command will make TweetMyPC to send you the list of files and folders in a drive. You can use this command to email you a file once you know the complete path of the file.
16. Custom Command : This is the most interesting feature of TweetMyPC. Do you think the above command are not enough? then create your own custom command. You can choose a command and then chose a file to run. For example you can choose a command winamp and make TweetMyPC to run winamp by tweeting winamp.

Download You Tube Videos with Quality you need

You Down is a open source free to use application using which you can download any You Tube Video. There are many ways to download You Tube Videos but this is one of the best in terms of usage. It is Windows application which gives you the option to download multiple You Tube videos at a time. You can set the picture quality for each video before downloading. You can decide the location where you want to save it on your machine.

Steps to download a You Tube Video

1. Specify the You Tube link for the video in the text box which reads Video address
2. Specify the Video quality you want to download it with. A Video can be downloaded as Low Quality, High Quality and High Definition quality
3. Specify the path on your machine where the video file should be saved
4. Click Add to add the video in the download list
5. Repeat the above steps to keep adding videos for download
6. Once you have added all the required video files to be downloaded, click Go to start downloading the files

You can click Stop incase you want to stop downloading the video files.

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Get notified about Facebook Updates using Facebook Notify Me

Facebook Notify Me is a free tiny application which notifies you of your Facebook profile updates. Installation is pretty simple and takes hardly 2 mins. Once you have installed the application just provide the login credentials for your Facebook account. You can choose whether you want to save your login credentials with the application. 

Once the login is successful it would sit silently in the taskbar and inform you incase:

• You get a new message
• You get a friend request
• You are Poked by someone
• You get an event invitation

You can even see the Status about your facebook profile by right clicking the System Tray and clicking Status. It displays you the number of Friends requests, messages, pokes, events invitations and group invitations pending on your Facebook profile.

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