What is Chrome OS

Chrome Operating System is an open source project initiated, being lead and monitored by Google, INC. It is intended for web applications.  Operating Systems in market were designed long back, when there was no web. Chrome OS is initiated to fill this gap.

Why Chrome OS

Chrome OS is different from regular Operating Systems in many ways.

Unlike ordinary Operating Systems, Chrome OS look is much simpler. It is faster to boot and easier to connect to web. Boot time for Regular Operating Systems is nearly one minute. Chrome OS boots within ten seconds. It is meant for people who love to live on the web.

One more major feature is Security. Chrome OS is built around Linux kernel. Along with that, Auto update feature is added to the OS. So, there is no need to do manual update of security software and no irritating alert messages. The OS takes care of all these things.

How to Install Chrome OS

Chrome OS setup involves installing virtual Box and Google Chrome OS Beta. Virtual Box for Linux environment can be downloaded from the link https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads. Please take care and download the appropriate version for your OS. Download Chrome OS from the location http://getchrome.eu/download.php. Download chrome file and burn it to a drive. The installer is a simple wizard. The following screenshots will guide to complete the setup of Virtual Box. Once Virtual Box setup is done, we have to install Chrome OS.

Once you get a welcome screens as shown above, Click next and name the virtual machine for your system. Select Operating System as Linux and the respective version. Name virtual machine as your wish and usually it is named as Chrome OS.

Click “Next”, navigate to next screen and assign memory for the Virtual Box. Create a hard disk for Virtual Box. Here hard disk refers to boot disk. Select image file of Chrome OS.

Add the image file as shown in the following screenshots.

Click “Next” button and you will get a summary screen of your setup environment as shown in the following screenshot.

If everything is according to expectations, click finish. Now, you will get a start screen and you have to login to Chrome OS using your Google account credentials. The login screen is like shown below.

Once you login, you can experience the UI of Chrome OS. The experience is very much similar to Google Chrome browser.

Don’t prefer downloading Virtual Box or Chrome OS installer packages through torrents. Today, many sites are supplying these installer packages and many hacks were detected.

Secondly, you can boot Chrome OS even from a USB, but your machine should support USB as a boot device.

Now you are done and you can switch on your system and connect to the web in seconds!!!

Everyone is on the look for chatting with a stranger over the interenet these days. But still they are concerned about their privacy too. They don’t want to give their details or create a username that certainly includes details about them.

Omegle

Omegle is one such online chatting website which offers its users to chat with strangers, no matter where they are located. It also doesn’t ask them for any user information, and this particular feature has made Omegle popular whereby it has become more popular that it is said to receive 1 million page views a day. Leif K-Brooks is the owner of Omegle and he was a teen in high school when he created this website. Being anonymous online is one big reason that Omegle is being cherished for. It assists the users to chat online in a safe manner and also allows them to chat with people present all over the world.

How Sites Like Omegle Work

Omegle also provides video chat option too. Users can afford to chat with strangers using their webcam.

Spy mode which is in its beta stage, is available for the users now. It allows the users to ask a question, and watch two strangers discuss it infront of them, provided the strangers offer themselves to be seen discussing. However, the user who asks the question will not be able to participate in the conversation. Once the conversation is over, the user can download the log, copy paste the conversation, post it to their Facebook wall or share it on Tumblr too. Some users have started to display obscene and vulgar content in this page, hope Omegle solves this issue.

Omegle utilizes anti-spam software called as “reCAPTCHA”, that prevents spam messages that might be sent by automated bots.

Omegle has added up a new feature which allows the users to connect using Facebook Connect which offers to meet strangers who have common interests. This particular feature does this job by monitoring the pages which the users have choosen to “Like” on Facebook. But still sometimes the strangers are not only connected with strangers with common interest, they might be connected to total random strangers as usual too, which results due to the search for common interests time out.

HTTP polling is a new feature that the other website “ChatRoulette” is using at present wherein every single user sends a message to the server in couple of seconds, which causes the server to process more messages per second.

Omegle’s creator K-Brooks doesn’t seem to like this idea and he quotes that he would continue to enhance the experience of the user by boosting the spam protection, streamlining the UI, and developing it to be used in further more platforms.

Sites like Omegle

Below is a list of Sites like Omegle.

Imeetzu – www.imeetzu.com

Chat Random- www.chatrandom.com

Zupyo – www.zupyo.com

Chat Stock – www.chatshock.com

Cam Stumble – www.camstumble.com

FlirtSpin – www.flirtspin.com

RanChat – www.ranchat.com

RandomChat.me – www.randomchat.me

TinyChat – www.tinychat.com

6 Rounds – www.rounds.com

Anybody Out There – www.anybodyoutthere.com

MeBeam – www.mebeam.net

Iddin- www.iddin.com

Lollichat – www.lollichat.com

Cam Skip – www.camskip.com

Tohla – www.tohla.com

A Pumpkin Patch – www.pumpkinpatch.com

Kittehroulette – www.kittehroulette.com

Facebuzz- www.facebuzz.com

Faceflow – www.faceflow.com

For the last 15 years or so, Microsoft Windows has been coming on CDs or DVDs. But it’s increasingly common to find computers that don’t have disc drives. So how do you install Windows on those computers?

Windows XP can be installed from a USB key. This may be required if the optical drive is not working on the PC or if the user has a notebook. Then the Windows XP can be required to be booted from a USB flash drive. For this, a bootable USB key must be created. This process requires certain requirements like a USB key with a capacity of 1 or 2 GB, an official CD of the Windows OS, WinSetup from USB software and a PC with both the USB key and the CD ROM drive. Additionally, the key must be fast to avoid interruptions during the installation procedure and most importantly the configuration of the system must accept the boot on the USB key. Once the XP is downloaded, the user can proceed to install the XP with this key.

Prerequisites

• A USB key (capacity: minimum 1 or 2 GB)
• A Windows XP CD ( official version )
• A PC with a CD player and a USB key
• Your USB key is bootable.
• Your machine accepts the boot on your USB key (see in the BIOS).
• Your key is fast enough to avoid delays during installation of the OS.

Points to be ensured before start

To install Windows XP from USB stick, we must copy the setup files from a Windows CD/DVD (or from a Windows XP ISO file) onto a USB disk. You can then “boot” from the USB drive into the Windows setup program and install the system.

Preparing a Bootable USB-Drive with USB_MultiBoot.cmd Involves

• Format USB-stick like a Bootable Harddisk Drive with NTLDR BootSector  using PeToUSB or HP USB Format Tool
• Select from the Main Menu of USB_MultiBoot.cmd
  1 – Give XP Setup Source Folder and give UserData for XP Setup
  2 – Give USB-Drive Target
  3 – Make Bootable USB-Drive with XP Setup Folders

Installing XP from USB requires a Reboot from USB-Drive and Select from Boot Menu: 1. Begin TXT Mode Setup Windows XP

Download from BootLand Forum: USB_MultiBoot_10.zip.

Install Windows XP

Once downloaded, run the installation software and follow the installation wizard. At the end of the installation, the software will launch.

• Step 1: Insert your Windows XP CD into the CD ROM drive and click Browse and Open the WinToFlash website (click and a new window will open) and click the “Last version via FTP” link, then save the file.

• Step 2: Right-click the WinToFlash file you just downloaded and select “Extract to Novicorp WinToFlash…”
  

• Step 3: Open the “Novicorp WinToFlash” folder and double-click the WinToFlash icon. If you’re prompted with a security warning, click “Run” or otherwise accept the message.

• Step 4: Click “NEXT”
• Step 5: Tick “I accept EULA” (or similar) and then click the Next button.
• Step 6: Click “EXIT”.
• Step 7: Click on the green tick button.
• Step 8: Click “Next”.
• Step 9: Under “Windows files path:”, click the “Select” button. Then select the CD/DVD drive (which has the Windows disc in it).

• Step 10: Click “Next” and continue.
• Step 11: Select the “I accept” option and click “Continue”.
• Step 12: If your USB disk is not empty, you will be prompted to delete everything on it. Click “OK” if you are happy for everything on the disk to be deleted.
• Step 13: Click on the green tick button.
• Step 14: Here you will see WinToFlash copies the setup files from the Windows disc to the USB disk.
• Step 15: When all files have copied onto the USB disk, click “Next”.
• Step 16: Read the message, and then click “Exit”.

Install Windows XP from USB: Boot Windows from USB Drive

Points to be ensure before:

• BIOS correctly configured
• Windows USB disk inserted into the compute

Get ready to install Windows and follow the steps given below:

• Step 1:  You should see the screen below. Select Option #1:

• Step 2: Press enter at the “Welcome to Setup” page.
• Step 3: Press the F8 key to accept the license agreement.
• Step 4: Select “Partition 1″ and press D to delete it.

• Step 5: Confirm that you want to delete the partition by pressing Enter.
• Step 6: Confirm once more that want to delete the partition by pressing L.
• Step 7: Repeat steps #3-6 for all “Disk 0″ partitions until the list of partitions under “Disk 0″ shows only one option: “Unpartitioned space”.
• Step 8: Select the option “Unpartitioned space” and press Enter.

• Step 9: Select “Format the partition using the NTFS file system (Quick)”.

• Step 10: You will see a message “Setup is formatting” and after that a message “Setup is coping”. Just wait till the process is completed. Your computer will restart when the step “Setup is copying files…”is completed. Do not remove the USB drive.
• Step 11: Select Option #2 when your PC restarts.

• Step 12: The Windows XP installation should pretty much take care of itself now. You’ll just need to click ‘Next’ occasionally.
  If your computer reboots, keep selecting Option #2 until Windows XP has been fully installed.

Remove your USB and experience the fresh, error -free windows installed in your system and enjoy the speedy computing.

Picnik photo editing software is an online photo editor with great editing options and tools. You don’t have to download it and there is no registration process to use it. All you have to do is to upload your image and start editing with the given text fonts, effects, frames and shapes in the website.

Google bought Picnik in 2010 and incorporated it with Picasa, a photo sharing service which is a part of Google Inc. Both Picnik and Picasa have become the default photo editor and handler for Google cloud system and so you can make the most out of both these services.

You can open Picasa web application and upload pictures to it and then edit them using Picnik after which you can share the photos with your friends on the social networks.

Picnik Photo Editor

The main features of Picnik photo editor are as follows:

• Crop, resize and rotate images according to your wish.
• Single click photo fixing.
• Upload images from websites such as Facebook, Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, Webshots and Photobucket or from your local drive.
• Heaps of extraordinary effects and frames, and fonts too including type tool.
• Superior controls to tune your results.
• Share the edited photos with your friends.
• Works on PC platforms such as Windows, Mac and Linux.

Picnik allows a non professional person to edit a photo according to his/her wish. It lets you to add great special effects, do some touch ups and crop your photo with the convenience of being online and using a web browser. Every single social networking site is integrated in this website, and so you need not leave the page to share the photos with your friends present in those social networking sites.

You can also opt to add Picnik photo editor to Chrome web browser, wherein you can capture images from the Chrome browser and then edit them.

Picnik also offers premium features at $2.08 per month. You are entitled to get more special effects, fonts and stickers, advanced editing tools and the page becomes ad-free.

Learn more and checkout the cool Picnik Photo Editor here.

The internet and its associated applications are fast becoming smarter and are evolving at a fast pace. The most recent trend among the intelligent online applications is the ability to identify the users and automatically log in them without the user needing to give out any login information. Sounds interesting right? Well, indeed the idea seems fresh and is seen to make the task at hand for most internet users easy and smoother than before.

Premium Cookies

The basic idea about the premium cookies is that they are a few essential website elements that come in as a part of certain websites hosting login services. The basic idea behind a premium cookie is to enable the browser or the website’s database to determine the user without actually asking for any input from the user end.

What this means is simple; it attempts to login into the appropriate user account by identifying browser and IP details rather than based on user input details. This not only makes the process easier for the user but also adds a bit of speed and smoothness to the whole process of going online.

Premium Cookie Injector

When it comes to premium cookies, the core idea is to keep the account logged on so as to facilitate uninterrupted exchange of information from the client to the server. The most basic use of it comes to downloading large amounts of data from secured servers which require the users to log in. Premium cookies play the saviour in these kinds of activities. In events of temporary of network failure, the premium cookies enable the browsers to carry forth the transfer as it automatically logs into the account.

Premium Cookie Injectors are coded as extensions in the browsers which help in real-time user login. The free version of Premium Cookie Injector is the popular browser extension that can be found on support systems for different websites again and  again. Premium Cookies are now being supported by numerous websites as time is going on.

How to Use Premium Cookies

To begin this section, we first look into some of the most common examples of premium cookies:

• 2X Filesonic Premium Accounts
• 40X Filesonic Premium Cookies
• 7x Hotfile Premium Cookies
• 120X Wupload Premium Cookies
• 3X Filesonic premium Accounts
• 104X Wupload Premium Cookies
• 11X Filesonic Premium Cookies
• Rapidshare Premium Cookie
• Megaupload Premium Cookie

These are considered major examples in this regard.

Now moving onto using one of these, let us take the example of using Megaupload Cookie injector in the following lines:

• Install the latest version of Firefox
• Download the Cookie editor for Firefox
• Open Firefox and login to Megaupload free account
• Go to Tools> Cookie Editor
• Search for “megaupload” and press “Filter/Refresh”
•  Double click to “megaupload.com” site with “auth” value
• Paste a valid premium cookie to “Content” bar and click the save button
• Just Refresh the page

Once done with this, the browser is able to get hold of the users identity without any input and does login automatically.

Visit the Premium Cookies site here - www.premium-cookies.com

iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S are successors to the iPhone 3GS which is developed by Apple Inc. iPhone 4 is the fourth generation of iPhone and this particular iPhone is advertised and promoted for video calling options and also for using media utilities such as movies, games and music and for accessing the web and email too. iPhone 4 was announced on June 7, 2010 in San Francisco and was released in June 24, 2010, in France, Germany, the U.S, the U.K and Japan.

iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S also run on the same operating system, iOS, as the other iPhones, iPod and the iPad. iPhone 4 has a very new sleek design which assimilates a stainless steel frame that behaves as the antenna of the device. iPhone 4 includes an Apple A4 processor and 512MB of embedded RAM, which is said to be twice the features of iPhone 3GS and four times that of the iPhone which was originally made in the beginning.

Retina Display

iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S have a 3.5 inch LED liquid crystal display which is called as the Retina Display. The pixel resolution of iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S is 640×960.

The Retina Display is said to provide the best blend of colors, size and resolution and so there is no doubt that iPhone 4 and 4S have modified and transformed the manner, the users used to read the text on the mobile phones.

HD Wallpapers for iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S

Since the resolution of iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S LED display is 640×960, wallpapers that were made to suit the previous versions of the iPhone will never suit the look and feel of iPhone 4. Custom made HD wallpapers for iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S are the ones which will suit the display perfectly and make the display of the iPhone 4 look stunning.

Here are some HD wallpapers for iPhone 4 and 4S which will perfectly suit the display screen. All you have to do is, right click on your desired wallpaper and select “Save Target As” or “Save Image As”, whichever option your web browser provides accordingly, to save the image to your hard drive. Once you have downloaded it, add it to your iPhone 4 to display great images.

Now enjoy High Definition Wallpapers on the retina display of your iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S which will bring your pocket mate back to life again. The HD wallpapers always looks great due to improved display of iPhone 4 and wallpapers provided here are the best true HD wallpapers for your to try.

Google documents allow users to save, share, collaborate, and edit documents online. The advantage for educators is the ability for groups of students to collaborate on a paper, to safely save important documents online, and to have universal access to your stuff.

Prerequisites

1. You should have Internet Connection.
2. You should have good web browser (e.g. Firefox, Internet Explorer)
3. You should have one Google Account.

Stepping into Google Docs

• Enter the following URL in a web browser: http://docs.google.com
• Note the login page.
• If you have a Google account, login
• If you do not have a Google account simply click on Create a new Google Account.
• Once you have logged in, note the Google docs: (Sample Home page for Google Docs is shown in the page below)

How to Use Google Docs

How to Create New Document

Click on the New Document Link (shown below).

How to save a Document

Click on the File button and choose Save. Note you can also use Control + S.

How to rename a existing Document

Click on the File button and choose rename.

Type in a new document name and click OK.

How to edit a Document

Note the formatting bar – click once to turn on, and twice to turn off.

How to tag a Document

Google doesn’t use folder to organize stuff. Google uses tags. Think of a tag like a keyword which describes a file. Files can have multiple tags. You can sort your documents by tags – which is very handy if you have many documents.

Note the tags on the right side of the file name. If I click on a tag, I will see all the documents with the tag I clicked.

So, to tag then…

• Click on the checkbox next to the file(s) you want to tag.
• Click on the Tag menu, and choose a new tag, or simply click an existing tag. You can also choose multiple tags (I suggest you always use multiple tags – it makes it easier to organize files).

How to collaborate and share a Document

In order to share a document, the person with whom you are sharing must have a Google account.

• Open Google documents and note the list of documents
• Click share now on the document you want to share. Note the sharing dialog:

Note you can invite people as viewers or as collaborators.

• Type a brief message, and click Send

How to Publish a Document

Publishing a document makes it visible to the entire world. Google adds it to the google-index, so if you add your resume, and someone googles your name, your resume might turn up!

Publishing is immensely easy.

• On the upper-right side of the screen, please note the “publish” tab.
• Note the publish screen. Simply click publish, and you are done!

How to print a Document

File -> Print operation to print.

However, I have found a slightly more reliable manner of printing.

1. Click on file and then save as PDF
2. Click OK when you see this dialog and print from inside Adobe Reader!

How to Copy a Document

• Click on File and then Copy document.
• Note the Confirmation Dialog.

• The file is saved as “copy of <your filename>”.

HTC HD2 phone by T-Mobile has the operating system of Windows Mobile by default. Because of several reasons, many users don’t like this default Microsoft operating system and want it to change to Android, which is highly used OS on phone as of today. Android is rich on features and pretty stable OS. 

The good new is that if you want to change Windows Mobile to Android, then its very much possible. Here’s how you can do it in few simple steps. Please note that by following these procedures, you shall be able to install Android Gingerbread 2.3 in your device.

Step1

Download Android image file in the HTC SD card. Make sure that you have around 200 MB of free space available in the HTC device memory. You can download Android OS source code from Android Open Source Project. After downloading you will need to build the source code for the HTC mobile device.

Step2

Make sure that the files (in the folder) that you have copied lies in the root directory of the SD card folder. Next you need to run the file name CLRXAD.exe. This you can do with the help of file explorer in the HTC device.

Step3

Again you need to browse the SD card with the help of File Explorer and run HARET.exe.

After running this file, the device shall take 10 to 15 minutes to actually boot up. That’s it! Now go ahead and use Android on your device.

NOTE: Android OS or for that matter any OS is very much hardware dependent software. For all the features of this OS to run on your device, your phone should be fully compliant with the OS that you are installing. Although full care has been taken to provide you with the latest and compliant built but still some features of your phone might not work.

More and more iPhone apps are out there to fulfill all your needs. If you are new to the iPhone family and want to know about the most useful iPhone apps and use them, I bet you should continue reading this article. iPhone apps are always easy to download and install on your phone through Apple App Store. You can also search for hundreds of iPhone apps from your iTunes or on Apple website.

Here are the most useful iPhone apps which every iPhone user should have to make most out of their pocket device.

Social Apps

Twitter

A clean interface that offers you to tweet easily and also receive tweets in the same manner. This app is available for free.

Link

Facebook

Facebook is updating the app at regular intervals and so you will find some difficulties to use it initially, but once when you get on with it, i promise you will be unstoppable. This app is available for free.

Link

Google Plus

This app has a stream which displays what your friends are talking about. Huddle makes it easy for you to have group chats and you can also upload pictures to the cloud, from your iPhone as and when you take them. This app too is available for free.

Link

Entertainment Apps

Netflix

This app is available for free. You can watch and stream videos smoothly when WiFi is used, but the streaming tends to slow down when 3G mode is used.

Link

Pandora

This internet radio station app allows you to stream music wherever you go using the WiFi or 3G facility and this app is available for free.

Link

Hound

This iPhone app recognizes your voice and so you can speak out the name of the artist or the title of any song onto the app and it will pop out the results. Best of all, this iPhone app is available for free.

Link

Good Player

This app allows you to play any video file. Yes. You don’t need to convert any video file to play it. This app costs you $3 and also supports to stream movies too.

Link

Kindle

This Amazon iPhone app provides you to read Kindle ebooks and is available for free.

Link

Game Apps

Angry Birds

This is said to be the most popular iPhone game in the world, since new birds and new stages which are included in the game at regular intervals makes it more interesting to play again and again. This game is available for free.

Link

Real Racing GTI

This game is said to be the best iPhone racing game since it is pretty much realistic in nature and is fun to play. The graphics part looks amazing and this game is available for free.

Link

Productivity Apps

Evernote

This application can be used to take notes and multiple notes can be attached to one single note. This app is available for free.

Link

Dropbox

This application allows you to check photos and documents and attach them to your outgoing emails. You can also export documents to other apps. This app is available for free.

Link

Google Translate

This iPhone app is said to help in translating any language since it supports many languages. This app is also available for free.

Link

Amazon Mobile

This app is said to be a short form of Amazon website and has the ability to scan barcodes too. Best of all, this app is available for free.

Link

So which iPhone apps sounded most useful to you and which of these you are going to have on your phone right now?

How to Install Android OS on PC, Laptop or Netbook

Android is said to be most booming and widely used OS on mobile platform as of today. The OS design and developed by Google, is preferred choice of large number of smart phones users all along. Good part is that now its possible to run this OS on your PC, Laptop or for that matter Netbook as well by following the simple steps as outlined below.

What all you need?

In order to run Android on PC or Laptop, you’ll need a memory device such as pen drive or USB flash drive. Make sure that the flash drive that you are using is having the capacity of more than 256 MB, so that it can accommodate the bootable image of Android OS. You also need to download the x86 platform compatible image of Android from the Internet.

Secondly you’ll need UNetbootin, which is nothing but universal Net Boot Installer. This can be also promptly downloaded from the respective site.

Steps in detail

Step 1 – Download UNetbootin

Go to Unetbootin site i.e. www.unetbootin.sourceforge.net. UNetbootin is available for Windows, Linux or Mac. Please download the version depending upon the Operating System of your PC, Laptop or Netbook.

Step 2 – Download the Android image

Go to the site www.android-x86.org/download, scroll down and locate the stable release section in the download option provided. Here you need to download the Android x86 platform compatible image depending upon your hardware.

The file size for the image is around 73 MB so it might take some time for the image to download, depending upon the net speed at your place.

Step 3 – Run UNetbootin and transfer the image to flash drive

Locate the UNetbootin executable file that have been downloaded and click on run. You shall be presented with the screen as shown below:

Here as you can see there are two options – Distribution and Diskimage. Check Diskimage radio box and choose the path, where you downloaded Android x86 iso file. In type option you need to select the USB drive. Click OK.

As you can see, the file start extracting and image of bootable Android shall be copied to your flash drive. Also make sure that before using the flash drive for this chore, you need to erase all the previous data or better format it.

Once the process is complete, you shall be asked to boot the system. You may choose to boot the system now or defer it.

Step 4 – Change boot preference settings in BIOS

Once you decide to restart the system, you need to make a minor change in you system’s BIOS settings. As you might be aware the default boot option is from hard drive or your internal hard disk. You have to change it to Boot from Removable Device (USB Flash Drive). You can enter your System’s BIOS setup by pressing F2 (or any other key depending upon your system). In case if F2 doesn’t works, you might have to check out system’s User Manual to find out the process to enter the BIOS arrangement.

Step 5 – Power on the System

Once BIOS settings has been taken care of, Power on the system as usual. Make sure that the USB flash drive is in the proper USB slot. If everything goes fine, you’ll be presented with the screen as below:

Select option – Run Android without installation. It may take a few minutes before the System actually boots up with Android. On successful boot up, you can see the Android UI as below:

You can play around with the Android, install apps or change settings as by default Android should have access to you net connection. Only thing that you need to remember is that once you shut down the system, all the apps that you installed or setting changes will revert back to standard. So go ahead, explore Android or just show off to your friends!