Yahoo Messenger Mobile

This is a simple Yahoo Messenger client for mobile user. It Connects to Yahoo server directly, without any gateway. Fast connection and high refresh rate. Only support Java MIDP2. Simple application and very easy to use. Low bandwidth consumption, it`s only about 6 Kb, when first connecting to server. Without any hassle registration to any thirdparty account. All you need is just Yahoo Account.

Links:

Version 0.1

Version 0.2.2

Google Talk Mobile

GoTalkMobile is a J2ME application for phones. It enable you to log in to Google Talk through your Mobile device. Very useful if you are on the move.

Features:

• Talk to PC Google Talk users
• Talk to cell phones' users
• It's much faster than SMS
• It's free. Use it, copy it, send it to your friends for free
• GoTalkMobile is completely secure
• GoTalkMobile runs minimized in the background
• Run GoTalkMobile on your phone and PC at the same time and be always online
• GoTalkMobile compresses all its traffic between you and server minimizing GPRS cost
• It's like SMS, but 100 times cheaper! Forget about SMS with GoTalkMobile
• Contains NO ADS and NO SPYWARE

Download GoTalkMobile

Visual Studio 2008

Visual Studio 2008 is here. The Beta 2 is already released. I personally use VS2005 and I'm very pleased with it. So I'm very sure this will be better! You can check more details about this on the Microsoft page. I added some links to sample programs too.

Try VS 2008
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/aa700831.aspx

Examples & Hands on Labs
http://blogs.msdn.com/charlie/archive/2007/07/26/visual-studio-2008-beta-2-released.aspx

You can also try the Express Editions
http://www.microsoft.com/express/product/default.aspx

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5

Yeah! Its true!! Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 is here... If you know what I'm talking about, you would probably wanna give it a try... Here is the link

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5

Older Versions:
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1

ntde1ect.com

This post is about a Virus or Trojan, who knows... anyway, at first I noticed my Yahoo! Messenger didn't work properly. Then it stopped working completely! When I was copying a file (about 100MB) to my USB pen drive I noticed some files were getting copied which I didn't want and they disappeared very quickly. I knew this was a doing of a Virus/Trojan. Then I checked the files on the drive with the command prompt & found the files. If you want to get rid of it permanently, you got to do some work. Here are the steps...

01) Open Task Manager (Press Ctrl+Alt+Del or Right click Windows Task bar & select "Task Manager").

02) In File menu select "New Task(Run)" & type "cmd". A command prompt will open. Type in the following commands:

taskkill /F /IM "wscript.exe"
taskkill /F /IM "explorer.exe"


03) Run the command bellow for each drive you have on your system (including removable storage like USB drives) Just change the drive letter as you want & run for all drives.

del c:\autorun.inf /f /a /q

04) Go to your system drive (default drive c) then go in to "Windows\System32" folder( cd c:\Windows\System32)

05) Run the command bellow

attrib -r -s -h avpo.exe
attrib -r -s -h avp0.exe
attrib -r -s -h avp0.dll

then delete all three files

del avpo.exe /f /a /q
del avp0.exe /f /a /q
del avp0.dll /f /a /q

if the del command doesn't work you can use "erase" command (erase avpo.exe /f /a /q)

06) Run the command bellow for each drive you have on your system.

del c:\ntde1ect.com /f /a /q

After that close the command prompt & go back to the Task manager.

07) In File menu select "New Task(Run)" & type "regedit" and go to he registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Run. If there is any entries for "avpo.exe", delete them. (Surly take a backup of your registry before you change it)

08) Press "Ctrl+F" and search for "ntde1ect.com" and delete them. Press "F3" to get the next result. Delete all entries.

09) Restart your machine. That's it ;)

Hope this helps!!!

DVD Region

When you are dealing with Original DVDs there is something called DVD region. If your player doesn't support the DVD's region the disk won't play (most of you probable know this by now… ). I thought in computers theses things just won’t matter…. As usual I was wrong There is a DVD region fixed into any DVD ROM. You could change this but only for 5 times!! It won’t matter if you format your PC or install the ROM in another PC, the counter will remain the same! So, what can you do? You could always have one drive for each region if you have plenty of green stuff or else you could find a software that doesn’t care about the DVD region! (e.g. VLC media player)

Virtual Machines

This is actually the first blog entry of mine…

As a part of my studies, I have to study a subject called ‘Data Communication & Computer Networks III’ which involves some socket programming in Linux OS. I didn’t have a Linux OS installed, since it was just a few months from my last system format. I like Linux but hate what needs to be done to install it! It’s just a mess I don’t like to see. So I was looking for alternatives…. Way back I found ‘Ubuntu’ live CD which does not need any installation. It still doesn’t have all the capabilities I’m looking for. Then I found KNOPPIX, which is pretty good still a little slow since it was also running through a CD.

One day my a good friend of mine told me something about a software which could run other OS on my normal OS as an application. From this day onwards I never installed any other OS directly on to my machine! Virtual machines are soo cool!!! You would first define your virtual machine inside the application, turn it on then install what ever OS. The OS is actually installed in to a folder!! If something goes wrong, just delete the folder. It’s that simple!! Still there might be a slight performance issue if you have a slow machine.

First I had ‘Fedora Core 3’ on a virtual machine, which was extremely slow (took about 5 to 8 mins to start up). Then another friend told me that Fedora 4 runs pretty fast on the virtual machines. I didn’t believe it first but after installing it I was shocked! It took only about 1 min 30 sec to load!!!!

For those who haven’t tried it out yet… I recommend ‘VMware Workstation’. Try it! You’ll fall in love with it!