Apple devices have a feature called AirPlay in them which allow you to stream audio as well as video (from newer devices) to some AirPlay enabled device such as an Airport Extreme. But buying an airport device and also a separate set of speakers unique with it just to stream music seems useless. To get around this condition all you need is an old windows machine. You can disguise your windows machine as an Airplay device and the mac or your iphone will wirelessly send the audio to the windows machine.

To do this all you need to do is download ShairPort4w from here. Download the zipped files extract it and run it on your windows machine. Once up and running come back to your Mac and while pressing alt/option key and clicking the sound symbol in the notification area and then select Shairport4w.

Turn on your iTunes and play any song. You will notice the the audio is been streamed to the PC wirelessly.

This might be a useful feature for average users who visit Facebook and YouTube dozen of times a day as it reduces the time the browser takes to download pages from the servers of the websites by eliminating the need for a DNS server by caching the most visited url.

So if you are a server admin like me or are a newbie in this field and are facing the same problem clearing/flushing your DNS cache may do your job.

To clear dns in windows: Go to All Programs -> Accessories -> Command Prompt or Go to Run and type cmd. Once in there type

ipconfig /flushdns

Mac and Linux both being UNIX based system have the same method to do this.

For Mac go to Applications -> Terminal

For Linux press Alt+F2 and type in gnome-terminal

Then give the command

dscacheutil -flushcache

This will clear all your DNS cache and should solve your problem If not have a look at your DNS server.

Okay so let’s get started. So first find out how to forward ports on your router. This tell your router to allow traffic from certain ports and redirect it to a given IP. Go here and find out how to forward ports on your router. Click on the Default Guide for a general instruction guid for port forward.

Now go ahead and forward ports 137(TCP/UDP) , 138(TCP) , 139(TCP) , 445(TCP) to the ip of the computer you are hosting the SMB server on. This pity much completes the job the only thing you now need is your external IP. You can go to ip.pixeltine.com or if you are a Linux/Mac user you can give the command

curl ip.pixeltine.com

Now mount the partition using this external ip and you are done.

If you want help mounting these partitions I found these posts helpful.

• Linux
• Mac

Just use the external ip the we derived above instead of the local ip suggested in these posts.

Having a password on your Windows machine is a very good practice as it protects your computer from unauthorized access by malicious people. But having to enter a password can be very tiring at times and it also slows your login time. Automatic login can be a boon in case of power cuts when your computer restarts and it saves your login time.

Setting up an automatic login is pity easy in Windows.

STEP1: Go to Start -> Run , type in regedit and press Enter.

STEP2: Navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

Once there Locate double-click AutoAdminLogon in the right pane and set its value to 1 if not already.

STEP3: GO to Edit -> New -> String Value. Name it DefaultUserName . Double click it and type in your username.

STEP4: GO to Edit -> New -> String Value. Name it DefaultPassword. Double click it and type in your password.

And you are done. Restart your computer and it would login automatically.

I found a solution to this in Google Chrome. In it you can install a plugin the will skip the video ads that load before the desired video and plave text ads instead of it. It is a totally legal practice.

You can add this extension to your browser and click the blue button every time to skip video ads.

Watch this video if you want to learn about reverse scrolling

Doing this is windows is simpler than one may think. First of all you need AutoHotkey. This software let’s you program different scripts to customise things on your computer.

Next download this script (*.ahk) file. This contains the code that tells the AutoHotkey to modify the scrolling for Scroll up to be scroll Down and Scroll Down to be Scroll up which is in fact the natural scrolling.

Facebook give you an option to download particular pictures but if you had to download an album of like 300 images it will a very time-consuming job. An easy way around it is to install specialised extensions in you browser to do the job for you.

Google Chrome users can install an extension called Download FB album from here. All you need to do after installing this plugin is to go to the album and press the button on the top right corner of the screen.

The plugin organizes all the images in a single page , from there you just need to press Ctrl+s from your keyboard and it saves all the images to a desired location on your computer.

For a while now rubber band scrolling has been present on Mac OS X but nothing like this has yet been officially introduced on windows. Smooth scrolling have been adopted by almost by all mobile devices. Using classical scroll on Windows PC feels so unnatural. The only solution to this problem seems to be in browsers. Firefox Provides some better options where as Google Chrome is good but does not have a perfect smooth scrolling solution.

First let’s start with Firefox. It has a plugin named Yet Another Smooth Scrolling. You can download it from here. The plugin is highly configurable. There are 3 configured modes: Red , Green , Blue all 3 having different properties. You can also configure the plugin as per you wish.

For Google Chrome now the plugin is called Smooth Scroll. I have been using this plugin for quite some time and it has been upto the task. You can download the plugin from here. This plugin also comes pre-installed with 3 modes namely : iPhone , Opera , IE9.

If you have installed some other plugin which you think works better than the once I am working with feel free to leave a comment down below.

Apple Safari also has a similar feature known as Readable which  removes every thing from your page and just displays the text and the images included.

If you are a blogger you can give the same experience to all your readers irrespective of the browser they use.

So lets go on and do it.

STEP1: Create a page on your wordpress blog named something like “Reading” by going to Pages-> Add New.

SETP2: Change the permalink or the URL(slug) to read.

STEP3: Now you would need to edit the .htaccess file. So better get an ftp client. Add the following line at the top of your .htaccess file.

RewriteRule ^read/([0-9]+)/?$ /read/?u=$1 [QSA,L]

STEP4: Download this zip file extract the php file in it and upload it to your WordPress theme folder usually /wp-content/themes/ .

STEP5 Lastly you need to create a link on your page from where your uses would be able to use this service. Top of a post or some prominent place on your sidebar are the some places I would recommend to you for placing the link.

<a href=”/read/<?php the_ID(); ?>/”>Read story without the clutter</a>

If you have any queries feel free to post a comment.

To download JRE, Linux users car do here. Or you can go to Ubuntu software center and install OpenJDK Java 6 Runtime.

Windows users who are having a problem with heartbeat can also use this software. Windows users can download JRE from here. If you gave any queries feel free to post a comment

To remove the recycle bin from the desktop you can follow these simple steps:

STEP1: Go to start->Run->type in gpedit.msc .

STEP2: It will open Group Policy. In the Left column navigate to User Configurations -> Administrative Template -> Desktop.

STEP3: Now in the right column you will be able to see Remove Recycle Bin icon  from desktop. Open it and check Enable and the OK.

STEP:4 Go to desktop and press F5(refresh the desktop) and the Recycle Bin will be removed.

If you have any queries Feel free to post a comment

Using this service is real easy. First download latest version of VLC from here. Second go to youtube and copy its URL without the parameters. Goto your VLC media player -> Media -> Open Network Stream. Paste the url in there click Play.

Well VLC allows you to see the Videos but it doesn’t allows you to set its quality which can be a real problem for those with slower connection.

Setting up a RAID drive on Windows is not so much of a challenge as one may think. All you need to do to setup a RAID drive is to follow these easy steps

In my example I will be combining a 2gig,a 5gig,and a 10gig drive into a single RAID dirve

• First thing we need to do is to convert all the dirves you want to add to the RAID system into Dynamic drives. To do this right click on the Disk name and click Convert to Dynamic.



• Now right click on any of the  Unallocated space and click New Partition .
• Now you will see a setup like this. Select Spanned.



• Now in the next window add all the volumes you wish to combine into a single unit of the RAID drive.



• Click Next, format the partition and your RAID system is ready.

For any queries feel free to post a comment

So first let’s begin with installation of wordpress on your system(Installation on a remote server is approximately similar to this only).

WordPress needs 3 major components : an SQL server to store all the data like the Posts,Comments and other configurations, a PHP server to be able to query data from the SQL server and display it on an a web page and the last thing is an apache server(You know what apache is use for :P)

So you can install all these servers individually or as I recommend install WAMP (Windows Apache MySql PHP) Click Here. Download it and install anywhere on your system. Once done click on the wamp server icon on the notification area and put it online.

Now we are ready to install the wordpress. So go to WordPress.org and get yourself a brand new copy of WordPress. Extract it and place it in the www folder of the wamp installation we just did(usually it is C:\wamp\www).

Let us now configure the wordpress so the first thing we are gonna do is to create a new database for wordpress. To do that follow the steps:-

• Open your browser and type in http://localhost/phpmyadmin/
• There is a text box under the heading Create a new database. Type in your desired name and click Create.

To install your wordpress go to http://localhost/. Under the Your Projects section you will see the folder we extracted before named wordpress. Click on that. It will ask you to configure the wp-config file click on Create a Configuration File. Now replace the field designated as Database Name to the one you made before in phpmyadmin. In place of Username type root which is the default leave the password filed blank and click Submit. In case of users who want to install this system on a remote server you password will be the same of that of your admin login name. Click on Run Install. You would be prompted to add your blog name ,username,password and Email-ID. Click install and you are up.

Login using your username and password.

Once done now there are some things you would like to change like your ssl security(Which allows you to open your admin page with https protocol). So for this you would need to open the wamp version of MySql Console.

Press enter when prompted about entering password. Issue the command

connect yourdatabasename

Once the above screen is displayed issue the command

UPDATE wp_usermeta SET meta_value=1 WHERE umeta_id=8;

and now your admin page will have ssl encryption.

By default wordpress shows only 10 of your last feeds in the rss. If you want to increase it issue the following command in the MySql Console

UPDATE wp_options SET option_value=20 WHERE option_name=”post_per_rss”;

For any queries feel free to post a comment

Installing Windows Media Player requires a genuine version of Windows.

Those of you guys who are using non-genuine version of windows need not worry any more.

You can follow these simple steps to install Windows Media Player on you non-genuine copy of windows.

• Download a copy of Windows Media Player 11 from the Microsoft’s website.(Click Here)
• Download WinRAR (Click Here),install it and extract all the contents of wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu.exe by right clicking on it and selecting Extract files to wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu.exe\
• Now download the patched copy of LegitLibM.dll (Click Here)and replace this with the one already present in the folder wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu.exe
• Now run the Setup_wm.exe

And you are done. Enjoy using you new Windows Media Player 11

For any queries feel free to post a comment .