Block certain e-mails on gmail, based on a certain search criteria.

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It is really annoying to watch your email account flooded with spam, or unimportant mails, especially if its a business or a professional mail account.
      There's a trick to automatically delete these mails , as soon as they arrive in your inbox. Follow the simple procedure given below.

1. In the Search bar on the top, there's an arrow pointing downwards(Tool-tip : Show search options).Click this arrow.
2. A window will popup,just enter your search criteria, for e.g the name of the sender you want to block.
3. Click "Create filter with this search".
4. A new Window will show up.Now check the "Delete it" option, and click on the "Create filter" button.

That's it! You're done. Now mails from this sender will automatically get deleted as they arrive in your inbox.

Hope it helps :)

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Change the default directory of cmd in Windows.

While using cmd for compiling and running programs of  <Insert favourite programming-language here>, it sometimes becomes tiresome to switch to the directory where you saved the source file. Worse yet,if you close the command prompt accidentally , you have to repeat the process again.
     Fortunately,there's a registry-hack to set the default directory whenever you open you cmd.Here are the steps.

1. Press Windows Key + R(Or Start=>Run).
2. Type "regedit".
3. From the menus in the left pane, navigate to
   
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Command Processor
4. If it does not already exist,Right click on any empty area on the right pane, click New => String value.Name it as "Autorun".
5. Now suppose you want to set the default directory to D:\Java , you can double click the autorun string,and in the value field type
   
   CD /d D:\Java

                                                        Hope it helps :)

Animate your mouse cursor,without using 3rd party softwares.

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You have to admit the default look of Windows cursor has become pretty stale and boring.One option to change is to use 3rd party tools to change the default cursor look.But the problem is,they take up system's memory to operate,causing PC slowdowns in case of low RAM.

Encrypt your data stored in Dropbox for enhanced security.

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Dropbox is a killer cloud based file-sync utility,but it isn't without flaws.Recent reports state that an authentication bug caused anyone to log-in to your account and steal important data.

     Today,I bring a fix to resolve the security problem.Follow the simple steps below:

• Download TrueCrypt from here :-
  http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads
• Install the program on your Hard-Disk.Once installed,launch TrueCrypt.
• Click on "Create Volume".
• Chose the default options-"Create an encrypted file container" and then "Standard TrueCrypt volume".
• Now when it asks to enter the location for the volume,browse to your Dropbox folder(C:\Users\YourUserName\Dropbox by default),and enter a name of your choice.
• Now chose a password for your TrueCrypt container.
• Hit the Format button.
• Once finished,your TrueCrypt volume is ready for use.

      Now,to mount this volume and copy important data in it,follow these steps:

• Launch TrueCrypt.
• Select a drive letter.
• Click on select file,and browse to the file you created earlier in the Dropbox folder.
• Hit the mount button.
• Your virtual drive will open in the explorer,where you can paste important data.
• Once done,click on dismount in TrueCrypt.
• Your data will be synced securely to Dropbox.

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial :)

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Download official ISO images of Windows 7(Both 32 Bit and 64 Bit)

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NOTE: This post does not focus on PIRACY.You still need to have an ORIGINAL LICENCE for the respective version of Windows you want to download.
         These ISO images might be helpful to those who got a licensed copy of Windows 7 with there laptop/desktop,but did not receive an installation disk with it.Just download these image files,burn them to a DVD and you are ready to install Windows 7 any-time you want.Also,all the Windows 7 images listed below come straight from Digital River which is an official Microsoft download channel and therefore, are completely untouched meaning no viruses, cracks, loaders or anything else, just the official vanilla DVD’s in ISO form.(Note these are ENGLISH versions)
Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit
Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
Windows 7 Professional 32bit
Windows 7 Professional 64bit
Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

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The fastest PDF file viewer I have used.

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Ok,now some might argue that Adobe pdf reader is free,so why would we need another PDF reader on our PC's.The simple answer is the speed of opening and usage.
       Today,I stumbled through the internet and noticed this nice Open-source PDF viewer named mupdf,and to make myself sure of what it sid,I opened a PDF file through it and to my amazement,it opened "LIGHTNING FAST".Try this amazing PDF reader everyone
Download link-http://bit.ly/OsglXM

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Easily share files over a LAN network.

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OK,we all know that there are ways to share files or folders on a network that are in-built in Windows OS.But,for me it has always been a hit or miss.Sometimes it works,sometimes it doesn't.I always wanted a tool that could just do the job,without any hassle.
       So,I stumbled around the internet and found this small,lightweight tool called IP Messenger.The interface is easy to use.When you load up the software,it show up in the notification area of the desktop.
Just connect the machines to the network,then right click the icon in the notification area,you'll be presented with options to share files(or folder).Really there's nothing much to say,its really very easy.
Download IP Messenger from here.

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