Technology – Page 28

Your Very Own Sixth Sense Might Be On It’s Way

November 6, 2009 by Raj Agrawal Leave a Comment

How would it be if you could get first hand information right of the internet about anything and anywhere in the world? How about taking a photograph of a beautiful scenery just with hand gesture? Want a consumer or even a critic review of a book you are about to purchase, all these right in front of you, with just hand gestures. It’s sounds like a synonym to how Tom Cruise accesses information in the movie Minority Report. Doesn’t it?

sixth sense pranav mistry — Pravav Mistry demonstrating the working of Sixth Sense and is the man behind it’s development

MIT’s Pranav Mistry and Pattie Maes have worked upon this innovative and work-in-progress idea named, Sixth Sense and presented the working of this great product at the TED conference. Sixth Sense is similar to Microsoft’s surface computer. Watch this video and you will be amazed to see what this technology is capable of.

Booting And Installing Windows XP Setup From Any USB Drive

October 21, 2009 by Raj Agrawal Leave a Comment

A Complete Guide For A Successful Attempt

windows xp pendrive — Bootable Windows XP Pen Drive

I have read some tech forum threads and am surprised to see people stuck with a myth that ‘it’s impossible to make a bootable Win XP setup with a portable drive’. With my effort of busting this myth, i will share a step-by-step but a slightly crooked method to install Windows XP from your portable drive. Whether it be a memory card, pen drive or even your digital camera, all are welcome.

Make sure you are prepared with the following perquisites:

A Portable Drive with at least 2 GB free space (Higher capacity is recommended),
Intermediate level of knowledge and experience of using a computer and Windows XP,
Windows XP Setup Disc or ISO (Setup packs that have been stripped for performance and other tweaks may not work!),
A Computer capable of booting the computer from a USB drive,
Tools that will do the job: USBPrep8, PEtoUSB and Bootsect.

Procedure:

Extract the PeToUSB_3007 contents into the USB-Prep8 folder,
Go into the folder named USB-Prep8 and double-click the following usb_prep8.cmd),
Make sure you select the newly created command prompt window and click any key to continue,
A new program is started (PeToUSB) Do not change any of the settings, just click start and let it run,
Once PeToUSB is finished, DO NOT CLOSE any of the windows the program created,
Go your start menu and click run if your using classic start menu,
Enter the following command into your run window (CMD),
Once you have run that command, a new window will appear with the words command prompt,
Providing you have used the file setup suggested, input the following ( cd bootsect ),
Type in the following ( bootsect /nt52 :R ) Replace R with the drive letter of your usb drive,
You will see the message (Bootcode was successfully updated on targeted volume) if it worked right,
You may NOW close all the windows except for the window that was created when you ran USBPrep8,
Providing you closed all the right windows, the USBPrep8 Window will now contain 7 Options,
Press 1 on your keyboard, this will bring up a window, locate your XP folder and highlight it, click ok,
Press 2 on your keyboard, the program will ask for a used drive letter, example: T or Z,
Press 3 on your keyboard, the program will ask for your USB Stick drive letter, enter it now.Press 4 on your keyboard to start the USBPrep8 process,
The program will ask you if it is ok to format a drive contained in the letter you gave in #14, click yes,
The program will start to copy the needed files, be patient,
The program will then ask you if you wish to copy these files to the USB stick, click yes,
Finally once it has finished copying the files, it will ask you if you want to make the stick the preferred boot drive, click yes after which it will ask if you wish to un-mount the usb stick, click yes.
Now, restart your PC and set the boot sequence priority to ‘USB’ and you will successfully boot the Windows XP setup from your portable drive!

Thanks to Geeks! blogger Chronious and LockerGnome.com for sharing this great idea.

How To Safely Run Infected Files In Windows

October 11, 2009 by Raj Agrawal Leave a Comment

Apart from pirated programs, sometimes even the legitimate programs are reported to be infected by the Anti-viruses. This does not necessarily mean the reported program is really infected. It might be a false positive (False positive is a term to point out a faulty action by anti malware applications that report innocent programs as infected). You must have adequate knowledge and expertise to conclude the reported program as infected or not yourself, which might again not be a correct conclusion 🙂 All this is crazy and can be tolerated to an extent.

But, if you are keen to use the program, whether it is really infected or not, you can safely run it in an isolated environment created with the help of a freeware application called Sandboxie.

To run any program within Sandboxie, follow these step by step visual illustrations:

After running the concerned program with Sandboxie, all the files that will be created by the program will only be stored in an isolated space created by Sandboxie. All the actions taken by the infected program will be locked in that isolated space and hence keeping it’s actions away from your main system. This results in better security. Also, it’s a fact that there exist some malware that Sanboxie can’t take control of, so if you are unable to fool the infected file with Sandboxie, make sure you forget about running it and not let the anti-virus take control instead! 🙂

Sanboxie features:

Secure Web Browsing: Running your Web browser under the protection of Sandboxie means that all malicious software downloaded by the browser is trapped in the sandbox and can be discarded trivially.

Enhanced Privacy: Browsing history, cookies, and cached temporary files collected while Web browsing stay in the sandbox and don’t leak into Windows.

Secure E-mail: Viruses and other malicious software that might be hiding in your email can’t break out of the sandbox and can’t infect your real system.

Windows Stays Lean: Prevent wear-and-tear in Windows by installing software into an isolated sandbox.

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