Cheatsheet: A must have app for Mac OS to know all the shortcuts

Cheatsheet is an application for macbook to know about all the shortcuts. The application provides details of the shortcuts for the application being used at that time.

• Install Cheatsheet from this link. 
• Press the "command" button for more than few seconds.
• You will be redirected to a dashboard of all the shortcuts for the application being used. 

Inserting Copyright symbol "©" in Windows & Mac

Sharing via WiFi for iOS and Mac : The search ends with Instashare

The search ends with Instashare, which is smooth and the great thing is, it works just fine.  Better than the buggy airdrop. Drop the files between Apple devices in an efficient way with this neatly designed sharing application.

• Download the app for the iOS device through App Store
• Download the desktop version via the official store http://instashareapp.com/
• Connect both the devices on the same WiFi network 
• Drag and drop the file to be shared in iOS device 
• Give the required permission in the desktop

Happy sharing...



Instashare from TwoManShow on Vimeo.

An inside view of HP laptop assembly unit

Get rid of unwanted startup applications

Annoyed by the increasing number of unwanted applications turning your windows logging into a tortoise race. Here are the steps to get rid of them.

• Go to start 
• Search for RUN in the box
• Click on the RUN
• Run MSCONFIG in it 
• In MSCONFIG go to startup 
• Uncheck only the software which are installed by you and do not touch the system files
• Restart the computer

Types of Cloud Computing

• SaaS : Software As A Service
• IaaS : Infrastructure as a Service
• PaaS:Platform as a Service

SaaS : Software As A Service

Software as a service (SaaS) sometimes referred to as "on-demand software," is a software delivery model in which software and its associated data are hosted centrally (typically in the (Internet cloud) and are typically accessed by users using a thin client, normally using a web browser over the Internet.

Most of the web based applications we use like gmail, yahoomail belong to SaaS group. All business enterprises providing services like CRM, accounting, marketing over the internet are switching over to SaaS type of model.

PaaS : Platform as a Service

Platform as a service provides the platform for developers to improve the applications or work on it over the internet without any hurdles of maintaining hardware, which was essential for developing softwares earlier. Certain web based applications and also other other applications are being developed in this model where the company leverages on the developer.

8 core AMD FX deskstop processor breaks the guiness world record - Video

8 core AMD FX deskstop processor breaks the Guinness world record by posting a speed of 8.429 GHz. Here is a quick look into the video.

Steve Job's letter after resigning from CEO post

Steve Job, who stepped down today as Apple CEO sent a letter to the apple community and expressed high optimism for the future. Here is the transcript of the letter which Apple has released

To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:

I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's C.E.O., I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.

I hereby resign as C.E.O. of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.

As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as C.E.O. of Apple.

I believe Apple's brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role.

I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.

Zoom in and Zoom out the web pages you are viewing : Easy steps

Fed up of the small fonts in the website you are browsing. There are easy ways from which you can zoom in and zoom out. No matter which browser you are using this will help.
Press Ctrl and + together to Zoom in
Press Ctrl and - together to Zoom out

Lion OS x download only system features

The download-only system of mac lion OS X
No serial numbers to type in.
No family plans to buy; your $30 covers as many Macs as you own.
No discs to store and hunt down later;
If you ever need to reinstall, you just re-download the latest version. (Lion requires a post-2006 Mac with Mac OS X Snow Leopard installed.)
Is it not amazing ???

John Doe is the culprit in many cases

The name 'John Doe' is used as a placeholder in a legal action or case for any person whose true identity is unknown. As in the case of piracy, the unknown interested man is called so and also in case of attacks done by unknown persons, the same name is used...

Hp's pivot : can it take on IoS and android

Hp has announced the launch of new platform called PIVOT with a magazine like interface. This they believe would attract both customers and developers. Only the time will decide whether the platform can deliver on the lines of android and IoS ...

The root of mozilla

Gecko is a free and open source layout engine used in many applications developed by Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation (notably Firefox web browser), as well as in many other open source software projects.

It is designed to support open Internet standards, and is used by different applications to display web pages and, in some cases, an application's user interface itself (by rendering XUL). Gecko offers a rich programming API that makes it suitable for a wide variety of roles in Internet-enabled applications, such as web browsers, content presentation, and client/server.

Gecko is written in C++ and is cross-platform, and runs on various operating systems including BSDs, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, OS/2, AIX, OpenVMS, and Microsoft Windows. Its development is now overseen by the Mozilla Foundation and is licensed by a tri-license of the Mozilla Public License (MPL), GNU General Public License (GPL) and GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

Gecko is the second most-popular layout engine on the World Wide Web, after Trident (used by Internet Explorer for Windows since version 4), and followed by WebKit (used by Safari & Google Chrome) and Presto (used by Opera).

Computer Storage Terms

Kilobytes
Megabytes
Gigabytes
Terabytes
Petabytes
Exabytes......

Smss.exe the windows file that raises eyebrows

I was also first confused about this particular file running in my processes list, here is a quick look at what is the importance of the file smss.exe

It should be noted that the SMSS.exe file is always located in the C:\Windows\System32 folder.
Any other location is considered to be a trojan or virus or a spyware.

There are many processes that run behind the scenes in Window's operating systems. One of these processes that may look suspicious is the Glossary Link SMSS.exe. This is an execution file with the full name Session Management Subsystem.

The Session Manager Subsystem is responsible for starting a user's session. When this process begins, the system Glossary Link thread is responsible for a number of specific tasks including launching the Winlogon, specific Win32 processes and among other items, setting the system variables.

Syntax error in web, calculator, computers...

A syntax error occurs when a user (or programmer) has put words in an order that a program does not understand.

• A syntax error while surfing the Web may be caused by a mistyped or inadvertently rearranged URL, making it incomprehensible to a web browser.
• In computer science a syntax error ( IPA: /ˈsɪntæks ɛrə(ɹ)/ ) refers to an error in the syntax of a sequence of characters or tokens that is intended to be written in a particular programming language.
• A syntax error may also occur when an invalid equation is entered into a calculator. This can be caused, for instance, by opening brackets without closing them, or less commonly, entering several decimal points in one number.

Megabytes, Gigabytes, Terabytes…....

These terms are usually used in the world of computing to describe disk space, or data storage space, and system memory. For instance, just a few years ago we were describing hard drive space using the term Megabytes. Today, Gigabytes is the most common term being used to describe the size of a hard drive. In the not so distant future, Terabyte will be a common term. But what are they? This is where it gets quite confusing because there are at least three accepted definitions of each term.
According to the IBM Dictionary of computing, when used to describe disk storage capacity, a megabyte is 1,000,000 bytes in decimal notation. But when the term megabyte is used for real and virtual storage, and channel volume, 2 to the 20th power or 1,048,576 bytes is the appropriate notation. According to the Microsoft Press Computer Dictionary, a megabyte means either 1,000,000 bytes or 1,048,576 bytes. According to Eric S. Raymond in The New Hacker's Dictionary, a megabyte is always 1,048,576 bytes on the argument
that bytes should naturally be computed in powers of two. So which definition do most people conform to?
When referring to a megabyte for disk storage, the hard drive manufacturers use the standard that a megabyte is 1,000,000 bytes. This means that when you buy an 80 Gigabyte Hard drive you will get a total of 80,000,000,000 bytes of available storage. This is where it gets confusing because Windows uses the 1,048,576 byte rule so when you look at the Windows drive properties an 80 Gigabyte drive will report a capacity of 74.56 Gigabytes and a 250 Gigabyte drive will only yield 232 Gigabytes of available storage space. Anybody confused yet? With three accepted definitions, there will always be some confusion so I will try to simplify the definitions a little.
The 1000 can be replaced with 1024 and still be correct using the other acceptable standards. Both of these standards are correct depending on what type of storage you are referring.

The bytes goes on and on like this
· 1 Bit = Binary Digit
· 8 Bits = 1 Byte
· 1024 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
· 1024 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
· 1024 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte
· 1024 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte
· 1024 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte
· 1024 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte
· 1024 Exabytes = 1 Zettabyte
· 1024 Zettabytes = 1 Yottabyte
· 1024 Yottabytes = 1 Brontobyte
· 1024 Brontobytes = 1 Geopbyte

Bit: A Bit is the smallest unit of data that a computer uses. It can be used to represent two states of information, such as Yes or No.
Byte: A Byte is equal to 8 Bits. A Byte can represent 256 states of information, for example, numbers or a combination of numbers and letters. 1 Byte could be equal to one character. 10 Bytes could be equal to a word. 100 Bytes would equal an average sentence.
Kilobyte: A Kilobyte is approximately 1,000 Bytes, actually 1,024 Bytes depending on which definition is used. 1 Kilobyte would be equal to this paragraph you are reading, whereas 100 Kilobytes would equal an entire page.
Megabyte: A Megabyte is approximately 1,000 Kilobytes. In the early days of computing, a Megabyte was considered to be a large amount of data. These days with a 500 Gigabyte hard drive on a computer being common, a Megabyte doesn't seem like much anymore. One of those old 3-1/2 inch floppy disks can hold 1.44 Megabytes or the equivalent of a small book. 100 Megabytes might hold a couple volumes of Encyclopedias. 600 Megabytes is about the amount of data that will fit on a CD-ROM disk.
Gigabyte: A Gigabyte is approximately 1,000 Megabytes. A Gigabyte is a very common term used these days when referring to disk space or drive storage. 1 Gigabyte of data is almost twice the amount of data that a CD-ROM can hold. But it's about one thousand times the capacity of a 3-1/2 floppy disk. 1 Gigabyte could hold the contents of about 10 yards of books on a shelf. 100 Gigabytes could hold the entire library floor of academic journals.
Terabyte: A Terabyte is approximately one trillion bytes, or 1,000 Gigabytes. Now we are getting up there to a size that is so large that it is not a common term yet. To put it in some perspective, a Terabyte could hold about 3.6 million 300 Kilobyte images or maybe about 300 hours of good quality video. A Terabyte could hold 1,000 copies of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Ten Terabytes could hold the printed collection of the Library of Congress. That's a lot of data.
Petabyte: A Petabyte is approximately 1,000 Terabytes or one million Gigabytes. It's hard to visualize what a Petabyte could hold. 1 Petabyte could hold approximately 20 million 4-door filing cabinets full of text. It could hold 500 billion pages of standard printed text. It would take about 500 million floppy disks to store the same amount of data.
Exabyte: An Exabyte is approximately 1,000 Petabytes. Another way to look at it is that a Petabyte is approximately one quintillion bytes or one billion Gigabytes. There is not much to compare an Exabyte to. It has been said that 5 Exabytes would be equal to all of the words ever spoken by mankind.
Zettabyte: A Zettabyte is approximately 1,000 Exabytes. There is nothing to compare a Zettabyte to but to say that it would take a whole lot of ones and zeroes to fill it up.
Yottabyte: A Yottabyte is approximately 1,000 Zettabytes. It would take approximately 11 trillion years to download a yottabyte file from the Internet using high-power broadband. You can compare it to the World Wide Web as the entire Internet almost takes up a Yottabyte.
Brontobyte: A Brontobyte is (you guessed it) approximately 1,000 Yottabytes. The only thing there is to say about a Brontobyte is that it is a 1 followed by 27 zeroes!
Geopbyte: A Geopbyte is about 1000 Brontobytes! Not sure why this term was created. I'm doubting that anyone alive today will ever see a Geopbyte hard drive. One way of looking at a geopbyte is 15267 6504600 2283229 4012496 7031205 376 bytes!
Source : IBM Dictionary of computing method.

Application data : A big file to retain!!!

C:/Documents & Settings/ users then whatever your username is will have a folder, open that, then click Tools/Folder Options/File Types and set your computer to show Hidden Files, Click OK and you should then see it in your username folder.
This usually takes a lot of space in the hard drive and you will be out of space in the critical C folder because of this folder.
This may contain some vital apllications .exe that is executable files, so make sure that they are not deleted while emtying this folder.....