Time is not the same

The time is not the same in the whole world, an we all know it. It is a different time in Washington and in London, or Ulan-Bator, and most of the time we don't need to realize that, but sometimes we do. Let's say that a friend of yours went abroad, or in to the other end of the country, or your boss sent you to the far away kingdom, or your brother is on holidays in Ethiopia, and you started to talk with some of them on a instant messaging program, or voice call program, and he tells you "Good morning!" at five o'clock in the afternoon. Then you start to ask yourself what time is it there (especially when it is your boss and you don't want to ask his time, you should add/subtract hours), but your head don't respond to your question. When you have a problem you solve it, you could create a table with your and theirs hours (me : 7 - boss : 11, bro' : 3 ...), or make your application, use something that exists already. I am lousy and I choose the las one. I found a MS TimeZone application that is very useful.

It looks like that when it is installed and runs in your system tray. And to perform this first step (the installation step), go here. The second step is to set your locations in options (right click on the tray icon) and your locations could be like this: To create your custom named locations just go in the Option dialog box to the add button under the Available locations list.

More informations about this application you can find here.
Or maybe you want a screen saver with time zones: here's a screen saver.
You could choose a less user friendly interface but mybe with some more power (i dont't realy know about it) by using this app.
One more thing: all these applications here are free, an work for windows.

[Funny] Interesting conversation

A telemarketer calls you, sometimes he has something interesting to tell you, but must of the time you don't want to talk with him. There are many ways to finish the conversation. You could tell him you're not interested in the offer, you are busy right now, you could just hang out or tell him that you can't hear anything, make some noises or something like that. But why finish the conversation if you could make fun of it. There is a guy that found a funny situation to put in the telemarketer and he made the conversation public on the net. It is about somebody called mr. Mabe, and at the office we had a good laugh listening to this, on the page it is presented you'll see the subtitles of this talk. Get in the mood by seeing this. (You'll have to wait a little to let the sound loading completely).

Your Windows show a "Low disk space" warning again!?

Sometimes you get tired of these warnings, and this is one that most of the people will gladly disable. But for that you need to go editing registry of your operating system. On the Downloadsquad website you'll find the line below like an alternative to registrar editing. Just copy the line and paste it in a command prompt. (To open a command prompt you need to type cmd in Run dialog box, to show this dialog box type Window key + R).

 

regini HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer "NoLowDiskSpaceChecks" = REG_DWORD 1

But this warning i find sometimes useful. I start to download a little bigger file, and may be I do not have enough space on the disk, and this warning will make me find some space before the downloading process is finished or download the file on a different drive. So it is your choice to disable the warning. I didn't do it on my computer, because it shows not so often, and it still appears useful to me.

Yahoo! Mail beta has Messenger

.. or at least it will.

The greatest advantage of GMail for me was the free POP3 access and the integrated talk client, an then was the no advertising thing. But now it seems that Yahoo! wants to integrate a Y! Messenger client in the Mail beta, to be available directly in the browser. With the new, more user friendly, interface of the Mail, Yahoo! took a big step, and this will be an important step too.

Here's a video presentation of the idea. In the presentation you can see some thing about it, and that this feature will be released later for all the users.


And more about the new Yahoo Mail on http://ymailupdates.com/.

GMail has about 3 GB - you could use it like a drive

You can use it on your computer by installing an application that will do to access the drive easier, or you could use it from the net.
The first method is very easy to use (too bad you can't see the drive in Total Commander, but the Windows Explorer will do). You just have to:
1. Download the GMail Drive shell extension 1.0.10 from here.
2. Extract he files from the archive and run setup.exe
3. Access the new drive in Windows Explorer - it will ask you to log in (you know that Windows Explorer is something like Internet Explorer but with some other default tools, so when you copy files on that drive you just upload a file into an email sent to you, and when you copy from it you just download that file, so don't expect extra speed).
Look at the tips on the download page that I gave you above. It is nice to put a filter to your uploaded files.
Here you can see a little illustration how it works:


The method number two:
But sometimes you want to access your files not only on your computer, but somewhere else, at school, where you have no time or will to install that application. You can use this page witch is user friendly, and uses the same GMail. It is xMailHardDrive page powerredby BlackBox.
I saw this site is in the beta version, and sometimes you need patience with it. This guy from the clip above say that is is ok. It wasn't for me...

If the second method doesn't work, try downloading files from your GMail inbox (that's kind of third method), that sure will work, it will be just harder to upload files, but for that you better use the first method from home, where you have the drive installed.

If you deleted those file accidentally

 

The Shift + Del shortcut to delete the file skip the file to go Recycle Bin and then go to throw all the trash, now the files are lost. Lost like the moment you empty the Bin - if the you don't have a Norton Antivirus or something that helps you to keep you hard dick full. But sometimes you lost some files that you needed. In this case try to use as quick as possible a recovery tool - quick, I mean until you didn't added some files to that partition, or  you didn't defragmented it.

A new utility, free utility is called Recuva (pronounced "recover") from recuva.com, it is a Windows utility that helps you to recover those files.

 

I hope it will do good for you, if it is not good enough try other utilities. Easy recovery worked once good enough for me. You can find the trial version here, it has no limitation.

More information about recovering data - on http://www.data-recovery-software.net/ .

Men with blue eye prefer blue-eyed women

I found this article on New Scientist site, and their explanations are very interesting.

The most interesting argument is that in a "blue-eyed couple" the child will be sure blue-eyed, and this will work like a test of paternity. For a father without blue yes the child is more probable without blue eyes too.

A blue-eyed man is more likely to be involved in relation with a woman with the same eye color then other possible combinations.

... Should I seek a blue-eyed partner?

... What color do you like the most for your partner's eyes?