Feeling helpless that you cannot download free software for your iTouch/iPhone, just because you don’t have an iTunes account at iTunes store? Most of the users cannot do all this because iTunes require essentially a credit card for sign up.
But You can now do it all by creating a free iTunes account.

Here are the steps you can follow to create a Free iTunes account without a Credit Card:

1. open iTunes and click on iTunes store from left panel.
2. At the bottom page select My store as “United States”, the first option.
3. When the page reloads completely, on the right hand side under Quick Links select “Redeem”.
4. Now goto this site http://www.tunecore.com/freealbum . You will get a free Redeem code from there.
5. Paste the Redeem code you got into the Redeem screen of iTunes. When you press “Redeem”, you will be asked to provide your Apple/AOL id. But in the bottom right of same window there will be an option to create new account.Click it.
6. Now in the new window Enter your details and in the Payment options select None.
   Note: While entering details you should note that you are being signed up as an United States citizen so you should provide your details according to that only .
   In the name and address area, fill out anything as your wish. But the city, state, pin code and telephone nos. should be correct. I simply googled about all these details (remember google is one of the best tools of a wanna-be hacker). You can fill out these sample details:
   CITY: CAROL CITY
   STATE: FLORIDA
   ZIP CODE: either 33055 or 33056
   PHONE: there are two separated boxes. The first one is area code. Fill 305. After that you have to fill phone no. Type any 7 random numbers.
7. Select the none option and click continue, and it’s done.

That’s how you hack your way into a totally FREE iTunes account without a Credit Card !

But Hurry Up as the FREE Redeem Coupon codes are being given away till 30th September only.

source: http://theappledaily.com/2008/08/04/create-free-itunes-account-without-credit-card/

Almost everyone has suffered the fate. It could be you next. Just kidding. Wanted to start dramatically. Back to the RROD or known as the Red Ring Of Death. Just to be sure, if your console is still within the warranty period, you could send it to Microsoft for free service. For those who are not fortunate enough, we shall try this.

Its easy, all you need is some tools of domestic use. I bet you guys already across the ‘towel fix’ which is still doing the rounds on youtube. Anyway, serious problems calls for serious solutions. And this ain’t no exception.

Follow the video closely even if you have to have to watch it more than twice. This method has already been tested on 10 other Xbox 360s with RRODs.

360 Three Rings of Death FIX -REAL - video powered by Metacafe

If you can’t get the Xbox 360 up again, just take the fan out and overheat it and cool it for some time. This I reckon is temporary but you could do it again and again. Also, try this website as an alternate:
http://xbox360.yourreviewhub.com/

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Every time you see kids playing ball in the room, you instinctively tell them nicely how the LCD Monitor looks worried and how it doesn’t want its face screwed up. But what to do if it has already suffered such a notion? Don’t panic, Just follow these steps at Hackosis for a good facial.

There are two ways to go about it, one is simple but temporary while the other is permanent but long. The temporary method includes filling the scratches with vaseline while the permanent one needs to have an auto rubbing compound and lacquer. . Head over here to follow these steps. As usual , I must remind you that you do this at your own risk. No pressure! Carry on.

I was thinking from many days to upgrade to the latest version of Wordpress (The CMS used in this blog), but wasn’t able to do it, maybe because of the fear of database crash or something.

Allhailmike was again and again asking me to do it, as he pointed out, the new ver WP 2.6 is more streamlined, search engine friendly and more stable. So, after all the tweaking last night, i thought to give it a try.

I downloaded the latest version from the official website http://wordpress.org/ and uploaded it to a separate directory, inside the main root directory where i had installed my old installation of WP 2..3.1.

Then i headed to the documentaion part, to help me out smoothly with the process. I must say even the short documentation (they even have step-by-step spoon feeding) was clear and sufficient enough to do all the things safely and successfully. The documentation is at http://codex.wordpress.org/

So here goes the step-by-step instructions (in short):

1. First extract the contents of the new version in a separate folder and upload it to the main directory (root directory where wordpress is instaslled). Uploading through FTP is a better choice.

2. Now delete your wp-admin and wp-includes folder, from the older installation.

3. Copy the new WordPress files to your server, overwriting old files in the root.
NOTE The wp-content folder requires special handling, as do the plugins and themes folders. You must copy over the contents of these folders, not the entire folder. Copying the entire folder overwrites all your customizations and added content.
Also take care to preserve the content of the wp-config.php file in the root directory. This file contains current settings for your existing installation, e.g. database sign-in information.
Compare your existing file with the new installation file which is named wp-config-sample.php. Either transfer your settings to the sample-file and rename it to wp-config.php or copy the new statemens from the sample file into yor current file.

4. That’s it.Visit your main WordPress admin page at /wp-admin. You may be asked to login again. If a database upgrade is necessary at this point, WordPress will detect it and give you a link to a URL like http://example.com/wordpress/wp-admin/upgrade.php. Follow that link and follow the instructions. This will update your database to be compatible with the latest code.

Everything done correctly, itself calls for a coffee break.

I need a fresh cup of coffee or lemon tea, to woke up and keep myself awake in the morning. But how about and idea for a software Caffeine to keep your PC awake all the time?

Computers also go to sleep, as we all know, when they fire up a screensaver or simply turn off the display.
But Caffeine can help it keep awake by simulating a keystroke every 59 seconds.

Well that’s the default value (59 secs), which can be changed to any x-secs from the program. To prevent problems with running applications, the software simulates a shift-up, shift-down keystroke in Windows 98 and shift-down keystroke in Win XP and 2000.

The program resides as a cup of coffee in your system tray, is very helpful and small in size, just 11 kb.

Mere starting of a weblog, commonly termed as “BLOG”, is not enough.

The success of your blog entirely depends on various factors, which in turn bring more traffic and make your blog popular and successful.

Some of the important factors are:

1. The readability of your blog
   This is as simple and straight as it sounds. You need not show your high-level English skills in your blog.
   The language should be as simple and appealing as it can be. Before writing your posts, just imagine whatever you are going to write, is for a “lower-kindergarten” kid. Simple and straight approach always wins.
   An interesting tool to check the readability of your blog:
   LINK: http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/reading_level.aspx
2. Marketing of your blog
   This is not as simple as it seems. I take for granted that most of the starting bloggers, like me don’t have money to spend on top-level SEO (search engine optimization), to gather traffic from search engines.
   The best tools of a blogger to popularize his blog are pinging, submitting to article directories, quality link exchange, submission to blog search engines like Technorati.
   A tool to to check the total worth of your blog:
   LINK: http://www.business-opportunities.biz/projects/how-much-is-your-blog-worth/

WTF: :grin: The tool to check the worth of your blog is entirely based on tagging and the activity record of your blog on Technorati, so if you try to check the worth of even Google , the result would be 0$ !! :lol:

Egg 1: Credit to the developers

Type “about:credits” (without quotes) in the address bar of Firefox 3 and press enter, and here is what you get:

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Egg 2: Robots

Type “about:robots” (without quotes) in the address bar of Firefox 3 and press enter, and here is what you get:

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Egg No -1:

Open Firefox browser. Click on the address bar and type “about:mozilla” (without quotes) and hit enter.

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You get a red colour screen with the quote:
“Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers grew legion. And they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops unto the fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they built a new world in their own image as promised by the sacred words, and spoke of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke, and lo! it was naught but a follower.”
from The Book of Mozilla, 11:9 (10th Edition)

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Egg No-2:

Open Firefox browser.
Enter the following in the address bar:

chrome://browser/content/browser.xul

press enter. What you can see is “Firefox within Firefox”. You get as many browsers within browser, as many times you type the code and press enter.

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Gmail is undobutably one of the most powerful and feature rich email facility on the internet today.

Keeping and managing, multiple accounts with a main account, is very simple and easy.

1. login to your gmail account and click on the settings tab:
   
2. click on forwarding
   
3. checking the radio button for forward a copy, enter the gmail id and select the option for keeping a copy in the same account or not:
   that’s it. Next you will have to confirm by clicking on a link from other account, and DONE!

After that, whenever you need to compose a new mail from the main account, you will get option to use any one of the multiple id’s:

Windows PC can be transformed into Mac (visually), without going into hassle of installing many visual themes, windowblinds, docklets….and the list goes on……
The solution is a simple all-in-one installer FlyakiteOSX.

“FlyakiteOSX is a transformation pack. It will transform the look of an ordinary Windows XP+ system to resemble the look of Mac OS X. The installer simply automates the process of replacing critical system files, setting registry tweaks, and installing extras such as cursors, sounds, visual styles, etc. FlyakiteOSX DOES NOT contain any spyware or ad-ware of any kind. All files needed for FlyakiteOSX are stored in the Windows directory in a folder named ‘FlyakiteOSX’ that is hidden by default. All registry values for FlyakiteOSX are written to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\FlyakiteOSX.”
All the documentation and FAQ’s about installer can be found at:

http://www.flyakiteosx.com/
http://osx.portraitofakite.com/

The installer is very simple, the whole visual system is light on the CPU, and is completely safe to install and remove.

Screenshots:

Download:

http://www.flyakiteosx.com/files/FlyakiteOSX%20v3.0.zip