How to Create Your Own Customized Run Commands

Let me take up an example of how to create a customized run command for opening the Internet explorer. Once you create this command, you should be able to open the Internet explorer just by typing “ie” (without quotes) in the Run dialog box. Here is how you can do that.

1. Right click on your Desktop and select New -> Shortcut.

2. You will see a “Create Shortcut” Dialog box as shown below

3. Click on “Browse”, navigate to: Program Files -> Internet Explorer from your Root drive (usually C:\) and select “iexplore” as shown in the above figure and click on “OK”.

4. Now click on “Next” and type any name for your shortcut. You can choose any name as per your choice; this will be your customized “Run command”. In this case I name my shortcut as “ie”. Click on “Finish”.

5. You will see a shortcut named “ie” on your desktop. All you need to do is just copy this shortcut and paste it in your Windows folder (usually “C:/Windows”). Once you have copied the shortcut onto your Windows folder, you can delete the one on your Desktop.

6. That’s it! From now on, just open the Run dialog box, type ie and hit Enter to open the Internet Explorer.

In this way you can create customized Run commands for any program of your choice. Say “ff” for Firefox, “ym” for Yahoo messenger, “wmp” for Windows media player and so on.

To do this, when you click on “Browse” in the Step-3, just select the target program’s main executable (.exe) file which will usually be located in the C:\Program Files folder. Give a simple and short name for this shortcut as per your choice and copy the shortcut file onto the Windows folder as usual. Now just type this short name in the Run dialog box to open the program.

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Hack BSNL Broadband for Speed

you are a BSNL broadband user, chances are that you are facing frequent DNS issues. Their DNS servers are just unresponsive. The look up takes a long duration and many times just time out. The solution? There is small hack on BSNL for this. Use third party DNS servers instead of BSNL DNS servers or run your own one like djbdns. The easiest options is to use OpenDNS. Just reconfigure your network to use the following DNS servers:

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

Detailed instructions specific to operating system or your BSNL modem are available in the OpenDNS website itself. After I reconfigured my BSNL modem to use the above 2 IP addresses, my DNS problems just vanished! Other ‘freebies’ that come with OpenDNS are phishing filters and automatic URL correction. Even if your service provider’s DNS servers are working fine, you can still use OpenDNS just for these two special features. After you hack BSNL DNS servers, you will see a noticeable improvement in your broadband speed.

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Facebook File Sharing Easy tricks

Several portals allow us the ‘upload files of various formats, on their servers. These sites are file hosting portals : The user loads a file, you may decide to link it and share it with friends, for example. And if we wanted to load a file on Facebook ? In fact it would not be possible, in practice there is an application that allows us to do this in a few steps. Filefly is an application which allows us to share files easily  with our  Facebook contacts. Using FileFly,you can share files  quickly and shared on the recipients  Facebook Wall.


How does it work?
1) First important step is to authorize the application by clicking on this link and allowing Filefly to enter into your profile. Without this step, we can not go on.
2) Now we can use the space at our disposal, that is 2 GB. In the lower right there will be a counter that  tell us how much space we are using.
3) We can create different folders, for a tidy space at our disposal.
4) Click the  Upload button, the first folder will be created with a default name, where the file gets uploaded to.
5) Click Add Files to add files.
6) In the center of the page there is the option to “Publish on my wall When I share this folder” that allows us to publish our folder on the bulletin board.
7) To share the folder, or the files contained in it, with our friends on Facebook, simply click on “Click here to share with your friends.”
The service is absolutely free, with only limited space available which is equal to 2 GB.

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