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You ever wanted to sing on a mic?? I did, but I was (am!!) too reluctant to do so in a public stage. Aah, so in fact I never did it..  until..

So now we are going to redirect the voice from your microphone to your speakers. Sounds cool na? And no additional software is required.

• Right click on the speaker icon in your system tray.
• Select ‘playback devices’ >> ‘Speakers’
• Choose ‘properties’ >> ‘Levels’
• And then unmute the mic symbol (if there are two mic symbols, unmute ‘front mic’) and increase the volume

Now plug in your mic (or the mic jack of your headphone) and turn up the speaker volume….

… and rock the walls.

[ The configuration instructions are based on windows vista, hope it will be easy to find them in xp too, if you encounter any problem, let me know.. ]

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We all agree that Gmail is the coolest mail service out here. I recently read from the Official Gmail Blog two more cool features of Gmail. To be honest, I never knew about those before.

1. Suppose your gmail id is kingjacc@gmail.com, then you can aswell receive mails addressed to king.jacc@gmail.com, or k.ing.ja.cc@gmail.com or so. This is because the Gmail system just ignores any periods(.) in between your userid.
2. And here is another nice one. Again suppose your gmail id is kingjacc@gmail.com. Suppose you are using this id for some official use such as ‘customer feedback’or somehing. So now you can append any other word after your gmail id after a ‘+’ sign. So you can use the mail id ‘kingjacc+feedback@gmail.com‘ or ‘kingjacc+sports@gmail.com‘ or so. And if you want to forward to forward your mails addressed to ‘kingjacc+feedback@gmail.com‘ to another email id, if you need. You can configure this in the gmail settings > filters >

Is n’t it cool, checkout now.

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Most of us keep more than one email id. We may be keeping one for personal communication, one for business communication etc. But it is really difficult to keep up with multiple email ids. You have to check all these ids for any incoming message or to send any mail from those.

But now with gmail, you can completely manage your other email ids with a single id. For the case of incoming messages, you can set to forward all the  messages coming to that id to your gmail id.(ie, if you configure to forward your emails, you can read emails sent to jacc@yahoo.com from jack202@gmail.com). So the problem of incoming mail is saved for now. You can find the mail forwarding option in gmail >> settings >>forwarding >>

And if you want to send a mail from another account, that is also possible with gmail. In Gmail >> Settings >> Accounts >> , you can configure other email ids. Gmail will send a confirmation message and once you confirm the ownership of the other email id, you can start sending emails from those ids from your accounts.That is., if you set jacc@intellwiz.com.com to be your additional email id, then after confirmation you can send emails ‘from saurabh@intellwiz.com‘, right from the gmail id- jacc202@gmail.com. Nice isn’t it?

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There is a simple way by which you can block any site from being accessible from your computer. There is a file called “hosts” located at C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc. Now open that file in Notepad. This file is used to map domain names with IP addresses, locally within your computer. So whenever you type a domain name (say google.com) in your browser, the browsr first checks if the domain entry is in this “hosts” file. If not present (in most cases), the browser will lookup external servers.

Now the trick, if you want to block google.com, assign the domain name google.com to the ip 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1 is the address of your own computer, commonly known as ‘localhost’) or assign it to any other value such as 127.0.x.x.

Now every time you enters google.com, it goes to 127.0.0.1, ie your own computer. So virtually you have blocked it.

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