When Firefox is blocked, it is an inconvenience. However, when Internet Explorer and all other major Web Browsers are blocked, it is a nightmare. Sometimes, public terminals and computers are designed to do just that, even with an Internet connection. Luckily, there is still a way to surf the web without using any major web browsers with a rather sly method: using the Microsoft Windows Help Menu. Here’s how to access the Internet without an actual web browser.
Unless you’re willing to spend a lot of money to buy expensive legit software, your office suites usually don’t come with enough clip art to fulfill your desire. Open Clip Art Library takes care of this. This great website is one of the best sources where thousands of clip artists post their best images for you to view and download for free! Open Clip Art also creates a community where users request for certain types of customized clip art. Here, over 10,000 scalable vector graphic images are posted with free licenses for personal and commercial usage. This is an end to boring generic clip art from Microsoft Power Point.
Link: openclipart.org [Open Clip Art Library]
Hard drive disk partitioning is one action that you should not avoid. It helps you organize your data and can avoid major catastrophes, such as loosing all your precious data.
To those who do not understand partitioning, read the Wikipedia article Disk Partitioning [Wikipedia]. A partition is basically an organized sector on your hard drive acting like a single drive. For instance, C: is the most popular Local Disk partition. Many people also have D: as a back up drive/partition. When you partition (verb) your hard drive, you are splitting up your disk into more drives. What’s the purpose of this? Many:
1.) Prevent Catastrophes- Most of us have already experienced computer failures in combination with huge data loss. If you haven’t, you’re either really really really lucky, or… I don’t know why else you haven’t had failures… But anyways, partitioning your disk can prevent such problems. By separating your precious data, such as pictures, from your Windows drive (usually C:), you can avoid the failure of Windows affecting your pictures. Basically, if your Windows goes bizark and corrupts, it can not harm data on another partition. Thus, you would be able to boot up with, say, a live Linux CD and then copy all your safe data in that nice little partition you made. Read the rest of this entry »
For educational purposes only! These set of instructions on instructables.com tell of a way to crack windows passwords. You know, the log in password of your neighbor- no I mean the password that you, um, lost the other day… Basically, it uses a Linux distro (Slax, I believe) with its special software. The software is called Ophcrack, which is part of this Linux distro. The cd itself is a live cd which means you boot up with it. After boot, the applications in this cd automatically scans your computer for passwords of log in accounts (SAM Files) and then displays them for you. This means that you do not have to reset any passwords. You can actually view the old password that you… lost… This should be very helpful whenever you loose your password because we just happen to loose our windows account log in passwords all the time
Link Source: Cracking Windows Passwords [Instructables]
