Install Unity 2D on Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick) [How To]

In one of our earlier articles, we shared a good news for Ubuntu 10.10 “Maverick” users who wants to get Unity 2D without upgrading to the latest Ubuntu 11.04 version.

Unity 2D is basically a desktop shell developed for hardware platforms that don’t support Unity’s OpenGL requirements. In other words, it’s developed for Ubuntu systems having less hardware resources.

2D’s architecture is very close to that of the original Unity desktop shell since it shares the same backend components, except that it replaces the user interface elements. The user interface elements which gets replaced in this strip down version of the desktop shell are the panel, launcher and places components. Moreover, it uses a tweaked version of Metacity instead of Compiz as its window manager. [Read more...]

How to Change Firefox Release Channels

After the first release of Mozilla’s “developer’s” build of FirefoxFirefox Aurora, Mozilla debuted Channel Switcher that lets users switch on the fly among Aurora, Beta, and Release versions of the web browser.

The benefit of the built-in channel changer is that users who want to see what’s coming in future versions of Firefox can now do so without having to download a separate installer (Google was also having something similar for Chrome web browser called Google Chrome Channel Changer, which is now deprecated and not recommended by Google). [Read more...]

Unlock All Levels Including Chrome Exclusive Levels in Chrome Angry Birds

In our earlier post, we covered the news about the release of the popular game Angry Birds HTML5 version that’s designed to run in Chrome (or Chromium) on any operating system. The game is very addictive and is already very popular on mobile phones and tablets.

Chrome Angry Birds

The survival of the Angry Birds is at stake. Dish out revenge on the green pigs who stole the Birds’ eggs. Use the unique destructive powers of the Angry Birds to lay waste to the pigs’ fortified castles. Angry Birds features hours of gameplay, challenging physics-based castle demolition, and lots of replay value. Each of the 70 levels requires logic, skill, and brute force to crush the enemy.

Now, some of the levels of Angry Birds might be very tricky. You may tear your hair apart to solve them just because you won’t be able to advance to the next level. Here’s a simple trick that will save your hair and agony!

Chrome Angry Birds: All levels unlocked!

Thanks to Wesbos who found this hack that will give you access to all Angry Bird levels, even the special Chrome levels!

Chrome Angry Birds: Special Chrome levels unlocked!

To get access to all levels in Chrome Angry Birds, just copy and paste the following line into your browser’s address bar.

javascript: var i = 0; while (i<=69) { localStorage.setItem('level_star_'+i,'3'); i++; } window.location.reload();

Note: You have to do the copy-paste job in the tab in which you have opened the game.

If you want to set all levels back to locked (virtually resetting Angry Birds), simply copy and paste this into your address bar:

javascript: var i = 1; while (i<=69) { localStorage.setItem('level_star_'+i,'-1'); i++; } window.location.reload();

Wesbos has also explained in his post, how and why this hack works.

In the talk Rovio did at Google IO, they mentioned they were using HTML5′s LocalStorage. If you open up Web Inspector in chrome, you’ll see they are keeping track of your score and stars with localstorage. Lucky for us, that means we can use setItem() set all 70 levels to 3 and get access to them all.

Office Key Remover: Remove and Change Office XP/2003/2007/2010 Product Key

Earlier, we have shown “how to change product key of Microsoft Office 2010 and Visio 2010.” But this method is specific to Office 2010 only, what about other editions of Microsoft Office productivity suite: Office XP, Office 2003 or Office 2007?

Microsoft keeps the license information hidden from end-users view. This makes the process of changing product key of Office hard and involves messing the registry key.

In some situations like virus attacks, corrupt data or when counterfeit software has been installed (without your knowledge), removing the product key of Microsoft Office productivity suite is helpful. Most users follow the routine uninstalling and then reinstalling of Microsoft Office suite, if they met such a situation.

But this is no longer necessary as Office Key Remover helps you out by removing Office licensing information from the system so that a new Office product key can than be entered and activated.

Office Key Remover is a small application which easily removes Microsoft Office’s license information from the computer. It supports Office XP, Office 2003, Office 2007 and Office 2010, both 32-bit and 64-bit. [Read more...]

Watch Live Streaming of DLF IPL 2011 Free on Youtube and Indiatimes

The Indian Premier League (IPL) 4 started last Friday. Several matches of the cricket tournament are already over. If you have missed watching the matches for some reason or other, you can watch them online. You can catch-all the action happening in DLF IPL 2011, the fourth season of the Indian Premier League for free through Indiatime’s official streaming. Keep yourself updated on every ball, every wicket as you watch IPL T20 streaming on indiatimes.com. This 51 day battle spread over 74 matches between 10 teams which began on April 8th.

Along with the existing eight teams (Mumbai Indians, Delhi Daredevils, Chennai Super Kings, Deccan Chargers, Kings XI Punjab, Rajasthan Royals, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders), two new teams Pune Warriors and Kochi Tuskers Kerala will join the fight for the title. [Read more...]

How To Delete a Windows Service in Windows 7, Vista or XP [Tutorials]

Ever faced a situation where after uninstalling a software, you find that it has left behind its service or driver references in the registry, and when Windows tries to load them at every boot, it fails displaying an error? This mostly happens with the security programs (though other applications also causes trouble) that fails to remove its installed services or drivers. Even though we posted an ultimate list of antivirus removal tools, but it is not enough.

We need something which will solve the problem in general for almost every Windows applications that causes trouble. In this article, we will show “how to easily remove an orphaned or unwanted service or driver from your Windows system.”

Basically there are three methods to deal with the problem. You can either use Windows in-built sc.exe command, or use the Registry Editor, or using Microsoft Sysinternals Autoruns for Windows utility.

Warning: Use this tutorial with caution, once you delete a service from Windows system, it’s gone, and it will be very difficult to install it back. [Read more...]

Make Twitter More Secure by Activating “Always use HTTPS”

Twitter has recently added a user setting that will let you activate ‘always use HTTPS‘ when accessing your Twitter.com account. Accessing your account using HTTPS secure connection is particularly important. This will improve the overall security of your account and will better protect your information if you’re using Twitter over an unsecured Internet connection, like a public WiFi network, where someone may be able to eavesdrop on your site activity. In the future, we hope to make HTTPS the default setting. Till now users were able to access Twitter via HTTPS by manually going to https://twitter.com. Now, Twitter have made it simpler for users by adding the option to always use HTTPS.

To turn on HTTPS for your Twitter.com account, follow the simple guide below (with helpful screenshots). [Read more...]