Saturday, October 4, 2008

Hundreds of Free Mobile Games with In Game Ads

We touched this subject before like when we wrote about the deal behind the battlefield free online game at the beginning of 2008. We were discussing about a new free online version of this video game available for free, being supported by advertising and micro payments.Free online games supported by in-game ads is a smart idea and is really working without bothering gamers during the gameplay. Now we have another alternative launched a few days ago by 123play, which became the Europe’s best source of free mobile gaming available in UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.123play is provided by Mobile Advertising Solution for mobile handsets, and users can choose from 800 different games to download and play on the go. The advertising appears when the game is launched and after the gaming ends, so users can click on one of the 2 ads if they like and land on mobile websites. In addition, if you play the same game several times a day you’ll see the ads only the first time you launch it, and if you are willing to pay a small amount of money all games become 100% free, with no ads.You have games available from the most famous creators such as THQ Wireless, RealArcade, Vivendi Games Mobile and Hands-On Mobile, all supported by more than 800 mobile handset models.“With today’s launch we’ve made the best mobile games even better – by making them free for anyone to download” said Markus Ramark, CEO of 123play.com “There’s no other service out there that brings together great games and advertising from leading brands, wraps them together, and makes it as easy as 1, 2, 3 to play.”

Disable or remove shutdown

=> remove shutdown from start menu and also from all other possible options.
=> hide shutdown from start menu

=> disable shutdown all togetherlearn to do it now!!! (it takes less than a minute to do so)Disclaimer: this is an article which just brings out the fact that removing

shut down menu option from the start menu is possible. If you however get caught by your manager or college system administrator, and get whipped in your ass, I cannot be held responsible. This tool is a inbuilt tool present in windows XP, just like msgconfig. So you

got to execute this command using run. 1 . Start ->run and type gpedit.msc The gpedit stands for group policy and you can do wonders using this. Also if

you a minute with your pal’s system and this pal tries to flirt your girl friend

- You can make a lot of changes to his system in the time he leaves you alone with his system, to have him go bonkers.

2. User configuration -> administrative Templates -> start menu and taskbar -> 3. This option opens up a pane on the right hand side. Identify the option named - Remove SHUT DOWN on the start menu . 4. Double click Remove SHUT DOWN on the start menu option 5. a small screen pops up and you may like to read about the explanation in the EXPLAIN TAB before you change the settings. 6. Just change the radio button TO ENABLED and say apply. 7. DONE. No need to log off or restart the system. (You may however have to find

a way to restart your system.) 8. This option disables the log off option from the system. From the start menu,

also from the life saver – three buttons CTRL - ALT - DEL options. This option goes well with the HIDING THE LOG OFF FROM START MENU… (To shut down ur systemithout using frm shut down menu) The solution is that u can switch user thru task manager (alt+ctrl+del) or by pressing winkey+L where u get the option to turn off ur compy/restart/stand

or u may create a shortcut using this shortcut location to shutdown ur sys %windir%\system32\shutdown.exe -s to restart, u can use this shortcut %windir%\system32\shutdown.exe -r

Increase Your Cable Modem or DSL Speed in XP

Increase Your Cable Modem or DSL Speed in XP

This tweak is for broad band cable connections on stand alone machines with WinXPprofessional version - might work on Home version also. It may also work with networkedmachines as well.

This tweak assumes that you have let WinXP create a connection on install for yourcable modem/NIC combination and that your connection has tcp/ip - QoS - file and printsharing - and client for Microsoft networks , only, installed. It also assumes thatWinXP will detect your NIC and has in-box drivers for it. If it doesn't do not trythis.

In the "My Network Places" properties (right-click on the desktop icon and chooseproperties), highlight the connection

then at the menu bar choose "Advanced" then "Advanced Settings". Uncheck the twoboxes in the lower half for the

bindings for File and Printer sharing and Client for MS networks. Click OK.· From the Windows XP CD in the support directory from the support cab, extract thefile netcap.exe and place it in a

directory on your hard drive or even in the root of your C:\ drive.

Next, open up a command prompt window and change directories to where you putnetcap.exe. then type "netcap/?".

It will list some commands that are available for netcap and a netmon driver will beinstalled. At the bottom you will

see your adapters. You should see two of them if using a 3Com card. One will be forLAN and the other will be for

WAN something or other.

Next type "netcap/Remove". This will remove the netmon driver.· Open up Control Panel->System->Dev Man and look at your network adapters. Youshould now see two of them and one will have a yellow ! on it. Right-click on the onewithout the yellow ! and choose uninstall. YES! You are uninstalling your networkadapter, continue with the uninstall. Do not restart yet.

Check your connection properties to make sure that no connection exists. If you geta wizard just cancel out of it.

Now re-start the machine.

After re-start go to your connection properties again and you should have a newconnection called "Local area connection 2". Highlight the connection, then at the menubar choose "Advanced" then "Advanced Settings". Uncheck the two boxes in the lower half

for the bindings for File and Printer sharing and Client for MS networks. Click OK.

Choose connection properties and uncheck the "QOS" box.

Re-start the machine.

After restart enjoy the increased responsiveness of IE, faster page loading, and aconnection speed boost.

Why it works, it seems that windows XP, in its zeal to make sure every base is coveredinstalls two separate versions of the NIC card. One you do not normally see in anyproperties. Remember the "netcap/?" command above showing two different adapters? The LAN

one is the one you see. The invisible one loads everything down and its like your runningtwo separate cards together, sharing a connection among two cards, this method breaksthis "bond" and allows the NIC to run un-hindered.