Best programming language to learn

Are you confused that which programming language to learn as a beginner? Well, many people will recommend visual basic, basic, java and many other languages. Because a very few will recommend C. Most common excuse people have is that C is hard to learn, does not support object oriented programming (OOP) and it's no point learning C when there a much advanced and improved versions like C++.
But if you study it's history then you will find the importance of learning C. It is the base of all the most popular programming languages like C++, C# and Java. What is C++? It is just an extended version of the great C language with more new features added. According to my experience of 10 years of programming, if you have mastered C, then all other languages are just a matter of time. You will not have to make any extra effort to learn these languages.
If we look at the C language scopewise then I have heard many people arguing that now no company asks you if you know C but they ask, "Do you know C++, C# or Java? But believe me, in the real practice if you go to an interviewer and tell him that you are a master of C then there are 99% chances that he will hire you because he knows that if I know C then C++ or C# are not big things. Most of the most modern operating systems are written in C because operating system needs to be fast and C is praised for fast execution speed.
There are thousand of advantages of learning C. I give it the award "Best Programming Language". So, if I have convinced you to learn C then read on.
When I was learning C, I was very confused that which book should I pick up and after long research I finally came to the book "Let us C" by Yashwant kanetkar.

 This is a wonderful book for all levels of learners. It starts with the very basics of the C language and gradually gives you more heavy weight so you don't feel lost. It makes C as simple as BASIC language. Mr. Kantekar (the author of "Let us C") is a professional and has received several prestigious awards.

I can give you the download link for the book but sadly it's fifth edition so I suggest you to buy the latest edition. You can buy this book from any good book seller or leading computer book shop.



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Freeware to recover permanently deleted files

There are many softwares out there to help you recover permanently deleted files but the problem is that most of them are highly priced like one of the good one is stellar phoenix but its costly. So today I am going to tell a freeware which almost equals stellar phoenix without having any cost - Piriform Recuva.
 This is a very simple yet effective solution.

You can see circles with green, orange and red color before file names in the image above. What do they mean is that the file with red circle is unrecoverable, file with orange circle is in poor state while the file with green circle is in excellent state and can be fully recovered. You can also preview the files which are in excellent state. It also tells you which file has overwritten the file you want to recover.
The interface is quite simple. Type the filename and select a specific or all drives and hit scan. Then check the files which you want to recover and then hit the button recover at the right bottom corner in program window.

NOTE:- If you are unable to recover some of your important files then you might need much powerful software so to get the registered version of Stellar Phoenix email me at matneo123@yahoo.com.

Download Piriform Recuva here


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Be safe while using p2p filesharing - Linux

In my previous post I had mentioned about a software Peerguardian which protects you from being caught while using illegal p2p filesharing (click here to read full post). But Peerguardian is windows only so here is another software Iplist which is for Linux users.

Functions and options are almost same as Peerguardian so there is nothing to about for even Linux users.

Download Iplist here


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Be safe while using p2p filesharing - Windows

Do you think that you are safe while using p2p network (using torrents)? Yeah, people think that what happens by doing this, they think that they are at the safe side. But they are ignorant, they don't know that in p2p network we connect to other computers and they may drop any type of malware or virus in our stream and it may come to our pc. Most antiviruses don't detect the viruses coming this way. Autorun.exe virus is being heavily distributed by this method. But this is one issue.
Another and much more important issue is that by using the p2p network to download movies, songs, games, softwares etc is an illegal thing to do. But people don't mind this. They think that as long as they are getting all the free stuff they should not worry but now the time has come to be worried. Nowadays MPAA, CRIA, CPCC, RIAA and some other organizations are very active and catching illegal filesharing. (These are organizations which sue you on the illegal use of p2p network filesharing and on the orders of the court they may make you pay thousands of dollars and end up several years in jail.)
Everybody knows why www.mininova.org is dead. Because of these organizations. Think, if they can bring such a big org down then can't they hunt you?
Now I think that readers are getting a bit nervous and frightened. But don't worry. As I always have, I have a solution. That also for free.
Phoenix labs has made available a free software named peerguardian which blocks these monsters and protects you against them.

What it does is block the ip addresses that are blacklisted in its database while your downloads are active so they are not able to find you. It has automatic update feature which downloads latest IP addresses to be blocked so you stay safe. This is only for windows users.
If you want similar software for Linux click here to go to post containing the software for Linux.

Download Peer Guardian 2.0 beta 6b



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Freeware alternative for Acrobat reader

There's a great freeware named Foxit reader as an alternative to resource hungry adobe acrobat reader.

Foxit reader has been ranked #1 in document management software. By comparing the features of adobe acrobat reader and Foxit reader, I observed that there are many features in adobe acrobat reader which I or most of the people would have rarely used and I think that the developers of Foxit reader noticed this so they have only kept the features which are necessary leaving out all the unnecessary ones.

Unlike acrobat reader Foxit reader loads amazingly fast. You will not face the problem of reading environment because the interface is almost same as acrobat reader. Overall, its best feature is that it is freeware.You must give it a try.

Download Foxit reader 3.2.1



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How to hackproof yourself

These days Chinese hackers are very active. You must have heard in news that recently a Canadian investigators team has revealed that a Chinese cyber spy ring specifically targeted India's defense establishment and are expected to set off a major cyber security overhaul by New Delhi.
I wonder that how can anybody challenge a country which produces most talented computer scientists, software engineers and also hackers (majority of them are unknown). But now I understand why we are not able to face the challenge. The reason is that everybody wants money and this is the common human nature that wherever a person gets higher level of satisfaction than the present one then he will go after that only. So this means that these genius don't get enough salary so they go overseas and give them their priceless talent.
But now they have to wake up and see what is going on in their motherland. What we need at present is a team of hackers who have in them the patriotic feeling towards their country. If once this is done then we can show those chinese that we are not weak.
Normal internet users should also be conscious about internet threats because who knows when these chinese fall in love with you. Now I am telling you somethings that you should keep in your mind while using internet.
(1). Never compromise your pc security. Always install a good and reputed antivirus, antispyware and firewall. The one I recommend is ESET nod32 4.0 Smart Security. I am using this from past 4 or 5 months and am highly satisfied with it. Don't worry about the cost, just Email me at matneo123@yahoo.com and never install the free ones because I don't trust them. Although AVG and avast have been impressive according to some analysts but I stick to eset. As you are my reader so you are most valuable to me so I would not want any of my reader to use these ones, email me and get eset 4.0 for free. It combines all the three - antivirus, antispyware and firewall.

(2). Change all your passwords on internet for any type of account whether it be of ebay or gmail or any email. You should change your password by about every 15 days. And be conscious while choosing password like don't use your name of birthday in your password and keep the length of your password long.

(3) If you have to do some confidential work then don't use the cafe computers to do this. Only use your home computer or if you are sure about your office pc then use it. Because there are lots of people going in cafe so you don't know who has done what. What if somebody installed a keylogger? Keylogger is a software which records every key you press on your keyboard.

If everybody follows these simple rules then everybody will be protected. I don't say that you will be hackproof and also the rules I have told you are very crude But are good if you keep them in practice. There are much deeper security related things but they are for the geeks.

Many people have perception that if I only use internet to access my email then I don't need any antivirus or security suite but they are wrong. As soon as you connect to the web, it becomes an open diary which anybody with required knowledge can read and do whatever it wants to do with it. And not only viruses or threats come from internet but also from e.g. pen drive, any storage device. So you  are not safe at all. So immediately mail me at matneo123@yahoo.com and get the best security suite for free and keep yourself protected against all types of threats. If you are an advanced user then there are other interesting features in this suite that you will like.



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freeware to wake up and shut down your pc at set time

From many days I was in search of some type of freeware software which would wake up my pc at specific time set by me and then again again hibernate or shutdown after certain time also set by me.
I found some (most of them were not freeware) but none of them satisfied me. One of them was quite fine but there was no option to shutdown the pc itself at specific time after wake up. So it wasn't for me.

Then, after some days I came accross not a well known software - Wake up on Standby (wosb). This is a very small standalone utility which does it's work prefect. No installation is required as I said before that it is a standalone utility. You can even set the files or programs to be ran at the time of wake up. See the screenshot below.

You can understand the interface just by reading. As you can see the first box says "specify time to wake up computer". Here you specify date and time to wake up your pc.
Next is "Specify what to do at that time". Here you tell it to run certain file/program/website or show text message, whatever you want. (other softwares check your pocket for this feature.)
Next is "Specify what to do next". You have four options 1. send into stand by mode, 2. hibernate, 3. shutdown, 4. simply wait. I choose to hibernate.
Now the final step is to tell it whether to repeat this schedule. I keep it checked to every week and all the days in week.
Note: The only limitation in this software is that it doesn't support wake up from shutdown so you have to hibernate your pc in order to make this software work.
Now click the start button and the system tray will show its icon and when you hover over the icon then shows the wake up time. Now when all this set then simply leave your pc at hibernation and it will do its work. If you don't want to wake up your pc at certain day then don't cancel it, just don't hibernate your pc but shut it down. Trust me, it will not disappoint you. I regularly use it and it's 101% spyware, malware free.

This is my review. See what it's developer says at http://www.dennisbabkin.com. At the same site you can also download it.



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modem booster to speed up your modem

Do you experience slow internet speed? Do you wonder that I am paying for high speed broadband but my internet crawls like a snail? Then you blame your ISP (internet service provider) that he is cheating with you but hey! wait. It might be a problem in your modem or pc.
Well, you google and find several tricks for your pc to improve internet speed but what about a software which also tunes up your modem along with optimizing your pc? Yeah, there is a software called Modem Booster. I have used it and have seen significant increase in speed of my internet.
Even if you are not a tech savvy, you can use it. It's interface is very simple. You just click some buttons and the rest is handled by modem booster. It works on all types of modems. It first does different tests and then modifies certain settings and at last also tells you that how much your modem's speed has been increased. Here's a screenshot of modem booster 5.0.

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Automatically check if the Tracker is open for registration

I am trying from about past two months to get a free registration on private BitTorrent Tracker like demonoid and other similar sites but I miss most of them because you don't know when the registration is open so i tried to find a utility or webservice which would report you that the registrations are open in a particular tracker. And I indeed found a very nice utility named Tracker Checker.
This is Windows only and requires .net Framework 2.0 to run. It regularly checks the sites listed in its database and notifies if the registration is open in any of the tracker listed. The good thing is that if your desired or favortie tracker is not listed in its database then you can manually add it in the "trackers.xml" file.
I didn't find any malware or spyware in this program. I scanned it with Eset Smart Security 4.0 fully updated.

 Download Tracker checker 2.0.3

 And yeah, with the help of tracker checker, I now have my free account at demonoid.com.


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Best torrent client according to me

When I first started using torrents to download stuff from internet (using p2p network) I always wondered that which client is the best because there are several out there and almost all are freewares e.g. bitcomet, azureus, limewire, utorrent etc. So it was very hard to choose which one to use because somebody said bitcomet, someone else said azureus etc. Then I decided to test each of these myself. And here is the review of two top conetenders - bitcomet and utorrent.

(1) Bitcomet -

Download Bitcomet
This is a heavy client with many features and provides different facilities. It integrates itself into your web browsers like IE (Internet Explorer)  and FF (Moxilla Firefox) and gives several download options like download all the images from a particular webpage or download the audio file which is not directly available to download from the webpage itself. But I didn't get satisfactory speed with bitcomet. My peak speed went up to about 40kbps, not more than that. Bitcomet also took time to find seeds and peers and affected my internet browser speed. Bit comet gives an option of comet passport which is free to register and according to bit comet you get higher download speed and many stuff when you register and get comet passport but I didn't see any effect in speed even after registering to comet passport. So I didn't use bit comet much.

After Bit comet I used some more but all gave the same result. At last I came to utorrent and it really impressed me.

(2) Utorrent -

The size of this very tiny application made the first impression on me. Download it yourself and see its size Download utorrent. 
At first run utorrent gave me the speed of 70 kbps. Wow! Then it kept on increasing and now I download at more than 500kbps. Can you imagine? from 30kbps to 500+kbps? Unlike bitcomet it immediately finds and connects seeds and peers. It has very good features like auto shutdown, scheduler etc which have been incorporated in bit comet now. Utorrent is really the best client. I love its simple yet impressive interface.

I don't insist that you also use utorrent beacuse read the post's title which is "Best torrent client according to me" so you are free to choose which one you like but if you ask me then my answer is UTORRENT.




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computer not booting up

Are you facing the problem of pc not starting? I mean that nothing appearing on the screen. You push the power button and pc comes alive but after 5 or 6 seconds again dead.

Well, if nothing appears on your screen then first of all check whether the power button on your monitor is on becuase these days all LCD and TFT screens have a very small and smooth power button so we confuse it.

Second, check the brightness and contrast of your monitor. It might have happened that some kids came to your house and might have played around with the brightness and contrast settings.

Third, this is the last thing you can do is that check your monitor cable. Plug it off the cpu and reinsert it.
Now, after this much effort your monitor must be up an running.


The second problem is that pc again and again turns off. So here is the simple solution.
Take out the ram of your pc and insert it again. It is illustrated in the image below.

What you have to do is open your case (remember to pull out the power cable first) and then on the motherboard find the chip (ram stick) which is held in the image above. Then after you locate it, pull the plastic bars on either sides of the ram to outside (opposite than the chip). By doing this the ram will pop out. then again adjust the ram on the slot and then pressing the ram downward by the fingers, again push the two plastic bars inside (towards ram) and the ram will be fixed (don't press too hard).

Most of the times the problem is fixed by doing this but if it doesn't then email me your problem at matneo123@yahoo.com.



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Download any youtube video in a single click

Today I saw a very interesting video on youtube and wanted to download it so went to www.savevideodownload.com and entered the id of the video but the site didn't give me the download link so I googled my problem and found very simple method to download any youtube video.

Well first you need to download latest version of real player so click here to go to download page.
Now, while installing it it will ask about youtube downloading preferences which is shown below.

Or you can manually do it by going to preferences dialog box after installing realplayer. Image with full instructions is shown below.

Now go to youtube and browse a video and you will see a "download this video" button on the upper right corner of video window. Hit this button and it will automatically start downloading the video.



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remove blue background on desktop icons

Very often people get stuck at the problem of blue background on desktop icons if they change their themes. And most of the people do this -


Right-click "My Computer" and choose Properties to bring up the Systems Properties window. 

Select the "Advanced" tab. Under "Performance" click the "Settings" button. 

This will bring up the Performance Options window. 

Under the "Visual Options" tab, click the "Custom" radio button. 

You'll see a list of check boxes. 

Check off the one that says, "Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop". 

Then "Apply" or "OK" to make the change.

But i have seen people reporting that this method is not working. So what to do now?
Well not a big deal. First do this and it it does not fix the problem then just restart your pc and then do it again and it will surely fix it.




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Keep your pc always new with ccleaner

You must have experienced that when you bought your brand new pc, it ran like a supersonic jet and after continuous use for about 1 or 2 years or even less it has started running like a glider. It also started giving error messages. What's gone wrong? Well, your pc also needs maintenance time to time like your car. So here is your pc mechanic - ccleaner. A very small and free software.

Over 400 million downloads!!!
CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware! :)

Cleans the following

Internet Explorer Temporary files, history, cookies, Autocomplete form history, index.dat.

Firefox Temporary files, history, cookies, download history, form history.

Google Chrome Temporary files, history, cookies, download history, form history.

Opera Temporary files, history, cookies.

Safari Temporary files, history, cookies, form history.

Windows Recycle Bin, Recent Documents, Temporary files and Log files.

Registry cleaner Advanced features to remove unused and old entries, including File Extensions, ActiveX Controls, ClassIDs, ProgIDs, Uninstallers, Shared DLLs, Fonts, Help Files, Application Paths, Icons, Invalid Shortcuts and more... also comes with a comprehensive backup feature.

Third-party applications Removes temp files and recent file lists (MRUs) from many apps including Media Player, eMule, Kazaa, Google Toolbar, Netscape, Microsoft Office, Nero, Adobe Acrobat, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip and many more...

100% Spyware FREE This software does NOT contain any Spyware, Adware or Viruses.

I run it once daily and it has solved some of mine major problems like laptop restarting itself after shutting down and photoshop not running because of some registry issues.



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