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C programs on Windows 7 with Code::Blocks light weight and open source IDE

Code::Blocks is an open source IDE for C and C++. After trying lot of ways to run C programs on my Windows 7, I found this a better option than DosBox. Because I have experienced problems like mouse couldn’t work properly in some cases then you would have keyboard shortcuts as only option to operate environment. While CodeBlocks has a consistent look with plugin framework.

By means of plugin framework Codeblocks is extensible to great features. In fact it doesn’t come with compiler, debugger and make file features. You can and you have to add them as plugins. So let me start the tutorial. Continue reading

Best trick to create and manage all your passwords for different accounts.

Hello fellas, hows you all doing? Hope you are forwarding your steps on success path. May be making lots of accounts on bunch of social networks. Many websites are being more popular day by day. Many new social networks are launching frequently, recently Microsoft Networks launched its social network for students, so.cl. Making few accounts is not a thing but setting same passwords for them is a weak security for your online identity. So you need to be careful about your security for your different accounts there. And for the question “How can I improve that security?” this post has been written, “Shielding your Security”. Let create a example for password generating trick/pattern. 

We’ll take an example of *Pitter’s facebook account. He is used to set all his passwords same as ‘mynameispitter’. Now if someone get to know his password for just one account, that someone will surely try that password on Pitter’s other accounts and may be he could succeeded if all passwords has set to be same.
We are considering pattern of X + Y + Z to generate our password.(You can use anything in place of plus sign like @,#,$ likewise). 
Here X is said to be first three letter of website’s name.(In our example it is, ‘ fac ‘ ). 
Y can be Pitter’s birthdate in ‘reverse order’, this reverse order can make stronger password.(suppose Pitter born on 24/10/88, you in this case ‘Y’ is ’880124′.) 
Now its ‘Z’s turn, this is going to concrete your password by appending special characters to it, Take first three digits of mobile number and convert them to special characters accordingly.(Suppose our hero has mobile number starting from 940, Now when you look at the line of numbers in your keyboard, you’ll find special symbols on each key. You have to type your digits from there while holding ‘shift’, at last our ‘Z’ is ‘ ($) ‘ because on key 9,4 and 0 there are special characters (,$ and ) respectively.) 
This is just an example pattern, you can try it in your way. At the end our hero Pitter is having password for his facebook profile like this ‘fac880124($)‘.
Now you can see our generated password is hard to guess. But as every coin has two sides, this trick also have bad side if your pattern is so simple and if however someone found it, your all accounts having password with that particular pattern may be in danger.
Note: Use this type of patterns for your social networks and mailing accounts only, don’t use it on the accounts which are having data of your other accounts or data related to money or your banking details.

Changing Windows 7 Logon Screen!

Here are some simple steps to set your favourite image as logon screen in place of Windows default screen.
 
For Normal users (100% working, because no chance to do mistake(s) )

If you are a normal windows user or dont wont to do that geeky stuffs. Then there is a software for you, it is very simple to use that even a child can do that. I am not providing you direct link of download that software but you can search this term on Google. And you definitely find it. Continue reading

Want to super hide sensitive data? No software needed!

This post is for you if you want privacy for your important( sometimes other things ;) ) folders and/or files. It can be your assignments,projects and for some Top Secrets.

So here we start.
Note: After implementing this trick your folder/files will be totally hidden, I mean superhidden. Even ‘Show hidden files/folders‘ option will not help anyone to view those things. Only a key to access the secret,is the name itself. Nobody can harm or steal your contents unless it has not the name of your folder (and of course he/she need this trick also to shoot the secret). Continue reading

C in Fullscreen with DOSBox.

If you are an IT or Computer engineering student and suffering from that small screen of C console then This article is for you.

          TurboC or commonly known as TC is now outdated IDE but many of schools and collages are still using it. So it is not compulsory to use TC though for our convenience good to use it. But problem TC is mainly supported by 32-bit or lower operating systems (but even in that you can’t full-screen the console), and for 64-bit it won’t install directly (as in my case).There are other ways also to make C programs in different tools(will be mentioned later in this article)but if you are not quite geeky then you may face little problems to installing/Setting up those programs and  If you want to continue with TC and on full-screen you will need

1) DOSBox

2) TC folder (not setup, first get the TC directory from your friend or install it in proper OS then copy it)

After installing DOSBox,

From start menu open “DOSBox [version] Options” as shown in below image.
Now edit option as shown in below image. 
dosbox option edit
OK now you have to just mount the appropriate drive and set TC.exe to startup you can easily find it by Googling.
Other Solutions
You can use other tools like Borland C, Pelles C, Code::Blocks etc for betterment.
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Thanks for reading the article.
Warm Regards,
Prerak Trivedi.

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