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How to: Capture Photos From Webcam Online with Fun Effects

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round webcam picturewebcam logitechWebcam can be very useful to interact with friends and people on the other part of the world. Webcams are very common with laptops available today, and webcams of great brands like Logitech are available for cheap rates on online. If you’ve missed lot of fun with webcam. Then Click here to see some best selling webcams on amazon. You can just purchase one for affordable price.

But you already own a webcam or having issues with the software supplied with the webcam, then I’m here to give you the list of web services which lets you capture pictures and videos using just your webcam, without installing any software.

Do read: How To: Protect Your Webcam From Getting Hacked

Sites that let you take picture using from your webcam online.

Cameroid.com

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Cameroid is free online service that can take access your webcam (only if you allow) from your computer to take photos. It is “THE” easiest way to capture images from a webcam without using any software to install. To add surprise Cameroid also offers you fun features to add picture effects to your picture. You have plenty of fun photo effects to add in photos you take. Some of my favorites are monalisa effect, night backround, and more options like adding fun frames, scenes in the backround, blurry effect, distored effect like Maronface.

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Now back to Cameriod. To get your pictures you just need to allow Cameriod access your webcam. Get started here. Please make your you have enabled and switched ON your webcam

The service automatically detects if there is a webcam attached to your system and if it is functional. If it does detect a webcam, the feed from the camera is displayed on the screen. There are two buttons available for you take photos. The first one automatically takes the photo as soon as you click it. The second one is the timer, which counts down to 3 before taking the snap.

Once the photo is snapped, you are again provided with a few more options. You can save the photo to the public gallery of cameroid if you choose to. Else you can download the photo as a .jpeg file or even print it without downloading. You can also trash or delete the image if you want to try again.

Special Effects:

After your picture or image is ready, you are able to apply a variety of special effects to it. There is a possibility to choose from 9 different color modes for your picture to give it a makeover.

Link : Cameroid.com

FunFaceCam.com

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Funfacecame is a web service which allows you to customize and add special effects to pictures, you can edit your photos captured from webcam and add very funny special effects to the photos, they have a huge collection of special effects to choose from. If your so lucky, then your photo can be featured on the front page, giving you more exposure.

Here’s a quick preview of the most popular special effects they have.

special effects list

Link: Funfacecam.com

PicaNom.com

This site I found very lately, so I haven’t tried it myself. But Checkout the overview video embedded below.

Mundu.Tv: Watch Live TV Channel On PC or Mobile

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Watching TV have been never so easy in these days. Are you missing TV in your office? Did you miss your favorite TV program? Worried about TV subscription charges?  Are you trying hard to get TV on the go on mobile? Then here is an alternative. Mundu TV is free application for both Window and Mac desktop PCs and Mobile phones. Mundu TV currently supports Symbian phones though apps for BlackBerry, iPhone and Android devices are yet to come. We will keep you updated with the upcoming features of this application.

To get this application on mobile. Just send sms “TV” to 9212401234 and you’ll get Mundu TV on your mobile.

How much does it cost?

You can enjoy watching live television instantly for 3 days once you’ve downloaded Mundu TV. After 3 days, you can register for an account and then you get to use this application completely free for a month. So thats cool right? And we don’t have any information on the monthly subscription charge of this service, as this is still on BETa label. But they are soon going to lauch it officially, We expect the prices likely to be around Rs. 49 per month for any four channels and Rs. 120 for unlimited number of channels. Anyway, we’ll update this information after it’s official lauch. So do bookmark us to stay updated. (by pressing CTRL + D)

How does it feels on Desktop?

I have personally tried Mundu TV on my PC, so here are some screenshots if you are curious about how it looks on screen.

Mundu.Tv on full screen, I was watching NDTV India while taking this screenshot.

Please visit : http://mundu.tv for more details. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by Mundu.tv. Please donot contact us for support!

How To: Make Self Destructing Email

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This is a guest post by Akshay who blogs at Scremable.com. If you like to write for TechGyo, read: TechGyo’s 100% Adsense revenue sharing program.

Electronic records lasts for like ever.Many times after sending a email you might have thought that you might not have send that mail. If you want it to never happen again you should definitely read this post .In the current e-mail system once the message has been send sender has no control over it. Receiver may duplicate your Email data,forward it and other things. If you want to protect this things and want control over your send Email’s you are reading the right post.

Self-destructing email are an electronic mail that vanishes or becomes unreadable after a certain length of time or sender can destruct the send email whenever he wants. They also help prevent printing, copying, forwarding, and saving of the sent email. There best feature is auto expire after a predefined interval.

You can also use these emails for tracking purposes i.e Self Destructing Email also let you know when was your email opened etc

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How Do these Emails works?
These Email works in numerous ways. Most common methods by which these emails work are :

1.BY providing message recipients one-time access to a secure Web page that contains your message.Recipients get an email containing a link to secure webpage and direct readers to the page with the message, which is accessible only once. After that, the message is deleted.

2.The way most of these emails seem to work is by replacing the plain text of your email with a graphic image of the text, which is stored at the Web site’s server rather than in the email message itself.The original message just contains a link to this image. So user can view the image only and sender can delete the image whenever he wants

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Online Sites which provide these services:

There are numerous sites which provide such services. Some of the popular sites are :

http://www.self-destructing-email.com/
http://www.kicknotes.com/
http://www.bigstring.com/
https://zsentry.com/zmail/emailsecurity.html
http://www.destructingmessage.com/

How To: Type Rupee Symbol From Keyboard

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The Indian Govt has just Announced the Symbol for Rupee currency and It will take almost one year to implement the same in all over the world as there are many regulatory requirement involved in implementation .However I have found a trick from the net by which you can start using the Rupee symbol from now .It is very easy to use the trick .Trick is developed by Foradian Technologies .

Steps To Install the Rupee symbol.

 

How to use ?
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1. Download the above attached font Rupee.ttf or the new version Rupee_Foradian. ttf

2. Install the font. (It is easy. Just copy the font and paste it in “Fonts” folder in control panel)

3. Start using it. 🙂

download the Rupee Firadian.ttf (find ttach file for Font)

How to type the Rupee symbol ?

Rupee symbol mapped the grave acent symbol – ` (the key just above “tab” button in your keyboard) with the new Rupee symbol. Just select “Rupee” font from the drop down list of your fonts in your application and press the key just above your tab button. It will display our new rupee symbol. Try it.

rupee keyboard

Limitations

The “Rupee.ttf” font is necessary to view the currency symbol. So as long as the new symbol is not encoded in to Unicode font by default, we cant use the symbol universally. means if you type the symbol in your letter and send to other person but the receiver has not installed the font then he can not see the rupee symbol

How To: Lock a Folder Without any software

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This is a guest post by Akshay who blogs at Scremable.com. If you like to write for TechGyo, read: TechGyo’s 100% Adsense revenue sharing program.
Hi, in this post i m going to discuss about how to lock a folder without using any software.Locking a folder means nobody else should be able to access it. Locking a folder will enable you to protect your valuable documents and files from unauthorized access.I will use a simple registry trick to achieve the Task.

How To Lock The Folder?

Create a new folder or use any already created folder which you want to lock. I am going to lock folder akshay which is present on my desktop. To begin right click on the folder and rename it to akshay.{2559a1f2-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0} or yourfoldername .{2559a1f2-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}.After renaming it you can see that the folder becomes locked and its icon changes.

How To Unlock The Folder?

In the previous step you locked a folder now i will teach you how to unlock the folder. To begin Open command prompt and then navigate to location where your locked folder is. My folder is placed on desktop so ill change working directory to desktop. So i will type cd Desktop to change directory to desktop. You can simply type cd /yourpath. After that type command ren akshay.{2559a1f2-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0} akshay this commands rename it back to just akshay and folder will become unlocked

How To: Locate your Stolen Mobile Using F-Secure Anti-Theft Software

This is a guest post by Amit who is a budding blogger. If you like to write for TechGyo, read: TechGyo’s 100% Adsense revenue sharing program.

Well, you might think you are smart enough to not loose your precious mobile phone. But, are you really that smart? (That’s the kind of question that I’ve been dodging for a while). Anyway, everyone on this planet, rich or poor, male or female will have a bad-mobile-day. Yeah sounds stupid. But what will you do if you loose your handset? May be that’s a good reason to buy the latest model of some blackberry look-alike(or, are you going to cry?). Now let’s cut the crap and see what this wonderful mobile application F-Secure Anti-Theft can do.

Why use F-Secure anti-theft?

If you lose your mobile phone, You can Remotely lock it or even wipe out all the data from your phone. What’s more, it is a free software which anyone can use. So at least you can prevent any illegal transactions through your phone or disable the phone. You can also locate your phone remotely and get info about the one who stole it.

How does it work?

Lock

You can lock your phone quickly with a single text message. The phone remains locked until you reset it.

Locate

You can locate your phone simply by using the map. Again, all you have to do is, send a text message to see the location on the map.

Wipe

If you are sure that you are not getting your phone back, erase all the data in your phone by, wait for it, sending a text message.

Theft Control

All this is good, but this is even better. If the thief tries to replace your SIM with another one, the phone will be locked automatically and you will receive the SIM number.

Supported Platforms

  • Symbian
  • Android
  • Windows Mobile
Link: Download 

How To Run Windows Applications Directly From USB Flash Drive

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USB Pen Drive

You must have always wondered how would it have been to run, all your frequently used applications directly from your flash drive or your Pendrive. Yes, it is a great pleasure to run all the needed application from your own flash drive as you do not need to carry even your own laptop in that case. All you need is just to access any PC somewhere, and insert the flash drive in the USB, and it’s all your computer. You don’t feel any difference. Now, days you can find almost all sort of portable application ranging from your favourite web browser to Office to antivirus. Today we are going to present to you two different websites which provide such applications for free.

Also, don’t forget to check our huge compilation of 300 useful softwares for windows.

Let’s see How To Run Windows Applications Directly From USB Flash Drive:

The first website is Portableapps.com

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This website boasts of many frequently used application in various categories and it is all free for download. Once you download the application you will be getting onscreen help on how to install the application from your flash drive and run it. This site also provides support for all their portable applications. They have a very happening forum in which you can get answers for your questions. We will provide the detailed list of application this site hosts below:

Also read: How to Protect your PC from Autorun USB Virus.

You will get the following applications under the following categories:

Accessibility:

  • Firefox Accessibility Extension – Make Firefox more accessible
  • On-Screen Keyboard Portable – Easily access an on-screen keyboard
  • Virtual Magnifying Glass Portable – A full-featured screen magnifier

Development:

  • gVim Portable – advanced, feature-rich text editor
  • Notepad++ Portable – A full-featured text editor with syntax highlighting
  • NSIS Portable – Windows installer and launcher creation
  • Nvu Portable & KompoZer Portable – The easy-to-use Nvu web editor
  • PortableApps.com Installer – the easy way to package portable apps
  • PortableApps.com Launcher – make apps portable without writing code
  • XAMPP – Apache, MySQL, PHP, phpMyAdmin, etc in one package

Education:

  • BPBible Portable – bible study tool
  • Celestia Portable – portable space simulator
  • Stellarium Portable – portable planetarium

Portable Games Software:

  • AssaultCube Portable – fast-paced, online, first-person shooter
  • Atomic Tanks Portable – overly-powerful tanks blow each other up
  • Canabalt Portable (Freeware) – outrun the demolition of your city with just one button
  • DOSBox Portable – classic DOS games to go
  • Frets on Fire Portable – rock out anywhere with this Guitar Hero™-style game
  • Jooleem Portable – a simple and addictive puzzle game with great music and visuals
  • LBreakout2 Portable – breakout-style arcade game similar to Arkanoid
  • Mines-Perfect Portable – a classic hunt-for-mines game with advanced features
  • Sudoku Portable – the wildly popular and addictive puzzle game
  • The Mana World Portable – a free, 2D, retro-style MMORPG
  • Tile World Portable – engaging and fast-paced tile-based puzzles
  • Warzone 2100 Portable – single or online multiplayer real-time strategy game

Portable Graphics & Pictures Apps:

  • Blender Portable – 3D modelling, animation, rendering, post-production, playback
  • Cornice Portable – image viewer with slideshow
  • Dia Portable – the full-featured diagramming tool
  • IcoFX Portable (Freeware) – full-featured icon editor
  • Inkscape Portable – vector graphics editor
  • GIMP Portable – Photo and Image Editor
  • XnView Portable (Freeware) – view, organize and convert photos

Internet:

  • aMSN Portable – chat and video chat on MSN/Windows Live
  • DownThemAll! Extension (for Firefox) – download the files and images you want faster
  • FileZilla Portable – the full-featured FTP client
  • FireFTP Extension (for Firefox) – a lightweight extension
  • KVIrc Portable – full-featured IRC chat client
  • Google Chrome Portable (Freeware) – fast, simple, themeable browser
  • Miranda IM Portable – chat with AOL, MSN and Yahoo users in a customizable interface
  • Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition – the award-winning web browser that’s safe and secure
  • Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition – the handy email client
  • Nvu Portable & KompoZer Portable – the easy-to-use webpage editor
  • PChat Portable – full-featured IRC chat client
  • Pidgin Portable – chat with AOL, MSN and Yahoo users in an easy-to-use interface
  • PuTTY Portable – lightweight telnet and SSH client
  • Sage Extension (for Firefox) – A full-featured RSS extension
  • SeaMonkey, Portable Edition – complete internet suite (browser, email, chat, newsgroups)
  • Skype Portable (Freeware) – instant messaging, video chat and phone calls
  • µTorrent Portable (Freeware) – lightweight BitTorrent client
  • WinSCP Portable – SFTP, FTP and SCP client
  • WinWGet Portable – take and manage your downloads on the go

Music & Video:

  • Audacity Portable – A simple audio editor and recorder
  • BonkEnc Portable – extract, convert and encode audio
  • CoolPlayer+ Portable – Lightweight, fast, easy-to-use audio player
  • DVDStyler Portable – DVD menu authoring tool
  • MPlayer Portable – Full-featured movie player with support for most video formats
  • Songbird Portable – Full-featured digital media library and player
  • VirtualDub Portable – video processing and capture utility
  • VLC Media Player Portable – An easy to use media player that plays most audio and video formats

Office:

  • AbiWord Portable – a lightweight word processor compatible with Microsoft Word files
  • Dia Portable – the full-featured diagramming tool
  • Foxit Reader Portable (Freeware) – small and fast PDF reader
  • GnuCash Portable – accounting, expenses and financial management
  • Lightning Extension (for Thunderbird) – A lightweight extension for your calendar and tasks
  • Mozilla Sunbird, Portable Edition – Calendar and task management with a familiar interface
  • Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition (Address Book) – Email client’s built-in address book with import/export functions
  • OpenOffice.org Portable – word processor, spreadsheet, presentations with Microsoft compatibility
  • PDFTK Builder Portable – split, collate, watermark and password-protect PDF documents
  • PNotes Portable – sticky notes to go
  • SpeedCrunch Portable – an intuitive algebraic calculator
  • Sumatra PDF Portable – a lightweight PDF viewer
  • Task Coach Portable – to-do list and task manager

Security:

  • ClamWin Portable – Antivirus on the go
  • Eraser Portable – securely delete files and data
  • EraserDrop Portable – easily secure-erase files and data
  • KeePass Password Safe Portable – Secure, easy-to-use password manager
  • SpyDLLRemover Portable (Freeware) – Spyware DLL detection and removal

Utilities:

  • 2X Client Portable (Freeware) – remote server and RDP access client
  • 7-Zip Portable – File archiver and compressor
  • Command Prompt Portable – Simple link to a customizable command prompt
  • ConvertAll Portable – convert units of measurement
  • FreeCommander Portable (Freeware) – easy-to-use windows file manager
  • InfraRecorder Portable – full-featured CD and DVD burner
  • Java Portable (Freeware) – Work with Java apps portably
  • Java Portable Launcher – Run Java JARs portably
  • JkDefrag Portable – Disk defragmentation and optimization
  • Light screen Portable – easy to use screenshot tool
  • PeaZip Portable – Easy to use file archiver and compressor
  • PortableApps.com AppCompactor – shrink apps without affecting functionality
  • PortableApps.com Backup – integrated backup utility bundled with the platform
  • PortableApps.com Menu – integrated start menu bundled with the platform
  • TeamViewer Portable (Freeware) – remote PC support and screen-sharing
  • Toucan – backup, sync and encrypt for advanced users
  • WinDirStat Portable – disk usage analyzer and cleanup tool
  • winMd5Sum Portable – check md5 sums to verify files on the go
  • WinMerge Portable – file comparison and merging
  • Xenon File Manager Portable – portable file browser

The Second Website is pendriveapps.com

This website is really wonderful and hosts hundreds of portable applications, all of which cannot be enlisted here. The stock of the website is divided into the main category of applications and then the subcategory so it is very easy to navigate and find a similar application of different flavour. I will give an overview of the screenshot of this wonderful website.

Pendrive Applications

In this website the applications are listed in the below following categories:

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Using a portable application from your own flash drive is safer if taken care of since you do not miss any of the vital information from your part if taken care off, than just merely using the other persons desktop or a cyber cafe. You have almost all of the applications in both of the websites, to fulfil your general computational need.

In my next article, I will be writing about how to install an operating system directly into a pen drive and use it from it. So you can carry just the whole of your system with you in your pocket.

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