Twin Tower Attack Trick by Notepad!

This post heading may surprise you! Is it possible to attack Twin Tower by notepad? Yes you can do this! And not only by notepad, you can do this by MS Word too. Notepad has many funny tricks. And today's trick is nothing but a mechanism of Wingdings font. 


Almost all of you are familiar with the Twin Tower Attack as on September 11, 2001. This attack is widely known as 9/11 attack. You might also know that the flight number of the plane that hit Word Trade Center was Q33N.


Let's find out what Q33N gives us in notepad when we use Wingdings font: 

1. Open Notepad. (Press Start + R > Type Notepad > Hit Enter)
2. Type Q33N in block/ capital letter.
3. Choose Wingdings font from the Format menu. 
4. For better viewing, choose 72 as font size. And see the magic!

You may call this trick a coincidence or something else but whatever it is, it was very shocking. 

Note: After applying this trick, all of your notepad documents will be converted into Wingdings font. And it may cause some problems. So, you've to change the font and font size to get the normal view back.

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Convert Text into Audio by Notepad!!

In this post I am gonna show another amazing trick of notepad. Here you will learn how to convert text into audio using notepad. But you will just be able to listen the audio not save or keep it in your hard disk. 

To do so, just follow the steps below: 

1. Open notepad. ( Press Win Key  + R > type notepad and hit enter)

2. Type the following message in the notepad: 

Dim msg, sapi
 msg=InputBox("Enter your text for conversion–www.munnamark.blogspot.com","Marks PC Solution Text To Audio Converter")
 Set sapi=CreateObject("sapi.spvoice")
 sapi.Speak msg

3. Save the file with .vbs extension. (Example: Text to audio.vbs)

Now you're almost finished! When you open up the file you will see a window like the right one. 

Now type your text in the blank space of the window and hit the ok button. It will speak your text loudly.

Make sure your speaker is on. 

NB: By this trick you can also know whether your PC is male or female!

Cheat Codes for GTA Vice City!!

GTA Vice City was released several years ago. This is somewhat old game now. But even it is very popular in the gaming world. Specially this game is suitable for the beginner. 

While playing the game or at the pause menu, enter one of the following codes to activate the corresponding cheat function. If you entered the code correctly, a message "Cheat Activated" will appear.

And never place a space between the cheats which has more than one word. Words are capitalized and separated so that they can be easily viewed and memorized. You should only type the words without any space and capitalization. 

Result	Cheat Code
Health [Note 1]	Aspirine
Armor	Precious Protection
Weapons (tier 1)	Thugs Tools
Weapons (tier 2)	Professional Tools
Weapons (tier 3)	Nutter Tools
Raise wanted level	You Wont Take Me Alive
Lower wanted level	Leave Me Alone
View media level when over two stars	Chase Stat
Better driving skills	Grip is Everything
Dodo cars (flying) [Note 2]	Come Fly With Me
Rhino tank	Panzer
Faster game clock	Life is passing me by
Faster game play	On Speed
Slower game play	Booooooring
Destroy all cars	Big Bang
Pedestrians riot	Fight Fight Fight
Pedestrians attack you	Nobody likes me
Pedestrians have weapons	Our god given right to be ararms
Pedestrians enter your car	Hopin Girl
Change wheel size	Loads of little things
Only wheels visible on cars	Wheels are all i need
Bikini women with guns [Note 3]	Chicks With Guns
Heavy traffic	Miami traffic
Pink traffic	A Hair Dressers Car
Black traffic	I Want it Painted Black
All traffic lights green	Green Light
Romero's Hearse	The Last Ride
Love Fist Limousine	Rock and Roll Car
Trashmaster	Rubbish Car
Bloodring Banger (style 1)	Travel in Style
Bloodring Banger (style 2)	Get There Quickly
Caddy	Better Than Walking
Pedestrian costumes [Note 4]	Still Like Dressing Up
Lance Vance costume	Look Like Lance
Ken Rosenberg costume	My Son is a Lawyer
Hilary King costume	L Look Like Hilary
Jezz Torent (Love Fist) costume	Rock and Roll Man
Dick (Love Fist) costume	We Love our Dick
Phil Cassaday costume	One Armed Band it
Sonny Forelli costume	T dont have the money sonny
Mercedes costume	Foxy Little Thing
Cars float on water	Sea Ways
Engines are faster	Get There Very Fast Indeed
Engines very fast	Get There Amazingly Fast
All cars are faster	Get There Fast
Tommy groupies [Note 5]	Fanny Magnet
Ricardo Diaz costume	Cheats have been Cracked
Tommy smokes cigarette	Certain Death
Tommy is fatter	Deep Fried Mars Bars
Tommy has thin arms and legs	Programmer
Good weather	A Pleasant Day
Great weather	A Lovely Day
Sunny weather	A Bit Drieg
Stormy weather	Cats and dogs
Foggy weather	Cant see a thing
Reguard target	Airship
Commit suicide	I cant take it any more

Note 1: If this code is enabled when there is damage on your car, the meter will be reset to zero without changing the visible effects of the damage.

Note 2: You will not be able to fly a helicopter correctly when this code is activated.

Note 3: The women will drop guns when they are killed.

Note 4: Repeat this code to cycle through the various pedestrian costumes, including a cop.

Note 5: Aim your gun at someone and they will attack your target.

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Make a Diary Using Notepad!

Most of the people know that notepad is used to create and modify plain text. But very little of them know about its useful applications. It has many tricks. In this post I am gonna show a small trick of notepad.

You can make a diary using notepad. To do so simply follow the steps below:

1. Go to run by press Windows Key + R then type notepad and hit enter.
2. Write .LOG in the notepad.
3. Save it as Diary or any other desired name as your choice. (Make sure that your file format is .txt)

Now when you open up this file, each time it will insert the date and time of opening the file just as below:

NB: If you don't use this trick but wanna insert date and time in the notepad simply hit the F5 button of the keyboard. 

Laptop Vs. Desktop: Which one should you buy?

Day by day the use of mobile PC (laptop, notebook, tablet) is increasing rapidly. Most of the computer users are no longer interested in desktop computer. Of course there are some logical reasons behind this trend. Laptop is portable, easy to move, smaller in size and so many. 

But this is a very rare case that a person use laptop but doesn't suffer a lot! Because laptops are not so strong like desktop PCs. They are small in size as well as small in capacity too! Repairing a desktop is relatively easy. But rearing a laptop requires some extra skills.  

Laptop is really a sensitive device. Anytime your keyboard or touch pad can be damaged. And this is not very easy to replace the parts of laptops. Though it might have warranty for around two years but when you give it to the service center they may give it back to you after several weeks. 

Now the question is what should a person buy- Laptop or Desktop?

Well the answer depends on several factors . . .

Computer experts suggest to buy desktop in case of heavy workload like Graphics Design, Gaming etc. But if you don't have works like that then you can buy laptop. Laptop is an ideal device for net browsing, official works etc. 

But if you need to have a computer with you then laptop I mean mobile PC is the only one solution.

So before buying any computer, first determine what will you do with it. Then buy laptop or desktop that meets your necessity. 

NB: If you wanna purchase mobile PC then don't go for notebook! Because usually it doesn't have any CD or DVD ROM and will  cause you a great problem when the OS lost!!

DirectX Diagnostic Tool: dxdiag

Sometimes you may need to analyze your system configuration. If your PC gets damaged and needs to take it to the service center then you should check the system configuration. Unfortunately if the experts of service center are dishonest then they might change your system. For example you have 2 GB RAM. They can replace it with an 1 GB RAM. Your Processor may be Dual Core. They can replace it with a Pentium 4 processor.

With DirectX Diagnostic Tool you can see the detailed information about the hardware and drivers installed on your system. You can view the system manufacturer, system model, processor capacity, RAM, DirectX version, Video Card, Sound Card and so many.

To open DirectX Diagnostic Tool, simply go to the Run by pressing Start + R, then type dxdiag and hit enter. Now a Yes/ No option may appear. Just hit on the yes button. Now you will see a window named DirectX Diagnostic Tool.

Well in this window you can see several options ie. System, Display, Sound etc. 

• System: In this tab you will find the Name of your PC, Current Date and Time, Operating System, Language, System Manufacturer, BIOS Version, Processor Type, Amount of Memory (RAM), DirectX Version etc. 

• Display: Next to the System Tab is Display. Here you will get the Name, Manufacturer and  Memory of your Display Driver or Graphics Card. 

• Sound: You may notice 2 or 3 tabs about Sound. How many tabs you will see depends on the system and hardware you're using. 

• Input: It shows how many input devices are connected with your PC. 2 most common inputs are mouse and keyboard. Any additional input devices should appear here. 

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Lost your Motherboard CD? Simply go to the Manufacturer's Web Site!

Every motherboard manufacturer and most of the other device manufacturers provide a driver CD for the hardware to make it compatible with Operating Systems. Except some plug and play device such as Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse, Speaker most of the other devices have a driver CD. 

But in case devices like printer, scanner, webcam, sound card, graphics the driver is essential. Even some modems don't work without external driver. 

At least 20 to 30% people lost their driver CD due to their carelessness! And when they re install the OS they lost sound and graphics options! And try to find a CD here and there. And unfortunately driver CD are not same for different models of devices. 

But it is very simple to recover the lost CD! You can find it from the manufacturer's website. For example, if you lost your HP Laptop's Driver CD, just visit www.hp.com. And Search by writing the device name and model in the search box. 

Here are some of the common websites that may be helpful for you:

1. Intel

2. Gigabyte

3. HP

4, Realtek

5. Asus

6. Canon

7. Compaq

After visiting this sites, you may find several pages like Download, Help and Support, Support & Driver etc. You can either go this pages or simply search in the search box by entering the product name and model. 

How do you know what is the name your system manufacturer? 

This is also a common questions. Go to the run (press Window Key + R) and write dxdiag. Then hit the enter button. If a Yes/No Option appears hit on the Yes button. 

Now you will see a Window named DirectX Diagnostic Tool. You will find the details of your PC from here. 

Under the System Tab you will find system manufacturer name. This is your motherboard.

Under the Display Tab you will find the graphics manufacturer name.

Under the Sound Tab, you will find the sound manufacturer name. 

Goodbye BIOS

Goodbye BIOS, Welcome UEFI

Your computer's basic input/output system (BIOS) is about to become history and be replaced by Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). Without compatibility problem, it has no pitfalls. 

When you turn on your system, a primitive system that dates back more than 30 years, the basic input/output system (BIOS), turns your cold hardware into a functioning system that your operating system can then boot from.

Can you imagine?! 30 years in the field of technology! Where things are changed within 30 seconds BIOS are surviving for 30 years! How can it be possible? Due to the compatibility problem this obsolete technology is surviving for a long time. Now it is time to change and upgrade. 

Hardware manufacturers are slowly replacing BIOS with the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). That's all well and good, but one UEFI feature, Secure Boot, could be used to lock PCs into being only able to boot one operating system: Windows 8. 

So, what's really going on here? Is UEFI just a way for Microsoft and its most loyal original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to keep Linux and other alternative operating systems out or is it more than that? To answer that question, let's have a look at what is UEFI.


What is UEFI

If you've computer hardware business, you know that BIOS has been terribly back dated for decades. For example, a BIOS only has 1 MB of executable space. That means a BIOS has trouble to start up the multiple peripheral interfaces (USB, eSATA, ThunderBolt, etc.) devices, ports, and controllers on a modern Computer. Just as annoying, the BIOS was never meant to initialize more than a handful of devices so even if you can get all devices ready to go it will take up to 30 seconds after you turn the switch on before your PC is ready to start booting. 

Hardware manufacturers knew that BIOS was obsolete even before the 21st century dawned. But, until recently they couldn't agree on how to replace it.

In 1998, Intel started work on the “Intel Boot Initiative” (IBI), later known as Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI). While Apple, in its Intel-based Macs, and HP, with its Itanium 2 servers, used it, the other OEMs and, needless to say, Intel's rival chip vendors, weren't initially keen on adopting EFI. In 2007, Intel, along with AMD, AMI, Apple, Dell, HP, IBM, Lenovo, Microsoft, and Phoenix Technologies, finally agreed to use UEFI (the re-branded EFI) as the universal replacement for BIOS.

Don't mistake UEFI as being purely a BIOS replacement. It's not.

UEFI is a mini-operating system that sits on top of a computer's hardware and firmware. Instead of being stored in firmware, as is the BIOS, the UEFI code is stored in the /EFI/ directory in non-volatile memory. Thus, UEFI can be in NAND flash memory on the motherboard or it can reside on a hard drive, or even on a network share!


Even in a UEFI system there will still be a little bit of the BIOS in the firmware to enable UEFI itself to "boot" up.


The UEFI advantage

The first thing you'll notice about UEFI systems is that they boot faster and you can have even larger primary drives. The BIOS is unable to boot from hard disks with more than 2.2 TB. That's a hard limit set in the Master Boot Record (MBR) that you can't fix. In the BIOS MBR, the maximum space for a drive is determined by the formula: 2 to the 32nd times 512 bits. This is an old hard drive addressing scheme. What it means in practice is that all but the most up-to-date computers can't boot with hard drives that are larger than 2.2TB. With 3TB drives now becoming common, OEMs have no choice but to move to UEFI on high-end PCs.

UEFI uses the GUID (Globally Unique ID) Partition Table, both to replace the MBR and address partitions. With GUID, you'll be able to boot from hard disks as large as 9.4ZB (zetabytes). How big is that? Well, everything -- and I mean everything -- on the Internet is believed to be just over 3ZBs. I don't think we have to worry about UEFI not being able to manage any drive it's likely to run into anytime soon.

Built in Security in Windows 8

If you're using Windows 8 then you don't need to purchase Anti Virus or Security Tool! Windows 8 has a built in antivirus program named Windows Defender. Windows defender was also included with windows vista and 7. But its functions were very limited. In windows 8, defender has been redesigned like Microsoft Security Essentials. The skin and interface of New Windows Defender is just like MSE. But maybe there are significant changes in case of performance. 

Earlier Microsoft released free security software for PC users- Microsoft Security Essentials. But it was not default. To enhance the security of new Windows, defender has been included with it. Certainly you'll enjoy this.  

Features and Facilities: 

• 100% Free (No Option of Serial Key or Crack!)
• No installation required- Built in
• Fast, safe and reliable Scan
• Real Time Protection
• Never Slow Down PC
• No Unnecessary Messages
• Options to allow, remove, disinfect or quarantine the infected objects
• Capability to Disinfect the infected files (If Possible)
• Shows the detailed information of Infected Files
• Simple interface with no unnecessary options
• Run quite fine even you don't update (But never do this!)

Few Problems and Difficulties: 

• Windows 8 should be genuine. Otherwise you will have several problems. So, Activate your Windows. 
• Virus cleaning process is somewhat slower
• No option to pause the scan. You can just cancel it. 
• You can't scan the files just by right click on it! 
• Security Software Providers like Kaspersky, Bit Defender, Avast are very angry!
• You can't clean the viruses before finishing the scan. 

Operation Manual: 

If you are experienced with MSE then Defender has nothing new for you. But if you have no experience with MSE then following instructions maybe useful for you: 

• Make sure Defender is turned on. Press Start and type Defender. Open it and go to the Settings tab. Click on Administrator and be sure that the option Turn on Windows Defender is marked. 

• You can't scan files just by right click. To scan a flash drive or any other folder you've to open defender from Start. Then Home > Scan Options > Custom Scan > Scan Now > Choose your Files, Folder or Pen Drive > OK.

• After installing Windows 8 please run a full scan. Quick scan is not necessary because after installing Windows your PC is normally free from virus. Scan options are available under the Home Tab. 

• Auto Update is enabled. If you wanna update manually then go to the Update tab. Before hitting Update button, make sure you're connected to the net. 

• After finishing the scan, if virus is found you will see a message at the top- PC Status: At Risk. Then you've to hit on Clean Computer button. 

• You can manually select the action for each infected files. There will be options right to the infected files whether to remove, disinfect or allow them. If you're not sure about a file then leave it to the default action. 

Case: Sometimes your friends may tell you- MSE or Defender can't detect few viruses like Avast, Kaspersky or Bit Defender! And you might be confused after hearing this. You may think the database of MSE or Defender is poor. 

But keep in mind that MSE or Defender updates themselves twice a day. And they never detect unnecessary files unless it harms you. And they normally don't delete executable files. Rather they try to disinfect them. 

Personal Opinion: As I've used MSE for 3 years and now using Defender near about 1.5 years with no problems regarding virus, you can trust me. Both MSE or Defender are fully reliable. If you can use any of them properly, within a month you will ask- What is VIRUS? 

VIRUS- Vital Information Resources Under Seize.