Tuesday, July 24, 2012

"Disable failed No devices disabled" devcon.exe | How to disable devices from command prompt


 This article will help you in Disable or Enable devices from command prompt. And also this will discuss about the error u may likely to encounter.

It will be really good rite, when you can disconnect your modem or internet connection in one click after you are finished with it. This article will help you to do that.

First you need to have devcon.exe. An alternate to device manager which can be run through command prompt.

Download the devcon.exe from the below link

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311272 

Once you downloaded the devcon exe file, extract  the exe and paste it inside c:\windows\system32 folder. That's it you are ready to run it. 

 I've read the above procedure in a blog, and wanted to try it.  But i was getting this message..

"
C:\Windows\system32>devcon disable *mouse*
HID\VID_04CA&PID_0030\7&3A7DF96F&0&0000                     : Disable failed
No devices disabled.
"

After some digging i found the the 64 bit version of devcon available to download form Microsoft website is not compatible for windows 7 64 bit. You will need to extract it from server 2003 64 bit dvd.

Once it's done it will work like a charm. I've extracted the 32 and 64 bit version devcon.exe from server 2003 dvd and uploaded it. You can download it from below links..

Devcon.exe 32 bit

Devcon.exe 64 bit



Hope this helps..
Techytipz

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Amazing Alex Solutions - The Classroom


In my last post i made a review of an iOS game called Amazing Alex. The game is really good and brain-storming. There are totally 4 rooms and 112 puzzles. First room has 16 puzzles which is available in free and paid app. Other rooms have 32 puzzles each which is only available in paid app.

Every puzzle in Amazing Alex may have different solutions to achieve the objective. But there are only few solutions to complete the objective and collect all stars. So I decided to publish my Solutions which comes with 3 Stars. This post I will display the first room and the Room is called :


The Classroom


The Classroom is the basic room where you learn all things you need to know about the game. Mostly everyone would have completed all 16 puzzles in this room with 3 Stars. That makes 48 Stars. So below screenshots are the solutions of the first room - The Classroom.

 

 1 - PLAYTIME

 

2 - CATCH THAT BALL

 

3 - MIND THE GAP

 

4 - ROLLERCOASTER

 

5 - CHAIN REACTION

 

6 - THE ROBOT OVERLORD

 7 - BEHIND BOXES

 

8 - REVENGE OF THE ROBOT

9 - BOOKS AWAY

10 - BALL COLLECTOR

11 - PUSH AND POP

12 - FLYING WITH SCISSORS

13 - POP, DON'T FLY

14 - BALLOONED AWAY

15 - BALLOON PUSHER

16 - FREE THAT BALLOON


Tuesday, July 17, 2012

App Review - Amazing Alex





Most of the people who uses mobiles know about Angry Birds. Angry Birds was created by Rovio Entertainment in 2009. Until Angry Birds Rovio was called Relude which released games for N-Cage and other J2ME mobile environment. Now the company does billion dollar revenue. Angry Bird now is not just a game but a merchandise. There are angry bird toys and also Feature films and Television series have been planned. Few months ago Rovio bought rights to Casey's Contraptions from developers Noel Llopis and Miguel A. Friginal. They revamped and branded it as Amazing Alex.




Publisher              :  Rovio Entertainment Ltd.
Developer            :  Noel Llopis & Miguel A. Friginal.
Genre                   :  Physics Puzzle
Release Date        :  12-07-2012
Universal App     :   No
Price   - Lite        :  Free
             iPhone    :  $0.99
             iPad        :  $2.99
Size                     :   19.8 MB/35.1 MB
App Store Link   :   Amazing Alex

Gameplay - Even though the game was bought from independent developers, Rovio has made some changes and given it their addictive Rovio touch. The gameplay is to use household items to set off a chain reaction and achieve the objective of the game. The goal is to collect all stars while completing the objective.

The first few levels may seem very easy but actually its kind of tutorial for you to learn the gameplay. The Classroom(First room) may look very easy but the game gets tougher by each level in The Backyard room. In free lite version you can play only The Classroom. There are totally 112 puzzles and 336 stars to be collected.

Game Physics - The game physics is the topic lot to be talked about. This game uses Box2D engine for physics engine. By the way Box2D is open source, so if you want to make a game using it, just go visit this site - http://box2d.org/


The game uses the best of the game physics. Till now I haven't seen a flaw in the game. The game music goes in hand with game and gives a good feel.


Game Graphics - Game has beautiful vector graphics. The game allows to pinch zoom like angry birds.


Solution Sharing Feature - These puzzles may contain more than one solution. After you find a solution you can share it with your Gamecenter friends. None of my friends still started sharing but i have. To view my solution you have to add me in Gamecenter, my id is Harish Arulkumar. I have completed 2 stages with all 3 Stars. You can also share in twitter and facebook.

My Level Feature - This is an awesome feature which makes the game purely unlimited. With My Level you can create your own puzzle, finish it with 3 Stars and share it with the world. Others can download through the same menu.

Rating - 8.8/10

Screenshots





Harish Arulkumar

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Independence Day Offer on iPad and iPhone Games!!!



On independence day App developers are celebrating the alien's fall by slashing down prices for some of their excellent games. Their sales are running up to July 9th. App store downloads are shooting to roof. I'm a big App store Shopaholic, i bought nearly 10 apps. Are you ready? Here is the list of discounted apps by each app developers...




First is EA :

Warner Bros.:

Chillingo :

PopCap :


 Madfinger :

Kairosoft :

Others : 
These are some awesome games. I have purchased a lot, which i will be writing reviews of soon. Battlefield was awesome on my iPad. We will be updating the list. Happy Shopping....


Harish Arulkumar

Saturday, June 30, 2012

App Review - The Amazing Spider-Man




Gameloft has come up with yet another amazing game called The Amazing Spider-Man. This game's story is spin-off from spider-man reboot movie of the same name. Gameloft, who is the leading game publisher on mobile device has given out great games in the past like Asphalt, Infinity Blade, N.O.V.A, Brothers in Arms etc. Lets see what they have given us this time.




Publisher              :  Gameloft
Developer            :  Gameloft
Genre                   :  Action
Release Date        :  28-06-2012
Universal App     :   Yes
Price                    :   $6.99
Size                     :   694 MB
App Store Link   :   The Amazing Spider-Man

Gameplay & Controls – The Amazing Spider-Man gameplay is nearly same as that previous Spider-Man 2 PC game. You Swing around city, shoot webs at enemies and save Damsel in Distress. I played the game in iPad and iPhone; found more comfortable because of its large screen. On iPhone it is little uncomfortable to play but not that bad. The best thing is that they have retained the free-roam. You can roam the streets, collect Oscorp Spiders, do small side missions and fight roadside thugs. The city is big enough to roam for many hours. The Combat and Boss fights are too easy which is a downside. But some boss fight are near excellent. The combat system which was used in Batman was used here.

Graphics The game’s graphics is really good. Not surprised because it’s from Gameloft who gave kind of games which has the best graphics on iOS platform. The game is designed to use The New iPad’s Retina Display. The city is beautifully built and colorful. Spider-Man in blue and red costume is rendered wonderful on iOS devices.

Music – Music is not epic but its good for a mobile game.The music was composed by Maxime Goulet and Pascal Dion

Game Inventory – This game has good Skills and Power Upgradation system. You can also buy few items from store using Oscorp Spiders which you can find on the streets and collect it. The skill points which earned from completing missions, fighting villains and other stuffs can be used to Upgrade Powers like web shoot, uppercut etc for this masked superhero.

Plot – The plot is not surprising. Usual things like save the day using your super powers. This games follow the story of the film of same name. Just came back from the movie, it was good.

Conclusion - The game rocks on iOS device (i prefer playing on iPad). It keeps you engaged for hours but the downside is that the game is too easy in combats.

Rating - 7.2/10

Screenshots


Harish Arulkumar

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

(Gmail Scams) How to hack your friend's Gmail account for FUN | Make your friends send their Gmail password to you


  It's obvious, That each and everybody would have searched for it. You would have come across many procedures but none of them is gonna help you in an easy way.

  But among all these one will look easier to you but will cause you disaster. I wanted to share that disaster here. That one will say that you need to make the Google confused, to get the password.

A quick Google search gave me this,

"
how to hack Gmail passwords

Step 1: Log into your Gmail account.
Step 2: Compose a new mail.
Step 3: In subject box type " PASSWORD RECOVERY "
Step 4: Send this to - pwdrobot@gmail.com.
Step 5: Write this in message box.
(first line)- Email address you want to hack.

(second line)- Your Gmail address

(third line)- Your Gmail account password
(fourth line) - <pwdcursive><
v703&login="passmachine&f=(p0assword)&f=27586&___javascript=ACTIVE&rsa#"
start?></script>=""></cursive><>
{simply copy and paste above.}

How it works: you mail to a system administrators automatic responder.
Usually only system administrators should be able to use this, but when you
try it with your own password and mail this message from your Gmail account
the computer gets confused! Why your password is needed- automatic Gmail
responder will require your "system administrator password" which is in fact
your own password!!! But the : computer doesn't know. 
 
" 
 
If you find this procedure somewhere don't dare to try that, Let me say why?!

  • This will not get you the other person's password but this will send your password to someone.
  • The script in the body!, It's a bull shit... It does nothing..
  • The mail Id in the procedure!!, I can create a one like that..
  • If you use the same gmail account for Facebook too, You are lost!!>.
 If you find this somewhere, Give it a shit...

Hope that helps..
Techytipz

Thursday, June 21, 2012

How to fix when Revit Arch/struct 2012 stalls on startup at secsplashwnd | Revit hangs on splash screen


  One of my friend called me asking for help in making his Revit 2012 architecture application usable. Whenever he opens Revit 2012 it just hangs at splash screen for a long time and then it crashes with unrecoverable error message.

  he is very frustrated as he is not even able to open the application. he desperately needed my help...

when i looked the process running in taskmanager while the Revit hangs I saw WSCommCntr3.exe consuming large amount of CPU resources.

 I had terminated WSCommCntr3.exe the process in task manager and tried to open Revit 2012 application. Voila!! it opened in seconds. That's it, WSCommCntr3.exe is the culprit and i decided to disable the process from running. Let see how did i do.

Open regedit and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\Revit\Autodesk Revit Architecture 2012\Components\WebServices\CommunicationCenter and in the right pane
double click on polling frequency and set it as fffffff . Then set "0" for all the other values and exit as in the below image.


 the above screenshot shows the entries only for revit 2012 architecture, if you have other autodesk products you have to edit these value for all products.

that's it, the process will never be visible in taskmanager.

Hope this helps.. Feel free to post comments.
Techytipz         

Sunday, June 17, 2012

App Review - Temple Run : Brave













App Price        :  $0.99
Release Date   :  14 June 2012
App Link        : Temple Run : Brave
Universal App: Yes

Imangi studios, makers of the Temple Run and Pixar comes together for making a new app called Temple Run : Brave. Merida, from Pixar's upcoming movie Brave replaces Guy Dangerous as the running character in this new game.
...

The new temple run is set in Scotland wild, where you run, jump, slide, turn and SHOOT. Yes guys, you are reading it right it is shoot. The new archery feature enables you to shoot bullseye while you run to gain extra coins.

Let's start. The below is the loading image from the new game.

Note: they are giving a bonus of 2500 coins for buying this app.

And This is the new Main Menu.


This time it's a Wild Bear instead of three mad monkeys... The story is Merida shoots a bear with arrow and the bear wants revenge. You can see chasing bear stuck with arrow on its back. Here is a image of Wild Bear chasing Merida..


The game has more details of environment than the original which is downside of the new game. The new one is not as smooth as the original, there is FPS lags. Some turns and jumps are confusing because you cant see it coming. The archery feature, pops on the screen and hides the power ups on the way, which might be little irritating.


What is more irritating is the sound effects. But the background music is somewhat good. And this time the character doesn't moan while jumping but speaks out few dialogues like - "ugh! So Much Jumping!" and after running for few meters "My legs are paining". The below is Merida seen with a Bow at the start of the game and Merida jumping over a obstacle.


The objectives are mostly same as the original except for few extra archery objectives. In stores there are few changes. An Extra power up for archery and no character unlocks instead there are outfit unlock for Merida.
The below are few screenshots of death screens in Temple Run : Brave.



Overall, it's not a worthy successor of The original Temple Run. And it's a paid app, it costs $0.99.
Those new to Temple Run may like this game but I think Temple Run fans may not like this game.

Overall Rating -  5\10


My Original Temple Run Game Stats on Delphin's Request...


Harish Arulkumar

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