How to check if a company is fake or not?

Hello...! :)If you are zealous enough to get a job in the company, but didn't yet and trying for it, please read this article. It's for caution. As placements are very low at present, many fraudulent companies are visiting the engineering institutions for providing jobs. The selection process remains a question mark, because we don't understand their priorities in offering the job (clumsy to the peaks!). 

Even colleges, being unable to bring good companies, are fetching those companies which arrive at half the cost of genuine ones, just to piggyback the count of placements. It doesn't cost anyone else's lives except those of students. You get a mail saying you got selected, when in the campus. When you get out of the college with heart full of joy as a graduate and wait for offer letter, you check your mails daily and you get to see nothing from the so-called Company. 

 I got a doubt regarding a company that conducted a campus drive in our college. I felt like it is fake, based on the way the selection took place and immediately called our T.P.O (Training and Placement Officer) to know about it.  Some times, it may  happen to you and you may get a doubt about a company too.  But, how can you determine whether it is a genuine one or not? 

Know How...!!!

Here is how you can verify whether a company is registered or not:

1. Click here to open the website of Ministry of Corporate Affairs.

2. Enter the Company Name and Click on Search 

3. If the company is registered, you get information like:

• LLPIN/CIN/1ARef No.  
• Company or LLP Name
• State
• Registration Date and
• Company Status 
  

4. If it isn't, you get a Pop-up blocked message (or) information not found message.

5. Check out this link to find the list of a few fake/fraudulent companies.

Be cautious...!!! 

Sometimes, the companies arrive with the same name as the registered company, but   

 have a different website than that of the registered one?

Here's how:

1. Click here to open the website and enter the name of it.

2. You get lot of information such as registered date of website domain, traffic info, registrar info, website info, history of it and so on.

3. If registration was done very recently just before the company visited (or) domain has expired long ago due to non-payment of money or whatever ( information will not be properly available), you can doubt its genuinity. 

What if the company is registered and you want to know the CMMI level of a company?

Here is how you get info about it:

1. You can search for a company and find its maturity level and capability level ratings in the Published CMMI Appraisal Results (PARS ) database of appraisal results. 

2. Click here to check out the companies' CMMI levels.

3. Also check out the websites like LinkedIn, GlassDoor and many others which provide feedback, reviews and ratings about the company, its work-culture and how it feels like working in the organization. 

4. Verify if anyone from around your place or family, are working in the company and ask them about the company, so you get relevant and genuine info.

Note:

Remember, no genuine company asks its employees to pay money for joining, as it requires best working people, but not those who pay. If it asks so, just quit from trying for that job. Here are a few tips:

• Don't believe anyone who says you can get job through back-door. Remember! you aren't a dullard and dumb-head to go through back-door. Believe in your own talents than believing fraudulent people. Just say NO!
• Think twice before paying money to any job sites. 
• Never pay registration fees to write written test. 99% of the companies, asking for fee are fake!
• Don't believe in any "job guarantee" programs from training institutes.

I tell you again! Believe in yourself. If you feel like you aren't ready enough to work in a company, learn a technology than spending the same on  paying fee to job-guarantee institutes. It's time to be serious..All the very best buddies...!!!

Have a nice time..!! Share your thoughts in Comments if you have any idea to find the fake companies..!

How to add a shutdown title to Start Menu?

Shutting down the PC in Windows is not really a straightforward matter. You have to move your mouse over to the lower-left corner and open up the Start Menu before you can select the “Shut Down” option. Using the trick stated here, you can easily pin a “Shut Down” tile to the Start screen where you can select to shut down the PC immediately.

Know How...!!!

Here are the steps to create shortcut for shut down process:

1. Go to Desktop, right click on the mouse and select New--> Shortcut.

2. Now, it asks for the location to link with shortcut. Type "shortcut /p" and click on "next", followed by "Finish".

3. Now, right click on the shortcut and select "Pin to Start Menu" or "Pin to Task bar".

Simple trick, but saves a lot of time..!!Try it now

Note: Why did shutdown happen when "/p" is added to shut down? It is a command prompt command to shutdown the computer. Here is more info:

Syntax

      SHUTDOWN [logoff_option]  [/m \\Computer] [options]

logoff_options:

    /i         Display the GUI (must be the first option)

    /l         Log off. This cannot be used with /m or /d option

    /s         Shutdown

    /r         Shutdown and Restart

    /a         Abort a system shutdown.

               (only during the time-out period)

    /p         Turn off the local computer with no time-out or warning

               (only with /d)

    /h         Hibernate the local computer (only with /f )

    /e         Document the reason for an unexpected shutdown of a computer

Tip: Each time Windows is shut down or restarted manually, including via the shutdown command, the reason, type of shut down, and [when specified] comment are recorded in the System log in Event Viewer. Filter by the USER32 source to find the entries.

How to get VLC to download subtitles automatically?

VLC is a great media player that can play almost any media format. When you have a video file such as, .mkv that your usual media player can’t play, simply play it with VLC and there is high chance it can play it without installing additional codec. VLC also comes with a subtitle feature where you can load the subtitle file for the video file. The thing it doesn’t do is to find and download the subtitle automatically. Wouldn’t it be perfect if VLC can download the subtitle automatically?It's possible using a single installation.

Know How...!!!

1. Download VLSub from its Github page. Extract the compressed file. You can find a “vlsub.lua” file in the folder. Here is the link: https://github.com/exebetche/vlsub/

2. Assuming that VLC is already installed in your computer, the next thing to do is to move the “vlsub.lua” file to the VLC extension folder.

Copy the file and paste it in: %ProgramFiles%\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\extensions\

3. Open the VLC and load a video. Under the View menu, you should now see a “VLSub” option.

4. In the VLSub window, you can select the subtitle language and add the title of the movie. Click the “Search by name” button to fetch all the related subtitles from OpenSubtitles.org. If you prefer, you can use the “Search by hash” button where it will calculate the hash for the video and find the subtitle that matches this hash. If you have converted the video from one format to another, or modified it, the hash method won’t work well.

5. When you found a match in the result list, highlight it and click “Download selection”. It will prompt you to select the location to download the subtitle file (the default location is the location of the currently playing video). Once that is done, you will be able to load the subtitle file in VLC.

VLSub is a useful extension that makes VLC even better. Now you can watch video without wasting time searching the Web for the correct subtitle file. Try it out and let me know if it works for you.

How to Password Protect your USB drive without any software?

Today, I'm gonna talk something interesting about USB drives and their security. I'll show you a simple trick to lock your USB drive without using any 3rd party software. Most of the people doesn't like other people checking their personal files and folder on USB, including me. This insecure situation creates a huge space to theft our personal data by someone. If you use password protection to your USB, you can reduce the data theft.

Lots of USB password protecting software is available in present market, but you want to pay money to use it for lifetime. If you're using Windows, you don't need any software.

Know How...!!!

So let's see how to set a password protect on your USB without using any software. This can be done using Bitlocker Drive Encryption. 

1. Insert your USB drive to computer.

2. Click on Start.

3. In "Search programs and files" box, type Bitlocker Drive Encryption. Now launch that application.

4. Then look for your USB drive and click on Turn on Bitlocker. You can do this through going to Control Panel->System and Security->BitLocker Drive Encryption.

5. Windows will ask you to set a password. Now set a strong password,set your preferences and then click on Next.

6. It prompts how to save the password, whether to a file or to print it.Store the key in a safe place,click on Next

7. Now click on Start Encrypting.

That's all !!! :)

From now on, if someone tries to access your USB, Windows will ask him/her to enter the current password and this works only with Windows OS... :)

Importantly, you can use it not only to to help protect all files stored on removable data drives (such as external hard drives or USB flash drives) but also files stored on the drive Windows is installed on (operating system drive) and on fixed data drives (such as internal hard drives).

Note: 

When you add new files to a drive that is encrypted with BitLocker, BitLocker encrypts them automatically. Files remain encrypted only while they are stored in the encrypted drive. Files copied to another drive or computer are decrypted.

How to browse websites without internet?

Being an Internet addict, you might be having a long list of favorite websites, right? I know that Google and Facebook must be there in the list, but I am talking apart from the social media and service websites.There are many more websites that are there to keep you updated with latest news and provide helpful articles. Anyways, accessing the websites and reading out the important stuff has become an important part of life.

One feels one’s day to be empty without accessing one’s favorite websites. But sometimes, the situations arrive in which we don’t have the Internet facility and thus we can’t access our favorite website.So, does this mean that you can’t open the website without having Internet? 

No! You can open and browse any website without the Internet as well. This is done by downloading the website onto your computer/laptop.

Know How...!!!

Yeah, you can download the entire website on your computer and then can access it whenever you want, without the need of Internet. Of course, the website that you access offline is only updated to the point when you download it.

The content getting published on the website after the time of your download, can’t be accessed offline until you download the updated website. Come on, it’s not any hard point to understand, just a common sense! Here is the list of best tools to download websites into your computer.

1. HTTrack:

HTTrack is an incredible and simple-to-use software to download the website. It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. After running the software, you just need to enter the URL of website that you wish to download. You can also define your desired depth level. The rest work is of the software only. It downloads the website and enables you to access it offline.

2. Internet Download Manager (IDM):

The world’s best download manager, the Internet Download Manager a.k.a IDM, also allows you to download the entire website. To use it, you need to run the  Site Grabber that lies in the ‘File’ tab of the download manager. Just enter the URL of site and tell the software that what you want to download. The rest work is of IDM.

3. Scrapbook:

If you use the popular browser Firefox, then there is nothing better than Scrapbook add-on for you, to download the entire website, and then access it in the offline mode. After installing the plugin, you will get a new tab on your Firefox browser, where you will see the option to download the website.

You can set the depth level to tell the plugin, to what extent it should follow the links and download the pages located behind them. You can export the download webpage as HTML and thus can enjoy the offline reading on mobiles and tablets as well.

4. Offline Commander:

Offline Commander – an amazing software for Windows – lets you download any particular web page or the entire website for offline access. You just need to define the settings like ‘Depth’ and other options, and rest work will be done by Offline Commander.

5. SurfOffline:

Yet another simple-to-use software that allows you to download the entire website. Those who live on the ideology of ‘keep it simple’, should go with this software. You can enjoy this software for free for first 30 days.

So, download and go through your favorite content offline now...!!! :)

How facts about Facebook can Surprise you?

Do you have an account on Facebook?Everyone, if not at least the most say "YES, Of course"...But, do you know Facebook can create chaos in lives of people?Do you know about countries that used facebook to rewrite their constitution?Ridiculous, isn;t it? Do you know you can earn using it?

Know How...!!!

1. Over 350 million people suffer from Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD):

The era of text messaging being the biggest teenage obsession was gone. And so long gone are the days where the biggest worries for parents were celebrity crushes, massive phone bills from ridiculously long phone calls and chocolate overloads. Now it obsession is all about Facebook.

An American psychologist believes that FAD, or Facebook Addiction Disorder, is a condition that is defined by hours spent on Facebook, so much time in fact that the healthy balance of the individual’s life is affected. It has been said that approximately 350 million people are suffering from the disorder. 

2.Hack Facebook and end up with $500 in your hand:

If you can hack Facebook you may end up making $500. “If you believe you have found a security vulnerability on Facebook, we encourage you to let us know right away. We will investigate all legitimate reports and do our best to quickly fix the problem,” states Facebook page on information.

“To show our appreciation for our security researchers, we offer a monetary bounty for certain qualifying security bugs,” Facebook adds. The bounty talked here is a minimum of $500, “There is no maximum reward: each bug is awarded a bounty based on its severity and creativity.” Before you hack the site, you have to follow a set of conditions laid by Facebook.

3. Adding number 4 to the end of Facebook’s URL will automatically direct you to Mark Zuckerberg’s wall:

If you add number 4 to the end of Facebook’s URL, it will automatically direct you to its founder’s wall page. Why Zuckerberg chose 4 instead of 1 is unknown but if you add the numerals like 5 and 6, it will direct you to the other co-founders, Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz. Tacking a 7 onto the web address leads to the profile of Arie Hasit, another good friend of Zuckerberg from his days at Harvard. To see the first few registered profiles of other Facebook employees, you can try out other numbers.

4. A couple got killed for de-friending a guy on Facebook:

This bizarre crime happened in Tennessee, USA.  A couple named Billy Clay Payne Jr. and Billie Jean Hayworth one’s decided to de-friend a woman, named Jenelle Porter. But it did not go down well with Jenelle’s father, who retaliated the act by killing both the couple sparing their 8 months old baby.

Then there was also a similar case where a man hit his wife for not “Liking” his Facebook post about his mother’s death and a woman set a friend's garage on fire.

5. Al Pacino was the first ‘face' on Facebook:

If you are a long term Facebook user, than you would have come across a sad-looking blue guy on Facebook's homepage who used to stare you down every time you went to log in. They did away with him in 2007; anyway according to David Kirkpatrick's The Facebook Effect , it turns out that that guy in the logo, created by Zuckerberg's friend and classmate Andrew McCollum, was none other than a young Al Pacino “covered with a fog of ones and zeros — the elementary components of digital media.”

6. Marriages are made in heaven but can break on Facebook:

Facebook is getting infamous as a marriage killer- about one in five American divorces now involve Facebook, according to a new survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.

Previously the reasons for the divorces use to be the tell tale signs like lipstick mark on collar or the give away text messages in mobile phones, but now, it is due to what it is called as Facebook flings- with flirty messages and photographs found on the site, that are increasingly being cited as proof of unreasonable behavior or irreconcilable differences.

A staggering 80 per cent of divorce lawyers have also reported a spike in the number of cases that use social media for evidence of cheating, according to the report. Many cases revolve around social media users who get back in touch with old flames they hadn’t heard from in many years.

Facebook was by far the biggest offender, with 66 per cent of lawyers citing it as the primary source of evidence in a divorce case.  MySpace followed with 15 per cent, Twitter at 5 per cent and other choices lumped together at 14 per cent.

7. About 83 percent of prostitutes have Facebook pages:

When you hit a Graph Search button for a porn star, there is a greater chance that the search directing you to the stars Facebook page. About 83 percent of the prostitutes have Facebook pages according to Columbia University sociology professor Sudhir Venkatesh. He said that the social giant has become an alternate and fitted option for prostitutes after Craigslist got rid of the “adult services” category.

8 Iceland used Facebook to rewrite its constitution! :

In 2011, Iceland finally took on the task of rewriting its constitution after following Danish constitution by making minor changes. In the process government took help of the most popular social media in the country: Facebook (The other social medias like Twitter, Flickr and YouTube were also used).

Two thirds of Iceland's population (approximately 320,000) is on Facebook, so the constitutional council used Facebook to rewrite its constitution where citizens could use the social network to make their own suggestions, engage in online debates, or follow the proceedings in real-time.

9. Facebook-A place to walk out on your love:

Over 25 percent of users have already been dumped via Facebook. In June 2010, a survey of 1,000 Facebook users, 70 percent of whom were male, found that 25 percent had been "dumped" via Facebook. And twenty-one percent of those surveyed said they would end a relationship by changing their Facebook relationship statuses to "single."

It is too shocking how easy a platform the Facebook has become where you can dump someone by just changing your relationship status from ‘committed’ to ‘single.’

10. Why Facebook is all blue in color?

"Blue is the richest color for me. I can see all of blue," Zuckerberg told in an interview with New Yorker reporter Jose Antonio Vargas. Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind, so blue is the easiest color for him to see. Additionally, Facebook has always been pretty monochromatic since from the beginning he has wanted the site to remain as simple as possible. But this didn’t prevent it from being world’s largest social networking site with over a billion users.

How to write Tweets longer than 140 characters?

A lot of people find it very difficult to express their thoughts or share a view on twitter due to their character limits. To be honest, I can make the most out of 140 characters. But, there are situations when you need more than 140 characters to express yourself but Twitter won’t allow you post tweets that exceed the limit.

Twitlonger:  This tool will allow you to sign up using the Twitter OAuth and thus you will be able to post longer tweets on Twitter. All you have to do is just login and you will be given a huge text area to write your tweet. What it does is, it will post your tweet with a link to it to view the entire text. Pretty sick isn’t it…?

RichTweets: One of my favorites. This tool allows you to create full HTML Tweets with colors, images, videos and widgets. You can connect it with your twitter account and when you post it here, it automatically gets posted on your twitter account.  YouTube videos can be easily added and alternately, you can embed other videos by simply inputting the full code in the video embed box. You can use it as another twitter manager such as hootsuite, tweetdeck etc. This is a good find.

XLTweet: When you have more to say but limited space, just XL tweet it. This tool is quite easy to use and comes in handy when you want to post longer tweets. Simply type in the text, provide your Twitter account details and bingo!!

MaxiTweets: It allows up to 200 characters long tweets, which is an increase of nearly 50%. They have opened up several new possibilities for the fast growing Twitter communications platform.  So get more out of Twitter now with maxitweets: up to 200 letters.

ezTweets: This one lets you post both of Twitter and Facebook. With ezTweets you can write huge posts. It simply takes your longer tweets (more than 140 characters long) and split them neatly, marks the tweet in a sequential manner and posts them to your Twitter timeline all at once. Best part, there is no characters limit…

TallTweets: Tall Tweets will slice your tweet into multiple smaller tweets of 140 characters or less, and publishes them all to Twitter in a sequence. The tweets are numbered and are sent in a reverse arrangement such that they can be read from top-to-down inside any Twitter client. Alternatively, you may choose to publish your long tweet as an image and in that case, the entire text gets published in a single tweet.

 

Advantage: The image tweets are rendered in the Roboto font (originally design by Google for Android) and thus the text in the images should be readable even on mobile screens.

Tweet!Tweet!! Long Twitter update it is!!! :)