Stop Google Redirection
Those who live outside the United States can relate to this. Ever get annoyed when you go tohttp://www.google.com
and Google redirects your browser to your country domain? For example if you are in Sweden (love those meatballs) and you go to Google's search page it will take you to http://www.google.se/
. If you live in Malaysia, Google will redirect your browser tohttp://www.google.com.my/
, and so on. Now, if you don't want to get redirected to your local Google site what do you have to do?
There is actually a simple trick to avoid that. You can just add "ncr" to Google's address after the slash at the end of its URL. In other words, just type http://www.google.com/ncr
. That will lead you to the original Google homepage, without the redirection. If you're curious to know what "ncr" stands for it is just an acronym for "no country redirection".
Just Flippin' For Ya!
This is a simple prank that you can play on someone who still uses Windows XP. Just hit CTRL+Alt+(Arrow Down) on their keyboard and VOILA (!!!) the display on their screen goes upside down...hehe...Pretend you didn't do it and let him say a few expletives. hehehe...Now, to undo it, just hit CTRL+Alt+(Arrow Up). If you suffer bodily harm for this we take no responsibility for it.
This prank works on machines with an INTEL video driver. Meaning if you are using an ATI video card or something other than INTEL it won't work unless you are running XP Tablet Edition. See the information below:
The Ctrl-Alt-Direction key sequence is supposed to be used for changing the screen
orientation. For example, some monitors could be hang upside down for mounting purposes.
Ctrl-Alt-Up – right side up
Ctrl-Alt-Right – 90 degrees
Ctrl-Alt-Down – 180 degrees
Ctrl-Alt-Left – 270 degrees
(If that doesn't work, try Ctrl-Shift-R)
This is a feature in Windows XP Tablet PC Edition.
No harm will come to the computer when you do this trick even if it doesn't apply to that particular machine.
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