Yesterday, while chatting with my friend (a computer freak!), I came to know that being a highly computer-addicted teen doesn’t make you a genius. While chatting, he asked me how he could import all of his MSN/WLM contacts from address to the other. I was surprised by his question!

Well, I have seen many people having problems when changing their MSN/WLM address. The main problem is that when they change their address they don’t know how to import their contact list :P. Below, I have explained the easiest way to import your contact list from MSN/WLM Messenger.

To import, simply go to Contacts in your MSN/WLM Messenger and select Save instant messaging contact. Save it anywhere in your PC, and then sign-in with the address you want the contacts to be exported to. After signing in, again go to Contacts and this time select Import instant messaging contacts.

That’s it! All you contacts are safely imported into your new address.

Happy chatting!

Now, this is something cool…ÂÂ ÂÂ Over at WinCustomize, someone thought they’d found an Easter Egg in the Windows Notepad application. :p But he infact found something weird in it.

It works like this:

1. Open Notepad
2. Type the text “this app can break” (without quotes)
3. Save the file
4. Re-open the file in Notepad.

Notepad displays seemingly-random Chinese characters, or boxes if your default Notepad font doesn’t support those characters.

It’s not an Easter egg (even though it seems like a funny one), and as it turns out, Notepad writes the file correctly. It’s only when Notepad reads the file back in that it seems to lose its mind.

But we can’t even blame Notepad: it’s a limitation of Windows itself, specifically the Windows function that Notepad uses to figure out if a text file is Unicode or not.

So, how’s this trick? :D If this works, do let me know whether you got boxes or some Chinese character. Well, I got Chinese characters. This works in Windows XP, but I am not sure about Windows Vista.

I found this thread about Firefox tips and shortcuts very, very useful. If you are a Firefox user, these tips and shortcuts really come in handy while surfing. Here are some of them:

Tip: Double Clicking empty space on the Tab Bar will open a ‘New Tab’

Tip: Middleclick/MouseWheelClick on a Bookmark on your Personal Toolbar will open it up in a New Tab

Tip: MiddleClick/MouseWheel Click on a folder will open all the bookmarks in the folder in a new Tab(s)

Tip: holding down the Shift or Ctrl key when you RightClick to “View Image” or “View Backround Image”will open the image in a New Tab or New Window.

Tip: Unused menus or menu Items can be hidden by using the customizing your userChrome.css stylesheet

Tip: MiddleClick/MouseWheel Click on a Tab will close that Tab.

Tip: Set mutliple Home pages: Tools—->Options—>General and seperate each page with the pipe | symbol
(eg http://forums.mozillazine.org/|http://www.google.com|http://www.yahoo.com

Tip: Clear your Download history to make the download manager more responsive : Tools—->Options—>Privacy (Read more…)

The TweakGuides site has just put up the Windows Vista TweakGuide for free download. It seems to be a massive 250 page document that has everything from basics to advanced stuff. Worth a read.

Download: TweakGuides Tweaking Companion (TGTC) for Windows Vista (Regular Edition) v1.00

Well, want the answer to this question?:) There are several answers for this question. Some of them are given below. :)

Teenagers do crazy things :p. They take drugs, have sex, ride with drunken drivers, and pretend to be asleep when it’s time to do the dishes.

But it’s not that they don’t ponder the the potential consequences. In fact, a new study finds teens spend more time weighing risk than adults and in fact often overestimate the odds of a bad outcome. But the desire for acceptance among peers wins out in the decision-making process of a young mind.

Cornell University researcher Valerie Reyna and Frank Farley of Temple University conducted a review of scientific studies on the topics.

Compared to adults, teens take about 170 milliseconds more weighing the pros and cons of engaging in high-risk behavior, the researchers conclude :O. Adults scarcely think about risk, perhaps because they think they recognize risk intuitively. Teens, on the other hand, take time to mull the risk vs. benefit equation.

“In other words, more experienced decision-makers tend to rely more on fuzzy reasoning, processing situations and problems as gists [the essence of their actions] rather than weighing multiple factors,” Reyna said.

Teens often decide that the benefits of risky behavior immediate gratification or peer acceptance—outweigh the risks, Reyna said. She figures its better to teach teens some “gist-based” thinking skills, such as putting risks into general categories rather than lecturing with specific data and details.