Watch ASCII Star Wars in CMD(All windows Vesrions)

Star Wars- Whether you are a fanboy or not, no one can miss the fun of watching star Wars! Getting bored @ Office or @ home. Why not watch a Star wars movie? Well whats the fun in that? It is the same movie with aliens fighting each other for galaxies and such stuff. There is nothing new in it. But wait, have you watched an ASCII( American Standard Code for Information Interchange) version of Star Wars and that too in Windows using telnet. A word mostly linked with computer wizards. Well if you have not, then you must do it now!

There is a complete copy of Star Wars done entirely in ASCII characters that you can watch in the Windows operating system (or any OS that supports telnet). The only thing required to watch it is an internet connection; speed does not matter.

To watch it on Windows XP,

1. Go to Start, Run.
2. Now type "telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl" without the quotes and press Enter.
   

On Windows 7 and Windows Vista

Telnet is turned off by default in the latest versions of Windows. So, in order to watch star wars, you must first enable telnet by going to Control Panel › Programs › Turn Windows Feature On or Off and ticking both the telnet check boxes. After doing that, follow the steps given below:-

1. Go to Start, Search.
2. Type telnet and press Enter.
3. In the following command prompt window, type "o" without quotes and press Enter.
4. Now type "towel.blinkenlights.nl" without the quotes and press Enter.

Note: In all versions of windows, you can start any service by using the Command net start in Cmd. So, for starting Telnet you can simply write net start telnet and press Enter.
To stop the service, use net stop telnet
If you do not need telnet anymore, you can turn it off.

Windows Keyboard Tricks : Make a Disco

Keyboards usually have small LED's which indicate whether different types of locks are activated or not. Now, why not make some creative use of these LED's and create your own Disco right @ your Desktop. Here is a trick to use the lights of your keyboard to create a Disco

This trick uses a simple Visual basic script which when activated makes your scroll lock, caps lock and num locks LED's flash in a cool rhythmic way which gives the perception of a live disco on your keyboard.

To make your own live disco, follow the steps given below:-

1. Open Notepad.

2. Copy paste the exact code given below:-

Set wshShell =wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

do

wscript.sleep 100

wshshell.sendkeys "{CAPSLOCK}"

wshshell.sendkeys "{NUMLOCK}"

wshshell.sendkeys "{SCROLLLOCK}"

loop

3. Save the file as Disco.vbs or any other name. Make sure you end it with .vbs extension. This trick has been tested on all versions of Windows after Xp. 

4. Double click on the file Disco.vbs to start having fun!

Note: To stop the Script, Start task manager. You can do so by pressing Alt+Ctrl+Del together or Ctrl+Shift+Esc together. Go to the Process tab and end the process wscript.exe