How to Check CPU Speed

Your CPU speed determines how fast your process can perform tasks. CPU speeds matter less than they did in the past, thanks to the advent of multi-core processors. Still, it can be useful to check your CPU speed when purchasing a new program to make sure that your computer can handle it. It's also very useful to know how to check the CPU's true speed when you're overclocking for better performance. Windows 1. Open the System window. There are several ways that you can open this window quickly. * Windows 7, Vista, XP - Right-click on Computer/My Computer in the Start menu and select "Properties". In Windows XP, you may need to...

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Which is the Best Linux Distribution for your Desktop?

Linux today comes in several different flavors or distros as they are known in Linux circles. Some Linux distributions are light-weight (they’ll run just fine on your old laptop), some are targeted at people who just want to try out Linux without replacing their main OS while other desktop distros (say Ubuntu) include a more comprehensive collection of software applications and also support a wide variety of hardware devices. CHOOSE THE RIGHT LINUX DISTRO FOR YOUR DESKTOP Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Xandros, Knoppix, Fedora, openSUSE etc. are just some of the popular Linux distros but you’ll be surprised to know that there exists over 650...

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An Infographic Style Wedding Invitation

The website, available at cometokochi.in, is done like a long and colorful infographic with a strong mix of creativity and humor. How do you reach the venue, what should you expect at the dinner table, what do you wear on the wedding day and most important, what do you do in your free time – the invitation answers it all with a dash of humor. Brilliant stuff! The website has gone viral on Facebook, getting over a thousand likes. The wedding will however be streamed live on the site itself so gate-crashers have an alternative. ...

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See How a Place Has Changed Over Time

Do you know that Google Earth also lets you explore historical imagery of a place? When you zoom to a particular location on Google Earth, it pops up a clock icon in the status bar indicating the earliest year for which historical imagery is available for that location. You can then move the slider in the timeline, using your mouse or with the help of arrow keys, to see how that place may have changed over time. For instance, here are aerial images of the Whitehouse captured during 1949 and 1999. ...

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Setup a Virtual Private Network in Minutes

Virtual Private Networks, or VPN for short, allow employees to securely connect their desktop or laptop computers to the office network from any location in the world using a regular Internet connection. If you are working from home, you can connect to the corporate network over VPN and you’ll have immediate access to your emails, internal web pages, network drives, and stuff that is otherwise only available from computers within the office premises. Some VPN clients also allow screen sharing and remote access to facilitate communication among team members. CREATE A VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK FOR FREE If you regular need to connect to...

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Auto-Forward SMS and Missed Calls to your Email [Android]

You may wonder why would anyone want to forward text messages or missed call notifications to their email account when the cell phone is with them all the time? Won’t these messages add more noise to an overflowing email Inbox? Not so. For instance, some of my friends work in a company where, for security reasons, they aren’t allowed to carry personal mobile phones inside though they do have regular phones at their desk and are allowed email access. They would therefore leave the phone at home but with auto-forwarding enabled, they’ll get an email alert as soon as someone sends them an SMS or calls on their cell during office hours. Such...

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How to Watch YouTube Videos Not Available in Your Country

No, this is not about Internet censorship in countries like China or Pakistan where ISPs frequently block access to sites like YouTube following Government orders. YOUTUBE VIDEOS BLOCKED IN YOUR COUNTRY You could be staying in a country like US, UK or India but may not be able to watch every video on YouTube – that’s because the content owners have allowed access to that video only from certain countries or geographic regions. If your computer’s IP address falls outside that geographic region, YouTube will display an error saying “This video is not available in your country” – this message has nothing to do with censorship, it’s...

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How to Make Your Wired Printer Wireless

Your laptop and desktop computers are connected over a Wi-Fi network but you still need a physical USB cable to connect your wired printer to one of these computers. If you find your existing setup a bit inconvenient and are looking for ways that will help you print documents from the same printer but wirelessly, here are some choices. TURN ANY WIRED PRINTER INTO A WIRELESS NETWORK PRINTER More new printers these days are network enabled so you can just attach them to your home network using the Ethernet port (or over Wi-Fi) and print from any other computer in the home network. However, if you are using an old USB based printer, you can...

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Can Google Employees Read your Gmail?

In theory, the answer could be yes. Christopher Nguyen, who was earlier responsible for Google Apps operations at Google, shared this on Quora: " A small number of GMail related engineers have access to the servers as a matter of necessity to do their jobs; a very small number of people actually access the contents as a matter of necessity to do their jobs, and even then, almost always only the associated metadata. The rest have to file a request and justify any access they ever need, which is extremely rare. All have to sign paperwork re users’ privacy at the risk of dismissal & legal action, knowing that whatever they do is discoverable....

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How to Record Skype Calls on your iPad

HOW TO RECORD SKYPE CALLS ON IPAD (OR IPHONE) While there are plenty of software tools around for recording Skype calls on a desktop, the process of recording Skype calls on an iPad or iPhone is a little bit different. You initiate a call over Skype, switch to an audio recorder app and hit the record button. The technique works because even if you put the Skype app in the background, the call won’t disconnect. The other option is that you launch an audio recording app first and then switch to Skype so the recording happens in the background. So which app do you use for recording Skype calls on the iPad. There's is Quick Voice...

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Create Ringtones for your Mobile Phone with WolframTones

if you aren’t too happy with the ringtones available on your mobile phone and want a tone that sounds pleasing and is unique, here’s an idea – create (or rather generate) a composition on your own with WolframTones. Wolfram Tones is an online sound generator that can help you create 100% original patterns of music that you can download to your cell phone and use as a ringtone. You’ll get a different tone every time you press the composition button. The generated tones are generally shorter than traditional music and, when you install one as a ringtone, your phone will automatically repeat it. The default duration of a ringtone is...

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Interesting Uses of the Camera in Mobile Phones

What do you use the camera of your mobile phone for? Other than capturing digital photographs, here are some creative and productive uses of camera mobile phones: Computer Screen Capture – You can use the Mobile Phone cameras for capturing screenshots of error messages that popup while you are reinstalling a copy of Windows or modifying some BIOS settings. In situations like the dreaded Blue Screen, Print-Screen key is useless but any phone-cam will get the job done. Remember Dates – Some time back, I had gone to a nursery school for submitting the admission form of my son. I don’t remember the exact date now but luckily, I had...

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Share your Presentation Slides with a QR Code

Let’s assume you are speaking at an event. Now when you are done with the presentation, some people in the audience would definitely want to have a “soft copy” of your slides. How would you distribute them? The old approach is that you collect the email addresses of all the interested people and send the slides as an email attachment. Or you can upload the presentation file to some document sharing website, like Google Docs or Dropbox, and send them the hyperlink. Alternatively, you may consider using QR Codes to distribute your presentation. Put the QR code image in the last slide, people can scan the code with their mobile phones and...

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Get a Free .in Web Domain and Hosting from Google

Google India, in partnership with ICICI Bank and HostGator (the web hosting company), has launched a program called India Get Online where they make it easy for you to setup a website for your business for free. As part of the deal, you get a free .in web domain (provided it is available) and free web hosting for one year. The .in domain will registered to you while Hostgator will manage the website hosting* though you can move the site to any other web host for free. Such free offers are always a goldmine for spammers but Google India has made it mandatory for businesses to enter their Permanent Account Number (PAN) or Tax Deduction...

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A Beautiful Replacement for your Notepad

Notepad, a light-weight text editor that is included with every copy of Microsoft Windows, is also the most basic program on your computer with an extremely simple UI and limited functionality. This probably explains why there is almost an avalanche of notepad replacements in the market – applications that aren’t just better than the default notepad program but most of them are free as well. A BETTER ALTERNATIVE TO NOTEPAD Today I had an opportunity to try another notepad replacement and after spending a couple of minutes with the program, I am convinced that it is going to be my new default text editor replacing Notepad. The program...

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A Google Search Operator That You May Not Know About!

Search operators in Google help you refine and improve search results. For instance, a query like “Taj Mahal AND Hotel” will search for pages related to the Hotel Taj and not the Mughal monument. Similarly, “kindle –site:amazon.com” will find all Kindle related resources outside the Amazon website. AROUND SEARCH OPERATOR Google Search supports an undocumented search operator called AROUND(n) that will help you find documents where the distance between two search terms is around ‘n.’ Here’s an example: A search query like “CNN Obama” will mostly show CNN pages that are related to Obama. However, if we modify the query to look...

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How to Embed Images & Logos in QR Codes

What is the first image that comes to your mind when you think of a QR Code? A confusing maze of black rectangular patterns arranged on a white background? True, most QR Codes are available in black and white but they don’t have to be that way. There’s an excellent online QR generator at qrhacker.com that lets you create colorful QR codes and what makes this tool different is that it provides you can option to embed photographs and logo images to your QR codes. You can even edit the colors of individual pixels that form the code. To give you an example, here’s a QR code made using a picture of Zuckerberg and if you scan the code...

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Create HTML Signatures Right Inside Gmail

This tip describes how you can create professional looking HTML signatures for your outgoing Gmail messages right inside Gmail itself without requiring any browser extensions or add-ons. HTML SIGNATURES FOR YOUR GOOGLE EMAIL Gmail does support email signatures but the problem is that it limits you to plain text – you can’t add graphics (like your company’s logo) to the signature and there’s absolutely no support for HTML so you can’t use different font styles or colors for the signature text. There are workarounds. For instance, you can create an email signature in Outlook or some HTML editor and then copy-paste the whole thing...

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Direct Torrents Download Torrent Files Faster Safer Free

Steps to be followed:- 1. Search for your torrent file using torrent sites like extratorrent,thepiratebay,etc. 2. Copy magnetic link. 3. Click here and open seedr website. 4. Login with Facebook. 5. You will get 2GB limit on torrent. 6. Paste magnetic link and click on ADD sign. 7. To increase its limit up to 6.5GB,go to right upper corner click there a drop-drown menu will appear. 8. Click on “Earn More Space” and you can see seedr offers as :- "Post a review via Twitter and receive 500mb of storage, (Post your review include @seedrcoil in the post)." "If you are a Blogger do a short article...

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How to Reduce Video File Size Without Losing Quality

In this guide you will learn How to Reduce Video File Size Without Losing Quality. We know that many of you sometime feel you don’t have enough space to store your file due to large amount of Video file stored in your system.Even you don’t want to remove such important and favorite movies but there is a possibility you can still have your videos and space for more storage.You just have to convert your video file with the following setting as discussed later. Reduce Video File Size without losing Quality For this purpose we are going to use WinX HD Video Converter Delux but there are many video converters that may have this video...

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