How to extend Laptop battery life

There are some points we tend to ignore while using the Laptop particularly the Battery life of Laptop.There are some simple useful tips if we follow that can improve up on the battery life.

• Dimming the screen.
• Cutting down programmes running at the background
• Using less external devices.
• Using hard disk drive rather than CD/DVD
• Hibernating systems instead of stand by mode
• Optimize your power options according to your needs using control panel options.
• Avoid heavy multi tasking as much as possible.
• Defrag your hard disk regularly.
• Cut down external devices
• Add more RAM

Apart from the above please Take care of your battery -  Do not leave a charged battery dormant for a long periods of time.  Once charged, you should at least use the battery at least once every two to three weeks. Also, do not let a Li-On battery completely discharge.

Kaspersky Mobile secuity

With the advent of the latest technology in the mobiles .The more problems start spooking by the way of virus.Already many viruses exist in the mobile phones.The Kaspersky’s recent mobile security7.0(KMS 7) enters the picture with reputation of being very good antivirus on the Desktop segment category.

 

The features includes the following

• Net work firewall
• Anti-Spam (SMS through rules)
• Anti theft.
• Set up Scan of every file or data every day/weekly or even more.

The packaged CD of KMS 7 offers installers for smart phones based on windows mobile 5.0/6.0, and Symbian OS 9.1/9.2(with series 60v3 UI).

The soft ware can be purchased through internet and the validity period is for an year.Also this offers a trial period also for mobile security.

Anti theft feature 

Once the mobile is configured the Anti theft feature can be invoked.If you loose the phone.A specially formatted SMS needs to be sent to your mobile phone number, which will be acted up on by KMS7.It then cleans out your SMS inbox, contacts and personal files.So that your mobile shouldn't stuck to a wrong person.If the thief replaces the SIM,the SIM WATCH  automatically sends SMS to 2 specified phone numbers without the knowledge of the thief.

Can consider having this for your mobile too.

Cost :USD29(Rs1200 approx)

Logmein-Desktop sharing utility

What it is Logmein?

It is a desktop sharing utility and you can share the desktop via a website that allows you to remotely access any pc that you have set up on this website.

 
You need to register the pc which you want to remotely access on this website. Once you have done this all you need to do is log on to this website and you will be able to access your chosen computer remotely.

Choosing the remote control option once logged in you will see the desktop of the pc as if you were sat in front of it and open files, read and send e-mails and even hear e-mail notifications!

This site is also helpful if you are having computer problems and you know a computer boffin as they can access your computer from anywhere in the world and fix it for you! 

How it is useful?
We shall keep the monitor on at the workplace and shall access at home.

 

Points to note:

• The computer you want to access has to be switched on and have internet access, if not you will not be able to log in.
• You can drag and drop files from one desktop to another or use the file manager facility to transfer your files between pc's. Printing is no problem. You can either transfer the files from the remote pc to your pc or print remotely ie choose the printer connected to the pc infront of you and print to that.(Note that is available with paid version) .
• The remote printing option will not work some times and need to transfer the files to your local machines such times.
• When some on switch off your computer at the other side it will say that the other computer is offline. 
  

Like Crossloop this is also a desktop utility but there is no need for some one at the other side only criteria is that the system should be switched on.

Tailpiece:

The company has actually been cooking up an application for the iPhone (and iPod Touch), too, called LogMeIn Ignition. The release version seems to be good and impressive.It works well with the windows machine. Logmein client installed in desktop and able to view its desktop on iPhone's screen. The app allows for viewing the entire scaled-down screen of the remote computer or zooming in to a potion of it, just like you would view a photo or a Web page on the iPhone.

Syncplicity –File/Data Synchronization services

What Syncplicity?

Syncplicity is a new service in the market of file synchronization services where we already have FolderShare, SugarSync and Dropbox.This services can be synchronised with Google Docs and Facebook.

The key benefits

• Real-Time Backup:
• Sharing made Simple
• Access anytime, anywhere

· View Multiple Computers one view

If you use multiple computers and keep a track of the changes you have made in which machine has which version of the report that may confuse us .This services help us to synchronise the changes uniformly through all the system.

Syncplicity with multi system:

While installing Syncplicity in the second computer or add new folders to the server, it will offer to sync (download) the files already on the server to the second machine. If you agree, you can tell it where to put the folder. If a folder by the same name already exists in your specified location, Syncplicity asks whether you wish to merge the two. If you don't, you can enter a different location. Sending sharing invitations to multiple colleagues can be time-consuming: For each recipient, you have to click 'Add Someone' and then type in their e-mail address; you can't enter multiple addresses.

 

Effective versioning::

It preserves different editions of your files as they are synced, added, and removed. You can access an older version of a file by right-clicking the file and examining a list of the versions Syncplicity has tracked since the original upload. The list includes buttons for downloading a version to your local computer or reverting to that version.

 

Limitations:

• Presently work with XP and vista presently.(not support linux and mobile)

• Syncplicity lacks a remote-access feature( but work with Windows' built-in networking and Remote Desktop tools).

• The free account caps 10000 files and 2GB storage and 2 PCS and limit versioning control and the limitation of the period they keep.(Deletes older documents version over 30days).

• The paid monthly services for 10$ for an account of 40GB and an addition of 50GB at a cost of 10$.Though the best of features it is quite expensive.

Considering the future needs of effective  memory management to keep the data in a secure place(a bank locker kind of) like this kind of services would be a good option.Might be this kind of memory management services may be a very dependable option with more enhanced capacities in future.

To subscribe syncplicity click here

Spin Spotter to check media bias and inaccuracies

What is Spinspotter and what it does?

The spin spotter is an  one online spotter to identify the media bias. Through the tool called ‘Spinoculars’ which sits in the user tool bar(browser), the site allows you to flag certain indications of potential biased reporting

Not only spotting the biased reporting but as well share the info with others.So that a community can get the truth the news articles.

Users of SpinSpotter also get a Trust rating. Accurately mark instances of bias, and users will vote you up and increase your Trust rating. Inaccurately mark statements of fact as media spin, users vote you down and your Trust rating plummets.

SpinSpotter gives much more weight to an experienced and reliable user — a trusted user’s down vote can counteract thousands of up votes from untrusted users.

The site derives its strenght from the advisory board of prominent US journalist who have set objective rules for what constitutes ‘Spin’ uniquely guided from crowd sourcing and algorithm that constantly learn from users as input.

How to use the tool now?

The tool is in Beta version , right now exclusively a Firefox browser 3 but expected with IE browser soon. ’Spinaculars’ installs in seconds (134K). It only takes a minute to register a username for yourself. 

 

Please see the demo given by the company.

Audacity a sound editing tool

Audacity

I was on look out for converting the old audio tapes into an MP3 format.I could successfully done and it helped me to displace the cassettes which was cluttering at my shelf. I come to know about this open source program and installed in my system. I was amazed to see the performance of such a nice sound editing software.

What is audacity?

Audacity is a digital audio editor application. Audacity is a digital audio editor and mixing platform, complete with a graphical user interface and cross-platform OS support. It's one of the most popular open-source downloads in the world.

What is the typical use?

It is a very simple audio recording tool which can be added in you computer and with ease of use and with the following features.

• Importing and exporting WAV, AIFF, MP3 (via the LAME encoder, downloaded separately), Ogg Vorbis, all file formats supported by libsndfile library
• Version 1.3.2 also supports Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
• Recording and playing sounds
• Editing via Cut, Copy, Paste
• Multi-track mixing
• A large array of digital effects and plug-ins. Additional effects can be written with Nayquist
• Amplitude envelope editing
• Noise removal
• Support for multi-channel modes with sampling rates up to 96 kHz with 24 bits per sample
• The ability to make precise adjustments to the audio's speed while maintaining pitch (Audacity calls it changing tempo), in order to synchronize it with video, run for the right length of time, etc.
• The ability to change the audio's pitch without changing the speed.
• Converting cassette tapes or records into digital tracks by automatically splitting one wav (or the other supported types) track into multiple tracks based on silences in the track and the export multiple option.
• Multi-platform: works on Windows, Mac OS X, and Unix-like systems (including GNU/Linux and BSD) amongst others.
• Os supported Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista.
• Audacity can also be used for post-processing of all types of audio, including podcasts.

Other comments:

Audacity uses destructive rather than non-destructive editing. All effects are applied as permanent changes to the waveform, and are not dynamic or real-time.

Audacity lacks dynamic equalizer controls - equilization must also be applied as a permanent effect.

Audacity does not include support for keyframe-based effects. Support for scrubbing is also not included.

Audacity it will be stored as high memory occupying WAV files in the hard disk.Till such time we export into an MP3 or WMV file.

It is really a great audio editing tool.

For the procedural learning click here

For Audacity down load click

To see the Video demo

 

See how to remix

 

 

File shredder a useful tool to shred files beyond recovery

What File shredder does?

File shredder is a free tool that deletes completely or not giving a chance to extract the data even though it deleted from the recycle bin and fear from the hard drive that it can be recovered.

It enables you to delete files beyond recovery, using multiple passes, DoD 5220-22.M or the Gutmann method. The program can wipe individual files or entire folders (with optional subfolders), and also integrates with the right-click menu for convenient access from within Windows Explorer. File Shredder can also wipe the free disk space on selected drives, allowing you to erase traces of files that have been deleted previously by using standard deletion methods.

What it does?

 

To remove, or shred files permanently without any trace from your system you have to use a program that is capable of rewriting the files with random series of binary data multiple times. This process is often called shredding. That way, the actual content of the file has been overwritten and the possibilities to recover such a shredded file are mostly theoretical.

You have a choice of five different shredding algorithms. It's as easy a program to use as you can imagine. Just choose your files, tell the program to shred them, and they'll be gone forever.

 

 

It flushes out the old data  completely from the  hard drive.During the flushing process it would use the memory space of the hard disk

This free tool was recommended by magazines like PC world etc.

To down load the tool please click here.