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General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
2008-01-16 03:37:00 General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) GPRS protocol is a packet-switch protocol; define for web applications in GSM network. In other words Internet on GSM network is standardized as GPRS network. GPRS has digital structure and this structure based on Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) technique. One TDMA frame has 8 time slots (TSs). These TSs can be allocated to users, and single TS can be shared by several active users for uplink and downlink purposes. Different coding schemes are used to enhance data rate from 9Kbps to 150 Kbps per user, and it takes 0.5 to 1 second. Security features in GPRS is provided by GSM network. GPRS Architecture Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) circuit-switch architecture does not support the GPRS packet-switch architecture. Thus, GPRS requires its own network architecture. Several networks and databases e.g. Mobile Station (MS), Base Statio... More About: General , Other
How to increase the processor power of your computer?
2008-01-16 03:30:00 How to increase the processor power of your computer? Today tip is very useful for those users who are still using computer with minimum processor speed. To increase the performance of slow computer, you can force your system to free up the idle tasks that are running in the background and sharing processor power. This end tasks method force the computer to devote its full processor resource to what you want it to do. Follow the given steps to end the idle tasks: To enable this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights. · Click Start button and click on Run option. · In the Run box, type the command Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks command and press Ok button. Here system will take some time to end the background idle tasks. More About: Power , Computer , Processor
How to disable the unread email notification in XP welcome screen?
2008-01-15 12:38:00 How to disable the unread email notification in XP welcome screen?Windows XP by default display the list of unread email on the windows welcome screen. But some time this unread email notification is irritating users and they don't want to display it on the welcome screen. They can easily disable it using the windows registry editor. Make sure before modifying your system Registry about its backup because Registry contains all information how your system runs. This backup will help you to restore Registry in case any problem occurs after modifying. Follow the given steps to disable the email notification option: To edit the computer registry, first you should log onto your computer with administrative rights. First click on Start button and type "Regedit" in Run option. Here locate the location to: Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion ... More About: Screen , Email
Add Check Boxes In Vista Windows Explorer For Selecting Multiple Folders an
2008-01-15 12:29:00 Add Check Boxes In Vista Windows Explorer For Selecting Multiple Folders and Files Up until the release of Windows Vista, when selecting multiple files and folders in previous versions of Windows, you needed to use the Ctrl or Shift key to select individual or multiple files and folders. With Vista, you can add a check box column to folder views to select files and folders instead of using the keyboard. To add the check boxes option to folder views, open any folder or click on Start Computer to run Windows Explorer. Once Windows Explorer opens, from the menu, select Tools Folder Options? and select the view tab. Next scroll down to the bottom and check the box next to Use check boxes to select items (circled in above screen shot), then click OK to close the Folder Options window. Now when you need to select folders and files, just move your mouse to the first column, and a check box will appear allowing you to select the item in Windows Explorer. Cool, now you don't n...
Use Task Manager To Identify Excessive Disk Thrashing In Windows
2008-01-15 12:21:00 Use Task Manager To Identify Excessive Disk Thrashing In Windows How many times have you been force to wait for a simple task to complete because something in the background ends up thrashing your hard drive, slowing everything down? Helpless, you watch the light on the hard drive go from a flicker to a continuous glow, leaving you to wonder what process or program is the culprit. To get to the bottom of annoying disk thrashing, an often over-looked feature of Task Manager , in both XP and Vista, provides the capability to add disk counters that can identify excessive disk activity. By default, Task Manager displays the familiar CPU, Memory, Description, etc columns for each process that is running on your System. These columns are actually performance counters that are also found with Windows perfmon (performance monitoring) tool. To add, additional counters, specifically for monitoring disk activity, open Task Manager by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Esc or right click on the Taskbar a...
Run Firefox 3 Without Removing Version 2
2008-01-14 12:57:00 Run Firefox 3 Without Removing Version 2 The great people over at PortableApps.com have done it again. This time they have made the next major version of Firefox browser, version 3, available as a portable app. This means you can run Firefox 3 without disrupting the current Firefox installation and check out all the new features. If you're not familiar with PortableApps, check out running Firefox on a USB drive for more information. In the meantime, let's look at how you can get Firefox 3 up and running. Installing Firefox 3 Portable While Firefox 3 portable edition is meant to be run on a removable drive, you can also install it in a folder on your hard drive. Start by downloading the portable edition of Firefox 3 from PortableApps to your Computer and click on the executable to start the installation. Click Next at the first screen.Check the box to accept the License Agreement and click Next.Click Browse to select a location to install Firefox 3 and click Install to start...
Run FireFox And Thunderbird As Portable Applications on USB Drive
2008-01-14 12:53:00 Run FireFox And Thunderbird As Portable Applications on USB Drive As Computer technology keeps advancing and hardware becomes smaller and lighter, innovations have been made that allow more mobility when it comes to accessing our data. A great example is with the portability of USB flash drives. No longer does the typical home user need to be tied to one computer to view digital photos, videos or documents. With the same freedom these devices give us, software advancements has also been made with making applications portable. One that comes to mind, is a suite of applications including Mozilla FireFox and Thunderbird from PortableApps.com PortableApps have been around for a while, but they recently released a suite that includes Mozilla FireFox web browser, Mozilla Thunderird email client, OpenOffice suite, Mozzila Sunbird calendar/scheduler, Gaim instant messaging client, GaimWin antivirus, Sudoku game, backup utility and integrated menu, all preconfigured to work portably. Ap... More About: Firefox
How To Backup Your FireFox Bookmarks
2008-01-14 12:11:00 Like everything else with computers, if you do not have a backup when your PC crashes, you will lose everything. For everyday applications such as browsers, backing up your bookmarks does not require a complete hard drive backup to keep them from being completely wiped out. By default Firefox backups your bookmarks automatically when it is closed to C:Documents and Settings[your username]Application DataMozillaFirefoxProfiles[profile name]ookmarks.bak. To restore, just rename to bookmarks.html. Firefox will also archive, by default, the last five saves to the bookmarkbackups folder at the same location. The number of times it archives, can be modified by typing in the address field: about:config and changing the value for browser.bookmarks.max_backups. You can also export your bookmarks with Bookmarks Manager. To access Bookmark Manager in Firefox, click Bookmarks from the menu, then Organize Bookmarks. Once Bookmark Manager opens, select File/Export from the menu an... More About: Backup
Use Task Manager To Identify Excessive Disk Thrashing In Windows
2008-01-14 12:02:00 Use Task Manager To Identify Excessive Disk Thrashing In Windows How many times have you been force to wait for a simple task to complete because something in the background ends up thrashing your hard drive, slowing everything down? Helpless, you watch the light on the hard drive go from a flicker to a continuous glow, leaving you to wonder what process or program is the culprit. To get to the bottom of annoying disk thrashing, an often over-looked feature of Task Manager , in both XP and Vista, provides the capability to add disk counters that can identify excessive disk activity. By default, Task Manager displays the familiar CPU, Memory, Description, etc columns for each process that is running on your System. These columns are actually performance counters that are also found with Windows perfmon (performance monitoring) tool. To add, additional counters, specifically for monitoring disk activity, open Task Manager by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Esc or right click on the Taskbar a...
Orkut Profile Information To Appear In Google Search
2008-01-11 14:57:00 Google has introduced a new feature in their social networking site, Orkut. Your Orkut profile information will now be included in Google search results when someone searches for your name. I would say, this is by far the best feature orkut is going to have.Google has mentioned the following in orkut?s help center, ?Some orkut profiles will appear in Google search results as an orkut OneBox. A OneBox is a summary of your orkut profile, including key details like your name, photo and location. A OneBox appears only when someone who is logged in to orkut performs a search on Google.com for another orkut user. Keep in mind that this project is still in its experimental stage, so for now, only a small percentage of orkut users will see the OneBox in their search results,?.However, if you don?t like this change you can simply disable it. Go to your settings page and in the Privacy tab select ?hide information? to remove your profile from the orkut OneBox. As I use orkut quite often, I?ve... More About: Google , Information , Search , Google Search , Profile
Google Introduces New Features for Chat Inside Gmail
2008-01-11 14:51:00 Google has just introduced couple of new features for chat inside Gmail . Now you can have a conference ie group chat and chat with as many people as you want inside Gmail. Also you can now insert smileys.The group chat feature lets you chat with many friends at once. There?s no limit to the number of people you can chat with, and any participant can invite others to join. To get started, follow these steps:Start a chat with a single person in your Contacts list.Once you?ve started the chat, click Options at the bottom left of your chat window and select Group Chat .In the field labeled ?Add a person to this chat,? enter the name of the contact(s) you want to add to your group chat.To end your chat, click the X at the corner of the chat window. Others in the group chat will get a message saying that you?ve left the conversation. If you want to rejoin, you?ll need to be invited back by a contact who?s still in the group chat. The group chat will continue until all participants have lef... More About: Google , Features , Inside
Top 10 Windows XP Tips of All Time
2008-01-10 15:32:00 These are some really good XP tips of all time I found while surfing. I?m sure you will find these useful. Have a look.Tip 10: Halt background services to improve performance. This tip is one of our favorites because it always works. Running in the background of Windows are scores of services, small processes used by Windows and many Windows applications. The thing is, you don?t need all these services ? especially for applications you never use ? and many of them actually slow your PC down. Win XP power users have long known that you can easily eke a little extra performance out of your PC by disabling services that are completely unnecessary or that don?t need to be running all the time. Here?s how it works. 1. Click Start > Run, type services.msc and click OK. This will bring up the Services management console. Click on the Extended tab at the bottom of this window; each background service running on your PC is listed here. Windows includes a fairly detailed description of each s... More About: Tips , Time , Windows Xp
Bluetooth Vibrating Alert Cell Phone Bracelet
2008-01-10 15:28:00 There?s nothing worst than your cell phone abruptly ringing when you had thought that you had placed it in silent mode but, even with vibrate switched on its often all too easy to miss what could be a vital incoming call ? but this Bluetooth bracelet, apart from serving as an especially geeky form of modern jewellery, could warn you of any calls that you may otherwise miss in a wholly unobtrusive fashion.Compatible with V1.1, V1.2 and V.2.o Bluetooth cell phones, the Alert Cell Phone Bracelet should work with all Bluetooth equipped cell phones and, apart from vibrating to warn you of an incoming message it will even act to alert you if your phone leaves a 5m detection zone ? which could help avoid misplacing your device when you have other things on your mind.The ideal, modern fashion accessory for those who spend their lives in board meetings or for those who have a habit of loosing their cell phones, the Alert Cell Phone Bracelet retails for a mere £30 (approximately $61 / ?42) Vi...
Facebook Blocked At School or Office? Access Facebook Via Email
2008-01-10 00:30:00 Some businesses (particularly in UK) have blocked access to Facebook during office hours as IT managers feel that surfing social networking sites at work could make employees less productive. If you also happen to work in such a company where the office firewall has restricted access to Facebook, there?s a workaround - your email. A new service called MoDazzle makes it possible to use Facebook (and LinkedIn) through email commands. For instance, you can send an email to fbreadwall@modazzle.com with the subject SELF to read messages posted on your Facebook wall - alter the subject like JOHN to read John?s Facebook wall. You can do most Facebook actions via email including poke, status updates, writing on a friend?s wall, read messages lying unread in your Facebook Inbox and so on. Modazzle.com - also supports LinkedIn and Google Maps. The service could also pick up in schools and countries like Syria and UAE that have banned Facebook on religious grounds. More About: Office , Email , School , Access
Know When Facebook Friends Secretly Delete You As a Contact
2008-01-10 00:27:00 ?X and Y are now friends on Facebook ? - That?s the message displayed in your Facebook profile each time you add a new friend on Facebook or someone else confirms your pending request. But the reverse is not true - you will never know when existing friends remove you from their Facebook friends list. The count of your friends will decrease but Facebook won?t reveal the name of the person who just unfriended you. You can however play detective using a Facebook app called Unfriender - this will let you know when friends quietly remove as a connection on Facebook. They are extending the alerts to email and SMS as well. The only downside is that Unfriender works only with friends that you have added after installing the Facebook application. Thanks Josh. More About: Friends , Contact , Delete
How to Make Firefox Run Faster
2008-01-10 00:25:00 Earlier we suggested improving the speed of Firefox by using a brand new profile. The trick is effective because it creates an almost virgin copy of Firefox sans any problematic add-ons or user settings that were probably causing Firefox to slow down. James Meyer has written an alternate trick where you can make Firefox run faster even without losing any of the cookies, bookmarks or extensions. He says: In my experience, what slows down Firefox is usually some preference for some installed add-on. To fix the problem, make a copy of the pref.js file in your profile, and then edit it. The prefs.js file can be edited using notepad and it is available in your Firefox profile folder: C:Documents and Settings[user]Application DataMozillaFirefoxProfiles[xxx].default Try removing lines that are related to various add-ons, and you will at some stage remove the line/lines that are causing the problem. A method I have tried before is simply remove half of the lines, and try running... More About: Make , Aster
Apple Safari Browser for Windows - Is It a Failure ?
2008-01-09 16:17:00 Apple introduced Safari for Windows around six months ago calling it the fastest web browser that is almost twice as fast as IE 7 or Firefox 2. Since then, Apple has released couple of minor upgrades for Safari 3 that are mainly bug fixes and the browser is still in beta stage. We never heard of any third-party browser plugins being released specifically for Windows Safari and there?s practically little or no talk among the blogging community about Safari browser on Windows. So did Safari manage to win any browser market share during the six month stint ? I referred to the Google Analytics report (OS / Browser ) and out the last 6 million visitors, only 8500 (0.15%) were using Safari on Windows. The sample data may not be very big but it at least gives a reasonable idea about the possible market share of Safari 3 browser on the Windows platform. More About: Apple , Failure
Adobe PDF Ads inside Acrobat Reader
2008-01-09 16:12:00 ?This web page has sponsored content which requires connecting to Google AdSense servers. Will you allow your browser to make this connection?? Imagine IE or Firefox giving you such a choice each time you load a website that carries Google Ads. Chances are high that you will click No and the website will load sans any advertisements. While the above case is fictional, Adobe may be facing such a problem with their Ads for PDF program. (See ?Bloggers Can Make Money from PDF?) When you download an ad-enabled PDF file and load it inside Acrobat or Adobe Reader , you?ll be shown the following security message and the ads are displayed only when the user clicks ?Yes? not otherwise. Since an in-built security feature in Adobe programs makes it so easy for the end user to turn off the display of ads, eBook creators may find it a bit to generate decent advertising revenue from their PDF content. Maybe Adobe will have to release new Acrobat updates that will white-list the IP addresses of A... More About: Inside , Acrobat Reader
Add Text Watermarks To Your Flickr Photos
2008-01-08 15:35:00 Now that Picnik and Flickr are integrated, you can easily add text watermarks to Flickr pictures. To watermark a image on Flickr, click the ?Edit Photo? link to open that photograph inside Picnik. Go to Create -> Text and type the text. Now select any font for the watermark from the drop-down and then drag the Fade slider to around 55%. That will make your text slightly transparent so the image portions beneath it are also visible. To add multiple bookmarks, just do a copy-paste and arrange the text boxes anywhere on the image. When you are done, Picnik lets you overwrite the original photo with the watermarked image or you can add it as a new picture leaving the old one untouched. Adding watermarks is destructive editing so you could keep you public photos watermarked while keep a private copy of your non-watermarked images. More About: Photos , Watermarks
What is Spyware?
2008-01-08 12:36:00 What is Spyware ?In general, spyware is a software application that gathers information about a person or employee with or without their knowledge. There are basically two types of spyware. The most annoying type is the spyware that some unscrupulous businesses place on your computer to track your surfing habits and then that information is transferred or sold to marketers and other interested parties. The other type of spyware, sometimes known as Spy software, is used to monitor or record all activities occurring on the computer. Typically this is a parent trying to identify what their children are doing on the computer. This can also be used by a husband or wife, to check up on the online activities of their spouse. This web site, Monitoring Software Review, is focused on this later example of spyware, the type that monitors your children, spouse, or employees. Spyware or Spy software can be loaded intentionally by the purchaser of the software or unintentionally from a virus or ...
Ulead PhotoImpact 12
2008-01-08 12:36:00 Ulead PhotoImpact 12Wielding what is, at any price, one of the most powerful image editors on the planet requires the skills of an expert. Technical users who don't want to shell out 650 bucks for Photoshop CS3 and are willing to learn the nooks, crannies, and many idiosyncrasies of Ulead PhotoImpact 12 will be richly rewarded. But casual users seeking a fast and easy tool to clean up and distribute their images may get frustrated. They should turn, instead, to other sub-$100 programs that offer a smaller set of relevant features in user-friendlier interfaces. // Set slideShowSpeed (milliseconds) var slideShowSpeed = 3000 // Duration of crossfade (seconds) var crossFadeDuration = 3 // Specify the image files var Pic = new Array() // don't touch this // to add more images, just continue // the pattern, adding to the array below Pic[0] = 'http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/util _get_image/17/0,1425,i=177076,00.gif' Pic[1] = 'http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/u... More About: Ulead
Worm or Virus...What's the Difference?
2008-01-08 12:23:00 Worm or Virus ...What's the Diff erence ?Everyone has been infected with a virus at one time or another either through the common cold or the flu. A virus attacks the human body by entering through one of the many openings and attaching itself to a host cell. It releases a piece of genetic information into the cell and recruits the cell?s enzymes to propagate the genetic information. Once the genetic code has been adequately replicated, it destroys the cell and attacks cells nearby. How does a computer virus simulate a biological virus? Just as a biological virus injects its own genetic information into a cell and interferes with the body?s normal operations, a computer virus is a program written to interfere with the proper functioning of a computer. It may damage programs, delete files, reformat hard disks and perform other forms of destructive acts. To be classified as a virus, a program must meet two criteria. It must be able to execute itself by placing its own code in the ex... More About: Worm |
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