How to Save Your Laptop Battery For Long Life

FlashFrozen maybe the answer to your short battery life. If you use Google Chrome, Firefox 4, and in Safari on 64-bit Macs, the Flash plug-in is pushed onto its own process. FlashFrozen lives as a tiny menu app, monitoring this process and will warn you (by turning red) if Flash is using a relatively significant amount of processor cycles. You can then go to FlashFrozen's menu to kill the Flash plug-in.

Any running Flash content is replaced with the broken plugin icon. Want to get Flash working again? Simply reload the page, or go to a new one. The next time Flash is needed, it'll come back to life. Flash ads or other Flash-related junk forces our processors to run hot and leech our precious battery fluids.

Flash animations and videos are among the top processor hogs on Mac OS X. A single poorly-designed Flash banner - even in an inactive window or tab - can suck up an entire processor core with its shady mortgage offers.

Your 5-hour battery life gets cut in half, your laptop runs hotter, and your legs cook to medium-rare.

That's where FlashFrozen comes into play.

FlashFrozen lets you stop the Flash plug-in dead in its tracks, letting your new-fangled Mac cool down, use less power, and give you more time to do whatever it is you do. Probably blog or tweet or something.

And the new AutoKill mode actively stops Flash at all times. Turn this on and off at will to save even more battery life.

How to Close Your iPad Open Apps At Ones on 1 Click

Since the introduction of Multitasking to iOS, you can now run more than one program on your iDevice at the same time. That doesn’t mean you always want them open though – so this will show you how to close (or quit) any program running on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch.

1. Start out by “double-clicking” the Home button on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. The Home button is the one at the bottom of your iDevice, as illustrated in the image below.

2. This will bring up the ‘list’ of currently running Apps – by way of an “App bar” at the bottom of your screen. Tap and hold down on any one of the currently running Apps (even if it’s not the one you want to close).

3. You’ll notice that each App will start to “wiggle” and now has a small “minus sign” circle in the upper left corner. Tap the “minus sign” of the App you want to close/quit.

4. That App will now close. NOTE: This will close the App, not delete it.

5. You can continue tapping the “minus signs” to close all open Apps, if needed.

How to Close Your iPad Open Apps At Ones on 1 Click

Since the introduction of Multitasking to iOS, you can now run more than one program on your iDevice at the same time. That doesn’t mean you always want them open though – so this will show you how to close (or quit) any program running on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch.

1. Start out by “double-clicking” the Home button on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. The Home button is the one at the bottom of your iDevice, as illustrated in the image below.

2. This will bring up the ‘list’ of currently running Apps – by way of an “App bar” at the bottom of your screen. Tap and hold down on any one of the currently running Apps (even if it’s not the one you want to close).

3. You’ll notice that each App will start to “wiggle” and now has a small “minus sign” circle in the upper left corner. Tap the “minus sign” of the App you want to close/quit.

4. That App will now close. NOTE: This will close the App, not delete it.

5. You can continue tapping the “minus signs” to close all open Apps, if needed.

ow to Fix the Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad Problems

If you are unable to type letters, numbers, or symbols, you may have Mouse Keys enabled on a keyboard that has no numeric keypad or Num Lock key.


It happen to me this week, I was entering a password which had numerical numbers and I was using the numerical pad on the right side of my keyboard and I kept getting the wrong password message. I used the numbers above the letters on the keyboard and they worked.


So I thought I had a bad keyboard, until I did a simple search and there it was at Apple support, "Unable to type while Mouse Keys is enabled in Mac OS X"

Seams like I wasn't the only one having this problem.


How to Fix:

1. Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu.
2. Choose Universal Access from the View menu.
3. Click the Mouse tab or in Lion Click Mouse & Trackpad
4. Click Off, next to Mouse Keys. If you have already logged in as a different user where Mouse Keys is disabled, click On and then click Off next to Mouse Keys, to return the keyboard to normal operation.

Note: You may also check/uncheck the box for "Press Option key five times to turn Mouse Keys on or off".

Note: If you are logged on to a user where Mouse Keys is already disabled, but your keyboard is not responding properly, toggle the radio buttons for Mouse Keys "On" then "Off" to restore normal functionality.

How to Set Your MS Outlook to Auto Send and Recive Mail

Microsoft Outlook will check for new emails or send any emails in your outbox every 30 minutes. There might be a very important email coming in and need your action, I would say immediately but since new emails will only come in every 30 minutes, it might be too late for you to react on the email received.

You can actually change the setting to read new emails from as frequent as every 1 minute to maximum of every 120 minutes.

1. Go to Tools menu, select Option....
2. On the Options dialog box, go to Mail Setup tab and click Send/Recieve... button.




3. On the Send/Recieve Groups dialog box, change the value (default is 30) for Schedule an automatic send/receive every ... minutes field under Setting for group "All Accounts" (or any other account you may have in your Group Name field.




4. Once done, click Close and then click OK to close the Options dialog box.

Don't set it to 1 minute of your internet connection speed is poor. Maybe you can reduce it to 5 minutes.

How to View Your Web Mail In Your MS Outlook

organisations mostly offers access to thier emails for their personnels via webmails. For these users, all they need is a computer with internet access and of course an internet browser.

For Microsoft Outlook users... you can actually access your webmail without using any internet browser.

Here's how to do it...

Step 1: Create a folder under your account.

1. From the Standard Toolbar, click the New pull-down button and select Folder... .
   
   
   
   
2. Type a name in the field under Name: and make sure you select the root of your email account for the Select where to place the folder: list.
   
   
   

Step 2: Convert the folder to view your webmail.

1. Right-click on folder you've just created and select Properties.
   
   
   
   
2. On the folder's properties dialog box (mine is showing "Webmail Properties" as I've named my folder as "Webmail"), go to Homepage tab.
3. Type the website address you usually use in your internet browser, starting with http:// in the Address: field.
   
   
   
   
4. Click to enable the checkbox for Show home page by default for this folder.
5. Click OK.

Now you can access your webmail from Outlook just by selecting the folder you've created and then login to your webmail account but make sure you are currently online to view it, just like you would do when viewing with the internet browser.

You can actually use this method to view any website you want like I do to view my training schedule.

How to Create Drawings and Shapes By Changing Standard Shape in PowerPoint 2007

create our own shapes by changing standard shape with PowerPoint 2007.

1. Select a shape and place it on your slide (I selected an oval). Resize it as you want.
2. With the shape selected, go to Drawing Tools ribbon, Format tab.
3. Click Edit Shape from Insert Shapes group and select Convert to Freeform.
   
   
   
   
4. Repeat step 3 but this time select Edit Points. You will see the shape will have multiple points for you to adjust.
   
   
   
   
5. Now you can drag any edge of your shape to form a new shape of your own.
   
   
   
   
   (Sample of a new shape made of two circles. One as the body and the other as the head, grouped together as one shape)

How to Create Email Template In MS Office 2007

Sometimes, you may find that you will be sending emails of the same content again and again (maybe to send monthly report, etc...) and you'll find that you have to type same sentances for these emails again and again.

If that's the case, try saving the email message as a template and later you can reuse it.

1. Compose new email as you usually do with normal emails. Put in the subject and if you are going to always send to the same receipient, you can put the receipient email addresses in the To, CC or BCC field.
2. Once complete, click the Office Button and select Save As.
   
   
   
   
3. In the Save As dialog box, change the Save as type: to Outlook Template.
4. Name the file and select your file location if you want to save it in different location or just leave it in the default template location as it is.

For earlier version users, you must first disable the Use Microsoft Office Word 2003 to edit e-mail messages feature found in Tools > Options menu under the Mail Format tab of the Options dialog box.

Follow the steps 2 to 4 as stated above (slight difference in step 2 where you should click File menu instead of Office Button).

To use the template (same process for Outlook 2007 or earlier):

1. From Tools menu, go to Forms and select Choose Form... .
   
   
   
   
2. In the Choose Form dialog box, select User Templates in File System from Look In: combo box.
   
   
   
   
3. Select the template listed or click the Browse button if the template is in other location.
4. Click Open.

Now you can continue to add attachment(s) or amend the template as required.

- MRBAR

iOS 5 update, a catastrophe

If you search in Google, you will find it in mostly all Mac/Apple forums, but, I do not know why, may be paying respect to Jobs, only few important pages are talking about the bad planned iOS 5 upgrade. And what worries me now is the question, is Apple ready to handle the whole traffic that iOS 5 will create with the new "Backup in the Cloud" concept and the coming new upgrades? It seems to me that they are not prepared. I could install iOS 5 in my iPad only 12 hours after the release and activate the Backup in the Cloud option only after 36 hours. And I still cannot create my first backup. The servers are so slow that took me more than 4 hours to download the 707Mb iOS file. The speed was comparable with the one we had in a old 56kb Modem.

What can I say about iOS 5?
There are few neat new features like the Tabs in Safari.




The Reader option in some pages.




The split keyboard that makes easier typing with two fingers.



But, let's be realistic. Nothing out the ordinary or innovative.

Free computer tip for resolving inability to add or remove programs

Resolving Inability to Add or Remove Programs

If a particular user cannot add or remove programs, there might be a simple registry edit need.

click at start button then select RUN and type Regedit

Go to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Pol icies\Uninstall
Change the DWORD NoAddRemovePrograms to 0 disable it.

How to Increasing Graphics Performance Easy

Free computer tip for Increasing Graphics Performance
By default, Windows XP turns on a lot of shadows, fades, slides etc to menu items.
Most simply slow down their display.

To turn these off selectively:

Follow these steps to Increasing Graphics Performance

• Right click on the My Computer icon
• Select Properties
• Click on the Advanced tab
• Under Performance, click on the Settings button
• To turn them all off, select Adjust for best performance
• For best performance leave them all off except for "show shadows under mouse pointer and Show window contents while dragging"

  how to Increasing Graphics Performance

  Free computer tip for Increasing Graphics Performance

  
  By default, Windows XP turns on a lot of shadows, fades, slides etc to menu items.
  Most simply slow down their display.
  
  To turn these off selectively:
  
  Follow these steps to Increasing Graphics Performance
  
  
• Right click on the My Computer icon
• Select Properties
• Click on the Advanced tab
• Under Performance, click on the Settings button
• To turn them all off, select Adjust for best performance
• For best performance leave them all off except for "show shadows under mouse pointer and Show window contents while dragging"

Increase Your System Speed in 7 Step

Free computer tips for Increase your system speed
First of all make it sure that your system is not infected with virus, spyware, adware or any other malicious software. If yes then first of all remove it because they are main factor that decrease your system speed. Here are few thing on which you system speed depends.

1. disk defragment
2. temp files
3. registry files
4. virus/spyware
5. adware
6. milieus softwares
7. cache memory

Follow this Steps to increase your CPU speed:

Scan your system on regular basis:
If you are using a system which is connected to Internet or new USB are usually connected to your system then it is recommended that you scan your system on daily bases and conclude that which virus is mostly attacking on your files. try different antivirus if you are facing problem.

Delete all temporary file

When you use Internet your browser will cache the page and save the image,video,text every thing present on the web pages.Some times they also contain virus and these are unwanted for operating system,will decrease your processor speed.Some time some malware will also present in this.Ad-ware will spy your behaviour using your cookies ,So clean this unwanted Temp files.

Cleanup your disk

Do Disk Cleanup daily .This is a tool provide by windows ,which is inbuilt in your windows .Disk CleanUp will delete all the Active X like files or application installed while browsing on Internet.To clean this go to system tools and click Disk Cleanup select the drive and click OK Delete all the unwanted files and application

Defragment your disk

when files are stored on the disk they are not well organized, disk Defragmenter will rearrange them in a good way that will increase your system speed Weekly do Disk Defragmenter ,this will arrange your files in disk .It will also provide by Windows and administrator can only use this .This will take more than 15-45min.

How To Make Your Own Screensaver Slide Show

Free computer tip on how to make your own screensaver

You can put your own digital photos as a screensaver, First of all you need to create a slide show presentation for use as a screen saver.

How to make a slide show

- Right-click an empty spot on your desktop and then click Properties.

- Click the Screensaver tab.

- In the Screen saver list, click My Pictures Slide show.

- click on the settings button and click on browse to locate your pictures

- In the settings you can make Settings to make any adjustments, such as how often the pictures should change, what size they should be, and whether you'll use transition effects between pictures, and then click OK.


Now your screen saver is a random display of the pictures taken from your located folder.

How to Maintain and Clean CD-ROM

Free computer tip for CD-ROM cleaning

Computer CD-ROM is a sensitive device and it need great care to open and clean it. Normally they work good even having fair amount of dust on their lens but it can stop working when dust on the lens is more then enough. It can create two problems.

- Skipping/ Repeating CDs
- Stop reading
- Taking time in reading CDs

in this case you should make it sure that your CD-ROM need to be cleaned.

Take following steps to open the CD-ROM:

• Take the CD-ROM out of CPU box
• Open the try of the CD-ROM and remove the front cover of the try.
• When try cover is removed you can removed the other cover on which play and eject button are situated.
• Now open the screw

Almost in the middle of the machine there is a lens you can see it from the bottom of the CD-ROM. There is a small screw which holds the lens you can adjust it to fix the lens. some times this screw is lose and lens cannot perform better. now take tissue paper and very softly clean the lens. Always use blower to clean other parts of CD-ROM. After finishing this job tight the screw and place the cover as it was removed. You will definitely see difference in CD reading

How to Speed Up Internet Connection

1. start>Run>type gpedit.msc >press Enter
2. "Group Policy" windows will appear
3. select Computer Configaration >Administrative Templates>Network
4. look for the right windows find "QoS Packet Scheduler"
5. Double click on "Limit reservable bandwidth"
6. you will see "Limit reservable bandwidth Properties"
7. select "Setting" tab then click on "Enable"
8. in the " bandwidth limit (%) : " change value to 0
9. Then Cilck OK
10.DONE!!
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Windows XP

How to Backup Your Computer Registry Files

How To backup registry files

First of all you need to backup all your registry file before modifying them because if you made a wrong editing it will help you restore original files. Secondly you must have basic knowledge about editing and modifying registry. You can backup the whole Registry and only Registry sub-keys.

Procedure for editing registry

Click Start Button then click run, type regedit in Run dialog box and click OK button. Here you can backup the whole Registry or you can locate the required sub-keys that contain the information that you want to edit.

Go to File menu option then click on Export option for backup and save it with on any your system drive with . Reg extension and you can restore this backup going File menu using import option.

Disable or Enable Auto Run CD

How to disable or enable auto run CD

Some times you may be irritating when suddenly a CD window pop up or a video begins to run as the CD is inserted. You can enable or disable auto run CD depending on your nature of work by making a simple change in registry. In user interface mode there is no option to disable or enable this feature and you must edit the registry of windows and be careful to work registry.

procedure

Click Start button then type regedit in Run option then press Enter for next.

Here locate the location to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom

Here you can disable or enable automatically running your CD.

Change the value of Autorun to 0 for disable and change the value to 1 for enable.

After finishing editing you must restart your computer to see the effect of changes.

How to fix hard drive problems

Hard Disk

If your computer is creating problems to read/write on the hard disk or may become unstable then it is possible that some lost clusters and bad sectors are on your hard disk. To check your computer hard drive for any errors, you can use scan disk utility. You should scan your hard disk on regular basis to maintain the status of missing cluster and bad sectors. In windows 2000 and XP, you can use the error-checking tools to check the health of your hard drive.

Follow the given steps to run the error- checking tools:

• 
  
  First open the My Computer then right click on any drive that you want to check.
• 
  
  On the right click menu select the Properties option.
• 
  
  Here select the Tool tab then run Check Now in the Error-checking dialog area.
• 
  
  Under check disk options you can select both check box ”Automatically fix file system errors” and “scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors” then press Start button.
• 
  
  This test will prompt you, if there is any problem on your hard disk and automatically fix it now.
  
  
  Your hard drive may be running slow because there are useless garbage of files that you need to clean. There is a free utility that is called best disk cleaner software. It is wise enough to clean all the unnecessary files while saving necessary files.
  In case your important files are deleted or if you want to recover previously deleted files which were also removed from recycle bin you can also recover them by How to recover deleted files.
  Show disk performance can be caused if you did not defragement your hard drive, There is a built-in defragementer tool in Windows but that is very slow. you need to lean How to increase disk performance.
  Hopefully these tips will help you speedup your system and will fix the hard drive problem.

How to Change Word 2007's Default File Saving Setting

Microsoft Office 2007 is a major update to the office suite. Word and other programs in the suite will use new document formats. Word 2007 saves files in the .docx format, which is different from the .doc format used in Word 97-2003.

The new document format in Word 2007 can cause difficulties when it comes time to share your documents electronically.

So, if you upgrade to Word 2007, you should consider changing the save settings. You can save your documents in a format that is compatible with earlier versions of Word. That way, you won’t have any problems sharing documents.

Here are the steps

1. Click the Office button
2. Click Word Options
3. Open the Save/Save As options
4. Beside Save files in this format, select Word 97-2003
5. Click OK


FINISH.NOW,YOU CAN SHARING YOUR WORD 2007 FILES WITH ANYONE THAT USE PREVIOUS VERSION OF WORD !!

How to Protect Your Files, Folders and Text Files Being Copied or Moved in Windows

M File Anti-Copy is a pretty amazing software which is able to provide an anti-copy feature on your computer to protect your file or folder from being copied or moved. The best part is this tool is free.

LINK : Download M File Anti-Copy (Search on internet It will be Found)

Info:
Programmer: Mohsen Ektefa
Website: http://vbprogs.biz.tm
OS: Win 98/98/ME/SE/2000/XP/NT/Vista/Win 7
License: Freeware

M File Anti-Copy helps you lock the copy of your files. All you need to do is to enter a password after installation, and you can protect your files and folders by clicking the Activate button. Once anti-copy has been activated, you will find that the copy and paste command no longer working! Even when a text or document file is opened and someone wants to copy the content and paste it somewhere, that won’t work either.

If you want to copy or move a file when the anti-copy feature is active, there is a built-in File Copier and File Move function for you to do that so that you don’t need to deactivate the protection first.


Windows Task Manager was disabled when the anti-copy is active. Not only that, even the built-in Windows Registry Editor (regedit) is disabled too! At the program’s Option, it can also disable Folder Options, Search and Run. M File Anti-Copy implements these restriction to protect the program from being terminated.


Note:M File Anti-Copy is not perfect but it does provide some level of protection against people who didn’t know about this tool.