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Laptops are no longer only for the business class. Almost everyone wants a portable computer whether it’s a teenager who uses it to complete assignments or a housewife who purchases groceries online. It is especially useful for those who travel often and want to stay in touch with their work and with friends and family. If you are planning on purchasing a laptop, it’s always recommended to buy it online. The main reason being, you need to do a lot of research and comparison before making a purchase and where better than the internet to do just that. You have the liberty to browse through a wide collection of laptops from various brands, check their configuration and select only the best laptop online. You can completely skip the trip to the electronic store and all the hassle associated with it. If you were to check the configuration of every laptop in the store, you are sure to be met with impatient staff and even anxious customers who would be waiting for their turn. When you are mak...

NetWorx is a very simple and powerful tool that keeps an eye on all your network connections in live time. The software enables you to check your network speed, your internet traffic details and much more. It has very exciting feature with which you can add custom alerts that notifies you with visuals and popping sounds whenever there's an unusual activity which might be due to unauthorized usage on your network, due to malicious software like Trojans or when you exceed your bandwidth limit. You can customize your NetWorx to give you monthly/weekly or daily reports about your usage. It can generate these reports in a number of exportable formats such as excel, word and HTML. You can even customize it to perform specific actions such as closing down connections or even shutting down the system on detection of suspicious activity. It also includes network tools such as ping, trace route and netstat.

Last few days I was going through some stuff like running Mac OS on a Dell Laptop, after few days I was able to do that, and now i was working on how to get touchpad gestures as Apple laptops do have. So, I am still not able to get that thing till now, but now I’ve got some software to tell you about which makes work easier with touchpad finger gestures. Scrybe software by Synaptic can be used to open any application or web address or trigger some actions such as cut, copy , paste. All you need to do is install Scrybe, and tap three figures at once on your Synaptic Touchpad, and there you can draw the shape with your figure and open your music player,MS word, Facebook, Google, and lots more..! You just need to make a shape like above and corresponding application will start, you can also define custom action/applications/web address using this application. Scrybe

Last week, I have purchased a new Laptop with a best buy coupon and the 20 percent discount I received allowed me to buy different types of software, more memory, and a bigger hard drive so that my new laptop could perform at its best, but I was quite unsure about its configuration and thus I was in need of an All-in-one Software desperately which lists out a summary of my hardware along with its Statistics. After a few search, I found this cool software tool for windows which gives you a detailed statistics on every piece of hardware in your computer including CPU, Motherboard, RAM, Graphics Cards, Hard Disks, Optical Drives, Audio support. If you need to add more memory to your system, for example, you can check how many memory slots your computer has and what memory's already installed. Then you can go out and buy the right type of memory to add on or replace what you've already got. Additionally Speccy adds the temperatures of your different components, so you ...

Battery Care is an alternate to power icon in taskbar, for Windows. Battery care shows up percentage of battery remaining and estimated time remaining according to statistical data. It also shows up CPU temperature. It is also light weight on system, and installer is just of 619 KB. It requires MS .NET framework 2 to be installed to run it on Windows OS. You can download this small piece of software, and optimize your battery’s performance by visiting its official site[ … ] Technorati Tags: BatteryCare , Laptop

I do not like error reporting service of Windows Vista, which shows for send error report , closing the program and debugging the program. Well, its very obvious that when error has come up in any program, then we have no other choice to close it. I’ve tried submitting the error reports thousand times, but nothing happened, and it still shows that errors. As, I am not a programmer so, debugging any program is not my job. The only alternative left to me is disabling the useless error reporting window. If you are also upset with this feature of windows vista, and want to disable it, just follow these instructions- Open Run dialog box by pressing Windows Key + R Type and open wercon.exe Click Change Settings on left pane. Then click advanced settings. Turn off error reporting, for your self or for all users according to your choice. Other way to disable error reporting is, using services console- Open services console by opening services...

I’ve recently bought  new laptop , and created partitions on its hard disk. Now, I’ve got Wi-Fi modem installed in my home. So, to prevent from my neighbours or some outsiders sharing connection, I need to secure it… I am using BSNL broadband connection, in PPPOE mode, which makes the connection more unsecure, as password is saved inside modem itself. So, I’ve found a way to secure my Wireless connection using WEP security key. WEP security can be setup by following these steps- Modem / Router Settings Visit http://192.168.1.1 and give Username: admin Password : admin Now click on Security Tab, then click in Security Chose your SSID and click Enable WEP Encryption, and chose encryption strength as 128 bit or stronger Set the network key, which will be used as password to access wireless connection. Save and Apply the settings Windows Settings Now, you’ve to do similar settings in your Wi-Fi access device too. For setting in Windows Vista, double click the Networking Ico...

Well, as I’ve recently bought new laptop with 500 GB hard disk. So, first thing that came to my mind is managing my important data, which can be done by creating partitions. Partitioning comes with many advantages, like- Disk Partitioning can be used to group one type of data together; like music, movies, soft wares, downloads, documents, etc. In case of virus attacks, there are less chances of data getting infected if they are in different partition. In case of data recovery requirement, the whole C drive is formatted. So, if important data is kept in some other drive, we can safely opt for data recovery.  Most of laptop nowadays are coming with preinstalled Windows Vista, or Windows XP. So, I found two methods for creating partitions in Windows OS, by two ways. One of these do not require any software installation, and other requires Acronis Disk Director Suite. Partitioning without any software Follow these steps to create partitions in Windows OS, witho...

  Well, after waiting for 6 days eagerly, today I’ve got my Dell Studio 15. So, lets start with configuration, which I’ve bought- Processor     - Core 2 duo 2.1 GHz Hard Disk     -  500 GB Disk Drive     -  Blue Ray Drive RAM               -  4 GB DDR2 Graphic Memory – 512 MB dedicated memory ATI Graphics Card Integrated Bluetooth, Webcam and Wi-Fi After analysis of two months I was able to decide to go with Dell Studio Laptop, coz I think that it will give me the best performance at cheapest rates. The first thing I did, when I received Dell Studio 1555 was, to check my laptops rating using Windows Vista Home Premium, and it gave a score of 4.9, and which is great for me, never seen such a score ever before. I am most excited about running a blue ray disc of 25 GB capacity on my laptop, it would be amazing. Here, I want to give a short r...

Today in this post I will give you some tips on how to save the battery of your laptop. So without waisting much time, I start here :- Decrease the Co ntrast By decreasing the contrast, you can save much of your battery. Just choose that amount of contrast that soothes your eyes. Switch-Off Wii-Fii and Bluetooth Many laptops have the shortcut keys for turning off bluetooth and wiifii. These consume a considerable amount of energy. Choose a Power Saver Plan Almost all the laptops have a power saver plan. Switch to that power plan by clicking to the battery. Don't Play Any MultiMedia Thing click below to read more... Multimedia activities drain laptop batteries. So avoid them when you want to save your battery. Decrease Volume Decrease the speaker volume and if possible ,mute them. Remove All The External Drives Remove all the external drives that are connected to your laptop, let it be mouse or something else. Remove Battery While Plugged In If your battery is completely charged, re...

There are times when you just want to listen to some music on your notebook/laptop and want the display (LCD) of your notebook to remain off while the lid is still open so that battery life can be optimized. While there are a small amount of laptop manufacturers who provide this simple option of turning off the laptop LCD when not in use, many do not. I am sharing this small and useful application with all of you as a freeware license,which can be easily used for this purpose. You are free to distribute and use this application. I have tested this application on Windows Vista only. This might not work on earlier Versions. This software is highly recommended for Laptop Users Size: 70KB Publisher: Visit Website OS: Windows XP/ Vista Download