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Install Windows7 on Your Netbook

Netbooks are getting popular these days. Netbooks are another form of Laptop which were originally designed to Access Internet and other small utility software, which does not require A lot of computing power and RAM. They are very Portable as size of netbooks vary from 5″ to 12″ and they weight about 1-3 Pounds (~1KG).

The basic idea behind developing netbook was carrying a computer which is light in weight and handy to use anywhere you want. They also Consumes less power and most of the netbook gives you a battery backup of > 3-4 hours. Netbooks typically run Windows XP and don’t use Vista as Vista is supposed to have a very memory consuming OS. But with the release of Windows7 you must be thinking of upgrading your netbook to Windows7. But there comes the problem as Netbooks don;t have CD drive (to save space and make them compact) how to install Windows7. There are 2 options – 1. You purchase a USB CD drive which can be plugged externally and used with your Netbook, 2. You hire some professional who own the necessary hardware to Upgrade the OS.

But we have a better solution for you. Here we giving you a easy tutorial, using which you can make your Pen Drive bootable and use that Pen Drive to Boot and install Windows7…. All you need is a Pen Drive of 4Gb or more capacity and Windows7 installation files.

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GADGETS MINOX A / IIIS

Created by a Latvian, and featured by George Lazenby, This little spy camera has been the most widely used for a really long time now. Although the movie has clearly misinterpreted the camera (For example, our handsome spy holding it Upside down! Or the viewfinder with green filter), the gadget is by all means just as sleek in the real. The motive behind its inception was to develop a camera that was small (couldn’t well be a spycam if it boasted its size now could it?) and could take high quality, unprompted shots smoothly.

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The cam has its merits outside of being the most widely used in its field. The outside shell is made of ultra light aluminum. It was first manufactured in 1955 and continued till 1969. It had the edge over other cameras due to its compact size which allowed it to stay out of sight and take pictures without the need to steady it with both hands.

The Minox has also starred in the movie “On her Majesty’s secret service” in 1969. George Lazenby used this sleek little thing to capture biological warfare agents. The model in the film is the latest as the production line saw the last of the like as soon as the movie came out.

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How to Turn Off Sticky Keys in Windows 7

Turn Off Sticky Keys in Windows 7

Several new features which are incorporated in Windows 7 which is the new release of Microsoft are:

Windows Media Player.
Windows Media Center.
Windows Gadget Platform.
Sticky Keys.
Windows Search.

When sticky keys are pressed they will lock certain keys. Some people such as gamers who have a continuous habit of pressing several keys in a row at the same time get tripped up when sticky keys turn on automatically. The main aim behind introducing this feature is to help the people who are suffering from physical disabilities. To turn off sticky keys in Windows 7, you can do it in two ways:

You can make use of the keyboard shortcut to turn it off –

It may happen that you may have turned on sticky keys and activated it, and then you can turn it off quickly by pressing both the SHIFT keys on the keyboard at the same time. This method is called as keyboard shortcut method.

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Few Tips to Improve Google Chrome Browser further

The Google Chrome browser is a very lightweight Browser, but some of us feels it lacks important feature which are required and necessary in order to make it lightweight and speedup. Some of the features which Mozilla Firefox or IE offers are essential but missing in Google Chrome. We can enhance and improve Google chrome by using these extension and make Google chrome more useful than actually it is while keeping in lightweight.

If you want to switch to Speedy Google chrome but feels it lacks essential features, this post will be useful for you. By using plugins described here you can make it really useful and use it in same way you were using Firefox –

– Secure passwords manager

Google chrome saves your password and have inbuilt password manager but it does not encrypt your password while saving and neither it has the option of having master password to secure your passwords. but you can overcome using a free tool KeePass (provided by — http://keepass.info/).

– Anonymise Chrome

Google chrome installs with a unique installation ID which can be used to identify you. This is not necessary and could be used to exploit you. if you want to remove this download UnChrome (from www.abelssoft.net/unchrome.php) . This little tool will erase your identifier ID and fill zeroes instead.

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5 Amazing Tools You Never Knew Existed

Ever wanted to do something faster and easier, like, for example, resize a dozen of photos to fit the screen of your cellphone or install all your favorite applications at once? I know I have. There are a lot of tools to help automate such repetitive tasks, but unfortunately they’re very hard to find, even with Google.

This article will show you a few indispensable tools for computer users and web surfers, which will no doubt make your life easier and your computer experience more enjoyable. Oh, and they’re all free!

1. Image Tuner. This nifty little tool will save you a lot of time when resizing a bunch of photos or images to be sent in an email, posted on a forum or social network or downloaded to your cell phone to be used as wallpapers. Download and install it from http://www.glorylogic.com/ , then run the application and drag-n-drop or add the images you want.

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You can select the output folder, size and image format in the right sidebar. A nice detail that surprised me is the proportions preservation feature, which helps a lot if you have mixed widescreen and regular images. A similar utility for Mac OS X is OSX Image resize, found at http://www.ironstarmedia.co.uk/osx-image-resizer/, which is also free.

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5 Best Tips to Speed Up Your Torrent Downloads

I’m quite sure everyone reading this already knows what a torrent is. If you don’t, a quick search on Google for “What is a torrent” will give you the answer, and if you are in a hurry, here’s the short version: a torrent is basically an improved version of Peer-to-Peer, where you copy and share files directly from other users’ computers, instead of a central location like a web or ftp server. There has to be at least one computer dedicated to managing the transfers, called a tracker.

When you want to copy a file from a torrent, the tracker gives you the addresses of all other people that have that file, and manages your upload and download speeds (for example, those who upload at a higher speed, can also download faster, and downloading from the same country is usually also faster). So, you must give/upload as much as possible to get the highest download speed.

For a long time, torrents have been associated with illegal activity and cyber piracy, as the first ones to use them were people who shared movies, music, programs and other copyrighted files. Even now, most of the torrent users are doing this (whether that is good or bad for the copyright holders is another question).

But that is not the only way torrents can be used. Big and small companies are starting to realize that it is much more effective and cheaper to let their users host what they share, instead of keeping it on their servers, which can always go down due to overload or other technical problems (take for example Microsoft’s servers when they released the free test version of Windows Vista and 7, or CrunchyRoll’s frequently-inaccessible online-TV streams).

A few TV companies already started streaming their shows via torrents (although in a bit more complicated setup, which uses advanced copyright protection techniques). The Open Source community has been doing this for a few years now (users download software & operating systems like Ubuntu and OpenSuse via torrents), as they simply don’t have the money for the insane bandwidth they’re using.

So, as you can see, there is a future for torrents, and it’s most probably not going to fade away like P2P. If you are using or planning to use them, here are a few simple but powerful tips to help you get the highest download speed possible. They are a bit technical, so I assume you know your way around a computer (plus, the images should help a lot).

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