You must have had those unpleasant experiences of working on a project on your laptop, and your battery dies. Here are 15 some simple yet effective tips that will help you extract the maximum out of your laptop battery.
After much speculation, Yahoo Japan Corp. has agreed to use Google Inc.’s Internet-search technology in Japan. Yahoo Japan will share its data from its auction and shopping sites with Google. Yahoo Japan will have to pay Google an upfront fee and a share of revenues from its search service. Microsoft Corp. struck a 10-year deal to combine its search business with that of Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo! Inc, last year. It didn’t include an agreement in [...]
Gmail users at large are unsuspecting internet users who often overlook various minor but precautions to be followed at a public computer. If you thought your password can’t be read by anybody else just because of its facade of asterisks, think again. You don’t have to be a hacker, neither have to use a software to view the Gmail password. The best method of doing that is by a javascript. 1. Open your web browser. [...]
Social life on internet is maintaining Facebook and Twitter profiles. Orkut is so yesterday. LinkedIn is more of a professional networking site. Every netizen wants to express through social networking status. He isn’t satisfied with merely updating his on Facebook. He wants to communicate to all his friends in all his social networks. The following ways would deal with the above predicament. 1. Orkut on Facebook Sounds absurd? Not really… There is a Facebook application [...]
Few months back, I wrote about Google’s target of achieving carbon neutrality. I guess Google is really serious about this vision. Google has just signed a 20-year contract with an Iowa wind farm of NextEra Energy Resources that enables the search giant to purchase 114 MW of wind power at a predetermined rate over the next two decades. Google will buy renewable energy directly from its source. Google can’t put the whole power into captive [...]
Everybody wants to earn money by each and every activity he does but all our wishes are never fulfilled as we anticipate. RSS subscribers are the readers your blog who have a RSS reader and they don’t need to visit your blog to access your content. This in a sense hurts the basic revenue model of your blog. When reader visits go down the page impressions of your AD units dips down making it difficult [...]
Being a Google fan, my Gmail account rather my Google account is my online identity. If it is hacked, I would lose not only my vital personal information but that could lead to offline repercussions hardly ever thought by innocent netizens. The 5 security steps which would make your Gmail account more safe are: 1. Strong and Long Password This needs no introduction, even a layman may understand the importance of unguessable password. Never use [...]
Though internet and computer usage has increased by leaps and bounds, many users still prefer the mouse to “copy-paste” rather than the Keyboard Shortcuts ["ctrl+C" and "ctrl+V"]. Keyboard shortcuts are typically an alternate means for invoking one or more commands that would otherwise be accessible only through a menu, a pointing device, different levels of a user interface, or via a command console. As always with the launch of Windows 7, Microsoft has added quite [...]
There is a thin margin separating good publicity and cheap publicity. I say, “If you have got it, you need to share it!”… in this age of information coming from every direction you need to filter out them and if you think you have a url (link) to an amazing article or blog post you just need to tell it to the world. The question at this point would be how? 1. Twitter One of [...]
We saw television era which gave a new dimension to advertisement and entertainment. Now, it is the age of infotainment with internet, e-books, e-book reader, laptops and other hand-held mobile information fetching devices. What is next in 2010? Though, you would keep on listing but I will list only 5 technologies in 2010 that will change the way we look at the world. 1. Internet-Phone (VOIP) “Voice over Internet Protocol” or internet-phone is a technology [...]
