I was just surfing through the internet and came across this site: Livemocha
It's a very helpful website, if you are interested in learning various languages. It connects you with various people around the globe who speak the language which you want to learn, in this way learning becomes much easier. I would rate this site as good and prefer it to people who are interested in learning a foreign language.
Link: Livemocha
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Enhance Your Battery Life
Many of the laptop’s users often meet a problem of battery not lasting long enough. Why do your laptop batteries work only for few hours, when you can use your mobile phone for 3 days without external power supply?
Once the batteries would enable you to work up to 1 hour, often even less, but today the working time on the laptop without charging it with the electric energy has increased up to 3 hours and more. In case you build in another battery in your laptop (and you should seriously consider it if you travel often and there is no power port nearby), you can work more then 8 hours. In today’s article, we are giving you a few useful advices, which will help you to expand your work on the laptop for as long as you can, even without the wall socket.
Once the batteries would enable you to work up to 1 hour, often even less, but today the working time on the laptop without charging it with the electric energy has increased up to 3 hours and more. In case you build in another battery in your laptop (and you should seriously consider it if you travel often and there is no power port nearby), you can work more then 8 hours. In today’s article, we are giving you a few useful advices, which will help you to expand your work on the laptop for as long as you can, even without the wall socket.
- When you load your laptop batteries for the first few times, always use the complete discharging and reloading method. Hence, only when the battery is completely empty, start with the new loading and repeat the procedure for at least 5 times. Proceed similarly in everyday’s work, but in case you are not able to wait for so long, try to hold on for at least first few times.
- Plug out all the unnecessary equipment that has been connected to laptop, as such devices usually additionally load the battery and increase the consumption of electricity. It refers to all the USB sticks, USB mice, Bluetooth headphones, or wireless network adapters. CD ROM data reading also significantly decreases battery duration.
- Control Panel – Power Options should be the unavoidable part of laptop work adjustment when the power supply is set off. This particularly refers to Windows Vista users, because in this mode you will be able to adjust manually the amount of used resources (memory, processor), thus significantly affect the laptop work duration time.
- Do not use multimedia content (audio, video) editing programs, as work under these conditions additionally loads the processor work, which directly affects the battery longevity. It is recommendable to use only smaller demanding programs (Word, etc..).
Monday, January 5, 2009
Make Your Own Cartoons Online
Do you enjoy watching cartoons and always wanted to make your own?
So here's something that you will surely like, Aniboom
You can watch great videos of cartoons, make your own cartoons, make some great animated stuffs and all the things related to animation.
It allows you to do everything which can be done with animation. So enjoy your stay at Aniboom
So here's something that you will surely like, Aniboom
You can watch great videos of cartoons, make your own cartoons, make some great animated stuffs and all the things related to animation.
It allows you to do everything which can be done with animation. So enjoy your stay at Aniboom
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
How to create Shutdown/Restart shortcut
Windows has a program called SHUTDOWN.EXE which allows you to easily create icons to shutdown or restart your computer.
To create a shutdown shortcut on the desktop follow next steps:
Shutdown command and parameters:
Shutdown [{-l|-s|-r|-a}] [-f] [-m [\\ComputerName]] [-t xx] [-c "message"] [-d[u][p]:xx:yy]
-l - Logs off the current user, this is also the default. -m ComputerName takes precedence.
-s - Shuts down the local computer.
-r - Reboots after shutdown.
-a - Aborts shutdown. Ignores other parameters, except -l and ComputerName. You can only use -a during the time-out period.
-f - Forces running applications to close.
-m [\\ComputerName] - Specifies the computer that you want to shut down.
-t xx - Sets the timer for system shutdown in xx seconds. The default is 20 seconds.
-c "message" - Specifies a message to be displayed in the Message area of the System Shutdown window. You can use a maximum of 127 characters. You must enclose the message in quotation marks.
To create a shutdown shortcut on the desktop follow next steps:
- Right click on an open area of the desktop
- Select New / Shortcut
- Enter in "shutdown -s -t 00" - no quotes
- Press the Next button
- For the name, enter anything you like - ex. shutdown.
- Click on the Finish button.
Shutdown command and parameters:
Shutdown [{-l|-s|-r|-a}] [-f] [-m [\\ComputerName]] [-t xx] [-c "message"] [-d[u][p]:xx:yy]
-l - Logs off the current user, this is also the default. -m ComputerName takes precedence.
-s - Shuts down the local computer.
-r - Reboots after shutdown.
-a - Aborts shutdown. Ignores other parameters, except -l and ComputerName. You can only use -a during the time-out period.
-f - Forces running applications to close.
-m [\\ComputerName] - Specifies the computer that you want to shut down.
-t xx - Sets the timer for system shutdown in xx seconds. The default is 20 seconds.
-c "message" - Specifies a message to be displayed in the Message area of the System Shutdown window. You can use a maximum of 127 characters. You must enclose the message in quotation marks.
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