Linux Distros(Ubuntu,OpenSUSE,Fedora,Linux Mint)

Linux kernel is a special kernel.because it can be get in Free of charge and if you want ,you can modify it and use it as you wish.And also many of the famous operating systems are make by using the Linux kernel.The operating systems which use the main code as Linux kernel is said "Linux Distros".There are lot of distros are available today.some of them are free of charge and some of them have to buy.Famous Linux destroes are

1)Ubuntu
    The most famous Distro is this.This is develop by the Canonical company in America.They are always releasing a new version of ubuntu in April and October.If you want you can download this OS from their site or you can simply fill a form in their site and you will soon get a free CD from their.

2)OpenSUSE

    After the Ubuntu this is the 2nd most famous Distro available.This is develop by the Novell Company.This has a beautifull graphical interface comparing to other Distros.You can download it from their site freely.

3)Linux Mint

    This OS is a modified version of ubuntu.but graphical interfaces are different.you can download this freely from their site.The first version of this Distro name is "ADA"

4)Fedora

    After closing of the Red Hat project they began to develop this new Distro.This is develop by the Redhat company.They introduced their first version on november 16th of 2003.

Microsoft Kodu

The Microsoft corporation has introduced a new programming language call "KODU".You can go to Kodue's website and you can download it to windows base operating system or a XBox 360 game controller.Kodu is a special visual programing a language design for make the games.you don't need to write coding to make games.all things have to be done using by simply move icons and button on the interface.And those button have special coding but you don't need to worry about.So it is very easier make a game by using this software.specially this Kodu is design for the kids.But this can be use by any kind of user.All the special coding have been converted to icons here.

If you want to design a new game from this there are about 20 characters have been integrated to this.All the guidance have been automatically give to user to make a realistic background for the game.
Kodu is design by the Microsoft research company a one year ago.on those days they will allow to download this software to only the workers of the Microsoft.but now things have been changed.

Special Features in the Kodu

• Can be run On Windows Base Operating Systems and XBox 360 Controller
• Twenty Different Characters with diff rent capabilities.
• Gives Bridge and a Path Builder.
•  If you want you can use XBox Controller to make inputs.so there is no keyboard needed.
•  Easy to use rather than typing difficult coding.

Cisco Network Magic Pro

Network Magic pro is a networking software that allow you to connect many PC to same network and mange those computers in a easy manner.
the most special thing about this software is that you can mange a wireless network system by using this.and also software will guide you through the whole process.because of that even a person who doesn't know about networking can use this system and make a good network.So in here it give a unique identifying name to the PC in network.



There are lot of features available in this Cisco Network Magic Pro software.

• Integrated Wireless Connection Manager.
• If you connect a printer to network Automatic printer sharing.
• Easy and fast File sharing in the network.
• Network Attached Storage device support.
• You can Control Internet access on other computers by using your mainframe PC.
• Are you worry about what your employments doing on their computers?.Don't worry.This software will Take real-time screen shots of users' activity.
• Receive daily computer usage reports to administrator as he wish.
• View network activity and can Analise them any time.
• Improved Wireless security.
• Anti virus and Anti spy ware control and Intruder detection in the network.
• Generate Network health,security alerts and reports to the administrators.
• Also you can use this Network Magic pro to connect Max number of computers up to 8.

Speed Up Your Computer

If you already have a Core to duo or quad core processor with High end VGA card this article may not be relevant to you.But most of the today people have a  very limited PC with Single processor with 512mb Ram and 64mb VGA cards.So if you are a that kind of user you definitely have the speed problem.So if you are using Windows XP as you operating system In Default it will come with the lot of decorations.It is very good.but do you know that most of them are eating your system resources?So lot of decorations means slow performance in your PC.So lets see how to speed up your PC.

 Right click on My Computer-->Properties-->Select Advanced TAB-->Select Performance Settings




























Normally It choosed the "Let the Windows choose What's best for my computer."




Choose "Adjust for best performance"



Press OK.Feel the speed now.but you will see that most of the settings are gone.we will make some changes in settings .

Put the tick marks in "Use Common Tasks In Folders" , "Use Drop Shadows For Icon Labels On The Desktop"

System Restore

System Restore is a component that come with Microsoft windows versions.So when you are dealing with lot of programes there can be a chance to occur errors.sometimes installation or unstallation of a program will affect to your Windows to behave in unpredictable manner.So if you don't now what to do next.you will get more troubles.may be your system get crash and you will have to reinstall your Windows OS again.It will causes to loss of your data.so how you overcome this problem.
System restore comes there to help you.It will help you to restore your system files to earlier date of time that everything worked perfectly.Usually when you install a big program that make lot of changes in registry ,Windows will automatically create system restore points for you.but if you want you can create them manually also.But remember this technique is not backing up your personal files.this will only care about Windows system files that needed to run OS perfectly..

Opening System Restore Window.

Start-->All Programes-->Accessories-->System Tools-->System Restore.


In here you can decide what to do next.You can either Restore your computer to earlier date or you can create a restore point there.












Restore your System to earlier date

This calender will show you what restore points are available for you.You can select a date from the calender.When you select a date ,right side of your box will show more descriptive things that what are the changes that made on that day.So you can select the exact change from this box also.





After selecting all the things Click NEXT.











There it will show you a summery of that particular system point.



Then if you press NEXT it will start to restore your system to that selected system restore point.











Create a Restore Point

SO if you are currently happy with the current situation of your PC you can tell to OS that remember this situation.if somethings go wrong take me to this situation.


So in here you can give a name for your System restore point.

eg: Best Condition Ever.

So Press CREATE.

Make A Password Protected Folder Using WinRAR

If you want to make a folder password protected how you do that?Now you can do that thing by using WinRAR.WinRAR is a famous software that use to compress files and folders.So using this software you can compress your big files to smaller size and it will free your disk space.and also if you want to move your files to a another PC this will be helpful to you.You can download the latest WinRAR software from their website.So there are some many advanced features available in this software.but this article will focus on how to compress a file using a Password protected.

First Select a Folder that you want to Password Protect.Right Clcik On It and select Add to Archive.













You can select Different Options from here.like you can give a file name to compress file.You can select compress Method like that.



















So lets move on to password thing.right?

Select ADVANCED tab.



there you see a button called "SET PASSWORD"-->Press it.















Enter your password there and Press OK.















Then Again Press the OK in main RAR window.Thats it.

Now if you try to Extract it ,it will ask you for a password..Now your files are safe...

Google Buzz

This is a social networking service introduced by the Google.they introduce this as a application of the Google.They use some of the good qulaities and methods that uses on other social networking websites like face book and Twitter.All of the things that done by this service is called as "BUZZ".

When you are using the Google Buzz service you can deal with several privacy settings as like in face book.and the most amazing thing is you can directly connect to the Picasa,Google Reader ,Twitter or Flickr and you can share information with them instantly.And also you can send short messages to any body like in Twitter.Any way you can use this amazing social networking tool to connect with your friends.




Why you should use Google Buzz?

• Can create the friend list automatically.
• Google Buzz integrate Picasa,twitter,you tube and other services.So this is a improved social networking service.
• More security are in Google BUZZ.So you can decide either things gonna be private or public.
• Can be use on mobile phones.
• Can see comments and Email Updates in realtime and instantly.

DirectX

You need a special technology to play video games,play multimedia programmes ,special effects on your computer.this technology is called the Direct X technology.This was inbuilt in Microsoft Windows Operating System.

Direct X has main sub technologies.They are

• Direct3D
• Direct Draw
• Direct Sound

Direct3D

This is helpful to show the 3D animation on your PC.This act as a connector between your VGA cards and other resources of your PC and give you a better graphic quality.
Direct Draw

This is helpful to show the 2D visual effects on your PC.

Direct Sound

This will helpful to genarate the Audio effects on your PC.This act as a connector between your Sound Card and other system resources.

So by combining these technologies Windows give you a brilliant Audio and Visual Effects.There are many Direct X Versions available.Latest one is DirectX 11.
What is Your DirectX Version?

To see this try these steps.

Start-->Run-->type "dxdiag"-->Press ENTER

now it will open a DirectX diagnostic Tool Window.
Select SYSTEM TAB.

you can see lot of details about your DirectX.
Enjoy.

Intel Sandy Bridge Processor

majority of people are using intel processors today.So here is a Good news for you.Intel said that they are going to release a new Intel processor.this news was said by the
Paul Oteleni.they are going to introduce this chip in this year.they also give a name for this.it is Intel Sandy Bridge.

there is a special about this processor.It was made by combining of both CPU(Central processing unit) and a GPU(Graphic processing unit).cool ha...

Normally GPU s are integrated in graphic cards Like NVIDIA or ATI. So connection between CPU and the GPU is made by the motherboard.
so this process need a small time.Because it took a time to transfer the data between these circuits.but if we integrate these things to one circuit it will reduce the time to transfer the data between those things.Thats why intel introduce this new processor.they said that this will 4x faster than their current old processors.So reviewers said when arrive of this processor it will be a threat to Nvidia ad ATi companies.but there is a news spread that AMD is also going to make this type of a processor soon.how ever this will lead to a new generation in processors world.

32-bit and 64-bit Windows

Windows vista was made in two different methods.They are 32bit method and the 64bit method.majority of people have computers that have a 32bit processor.so they have to run 32 bit version of the vista.there are some advantages of using 64bit PC rather than a 32bit PC..

• 32bit version can only have a ram capacity of 4gb.but in 64bit you can exceed this limit.
• complex calculations can be do in very fast.
• video editing can be done in fast

but remember if you want to run 64bit version of vista you have to have a PC that have a 64bit processor.
you can check weather you can install 64bit version to your pc or not

try this method

Start-->Control Panel-->System and Maintenance-->Performance Information and Tools-->View and Print Details

Check the word "64-bit Capable" If says Yes you can install 64bit version of vista.

How To Deactivate Tab Browsing

today all of the new web browsers have this latest technology.when you are working with many tabs if you point your mouse on to a certain tab it will show a quick print screen of what that tab contains.nice thing.but don't forget that it will need more processing power.when you are using a cheap PC system you will get troubles from this method.

so on those times you have to deactivate this style.so this article will show you how to deactivate tab browsing in different web browsers









1)Google Chrome

if your default installation location is C: go to this
c:\users\username\appdata\local\google\chrome\application

now right click the Chrome.exe file.-->properties>compatibility-->active check bow which tell you"run this program in compatible mode for"-->then select Windows Vista-->Press OK


2)Mozilla Firefox

Open Mozilla-
type on the address bar "about:config"
now you you will get a new window with advanced settings of Mozilla.don't afraid

type these sentence in front of the "FILTER"
"browser:taskbar:previews"

now you will redirect to another page.

now click the "browser:taskbar:previews.enable" it will changes to "False"

3)Internet Explore 8

tools-->internet Options-->general tab-->Press "Settings"

you will get a Tab Browsing Setting window.
on that window find "show previews for individuals tabs in the task bar" -->clear the check bnox

Encryption In Windows

If you have any secret files which not suitable for read by others you have to encrypt it.There are so much softwares available in internet to do the encrypt tasks.but you can simply do it from the windows xp.

windows Xp uses Advanced encrypting file system technology(EFS) to do this.you can encrypt different files and folders by using this EFS technology.when you encrypting a file you have to give a key to decrypt it.so if some body needed to view your files he has to provide that key to decrypt it.So that gives you the security.if he or she doesn't know your key he or she cant view your encrypted data.



How To Encrypt

Right click the Folder or file which you want to Encrypt-->properties-->General TAB-->Advanced-->select"Encrypt contents o secure the data" check box

but remember you cannot encrypt compressed files from this method.

Indian Tablet PC

Still the cost of computer can not be bear by the poor peopleThey still can not buy a computer for their children.As a answer to this question low cost PC theory has been came.today the most famous low cost PC is OLPC(One Laptop per Child).but India reject that PC because 200$ is not cheap for them.So they gave a solution for this probelem.they invented a new low cost PC.can you believe that that PC Price is just 35$.


This Computer's motherboard was design by the student of India VIT Vellore technical institute.amazing..
circuit Board was design by person from the Kanpur technical institute.






How about the PC

• You can do word processing from this PC.
• Can connect to Internet by using this.
  
• Can do video conferencing.
• Can store datan
• Cool thing is it can be powered by solar power.
• But this PC don't have a hard disk.
• You can store data to memory chip like in cell phones.
• Operating system is open source (Linux)

Vista System Health Reports

when you are working in vista if you arrive problems vista system health reports and stability report will help you to solve those problems.these reports include such as high usage of system resources,disk performance errors and other stuffs.so by using these reports you can find clean solution to your problem.

How to Get vista system health report

you have two different methods to get this.

1)Start->Search-> type "perform/report" and -->Enter

2)Control Panel->System and maintenance->performance information and tools->advanced tools->generate system health report







How to Get vista Stability report

check this out..you can find more errors and how those occurs from this report.

Control Panel->System and maintenance->performance information and tools->advanced tools->open reliability and performance manger->reliability monitor

Mouseless(Invisible computer mouse)

Normal people began to use the computers in 8oth century.now 30 years have been passed.many changes have been made.many items have been discovered.but still one thing is keep remaining under old style.that is mouse.
now you can see lot of new mouses today.some of them are wireless.but even it is wireless it still got the same size,same style and tangible.

but now its has been changed.because one genius scientist made a invisible mouse.this mouse cant be see by eyes.this mouse was made by pranau Misri.its discovered by the American massauset technical college.they gave a name for this computer mouse.It is Mouseless.

How it works

you have to install a infrared device for the computer,.its spread infrared signals every where.also this system has a camera to identify is there change of the signal.
user have to sit as a normal.he has to bring his hand to imaginary mouse pad.which he has to imagine that there is a mouse in this place.now all infrared signals have been focused to this hand.now if user change a finger camera will identify the change and it will give the signal to computer.now pc will calculate according to the infrared signals and camera movements what this is a single or double click..pretty much ha...

so there is a software you need to install to active this mouseless mouse.in that software it has several libraries.those libraries contains several mouse click patterns.