Computer Tweaks

Steve Jobs belongs to the league of famous college drop-outs that include Bill Gates ( Microsoft), Larry Ellison ( Oracle), Michael Dell (Dell) and Richard Branson (Virgin group).    Jobs, whose personal wealth is about $9 billion, in early years survived on money he got from selling coke bottles and weekly free meals at Hare Krishna temple in Oregon.  Jobs traveled to India in search of spiritual enlightenment and took to Buddhism, shaved his head and wore Indian cloths. Worked with HP in Palo Alto in California where he met Steve Wozniak, with whom he founded Apple Publishing house Simon & Schuster is set to publish the authorized biography of Jobs in November that will include his resignation. In the multiple-Oscar winning Hollywood movie Forest Gump, the lead character by the same name, played by Tom Hanks, refers to Apple as "some sort of fruit company" whose shares Gump ends up owning. In July 1976, Apple sold its first PC, ...

This post may seem to be out of context. But you can consider it as a review of some websites. Websites that provide free online content for education. For any student it is very essential to get good quality study material. Specially when we talk about Indian students they don't refer authentic material. These free resources might help them get good study stuff at their computers with ease. So here is the list of websites that provide Free & Useful Resources for Educational Content.   The fist website in my list is: 1) Academic Earth : Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education. At Academic Earth, they are working to identify these barriers and find innovative ways to use technology to increase the ease of learning. Know more about Academic Earth by visiting theri website: http://academicearth.org/about 2) NPTEL : NPTEL provides E-learning through online Web and Vid...

Twitter has finally added the feature of uploading images in the tweets. Now you don't need to put your photos on tweetpic or photobucket, you can directly upload using image uploader in the tweets. To get more details about New Image Uploader of Twitter, visit this link  https://support.twitter.com/articles/20156423

Google+ has added one more feature for adding friends or inviting people to Google+. You can now invite others to G+ simply by using a link. Just click the “invite friends” button on the right-hand side of the stream, and you’ll find a new link that you can IM to friends or post on the web. You can tweet this link or share it on your facebook wall to invite your friends to join G+. Google+

Shortcuts really help you cut the time you spend on your computer. If you know key board shortcuts, you browse through your stuff in a lesser time. Here is the list of key board shortcuts that you may use while using facebook. Before using these shortcuts, determine the modifier keys for your computer, which is based on what browser and operating system you are using. OS & Browser:- Win&Chrome Win & Firefox Win & IE OSX & Firefox OSX & Other Modifier Keys :  Alt Alt + Shift Alt Function + Ctrl Option + Ctrl   Once you have determined the modifier for your operating system and browser use the above key combination with any of the below 10 keys to perform the desired shortcut. For example, if you were using Firefox in Windows and wanted to go to the Facebook Home you could press Alt + Shift + 1. If you are using Internet Explorer, a...

What is DOS? You might have heard this word a lot of times, right? DOS is Disc Operation System. It is Microsoft's first operating system. The command line screen (black screen) that you see no of times from your Windows, that command line is basically an interface to work under DOS environment. DOS was the most basic operating system. With no fancy interfaces, only a black screen and sometime blue screen you could see. All the instructions or commands are given to DOS through command prompt.  In above image you can clearly see the C prompt i.e. "C:\>". All the commands are given from such Command prompts be it C prompt C:\> or D prompt D:\> or may be E prompt E:\>. Please refer following images for few DOS commands.

SAN FRANCISCO: Google Inc's new social network has attracted 25 million users, making it the fastest website to reach that audience size, according to data released on Tuesday by comScore. Google+, launched in late June, had 25 million unique visitors as of July 24 and is growing at a rate of roughly one million visitors a day, comScore noted in a presentation. In contrast, it took Facebook about three years to attract 25 million visitors, while Twitter took just over 30 months, according to comScore. While the data show Google's latest attempt at breaking into social networking has started strongly, it may not mean the project is a long-term success. MySpace grew to 25 million unique visitors in less than two years -- faster than Facebook or Twitter. However, it's lost a lot of visitors in the past year, comScore data show. Most Google+ visitors come from outside the United States. More than 3.6 million unique visitors have come from India, ...

BOSTON: Security experts have discovered the biggest series of cyber attacks to date, involving the infiltration of the networks of 72 organizations including the United Nations, governments and companies around the world. Security company McAfee, which uncovered the intrusions, said it believed there was one "state actor" behind the attacks but declined to name it, though one security expert who has been briefed on the hacking said the evidence points to China. The long list of victims in the five-year campaign include the governments of the United States, Taiwan, India, South Korea, Vietnam and Canada; the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN); the International Olympic Committee (IOC); the World Anti-Doping Agency; and an array of companies, from defense contractors to high-tech enterprises. In the case of the United Nations, the hackers broke into the computer system of the UN Secretariat in Geneva in 2008, hid there unnoticed f...