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4 Tweaks to make your PC start faster!
Backup your Twitter account upto 500 MB with Tweetstream [Free]
Google Chrome extension to fight content farms!
Wisestamp – A browser addon to create email signature!

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 06:30 PM PST

No one in the entire World would like their PC to load slowly and wait for the Desktop to show up in a slow fashion. This is against the notion that a PC boot-up time is completely dependent on the Processor and RAM installed. The start-up time is very well affected because of user-activities and the 'junk' we install on our system.

Let us now see how we can let our PC take a sigh of relief.

BIOS Tweaks

Update your BIOS software – This will be truly useful if your PC manufacturer releases BIOS updates regularly. Most the boot-level problems are resolved with such updates. You can check the Support section for the update file and even how to update it. You need to very careful though while doing such an operation as a wrong action may even damage your PC completely.
Boot Order selection – Keep the Boot Order to start with your Hard disk instead of CD-ROM or Flash drive(s). You can do this from your BIOS setup. Read this if you need help.
Disable POST – Disable Power-on Self Test which is not necessary for modern-day computers. Also enable Quick Boot or Fast Boot if available in the BIOS options.

Windows Tweaks

Manage your Startup – Don't let 'junk' items to start alongwith PC start-up. This is a major reason your Windows loading time increases. To manage your Start-up items, go to Run (Windows + R key) and type msconfig. I have demonstrated an example below.

Step 1

Step 2

(Going to the Startup tab)

Step 3

(See the marked area which is Yahoo Search protection. This is often not required and gets installed when you install Yahoo Messenger. Disable it and apply the settings.)

Looking forward to hear from you all, if you do have suggestions to improve PC boot up, do post your comments here!

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Backup your Twitter account upto 500 MB with Tweetstream [Free]

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 05:00 AM PST

Most people who use Twitter do not really care about a backup for their Twitter account. Most people use Twitter to look for new information, follow events and even look up what their favorite celebrities are doing.

Some people do find their Twitter life very important and might want to back up their Twitter account details. Tweetstream seems to be a nice application to back up Twitter.

Tweetstream App Features

I could backup up to 500 MB of information when it came to my Twitter account details.
The information collected based on your backup is also quite interesting. I saw details like the number of tweets I sent in a particular month.
We can have up-to 3 Twitter accounts which can be backed up and synchronized.
I got a nice list of some of the people who most mention me in their tweet. This could help you realize who are you best buddies on Twitter.

If you are someone who wants to know some trends about your own Twitter account along with backing up all the information on Twitter, then I would recommend you to go ahead and try out Tweetstream application.

Do try it out and drop in your comments.

Link: Tweetstream

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Google Chrome extension to fight content farms!

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 03:07 AM PST

Spam has been ever rising on the Internet and Google finds itself lonely fighting content farms hosting low and pathetic content. Now it has realized the need to fight this menace together with users and hence developed a Chrome extension called Personal Blocklist.

The extension shall work only for Google Chrome users at present and shall let them block malicious and spam listings directly from Google results. Such blocked results shall never appear again in their search in the future.

However this does not mean that the result itself shall be blocked throughout Google servers. That is not going to happen, instead any blocked results shall be automatically reported to Google and it will just guide the company's staff to filter and decide things accordingly.

After blocking that website, see what happens:

Users can even unblock or edit a blocked website directly from their Chrome toolbar using the extension icon as commonly done. We all hope Google finds this a way out to filter most of the spam on Earth and our search becomes spam free.

Drop in your comments and let me know if you are using this new extension.

LINK: Personal Blocklist

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Wisestamp – A browser addon to create email signature!

Posted: 15 Feb 2011 09:45 PM PST

Do you always feel that your Email signature is dull, boring and lot of words I am not including here? If that is so, why not try a small but interesting tool Wisestamp which will let you decide what and how your signature should be like in an easy manner. The tool works for both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, though I did personally try it only for Chrome.

My initial experience with Wisestamp made it look like something confusing, probably because I did not opt for the Tour it offers to its new users. However when I later started digging in my heads, I found it out to be an interesting and easy tool. You can save two different email signatures at a time, namely – "Personal" and "Business".

There are many different functionalities you can include within your signature, most of them just needs you to enter your ID (remember no password is required). For e.g. you can include your Latest Twitter post in your new emails or even in your reply to emails by just adding the Twitter service and entering your Twitter ID.

Other services include RSS feed to your blog, Blogger, WordPress, Deviantart, Stumbleupon, eBay, Digg and lot more. I do hope that this tool will prove useful to you in managing your email signature as now even I am using it for my regular mail conversations. Trust me, it is good! wlEmoticon smile4 Wisestamp A browser addon to create email signature!