Computer setting Guidance

Work without computers in the present times seems quite impossible. But while computers have revolutionized the way in which we do things, there are many long-term effects associated with extensive and prolonged usage.

It is not uncommon for individuals to experience eye problems and discomfort such as headache, backache and fatigue from extensive computer use.

Ensure monitor screens are cleaner and crisper.

HANDBOOK 2011

HANDBOOK 2011

Health:
1.       Drink plenty of water.
2.       Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.
3.       Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants..
4.       Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm and Empathy
5.       Make time to pray.
6.       Play more games
7.       Read more books than you did in 2009 .
8.       Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day
9.       Sleep for 7 hours..
10.    Take a 10-30 minutes walk daily. And while you walk, smile.

Personality:
11.    Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
12.    Don't have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
13.    Don't over do. Keep your limits.
14.    Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
15.    Don't waste your precious energy on gossip.
16.    Dream more while you are awake.
17.    Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need..
18.    Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner with His/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
19.    Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others.
20.    Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.
21.    No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
22.    Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn.  Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
23.    Smile and laugh more..
24.    You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree...

Society:
25.    Call your family often.
26.    Each day give something good to others.
27.    Forgive everyone for everything..
28.    Spend time w/ people over the age of 70 & under the age of  6.
29.    Try to make at least three people smile each day.
30.    What other people think of you is none of your business.
31.    Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.

Life:
32.    Do the right thing!
33.    Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
34.    GOD heals everything.
35.    However good or bad a situation is, it will change...
36.    No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
37.    The best is yet to come..
38.    When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it.
39.    Your Inner most is always happy. So, be happy.

Last but not the least:
40.    Please Forward this to everyone you care about, I just did.    

Buying Laptop Computers Guide : Basic Info and Bag Checklist

Laptops are portable, they’re stylish, and let’s face it: the opposite sex will think you more sophisticated when you’re suavely tapping out your latest blog entry at the coffee shop. Okay, that’s probably not true, but they are fun to have for both work and play.

For checking emails, surfing the web, or typing up that short story, you can get away with less power, weight, and screen size in your laptop. Beware however, as some of these are small because of the absence of a CD-RW, DVD±R or other hardware. Also, due to having less hardware to power, battery life is significantly increased in these lightweight portables.

When you’re purchasing your laptop, check for the following features:

• Memory: Your laptop should have at least 1 gigabyte (GB) of RAM.
• Processor speed: Look for a minimum of 1.6 GHz processor speed.
• Size/weight: If you’re planning on traveling with your laptop often, a lighter weight laptop or netbook might be better.
• Price: Set a budget that you're comfortable with — you can get pretty inexpensive laptops that work for most folks these days.
• Keyboard/Mouse: Make sure the keyboard and mouse built into your laptop feel comfortable to you.
• Monitor: Laptops come with different size monitors. A 15-inch monitor is comfortable for most people, but if you do work with higher-end images or watch videos, consider a larger monitor, but be aware that the larger the monitor, the larger and heftier the laptop.
• Input ports and drives: Laptops might come with a built-in CD or DVD drive, USB ports for connecting peripherals and USB sticks, and ports to connect to scanners and printers.
• Wireless capability: To connect to some wireless devices and networks, you need a laptop with wireless capability.
• Included software: Some laptops come with utility programs such as antivirus software or productivity software such as Microsoft Works.
• Manufacturer support: Check the warranty and technical support available.
• Graphics and sound cards: If you want to use multimedia or game software, ask for more sophisticated sound and video features in your laptop.

My Basic Laptop Info

The following technical information is specific to your own laptop .Print this page and write down the information, and then save the page with the other material that came with your laptop.

1. Brand name:    
2. Make:    
3. Model number:    
4. Serial number:    
5. Laptop battery’s make and model:    
6. RAM: ____________ MB
7. Hard drive capacity: ___________ GB
8. Press the __________ key when the computer first starts to access my laptop's Setup program.

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My Laptop Bag Checklist

Here's a smattering of items you might want to stuff into your laptop case or backpack. Remember: The more you pack, the heavier the bag!

1. Laptop
2. Power adapter
3. Extra battery
4. External mouse
5. Ethernet cable
6. Phone cable
7. Pens, paper, stickies
8. Screen wipes
9. Headphones
10. Copy of presentation
11. USB flash drives
12. Recordable optical discs
13. Lock or cable
14. Tiny toolkit
15. Cooling fan
16. Business cards

http://cstechnologynews.blogspot.com/p/laptop-computers-my-laptop-basic-info.html

Calendar for July 2011

Calendar for July 2011

July

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

Money bags

This year, July has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays.  This happens once every 823 years.  This is called money bags. So, forward this to your friends and money will arrive within 4 days.  Based on Chinese Feng Shui.  The one who does not forward.....will be without money.


Kinda interesting - read on!!!


This year we're going to experience four unusual dates.

1/1/11, 1/11/11, 11/1/11, 11/11/11 and that's not all...

Take the last two digits of the year in which you were born - now add the age you will be this year,

The results will be 111 for everyone in whole world. This is the year of the Money!!!

The proverb goes that if you send this to eight good friends money will appear in next four days as it is explained in Chinese FENGSHUI. 

Th Skype purchase, Microsoft will own 68% of all IM market share, Google 3.5%

OPSWAT is a company that provides software management solutions to enterprise, so they clearly have an extreme interest in knowing what’s running on the PCs of their users.

They have collected 43000 data points using their software running on real PCs and revealed interesting information about the real market share of applications.

Source Report can be DOWNLOAD here

Recover Deleted Photos from iPhone / iPad

Step 1: Install OpenSSH on your device. Instructions for installing OpenSSH on iPad can be found here, and for iPhone/iPod touch can be found here.

Step 2: Download and install iPhone Backup Extractor.
(Download links: Windows 32-bit, 64-bit... – Mac OS X)

Step 3: Run iPhone Backup Extractor and select the last backup which you made before jailbreaking your device using Spirit.

Step 4: Navigate to Media/Media/DCIM and select this folder. Click ‘Next’ to save the files locally on your hard drive.

Step 5: Download and install Cyberduck for Mac or WinSCP for Windows. Enter the following details to login to your iPad:

Cyberduck

Server: The IP address of your iPad. Settings –> WiFi –>
Username: root
Password: alpine
Protocol: SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol)
WinSCP

Hostname: The IP address of your iPad. Setting –> WiFi –>
User name: root
Password: alpine
Protocol: SCP
Step 6: Navigate to /User/Media/ directory and copy over the folder DCIM folder which you just extracted from the backup and to this location.

Step 7: Reboot your iPhone/iPad/iPod touch.

http://www.redmondpie.com/recover-deleted-photos-from-iphone-ipad-after-spirit-jailbreak/

Pakistan Budget 2011-2012

Pakistani Political Leaders views on Budget 2011-2012.

Titanic II sinks in harbor on maiden voyage from UK

LONDON (AFP) — Most people would think twice before buying a boat named Titanic II. And sure enough, when Briton Mark Wilkinson took the 16-foot (4.8-meter) cabin cruiser out for its maiden voyage, it promptly sank.

"If it wasn't for the harbormaster I would have gone down with the Titanic," Wilkinson, who had to be fished out of the sea at West Bay harbor in Dorset, told local media.

"It's all a bit embarrassing and I got pretty fed up with people asking me if I had hit an iceberg."

Wilkinson, in his 40s, had only recently bought the boat and brought it by road from his home in Birmingham for its first outing.

After a successful fishing trip, things started to go wrong when he entered the harbor and the boat began taking on water. Wilkinson was forced to abandon ship and pictures showed him clinging to a rail before he was rescued.

One eyewitness said:- "It wasn't a very big boat — I think an ice cube could have sunk it!"

source :

Google: Hundreds of Gmail accounts in U.S., Asia hacked

By Rachel King | June 1, 2011, 1:52pm PDT
Summary

Hackers around the world are gaining more attention than usual in the last few months. Now Google has added another announcement to the pile that hundreds of Gmail accounts have been hacked recently.

Hackers around the world are gaining more attention than usual in the last few months. Now Google has added another announcement to the pile that hundreds of Gmail accounts have been hacked recently.

Now, Google affirms that the problem doesn’t rest with Gmail security but rather this scheme was a result of phishing and malware.

Google spilled the details on Wednesday via its official blog:

Through the strength of our cloud-based security and abuse detection systems*, we recently uncovered a campaign to collect user passwords, likely through phishing. This campaign, which appears to originate from Jinan, China, affected what seem to be the personal Gmail accounts of hundreds of users including, among others, senior U.S. government officials, Chinese political activists, officials in several Asian countries (predominantly South Korea), military personnel and journalists.

The goal of this effort seems to have been to monitor the contents of these users’ emails, with the perpetrators apparently using stolen passwords to change peoples’ forwarding and delegation settings.

Gmail users affected by this security mishap should have already been notified. Google’s security team outlined a number of steps that Gmail users can take to protect themselves, which should only take about “ten minutes.”

Google recommended the following:

* Use two-factor authentication;
* Choose a strong password;
* Watch for suspicious activity warnings in your Gmail account;
* Check your settings for odd forwarding.

Google gave a hat tip to the blog Contagio, which highlighted the risks in February.

This attack attempt might seem like a small incident (which it certainly is in comparison to the problems with Sony’s PlayStation Network or even Apple and the MacDefender issue), but it’s a reminder that it’s always a good idea to take even just a few moments to ensure your online identity is safe.

Source :http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/google-hundreds-of-gmail-accounts-in-us-asia-hacked/49764