Which is better 32-bit or 64-bit?

Do you run a 64-bit or 32-bit operating system? or which version of Operating System better to have? If you do not know the answer to this question, you probably do not. 32 -bit and 64-bit versions of Windows is very similar to each other, so that each version of the OS can not be distinguished easily. The easiest way to view information about your computer, Right Click on "My Computer" icon from desktop and select "Properties" from menu. In the new window displays detailed information about the Windows version and type of system. In our case, this "32-bit operating System. But what is the difference between 32 - and 64-bit systems?

When we talk about 64-bit or 64-bit operating systems, we need to distinguish between 64-bit computing, which are important for high productivity, as well as 64-bit addressing to support large amounts of memory.

10 Simple tips to protect PC from Viruses

Was little busy with my college works, so I was not able to write for few weeks. Now I am back.

Well, lets start of with the problem. If your computer is infected, it can suddenly turn off, found that certain files are missing or do not open, or programs work slow. Should I ignore it? Do not think! Moreover, it is easier to prevent than to cure. It is for this and are these simple tips that can help you. Here are few tips...

Reduce Start-up time of Windows by removing ghosted drivers

Are you aware that your computer could be full of Ghosted Devices? Much like humans fear real ghosts, your Personal Computer is also afraid of these virtual ghosts. These ghosts can cause your computer to start up and run at a speed slower than usual.

Ghosted Devices are also known as Hidden Devices, these devices were once connected to your computer but are not connected anymore. Yet Windows keeps a copy of these Devices in the Device Manager and upon startup tries to find these devices on your system. This can result in a slower startup speed.

Lets create incredible 3D avatars online

For today’s online social life having an avatar to represent you is a must. But some people just don’t like taking photos because of the way they turn out, some others like having the “gamer look”, but sometimes online communication and media are a lot better with avatars. The issue is that with most online avatar creators they simply produce the same image over and over again. Eventually they all start to look the same, like carbon copies of a similar base. Take the South Park avatars for example.

Make Windows 7 fast with small tweaks

Like the earlier versions of Windows, Windows 7 allow its users to make changes to registry entries to personalize their systems settings. Listed below are a few of these tweaks that you can use to customize your Windows 7 Operating System according to your wish.

Always remember to backup your Windows Registry before you make any changes. You can backup your Registry by using the Windows 7 Registry Editor Utility, or any registry tool that will work with Windows 7.

How to delete your social networking accounts

Deleting accounts for social networking and other community sites can be very difficult and frustrating. Social networking sites need your accounts to improve their statistics and don’t want you to delete them.

With Delete Your Account the difficulty of deleting your information from such sites is almost non-existent. Delete Your Account is an online resource that quickly and effectively allows you to delete your account. Delete Your Account gives detailed instructions and even verification so that you know your account is gone for good.

Search torrent safely with our Google Chrome Extensions

Downloading video, music, game and other file is a common activity among all. But finding genuine source to download is the first and most challenging step. Again, downloading from torrents- a source of virus, worms, trojan with fake files for newbie. Why not save all those wasted wasted efforts by searching torrent files through a user friendly Google Chrome Extension.

Well with this respect I developed 2 Google Chrome Extensions for searching torrent file efficiently and effectively. One extension is “open search” extension which search torrent from different torrent sites and other one is specially for “The Pirate Bay” searchers.

Here are both:

Activate Media Player control Buttons in laptop Touchpad

There are lot of features that exist in the small touchpad, which is used as primary device to control mouse on laptop. Physically there are two buttons which are used for left and right clicks. But virtually there are four more buttons on touchpad itself (at each corner).

Well, these four buttons are not visible but can be used for many applications like to control sound, launch application, control browsing, minimizing & maximizing windows and so on. I thought the best way it can be used in controlling Media Players. This is because, let us suppose we are doing some work and using mouse, at the same time we can also control media player very quickly by simply tapping at corners of touchpad.

Free Farmville Hack/Cheat that really works

There are millions of cheat and hack for Farmville on internet. But few seems to work, oops not few but very few! Also, many are distributing trojans, spywares and virus in the name of hacking application. Most of them are either fake or waste time. Keeping all those things apart, here I am going to explain about this working hack which is very useful for saving time.

How to Cheat in Farmville? Here we go…

Get new e-mail alert through SMS for FREE

Had quite busy week, got some time to write about this new service. In real you can’t call its a service as this is a form of tweak to get SMS alert of new mails arriving on Gmail. Actually, this tweak uses the same Google Calendar SMS platform which I had discussed few weeks ago to receive “ SMS alert before Friend’s Birthday ”.

Well, this tweak is dead simple, follow these two steps:

Fix Google Chrome crash problem after update

I have almost migrated to Google Chrome browser. For last 2-3 months I am using it as default browser, as of now it has got a lot of useful extensions which add many new features while browsing. While I updated it from previous older version to new one, it started reacting as I had done something wrong to it!

Report like “ Chrome stopped Working “ became an usual on my PC. After few minutes of browsing, it suddenly crash and restart. In such situation the flow of work get disturbed. Not only this for some sites like orkut and twitter, while opening them blank or some coded page  was appearing. Neither cleaning browsing data nor reinstallation helped.

Get SMS alerts before your Friend’s Birthday

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I was forgetting my friends/relatives Birthday! And thought what could be the smarter way to remember these important dates. Either storing them in Mobile’s calendar or remembering them in mind. Thinking to store in mind - can't store too many dates. Storing in mobile - Technology is changing, mobile set also change after days!

But fortunately, there is a FREE of cost service from Google which will send you SMS alert before your friend’s Birthday. I have been using this for more than a year or two and till now, have not forget to wish their Birthdays. Some even asked, how do you know my Birthday and not forget to wish? The service here I am talking is about integrating Facebook and Orkut Birthday calendar with Google calendar which will  finally send you SMS alerts.

For this we will have to configure Google Calendar account and then add Facebook and(or) Orkut B'day Calendars to it. Here we start...

Share your computer with researcher while idle

What your computer does while it is on and you are not doing any work on it? Or while your computer is engaged in downloading stuffs overnight? The CPU remains idle and uses it as little as possible but consumes power. So, at that time why not use the wasted power in useful way? Like, sharing the CPU with the researchers who requires a lot of computing power in processing complex problems. In a way you are sending help for royal cause, which ranges from Biology & Medicine to astronomy, physics, chemistry, mathematics and games. And at the same time you are completing the assigned work too!

So, how to share your computer? In this context Grid computing come into picture, which is nothing but the collective working of a large number of computers round the world to accomplish a goal. Well, to share your computer you will need to install a software

Run Mobile Java Applications on Computer

Mobile applications/games based on java have .jar format. So, it not possible to run thsese type of app. directly on computer. First of all, Why do we want to run these app on computer, as these these can easily run on mobile? Well, to try the apps before installing/transferring on mobile handset and this saves a lot of time for me.

In order to run app. on PC we have two options, either to convert .jar into .exe format and then run it directly or may be running it with emulator installed on PC. Both option will work.

Use Problem Steps Recorder (PSR) as Screenshot Tool

Problem Steps Recorder-PSR which was introduced in Windows 7 is very useful tool for recording the problem and sending it a problem solver or tech supports. If you don't know what is PSR then you can see my previous post about it, Problem Steps Recorder Overview .

Few days ago I realised that PSR can also be used as Screenshot Tool to take screenshot at every click automatically! The best part of this is that it is free and takes screenshots automatically at every click of mouse. In this how-to, I have used  PSR screenshots to complete the tutorial.

Make invisible/secret icon in Windows 7 Taskbar

Its been a year or more while I started using Windows 7 and officially it was launched few months ago. Anyways, you might have seen the simplicity and usefulness of this dock type taskbar. Even this dock is quite easy to launch programs and if you have not used it then head on to my previous posts 12 days with Windows 7, also see 10-great kick-ass features to get excited about in Windows 7 where I have mentioned about this super-bar.

In order to make a secret icon in task bar, first of all it needs to be invisible and only the person who made it should know the location, in order to use it. Ok now lets begin with making invisible icons, so how to make a program’s icon invisible ?

Automatically Backup your Blog, Twitter, Facebook, E-mail for FREE

Thinking of a service few days ago and its here on internet launched few days back ! Really amazing, actually, I was thinking of a service which could be able to automatically backup my blogger posts, twitter posts, and facebook posts. But what I got today is mor than enough!

Yes, the service exists and its with Flicker, Delicious, Zoho, Google Docs, Photobucket, Wordpress, FriendFeed, Gmail, Hotmail backup and many more. That's really impressive and the biggest part is that, they are giving lifetime backup for FREE for next 1 month. Not only these they are also going to come up with Xmarks, Youtube, RssFeed, Tumblr backup services.

Get Latest News Headlines direct on Desktop Screen

One of the best feature introduced by Microsoft is Desktop Gadgets in Windows Vista and Windows 7 too. But when you will open this widget/gadget you will only see the news from msn news website. Further if you will look into the options to configure it you will only see the options  “Feeds for United States” , “ Microsoft Feeds “ and so on related to the same. But when you are in different country other than US, then you will definitely like to see the feed updates of your country. So how to add custom option to this menu ?

The process of adding the feed is quite easy. Here we go…

How to embed Google Wave on Blogger or Wordpress blogs

For last one month I have been using Google Wave and also sent many invites to friends and others. Also watched full video of Google Wave I/O developer conference and here I posted a short article to brief out the features and advantages : What is Google Wave in plain English

A week ago I recalled that these is also a facility to embed waves in blogs and websites. Better to start with Blogger as this blog is launched at blogger. I started Googling and end up with successful solution which is here. To view the wave you need to have either preview or sandbox account with Google Wave, otherwise you will only see

How to eject stuk DVD from slot load DVD Drive

For the conventional laptop having tray like DVD Drive, have the facility to eject the tray out to remove the CD/DVD by using pin hole facility, when it got stuck inside. But now a days most of the DELL and other laptops are coming with slot load DVD drives.

These slot load drives are very convenient, to insert any disc inside you just need to press the disc to go inside the slot and to eject only pressing or touching the eject button does the work. Anyways what will happen if the disc stucks inside ? There are no pin hole or any other facility to remove the disc.