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How Blogging has changed our lives in a short span of time!. Until 7-8 years back creating a mail id is so great. The last few years websites have been ruling our lives.”Hello what is your Blog address my friend” are the conversions happening today.

How blogging can be helpful

Today blogging is inspiring every person, let us take case of my friend john. He is studying engineering, but he is a great fan of movies and celebrities. He watches every movie of his favourite celebrity on its release day. Once in a fine morning he had watched a movie by spending good amount of money. Finally he hasnt liked the movie from any angle.He wants to inform other people that this movie is not worthful of watching. He cannot goto each and every individual and say that movie is not worth watching. He is so soft, that he cannot express his view by shouting.So how to calm the agitation that is striking in his belly?.So he went to an internet cafe and posted about his opinions on the movie he watched in his own blog. By this way he can stop people who are waiting to watch the movie. Though he may not stop all the people, he can influence a small portion of people.Influencing People is the greastest Power of a Blog.
Bloggging is a way of expressing your thoughts, Opinions, Knowledge and expertise. Blog in a complete form called as weblog. By dividing this word in 1999 Peter Mereholtz called it as  ‘We Blog’. Blogging has become so powerful that in a short span of time it has reached millions of people.

You can write Blogs on any topics like movies, celebrities, Book reviews, Movie reviews, software reviews, health tips, Weather Alerts, friends, Family, Trees, Nature, Pet Dogs, technology, Programming or any topic that you can feel comfortable.And there is no need to spend a single penny to make your voice reach to the people.

Why People are so attracted to Blogs:

Blogs are written independently by real People as a way of expressing their opinions.It is just like a friend’s or colleagues  advice. Now People are not searching Websites for News, Instead they are relying on Blogs for the complete information. Now people are using blogs  to get trusted reviews on a product that they are going to buy. Blogging is universal, so it can be reached to millions of people around the web.Blogging has got the independence to write anything, even the media is failing to do so. Starting from University students to corporate CEO’S everyone is interested to have their own blog and recognition. The most comfortable feature in a blog is the feedback. If you likek a blog or even dont like it , You can comment your opinion in that blog.

How to Search for a Blog 

You can even  select a blog based on its category like travel Blog, Political Blog, Fashion Blog, Legal Blog, Technology Blog, Corporate Blog, Confession Blog, Adult Blog from Blog search engines like Technorati, Blogdigger, Feedster, Feedburner e.t.c. Making People Participate in you blog is the only way to ensure success for your Blog. The Popularity Behind web 2.0 sites like MySpace, Face Book, Orkut, You tube, Flicker is due to People’s participation.  Even the Top companies like Sun Micro systems,  Microsoft, IBM and apple are relying on Blogs to asses the opinion of their customers.

Making Money from Blogging

Even Your blogging can make you a celebrity. It can return even lots of Money.Blogging has become a full time profession for many people. Some are even earning thousands of dollars while studying a college degree. Some of the Powerful Bloggers from blogs like techcrunch, Problogger, labnol.blogspot, endgadget have left their profession  years back and have choosen blogging as their profession. Once if you can influence people from your blog, Money will automatically roll on to your blog.

How to Start Blogging

No need to spend Money or an expertise is required to create and maintain a blog. Just go to Blogger.com and create a new account and start typing on to the Blog, choose a blogging template and click on Publish to express your opinion to the entire world.

Be careful in writing Blogs

By expressing Opinions against government Policies some of the Bloggers are asked to leave their country. By sharing the secrets of a company he is working in, a Blogger has been suspended. Bloggin can also make you sit in Jail if you blog about offending topics.

Terminology used in Blogging world

Blogoneer : An Expert in Blogging.

Blogosphere : An Instruction or an action to the entire Blogging world.

CeleBlog : Blog completely filled with information on celebrities.

Plog : A blog on Politics

Bloghopper : A person who completely relies on Blogs

Microsoft has admitted that every xbox 360 sold in the past 20 months suffers from a design flaw that could cause the devices to fail. It has sold about 11.8 million consoles in the last 20 months.

Microsft will extend the warranty coverage from one year to three years to compensate for the above device failure, but yet to decide on an recall or exchange programme.

Microsoft gaming chief Robbie Bach claimed in a conference call with financial analysts that the design issues surfaced recently.”In the Past couple of months we started to see significant increases in repair requests an call requests and significant attention from the people ” he said. However Microsoft did not disclose the nature of the problem and when this problem could be striked in xbox 360.

The extended warranty period is limited to hardware failures .  Users of consoles suffering from such problems are entitled to free repairs and shipping. Microsft estimated that the repairs will cost the company $1.15 billion even higher than the expected return for all the existing xbox 360 consoles.

Looking for a way to customize your Windows Vista boot experience?However if you want to give out a try to change the windows vista Boot screen, here is the solution

By default has hidden boot screen and you can enable it by the following ways.

1. Go to start and click on the Run option.
2. Type Msconfig in the command text box from the run dialog box.
3. A new dialog box opens, choose the Boot tab.
4. Check the box that is labeled with “NO Gui Boot”
5. Finally click on Ok

To change the boot screen that comes with windows vista with yours or downloaded from source

1. Start windows explorer and browse the folder c:\Windows\System32\en-us if installed version is english- usa.
2. copy the winload.exe.mui file to any folder other than c:\windows or have a backup of this file.
3. Replace the above file with your customized windows boot screen multimedia user interface file.

Some of the windows vista Boot screens from the web are

Download vista Boot Screen 1

Download vista Boot Screen 2

Caution : I do not hold any responsibility for any damage caused to your system in any form by installing the above boot screens. Neither it is prepared by me Nor i am recommedning it on behalf of others. Installation and usage of the above files is at your sole discretion.

TypingMaster Pro is a professional typing tutor that helps you to double your typing speed. With TypingMaster Pro it takes only a couple of hours to learn the blazing fast touch typing system. As a result you will save hours and hours of time!

Touch typing tutor
:: Learn the powerful touch typing technique
:: Double your typing speed to save time
:: Interactive training with a personal approach

Your Personal Typing Tutor
Meet TypingMaster Pro, the personal touch typing tutor that adapts to your unique needs. The program provides customized exercises and helpful feedback to guide you step by step to professional keyboarding. As a result your typing speed will increase significantly saving you a lot of valuable work time.

Adjusts to Your Progress
At every stage training is adjusted to your personal progress. Weak spots are pinpointed and rapidly eliminated with additional exercises. Thanks to this personal approach you can put your new skills into action after only 3 to 5 hours of training.

The Benefits of Touch Typing
:: Double your typing speed
:: Focus on your text and ideas
:: Get rid of typos
:: Improve your ergonomics
:: Save valuable work time
:: Be confident with computers

Accelerate your typing speed
With TypingMaster a novice keyboard user can learn to type many times faster. Clumsy typing will no longer interrupt the flow of your thoughts!

Get rid of typos
Get rid of those annoying typing errors and increase the quality of your texts.

Save valuable work time
Learning to touch type will help save dozens of working hours each year as you type faster and do not need to correct errors constantly.

Focus on your text and ideas
With fluent keyboarding skills you can put your brain power into expressing your thoughts instead of finding the right keys.

Improve your ergonomics
Natural, efficient finger movements and no need to look at the keyboard results in less stress in fingers, arms and neck.

Be confident with computers
Improved typing skills will help take full advantage of your computer as you become more confident with the keyboard.
Unique Features for Optimal Learning

-= Versatile Study Material =-
:: Five comprehensive courses
The five typing courses cover the whole keyboard - including special marks, numeric keypad - and help you to accelerate your typing speed.
:: Multi-form exercises
The visual keyboard drills, timed texts, games and dynamic reviews will get you in the flow and keep you engaged.
:: Following Your Progress
Advanced feedback and tips
Get instructive feedback on your progress and difficulties as well as personal learning tips.
:: Professional typing tests
Test your typing speed with a professional timed tests and view your results with a detailed report.
:: Illustrated statistics
Follow your progress with graphical long-term statistics.

-= Optimal Learning =-
:: Optimized duration
The duration of each exercise is based on your progress in accuracy and speed.
:: Personal accuracy goal
Set a personal accuracy goal level for the entire course.
:: Smart review
Let TypingMaster keep track of your problem keys and help you improve your skills with personalized review exercises.
:: TypingMaster Satellite
Let the Satellite analyze your typing in other programs for tailored training and typing statistics.

-= Additional Features =-
:: Support for multiple users
Multiple users can easily improve with TypingMaster using the personal study profiles.
:: QuickPhrase typing tool
Store frequently used text snippets and paste them to any application with a few clicks.

The Best Tuning and Optimizing Utility for Windows Vista!
Windows Vista is the new Operating System for home users and professionals alike. Windows Vista brings clarity to your world, so you can more safely and easily accomplish everyday tasks and instantly find what you want on your PC.

Vista Manager is the powerful software, All-in-One utility to optimize, tweak, tune up and clean up your Windows Vista. It bundles more than 20 different utilities in one! Get access to hundreds of hidden options to improve system’s performance and security, clean registry, junk files and defrag Registry, optimize network to speed connection, Mange the startup entries with Windows, change wallpaper automatically, and many other miscellaneous utilities. It is an excellent companion for Windows Vista..

Features and Benefits of Vista Manager :
- Information. Get detailed system and all hardware information on your system; show all detailed information of running processes and threads on your machine; Vista Manager offers 1-clicking cleans your system automatically.
- Optimizer. Tweak your system to improve windows startup and shutdown speed; tweak your hardware to increase system speed and performance.
- Cleaner. Find out which files or folders engross your disk space and shown with chart; Find and clean junk files to increase Hard Disk space; Duplicate Files Finder can scan your computer for files with the same size, name and modification time; Registry Cleaner can easily checks your registry and repair incorrectly linked registry entries, automatically remove invalid entries; Registry Defrag rebuilds and re-indexs your registry to reduce application response time and registry access time.
- Customization. Control what is started on Windows startup; edit context menus of mouse Right-Clicking; customize system desktop, menus, toolbar and notifications settings; automatically change your desktop wallpaper on background.
- Security. You can improve desktop, menus, Windows logon securities, and enable numerous hidden performance options of system, disable system updates and error reports; hide and restrict to access drives, specify which applications are not allowed to be executed on your computer; encrypt/decrypt and shred files, change the location of system folders; Privacy Protector can maintain your personal privacy by eliminating the tracks that you leave behind; create lots of randomization password once.
- Network. Optimize your Internet connection speed, manage all shares items; tweak your Internet Explorer easily.
- Misc. Utilities. Show the collection of Windows utilities; help you find out the installation key of Windows, Office products; shutdown your PC or remind you automatically.

vLite is a tool for customizing the Windows Vista installation before actually installing.

Main features are:

• component removal
• driver integration
• unattended setup
• split/merge Vista installation CDs
• tweaks
• bootable CD/DVD

We all know that Windows Vista from Microsoft takes a lot of resources. So here is a tool for easy removal of the unwanted components from vista in order to make Vista run faster and with out unnecessary features. vLite can also create the bootable ISO and apply the tweaks directly.

This tool doesn’t does not delete any files and registry entries .

It configures the installation directly, before the installation, meaning you’ll have to remake the ISO and reinstall it. This method is much cleaner, not to mention easier and more logical than doing it after installation on every reinstall.

Download Vista Lite

Browser wars are on a highway touching the skys.Even the fight between Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer hasnt been finalized, Safari a web browser joined the race to gain browser market share. Safari is an browser application of apple incorporation which works on windows as well as MAC OS/X. APPLE is claiming that safari is the fastet browser application available today.

Apple words

 The fastest web browser on any platform, Safari loads pages up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2.
Experience the web, Apple style, with Safari: the fastest, easiest-to-use web browser in the world. With its simple, elegant interface, Safari gets out of your way and lets you enjoy the web — up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer. Browser looks like a MAC OS/X window with all the effects. In built pop-up blocking facility.Tab support with a facility to move the tabs in between.Scan all the latest news, information, and articles from thousands of websites in one simple-to-read, searchable article list delivered right to you. The built-in RSS (Really Simple Syndication) reader in Safari tells you when new articles or blog posts have been added to your favorite sites, so you never have to guess.Instead of storing searches, search history, urls visited, cookies and later on deleting them for privacy, a built-in privay option is available in safari.Once you enable the privacy option no data is stored on your hard disk.
Inline Find facility
Now you can locate any text on any web page using the Find command in Safari. Type a word into the new integrated Find banner
under the bookmarks bar, and Safari shows you the found count and highlights matching terms while dimming the page below them. So you can view every instance — in an instant.
12 reasons you’ll  like Safari.

1. Blazing Performance
2. Elegant User Interface
3. Easy Bookmarks
4. Pop-up Blocking
5. Inline Find
6. Tabbed Browsing
7. SnapBack
8. Forms AutoFill
9. Built-in RSS
10. Resizable Text Fields
11. Private Browsing
12. Security
And it executes JavaScript up to 2.8 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2.

Some of the  thumbnails of Safari browser  on windows

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There are various options availabe to optimize your hard disks performance.I would be discussing two well known tips.

Defragment Your Drive : Defragmentation is the most well know tip to increase the speed of your secondary memory.Due to repeated Installation and uninstallation of some large applications,Playing High end games,Moving files; your harddisk will be full of non-contigious data. Degragmentation will put the data together in contigious locations for various chunks of individual files scatterred across the disk so that it can be accessed faster and with less mechanical strain which in turn increases the life of hard disk.If you are looking for a specialized application in the defragmentation area try
Aus Logics Defragmenter.

To Start the windows Disk Defragemnter

Start>>Programs>>Accessories>>System Tools>>Disk Defragmenter
Power Saving Options : The lesseer you make your hard disk to work, the longer it lasts with out developing any bad sectors. Hibernate your Pc which will actually swcith off the power to your hard disk and also the system, if you are not using Pc for more than Half-an-Hour.Hibernate retains the current status of your system even though the power to harddisk is cut off. If you are going to be away for just few minutes, then do not use the hibernate option. Switching on-off’s of you hard disk will actually reduce the life of hard disk.When you computer hibernates,it stores whatever it has in memory on your hard disk and then shuts down. When your computer comes out of hibernation, it returns to its previous state.

To Access the Hibernate Option

Go to ControlPanel>> Select the Power Options Icon>> Select the Hibernate Tab and check the Enable Hibernation Check Box.

There are tiny widgets with iphone for information on stock markets and weather forecasts. You can also schedule the widget to automatically display at a certain time and the day of week it should display. The iphone  stock widget lets you track stock market condition for as many companies as you want. And also widgets like scientific calculator, Units Convertor are available in Iphone. You can combine multiple widgets  on to a single screen like a dashboard.Even the Most Populous Google Maps is available as a widget in Iphone. Eric Schimdt Google CEO joined Apple’s board few months ago and this is the first product to come out of the relationship between apple and google.once you enter a search criteria in the google maps widget, it directly takes you to detail map pointing with a red marker. If you enter “NewYork” it shows you the map of Newyork and exact location of the Place.Google Maps is an Best Implemented widget on Iphone.