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Mobile computing has got better with lighter components, better chips and faster processors. But the Achilles heel of a laptop has remained its battery. So here are we are going to look at ways to increase laptop battery life. Modern graphic intensive operating systems and resource hungry applications are cutting down the life of your laptop’s battery every day. The average battery life per continuous use still stands at a maximum of  three to four hours . So, a fast depleting battery could very swiftly put the crutches on your ‘mobile’ road trip. Falling just short of carrying an extra pack of batteries in the back-pack, are several ways to keep the juice flowing through the batteries. 1.  Ship shape with a defrag Regular defragmentation helps to arrange data more efficiently thus making the hard drive work less to access the data. The quicker the moving hard drive works lesser is the load placed on the battery. Thus, your batter can last longer. The effect is minimal, but t...

Blogs can be killed off by one inappropriate comment or a thousand. Death by one cut or a thousand is still death. Many blog owners are killing off their blogs by simply making it too hard for legitimate blog commenter's to actually leave a decent comment. Every blog owner is more than aware of the spam that still manages occasionally to sneak through that wonderful little plugin called Akismet. That is why it is important to always have your comment section of your blog set to all comments being moderated. Yes, it is a bit more work but it is worth the effort. It is so frustrating for a person who has read your blog and found it interesting and wants to make a comment to what you have written only to find they have to jump through a heap of hoops to do so. Sometimes these comments can add such great additional information or updates to your article that to deny them easy access to say their bit or to add the more recent information is stifling. The whole point of blogging (in acc...

How to add new programs onto your iPhone We show you how you can install new third-party games, utilities and applications to your iPhone Warning:   Recent Apple Software updates may 'brick' your iPhone if you carry jailbreak it or unlock the handset from Apple's preferred network provider. The Apple iPhone was designed to be a closed system with Apple preventing any third-party applications, games or utilities being added to it. However because the operating system is based on Unix industrious programmers have already found various methods of bypassing Apple's 'barriers' and allowing people to add new software to their iPhones. At first this meant a lot of rather scary programming processes with names like 'jailbreak' which were enough to have the typical iPhone user running for the hills while cradling their iPod protectively. But in recent weeks many of these indimidating command line routines have matured into simple, easy-to-install programs that s...

In this article we would demystify the myth of computer security. We would discuss the threats that the computer user of present ear faces and how these threats have evolved with time. We would discuss the precautionary measures that could be taken to ensure the protection and safety of your computer whether it is your home desktop, personal laptop computer or your office pc. We would also discuss the efficiency of traditional antivirus protection and other advance protection methods. In the end we would suggest some measures that could be taken to solve this problem. Computer security is a division of computer technology that is concerned with the protection and safety of computer, its digital components including its operating system, software and data. This term is also referred to as branch of computer that deals with security of digital information. During the years following the inception of computers, computer security was not a major problem. The computer of that era, the firs...

In this article we would try to enlighten you about network security. We would discuss what network security is, what the threats that you face on the network are, or your network faces and what measures could be taken to make networks secure, hence guaranteeing protection of data and information. Network means a collection of two or more computers which are connected together via some medium it can be air (wireless) or cable. Network security is a branch of networking that is encompasses strategies, policies and standard operating procedures that make the network secure from various threats like unauthorized access or misuse. These policies are generally adopted and implemented by the network administrator. A decade ago network security was considered to be a very complex domain and few highly skilled people were technically equipped for this area, but as the networks expanded and more and more organizations and companies became connected the demand for network security increased. Wh...

In this article we would discuss the importance of Antivirus software, we would judge the performance and different antivirus software available in market and would try to figure out which one is the best for protecting your precious data and information. Today internet is no more a safer place, every time you turn on your computer or go online, you make yourself vulnerable to multiple threats that can damage your data or steal your confidential information. Programs such as viruses, Trojans, rootkits, spywares and keylogger attempt to steal your personal information and harm you data and computer. So you need constant protection against these threats. Antivirus software provide you this critical protection against these threats. An antivirus software often comes with a host of other programs that are designed to protect you and your machine from these threats. Today numerous antivirus softwares are available in market, some are free and others charge a specific amount to guarantee yo...