In this Windows 8 Infographic tells about windows 8 release date, The best Windows 8 10+ new features, Windows 8 usage on Laptop, Desktop and Tablets, and other windows 8 news and specification .
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
New Windows 8 Features [INFOGRAPHIC]
In this Windows 8 Infographic tells about windows 8 release date, The best Windows 8 10+ new features, Windows 8 usage on Laptop, Desktop and Tablets, and other windows 8 news and specification .
Top 10 Windows 8 Tips and Tricks
Windows 8 is the most advanced operating system by Microsoft windows. The new version of windows 8 operating system contains bunch of new features. In windows 8 you can see many features like Tiles based interface or metro user interface, built-in screenshot , New task bar, Improved search option and you can download free and paid apps on Windows Store.
Windows 8 Tips and Tricks
#1. Pin any items to start menu?
How to Pin items to start menu?
- Select any files or item and right click on it.
- then, Choose Pin to Start.
#2. Name Group of Tiles
Above I have described about how to pin posts, After adding items to your windows 8 start menu now time to give proper name to your items/apps.
How to name a Group of Tiles on Windows 8 Start Menu?
Open your Metro UI and click on - (dash) button (Right side bottom corner on metro ui), it will zoom out. Now you can name tiles by simply pressing right click button on items, You will get a bar on bottom click on the Name Group, Now you will get dialog box and enter your desired name.
Open your Metro UI and click on - (dash) button (Right side bottom corner on metro ui), it will zoom out. Now you can name tiles by simply pressing right click button on items, You will get a bar on bottom click on the Name Group, Now you will get dialog box and enter your desired name.
#3. Trick to get old windows start button
In Windows 8 you can miss old start button, The new windows 8 has Metro UI its freaking awesome but most of the windows 8 users don't like this tiles based interface. You can get old start button by using third party apps/software.
How to get old windows start button?
There are many third party apps are available to enable old start button on windows 8, But Start8 is best software to enable old start button. You can download it from here.
In older version of windows to take a screenshot you need to press print screen button and then you should paste it on paint or other image utility app. But in windows 8 you can take screenshot quickly by pressing Win+Print Screen. Screenshot will be saved in Libraries > Pictures > Screnshots.
#4. Take Screenshots Quickly
#5. Hide files/Folders in Windows 8
How to Hide files/folders in Windows 8?
- Choose any file or folder that you wanted to hide.
- Now click on View and again click on Hide selected items. Now you're files will be hidden. To check hidden files click on View, then tick a mark on Hidden items.
#6. Check if your Windows 8 Pc is activated permanently?
This is a very small trick to check if your Windows Pc is activated or not, this trick is also works in Windows 7 and Windows Xp.
- Go to start menu and type cmd and hit enter or press Win+R button and then type cmd.
- After opening command prompt type following command.
slmgr/xpr
- After typing above command you will get a dialog box withing 5 seconds, saying "The machine is permanently activated".
#7. Change number of rows in Windows 8 Start menu
In normal Windows 8 Pc's you can have upto 4-5 rows in your Metro UI. In this following tutorial i'm changing 5 rows to 3.
- Open Registry Editor ( Press Win+R button, then type regedit command)
- Now, Navigate to following Location/Path.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Immersiveshell\Grid
- Create Layout_MaximumRowCount Value File or key.
- Click on Edit > DWORD (32-bit) Value. A DWORD value file will be create on right side of the Registery Editor.
- Rename it to Layout_MaximumRowCount.
- Now double Click on Layout_MaximumRowCount. Change the Value data to 3 (If you give 3 it will change your Metro UI row to 3) and select Decimal then click OK.
- After following above steps, Restart your Pc or Sign out.
#8. Disable Metro UI Permanently
Some of the Windows 8 users don't like the new Windows 8 Metro User Interface. So here is a trick to disable Metro UI from your Computer.Classic starter is a application, which will disable Windows 8 Metro UI for permanently. Classic starter is very easy to use.
- Classic Starter allows you to disable Metro UI.
- After installing application, Click on Logon to Classic Desktop.
- You can enable Metro UI anytime by removing Classic Starter.
Click here to download Classic starter
#9. How to Delete Windows.old folder
If you're upgraded Windows Xp or Windows 7 to Windows 8, You can see your old program files data in your Windows disk drive named Windows.old contains Gb's of data in this folder.
How to Delete Windows.old folder?
- Right click on the drive and select Properties, where windows 8 is installed (i.e C: Drive)
- Then, Click on Disk Cleanup. (It will take few seconds to load )
- In Disk Cleanup Window, Click on Clean up system files (As shown in the below picture)
- After Completing above steps, Another Disk Cleanup window will appear .
- In this windows, Tick on Previous Windows installation(s) file (check below picture for more).
- Now Click on OK button. That's it You're DONE
#10. Windows 8 Hidden Features
- Windows Reader - To open Pdf and XPS files
- Press Ctrl+Tab button in Metro UI to see all apps
- Create GodMode folder on desktop
Right click on desktop, and click
New > Folder > Rename new folder to GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
How to Merge Profile Picture and Timeline Picture on Facebook
This is very cool and simple trick to make your Facebook profile attractive. There is lot of websites that providing timeline covers but this a cool site to create attractive designs like merging, zooming, jigsaw, editing the bottom of the cover . below is the snapshot of the merging profile pic and timeline cover
How To Merge Profile Picture and Timeline cover on Facebook
- Go to trickedouttimeline website and click on Merge profile & Cover photo.
- trickedouttimeline will ask you to upload a picture [Upload the picture that you want to merge]
- After uploading the picture, select the part of the picture to ur cover picture and click onDONE.
- Then Click on the LIKE button of tricked out timeline or click on Already liked us?
- trickedouttimeline provides your profile picture and cover picture.
Counting numbers
The assignment here is to read a text file containing a list of
numbers. We need to report how many numbers were in the file, the sum of
all the numbers, the average of all numbers, and the minimum and
maximum number.
First step is to read the file and for this we can use the Scanner class to perform this task. We’ll use this great post “Using Scanner to read words from text file” as a starting point.
As we read each number we need to keep track of how many numbers we have read and a running total of the numbers read. Also need to check if each number is a new minimum or maximum.
Once we have read all the numbers from the file we can calculate the average value (we now know the total of all numbers read and how many numbers there were).
Finally we can output the results to the console. And we’re done.
Have a read through the code and try it out for yourself. As always, let us know if you have any questions.
First step is to read the file and for this we can use the Scanner class to perform this task. We’ll use this great post “Using Scanner to read words from text file” as a starting point.
As we read each number we need to keep track of how many numbers we have read and a running total of the numbers read. Also need to check if each number is a new minimum or maximum.
Once we have read all the numbers from the file we can calculate the average value (we now know the total of all numbers read and how many numbers there were).
Finally we can output the results to the console. And we’re done.
Have a read through the code and try it out for yourself. As always, let us know if you have any questions.
package com.learnjava.math;import java.io.File;import java.io.FileNotFoundException;import java.util.Scanner;public class Numbers { public static void main(String[] args) { try { File file = new File("numbers.txt"); Scanner input = new Scanner(file); // Count how many numbers int count = 0; // Count of numbers read // Sum of all numbers int total = 0; // Smallest number int min = Integer.MAX_VALUE; // Largest number int max = Integer.MIN_VALUE; // Loop until no more numbers to be read from file while (input.hasNext()) { // Read next number from file int next = input.nextInt(); // Increnment count count++; // Add number to total total += next; // Update minium min = Math.min(min, next); // Update maximum max = Math.max(max, next); } input.close(); // All numbers have been read // Can now calculate the average // NB. This uses integer arithmetic so result will be rounded int average = total / count; // Finally display results to console System.out.println(count+" numbers"); System.out.println("Sum of numbers "+total); System.out.println("Smallest number "+min); System.out.println("Largest number "+max); System.out.println("Average of all numbers "+average); } catch (FileNotFoundException ex) { // We'll end up here if the file numbers.txt cannot be found System.out.println("Could not find the output file"); } }} |
Sunday, 21 April 2013
Turn Windows 8 laptop into a wireless access point / hotspot
You can use your Windows 8 laptop as a wireless access point. It is very much different from a AD-HOC network. Ad-Hoc supports wireless connection between computers. But this article will show you how to set up your Windows 8 PC to work as a Hotspot and after that you will able to connect any Wi-Fi enabled smartphone and tablet with it. There are plenty of applications available to use your Windows computer as Hotspot but most of them are paid applications. Here, in Windows 8 you can turn this feature on without using any third party software.
1. Press Windows Key + R and type ncpa.cpl, Hit Enter.
2. Right-click on your active wireless network connection and select Properties option.
3. Select Sharing tab and select Allow other network users to connect through this computer’s internet connection. It will allow other wireless devices to connect.
4. If you get following dialog box. Click Yes.
5. Launch Administrative Command Prompt from Quick Access Menu (Windows Key + X).
6. In Command prompt type
netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=”ssid” key=”password”
Press Enter. Replace ssid and password with your desired inputs.Other devices need to have this key to connect to this network.
7. So, Hosted Network mode has been set and SSID and Key has been changed successfully. Now start this hosted network by enter the following command netsh wlan start hostednetwork. That’s it.
You can see your newly created hosted network by entering this command : netsh wlan show hostednetwork
You can see Hosted Network mode is “Allowed” and it is already “Started”. SSID, Authentication and Cipher information are also shown there. Maximum of 100 clients can connect to that network. You can also change this number.
You can stop you Hosted Network anytime by entering netsh wlan stop hostednetwork command
How to speed up Windows 8 PC?
This tutorial will show you how to speed up Windows 8.
Your operating system may take more time at the time of start up because it has too much load of processes at the time of startup, at the time of copying a file your operating system may slow down because of unavailable buffer memory, when you are gaming you may suffer lag because of running of several unwanted application in the background. So, if you want to speed up your system’s performance you have to reduce the number of processes which get launched at the time of startup, clear your temporary memory files and close the unwanted applications running in the background.
These are the basic visible reasons for system slow down, there are many more reasons such as pre-set values of attributes in the Registry, etc.
Methods to speed up Windows 8
Disable unwanted startup programs :
1. Open the task manager, press Window + X buttons and click on Task Manager.
2. Go to startup tab, disable the applications which are unwanted at the time of startup. In my case Bittorrent, Adobe Updater, FixMyRegistry.exe are unwanted so I have disabled them.
3. Click OK.
Clean up buffer memory and unnecessary temporary files :
1. Open the Run window by pressing Window + R buttons, type “%temp%” and press Enter
2. Select all the files and delete them all.
3. Similarly open Run window again, type “temp” and press Enter.
4. Delete all the files.
5. Again open the Run window and type “prefetch” and press Enter.
6. Delete all the files.
7. Now, Open My Computer, right-click on your drive with the operating system (e.g C:\) and click on Properties,
over there you will find an option Disk Cleanup, click it and press OK when a new window appears.
Now, you have successfully cleaned the buffer memory of your system.
Reduce runtime services :
Runtime1. Open Run window by pressing Window + R buttons, type “msconfig” and press enter.
2. Now, go to Services tab, first click on the “Hide all Microsoft Services” and then deselect the services which are of no use to use at runtime and press OK.
Registry tweeks :
1. Open the Run window by pressing Window + R buttons, type “regedit” and press enter.
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse. Double click on MouseHoverTime, in the Edit String window change the value from 50 to 100.
3. Again navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Current Control Set\Control. Double click on WaitToKillServiceTimeout and change the value in the Edit String window to something near 1000 and press Enter.
If you have completed all these steps successfully then your computer is clean and will work smoothly now
Friday, 19 April 2013
Master of Business Laws / PG Diploma Courses (Distance Mode) @ NLSIU, Bangalore
National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore, invites applications from eligible candidates for admission into Master of Business Laws and Post Graduate courses through distance mode starting from the Academic Year 2013.
Programs:
Eligibility: Graduate degree from any recognized university.
How to Apply:
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