Laptop Power Management

People always had a confusion between whether to buy a laptop or a desktop?... Now this confusion has taken some different form and choices are between a laptop or a tablet? addition to this competition is a large screen smart phone.

In fact, the reality is you can not replace the use of any of the device with one another. I always have one advice and that is buy as per your usage preference. One of my friend is a professional writer who travels places and writes, for him we bought a netbook which is easy to carry and performs as per his requirement. In a nutshell, if you just want to browse internet TAB would also suffice your requirement, if there is some core work you need laptop or netbook.

People prefer using internet with mobile devices which can be carried anywhere such as Laptop/Netbook. The major problem that people face is of power, there are some tips which might help you efficiently manage power and battery life.

• The biggest enemy of any mobile device is the Heat. Hardware designs are improving but still a lot of things are assembled in such a small space, thus heat generation is unavoidable. Use of good quality cooling pad helps to reduce heat.  

• Never use Laptops on spongy surface, it creates a problem in heat ventilation. Use it on hard flat surface. Heat impacts motherboard, hard drive. 
• Any kind of battery looses life with charge and discharge. Using a laptop on continuous power supply is also not advisable. Use power supply only for charging the battery, after full charge remove power supply. If you want to use laptop at a desk only. Remove the battery and use it on External power only.
• Use Sleep and Hibernate modes to save battery while not using. 
• Always set your power plans in control panel according to use, Helps battery to last longer.

Amplify Your Productivity on Windows Using Mouse Gestures

While working on Windows there are several ways by which you can increase your productivity, like using keyboard shortcuts, having dual monitor setup for more screen real estate or using autohotkey scripts to automate the repetitive tasks. Using mouse gestures is yet another way by which you can increase your productivity, though may not be as fast as keyboard shortcuts.

Mouse gestures has been around here for quite some time now, however Windows still doesn’t support mouse gestures out of the box like Mac OS X Lion coupled with Apple’s trackpad or mighty mouse to quickly perform gestures. But that doesn’t mean you cannot have mouse gestures on Windows. Thanks to StrokesPlus free desktop app, not only you can have predefined gestures but also create your own new gestures and quickly automate and perform different actions.

StrokesPlus is a mouse gesture recognition program that allows you to automate repetitive tasks by simply drawing a gesture with your mouse or performing mouse and/or keyboard modifiers to fire off an action sequence. StrokesPlus not only supports your traditional three button mouse but also keyboard keys such as control, alt key.

After you download and install StrokesPlus, you can access different options from StrokesPlus system tray icon. Right click on StrokesPlus icon and quickly enable/ disable features or open preferences menu to access advance and experimental options.

Using training mode you can train StrokesPlus to recognize your gestures, it is also helpful when you want to add your own gestures and want to test it how it’s working. While adding new gestures action you can either use existing set of gestures or create new gesture by drawing pattern on small window provided by StrokesPlus.

There may be circumstances like playing games where there is high probability that you might accidentally hit mouse gestures, in order to prevent that from happening; you can add those applications to Ignored Windows list, there by disabling mouse gestures specific to those applications.

For nerds and geeks, StrokesPlus uses Lua scripts and if you have programming skills then you may create your own custom & complex scripts to take Mouse gestures to next level.

Download StrokesPlus for Windows 32-bit.

Download StrokesPlus for Windows 64-bit.

Lock your Machine in just a Single click...

Steps to lock your Computer system in just a single Mouse click...

1. Right click an empty spot on the desktop, point to New and click Shortcut.

2. In the Create Shortcut dialog box, type the following in the 'Type the location' of the item text box:

"rundll32 user32.dll,LockWorkStation" remove quotes while typing.

3. Click Next.

4. In "Type a name for this shortcut", type "" (any name as u wish) and Click Finish

5. Create a shortcut in your shortcut bar & use it.