Category Archives: Tweaks
PC Tweaks Web
February 14, 2012 – 11:34 am
Encrypting your E-Mails is a very simple and easy task. This tutorial will show how you can encrypt your E-Mails by following just a few steps. We will be using “Thunder Bird” which is a free E-Mail application that’s easy to set up and customize – and it’s loaded with great features! Apart from that we will also look over “Enigmail” which is one of the Thunderbird extensions that helps you to secure emails. It enables you to write and receive E-Mail messages signed and/or encrypted with the OpenPGP standard. Sending and receiving encrypted and digitally signed E-Mail is simple using Enigmail. “Pretty Good Privacy” (PGP) is a data encryption and decryption computer program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication signing, encrypting and decrypting texts, E-mails, files, directories and whole disk partitions.
Prior jumping to encrypting E-Mails you must know the terminologies as “PUBLIC KEY”, “PRIVATE KEY” and “DIGITAL CERTIFICATES”. Public key is the key to lock or encrypt the plain text, and where as private key is to unlock or decrypt the cipher text. Public key is published over servers or send to intended person via E-Mail via private key is kept secret. Neither key will do both functions. A digital signature is basically a way to ensure that an e-mail is authentic and it has not been altered in any way since that person created it.
You can even learn how to encrypt your E-Mails by following a few simple steps mentioned below:
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Basics PC Tweaks
February 13, 2012 – 3:08 pm
People always wonder how another person’s computer can be used as a second monitor for their own computer. Well it’s not difficult in this advanced technological era. Many software and applications are available in the markets that allow you to use personal computer as a monitor for other computer. Here in this tutorial we use an application named “Maxi-Vista”. With the help of this application, you can view other computers desktop and use it like a second monitor attached with this computer. It is also free to download and easy to use.
Follow these easy steps to learn how to use another computer as a second monitor.
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PC Tweaks Web
February 13, 2012 – 2:58 pm
Sharing and syncing files has now become very easy. This tutorial will show you how to sync your files from different locations. We would be using “Dropbox” which is a free application. There are many things Dropbox can do for you. It has a very easy User Interface which helps you to share, manage, backup and sync all your documents online. You can use Dropbox on Android, IPhone and many other smart phones as well. You can access your required files from any place with an initial storage capacity of 2 GB.
You can learn how to sync your life with Dropbox by following these few simple steps below:
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Basics PC Tweaks Video
February 9, 2012 – 8:06 am
Nowadays moving wallpaper backgrounds are among the most popular searches. With constant upgrades and technological advancements, you can now set up moving images and even videos for your background instead of static pictures for desktop wallpapers. You can easily find tons of moving desktop backgrounds on the internet. Animations, GIF images and even flash content can now be used as desktop wallpapers. Furthermore, many video players now give the option of making the video, that is currently being played, to become your desktop wallpaper. Video wallpapers allow you to give your desktop a dynamic look.
Here in this tutorial we will be using the VLC media player to set videos as desktop wallpapers. Follow these simple steps to learn how to install video wallpaper on desktop.
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Office Tweaks
February 9, 2012 – 8:01 am
Microsoft PowerPoint is one of the most popular office applications which help you to make attention grabbing presentations. By using PowerPoint we can create rich presentations within minutes. PowerPoint slides are capable of using still and animated images, sounds, videos, background music and many other exciting things to make your presentation lively. There are many beautiful sounds available within the PowerPoint application which can help to convey your message. If you wish to add your custom sounds to a presentation, then you can easily find thousands of background music tunes online. There are various websites which are offering free sounds and background music for PowerPoint presentations. Here in tutorial we guide you to add a custom background music file for your slides. For this purpose we choose to use a website called Brainy Betty which has many wonderful sound files available online for free.
Follow the steps given below to learn how to get free background music for PowerPoint.
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Mac Tweaks
February 9, 2012 – 7:48 am
Through iTunes you can directly access the Apple store and purchase music. iTune’s Genius is one of the features which allows you to search music online. It recommends you music by keeping track of your playlist and allowing you to download according to your choice. First you have to select a song from the music library and then “Genius” will automatically search online and display recommendations related to your choice This feature makes iTunes one of the best applications for finding music. All you have to do is to create an apple iTunes account and enjoy the many features this application has to offer.
In this tutorial we guide you on how to get better genius recommendations in iTunes.
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Basics PC Tweaks
December 31, 2011 – 11:11 am
Google’s instant messenger, known as Google Talk, has now become a part of gmail. The application has a user friendly GUI (or Graphic User Interface) and is very easy to set up and use. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to use Google Talk by following the steps mentioned below.
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Basics PC Tweaks
December 31, 2011 – 11:01 am
Your hard drive needs to be arranged properly in order for the computer to process the data efficiently. This problem usually occurs when we frequently install and uninstall softwares and application. Until and unless the application isn’t removed completely, it utilizes hard drive space, to some extent, for no reason. This can slow down the processing speed of your computer.
However this problem has a very simple solution available now in the form of disk defraggler. This is a small application which logically rearranges data stored in your hard drive. In this way, the most frequently used data is quickly accessible and hence it makes your computer system work faster. Currently there are many free defraggler applications available for use. There are many websites where you can download defraggler easily and free of charge. Here we will be visiting the website “File Hippo” to download the application.
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Basics PC Tweaks
December 31, 2011 – 10:57 am
With random applications and add-ons installed on your computer, the performance of your computer slows down. Many diskcleaner applications are now available which help to speed up your computer system by removing unwanted applications and softwares from your hard drive. They clean your computer system, uninstall random applications, clean all the unwanted startup bulk and even repair registry paths for different useful applications and allow them to run error free. Here in this tutorial we use “CC Cleaner” which is a powerful freeware cleaning software, available for free online.
Follow these simple steps to learn how to use CC Cleaner and make your computer system work better.
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Basics PC Tweaks
December 31, 2011 – 10:50 am
Windows 7 has come up with an easy solution to download and update drivers with the help of a built in search engine that finds the required driver and updates the windows drivers automatically.
In previous versions of windows, usually when a new device was attached to a computer, it required installation of the driver otherwise it didn’t work. Most of the hardware accessories came with driver CD’s and installation guides. If the drivers got uninstalled or corrupt, due to some reason, then you would have to manually find, download and install the required driver manually.
In windows 7 it’s very easy to download drivers since everything is done automatically now. The operating system searches the required update automatically and downloads the driver. Due to this reason you just can plug in the device and it will start functioning properly with little manual intervention.
This tutorial shows how to update drivers for your PC. Just follow the step by step procedure mentioned below.
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