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Simple steps to increase battery life

By Shamly, on September 24th, 2010

Laptop battery life has come a long way. Here are a few simple ways to preserve power and increase the lifetime of your battery.

  • Initial charging

A new laptop battery will have enough power for you to turn on a laptop and check for defects. Once that’s done, switch off the machine and charge the battery overnight, at least for 8 hours. Though this is not a pre-requisite now days as most will fully charge in less than half that time, the initial overcharge will ensure that the cell is totally topped up. Do this only for the first time.
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Problem with Add/Remove Program (Package Manager) – CentOS

By Shamly, on September 18th, 2010

Have you come across the following error when trying to open the Package Manager on CentOS “Another application is currently running which is accessing software information” whilst all other programs work flawlessly? Recently I came across this problem and had to spend some time searching for a possible solution and below are my findings.


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Google Chrome 6 released

By Shamly, on September 8th, 2010

Google has managed to churn out many major releases of the Chrome browser during the last couple of years and now they have released the first stable build for Chrome 6. The new version has a more simplified user interface: there’s a single menu, the “go” button has been removed and the Reload and Stop buttons have been combined into one, the browser no longer shows “http://” in the address bar, the bookmark button has been moved to the right and the toolbar has a new color scheme.

Google Chrome 6 New Inteface

Google Chrome 6

Further more Chrome 6 adds support for form auto-fill and support for WebM videos. You can now synchronize auto-fill data, extensions and all their settings. Extension sync is probably the coolest new feature to be introduced, because you can take your extensions with you no matter what computer your are using. “WebM is an open, royalty-free, media file format designed for the web” which is already supported by software like Opera, VLC, Winamp and by YouTube.

The Stable and Beta channels of Google Chrome 6 have been updated to 6.0.472.55 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.  This version contains the following fixes:

All

  • [r58038] [r58039] Failures when using auto-complete (issue 51727, 52940)
  • [r58106] Default search engine settings wiped out (issue 10913)
  • Shift reload not working (issue 1906)

Windows

  • [r58190] Importing data from other browsers when chrome is set as default  (bug 53655)
  • [r58288] Chrome can’t be made default browser when it already exists (bug 53656)

You can download the latest offline release here

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How safe is facebook ?

By Shamly, on August 30th, 2010

Facebook (FB) has come a long way since it was launched in 2004 by Mark Zukerberg. It is one of the most popular social networking sites around, boasting more than 500 million active users and increasing daily.

Its growth has been met with a lot of criticism on a range of issues, especially the privacy of users, child safety, data mining etc. A large number of tech blogs have emerged recently, criticizing the recent changes made to the privacy policy. Some blogs have urged people to remove or delete their FB accounts altogether.
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