My Cell Phone is Slow - android

Sunday, July 17, 2011 Posted by Aman Jain

If you have been using your phone for a while , you might notice that tapping an icon or pressing a button doesn't work as well as it used to.

You might tap the browser picture and have to wait a full minute for the browser to open. Or you might press the home button while browsing the Internet and have to wait for what seems forever to return to the home screen.

The most common reason is that program on your phone is not releasing the resources properly. Your phone has a limited amount of memory.

Every time you use a program like Gmail , the program occupies some space in memory and uses them to do things such as display text on the screen. Usually when you close a program it releases all the memory back into the pool.

However sometimes the program holds on to the memory. and if you have too many programs holding up the memory the memory pool will eventually become empty and if that happens no new program would be able to grab enough memory to run well.

The solution to this problem is reboot your phone.

If rebooting does not able to solve your problem , a recently installed program is causing your phone to run slowly. start with the last application you installed and uninstall it.

After you uninstall one application , reboot your phone and see if the phone performs faster.

If not uninstall the next most recently installed application, reboot and try again. If after uninstalling a handful of applications , your phone is still not performing well you need to completely reset the phone.
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How to Upload Files to Multiple Hosts

If you have a file that you need to share with others, or if you would like to create an online backup of a file, you can accomplish both of these things at once by uploading the file to multiple hosts. Uploading to multiple hosts gives those that you want to share the file with options on where to download the file, and also provides a more secure online backup. If you want to upload your files to multiple hosts, several services are available that allow you to upload the files simultaneously.


  1. Use the Gazup! Uploading service. To upload on Gazup!, click the "Choose File" button on the main page, and remove the checkmarks by any of the hosts that you do not want to upload the file onto, or leave all of the hosts checked to upload to Rapid Share, FileFactory, Badongo and other hosts. Then, click the "upload file!" button. The file uploads to all of the selected hosts and a download link appears on the page that you can send to other people to download the file.

  2. Check out the UploadBud site. Click the "Choose File" button to upload the file. Check the sites where you want the file to upload, such as MegaUpload and Easy-Share, enter your email address and click "Start File Upload." A download link is provided on the page and sent to you by email.

  3. Upload with the QOOY uploading system. Click the "Browse" button to add the file that you want to upload. Click the "Enter Email" link if you would like to receive a copy of the link by email, and choose any six of the upload sites listed. Once you have your six sites selected and click the "Upload" button, the files are uploaded to the selected sites and you are provided a download link.

  4. Go to the UploadJockey website. Like the other sites, UploadJockey has a simple, one-screen uploading system. Click "Choose File," select the file that you want to upload to multiple hosts, enter a description for your uploaded file, uncheck any of the hosts that you don't want to upload your file to and click "Upload" to upload the file to the selected sites.


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3 Ways to Upload Videos to Multiple Video WebSites

Uploading videos is in vogue. Most of us uploading to different Video Sharing sites like Youtube, Metacafe, Revver etc. While some upload videos of celebrities, others upload their mobile videos and much more. However, uploading videos takes lot of time.


In case your planning to upload same video to number of Video Sharing Sites, this really becomes time consuming proposition. How about uploading video to Multiple video sites in a single Shot? Well this is possible and can be done for FREE with great ease. Check out…

1. TubeMogul -TubeMogul is a free service that provides a single point for deploying uploads to the top video sharing sites in a single shot. It also provide powerful viewership-related analytics for those that publish or monitor online video as well as for organizations that advertise within online video. Very clean interface and surely a worth try.

2. Vidmetrix -It automatically uploads your videos to YouTube, Myspace, Metacafe, Google, Yahoo, Revver, and Veoh. You can track videos views, comments, blog links, and more. You can get detailed information on their viewership in reports easily accessible via Web, RSS, or email. Uploading and basic usage is FREE. Very advanced features are paid.

3. VidMirror -It helps you to easily upload your videos to multiple video hosting services such as Youtube and Google Video. After upload it provides you code to include on your site that will let your visitors choose from among the video copies. You can use this application in two ways:

* VidMirror Sidebar for Firefox and Opera.
* VidMirror Standalone in a framed page.

Above would surely make your Techno Life easy, in case you love to play with videos… lots of videos!
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How to turn on Remote Desktop in Windows Vista



In Vista , the Remote Desktop connection feature is disabled by default .If you need to access your PC from another system or vice versa , you can easily enable this feature .

To do so :

1) Right Click the "My Computer" desktop icon and click "Properties"

2) On the left pane , click the remote settings link.

3) Select "Allow Assistance connections to this computer".

4) To allow connections from any windows version , click the "Allow connections from computers running any version of Remote desktop" radio button.

5) Once done , click "Ok".
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How to bookmark with del.icio.us

The basic way to add a bookmark to del.icio.us is use the post link at http://del.icio.us/post. But that's also the least efficient way.

For faster bookmarking, go to the del.icio.us browser buttons area at
http://del.icio.us/help/buttons and drag and drop a quick post link to your browser toolbar. Then when you browse to a page you want to save, just click the button to add your bookmark.
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how to clean your cd or dvd?-Full Post

1.Follow the manufacturer's instructions for using a cleaner. In any case, put the
cleaner on your cloth first, not on the CD itself

2. Hold the disc by its edges and center hole.

3. Use an anti-static cloth to wipe across the CD with your other hand

4.Work from inside to outside in straight lines, not circles.

5. Wipe until the CD is clean and dry.

Warnings

These are the important warnings to be cautious of.

1. DO NOT use household washing materials such as windex.

2. DO NOT wipe in circles.

3. DO NOT spray cleaning fluid directly on the CD.


Wiping
This is the more common method to cleaning a CD. First, the materials you will need:

anti static cloth (if possible)
CD cleaner (optional)
water

If it's not possible to get an anti static cloth a fine cloth or very fine tissue will do.

The method starts with putting your liquid of choice (cleaning fluid or water) on your cloth.IMPORTANT!!!DO NOT SPRAY LIQUID ON THE CD!!!

Next, you will need to wipe the CD in an outward pattern. NOT IN CIRCLES. Wipe from in to out until the CD is dry and clean.

Hopefully this instructable will help you clean your damaged CDs.

Toothpaste method
This method is done by gently rubbing a layer of toothpaste over the disk. Then, you are to wait 5 minutes. After the time has passed, gently wipe off the toothpaste under running water.

Even after cleaning, a disc may fail to play properly because of scratches.
Some companies manufacture products which are designed to resurface discs, smoothing out
scratches so that they will play again. Depending on how severe the damage is, these products
can be quite effective, but it is a good idea to back up the data as soon as you have repaired the
disc, in case it fails again.
 
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How to Shrink your Drive's Partition

Sunday, October 12, 2008 Posted by Aman Jain

New computers usually come with a single partition (mostly the ’C’ drive). But at time you need to mange your important data in other partitions too.

This involves backing up existing data, repartitioning the drive and reinstalling the entire operating system. What if you need to install an additional operating system (such as Linux or anther version of Windows) on your computer? You would need anther partition, right?

Usually, to partition the hard drive with reformatting it, you need to use special disk partitioning
Tools such as Partition Magic or Partition Manager. If
You’re a Windows Vista user, This can done effortlessly.This option is only available in Windows Vista.

Make sure that the partitioning process is not interrupted in any way (power failures or accidental resets), as that would cause permanent damage to your data. Also, if possible, experiment with the process on a spare drive before you attempt it on the main drive


Step 1:Computer Management


To begin the resizing process, write-click on ‘My Computer’

And click ‘Mange’ A computer management window opens

Up. To the left of the window expand the ‘Storage’ section and select ‘Disk Management’. This is displays all the drives and volumes available on your computer

Step 2:Select your drive

Select the drive to be resized, write-click on it and select ‘Shrink Volume’ from the context menu. This will display information on the total disk space and shrinkable amount of space available on the drive.

Step 3: Shrink the volume

Now, select the capacity you need to shrink by and add the remaining free space another volume. Note that the available shrink space will always be lower than the amount of exiting data on the disk. Therefore you can resize the volume depending on the amount of free space. Select the amount of space that needs to be shrunk, and then click ‘Shrink’.

In some cases, the amount of shrinkable space is limited as windows Vista needs a minimum amount of space to perform.


Step 4:New Volume

Shrinking the volume might take a while, as this depends on the amount of data and the size of the partitions the exist.

After the process is complete, a new partition created on the drive. Now, crate anew volume and format it or use it for Linux.

The procedure can be reversed by extending the volume to, if you want to merge the to partitions again. But before you begin, remember to play it safe; make sure that you back up all your important data to an external drive and try this workshop at your own risk!.

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Play non playable audio and video files

Sunday, October 12, 2008 Posted by Aman Jain

Digital data (such as audio and video) needs to be compressed (encoded) before transmission and

decompressed (decoded) before playback . The encoding

and decoding is done by a program called a ’Codec’. Each

media file format requires a codec .VLC media player

supports many codecs and hence it can play almost any media file .If you use another media player than it would

be a good idea to download and install the K-Lite Codec pack, which is a library of most codecs.

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Internet radio

Sunday, October 12, 2008 Posted by Aman Jain

There are tons on internet radio music stations, with many

specializing in genres of music like Jazz, Country, 80’s and

So on, don’t know where to start ? try a free music recommendation service; it helps you find tunes and artists

Similar to what you specify or listen to. You can stream

Customized radio stations based or your musical tastes.

Popular services to try are Last.fm , Yahoo launchcast

Radio, Mercora, Audiri, Upto11.net, Liveplasma and

Musicstrans. Sadly, the popular Pandora service is no longer

available to listeners Outside the US. The trend is to tune in to these services on smart phones(via the internet).

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How to Back up your DVDs?

Sunday, October 12, 2008 Posted by Aman Jain

The Process of creating copies of your DVD movies is

Called “ripping”, and is of questionable legality due

To concerns about piracy. Ripping DVDs in two-step

Process. First use the program DVD Decrypter

(www.mrbass.org/dvdrip) to dump and uncompressed

copy of the disk to your hard drive, selecting the

chapters, subtitles and language tracks you want. Then,

use AutoGk (www.autogk.me.uk) to compress this into

a small, high-quality DivX fie. You’ll need to follow

the instruction on the website experiment a little bit with the quality/compression setting to find the right balance the. Compression process will take a few hours.

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How to convert movies for your iPhone

I'm not sure how you people can watch movies and TV shows on those little screens, but you sure are doing it! Every time I turn around on the bus or in the airport, somebody is watching video on her iPod. (If she's supercool, she's watching it on her new iPhone.)

Apple iPhone
It's easy to buy videos designed to view on those little screens, of course, but if you want to get your own DVDs and Web movies onto your iPod or iPhone, you'll have to dive into the wide world of video converters. The first thing you should know is that most commercial DVDs are copyright-protected and to break that copyright protection is a legal violation in many countries, including the U.S. The second thing to know is that iTunes itself is a decent converting tool. Simply select a file from your video list, right-click it, and choose "Convert Selection for iPod" to create an MP4 movie. If you're dealing with Web video or DVDs, however, you'll likely need another conversion tool. Also, in my experience, iTunes conversion is mighty slow.

Plato DVD to iPod Converter
The iPhone and most video iPods support two basic video formats: MPEG-4 (.mp4 and .m4v) and MOV (QuickTime). The truth is that converting video files is all a matter of managing free codecs, and many programs will accomplish the same goal, but I've found a few interfaces and functionalities that I like. The most user-friendly tool I've found for ripping a DVD into an MP4 file for the iPod or iPhone is the free Plato DVD to iPod Converter. Simply hit Open, select your DVD location, and hit OK. You'll have an iPod-ready video before you know it.

CinemaForgeLite

An excellent bare-bones option for converting video formats is the slightly confusing Kate's Video Converter. It includes everything you need to transform video into MP4 or MOV files, but you may have to experiment a bit to find the codec you need. One of the more interesting video converters I've seen recently is CinemaForgeLite, a tool for grabbing Web movies from sites like YouTube and transforming them into iPod-ready video files. A simple wizard walks you through the process, or an advanced interface lets you customize settings like frame size and bit rate. It seems to work best on YouTube and major video-sharing sites
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How to maintain your Printer?


Inkjet and laser printers may be relatively trouble-free compared to their forerunners, but they are still complex collections of precision components and moving parts. Fortunately, it only takes a little care and know-how to keep them humming along. Here, we'll explore some ways to prevent printer problems and cure them when they crop up.


Prevention.

The best problem is the one that never occurs. Many printer problems are avoided with a little common sense, such as regular cleaning and choosing quality printer paper.


Cleaning.

It's easier to keep your printer clean than to try and remove accumulated gunk when it becomes a problem. The easiest way to keep a printer clean is to drop a dust cover or towel over it when it's not in use (don't cover it while it's running or it can overheat.) In addition, keep beverages, cigarette smoke, and messy kids and pets away from the machine. To clean your printer, all you should need is a clean, lint-free cloth and maybe a tiny vacuum cleaner.


Always make sure the printer is off, unplugged, and cool before you work on it. Carefully wipe down the outside and then the inside of the printer. Avoid any sensitive parts the manual or warning labels point out, but don't neglect the cooling fan and its grill.


Input.

Keep your printer's paper dry and clean by storing it in its original packaging. Only buy high-quality paper
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How to find colossal Files on your hard drive?

Tuesday, August 21, 2007 Posted by Aman Jain

WINDIRSTAT is a nifty tool that creates a graphical depiction of the contents of your hard drive .Its ideal for finding big files .Windirstat (availablew free at http://pcworld.in/downloads/index.jsp/dsecid=1494/dsubSecid=1503)scans your drive and produces a treemap showing each file as a colored rectangle proportional to the file size .
IN THE SCREEN capture at http://blogs.pcworld.com/tipsandtweaks/archives/windirstat.jpg, the big purple rectangle on the left filled with small rectangles is a slew of MP3 files .The green blob on the right signifies images .Click on a file name in the left panel to see where that file is on the color grid below.To jump to a file .select a large block on the color grid for it .Toolbar buttons let you zoom in a cluster ,copy a path ,open the file and more.
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How to Create Keyboard shortcuts

Tuesday, June 12, 2007 Posted by Aman Jain

You can automate just about any point and click operation you perform with the mouse .Here’s a variety of ways to make Keyboard shortcuts.

Windows lets you assign a keyboard command to any shortcut icon,.Just right click the icon in question ,click Properties ,and click in the ‘shortcut’ key field.Press the keyboard combo you want to assign to launch the shortcut;It must include one standard character plus two or three of , ,or .

To make more robust arrangements try the appropriately named freeware app keyboard Shortcuts(http://www.soft45.com/details%20/Keyboard-Shortcuts-09912.htm) .With such shortcuts you can launch any file ,perform system commands (such as logging off and shutting out),or open any URL in a browser.One shortcut can even perform several of these actions,simultaneously or in sequence .

For even more complex shortcuts ,get a macro recorder that can capture detailed steps and repeat them on command.The workspace Macro Program (www.tethyssolutions.com/product.htm) can capture anything you type ,as well as mouse movements and clicks.

Just click New to record a macro ,and click Stop after you have done all your typing and mousing .If you want to assign keyboard shortcuts to your macros,you will need a separate program .
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