Well, as I’ve recently bought new laptop with 500 GB hard disk. So, first thing that came to my mind is managing my important data, which can be done by creating partitions. Partitioning comes with many advantages, like-

• Disk Partitioning can be used to group one type of data together; like music, movies, soft wares, downloads, documents, etc.
• In case of virus attacks, there are less chances of data getting infected if they are in different partition.
• In case of data recovery requirement, the whole C drive is formatted. So, if important data is kept in some other drive, we can safely opt for data recovery. 

Most of laptop nowadays are coming with preinstalled Windows Vista, or Windows XP. So, I found two methods for creating partitions in Windows OS, by two ways. One of these do not require any software installation, and other requires Acronis Disk Director Suite.

Partitioning without any software

Follow these steps to create partitions in Windows OS, without need of any software installations-

• Press Windows Key + R , and write diskmgmt.msc and press Ok
• Disk management window, showing your current partition table will be shown
• Select the disk you want to resize, by right clicking it and selecting Shrink Volume option
• Then specify the size to be shrunken out and press Ok to apply
  
• This will create a raw free disk space of the size specified
• New right click the free raw disk space to create a new partition out of it
• And, you are done with creating new partitions…

Partitioning with Acronis Software

Sometimes, you might get an error that partition can not be shrunk, because of reserved disk space for Windows OS drive. In that case you need to use some software. In my case I’ve used Acronis Disk Director, which is very easy to use software. It creates partitions very easily without any problems.This software package comes with Partition manager, OS selector and Recovery expert. You can get an overview about this product and download it from here.

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  Maxthon is yet another browser which is basically aimed at developers of the Web 2.0 . Although it might not look very attractive at first look, yet it can perform a number of geek tasks that a web guru requires. Maxthon Browser is a powerful tabbed browser built for all users. Besides basic browsing functionality, Maxthon Browser provides a rich set of features to improve your surfing experience.

The main features which attracted me are :

Utilities

You can add shortcuts of your programs in Maxthon, and start them with a single click.

You can even set programs to start and shutdown with Maxthon Browser.

Ad Hunter

Ad Hunter can efficiently clean up the web pages by stopping Popup Windows and removing Ad Content Blocks.

You can add content block to the filter with the "Block Page Content..." command in the Right-click Menu.

Web Sniffer

Web Sniffer can help you find the real URLs of FLV video file on those online video website.

You can also set which file types to sniff in the dialog.

Web Bar

This little toolbar provides a lots of small features that aid your browsing, and can be toggled on and off easily.

URL Key

Open one or more website with only one key. It suits for lazy guys like me :p

You can set up the key and url list in Setup Center.

Screen Capture

Capture Full Screen, Selected Area, Selected Window and Page Content as an image.

You can set copy the image to Clipboard or save it as a file.

Plugins

Add more features into Maxthon Browser with plugins.

You can even make some to share with your friends.

Filter Packs

Remove ads on a specified website or implement a special feature. The whole new Filter Pack system gives you the possibility of modifying web page source code.

Skins

Install Skins to change the look of your Maxthon Browser and make it different, or create one by yourself.

Multi-language

Maxthon Browser has Language Packs in 19 different languages, all made by our community users.

Let Maxthon speaks your own language.

To visit the homepage click here

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 Well, after waiting for 6 days eagerly, today I’ve got my Dell Studio 15.
So, lets start with configuration, which I’ve bought-

• Processor     - Core 2 duo 2.1 GHz
• Hard Disk     -  500 GB
• Disk Drive     -  Blue Ray Drive
• RAM               -  4 GB DDR2
• Graphic Memory – 512 MB dedicated memory ATI Graphics Card
• Integrated Bluetooth, Webcam and Wi-Fi

After analysis of two months I was able to decide to go with Dell Studio Laptop, coz I think that it will give me the best performance at cheapest rates. The first thing I did, when I received Dell Studio 1555 was, to check my laptops rating using Windows Vista Home Premium, and it gave a score of 4.9, and which is great for me, never seen such a score ever before.

I am most excited about running a blue ray disc of 25 GB capacity on my laptop, it would be amazing. Here, I want to give a short review which I find on first look-

• Pros
  Best Performing laptop, I’ve ever seen…
  Slot load disc drive.
  Amazing body finish.
  Power button is amazingly located on lid of laptop. 
  Got all the installation CDs and DVDs, including Windows Vista DVD
  Light in weight, produces less heat
  Comes with HDMI port
• Cons
  Does not have a Remote control and Infrared port.
  Relatively low volume, then expected…
  No hard disk loading/ processing indicator LED

Well this was my first look to my laptop. I’ll be testing it for next few days, and will also post some tips and tricks to improve laptop performance and getting your laptop prevented from theft.

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Thesis template for blogger is very fast loading, elegant and professional blogger template. Its code is so designed that it is very easy to use by a Blogger user. Thesis template for blogger was originally designed by Klodian. I liked this template too much, but the original one was having three columns in it, which gives less effective post area. So, I customized this template to a two column, which gave large post area. You can see the preview of this template below

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Some of the Features of this Template are-

• Clean, Fast Loading, Search Engine Optimized Template
• 2 column template, 610px wide posting area, with 350px wide sidebar
• White Background, Minimalistic Design
• Added Sexy Social bookmarking Icons
• Top Navigation Menu, for easy navigation
• Blogger Default Navigation menu not displayed

I’ve also implemented this template on my personal blog, check it here. If you have any problems in implementing this template, please use the comment form below to know how to solve a problem or you can directly use our contact form here.

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Orkut is India’s most widely used Social Networking site. I also use to log in to my orkut account daily, but I found interface of orkut is lacking some fast navigation links in it. So, I searched for it, “How to speedily navigate to Someone’s Scrapbook”. And I found amazing Greasemonkey script for it…. You can use this script if you have Firefox web browser with Greasemonkey add-on installed in it. Just follow these steps, to get fast profile links, like shown in Image…

• Click here to download Firefox Web Browser
• Click here to install Greasemonkey
• Click here to get Fast Profile Links userscript

Now, after installing above, when you will open Orkut, you will be getting links like [S A M V].

• S stands for Scrapbook
• A stands for Album
• M stands for Message
• V stands for Videos

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We all must be using ATM’s for our day to day transactions. But do we ever thought that how much, its security costs…. I’ve was browsing through internet and found something very interesting, regarding security at ATM. ATMs can be used to steal all your account information including money, its very easy to do an online transaction, with an ATM if one is able to know ATM card no., expiry date and 4 digit PIN code.

University of Texas at Austin (Police Department) has posted one ATM Scam alert, which I would like to share with you…. To read full article visit http://www.utexas.edu/police/alerts/atm_scam/

Check out below, what photos says…

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