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Turn Off your LCD with just a click

1 December 2009

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There may be times when you just want to listen to some music on your laptop and want to turn off the LCD to save battery life. But, sadly, not all laptops have a button to turn of LCD, and when you close the lid, your laptop simply goes to sleep mode. So you end [...]

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Create Virtual Hard Disks [Windows 7]

24 November 2009

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Have you ever wished you had an extra Disk Drive to set aside your documents, files, etc.? This is one of the new features of Windows 7, that helps you create Virtual Disk Drives, similar to your Hard Disk drives. If you are not a Windows 7 user, you can always use TrueCrypt, a freeware [...]

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Force Shutdown or Restart from Command Line

17 June 2009

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If you’ve been using the power button to force shutdown your PC, try this Command Line trick to Force Shutdown and to Force Restart your PC. This Command Line trick allows you to specify normal Shutdown/Restart or if you want to Force Shutdown/Restart and also allows you to specify the time to wait before Force [...]

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Multiple Instances of Yahoo! Messenger

28 May 2009

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Basically, Yahoo! Messenger doesn’t offer multiple instances. Use this tiny registry hack to use multiple instances. This works for all versions up to 9.0. We’ll be using Registry Editor and a DWORD value to override it’s default single instance.

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Multiple Instances of Google Talk

28 May 2009

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Many of you should be knowing this. This trick (based on a parameter) helps you open multiple instances of your GTalk (Client/Software version) which basically is limited to a single instance. To override this, you will have to run Google Talk’s executable file (exe) with a parameter. You can do this in many ways – [...]

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Create PDFs easily with doPDF

25 April 2009

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Creating PDFs are now as easy as saving a file or taking a print out! Yes, doPDF makes it possible! doPDF is a tiny 1.5 MB application that allows you to create PDFs virtually from any application, from a simple notepad document to a professional Photoshop Image! You’ll just have to make sure the application [...]

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