How to speed up & boost up your Network and Internet connections

There are several methods of increasing the speed of your connections.

1. Upgrading Internet service will do a lot to speed up your connections.
2. Upgrade your Internet Device/adapter.
3. Upgrade your network adapter or router.

4. You could also enhance the speed of your connections by upgrading the firmware of network adapter. It will solve most of the Internet speed issues and it’s absolutely free of cost.
5. To speed up your Internet connections you need virus-free computer. Viruses and malware could slow down your PC performance.
6. Optimize your computer and operating system.
7. Run Disk cleanup or other tools regularly.
8. Delete temporary files & also Internet browsers cache occasionally (How to delete temporary files & Browser cache).
9. Reduce the use of Add-ons in the Internet browsers.

You will need to edit Windows 7 registry to make web pages load faster in Internet explorer, it will definitely improve your internet experience.

Editing the registry will only work for broadband & high speed Internet connections; it won’t affect the speed of dial up connections. First create the system restore point manually (how to create system restore point in Windows 7).

Now let’s get started to speed up your Internet connections. By increasing the number of files in the registry keys will enhance the browsing speed. Run registry edit by typing "regedit" in the start menu search box or type it in after selecting RUN.

1. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > MICROSOFT > Internet Explorer > Main > FeatureControl > Feature_MAXCONNECTIONSPER1_0SERVER > right click in the right hand pane select new > DWORD (32-bit) Value name it "iexplorer.exe" (without quotation marks) double click it and select "Decimal" and enter a number up to 15.
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > MICROSOFT > Internet Explorer > Main > FeatureControl > Feature_MAXCONNECTIONSPERSERVER > right click in the right hand pane select new > DWORD (32-bit) Value name it "iexplorer.exe" (without quotation marks) double click it and select "Decimal" and enter a number up to 15.
3. Remember to enter the same file number in both registry entries.
4. Log-off the user and Log-in again.

Enjoy & feel the difference in browsing experience; the graphics will now load much faster on websites with heavy graphics.

How to add Meta Tags to Blogger blogspot website.

1. Go to the Edit html section at Design tab on the blog you wish to add Meta Tags.
2. Here is the code you need to add

<meta content='DESCRIPTION HERE' name='description'/>
<meta content='KEYWORDS HERE' name='keywords'/>
<meta content='AUTHOR NAME HERE' name='author'/> 

just after this line

<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>

Now change the quoted words in each line with your description, keywords and author. Do not remove quotation marks. That's it your done. Enjoy

Try to check whether you have inserted meta tags correctly, search in the Google for "meta tags analyzer tools" to ensure you have successfully added them.

How to Increase the Life of Laptop & its Battery.

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Here are the most working tips and tricks to extend the life and you might need to use some or all of them to optimize theperformance computers orLaptop’s.

1. Optimize your Laptop to achieve better performance and to save power. Use some utilities to tweak operating system settings or do it by yourself to optimize computer performance.



2. Optimum battery life could be achieved by cleaning its contacts with a cotton swaband a bit of rubbing alcohol to pass power effectively. Set your screen brightness at a lower level. 

Note: Before doing this turn off the power of your Laptop and unplug it from wall outlet.

Image via Wikipedia3. Schedule updates; Install the latest antivirus software including spyware & malware detection and their removal tools. Make sure your Laptop or notebook is not running on battery power when Anti-virus definitions updates, virus scans, Disk cleanup, Disk Defragmentation.

4. Standby or Sleep your Laptop mode if you are leaving it for a short period of time, to cut down the power usage. Hibernate it if you plan to go outside for a while.

5. Cool down your computer which makes your computer or Laptop, work efficiently and it will also enhance battery life.

6. Turn off your network or Internet connections when you don't need it. It will definitely increase the battery life.

7. Disk Cleanup about once a week, clean up your hard drive with Microsoft Disk Cleanup and Disk Defragmenter.

8. Proper Storage is needed if you are planning to go out on a trip or vacation for a week or more try to store your Laptop in a cool dry place, while putting it battery charge at 50%. It will give you the better performance after your come back home or office.

15 Best Wordpress plugins to optimze Website

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Plugins are the scripts (Software components) to enhance or add the capabilities of such software applications (If supported in the software). Plug-ins are intended to modify the functionality of an application. They commonly used in the browsers to display videos, download files, view weather reports, synchronizing bookmarks and many more. They are also widely used now in the web applications for enhancement, optimization, SEO, Mailing lists and many more.

1. All in one SEO pack Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog. Automatically optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization). by Michael Torbert.
2. W3 Total Cache fastest and most complete WordPress performance plugin. Dramatically improve site performance and user experience via caching: browser, page, object, database, minify and content delivery network support. Add browser, page, object and database caching as well as minify and content delivery network (CDN) to WordPress. By Frederick Townes.
3. Ultimate Google Analytics Image via CrunchBaseEnable Google Analytics on your blog. Plugin to add Google Analytics JavaScript to each page on your weblog without making any changes to your template. The plugin can also add tracking to outbound links, downloads from your own site and mailto: links. The plugin is highly configurable. Read trough the list of features below to get a feeling of what this plugin can do. You can enable and disable all features individually, although the default configuration will suffice for 90% of the users. By Wilfred van der Deijl.
4. Google XML Sitemaps with Multisite support: This plugin will generate a improved special XML sitemap which will help search engines to better index your blog. It can create sitemap for each your site and link it in robots.txt file. NOW WITH MULTISITE SUPPORT. By Mario Kostelac.
5.  Pie Register: Enhance your Registration Page. Add Custom Logo, Password Field, Invitation Codes, Disclaimer, Captcha Validation, Email Validation, User Moderation, Profile Fields, Charge User fees through Paypal and more. By Johnibom
6. Jetpack is a WordPress plugin that supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com. Supercharge your WordPress site with powerful features previously only available to WordPress.com users.
7. SEO Slugs: The SEO Slugs WordPress plugin removes common words like 'a', 'the', 'in', 'what', 'can' from post slugs to improve search engine optimization.For example, when you publish a post with a title like this: "What You Can Do Immediately For Higher Rankings", WordPress automatically assigns a long filename to your post, called a post slug: /what-you-can-do-immediately-for-higher-ranking SEO Slugs plugin strips common words like "what", "you" or "can" out of your post slug to make it more search engine friendly. With SEO Slugs plugin activated, the slug for our example blog post would look like this: /immediately-higher-rankings. The slug is generated on saving a post (so you get a chance to look at it before publishing, and change it), or on publish. It won't overwrite an existing slug. You can force a new slug generation by deleting the existing one. 
8. WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone application-style theme, complete with ajax loading articles and effects, when viewed from iPhone, iPod touch, Android, Palm Pre, Samsung touch and BlackBerry Storm/Torch mobile devices.
9.  Add Google +1 official button to your WordPress blog to let visitors recommend your pages right in Google search results without having to leave the page. Place anywhere on your template.By Onnay Okheng
10. NextGen Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with dozens of options and features including slideshow option. Before I started writing the plugin I studied all the existing image and gallery plugins for WordPress. Some of them are really good and well designed, but the gap I filled was a simple administration system at the back end which can also handle multiple galleries. By alexrabe 
11. Post video players, slideshow albums, photo galleries and music / podcast playlistpost your videos, photo galleries/flash slideshows easily and in seconds. One professional plugin for all your multi-media needs.
12. Handy Functions allows you to add and configure the functions that you would normally add to your functions.php file, all in your WordPress backend. 
13. Sexy Bookmarks Image via CrunchBaseadds an attractive social bookmarking menu to your posts, pages, index, or any combination of the three. Though the name may be a little "edgy" for some, SexyBookmarks has proven time and time again to be an extremely useful and successful tool in getting your readers to actually submit your articles to numerous social bookmarking sites. By shareaholic
14. Mail From allows you to change the default wordpress@example.com email address that WordPress sends it's email from, and the name of the sender that the email is from. It's as simple as that. By hami 
15. Simple Facebook Connect is a series of plugins that let you add any sort of Facebook Connect functionality you like to a WordPress blog. This lets you have an integrated site without a lot of coding, and still letting you customize it exactly the way you'd like. By Otto42 

I'll tried to give you the best perspective of all these above wordpress plugins to let you enhance the capabilities of wordpress website. There are some SEO capable plugins mentioned in this article to automate the SEO process for your wordpress website. Hope to hear your kind comments.

How to Resume Download broken file with IDM (Internet Download Manager)

Some times, when you tried to download the file with  IDM(Internet Download Manager), it failed to dowload the file. You got frusterated when the file has already been downloaded more than 50%. Message appeared "Do you want to download the file from the begining".



It happened due to the several facts & problems: -

• When server stoped responding
• Your Internet connection has problems
• You manually pause it
• stopped it to download it later some times.while you know it has the capability of resuming.
• IDM failed, when it send the request to download it where it has stopped. 

Response of the IDM was "Do you want to download it from the begining". Definately you don't want to download it from the begining while you have downloaded 1 GB or more. There are the tips and tricks to download the file from where IDM has stopped or you had paused it.

1. Open the same file in the browser, click to download it again, when dialogue window appear select to "download it later". (Check to ensure that the file must have the same file size and from the same link/server).
2. Open IDM manager window and double click the file you have selected to "download later" 
3. Select the full address field and press ctrl+c to copy to the clipboard.
4. Now, double click the file which has not been resuming and paste the address there which you have copied earlier in the address field press ok. 
5. In the IDM manager window click the file and press resume. 90% of the resuming problems has been resolved by this little tip and trick.

Some Useful Windows Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts are combinations of two or more keys that, when pressed, can be used to perform a task that would typically require a mouse or other pointing device. Keyboard shortcuts can make it easier to interact with your computer, saving you time and effort as you work with Windows and other programs.



You can also create new keyboard shortcuts to open programs. For more information, see Create keyboard shortcuts to open programs.

Image via WikipediaEvery software has the shortcut keys, most of them are common. Like, ctrl+c to copy selected contents, ctrl+v to paste copied contents, ctrl+s to save the contents, ctrl+p to print the contents, etc..
Windows Key on the keyboard has also several useful keyboard shortcuts which I would like to share with you all.

1. Windows logo key. Open or close the Start menu.
2. Windows logo key + D. Shows the desktop and pressing it again to Restore program Windows.
3. Windows logo key + E. Open windows explorer (My Computer).
4. Windows logo key + F. To open windows Search for a file or folder.
5. Windows logo key + G. Cycle through Gadgets.
6. Windows logo key + L. Lock your computer or to Switch users.
7. Windows logo key + M. To minimize opened program Windows.
8. Windows logo key + Shift+M. Restore minimized windows to the desktop.
9. Windows logo key + P.  Duplicate the desktop on another monitor if installed.
10. Windows logo key + R. Open the "Run dialog box" window.
11. Windows logo key + T. Cycle through the "programs running" in the taskbar.
12. Windows logo key + U. Open the "Ease of Access Center".
13. Windows logo key + X. Open the "Windows Mobility Center".
14. Windows logo key + Spacebar. Preview the desktop.
15. Windows logo key + Tab. Aero flip 3-D view cycles programs on the taskbar.
16. Windows logo key + Pause. Display the System Properties dialog box.
17. Windows logo key +Up Arrow. Maximize the window.
18. Windows logo key +number. Start the program pinned to the taskbar in the position indicated by the number.
19. Alt + Windows logo key +number. Open the Jump List for the program pinned to the taskbar in the position indicated by the number.
20. Windows logo key + Home. Minimize all but the active window.

How to Create Keyboard Shortcuts to open programs

You can create keyboard shortcuts to open programs. Opening programs this way is often simpler than opening them using your mouse or other pointing device. Before you get started, you need to create a shortcut for the program to which you want to assign a keyboard shortcut. To do this, open the folder that contains the program, right-click the program's executable file, and then click Create Shortcut. For more information about creating shortcuts to programs, see Create or delete a shortcut.

1. Locate the shortcut to the program that you want to create a keyboard shortcut for.
2. Right-click the shortcut, and then click Properties.
3. In the Shortcut Properties dialog box, click the Shortcut tab.
4. Click in the Shortcut key box, press the key on your keyboard that you want to use in combination with Ctrl+Alt (keyboard shortcuts automatically start with Ctrl+Alt), and then click OK. If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
   You can now use this keyboard shortcut to open the program.

Notes

• The word None appears in the Shortcut key box until you press a key; then it's replaced with Ctrl+Alt+the key that you pressed.

• The new shortcut might not work for programs that have their own keyboard shortcuts.

• You cannot use the Esc, Enter, Tab, Spacebar, PrtScn, Shift, or Backspace keys to create a keyboard shortcut.

• You can also create keyboard shortcuts to open files and folders.

How to create Shortcut to Open Programs Faster

Its easy to create keyboard shortcuts just follow few tips and tricks in Windows to open programs faster. Keyboard shortcuts allow you to open the programs from the Desktop or Quick launch bar. You need to create it before you want to open such programs, to which you want to assign a keyboard shortcut. There two ways to create shortcut, first is "right click" on the Desktop and click "New" in the context menu then click "Shortcut ". Here you need to manually add the executable file location or browse and select the desired file to create shortcut. The second way is to do it is to locate the file in the My Computer or Windows Explorer and then right click it and select create shortcut in the context menu. The shortcut will be placed in the same folder, select it and cut it and paste it on the Desktop. You could create shortcut for any type of file.

Best Free Antivirus 2013

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