Megabit vs Megabyte: Confusion Regarding Bits & Bytes And Calculating Real Internet Speed [Picked]

It is pretty much common to find people with doubts about choosing the best preferred plan and package for fixed broadband. In general, complaints and questions arise because of the low speeds provided. In fact, there is great inconsistency on download rates, because even paying for a 10Mb/s plan, the speed seems to be 10 times lower than contracted. From the point of view of the customer, the question is pretty simple. I'm paying for a connection of 10Mb/s, so my plan will enable downloads at a rate of 10 Mega Byte per second. But in reality, the story is a little different, because even with an internet connection like this, you'll see the file downloading at 1-1.5MB/s - or sometimes even much less than that.

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Greenshot Is A Real Light-Weight Yet Powerful Screenshot Taker With Built-In Editor

Images embarked on a visual display unit are referred to as screenshots. whereas reading tech-reviews on websites, together with this one, you'll notice various screenshots that function references to what the reviewer is writing regarding. These pictures greatly facilitate justify an explicit interface feature or guide the reader in knowing where to click in an application. The simplest way to take screenshots is thru the “PrintScreen” key located on your keyboard. This key takes a snapshot of your visual display unit and copies it to the clipboard. you'll then paste this copied image into any software like Paint and reserve it. Alternatively you'll install one among several out there screenshot applications that permits you to take, save, and use screenshots in a very much more convenient manner than the PrintScreen technique. one among the foremost user-friendly of those applications is “Greenshot”.

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How To Get Windows 7 Like Start Menu, Task Manager & Windows Explorer In Windows 8

The most important and major change in Windows 8 is undoubtedly the radical UI change. Windows 8 has been exceptional among other Windows  versions in the field of User Interface. The new metro start menu, the ribbon explorer, the task manager…..all are brilliantly different from other Windows. I like the task manager and the ribbon menu in Windows Explorer but I really feet it uncomfortable to use the current metro start menu. If you want to change them back like Windows 8, then here’s a simple tips for you. Let’s follow for more info.

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Control Windows Explorer, Photoshop & Internet Browser With Mouse Gestures Via Gest [Featured]

Gest is a little program on the store to download for free which can be run from the system tray. It adds mouse gesture support for Internet Browser, Photoshop, and Windows Explorer (the program on your pc that permits you to navigate through your files and folders). Mouse gestures enable you to perform straightforward tasks by holding down the proper mouse button and drawing a number of lines that are interpreted by the program that then sends commands to the open window on your pc. These embrace straightforward things like moving backwards and forwards or gap a brand new window. Mouse gestures improve productivity and are straightforward to use. The gestures in Gest are absolutely customizable and might be modified from the settings window. More after the break.

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A Brief Guide About Creating A System Restore Point & Using It Safely

From the evolution of Windows XP, system restore is being helping users to restore their Windows system after a major crash or if the system performance is running low. At first (On Windows XP), just creates snapshots based on the overwritten system files. It wasn't though as advanced as it is now on Windows 7, yet it was one of the greatest feature from then. Today I'm going to show you how to create a system restore point and then get your system back after an accident. It is not so hard as you might think but in order to make the process safe and to ensure that you are not facing any problem – you should read this guide.

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Opera Internet Browser Updates To 11.60 With Upgraded Opera Mail & Faster Browsing [Update Reminder]

Opera Internet Browser from the Norwegians company Opera Software has been updated recently to version 11.60. This latest version comes with dynamic changes and upgrade to make user’s browsing experience more impressive. New Opera promises 8 times faster browsing with new page rendering technology for CSS3 and HTML5. The Opera Mail featured is been redesigned to give user more comprehensive look and thought. The browser engine has been improved significantly to offer you brilliant and more stable internet experience. Another great improvement is on the address input field which now have automatic search suggestion. Opera browser is popular because of it’s speed all over the world. Though it’s not yet as huge as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer but it takes a lot of user in it’s hand. More to read.

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Antirun Protects Your PC From Virus By Disabling Autorun.inf/AutoPlay Programs

How many times does your PC get virus inflected by virus because of Flash Drives or portable HD? Even a paid AntiVirus cannot protect your PC from removable media devices such as USBs, SD Card, External hard drives, digital cameras, phones, etc. sometimes. So you should have an additional option to secure your PC if you care about it. Then comes the usefulness of Antirun. Antirun is a free application which brings a number of protection options for securing your system against threats mentioned earlier. This is simple solution to prevent autorun.inf/AutoPlay programs from executing automatically when you insert a USB drive or other removable storage device. The program scans the drive for an autorun.inf file and alerts you if it finds one. Moreover this is freeware and tiny (Only 305 kb). So let’s look over some of it’s features.

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MetroTwit Gets Updated To 0.9.0 Beta [Updates Reminder]

We have featured MetroTwit a couple of months back. That was the greatest Twitter client for Windows we have shared yet. If you haven’t tried it yet, then probably you have missed a lot. Make sure to get ready for the next version as it’s updated the beta channel to 0.9.0. No offense, it haven’t changed much from the previous version but yet MetroTwit is now more amazing and featured as it has fixed lots of bug. Looking for the download and change log? Join us after the break.

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VisualSubSync Allows Real-Time Video Preview And Better Subtitle Editing Options

If you do watch movie a lot, then Subtitle should play a vital role in your regular life. Well, movie isn’t something that you should read and watch then watch and read, yet having subtitle is great specially if you can’t understand some part of the audio. VisualSubSync is a subtitle editor that uses audio waveform illustration with real time visual playback that permits performing correct subtitle editing. It supports SRT and SSA/ASS subtitle formats and may additionally edit CSV, TXT and CUE files which might be later saved as subtitle files. Like several subtitle tools, it's a mistake and spell checker, moreover because the utility to change the time length and text format of the subtitles. alternative choices embrace speed indicators, preview of real time changes from a supply video and also the choice to set mouse actions. VisualSubSync functions in 2 modes; traditional and also the timing mode. each modes have a distinct configuration of hotkeys. What distinguishes the timing mode from the conventional mode is that you just will modification the behavior of the mouse for setting left/right mouse button to pick out the start/stop time of the video preview.

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How To Change The Icon Theme In Ubuntu 11.10 AKA Oneiric Ocelot

Ubuntu 11.10 will have a new properties on the screen appearance of your desktop where you can choose the GTK theme you want by default, the screen and nothing more. So what about the icons? No, you can not change the icons from there, but believe me look at the image, there is another way out there. So here I will show you the way of changing the icon theme in Ubuntu 11.10 . The reason for that is as Linux has given as the freedom of going wild and customizing everything as our needs so why not be wild! If you are not doing it than you are not enjoying Linux and do not know the proper way to use Linux.

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Complete Guide About How To Run Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) On PC

Yesterday we have covered ins and outs of the latest Android 4.0 aka Ice Cream Sandwich. If you have missed it, you can check the article from here. For then we have received lots of email regarding how can I try Android 4.0 aka Ice Cream Sandwich on my PC/Mobile. Well, Android 4 isn’t yet available for mobile devices so you have no chance to upgrade your current Android system to Ice Cream Sandwich (and I am not sure if you can upgrade after it’s available – there’s always concern about hardware requirement). But if you want to have a first look over Android 4.0, then we are here to help you. After reading this article, surly you will be able to try this latest version of Android without any delay. So let’s get ready for it.

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How To Install Third-Party Skin Packs (CustoPack Type) In Windows 7 Safely

We have shared some cool skin packs already for Windows 7 and some more are on the queue. Those are undoubtedly one of the easy and best way to change the whole outlook of your system, but if you are not a regular user, then you might feel some troubles to install those packs and then uninstall them safely and reverting all system files back. As mentioned, we have some for skin packs on queue to share, so instead of writing the same thing (how to install/uninstall them) again and again in all of the topics, we are creating this article. So get ready and enjoy the freedom of skin packs.

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Bluestacks App Player Alpha Is An Optimized Android Emulator For Windows & Tablet

Bluestacks is a free emulator for Windows to run Android Os And apps 'n' games alike Android emulator Included in Android sdk (Created By Google) and YouWave android emulator (Which Is Paid) but they can't apps and games smoothly and fast like in orignal android device.

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Reader’s Question : How-To Limit Max Disk Space For Users In Windows 7

Previous week one of our reader “Nancy” placed one of her problem to use. She said that she had two younger brother and they use her own PC for gaming, watching movie etc. and disk space is a big issue for her now. It’s been a great problem to clean up his hard disk space regularly and now she is fed up with this. She was asking for a way to get rid of it. However, she is using Windows 7 Ultimate edition so we have a quick solution for this. Well – To Nancy, thanks for reaching us by. You can have one solution. You can limit the maximum amount of disk usage by editing registry. Here we are showing you how.

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Ubuntu One Is A Cross-Platform Cloud Storage For Android, Windows, Linux And More

Ubuntu One is that personal cloud which brings your digital life along, thus you'll be able to enjoy your content on your way, wherever you're. With this suite of cloud services as well as storage, sync, sharing and streaming - you've got immediate access to your music assortment, favorite photos, videos, necessary documents and additional, at any time and from any device. Ubuntu One is another nice cloud storage service just like Dropbox, with applications out there mostly for Linux based OS,  Android, iPhone, and currently it works on Windows too. Ubuntu One comes pre-installed with Ubuntu and it will take into the premium account cloud storage service for Linux users. Ubuntu One has launched the beta version of their Windows shopper for Ubuntu one users. Whereas Ubuntu One is widely used on Linux and Android, it appears to be stretching its wings towards wider market comprising of Windows users. The Windows shopper is sort of sleek and trendy and therefore the out there choices for synchronizing files appear to be abundant less complicated than the native Ubuntu user interface of Ubuntu One. Having Ubuntu One put in on a Windows machine is additionally doubtless to assist users sync files conveniently across their smartphones, Ubuntu and Windows operating systems.

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CCleaner Gets Update To 3.11 [Update Reminder]

The great junk file cleaner and privacy sweeper tool “CCleaner” has been updated to version 3.11. This tiny freeware but powerful and really important tool hardly have any closer competitor in system cleaner sector for Windows. We have featured a brief introduction about this tool here. Let me show you the downloads inside.

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A Quick Shot Over Ubuntu 11.10 aka Oneiric Ocelot [Changes And Improvements]

As a Windows fan, I hardly try off any Linux kernel. The only few times I spend after Linux is only for curiosity. So you got only a few article about Linux in this blog (and those few are inter-related with any Windows product!). For this reason, I haven't make a notice about the beta release of upcoming Ubuntu 11.10 AKA Oneiric Ocelot. But for my own satisfaction, I have downloaded it two days ago and now I have decided to share a quick shot over it. It won’t be so lengthy and I am only going to cover some newly added features rather then making a note about improved ones. So let’s go and check this out.

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Check Out The Built-In Twitter App For Windows 8 Tweet@rama

Windows 8’s new metro start screen comes with a lot of default pre-added app to make your life more simple. This includes some great tool for your social communication as well as to protect your online safety. One of the biggest social community site these days is Twitter. Many people are using it regularly to communicate with their friends as well as to maintain their business. For those who are on the crowd of power Twitter fan, Windows 8 comes with a new tiles app called Tweet@rama. If you have already tried to Windows 8, then you surely have noticed that one as it stays right on your homescreen on default. More after the break.

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Change Windows 8 Metro Background Color And Image Using Windows 8 Start Tweaker

A few days ago we talked about changing the Windows 8 UI hack to change the interface background of the login screen, splash screen and color of right-pane of the sidebar. That trick needs to change the values ​​of the RGBA color code uxtheme.dll file in the System32 folder with the hex editor or to replace it by taking ownership then renaming then replacing and a lot more. Tweaking Windows 8 metro color settings of the user interface requires an advanced knowledge related to handling color Hex values and Hex offsets in a editor. But you can change almost all user interface elements by editing that uxtheme.dll in a hex editor. Today we found a small but powerful tool called Windows 8 Start Tweaker, which is a tiny portable application to change the background color, metro interface and the splash screen in a single click. Today we are going to check this out.

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Readers Question : How To Organize Boot Menu And Manage Multiple OS

Yesterday, one of our reader “Marks85” asked us “How To Organize Boot Menu And Manage Multiple OS”. We are answering him here. But first, let me explain what he means. There are many guys who uses multiple operating system on their PC. The most common multiple installed OS’s are Windows 7 with Windows XP or Windows 7 with Ubuntu. If you are using multi boot, then before starting OS, user will be asked which one he wants to start. On that menu, you can select your preferred one or just wait for sometimes (10/20s) then the default OS will be started. But the ques is which one is marked as default. Mostly the OS you have installed later will work as preferred system. If you are a Windows 7 user who installed Linux OS recently and now fed up with this boring selecting (like our visitor did) then what will you do? Let’s get up.

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