Microsoft article “How to make your computer run faster: 6 tips to increase PC speed” provides good tips to increase the PC performance”

The steps outlined in this article will help you to further increase the performance.

1. Change the wallpapers:

Most of us will have some nice pictures, or cool 3D pictures as wallpapers. Did you know? They infact slow down the system performance. My first suggestion is to have a basic plain and simple wallpaper. I recommend using the Microsoft delivered wallpapers.

If you are using Windows 7, you may also try turninig Off the Aero Glass. If your computer isn’t fast enough with Aero turned on, switch it off and turn to Windows 7 Basic Interface.

2. Use CCleaner:

This is an awesome application that I like and recommend to every one. Windows has lots of files that can be deleted such as Prefetch, temporary files, flash files (which can’t be deleted directly).

You can clear all these files with a single click using the CCleaner application. You can download it from
Piriform website.

3. Indexing Options:

Windows 7, by default keeps indexing files and folders. These are meant to quickly get search results, but often cause slow performance issues. It is recommended to minimize these settings, if you don’t use Search very frequently. Go to Control Panel -> Indexing -> Indexing Options to make these modifications.

4. Prevent Unwanted Programs from Startup:

When you turn on your computer, several programs will also be turn on. You can use the in-built application Microsoft Configuration Utility (MSCONFIG). Below are the steps:

• Click Start and choose Run
• Type MSConfig and click OK.
• Select Startup tab.
• Uncheck the programs that you don’t want to start up, like MS Office, chat programs, etc., Make sure you don’t uncheck the ones that you don’t know.

5. Turn Off Unused Windows Features

There are lots of default features that you may never use. some standard features of Windows – like games, Messenger etc., They can be turned off as well. Check out the features that you wish to disable and enjoy the ones that you need.

These tips will surely increase the performance of your PC.

Archive Facebook data

ArchiveFacebook is a Firefox addon which allows you to save content from Facebook directly on to your PC. The best part of this addon is it further allows you to view them exactly the way you view them on Facebook.  The time depends to archive the data depends up how well you use FB. If you have lots of data, then you may need to spend 1-2 hours to get the entire data backed up.

Backup photo albums

FacePAD is another nice Firefox addon that allows you to download the entire Facebook albums. You can also backup all your fan and event pages as well.

Backup to the cloud

Backupify is another amazing service which helps you to backup your Facebook data. It uses the FB connect and will regularly save all your photos, friends lists, and so on to the cloud.  However, there is a limitation for the free version. It allows you to backup a maximum of 2GB and you may need to pay for additional storage.

Album Downloader

If you are worried on how an album can be shared with one of your friend who is not on Facebook, here is a trick. You can now download and share your alubm as a beautiful slide show, or simply backup your album in zip format, using the Album Downloader. It also allows you to Upload 100s of MB photos and share with your friends through ultra-lite file in kb only.

You can further filter photos where you or your friends are tagged, download, copy or forward quickly. Copy-Paste entire facebook album or tagged photos directly into your album section. Search any page or person or friend(new) on facebook and download, mail or copy its album.

Access the tool at Facebook Tools.

Photo Spider

Photo Spider is another amazing tools that allows you to point out Facebook on where your images are located on the web. It can be any website and Photo spider can get them in your facebook album in few seconds.

Access Photo spider at Facebook Tools.

Album Downloader, and Photo Spider are available on Limited time offer: Invite Friends and use facebook tools free for 1 year.

Add-ons are the small extensions for your browser and will provide better expandability over any web service.

Here are 5 Firefox Add-ons that will enhance your google mail experience.

Block the Google Ads

Even though Google mail provides rich and better email experience, some people doesn’t like the context ads that are displayed on the right side of the google mail screen. This add-on will remove the advertisements.

Add-on Link

Use multiple Gmail accounts at a time

CookieSwap is another handy add-on that allows you to to have multiple Gmail accounts working at the same time in a single Firefox window. The trick is simple. This add-on will store the cookies of your two different Gmail accounts in different locations.

Add-on Link

This add-on also works for yahoo and hotmail.

Store your files and photos on the web and access them anywhere

GSpace is a great Firefox extension that allows you to use your Gmail Space for file storage. Currently you are allowed to store 7.1 GB of files/photos (this is keep on growing everyday). It acts as an online drive, so you can upload files from your hard drive and access them from any Internet capable system.

The interface will make your Gmail account look like a FTP host. After the installation, you’ll get an option called “Gspace” in your “Tools” menu, which opens the GSpace window.

If you have any problems with the extension, please look at the FAQ page (http://getgspace.com/faq.html).

Add-on Link

Encrypt your emails

Gmail S/MIME is another Firefox add-on that provides Firefox users with S/MIME support for Gmail. S/MIME support is integrated directly into Google’s Gmail web interface. Reading and sending of encrypted mail is supported. You can send and receive signed and encrypted S/MIME messages in Gmail. It not only secures your e-mails, it even protects your attachments.

Add-on Link

Instant & Secure search for your Cloud data.

CloudMagic is a superb add-on that allows your to search any information offline or online quickly. It will list all relevant emails, docs & contacts instantly as you type. It also searches your emails, docs & contacts at lightning-fast speed even when you are not connected to the Internet. If you are not sure of email ID or the specific words of the subject or body also, CloudMagic will help you to find them. Now searching for the right email, doc or contact even if you know just first few letters of the word you are looking for is pretty easy.

Add-on Link

Internet Explorer 10 can seamlessly “go back in time” and render websites as if it was one of its predecessors, such as IE5, IE7, IE8, IE9.

Not that this is anything new when it comes down to major IE iterations. Microsoft remains committed to supporting legacy websites with new versions of IE just as it still supports legacy applications with fresh Windows releases.

Of course, while the IE team has always acted on a mantra of not breaking the web with new IE releases, but packing multiple rendering modes into the browser is not only about legacy sites.

Even sites tailored specifically for IE9 will work seamlessly in IE10, even though their developers might take a while to adapt the projects.

The first Platform Preview of Internet Explorer 10 was releases at MIX11 just weeks after IE9 RTW downloads went to the public.

Read more on this news at IETips.net article.

Firefox 4 is a great version with good improving features. However, some of the users might experience issues with its performance while opening, or browsing.

Here are some of the nice tips from www.tipsonfirefox.com which helps you to address the performance issues easily. You need not be a techie to perform these steps as these are very user friendly and helps you to navigate from one to the other easily.

Read the article @ www.tipsonfirefox.com

If you doesn’t like the default blue background of your Twitter page you can spice up easily using any of the tools that are listed below. With the growing trend of Twitter usage, it’s always better to show your twitter page with a different background and make your users stay with you for some time.

Here are the 5 best tools for you to change the background of your twitter page:

Put your Twitter followers on your background.

Do you want to see your twitter followers as your twitter background?? Don’t think that you need to have good photoshop skills to do this. Its pretty easy with tools such as Twilk or TwBg.

Both of these tools will help you to create the background easily with a few clicks.

These apps lets you create image with size 800X800 and 1280X800 pixels.

If you don’t want to display your followers in the background, you can also make use of the Free custom Twitter layouts and backgrounds generator.

Twitlay helps you to select from lots of layouts and backgrounds and you can change the look and feel of your twitter within seconds.

You can also check the resolutions of the background image using “Twitter Background Checker” using the Twitter Background checker application.

Twiback is another app that allows you to upload images. It allows you to pick time & your twitter background and twitter profile icon will change automatically as per the time selected.

So your users can see different background & icons from time to time

Microsoft’s gargantuan market share is the result of clever products and ruthless business tactics. Most of the products it sells are ubiquitous and well-received, but have some proved far less popular and were met with more than a smattering of negativity.

From their doomed foray into child-friendly interfaces to bizarre and unlikely gadgets, here is the money.co.uk list of Microsoft’s most notable failures (in order of terribleness).

Read more at Money.co.uk website.

Microsoft has officially confirmed that Internet Explorer 10 will be released in 2012. So what would be new in their newbrowser which is expected to release with in no time after the successful release of Internet Explorer 9??

Here are some of the possible things that you may see the their new release:

• WebGL
• HTML6 and SVG Support
• Touch screen report and many more..

Read the complete article @ IETips.net