Tag: Computers

  • Get paid for using Google Services : Google User Experience Research

     Google is conducting comprehensive(online and offline) market research. Virtually every net user uses Google services daily, And Google has major impact on today’s Internet trends and online user experience. Google would pay the participants money for their time and valuable remarks. You can read more and join Google User Experience Research at: https://survey.google.com/wix/p0822776.aspx And you can…

  • Google got a new Shortcut icon (Favicon)

    Google got a new Shortcut icon (Favicon)

    Today I noticed that Google’s old(Capitol letter G with colored border) favicon has been replaced with a new simple lowercase ‘g’  in blue color with some gray gradiant.  Google has recently updated its Google Reader favicon, and now its turn for its main favicon.   It looks like Google is doing a whole brand identity update. 🙂

  • Gmail Custom Time™ : Google’s April Fool’s Day Gift

    Gmail Custom Time™ : Google’s April Fool’s Day Gift

    Exactly One year after introducing TiSP : The Free Fast wireless broadband service, Google has once again come-up with a unique idea of back-dated e-mail(Gmail Custom Time™); Making time travelling possible for e-mails atleast. I am kindda obssesed with the technological gifts by Google, So I tend to look for new features announcements in upper right…

  • UPDATE: Data Recovered from HDD with Currupt MFT.

    After a twenty hour sleepless exhausting data recovery attempt, I’ve recoverd most of my data from the HDD with currupt MFT. I must thank Active@ File Recovery for making such a wonderful software. Now, I’ve to manage the recovered data and put it in place, as the recovered data has been put in alternate locations. I would…

  • My Main Hard Disk Crashed, Now time for a recovery.

    It is a quick update that my main HardDisk (SeaGate 500 GB SATA HDD) just crashed after I installed my new graphic card(nVidia GeForce 8400 GS) in the my PC. The MFT(Master File Table) on the Data Partition has been corrupted so windows can not read or write to the disk. This happened after I…

  • Microsoft Windows Products History

    Microsoft Windows Products History

    It is quite interesting to learn about the development timeline of a vast project which changed the way most of the desktop user now work on their computers. You can download the complete timeline in graphical view from: http://www.levenez.com/windows/windows_a4.pdf Many longtime PC users trace the Microsoft Windows® operating system to the 1990 release of Windows…

  • Solution to KeyBoard Lag problem in Acer Aspire 4520 Laptop

    Solution to KeyBoard Lag problem in Acer Aspire 4520 Laptop

    Acer Aspire 4520 is a wonderful yet economical laptop from Acer. You can get it for as low as $700. I bought this few months back and I am quite happy with it. It has every thing you would expect from a laptop today. The hardware configuration of my laptop is as follows (Hardware specifications…