• Google Mobile: The original Google.com already has quite a good support for iPhone browser but this Apps get features like search as you type & quick call, etc.
• Remote: This is a wonderful app which is used for controlling your Apple or iTunes right from from your iPhone.
• Facebook: The socializing app from from Facebook. It let you set your status, watch others feed, manage your friends, chat with them, check your inbox, etc.
• Exposure: The flickr app in your pocket. Capable of browsing photos on flickr, create or read comments on pictures, see recently uploaded pictures fromyour contacts, etc.
• AIM: The IM client from AOL for your iPhone.
• Twittereffic: The twitter client for your iPhone. Do everything on Twitter from your Phone.
• NYTimes: Is there any thing better than reading NYTimes on your iPhone.
• MySpace Mobile: Another social networking app for iPhone.
• Typepad: The new way to blog, right from your iPhone.
• eReader: Read PDF eBooks on iPhone.
• Light: Turns your iPhone into a Flash light.
• To Do: For managing your tasks & notes.
• Voice Notes: Audible way of managing your tasks from your Phone.

For Example, If you think that you can have 3 hours of battery backup from 6-cell battery playing Fifa on your system, then you should change your thinking. Gaming with battery performance makes no sense. It requires whole computer running at its full performance or it may disrupt your gaming experience.

Following some simple steps will let you manage some extra time from your notebook’s battery. Here are some ways to fetch maximum juice out of your notebook’s battery:

1. Decrease the Screen Brightness: Dimming the screen brightness can be really helpful while you are hungry for more power.

2. Use low resolution: Low resolution means less graphics usage, thus saving a lot of power.

3. Do not use optical drives: Optical drives are the best battery juice drinkers. An optical drive such as a CD or DVD drive uses a laser to read data from the disks, which extracts maximum juice from your battery. So simply avoid using these drives and the main point “never think about writing to a disk in this condition”. It may drain your complete battery within few minutes.

4. Plug out USB sticks, pen drives or USB devices: USB devices such as pen drives use your laptops battery to power themselves. If these are kept plugged-in even when they are not in use, they will also act as slow lecher for your battery.

5. Avoid Multi-tasking: Multi-tasking means running two or more programs at once. Its good that your Operating System supports multi-tasking, but its not that good when your PC is at battery mode. Multi-tasking puts a lot of load on the Processor, thus consuming a lot of power.

6. Do not play 3D games or use 3D software: If you are gaming stud then forget about mobility. 3D games utilizes the maximum system sources. While the game is running it requires processor to work at full speed, continuously spinning of the Hard Drive & Optical Drive, thus squeezing up a lot of battery power.

7. Get lots of RAM: RAM or Random Access Memory rates have got cheaper in the past years. However the virtual memory helps the low-RAM models to work much better but it also uses the Hard Disk after every few minutes, leading to battery loss. Thus it is recommended to have more RAM than Virtual Memory for saving the battery power.

8. Setup your OS to get maximum juice from your Battery: Most of the OS are deigned with various power profiles such Power Saver, High Performance, Balanced, etc. And these profiles are smart enough to save some amount of your battery. So tune your power profile to a Power Saving mode.

9. Hibernation or Sleep Mode can save your day: If you are in place where PC is not needed for some minutes but you have quickly to resume your work when you get back, Sleep mode or Hibernation can save your time as well as power. Rather than restarting simply just put your PC to Sleep mode or in Hibernation.

10. Close the programs not in use by you: There are some programs which by default start up when the computer starts like messengers, anti-virus, updating programs, etc. These programs continuously uses a lot of computer sources draining up the battery. So its better to close them.

11. Defrag your Hard Disk regularly: Defragging the hard disk keeps it organized and also speeds it up. The better the hard disk performs, the less power it consumes.

12. Keep it Cool: The cooler is your PC, the better it will work. There are many air winds on notebooks, make sure that you don’t block them while keeping the notebook on your laps. Let air easily pass through them. Also make sure your computer’s fans are working properly.

13. Lower the Graphic Performance: New notebook models comes with an option to adjust the graphic card’s performance. Lower the performance, so the graphic card and processor will use minimum system sources.

14. Use your charged battery weekly: If you have a habit of always connecting the power cable, its good. But it is also necessary to use the juice from a charged battery to keep it healthy. So it is recommended that you should use the battery power once a week.

15. Avoid Bluetooth or Wi-fi connections: Most of the laptops today have a single switch for Bluetooth and Wi-fi. Thus when you switch on the Wi-fi or Bluetooth, the other thing automatically gets activated wasting up your power. Thus disabling the one which you don’t want to use can also help you saving the power.

16. Turn off the Aero Graphics (Vista Only): If you are using the Microsoft Windows Vista, you might be enjoying its Aero (Transparency) effect. It looks good but it don’t acts as a good practice while we are talking about Battery Saving. Turning it off can get you a little more time for your other tasks.

17. Avoid Installations & Restarting: Restarting the computer is not considered as a good habit when you are in need of more battery. Restarting waists the time and also the battery power, as the computer needs to shut down all the windows shell files and then start them again. Thus it is not considered a good practice.

18. Keep it clean: Do you remember when was the last time you took your battery out from its chamber from the notebook? Well check now that is there any dust in that place. Keeping the battery connecting points clean can also help you in achieving the above target.

19. Say NO to auto-save & spell-check: Imagine you are working on a document in MS Office. You love its auto-save & spell-check feature. But did you ever thought that these features forced the hard disk to spin again & again in every few minutes. This consumes power each time the Hard disk has to spin to auto-save the data. Also spell-check causes the processor to work continuously as you are typing. Thus turning off these two features can help you a lot.

20. Disconnect an extra USB mouse or disable the touch-pad: Many notebook users have an external USB mouse. It is recommended to use only one thing for controlling pointer, either the mouse or the touch-pad.

Got some more points? Do leave a comment below I’l add them in this list!

*TIP: Virtual memory does not speed up your computer but it allows to run more applications at once. This means you can run multiple applications but it all goes slowly. More is explained below with a video tutorial which teaches you How to increase virtual memory of a computer.

What is virtual memory and how does it actually works?
Many of you might be knowing about RAM (Random Access memory). It holds the data of the currently running applications but a if it is of very low size you cannot perform multiple task easily at a time. Virtual Memory is just like a file on your hard disk. Now what the Virtual Memory actually does is obtains the data from CPU and stores it in itself. The work of CPU here is to check that if any part of RAM that has not been used since some time it transfers the data to Virtual Memory, thus cleaning the space on RAM for other applications.

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However writing the data to hard disk is much slower than writing data to RAM. Thus what virtual memory will actually do is it will allow you to run more applications but it will not offer you speed. You may feel the slowness while switching the application, as the data has to be again fetched from Virtual Memory into the RAM for further use.

Well you actually don’t need to understand all the above for increasing Virtual Memory of your system but I mentioned this because its good to have knowledge of what you are actually doing.

Increasing the virtual memory.
So let’s begin with increasing the virtual memory of your computer. Follow the simple steps below but if you still can’t understand what is happening just watch the video attached to this post.

• Right click on the computer and select properties.
• Click on Advanced system settings.
• Under performance section click “Settings”.
• Now select the Advanced Tab.
• Under the “Virtual Memory” section click on “Change”.
• Now uncheck the box yelling “Automatically manage paging file size for all drives”.
• Now select the Hard drive which you want to use for virtual memory.
• Select the “Custom Size” radio button.
• Specify the initial size.
• Specify the Maximum size.
• Remember you can specify as much as you want. 1024-2048 should be enough for any system.
• Click on “Set” & then “OK”.
• System will notify that you need to restart. Click “OK”.
• Save all your work & close all the windows as the system will now restart.
• Now click on “Apply” & then again on “OK”.
• Now system will ask you to restart now. Click on “Restart Now”.

Still can’t understand how to do it watch this video.

Some Precautions & Notes:

• This tutorial only applies to Windows Operating System.
• By default windows is smart enough to adjust the Virtual Memory of your system. Use this tutorial if you require extra memory.
• When specifying the initial and maximum size, allot the space according to your disk size. Generally 1024-2048 is enough for any system.

It contains all the patches & fixes released after the launch of Office 2007, also many security updates have been added. The complete list of bugs & fixes in this service pack can be found here.

Download Office 2007 Suite Service Pack 1 (SP1)

Its the time when you are beating your head because you haven’t created any backup of your files on it. You connect it to a PC or a mac but iTunes is requesting to restore your iPod which means loss of your important data. Well, before restoring or formatting your iPod, do consider reading this article. This method will not erase any data on your iPod.

Difference between a Corrupted iPod & a Hanged iPod:
Before we get started, it is very important to know th difference between a Hanged iPod & a Corrupted iPod. An iPod gets hanged up when it has been working since hours or it has not been safely ejected from a computer or a corrupted mp3 file has been played on it. While iPod corruption is mainly caused by a corrupted mp3 file or not ejecting the iPod safely from computer.

How would I know that my iPod is corrupted or hanged up?
Its simple, if your iPod is hanged it will just not react, not even switching it on or off is possible. But if your iPod is corrupted it will be not be totally frozen up but it be will continuously restarting itself or it may act very unusual. However, if you connect either a hanged or corrupted iPod to a mac or a PC, iTunes will always show it as a corrupted iPod & will ask you to restore it.

How to repair a hanged iPod?
Well repairing a hanged iPod is very simple & easy. Its just a one step process. Unplug the iPod from a PC, mac or an iPod charger. Then just press the Center & the Menu button simultaneously for 10 seconds. Yes that’s it The magic combination key. Well there is no magic here, its just a simple trick to restart an iPod.

Well a hanged iPod can be repaired by this way but if your iPod is corrupted, then you are in trouble! But don’t worry there is still some hope!

How to repair a corrupted iPod?
Note: Chances are very low that your iPod data can be safely recovered from a corrupted iPod!
In this case, first try connecting your iPod to a Mac or PC. If windows or Mac OS is able to detect & read data from your drive (It will be available in My Computer & windows will show it as a Removable Drive). Then simply copy all folders & files into a folder on your PC hard drive (Remember: Don’t forget to copy all hidden files & folders).

Now restore your iPod using iTunes & also if an upgrade is available for your iPod so upgrade it. Now when your iPod has been restored or formatted. Copy the hidden folder back to iPod (Note: Do not copy the corrupted files back to your iPod as it may again corrupt your iPod) & your iPod is ready.

But if the drive is not detected, take your iPod to a your nearest recovery center.

UPDATE: If you don’t have any important data on your ipod & your ipod is corrupted then simply format your ipod with Windows Format utility & then connect it to latest version of iTunes. Let the iTunes restore or update your iPod. Your ipod will be ready by this time with new firmware files.

Sometimes, iTunes cannot restore or update the iPod. In this condition you should opt for the following measures:

1. Update iTunes to the latest version and attempt to restore your iPod.
2. Try connecting your iPod to a different USB port and restore.
3. Remove any third-party USB devices you have connected to your computer (it is not necessary to remove your keyboard or mouse).
4. If you use Windows, re-register .dll files as described in article #304996.
5. For Windows users, update or reinstall your Windows USB drivers.
6. Try connecting your iPod to another computer and then try restoring or formating your iPod.

Note: If you have an iPod shuffle you may need to use the iPod Reset Utility to restore the iPod. © Yogtec’s Digital Technology

This error is caused due to Windows Installer is not able process the Visual Basic script embedded inside apple installation package. Apple blame Microsoft for this error. Following the below procedure activated the VB script. Following are the procedure to solve this problem in some popular versions of Windows.

Windows XP

You may resolve this issue by installing the latest VBScript engine from Microsoft.

If the VBScript is installed, it might not be registered within Windows XP. To re-enable the VBScript engine, follow these steps:

1. On the Start menu, click Run.
2. In the “Open” field, enter the following command and click OK.
   regsvr32 vbscript.dll
3. A message should appear stating that the “DllRegisterServer in C:\WINDOWS\system32\vbscript.dll succeeded.”
4. Click OK and try installing iTunes or QuickTime again.

Note that the user needs to be logged in as the administrator or is a user with admin privileges for the step above.

Windows Vista

1. On the Start menu, click All Programs.
2. Click Accessories.
3. Right-click Command Prompt and choose Run as administrator from the shortcut menu.
4. When the User Account Control dialog appears, click Continue.
5. At the command prompt type the following:
   regsvr32 vbscript.dll
6. Press Enter on your keyboard.
7. A message should appear stating “DllRegisterServer in vbscript.dll succeeded.”
8. Click OK and try installing iTunes or QuickTime again.

The above tutorial was taken from Apple Inc. support center.

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More about heap41a:
This virus not only blocked Firefox but also Google sites like Orkut, Youtube & some other too (but not the Google.com). If you open any of these sites in any other browser it closes down the browser & again gives a cheap message. That guy who build this is really very smart but I guess if had used his intelligent brain in good things, he must have made some really helpful softwares.

Cleaning the virus (Destroying heap41a):
The following ten steps will guide you on how to remove heap41a from your system.

1. Go to c:/heap41a
2. You will see some files in that folder naming Reproduce.txt, Copy.txt, etc.
3. Just delete all the files present there in that folder.
4. Some file may not be deleted as they may be currently running on your system.
5. Reboot your system & keep pressing F8.
6. Select Safe Mode with Command Prompt.
7. After logging in you will the command prompt window.
8. If your default directory shown there is not “C:\”(without inverted commas) then type “cd..”(without inverted commas) & hit enter. Type “cd..”(without inverted commas) two or three times to bring it back to C:\.
9. Now type this command “del heap41a” (without inverted commas).
10. Now reboot your system & start the windows normally. Your system is now clean. Enjoy!

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My Struggle
I started the struggle to remove it. I thought that it may be simple (but it was not). Opening the Firefox was impossible now to open Firefox. So I tried to start firebox in safe mode. But again it failed now i realized firefox.exe is completely corrupted. So i thought of uninstalling it but that too was not possible.

It even blocks the access to Mozilla Firefox installation folder. Even exploring that folder didn’t worked. So I finally manged to delete it without opening that folder (Simple, but it took me a long tie to find the method to get it out).

After it I tried to re-install Firefox, so I opened Internet Explorer & went to Mozilla website & tried to download Firefox. But it also blocked the download (Can you believe it?). Finally I installed Ad-Aware Free Version, but it also failed to remove it.

This is the limit of spy-ware creation & its now seems like it is impossible to get Firefox back on that system. I’m still searching for a solution, if anyone knows about it please drop a comment to this post. I will inform you if I find any solution, so keep reading here.

UPDATE: Here is the solution for the above problem

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If you are using Windows (Windows 2000 or later) then this trick is quite useful to you. This small cool simple trick cleans your RAM in just milliseconds. You just need to create a shortcut to run a command. So let’s start:

1. Right click anywhere on your desktop.
2. Point over “New”, then select “Shortcut”.
3. Copy the below line (as it is):

   %windir%\system32\rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks

4. Paste it there & click “Next”.
5. Give it a cool simple name like Clear Memory.
6. That’s it, run it every time your computer goes slow. Enjoy!

Now you don’t need to restart your computer every time. Just run this shortcut & your RAM will be cleared.

Note: This hack only works on Windows (Windows 2000 or later).

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