Disabling Onboard Motherboard Circuits

Some PCs come with video and sound built right into the motherboard, that flat platter of circuitry connecting all your PC’s parts. The manufacturer shrunk the sound and video circuitry into a little chip or two , stuck them on the motherboard, and connected them to the VGA and sound ports on the back of your PC. This design saves you money, as you needn’t buy additional cards to handle specific jobs lime playing audio or video.

But if you upgrade your PC with a more powerful video or sound cards for gaming, the build-in circuits can cause problems; your PC won’t know whether to use the built-in circuits or the newly installed ones. The solution is to tell the BIOS to stop using the built-in circuitry and switch control to your newly installed card instead.

Or, if you add a video card but want to use two monitors, you may need to tell the monitor to use the motherboard’s video in addition to your newly installed card.

Editing the BIOS Settings

If you don’t know why you need to edit the BIOS settings, you don’t need to read this section expect perhaps out of rainy day curiosity. This section describes how to enter the BIOS and make some of the changes.

Don’t change anything unless you know exactly what setting you’re supposed to change, either though advice from your PC’s tech support staff, a trusted Internet site. Unlike Windows XP, the BIOS doesn’t come with a System Restore safety net. Experimenting can lead to unexpected and unfortunate consequences.

The closest thing to a safety net awaits you at the Exit screen where you leave the BIOS and load your operating system. There, your BIOS may offer the chance to “Exit and Restore Factory Defaults.” That reverts all the setting to their states when the PC left the factory, a helpful last resort that wipes out all the changes you’ve made.

Printing Emails

When you need to print an email — directions to a friend’s house, for instance, or that recipe for pistachio salsa — click the print icon along the message’s top, press Ctrl+P, or choose File -> Print. In any case, the familiar Print dialog box appears to let you select a printer, paper type, number of pages, and so on. Choose your options, and Outlook Express whisks it off to your printer.

Things become a bit tricker when printing an email that was composed using the HTML format. HTML messages can contain extra formatting like images, unusual margin widths, tables, and other items difficult to fit onto paper. So, Windows XP treats the mail as if it were a Web page, offering the same options as Internet Explorer for squeezing the mail onto a single sheet of paper.

Numeric Keypad

Bankers, accountants, and mathematicians prefer that their PCs start up with the numeric keypad enabled, so that pressing the arrow keys creates numbers. Other people prefer their PCs to start up with the numbers turned off; they just push the NumLock key on the rare occasion they’re working in a spreadsheet.

To please both camps, most PC’s offer an option for the numeric keypad in the BIOS. Look for the setting “Numeric Keypad” and choose whether you’re a banker or an editor.

I hope, this will be a very informative article for all of you. If you need any clarification regarding this, please feel free to ask me. Thank you…………

Changing the Boot Drive Order

When you turn on your PC, the BIOS examines each of your PC’s drives, and then loads the first operating system it finds, usually the one on your hard drive: Windows.  But you may want to make your PC start running from an operating system on a CD, either your Windows XP CD or a diagnostic program. Or perhaps you want your PC to find an operating system on a hard drive you’he plugged into a USB port, especially if that hard drive contains a backup of your main hard drive.

That’s when you need to change the “boot order”. You want to tell your PC’s BIOS to look for the operating system first on the floppy drive, then your CD drive, then any “removable drives” like your USB drive, and finally end up looking in the hard drive.

Once you’he changed the drives’s order, the change takes place as soon as save your changes at the BIOS’ Exit screen and restart your PC.

Tools and Plug-in for websites

Hello friends, Happy to see you all. hope all are you fine. Here i am going to list some useful tools and plug-ins for website which are needed to monitor and dispatch the results about that websites.

  • Alexa: It is a key plug-in for any site to display the unique traffic of the website.
  • SEO tool: It is a tool to monitor all the updates of the websites such as Page Rank, traffic, links and Google updates.
  • Technorati: You should submit the site to Technorati community to increase the status of the website.
  • Visitors Map: It will show up the visitors from all countries.
  • Google Map: It is a very needed tools for any website to fix the location and fields of the web site.
  • Google Webmaster:  You should install or place this Google webmaster tool to conform your ownership policy.
  • Google Analyzer tool: It is very much used to index and updates your site frequently.

Hope, it will be a informative article for all bloggers. Thank you………….

Animation in Film Industry

Now-a-days, Animation is a key thing in all film industry. Not only in cartoon and kids movies, but in action and other movies also need this animation tools to impress the audience. Animation developers are earning lots and lots of money in this field. They are really having great career and scope in this film animation industry.

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I saw so many movies such as Hollywood movies, Bollywood movies, Kollywood movies and so on. In all these industries, animation is playing vital role and it is enriching the quality of movies. In many historical movies link Troy, Alexander, Brave heart, Wanted, Harry porter, Spartans and so on, animation is a major part.

It is not a simple thing to do animation. Animation process needs lots of concentration and accuracy. But this field is quite interesting. So friends, just be creative and earn money.

Features of Firefox Toolbar

Firefox toolbar is a very needed tool today, especially for bloggers. Here i am going to tell about all features of Firefox toolbar. The firefox toolbar has the following features,

  • Enhanced Search box
  • Custom Buttons
  • Autolinks
  • Autofill
  • Translate
  • Address bar browse by name
  • Pop-up blocker
  • Spell check
  • Page rank display
  • Highlight search term
  • Word Find Buttons
  • Bookmarks
  • Sent to tool
  • Google account sign in
  • Search settings notifier.

To modify and control all the above fetures, click on the Google button at the extreme left and select options. The Google Toolbar options dialog box will pop up, which you can then use to customize each of the above features and more. So friends, just be quick and download this toolbar, its free….

PHP Web Designing Concepts

Now-a-days, PHP is a main scripting language for web designing. The main reason for this is, when you develop a web page using PHP language means, the web page will be a lifeful one. The page also a dynamic. When you build a web site using PHP scripting language, then you can interact with users. For example, if you want to build a “RESUME GENERATING WEBSITE”. Then you can’t do that using HTML script. In this case, you should build that dynamic and user integration site by using PHP Script. For a simple way to build PHP site is by using Dream weaver tools. If you need some script means, you can also include those scripts in .js file. So friends, you can build websites using PHP scripts and dream weaver. If you have any query about this article. Then feel free to ask me. All the best…..

How can we do fast web browsing?

So here are my tips — some of these will be old hat for web veterans, but they bear repeating.

  • Use a fast, minimal browser. First, if you’re using Internet Explorer and you don’t absolutely have to, please do yourself a favor and switch right now. It’s bloated and slow, insecure, and doesn’t render the web correctly.
  • Use tabs, not windows. This should be obvious but many people still open a new window each time they’re going to a new site (including my mom). Instead, configure your browser to open new tabs instead of windows.
  • Learn keyboard shortcuts. Again, this is obvious to most web monkeys, but it’s so much faster that you need to take the time to learn the shortcuts. Some common examples (using Mac shortcuts): Cmd-T to open a new tab, Cmd-L to go to the browser’s location bar (to enter an url), Cmd-D or Cmd-K (depending on the browser) to bookmark, Cmd-K (on some browsers) to go to the search engine box (the Google box), Cmd-W to close a window or tab, and so on.
  • Set up keyword bookmarks and speed dial. Most browsers have keyword bookmarks, and it takes just a few seconds to set up each one.
  • Set up keyword searches. Same as above, but these are saved searches you might perform commonly besides a regular Google web search.
  • Set up keyword bookmarklets. In Firefox and a couple other browsers, there’s the ability to create javascript bookmarklets that have some kind of functionality.
  • Fast online bookmarking. Beyond creating keyword bookmarks for common sites, searches and bookmarklets, I like to bookmark resources and pages to be read later using online tools.
  • Block Flash. Adobe’s Flash format is everywhere on the web these days — popular sites like YouTube depend on it for video, and you’ll find it in ads everywhere, and some entire sites are built on Flash.
  • Distraction-free reading and videos. I love reading without the distraction and clutter of most sites.
  • Turn off most extensions. Firefox is great for all its amazing extensions, but if you use a lot of them they can cause the browser to get slow and bloated, and often buggy.
  • Don’t have a million tabs open. This is a common web-surfing mode for a lot of people, but it slows down the browser.
  • Clear most of your toolbars. I like minimal toolbars, so I turn most of them off on the browser and remove most buttons, so the content is all there is.
  • 1password or KeePass.
    Good tools for easily storing all your passwords — otherwise, you’ll either have to remember them all or use the same ones over and over (not very secure).
  • Tuning out the Internet. When I need to do serious work, I try to remove distractions by closing the browser to do actual work.

Thank you. All the very best……..