OpenOffice 3.2 is much better than what I had experienced with the earlier versions of this Open Source Office suite. Version 3.2 is much faster and it almost starts up with in 20 seconds just like MS Office 2003. There are lots and lots of features available and even we can lean and create our [...]
Computers
What is Blu-Ray Disc?
February 10th, 2010 | by Ashok Chava | published in Computers, Latest
While current optical disc technologies such as DVD, DVD±R, DVD±RW, and DVD-RAM rely on a red laser to read and write data, the new format uses a blue-violet laser instead, hence the name Blu-ray. Despite the different type of lasers used, Blu-ray products can easily be made backwards compatible with CDs and DVDs through the [...]
Disable Thunderbird 3.0 Global Seach and Indexer if you are already using Google Desktop search
December 16th, 2009 | by Ashok Chava | published in Computers, Latest
Last week I have installed Thunderbird 3.0 and found that its memory foot print is way high than its previous version. After digging I figured out that the reason for this high memory foot print is because of the new auto indexing and global search features packaged with thunderbird 3.0. I have disabled that option [...]
How to stop indexer in Thunderbird 3.0
December 14th, 2009 | by Ashok Chava | published in Computers, Latest
Thunderbird 3.0 comes with a very nice and powerful global search functionality. For this when you fist start the thunderbird 3.0 after installation, it will try to index all the messages in your your inbox and folders, which will kill your machine and stop you from doing anything else on your machine. If you want [...]
Thunderbird 3.0 released
December 11th, 2009 | by Ashok Chava | published in Computers, Latest
Long wait if over and the new version looks great and works great. Few things I notices after I started working on this
1) The UI and tabbed interface is much better than what I have anticipated.
2) The feature like “Show in conversation” you get as part “other actions” in message body is pretty good and [...]
Connecting two PCs with out switch or router
December 9th, 2009 | by Ashok Chava | published in Computers, Latest
One easy way of doing this is by connecting two PCs using a Ethernet Cross over cable. I got this cable for 35(1 meter in length) from a local computer hardware shop. After connecting the two PCs change the network connection settings as given below
In the properties of TCP/IP portal
For the first PC give IP [...]
A Visual Guide to Computer Cables and Connectors – Identify The Right Cable Easily
October 22nd, 2009 | by Ashok Chava | published in Computers, Latest
A Visual Guide to Computer Cables and Connectors
Computer cables can be confusing so here’s a quick visual guide that will help you quickly identify almost every cable that came bundled with your computer and other electronic gadgets. You may also refer to this guide for ideas on how to hook different devices using commonly available [...]
How to convert graphic files from one format to another format?
September 21st, 2009 | by Ashok Chava | published in Computers, Latest
The common requirement for any graphics designer is to change file format from one to another with out loosing quality or effects got in the original format. There is freeware called XnView to do this same task very efficiently. This tool allows you to do the following tasks with minimum effort.
Import about 400 graphic file [...]
Windows XP users cannot upgrade to Windows 7
July 29th, 2009 | by Ashok Chava | published in Computers, Latest
Microsoft revealed the upgrade path of Windows 7 operating system
Windows XP and below users are out of luck. You must have Windows Vista SP1 or newer to upgrade to Windows 7.
You can’t upgrade to Windows 7 from Windows Vista Starter Edition.
If you’re upgrading from Windows Vista, you must upgrade to one of the [...]
Audio file formats explained
July 28th, 2009 | by Ashok Chava | published in Computers, Latest
Recently I found this very nice article in MakeUseOf.com, I am pasting the same below
Almost everyone is familiar with the most commonly used file formats – for music, mp3 and wmv, for video, avi and mpeg, and for images, jpeg and gif. Unfortunately, these common formats are not the only ones we run into on [...]
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