A Guide to Technology

Are you tired of Windows Vista’s slow performance?

Well now there is remedy of your performance problems if you are running Windows Vista. Vista provides a great feature called Ready boost. With this feature, you can utilize your pen drive or a memory card as RAM. Thus you can increase the RAM allowing the operating system more space of cache and fast access memory.

With this feature, it increases the additional memory in your computer system to improve the performance of your personal computer. Some times many users are worried that they have a limited expansion slot in their mother board (especially if you have a laptop) and they cannot increase memory. Also, replacing the existing RAM could be more costly option. For laptop users it is not so easy also.

To use your pen drive as additional RAM, follow the below steps:

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There are many cool applications available for Nokia cell phones. However, only those can be installed which are officially signed by Symbian. If you try to install an unsigned applications, the system shows an ‘certificate error’.

But this should not stop you  from installing the applications on your cell phone. These applications can be signed by you. Just follow the steps to sign any unsigned application.

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Some times there are many many sleep processes in your SQL connection. These sleep connections consume a lot of resources (RAM, cache and processor). This can cause you mysql server slow down. If your mysql server is not responding then the query to the database will take a lot of time. In such situations, your website will open very slowly.

This is really frustrating for webmasters. Here, I will show you how can you get rid of these sleep processes. Read more…

If you have very large mysql database then it is very hard to backup and restore using the conventional phpmyadmin or any other program ( like bigdump).

In this Tutorial I will explain you how to backup and restore a larger database ( having millions of rows). This tutorial can be used while moving your database from one server to another.

First you need to have shell (ssh) access to your server.You can use any free program like putty to connect your server Then follow the steps: Read more…

Task manager comes really handy when your windows hangs! This is your last option to kill the useless processes. But some times some viruses have a capability to disable task manager from windows. In this situation you are not able to end the hanged applications & heavy processes.

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Does your website take too much time to load? The load time of your website could be a crucial parameter that makes it impressive and useful for its end users.

Normally the websites with too many graphics and heavy designs take long time to load. However, sometimes even simple and light weight  designed websites take exceptionally long time to load.

While there are many factors that contribute to the load time, one important factor is the SQL performance. If your website uses a very big database and there are many DB queries then this too contributes to the long load times.

In this case you have 2 tricks to enhance the performance of your website:

1. Enable Mysql query Cache
2. Or Install APC Cache

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Are you sometimes curious about where do these spam mails come from? You can easily find their IP Address from where they originate and block them.

If you are using GMail or Yahoo! Mail, You can easily find out the IP address of the email sender. Read more…

Slow browsing can really frustrate the end users. But did you really know that you can increase the browsing speed to a great deal by tweaking your browsers!
In case you are using Firefox, you probably don’t need to do much because Firefox is already optimized and designed for fast browsing. Still it can improve the speed by a small tweak
Likewise, the IE6 can also be configured for faster browsing. This is really helpful for users who work on dial up connections.
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PRT is a very effective tool that  can be used to kill the processes of various viruses. Some viruses run under the name of copy.exe, temp1.exe, temp2.exe , svchost.exe etc.

Often, these viruses will disable the double click behavior. Thus the drives do not oven upon double click or sometimes new windows are open when clicking on other files & folders (eg. many windows of my computer is open at taskbar.)  PRT clears all the references of copy.exe from the autorun.inf files on all drives. This includes any pen drives, memory card etc also.

PRT effectivley deletes the subkeys under:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2 key which are created by Copy.exe file virus.

Have you locked your keys in the car?

Well not to worry. You don’t have to break up your window to open the car.

Does you car have remote keys? This may come in handy someday.
And another Good reason to own a cell phone:

If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their cell phone from your cell phone. Read more…