Came across a nifty application for laptops, BatteryBar, which accurately monitors the battery information.
There’s a particular feature “Battery Wear” which is very useful. Though there is no information on how it is calculated, on my relatively new laptop it shows a wear of 0%, which assume is correct.
Go ahead and give it a try, you will not regret it.
1. No one can ruin your day without YOUR permission.
2. Most people will be about as happy, as they decide to be.
3. Others can stop you temporarily, but only you can do it permanently.
4. Whatever you are willing to put up with, is exactly what you will have.
5. Success stops when you do.
6. When your ship comes in…. make sure you are willing to unload it.
7. You will never have it all together.
8. Life is a journey…not a destination. Enjoy the trip!
9. The biggest lie on the planet When I get what I want I will be happy.
10. The best way to escape your problem is to solve it.
11. I’ve learned that ultimately , ‘takers’ lose and ‘givers’ win.
12. Life’s precious moments don’t have value, unless they are shared.
13. If you don’t start, it’s certain you won’t arrive.
14. We often fear the thing we want the most.
15. He or she who laughs……lasts.
16. Yesterday was the deadline for all complaints.
17. Look for opportunities…not guarantees.
18. Life is what’s coming….not what was.
19. Success is getting up one more time.
20. Now is the most interesting time of all.
21. When things go wrong…..don’t go with them.
Read more...It’s been about 6 hours since I started the process of installing Windows 7 Beta on my Dell XPS M1330 laptop. Installation was a breeze and so was the remaining configuration. Apart from the classic look & feel, am completely hooked onto the new taskbar. It’s absolutely amazing. Windows Search is lightning. Since am a ardent user of free softwares, in the process of installing everything again since I took a call of doing a complete fresh install instead of upgrading from Vista. My installation steps
1. Backup of the entire laptop using DriveImage XML onto an external USB drive
2. Download Windows 7 Beta. Ensure that while downloading PC does not sleep or go into a standby and then resume the download. It happened with me and when I tried to install, I got the error
STOP: c0000221 Unknown hard error
\systemroot\system32\ntdll.dll
Downloaded the whole setup again this time it went ahead.
3. Scrapped all the partitions and started afresh and installation completed.
4. My laptop give a blue dump after submitting the user account creation in the initial setup. When I restarted, it again came back to the same setup screen but the earlier account was already created so had to create a new account.
5. All set to go!
6. Installed DriveImage XML
7. Restoring all my old data.
Have installed this on my primary laptop (which is against the MS recommendations btw). For all those who are eager to try the new OS, will recommend to feel the experience first hand. It’s awsome.
Will keep posting if I come across anything in Windows 7 over here. Happy installing & all the best, for all those who are trying out the new OS!
Mumbai was under a terror siege in November 2008. This is a light hearted view of Pakistan not accepting the facts despite proofs submitted by India.
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You can see the future with a vision.
Study your present situation thoroughly. Go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you. Visualize the consequences which can follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives you the most promise and go ahead.
Many successful people use this skill of mental visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen. Picture yourself in your minds eye as already having achieved your goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.
You can put your subconscious to work toward making your mental pictures come true. Go over your day in your imagination before you begin it. You can begin acting successfully at any moment.
See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as already in your possession. What you can see in your mind, you can get.
via Pravsworld
Read more...“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” - Albert Einstein
1. Until next Thursday (15th January 2009), you can download the PDF version of Suze Orman’s 2009 Action Plan from Oprah’s website for free.
From Amazon:
If in late 2007 you were told that over the next twelve months housing would crater to 20% below it's all-time peak, unemployment would rise from below 5% to nearly 8%, stocks would fall nearly 50%, and a gallon of gas would spike to more than $4 (and then drop below $2) you would probably have shrugged it off as just a whole lot of doomsday-scenario crankiness. But that's exactly what we all had to live through and continue to grapple with in 2009.
My 2009 Action Plan is designed to make sure you are ready for the unexpected—this year and every year forward. I most certainly hope things get better for us all, but in the meantime I want to make sure you have a plan in place that will protect you no matter what “what ifs” lay ahead.
2. A free download is also available of Leo Babauta’s Thriving on Less: Simplifying in a Tough Economy (pdf format)
From the introduction:
Read more...The recent economic recession has a lot of people worried, about their jobs, their businesses, their homes and their bills. When your income is dropping or in jeopardy and you still have a mountain of bills to pay, things can get pretty scary.
However, tough economic times do not have to be a time of struggles! If you look for the opportunity in the middle of difficulty, as Mr. Einstein suggested, then tough economic times become an opportunity to transform your life.
A humorous digg at the Satyam scandal that rocked the Indian Stock Markets on 07-Jan-2009.
“Be fearful when others are greedy and Be greedy when others are fearful” - Warren Buffet
This is easier said than done but is the perfect quote in today’s financial turmoil. It’s been almost a year now since the Indian Stock Market dropped about 60% from it’s peak. While it is impossible to time the market, try to invest a % of income every month now (provided you have not exhausted everything yet!). Valuations are much much cheaper.
The global economic crisis has had an impact on the Indian economy but the growth story is still intact, though not at the same pace. No economy or industry can remain isolated because one cannot self sustain but the impact can vary. Take for example the general insurance industry. Now how would the crisis impact the industry because everybody needs insurance and the demand will never go down. As mentioned above, the economic crisis is a vicious circle between the industries. Auto industry has recorded negative growth, nobody is buying new cars as a result dip in the new vehicle premium and 100% renewal retention is still a distant dream for every company. Similar situation is there for Projects, Marine & other product insurance as well and as a result the general insurance industry also slows down.
Closing this post by giving the two golden rules of investments
Rule #1: Do not lose money; and
Rule #2: Always remember the rule #1.
Happy investing :)
Read more...Have just migrated whatever few posts I have from wordpress to blogspot. There are no official tools from either of the sites which support this but Paul Cooley has come to the rescue. you can download the software from
http://linuxlore.blogspot.com/2007/09/livejournal-to-blogger-or-blogger-to.html
Read more...Found an excellent software for organizing video and movies collection.. caters to just about everything that I was looking out in a collection software
Just downloaded Windows Live Writer from here so that I test the ease of posting. this is pretty cool and much much convenient for me. so think that will stick to this for some time.
Recently came across this website which can test your actual Internet speed.
According to the website, it measures your current Internet speed to the nearest server (almost 50.000 server worldwide). The site also tests your download (speed with which you receive data from internet), upload (speed with which you send data to the internet), connection test (maximal number of connections per minute) as well as ping (response time between your computer and the internet)
Below is the result of my connection!
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