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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 |
The only thing said to be more delicate than a girl’s heart is a LCD screen and it needs much more care than a CRT. LCD panels hold polarizing crystals between two glass sheets which produce the quality pictures. The images produced by a LCD are many times better than a CRT but even minor damage can ruin it completely. Unfortunately, the LCD panel becomes of no use if the glass panel breaks down and liquid crystals held inside get dispersed.
The only thing you can do in that case is throw it in trash. However if the degree of damage is just limited to a scratch then you can definitely do something to mend it.
There are two ways to remove scratches on your LCD screen:
1. First of all apply diluted isopropyl alcohol (50/50 with water) with a clean cotton cloth on the surface of the screen. This should make the surface clear of any dirt and then you can put Vaseline in the trough of scratch. Gently wipe the Vaseline left off the scratch. This should fill the scratch with Vaseline and you can again enjoy gaming or watching videos on your screen.
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 |
While you’re browsing pictures on Flickr, there appears an ‘All Sizes’ option above photos. Clicking on the ‘All Sizes’ option takes you to a page that has links to the photo in various sizes, including its biggest version. But not all pictures have that, as some photos have restricted permissions and have the ‘All Sizes’ option missing or disabled and it’s not possible to directly retrieve the original version of the photo.
However, Get Flickr is a tool from TechRoam that helps you retrieve the original size of a Flickr image easily even if the ‘All Sizes’ option is not given.
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008 |
I have to take plenty of screenshots, every now and then capturing a screenshot on a Mac is very easy, so simple that I just love doing it. Here is how you do it.
If you have to capture a screenshot of your entire desktop simply press (Command + Shift + 3) all together. The Command button is the one that has the apple symbol on it.
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008 |
Hello guys, this is my first contribution on realgeek.com, recently I converted FAT to NTFS, and this is how I did it. I thought it would be good to share with you all. I would recommended you to backup your important files to an external hard drive or another location.
This process carries high assurance that this would work for you, as it did for me, but it’s always a good precaution. Please know that this process can not be Reversed.
What’s NTFS? NTFS, short for NT File System, is the most secure and robust file system for Windows NT, 2000, and XP. It provides security by supporting access control and ownership privileges, meaning you can set permission for groups or individual users to access certain files.
And if you really need the conversion, make sure to Verify that the file system is really FAT32
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 |
I was so fond of google desktop, but then it made my system real slow, in day to day work I often have to look up files on my computer, but then it takes a lot of time. And it is highly likely that my computer organization is as messed up as my room. I have also tried the Window Vista’s Search 4.0 Preview.
Bringing things in order is not easy and seriously not many of us even want things in order. In such a situation the best way to find things (that we stored months back and now wasting time on retrieving it) is to use this Quick File Search utility called Locate 32. And believe this is lite! (more…)
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 |
CD’s are definitely on the verge of becoming obsolete but still some of us use them to store data or more specifically movies and songs. DVD’s are definitely a better option to store data as they save more and are less prone to scratches. Still we have all been to situation where we somehow lose data because of some damage on CD/DVD. In such a situation you can either use a toothpaste to recover the data on your CD if they are just scratches or you can also use few softwares if the degree of damage is high.
Little toothpaste can be applied on the surface of the optical media with a clean cloth to help you retrieve data on your optical media. And if that doesn’t work then you can use CD Recovery Toolbox which can recover files from damaged or corrupted CD/DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-Ray disks. It is a freeware and it can get data from your CD back which was considered as dead. You can even use a trialware called CD Check which can help you retrieve data.
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 |
There are times when you have something on your desktop and you want to share it with others. You have a tutorial to share or a certain part of desktop to capture or record a video so that you can share it with others. There are few softwares which help you to do it but nothing could be better than Jing Project.
It projects everything on your screen to anything on your desktop in a manner than you can share it with others. It captures or records precisely the area that you define without bothering at all in your work. You can continue to tell what are the new features in Firefox and how do you add hair to a bald guy in Photoshop leaving all the technicalities to Jing. (more…)
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 |
Downloading softwares, using them and then uninstalling them (if they are of no use to me) is something which I am supposed to do to come up with new and more reviews.
If you are even slightly nerdy and geeky then I am sure then you too do it all the time. But there is one problem we all face when we try to uninstall some software and it is the leftovers of that utility in registry and other areas where Windows Xp never search.
You can use a software called Revo Uninstaller to uninstall a software as completely as it can get. Revo searches files in registry and other areas to clean the hard disk from all the junk of the uninstalled software. It is a freeware so you wont mind giving it a try at least.
It can also help you to solve the uninstalling problem that you might be facing while removing certain programs. This utility has everything to make “Windows Add or Remove Programs” as an obsolete applet on control panel. A powerful and useful application to help keep your PC clean.
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