Hey there! In this article I will let you know about some awesome computer tips and tricks. If you want to learn something new and exciting then please keep reading :) 

1) Use Monoface to make funny faces and have fun. Go to Monoface and create faces by just clicking on it . Don't blame me if you freak out of yourself at the 1st time

2) Multiple user login in yahoo Massager without any software or patch: You can login to to yahoo messenger with multiple user ID without any software or patch. You just have to do a simple Task. First click Start menu and then click run, then type regedit and then press enter. A box will appear now from the box navigate HKEY_CURRENT_USER , then from the list select SOFTWARE , then from the software select YAHOO , then from Yahoo select PAGER , then from Pager select TEST. Now right click on the TEST and then click Dword value. In the right side you will notice a new folder appears, Rename it as Plural. Then double click it then select decimal and give the value 1 in the value box and click OK. That's it now try to login in yahoo messenger with multiple ID. (you will find this tricks as the most useful trick )

3) Watch Star wars Movie in your PC : Do you know you can watch Star wars Text movie from your computer. To watch it click the start button then click Run . Type telnet in run. You will find DOS black screen. in the black screen of Dos , type o and click enter and again typetowel.blinkenlights.nl and click enter . That's it, the text movie will begin, wait for few seconds and enjoy it . :)

4) Watch Videos on megavideo without any time limit: We often get annoyed when we watch an online movie in Megavideo and suddenly after 72 minutes it interrupts. To avoid this problem first copy the video link of megavideo and then Click here . Then past the link to this website and enjoy the movie without any interruption.

5.Make an invisible Folder: In my previous Hubs i have told you how to make a folder without any names. Now i am going to show you how to make a complete invisible folder to your desktop. You can surprise people by doing this trick. At first you have to make the folder without any name. So first the folder then right click and click rename , remove the name (by backspace or delete button) , hold in that position. Be sure your numlock is on, if not then make it on. Now press and hold ALT button and type 0160 (remember you must have to hold ALT button and typw the code from the num pad must, it won't appear in the screen) . When you complete typing the code, release ALT and press enter . you will see a folder without no name. At first try it will be difficult for you to acquire the whole tricks but eventually you will get it right. So try , apology if i failed to make you understand .

Now the second part is easy, you just have to make the folder invisible. To do that select the folder, right click go to properties , click customize , then click Change icon and then you will find many icons available, slowly search for a icon that doesn't show, i mean an invisible icon totally blank, select and then apply .

Thats it, The invisible folder is ready, You can also make it invisible without removing the name. Then only name will appear without the folder

6. On-Screen Keyboard: Ohk this is the most simple trick, in fact it is not a trick. It's for those who yet hasn't heard about it. Sometimes you may need to type something urgently but if you found that your keyboard is not working what you will do? You simple just click Start, then clickall programs , then accessories , then accessibility and then click on-screen key board . Thats it, you can type through the mouse only.

7.Create Shutdown,log off, or hibernate shortcut key: Sometimes we get too lazy and we need some easier way to do our work. Lets create shortcut key to shutdown our computers. At first right click on your desktop free space then click new and select shortcut. A box will appear and type the following word exactly shutdown -r -t 0 . then click ok. A new shortcut folder will be created and you can shut down your computer immediately . For log off or stand by copy the following :

Restart: shutdown -r -t 0

Logoff: shutdown -l -t 0

Hibernate: rundll32.exe PowrProf.dll, SetSuspendState Hibernate

Google often surprises us with their search tricks. In this post we are going to give you the list of some funny search tricks. 

1) Do a barrel roll: Go to Google.com and type Do a barrel roll and enjoy a barrel roll.

2) Zerg rush: Go to Google.com and type Zerg rush. Wait for 10 seconds and enjoy the trick

3) Google Gravity trick: Go to Google.com and type Google gravity trick, click the first result or go to this link. You can move all the parts of Google search bar. Just play with it the way you like.

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How to set up your second monitor

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• Extend your displays. This spreads your desktop over both monitors and lets you drag items between the two screens. This is how most people use two monitors, and it's the default setting for desktop computers. After your monitor is set up, you can use your mouse to grab the title bar (the top portion) of a window and drag it to your new display. If a window does not move when you drag it, double-click the title bar first, and then drag it.
  
• Duplicate your displays. This displays the same desktop on both monitors. For a laptop, this is the default setting. This is useful if you're giving a presentation with your laptop connected to a projector or large monitor.
  
• Show your desktop on only one monitor. This is most commonly used with a laptop if you want to keep your laptop screen blank after you connect to a large desktop monitor.
  

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With the ever growing trend of digital cameras and the ability to take many shots a once, particularly if you have an DSLR, you may find you have a lot of duplicate photos. Although disk space isn’t a premium as it once was, having many duplicate files of the same image really is pointless. Today’s app is called PhotoSweeper and it is designed to search through your iPhoto, Aperture or simply the images you add to the app, and see which are duplicates. It does this based on how the image looks so it can be pretty good.

When you start the app, you are given a blank screen. The first step is to add the images you want to compare. This can either be from iPhoto, Aperture, Lightroom or by dragging and dropping images onto the workspace.

The next step is to set up the criteria to compare the images. The method to find the comparison is to create a thumbnail of the image and then compare the thumbnails. This allows the app to run quickly; since it doesn’t have a massive image, pixel by pixel, to compare and the ability to automatically weed out anomalies and errors within the image. This allows the app to get a match spot on over the whole image. If the app compared each pixel of a full size image, any subtle change would be reported, it would also take for ever to go through your library. There is a good manual included with the app which gives you a bit more detail.

The settings allow you to compare the bitmap, which is the pixels within the image. The histogram, which compares the amount of colour within each image or the time interval, so you remove shots that were taken too close together. You can also combine the time interval with the bitmap or histogram method, this allows you to pick up images that are taken close together and then compare them by the image. If you want an exact duplicate option, rather than a ‘fuzzy’ match, there is that option too. Each one is explained, with plenty of settings, within the side bar.

When you have picked your option, you hit the compare button and the app does it’s thing. It managed to use all 8 cores on my mac, at 800%, and blasted through my iPhoto library in a matter of seconds.

When the app has reviewed all of the images, you can now begin to sort and remove the duplicates. The review section has the ability to adjust the match settings on the fly, so if you want more or less images, you can quickly change this setting without having to re-compare your entire selection.

You can then move through your library one by one, looking at the images and seeing which ones can be deleted. The app gives you a comparison metric, in terms of percent, showing you how close it thinks each image matches. In the screenshot above, it thinks the image match 92.1%, enough to satisfy a duplicate copy.

When you have gone through the images, you move them to the ‘box’ by dragging them into the drop zone. It took me a while to work out what the ‘box’ meant, but it is a final holding pen before the images are removed.

If you really can’t be bothered to go through each image, one by one, you can use the ‘auto put’ option which will select the duplicates for you and put them in the ‘box’.

The final step is to delete, move or copy the duplicate images. You can either delete them, move them to a separate location, or copy them away. There are option for the move and copy, to rename or append the file name. Deletion is the last step.

Overall I think this app is pretty good. It finds duplicates well and has a lot of power under the hood. A lot of time has been spent getting the core of this app to work. The settings and the work flow through the app are simple and make it easy to understand.

There are two problems I find with this app, that would otherwise make it a complete application. Nowhere obvious does it tell you what it means by ‘box’. It makes sense what it means when you use the app, but it takes a bit of guessing. I would like to see some clearer, more obvious instruction as to what it means, or re-name it. The manual in this regard references the ‘box’ plenty of times, but doesn’t explain what it means.

The second change I would like to see if the ability to delete image straight from iPhoto. When you hit delete, to remove your duplicates, it will remove the images by opening up iPhoto and then moving them to the trash. You then have to manually delete the images, again, in iPhoto. It is a little bit of a pain, since iPhoto takes so long to open up, and then having to delete the image. I suspect this is a technical reason this isn’t implemented.

I do like this app, it works really well and under the hood is written to utilise the abilities of your Mac. I was amazed it was using all 8 cores of the system. It is very useful and although there are some problems I can see these being resolved.

The app costs $9.99 and is available from the App Store. Bargain. There is a demo available from there site.

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Very are various different bottle necks on your Mac that effect the performance of your computer. Originally it would be your CPU being too slow, then RAM was an issue and resulted in a lot of disk paging. Now, I think, the issue of bottle necks on your system is your hard drive. This post will show you a cool app designed to test your hard drive speeds. Its one of the nicest looking, and easiest to use apps out there. Although you can use Activity Monitor to gauge the hard disk speed, this app can be used on individual disks.

The app in question is Blackmagic Disk Speed Test. It will test the speed of your hard drives in both read and write mode. When you open the app you have a couple of choices, the drive you want to test, which is useful if you have multiple drives and the size of the file it will test for. The bigger the file the more accurate result as it smooths out the inaccuracies due to the system having to access the disk at the same time.

After you hit run, you will be presented with an image similar to the following:

The app shows what speed you are running at for both the read and write operation. The app is also useful for showing many many frames per second you can watch HD movies at, although I do think these values are slightly inaccurate.

My super fast hard drive speeds are due to an SSD drive, I have the Corsair Force Series GT and it is amazing. My Mac boots super fast and apps open instantly, you sort of expect this to happen if you can read data at 420Mb/sec. I have also heard that the Crucial m4 and OCZ Vertex 4 are realy good too.

This is only a quick post, however I really do like the blackmagic tool. It is one of the best looking apps for doing this sort of thing. Its free, simple and does its job.

If you have any questions or comments about this app, please leave one using the form below.

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