Monthly Archives: January 2012

PC Power Supply Unit – Is it important ???

Power SMPS

  Short answer – YES For the long answer read on …. Ever wondered why a good quality computer power supply costs Rs.3000 and upwards whereas you can get a Cabinet+PSU for 1000 Rs. What is the difference ? Cheap PSU does not include the the following to save costs AC Filter and Transient Suppressor – This is a relatively …

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How to hide user account in Windows 7

Here I’m showing steps to hide a user account in Windows 7. The user account can be hidden from welcome screen but can be used while sharing etc. Steps Create a new account from User Accounts Make the following changes in registry Goto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\Userlist Create a new “KEY”  if “SpecialAccounts” is not listed, under special accounts create “userlist” too (again …

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Supercharge your wireless router !!!

Wifi router

The stock firmware in most of the wireless routers are severely limiting in features and performance. To make the most out of your router, you can switch to alternate firmwares like DD-WRT, OpenWRT, Tomato etc. However the alternate firmwares are in a constant state of development, which are mostly done in the spare time of developers. There are no ETA …

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Google+ and the missing social media channel

Google plus logo

  So, it’s been almost six months since the launch of Google+. Back in June and July we were all signing up and creating ‘circles’, but how much have we used it since? More importantly for owners of small businesses, how much do commercial organizations and businesses use the service? Research shows that the idea of Google+ is very attractive …

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