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Using your computer as your alarm clock

Using your computer as your alarm clock.

What does every teen do? Go to school. And what does every teen use to wake up? Either a radio alarm that plays anything you want as long as its static, or a loud, obnoxious BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ until you throw it out the window. How can you save money on broken alarm clocks which can add up after a while? Use your computer to play your favorite song at the time you need to wake up. Who would have thought of that? You’ve got a computer in your room that is turned on 24/7, so it’s available, and you’ve also got an alarm that is on 24/7 that is annoying. Throw the alarm out the window once and for all and use your computer.

I’ve split this guide into two portions. The first is for all of you Windows users out there, and the second part is for all of you Linux users out there.

Windows

Windows is quite simple to get set up as a fully working alarm clock. All you need is your favorite music playing software. I prefer to use WinAmp because it’s small, and has a few other options that you can use (streaming to other computers to wake up the whole house for instance ), but you can use others, such as iTunes. Next, you need a playlist file, which we will use a .M3U file, which is basically just a list of songs, but it also plays with iTunes (I have not tested it with Windows Media Player). This file is just a simple text file that lists the songs you want played (everything must be in the same “folder” for this to work without jumping through too many hoops). Finally, you need your volume up. Not loud enough that it wakes up the people three doors down (no pun intended) from you, but lound enough to get you awake and into your usual routine.

Step 1:
Collect your music. It doesn’t matter where you get it from, as long as whatever music player your using can play it (as a rule of thumb, just stick with MP3s).

Step 2:
Build your .M3U playlist file. Using “Notepad” (under “Accessories” in the start menu), it creates a pure text file without any formatting that Microsoft Word or Wordpad will put in it.

Here’s the look of the .M3U file:

#EXTM3U
song1.mp3
song2.mp3
song3.mp3
and so on.mp3

Just save this as “alarm.m3u” to wherever your music is saved.

Step 3:
Create a “batch” file that will start your playlist. A batch file is simple in this respect. Run a single command that opens and starts playing your playlist automatically. Save this as “alarm.bat” in the same place as your playlist file.

Here’s what your batch file should look like:

start alarm.m3u

And that’s it for the file portion of the alarm clock.

Step 4:
Create a “Scheduled Task” to start the batch file at the desired time. Under the “Control Panel”, there is an “applet” called “Scheduled Tasks.” Create a new task, and where it asks for the program to run “Browse” to the “alarm.bat” file that we created earlier. Set the time, and you have yourself a custom alarm clock.

Note:
If you set your music player to shuffle, it won’t start with the same song every morning.

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use Pen Drive as Ram

Use Pen Drive as Ram

How to use Pen Drive/Hard Disk as Ram to Speed Up Computer in Windows 7, XP, Vista, Linux:

Introduction:-

PC requirement of RAM is huge and because ram is very expensive memory so we try to minimize it by either using Hard Disk or PenDrive as RAM. Thou using hard disk and pen drive as RAM is very economical option but they are not as fast as the actual ram is so the ram space which is created through these opteration are used to store data of applications that are not currently active that is which have been stopped ,not closed but which we are not using currently.

Among the two type of external ram, pen drive is faster one because pen drive is created using much faster disk technology then hard disk.

How to use Hard Disk as RAM:-

1.  Goto "My Computer"
2. Now Right Click on Blank Space in My Computer or simply Right Click on My Computer Icon
3. Now on right click menu that appears Left Click on  Property
4. Now new windows will pop up here. if you are using XP then goto Advanced Tab and if you are using Higher Version then Goto Advanced System Setting option on the right in the window that appeared and then Goto Advanced Tab of the next window.
5. here you can see number of Setting Button, click the setting button which is under performance section
6. now in the window that appeared Goto Advanced Tab
7. now in Virtual Memory Section you can see the currently allocated space and if you feel it is not present or used in less amount then click on the change button and increase the value in the window that appears

Note:- you can also see the below figure if you have any doubts.

How to Use Pen Drive as RAM:-

1. First Step is identifying Software Needed
   
   For XP or lower:- eboostr (download from here and install it).
   For Vista or higher:- readyBoost  (already present).
2. Now attach/insert your pen drive to computer.
3. Now to use readyboost on windows 7

• Goto Property of Pen Drive by right clicking the pendrive icon in my computer
• now click to readyBoost tab on the window that appears
• now as you can see from the figure first press "Dedicate this device to readyboost" radio button
• then adjust the memory you want to give to ram from Pen drive
• and thats it!!

Now to use eboostr in Windows XP :

• first you need to install eboostr onto your computer and then restart the computer as asked by the software
• then open eboostr control panel from start menu
• now click continue button if you have trail version
• now you have to add one of the drive to Eboostr Control Panel by click add and then selecting one of the drive and you need to specify disk space there itself
• see the figure below if you have confusion.

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Use Keyboard as Mouse – How to Guide

Recently My Mouse Stopped Working because of Drivers got Currupted, Device Drivers Getting Currupted in Windows May not be the Common Problem, But Can happen anytime with you, Due to this Problem i was not able to use my mouse. I Tried every possible Solution like uninstalling drivers and restarting my PC. Unplugging and then pluging in my mouse back, and yeah Searched internet too, Since i was not able to use my mouse, i had to UseKeyboard as Mouse While Finding for solution to this Problem.

Guess What ? Nothing Helped and Had to Refresh my Windows 8, But Hey, Everything happens for good. Thankfully I knew how to Use Keyboard as Mouse flawlessly. Well this was just my Reason, at times there are situations where you may need to Substitute your mouse with Keyboard. So today in this tutorial we will Learn to Use Keyboard as Mouse In Windows.

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How to Use Keyboard as Mouse in Windows

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Windows OS has an Inbuilt option Called MouseKeys, Not much people are aware of it but yes now you are.  You can Enable/disable and disable MouseKeys very Easily.

• You can Enable it by Pressing  Alt + Shift + Numlock keys. As soon as you do it, you will be prompt with the below dialog box, Just Click Yes to it.

• Make Sure your Numlock is Off while you Use keyboard as mouse.

• Done !!! Now you will see MouseKeys icon on your taskbar, which means now you are all set.

• Now talking about the Controllers,  Use 8,2,4 and 6 Keys from Numpad to move Up, Down, Left and Right Respectively.

Alternatively You can also use Third Party Program Called NeatMouse , This software is portable, Main advantage to use it is it gives you better Control because of additional options that it makes available. it have an option to Remap Controller keys according to your Comfort.

Probably we will have to Use Keyboard as Mouse temporarily and not for long time so one may not prefer to get third party software for this task, but many may do it as it is free and can be helpful.

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Titling your Facebook Post as you need

You can change the title tag and descriptions of any post you share on Facebook to suit your needs (Especially useful for SEO purposes). This will ensure you’re getting the right message off to your friends.

1. After you pop the link into your status box, you can hover over the title of the post. (Highlighted in yellow)

2. Click on the title and it turns into an editable box.

3. Enter your desired text and press enter.

4. Customize the description using the same steps.

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