Bring a wireless router which supports VPN (virtual private network). You can choose among many brands. D-Link, Linksys, Netgear, SMC & Trendnet are some of the popular brands.

Step 2:

If your PC does not have a built-in wi-fi support. You will need to use a PCI Card to recieve signals from the router. If you do not have a PCI Slot, you can install an add-on card in your PC to enable wi-fi support.

Step 3:

Install the router. Plug in your internet cable and switch on the router. You will need a LAN cable connecting your PC and router to configure your router for first time. You can ask your ISP to configure it for you because there can be many internet specific settings involved.

Step 4:

Once the router is configured, You can detect the wireless network connection on your PC, then you can connect to it and use the internet through Wi-Fi.

Step 5:

If you wish to connect other devices to the wireless network, they have to wireless enabled, if not, you can purchase wireless adapters for a laptop, for example. Any wireless device should automatically connect to the wireless network by detecting the signals from the router.

Step 1:

Go to Start Menu > Control Panel

Step 2:

Inside control panel, select ‘uninstall a program’ under ‘programs’.

Step 3:

It will generate a list of your install applications. You can select any application you want to remove and then press ‘uninstall/change’.

Step 4:

You will be asked for confirmation after which the application would be installed.

Follow the steps below to integrate the two.

Step 1:

Start Outlook, Go to the ‘Tools’ Menu on the top and select ‘Account Settings’.

Step 2:

In the Account Setting Manager. Click ‘new’ button under ‘E-mail’ tab.

Step 3:

Now you can provide the information of your email account. Put your name, E-mail address and password in thier respective fields.

Step 4:

Now the outlook will try to connect to hotmail and the settings will be saved for future access. Press Finish to close the window. Your account has been configured.

In this tutorial we will see how you change the resolution of your monitor. In a windows machine a monitor’s resolution is measured in pixels and represented as “X by Y pixels” which means your screen will be ‘X’ pixels wide and ‘Y’ pixels high. Please follow these guidelines to set your computer’s resolution to fit your monitor’s size.

Step 1:

Right click on any free area on the Desktop and click on “Properties”. In the next window that pops up, click on the “Settings” tab on the top Menu Bar.

Step 2:

There will see a specific box named “Screen resolution”. It is the option which sets your monitor’s resolution in pixels. As you can see, by default is “1024 by 768 pixels” which means 1024 pixels in width and 768 pixels in height. Now if your monitor is small or very big, you may be required to adjust the resolution to optimize visibility. To do so, click on the “Slide Bar” there and adjust the value. And click on “Apply”.

Step 3:

Once you do so you will be prompted with the following information and your desktops resolution will be set to the desired value. If you like this setting then click on “Yes” otherwise go for “No”.

Step 4:

Now click on “Ok” on the main window and your monitor’s resolution will be changed.

We always need to hide some of our personal files on the system; the reason may be security or something  other. Using the general way to do so i.e. using Windows hiding technique is not that secure because anyone else having access to your system can uncheck the hiding option and view the files. So here we will discuss one more technique that will super hide your data. And even though “view hidden files” option is checked, those files won’t be visible. Now before doing this, you should know Windows hides its system files using some other technique and those files are not visible even if the hiding option is unchecked. Just follow these simple steps.

Step 1

First open any Explorer window and go to “Tools” -> “Folder options” -> “View”. You will get a list like this,

Step 2

Uncheck the option that says, “Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)” and check the option “Show hidden files and folders”. While doing so you will get a “Warning”, click on “Yes”.

Step 3

Now in the top folder of the hierarchy you will see a folder named “RECYCLER”. Copy and paste this folder to the place where you want to save your files as super hidden. And rename the folder.

Step 4

Now after copying your personal files in the renamed folder, go back to the Step 1 and do the following. Again check the options which say, “Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)” and “Do not show hidden files and folders”. Once you do so, system files won’t be visible anymore.

Now whenever someone tries to view your hidden files using the known way, they won’t be able to because you have hid the files as system files and they are not visible even though hidden files are.

With Real Media Player 11, it is very easy to record any streaming video you watch online. It can be in any format except the protected ones of DRM. Many streaming videos are not recorded that way. Just take one simple example, YouTube, where you can easily save all the video files. Just follow these easy steps to do so.

Step 1:

First of all install the new Real Media Player 11 on your System. And while installing don’t forget to switch on “Downloading and Recording” option. If you don’t, then after installing it, open Real Media Player and click on “Tools” on the top Menu Bar and go for “Preferences..” as shown in the screenshot. The following window will pop up.

Step 2:

In the left side Panel, you will see an option “Download and Recording”, click on it. On the right hand side area the following options will show up.

Step 3:

You will see an option for “Enable web Downloading and Recording”, check it in. and press “Ok”. Real Player “Downloading and Recording” plug-in will be added automatically to your browser.

Step 4:

Now open your browser and go to the YouTube. Select the video you want to watch. When it opens up in the browser, just above the embedded player you will see a little pop-up saying “Download this Video”. Click on it.

Step 5:

When you do so, the following window will show up and you can see that downloading of the file is going. Just wait for some time, and the video will be downloaded and saved to your hard drive.

Nowadays, for many of us, the Internet has made our life easier and more entertaining. We can watch online videos, sport or play games, we spend hours on social networking sites talking to our friends, etc. It’s like having your own house in the worldwide network of Internet. But sometimes when we are not online and sitting infront of our computer we wish we could have the online hour offline. But we don’t know how?

So here in this series of tutorials, we are going to find to out how to have those precious online hours offline right on to your hard drive.

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Tutorial 1…..

How to save multi media images

When you are on your social networking sites like Facebook, Orkut etc, or browsing any other multi-media website, you definitely want to have your favorite pictures on your hard drive, but it is not allowed. So here is the trick to do that,

Step 1

First of all open the Website in Mozilla browser from where you want to have the picture in any format.

Step 2:

When the page is fully loaded, on the top “Menu Bar” you will see an option for “Tools” click on it and go for “Page Info” as shown in the screenshot,

Step 3:

As soon as you do so, the following window will pop up. At the Menu Bar you will see an option for “Media”.

Step 4:

In the “Media” option, a list of media contents like images, shockwave files or anything which is there on that page will be displayed. When you click on them, in the bottom area will be provided with a Preview of that element whatever it is. And if this is what you want to save, just click on “Save As” and you will be asked for the location where to save the file, give it and press “Ok”. And you are done. Mozilla will save it on your hard disk.

Lyrics are the textual transcription of the audio files you listen to, it’s like subtitles in case of video files. In Windows, Windows Media Player allows you to add the lyrics which means the lyrics will show up automatically whenever the music files are played. Follow these steps to do so,

Step 1:

First open the audio file in Windows Media Player you want to add lyrics to. Now search for the lyrics for that song online in any website that offers lyrics free of cost. Copy the lyrics from there and save it to a local file in your computer.

Step 2:

Open Windows media player, click on the “Library” button on the to menu bar. The following window will display.

Step 3:

In the main window you will see the listings of “Now Playing”. Right click on the item to which you want to add Lyrics and select the option “Advanced Tag Editor”.

Step 4:

On the right hand side click on “Add” button and the following small box will appear on top of that. From the drop down list select the language in which the lyrics is.

Step 5:

Just below it, you will see another area called “Text”. In that text area paste the Lyrics you have copied from the website. And then press “Ok”.

Step 6:

Now come back to “Now Playing” area from the top Menu bar. If you don’t see the lyrics displayed in the Visualization area, then click on the “Play” on the menu Bar and go for “Lyrics, Captions, and Subtitles”. Under this select the sub-option “On if Available”. Now you can see the lyrics displayed on the Visualization area.

After following these steps, you can add lyrics to any of your favorite music files.

Active Desktop was a feature introduced by Windows long ago. Although in the beginning this feature wasn’t actively used, now with the increasing use of Internet, people have started to use this feature more and more. It gives you the flexibility to use your desktop just as any other browser. You can have your wallpaper set up in the desktop itself. You can even embed different graphical elements or Java Applets. Just follow these steps to activate Active Desktop,

Step 1:

Right click on any empty area on you desktop and on the window that appears click on “Properties”. You will get the following window,

Step 2:

On the top Menu bar you will see one option “Desktop”, click on it. The following window will open up. Click on the “Customize Desktop” at the bottom as shown in the screenshot.

Step 3:

In the next window as shown in the following screenshot you will see another option “Web” on the top Menu bar. Go for it.

Step 4:

You can see an option for “My Current Homepage”. Check on it. It will import your homepage from IE as the Active Object to be displayed on the desktop. And press “Ok”.

And you are done. You can see your homepage displayed on the wallpaper and you can use it right from there. All the information will be displayed on your Desktop itself.

Green Gadgets

This tutorial can not be called a traditional How-To type tutorial. We all know how to use the keyboard and some Shortcuts too. But perhaps you’ve never come across a full listing of the available shortcuts. And guess what? Some of them are very useful. Once you learn them, you will definitely find yourself using them regularly. So here is a very concise list of some interesting key shortcuts.

• Windows Key + L à used to quickly lock your computer.
• Windows Key + D à used to show the desktop. It can be useful when you have a many windows open and need to access some important shortcut on the desktop. If you want all the windows back, then click the key combination again.
• Windows Key + M à minimize all the current active windows.
• Windows Key + shift + M à open all the minimized windows together.
• Windows Key + R à to open “Run” Command
• Windows Key + Pause/Break à display “System Properties” Dialog box.
• Windows Key + Tab à cycle through the all open entries on the Task bar
• Windows Key à display ”Start” menu.
• Alt + Enter à display the “Properties” of the selected file or folder.
• Alt + Space Bar à display the shortcut menu of the current window.

I have tried to put some interesting key shortcuts which will be useful for general use. For a complete listing of all the available ones please consult Microsoft’s help manual.