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Laptop these days are dead cheap and almost every other guy owns one. It’s almost replacing the desktops in all respects and offers more value than a laptop. It’s as powerful and efficient as a desktop and offers you more which desktops can’t.

If you own a desktop, by now you probably would be using two monitors instead of one, which also happens to increase your productivity. For more info read : Multiple Monitors Increase Productivity. Now those who own a laptop too can use a second monitor in conjunction with their laptops :).

By setting up two monitors you can typically have one application running on the laptop screen and any other application running on the additional second monitor. In addition to the current setup, you will need a few other hardware like dual video card, dual processing card to have the dual monitor feature up and running on your laptop. As I’ve already mentioned above, have dual/multiple monitors definitely increases your productivity, but it’s much harder to get this set up for a laptop when compared to a desktop.

Lets look into the basic essentials to get started:

Find what most laptops have, a VGA port or depending on your laptop it might also be a DYI port, plugin the external monitor to which ever port your laptop has and try to configure the Display Control panel to simultaneously handle both the monitors, side by side. (Just position the boxes labeled 1 and 2 and click “Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor.” (See screenshot for detail.) That’s all it takes… It is this simple, provided your laptop’s Video Graphic Acess card supports multiple monitors.

But how will you know if your Graphics Card is geared up to handle such a situation? Technically speaking it should be able to as the Graphic Card Manufacturers do their home work and research and know the dual monitors are in much need. If you have any of the most recent ATI and Nvidia graphics cards,  or even the Intel GMA 945G integrated graphics chip you can be assured that your Graphic Cards support Double display. If you have ATI or Nvidia graphics on your laptop, download the latest drivers from either the appropriate website or from your laptop manufacturer’s drivers page. Occasionally you can do a Windows Update for new drivers from Microsoft, but I personally am not a bit fan of Microsoft drivers and I prefer the drivers provided by the manufacturers… who else can know the product better :).

Once you have installed the new driver, follow the steps mentioned above and you should be able to get the dual monitors running. If you still fail to get the two displays to show up, don’t be disheartened as it just means that your PC cannot support dual display. But that’s not the end of the world, there are other ways to get this working.

Every laptop will have PC card slots. There are a number of VGA adapter PC cards available in the market. You can buy one of the best and fix it onto your laptop. These VGA adapters will work as the interface connectors for the second monitor to go up with your laptop. They can be a bit pricey, some cards can even support up to 3 or 4 monitors at the same time, but if you are a tech freak who wants to try out these cool stuff with your PC, go ahead don’t look at the price, just get them and get your lappie fixed.

Other alternatives are USB adapters but, they are no match to the VGA adapters, so I personally will not advice you to go with USB adapters, but if money is the constraint, then you should compromise with the quality and go with USB adapters.

A seamless integration of design and functionality. Your music and your life now fit perfectly in the ZEN V Plus. Enjoy a full suite of entertainment in a petite design - loads of music, full color photos, FM radio and view short video clips.

Who says that you can’t have it all? With the YP-T9 Multimedia player you will be able to download and listen to your favorite songs, view videos, view photographs, play games or listen to your favorite radio station. The YP-T9JAB will become an integral part of your daily life.

Key Features

Storage Capacity -  4 GB
Key Functions - Radio, Audio Player, Voice Recorder, Photo Viewer, Video Player, Games
Screen Size - 1.8 in.
Supported Memory - Integrated
Storage Type - Flash
Supported Media Format - JPEG, MP3, MPEG-4, Ogg Vorbis, Protected WMA (DRM), WMA
Compatible OS - Microsoft Windows 98/ME/2000/XP, MS Windows XP
Average Battery Life - 30 hrs.
Max Battery Life - 30 hrs.
Connector Types - Headphones, USB
Installed Memory     4 GB
Audio Format Audio Format     Protected WMA (DRM), WMA, Ogg Vorbis, MP3
Interface Provided     - USB, Headphones
Connectors     - 1 x headphones, 1 x USB
Required OS     - Microsoft Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
Features Equalizer     - Yes
Tuner Bands      - FM
Included Components     - USB cable
Power Power Source     -Player battery - rechargeable - lithium polymer
General Product Info Weight     - 1.7 oz
Also known as     - Samsung YP-T9JAB/XAA, Samsung, Samsung YP-T9JAB

Zen Nano is a skip-free MP3 player, perfect for anyone new to music downloading and wanting to show off their style. When it comes to choice, the only difficult decision you need to make is which of the electrifying colors suits your lifestyle. Will you choose pink to match your wardrobe, blue for a running companion, or black to show off on the slopes?

Take shuffle to a whole new level. Not only will Zen Nano randomly shuffle through all your 500 songs, but the LCD display reveals more then one way to listen to you music. The possibilities are endless! Now you can find the songs you want to hear, listen to your new album, repeat your favorite songs, and more.

Listen to hours of continuous music by simply replacing the AAA battery on your morning jog, afternoon lunch, or midnight rendezvous. Enjoy endless hours of music anytime, anywhere…

Use the built-in microphone to capture ideas and save quick reminders when you’re out shopping. Plus, record long lectures when you’re in important meetings or presentations.

Take your tunes on the road during those long commutes or spontaneous road trips. Zen connects wirelessly to your car stereo using a Belkin FM Transmitter. Never cut your musical journey short!

Instant messaging encryption, can be a serious problem if you have no idea what you are dealing with. It’s worse if you do not have the slightest idea that your messages over IM are being intercepted. Any common man, who has an idea how dangerous it can be if the instant messages are intercepted, will definitely be worried, but what can a commoner do as most of them won’t be very experienced with computers? Well this post is targeted to the mass who have little or no knowledge/experience with computers. In this article, I’ll try to guard you’ll from all those packet sniffers who can be sitting on your system and reading everything you type on your Instant Messengers.

If you think your messages are being intercepted and worried then don’t worry you aren’t paranoid. This can be quite common in your workplaces also, where the employer wishes to keeps track of what’s happening within the organization. And if you are on Wi-Fi signal anywhere in public wireless hotspot or even in your house your Instant Messages can be intercepted.

Firstly, even before fixing this issue, you should never discuss any sensitive material/sensitive information like your bank details or credit card details via IM. You definitely can, provided you have encrypted your IM traffic, if not better consider IM encryption to be your top priority task.

Technology, and it’s rapid growth ensures that you have encryption readily available for almost all, if not most IM platforms, that are available either commercially or freely in the market. If you use Yahoo Instant Messenger or MSN Live Messenger,  then Secway is a good option. For those who use AIM, Aim-Encrypt is a good solution.
Though these are free, there is a small catch, the encryption software should be present on both/all the systems that are involved in the IM session. If the encryption software is not installed and activated on both/all the machines involved in the chat, then the encrypt channel won’t be activated.

These software gives you the encryption necessary, but you should know that these software won’t give you any kind of protection against the spyware or malware applications like “keylogger” if any are present directly on your computer. The above mentioned software gives you protection against the data that are transfered through channels and not that is typed itself.

So you should know about spyware and malware before you worry about encryption. I’ll talk about this in detail sometime soon.

My Google reader today is filled with Page Rank slap related issues. Almost everyone is churning out the same content, or to put it in a right way, content which brings out the same information.

It’s a waste of time if I too put my views on this as it is no different from Pagerank-orgy/
or the shocking page rank update
For all those who read this, you should notice Statcounter’s Page rank, they went down from 10 - 9 in the previous update and now down to 6!!!

AUDIO T2’s design as inspired by black diamond brings you the sophisticated quality and simple functionality. iAUDIO’s modern style is further amplified by the extraordinary clarity of the black chrome and the projection of vibrant color display within the black body. Then, of course, there is the influence of black diamonds’ mystery, passion, good fortune and the forceful presence of in a jewel-like necklace type digital music player. Around your neck, in your bag, or in your pocket, iAUDIO T2 can be with you for your everyday digital lifestyle.

iAUDIO T2 supports Microsoft Windows Media Player 10 and features PlaysForSure support for portable music downloads and subscription services such as Rhapsody To Go, Yahoo! Music Unlimited, and more.

iAUDIOT2 is the first-ever necklace type MP3 player with color display that provides fashion luxury and digital convenience packaged in one. The Black Diamond inspired style body and direct-view color interface of 65K color OLED works in harmony to create ultimate digital fashion experience.

Animated display of color screen saver adds to the brilliance and elegance of the black body. Screen saver can be customized to display any images of your choice to fit your unique individual style.

Along with its unique integrated earphone design, it can be used as a necklace style, or it can be used as an ultra-portable mini MP3 player.

These days we get a lot of emails that are HTML rendered, which allows the sender to color the fonts, style the text as per their will and also allows them to embed images. This makes the emails very attractive and frankly, it does make it more easier to read the mail, after all that’s what HTML was built for, (Hyper Text Mark-up Language ).

But had you ever wondered that behind all these glitz and glamor of the colored fonts, images and styled texts, a security threat always lurks around… unbelievable right ? Read on to figure how spammers try to make use of this glitz and glitter to take over your computer to make it their host…

It starts with all those HTML rendered emails hiding the specially formed links or scripts, hidden anchor words or image, which track your every action performed within the mail.

Now you might be wondering how one profits from figuring out if you read the mail or not, but there are commercial companies that make these software to track email, providing a means for the sender to know whether an email was read, when it was read, and even follow its tracks if it is forwarded to others. Well this software may not be famous amongst every regular user, but for  spammers are trying to figure whether an email address found randomly on net is valid, or whether the recipient has a tendency to open spam, sounds like a perfect gift :). Once they study the behavior of the user, they send more such similar mails and make their intentions quite obvious, which is to SPAM!Plain text email does not support embedded images. Plain text email squashes web bugs.

Some of the other common problems a user might face because of these HTML-rendered mails are that these mails can cause the email attachments to open automatically, or even forcefully download files on to the system. One such famous example is that Winevar virus, contained active content in its email that first modified the System Registry to specify .CEO files as executable, and then automatically opened the attached - and infected - .CEO file it had smuggled past the scanners. This was done in order to bypass content filters that prohibited EXE files in email.
Plain text email does not support active content. Plain text email prevents email attachments from opening automatically.

And the most common of all, phishing scams. Do a Google search for “paypal scams” and you’ll find tons of results and carefully investigating you’ll learn that these scammy mails are a hidden format of these HTML-rendered emails, where in there are cases that folks have given information about their bank details or credit card details!! Scary, isn’t it ?

Plain text email provides a true WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) experience. In plain text email, there are no hidden commands - the link displayed is the actual link.

So all in all, if you get HTML rendered emails, then be cautious enough not to fall prey to all the scammers out there.

In my previous post we saw Google Docs and Google Spread sheets, today I wanted to review another online word processor or a what you can call an online ‘document’er : Zoho Writer. If you want to use Zoho as a regular user, then the features offered by Zoho is more than what you can ask for. It has a broad set of of editing features. But if you want to use it as a power user, then these features may not be enough, so we can say that Zoho is a mixed bag

If you have your files in the form of Microsoft Word documents, or OpenOffice files or even some snippets from  web, you can easily import them into Zoho. This along with the ability to view any of these documents in tabs (just like in Mozilla Firefox), is a neat touch to the look and feel of Zoho.

But once you start using it, you’ll notice that all the buttons in Zoho are designed very much like Microsoft Word’s, but the functionality handled by them does not equate to the same as that of Word. This, for me was a bit confusing as I’m used to Word and then was trying Zoho. May be for those who try Zoho Microsoft word, it might make sense, but I really doubt if we’ll find any soul who’s never come across Microsoft word ;).

Like all other online document processors, so called Zoho’s competitors (Google Spread sheets is definitely one), Zoho allows multiple people working on the same page at once and allows user to share the documents. Other users can read, edit or create new documents in your network.

One strong feature, which keeps Zoho different from most of its competitors is the fact that we can export the created document into number of formats. On the top of my list is I could export the document I created to PDF format. We can also achieve cross-platform support without looking for any other expensive software. Some of the other formats we can export the document as Word, HTML, RTF file or OpenOffice.

Some of the drawbacks of the Zoho Writer are:

1> The layout isn’t as appealing as some of its competitors. Its document menu isn’t intuitive. You’ll probably have to do some searching to find what you need.

2> Zoho’s failed miserably as they try to mimic Microsoft Word but most of the functionalities are not same.

Also, help features are somewhat lacking. You’ll have to learn how to use the program through experimenting, as a help menu is non-existent.

But one feature many will appreciate is the ability to customize menus. You can hide the buttons that you don’t use, leaving more room for working on your document!

Description

• File Support: Word files, HTML, XML, plain text, RTF, and Word templates. Graphics also supported.
• File Support (saving): Saves as Word files, HTML, RTF, PDF, and plain text.
• Blogs: You can publish documents to your blog, although only limited blog types are supported.
• Help: Support needs improvement. Instead of consulting a help menu, you’ll have to experiment.

Pros

• Free online word processing software
• Support for multiple document types
• Export documents to PDF
• Tabbed viewing of documents
• Customizable

Cons

• Limited help
• Confusing buttons

Recently,  I spoke about Google Docs, now it’s time to have a look at anothe Big G’s product - Google Spreadsheets.

Though Google docs and Google Spreadsheets are available under same login, they are two different services in reality, which cannot be merged or as people often misunderstand you cannot embed Google spreadsheets into Google docs.

If people are working in group setting and need to deal with spreadsheets, then Google Spreadsheets has the potential to be extremely useful, especially if the group is spread in different locations geographically.

You can access Google Spreadsheets at docs.google.com , the same URL where Google docs can be found :).

Import and Export

To import into and/or export from Excel or any other standard .xls or .csv file, one needs to be logged into the system. If you are not logged in, you’ll be prompted to create an user id and login, or if you have a gmail account, you can use the same login credentials to login and start using Google Spreadsheets. With Google spreadsheets you can create or edit a spreadsheet on the web, and download it as an .xls or .csv file. All this can be done online, from any part of the world and any time of the day.

Share the Wealth

This is the actual strength of Google Spreadsheets and this is where it is very useful. You can invite other users by email to either view or edit your spreadsheet. This means you could share a spreadsheet with coworkers in your office to get their input on a test project. You could share a spreadsheet with a classroom and let the students input data. You could share the spreadsheet with yourself, so you can view and edit it across more than one computer, from more than one place.

Anyone who wishes to edit a spreadsheet must register for a Google account or should already have an account with Google. For security purposes Google Spreadsheets doesn’t let you change your email address, which ensures that there are no possibilities that someone ending up having to create two Google accounts and tampering the data without the original owners consent.

Multiple Users, All at Once

I personally have used this and tested with a couple of folks working simultaneously, editing or creating spreadsheets. Google Spreadsheet had no problem letting many people edit cells. However, if two people were editing exactly the same cell at the same time, whoever saved their changes last would overwrite the cell. This is one of the catch around Google spreadsheets, which means you’d need to keep this in mind as you work.

Collaborate and Discuss

Google Spreadsheets offers a handy built-in chat tool on the right-hand side of the screen, so you can discuss changes with anyone else who is accessing that spreadsheet at the moment. This helps mitigate the impact of the simultaneous cell editing issue.

Charts

You can create charts from Google Spreadsheets data. You can pick from a few basic types of charts, such as pie, bar, and scatter. You have only basic control over the chart appearance. You can’t choose custom colors for each area. The charts feature is also very slow on the computers I’ve tested.

Once you’ve created a chart, it is embedded within your spreadsheet. You can edit the chart, and you can save the chart itself as a png image for importing into other programs.
Upload a New Version
Google Spreadsheets seems to be geared towards sharing a spreadsheet, but maintaining a backup copy on the desktop. This is a wise course of action with experimental new software, anyway, but Google offers a handy Upload new version option on the file menu to facilitate doing just that. Spreadsheets also now supports versions, so it isn’t as risky to simply leave a document on the Web for editing and publishing.

Limitations

Still being in experimental stages it is but quite obvious that Google Spreadsheets has a lot more to improve and incorporate into the system.

Some of must have like copy and paste a spreadsheet from Google into Excel, is not available as a full feature yet, although we can export and import some spreadsheets the copy function is what I felt was more handy. This may be cause of formatting problems users might face as they tend to be on different OS’s, but Big G can always come up with algorithms to break this through. Another draw back is that there’s no way to directly embed content from a spreadsheet into a Google Docs document.

But best of all it’s free, so we, the users cannot really demand a lot and have to sit and wait for Google to come up with better versions as time goes by. I’m sure they definitely will come up with a lot of new features in the near future.

Google Spreadsheets is relative new, but it’s a useful tool for sharing small spreadsheets, and it has promise of getting even better.

You can access Google spread sheets at : http://docs.google.com/