Some Keyboard Shortcuts To Make Symbols - How to Make Symbol Using Keyboard

Some Keyboard Shortcuts To Make Symbols - How to Make Symbol Using Keyboard

  July 02, 2014    PARTHASARATHI PANDA

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How to make symbols using your Computer Keyboard, to use these keyboard shortcuts open any text editor on the Computer and hold the Alt Key then type the Numbers using Numeric Keypad. So here is some important symbol keyboard shortcuts you must know.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Hold the Alt Key Then Type the Numeric

Alt + 1 = ☺ (Smile Face)
Alt + 2 = ☻ (Black Smile Face)

Alt + 3 = ♥ (Heart Symbol)
Alt + 4 = ♦ (Diamonds)
Alt + 5 = ♣ (Club)
Alt + 6 = ♠ (Spade)
Alt + 7 = • (Dot Bullet)
Alt + 13 = ♪ (Eighth Note)
Alt + 14 = ♫ (Beamed Eighth Note)
Alt + 18 = ↕ (Up Down Arrow)
Alt + 24 = ↑ (Up Arrow)
Alt + 25 = ↓ (Down Arrow)
Alt + 26 = → (Right Arrow)
Alt + 27 = ← (Left Arrow)
Alt + 29 = ↔ (Left Right Arrow)
Alt + 36 = $ (Dollar Symbol)

Keyboard Shortcuts To Make Symbols

Alt + 251 = √ (Square Root)

Alt + 0153 = ™ (Trade Mark)
Alt + 0169 = © (Copyright Symbol)
Alt + 0174 = ® (Registered Trademark)
Alt + 0176 = ° (Degree Symbol)
Alt + 0177 = ± (Plus & Minus Sign)
Alt + 0182 = ¶ (Paragraph Mark)
Alt + 0215 = × (Multiplication Sign)
Alt + 0161 = ¡ (Upside Down Exclamation Mark)
Alt + 0191 = ¿ (Upside Down Question Mark)
Alt + 8721 = ∑ (Auto Sum)

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How to Reduce Data Usage While On a 3G Limited Plan Internet Connection

How to Reduce Data Usage While On a 3G Limited Plan Internet Connection

  September 04, 2013    PARTHASARATHI PANDA

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Sometime you may notice that, in the case of using a 2G Internet connection with Data card/Mobile on your computer, after a half an hour browsing your total volume of data should not cross 100MB, but when you switched to 3G Internet connection your data usage will cross to 200MB.If you have 3G/2G Data card/USB Modem/Mobile you can check the total used volume of Data.

How to save 3G data usage, while having a 3G limited data plan

So here is the topic about, how you can save the data usage while surfing the Internet using a 3G data card/Mobile Phone. If you have a unlimited Data plan then not to worry about the data usage but if you have a limited data connection plan i.e. 700MB Internet Plan, 1GB or 2GB then you should little worry about data usage.

This is not trick, only an information how to control the data usage while you have a limited bandwidth or Data Plan of the Internet Plan.

How to Reduce Data Usage on a 3G Limited Internet Connection

1) Use your data card/mobile phone on the computer to check Email, Social Networks and other informative websites.

2) Disable chart option of your email or social network, because through chart it takes more data usage.

3) If you using Gmail, you can use the "Load Basic HTML" option just below right side of the loading page to reduce data usage.

4) Do not browse any video website and Play any video on the Web.

5) Do no upload large files to the Email or any other file sharing site, just upload important files.

6) Do no use any gadget on your computer which spool the information from the web i.e. Weather gadget, Currency, News Feeds etc. it update with a regular interval.

7) Do not use video calling on your computer unnecessarily using Skype or any other video calling apps.

8) If you browse the Internet through your mobile with 3G data, then it's better than to browse on a Computer. Because most of the websites have both Computer version and Mobile version of website.

9) Don't download any video, music and other files from Internet, it it's not required.

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Basic Networking Questions and Answers Part 2 (System Administrator and Desktop Support)

Basic Networking Questions and Answers Part 2 (System Administrator and Desktop Support)

  March 27, 2013    PARTHASARATHI PANDA

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1. Explain AT & T color code for straight cable.

Answer-

Orange white
Orange

Green white
Blue

Blue white
Green

Brown white
Brown

2. What is the recommended CAT5 cable length between switch and PC?

Answer-

100 meters

3. Which pins are used in CAT5 cable?

Answer- 

1 , 2 , 3, 6
Pin1 = tx +
Pin2 = tx –
Pin3 = rx +
Pin6 = rx –

4. Where to use the cross cable and the straight cable?

Answer-

For Similar device the cross cable is used and if the device is not similar then the straight cable is used.

Example of Similar device where cross cable is used.

Switch to switch

PC TO PC

Hub to hub

Switch to Hub

PC to router

Router to router

Example of Non-similar devices for straight cable.

PC to switch

PC to hub

Router to switch

D-Link Ethernet Switch

5. Difference between DOMAIN  and  WORK GROUP

DOMAIN 

Centralized network model                                  

Domain is controlled by DC                                 

Centralized login                                                   

Centralized user database                                      

Easy and centralized management                         

Good for large network 

WORKGROUP

Decentralized network

No centralized network

Local login

Local user database

Good for small network

6. Different type of LAN topologies.

A. Bus topology

10base2(thin net)
10base5 (thick net)

B. Star topology

10baseT (Ethernet, 10 Mbps)
10baseTX (fast Ethernet, 100 Mbps)
100baseFX (fast Ethernet with Fiber)
1000baseTX (gigabyte Ethernet, 1000 Mbps)
1000baseFX (gigabyte Ethernet with fiber)

C. WAN topologies

PSTN (public switched telephone network)
ISDN (integrated switched digital network)
Frame relay
Leased line
DSL (Digital subscriber line)

7. A short description about all 7 layers of  OSI

Application layer    = user interface and application
Presentation layer  = data conversion and transformation
Session layer         = keep data of different application separately
Transport layer      = end to end connectivity using port numbers
Network layer        = logical addressing like ip address
Data link layer       = physical addressing like MAC address
Physical layer        = physical transmission of data using 0's and 1's.

8. Difference between switch and hub?

SWITCH                                                                        HUB

a. Works at layer 2                                              Works at layer 1
b.Use MAC address for packet forwarding  Use broadcast for packet forwarding
c. Doesn’t required CSMA/CD                                 Requires CSMA/CD
d. Faster then HUB                                              Slow then switch
e. Full duplex                                                      Half duplex
f. High throughput                                               Low throughput

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Basic Networking Questions and Answers Part 1 (About TCP/IP) - Interview questions for system administrator or Desktop Support.

Basic Networking Questions and Answers Part 1 (About TCP/IP) - Interview questions for system administrator or Desktop Support.

  March 27, 2013    PARTHASARATHI PANDA

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1. Explain TCP/IP classes with Range of IP address

Answer-

• CLASS A=1 to 126
• CLASS B=128 to 191
• CLASS C=192 to 223
• CLASS D=224 to 239 (Multi casting)
• CLASS E=240 to 255 (Research)

TCP / IP

2. What is private Ip address and range of private IP ?

Answer—

Private IP address are not used in Internet or not routable in Internet. These IP address are used on private Network like inside your Office etc. The private IP also called as non-routable IP.

• Class A=10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255
• Class B=172.16.0.0 to 172.31.255.255
• Class C=192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.255

3. Which protocol is used by PING?

Answer-

Ping uses ICMP (Internet control management protocol)

4. What is default Gateway?

Answer—

Default gateway is the address of router or Modem.

5. What is the use of Tracert ?

Answer-

Tracert (Trace Route) is a command to find path information between source and destination. It shows No. of hops between source and destination.

6. What is subnet mask?

Answer—

Subnet mask is used to differentiate Network ID and Host ID from given IP address. The default subnet mask are as under. 

Class A= 255.0.0.0

Class B=255.255.0.0

Class C=255.255.255.0

7. What is full form of PING ?

Answer-

Packet Internet Network Gopher

Ping Loop back address

8. What is Loop back address ?

Answer-

The loop back address is 127.0.0.1, This address is used to check local TCP/IP suite on local machine.

9. What is the function of router ?

Answer—

Router is a device or PC which is used to connect two or more ip address.

10. Which protocol is used, while you access a web site?

Answer-

HTTP hyper text transmission protocol.

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Minimum Price To Have A Desktop Computer - Basic Configuration For Desktop PC

Minimum Price To Have A Desktop Computer - Basic Configuration For Desktop PC

  February 02, 2013    PARTHASARATHI PANDA

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      Everybody need a computer to use, whether it's for home use or to do some official task at home or for their kids to learn the basic of computer and practice. So for this you do not need a high configured computer, a basic configure is enough for normal user.

      Do you want to purchase a Desktop Computer for home? then you can get this with a price of Rs.17021 (approx) and the configuration is as below. If you do not how to assemble the computer, you should ask a professional to assemble it. The configuration belongs; beetel case with smps, Intel Motherboard, Intel celeron processor, Transcend DDR 3 4GB RAM, Seagate HDD 500GB, LG DVD Writer and Acer 15.6" LED Monitor.

Desktop Computer

Details of the Components:

Beetel Computer Casing With Smps Rs 1449

Intel DH61HO Motherboard Price Rs.3141

Intel Celeron G530 processor Rs. 2301

Key Features of Intel Celeron processor G530

• 2 Cores
• FCLGA1155 Socket Type
• 64-bit Architecture
• 2.4 GHz Clock Speed
• Memory Type Supported: DDR3-1066

Transcend DDR3-1333 4 GB RAM (JM1333KLN-4G) Price Rs. 1400

Seagate Barracuda (ST500DM002) Hard Drive 500GB Price Rs. 3580

LG GH24NS95 DVD Writer Price Rs. 1050

Acer 15.6 inch LED P166HQL Monitor Price Rs.4100

If you go for Intel Pentium Processor G630 (FCLGA1155 Socket Type) it will be cost Rs. 3492

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2 Best Free Screen Recording Software I Have Used Ever

2 Best Free Screen Recording Software I Have Used Ever

  February 01, 2013    PARTHASARATHI PANDA

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1) CamStudio

Camstudio is an open source software and it's free for personal and commercial use. CamStudio_Setup_v2.6b_r294_(build_24Oct2010) is just about 4.26 MB in size, the small software can do what you want to record on your computer screen, You can set what to record, like Region, Fixed Region, Window or Full Screen. On the Tools menu --> SWF Producer which helps you to convert AVI to Flash. CamStudio works on Windows platforms, including Vista, XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8.

CamStudio - Free Screen Recording Software

Here are just a few ways you can use this software, which given on the website:

• You can use it to create demonstration videos for any software program
• Or how about creating a set of videos answering your most frequently asked questions?
• You can create video tutorials for school or college class
• You can use it to record a recurring problem with your computer so you can show technical support people
• You can use it to create video-based information products you can sell
• You can even use it to record new tricks and techniques you discover on your favorite software program, before you forget them

Some Features of CamStudio:

• Video Options
• Cursor Options
• Audio Options
• Record audio from microphone
• Record audio from speakers
• Do not record audio
• Minimize program on start recording
• Hide flashing rectangle during recording
• Capture translucent/layered windows

To download CamStudio go to http://camstudio.org

2) ezvid

ezvid is not only a Screen Recorder but also you can edit the video with the Video Editor. It is also 100% freeware screen recording software to capture desktop & browser.Instant slide show maker For Windows 7, 8, Vista, & XP. The ezvid setup is about 1.28 MB in size, when you install it will download additional files (ezvid_package.exe) which is about 172.79 MB and the version of the software is (0.9.2.0). 

ezvid - Screen Recorder and Video Editor

To download go to http://www.ezvid.com

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Kaspersky Antivirus For Windows Price in India

Kaspersky Antivirus For Windows Price in India

  January 29, 2013    PARTHASARATHI PANDA

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Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2013 1 PC 1 Year Price Rs. 270
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2013 3 PC 1 Year Price Rs. 571


Kaspersky Internet Security 2013 1 PC 1 Year  Price Rs. 590
Kaspersky Internet Security 2013 3 PC 1 Year Price Rs. 965


Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2011 For Mac 1 Year Price Rs. 1095


Kaspersky Tablet Security 1 Tablet 1 Year Price Rs 375

Kaspersky Security Software

Kaspersky Pure 2.0 1 PC 1 Year Price Rs. 1353
Kaspersky Pure 2.0 3 PC 1 Year Price Rs. 2276
Kaspersky Pure 1.2 1 PC 1 Year Price Rs. 1121
Kaspersky Pure 1.2 3 PC 1 Year Price Rs. 2128


Kaspersky Small Office Security 5 PCs + 1 File Server 1 Year Price Rs. 5228
Kaspersky Small Office Security 10 PCs + 1 File Server 1 Year Price Rs. 6458 


Buy these Kaspersky products from Online shopping stores.

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How to Resize Partitions Without Deleting and Loosing Data

How to Resize Partitions Without Deleting and Loosing Data

  January 24, 2013    PARTHASARATHI PANDA

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This tutorial is about the  resizing Hard Disk partitions without loosing data, using a software called partition wizard. The partition wizard home edition is free for home user only.

MiniTool partition wizard home edition is a free partition manager software which supports both 32bit and 64bit windows Operating System including Windows Xp, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. Using this software you can do resizing, Copying, Create, Extend, Split, Delete, Format, Convert, Explore, Hide partition and also you can Change drive letter, Set active partition as well. You can download this software form Internet and it's free.

Here is the tutorial and step by step procedure to resizing partition as below:

The partition wizard home edition is running on Windows 7 64bit Operating System. 

1) Now open partition wizard home edition, where you will find the total partitions on the computer and here you can move/resize partition. As you can see (Figure 1) 3 partitions are there and I am going to resize these three partitions.

Partition Wizard (Figure 1)

2) Select the partition and click on Move/Resize button. Drag the partition from left end, you can see the Unallocated Space before and partition size. Drag form left means to make space before the partition, which can help to increase the next partition size (D Drive). Drag from right will help to make a new partition. here we resizing partition so drag from left and click on OK (see figure 2).

Partition Wizard (Figure 2)

3) Now select D Drive, you will find unallocated space after the partition, just drag it to right and click on Ok. Then Click on Apply then Yes. Now we have increased the size of D Drive.

Partition Wizard (Figure 3)

4) If you want to increase the size of C Drive, then select D Drive and drag form left to right. Click OK

Partition Wizard (Figure 4)

5) Now click on C: and drag to right, click OK

Partition Wizard (Figure 5)

6) Click Apply then click on Yes to start the process. wait for few seconds to complete the process then close the partition wizard.

Partition Wizard (Figure 6)

In this way you can resize any partition of the hard disk easily to increase or decrease the partition size as per your requirement.

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Introduction To Microsoft Word - Computer Basic Tutorials

Introduction To Microsoft Word - Computer Basic Tutorials

  January 22, 2013    PARTHASARATHI PANDA

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MS word is an application software and is also called a word processor. This application software is developed by Microsoft. This software is used to design letters, words and paragraphs etc. to look attractive and meaningful. We can easily set the margin, insert pictures, create colorful text, Underline and bold any character. It also help to create grammatical and spelling errors free documents.

Ms Word 2010

What is Word Processing ?

The application program, which enable to processing of words is called the word processing program or simply word processor. A word processor is a software package that helps the user to crate and edit documents. Creating a document involves typing into the internal memory of the computer and saving it by writing it onto a disk.

Editing the documents involves correcting the spelling mistakes (if any) deleting, coloring, designing, change the letter size and deleting or moving words, sentences of paragraphs.

The followings are some example of popular word processor:-

(1) word perfect (2) word star (3) Microsoft Word etc.

How to start Ms Word ?

start -----> Program ----> Ms Word

start ------> program ---- Ms Office ----Ms Word

Start ---- Run -----> winword

Windows Logo Key + R then type winword press Enter

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What is Windows ? - Computer Basic Tutorials

What is Windows ? - Computer Basic Tutorials

  January 22, 2013    PARTHASARATHI PANDA

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Windows is an Operating system. It provides an environment called graphical user interface (GUI). We have to interact the computer visually or graphically. With windows we have not remember the DOS commands and how to put it. You can do it by simply click on a picture or select command from the list, that you want to do.

The versions of Windows are 95, 98, 2000, XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Recently released Windows 8 etc. 

How to start windows explorer ?

Start ----> Programs ------> Explorer (Up to Windows Xp)

Start -----> All programs ------>Accessories ----->Windows Explorer (Win 7)

Components of Windows :-

1) TITLE BAR ---->

Title bar display at the top of the windows. It also display the current application and file name that you use.

2) MENU BAR ---->

It display at the below of the title bar. These are the collection of options or commands.

3) TOOL BAR --->

The bar in which you find the tools. The tools are the pictorial form of the option of command.

Tool Tips --> When you move the mouse pointer to tool, it gives a message regarding the use of that tool is called tool tips.

4) STATUS BAR ---->

It display the size of a selected file or folder. This bar appear bellow of the window.

*DESKTOP---> The windows back ground screen or on which all the windows and icons appear is called Desktop.

*WINDOW---> The Rectangular portion on which you find; Tools,  Title, Menu bar etc, is called window.

*ICON---> The pictorial form of application or files or folders, which are placed on the Desktop or inside any Drive is called an Icon.

5) TASKBAR ---->

Task-bar normally appear at the bottom of the desktop. The most important button of the taskbar is Start. You use the start button to run a program each time. When you open a window the taskbar placed the window name on it.

Window Explorer - Windows 7 :-

Windows 7 Explorer

In windows 7  by default the menu bar is hidden to show the menu bar Click on Organize ---> Layout ---->Menu bar. Now the menu bar will appear on the window.

Windows Explorer with Menu Bar

In the menu bar you will find the File, Edit, View, Tools and Help Menus. Click on the View menu and click on the status bar, the status bar will appear at the end of the window.

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Introduction To Computer Language - Computer Basic Tutorials

Introduction To Computer Language - Computer Basic Tutorials

  January 14, 2013    PARTHASARATHI PANDA

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     Language means the communication. A programmer makes use of computer language to communicate with the computer. Computer language divided into 3 types.

1) MLL - Machine Level Language

2) ALL - Assembly Level Languag

3) HLL - High Level Language

Computer Language Computer Basic Tutorials

1) MLL (Machine Level Language) :

         The computer can understand only one language called MLL. In this language all the instructions are coded into '0' and '1'. It is not easy for a programmer, only expert programmer are create programs using  this language. A program that creates in a computer using MLL can't execute in another computer. It is difficult to modify, but one advantage of this language is, it executes very first than other language because it directly related with machine. 

2) ALL (Assembly Level Language) :

         To avoid difficulty using MLL a new symbolic language was developed called ALL Assembly Level Language. In this language one symbol dows one task, like "add" means add tow number. It is also difficult to a programmer and take long time to create a program.

3) HLL (High Level Language) :

         The HLL High Level Language brought a revolution in the fields of computer. The instructions written in HLL are in ordinary English statement, which is very easy to understand. A program that creates in one computer using High Level Language can execute in any computer, with simple modification or not. Today all the language that are use in computer are HLL.

Example : octal, Fortran, Basic, Cobol, C, C++, Java, Pascal etc.

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Java (TM) Platform SE 7 U10 is Known To Be Vulnerable

Java (TM) Platform SE 7 U10 is Known To Be Vulnerable

  January 12, 2013    PARTHASARATHI PANDA

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    I Got this message (Java (TM) Platform SE 7 U10 is Known To Be Vulnerable) when visit the Mozilla Firefox's Add-ons Manager and if you click on More Information you will get that, Windows has been blocked for your protection, All users are strongly recommended to keep the plugin disabled unless necessary. Here is the screen shot.

Java Plugin

As you know all the website not require java plugin to run, if you really need the plugin then just enable it temporarily. Many experts advise to disable java.

To know more and how to disable java visit pcmag.com

Oracle has released patch for Java, cyber security experts advice to download patch immediately.

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No Sound Playback on HP Pavilion DV4000 Laptop

No Sound Playback on HP Pavilion DV4000 Laptop

  January 12, 2013    PARTHASARATHI PANDA

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There is no sound on the laptop Hp Pavilion dv4000, when trying to play movies and mp3s unable to hear the sound. This problem happened to one of my friend, all the sound driver installed correctly and the sound hardware working fine. If you have same problem please follow the below steps to configure the laptop and you can solve the sound problem.

Steps :- 

1) Go to Control Panel (Classic View of Control Panel) Double Click on Sounds and Audio Devices.

2) Click on Audio Tab you will see in sound playback the Default device is M3AD Wave, change it to your Laptop Audio device i.e. SoundMAX Digital Audio, Click Apply and OK. Now your Laptop Audio will work fine.

HP Pavilion Dv4000 Sound Settings

You can change the Sound recording device and on voice tab change the Voice Playback and Voice Recording device to the laptop sound device.Then click on Apply OK.

incoming search terms :

• HP pavilion dv4000 sound problem
• Unable to hear my laptop sound
• dv4000 sound settings
• How to set the default sound playback device
• Configure the sound devices on control panel

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