1) Handy Google Search Tricks

First one’s always gonna be google, life in internet sucks without google, and it sucks more if you don’t know the hidden true power of google, blame you!!

• 15 Handy Google Search Tricks
• 10 Google Obscure Search Tricks

2) Handy Firefox Tricks

Ofcourse i knew you guessed it, it had to be the 2nd item, and probably you are using it right now (if not you should), so why not we get to know some small tricks to make our surfing even better?

• 15 Coolest Firefox Tricks
• 28 Coolest About:Config Tricks
• Ultimate List Of Firefox 3 Tips & Tricks

3) Tweet Tweet !! Twitter Tips & Tricks

I hope everybody knows what twitter is, and i’m sure for some of you twitter is indespencible, so better get of to some serious articles and squeze some juice outta twitter

• 15 Twitter Tricks – Get the most out of twitter posts
• 10 Twitter Tricks I have Learned
• 16 Must Have Twitters Apps
• 10 Ways to Make Money With Twitter

4) Cheat Sheets – Cut Your Way Through

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A cheat sheet is a kind of a small note on anything which can be used as reference, its specially useful for getting acquainted with different software and speeding yourself up using shortcuts or things which you may not be knowing. It is generally stuck in the walls behind your pc.

• Useful Cheatsheets for Web Designers
• Top 119 Cheat Sheets
• Cheat Sheets Depot

5) Speed Up Your Computer

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Due to various reasons the your computer can become slow , programs can takes higher time to load, higher bootup times etc, if this is the case with you your PC needs immediate attention, proper maintainence everyday can boost up its performance.

• 99 ways to make your computer fast
• How to make your computer Faster
• Use CCleaner and Defaggler regularly

6) Speed Up Your Internet

All time favourite topic of everyone, main point is you cannot speed up your connection limit. but you do can optimise it on your end for performance boost. Whooooosh!!

• Increase The Speed Of Your Internet Connection
• 5 Speedy Tips For Faster Browsing In Firefox
• Use OpenDNS
• Use Finch (Strip Speeder)
• Get Onspeed (Premium Software)
• Get a new connection (Best Tip!!)

7) WordPress Tricks

This ones for avid bloggers who use wordpress, get to know the hidden powers of the magic called wordpress, this will surely help you to give you a push.

• 13 Great WordPress Speed Tips & Tricks
• 10 Essential Firefox Addons For Bloggers
• 40+ Most Wanted WordPress Tricks And Hacks
• 20 WordPress Tricks To Improve Your Blog
• 7 Simple WordPress Tricks

8 ) Windows Registry Tweaks

Registry is a central hiararchical database used in Windows, its easy to get yourself f****d editing it without proper knowledge, and it can also be the most powerful tool to do marvelous tweaks, use with precaution, don’t void your OS !!

• PCTools Registry Edits
• The Elder Geek Registry Edits
• 20 Registry Hacks to make your PC More Awesome

9) Adsense – Its Flooding Money!!

Ofcourse Its NOT me

Adsense is another important topic for web admins, for me its not really flooding money, but for those who are having more or less good and wants to have more should go through the stips and tricks mentioned beneath.

• 13 Most Wanted Adsense Optimization Tips
• 5 Google Adsense Secrets
• Adsense Tips From ProBlogger
• Adsense Optimization Essential Tactics
• Adsense Facts, FAQ’s, Tools
  

10) Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tips & Tricks

SEO is a subject all in itself, there are SEO specialists out there trying to optimize sites to get them listed in the front pages of search engines and drive home millions of hits. You may not have money to hire such pros, but you can do some basic SEO yourself to optimize your page, if your not lazy enough !!

• 95 SEO Tips & Tricks
• Problogger SEO Tips
• Complete List Of Best SEO Tools

Ahem.. First part is complete, 2nd, 3rd and more will come soon, hope you enjoyed reading them.

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Not to worry I have wide variety of choices for you, suck out the investment made on those PC’s using those techniques, don’t let them go waste. By using your old box you can not only making your new PC work less but also increasing its lifespan (though lifespan are truly dependent on software and game creators).Lets start with something light and then move on to tougher mods.

Learn Linux

Though its true modern linux OS flavours requires high amount of RAM and processing power to run them but there are still some linux which are processor friendly and can be used to learn basic linux structure. Try Xubutu it needs only 64mb of RAM to run. If you are not too confident in wiping out your old FAT32 or NTFS file system, try live linux distros which run from CDs and DVDs like Knoppix. Click Here for whole list of live linux distros. Here is a site to start your linux learning TLDP.

Fax/Answering Machine

So your old answering machine is damaged or not working, or you’d like a answering machine for you new connection, look no further, your old PC is the answer !! What you need is a phone line connected to your modem, and any of the following softwares installed,  Ventafax, Bitware, SuperVoice, Talkworks Pro etc. You can even use it as IM answering machine, just google it.

Network Firewall

How about creating a dedicated strong firewall for you networked computers or your PC for free? What you need is Smooth Wall. You’ll need in this case 2 ethernet cards one to connect to network and anather to connect to you computer. Be a geek and challenge your friend to hack your network. Click Here for full article.

Media Server

Buy a Wifi network card and stream your media all over your house, in ipod, mobiles, TV’s etc. Details Here. Or why not create a media server over internet and stream anything using VLC ?? Check Out here. You can also use winamp with shoutcast plugin to stream audio. Details Here.

Watch TV

You can make a PC work as a TV for you in obscure places such has kitchen, dining, even bathroom. Just install a TV tuner card which are dirt cheap now a days and you have you romote controlled TV ready. You can also record Programmes provided you have moderate configuration.

Web/DB/Mail/FTP Server

Why not use your PC as server to host you small personal site? Or a FTP server between your friends? Or an additional backup Database server for you website during failures? Check Here.

Download Manager

Do you download TB’s of data every month, and your computer is always on for ruiing your torrents or your downloads? Why tax your new system? Use the old PC as download manager and if you only download torrents you don’t even need a monitor, keyboard or mouse, setup a remote desktop using logmein, Team viewer, VNC or even you Gmail !!

PC For Your Little One

Your small child/cousin whoever it is will not need more than Word, Excel , Power Point or Painting or programming applications for their school practise. Give it to them as their own PC to use.

Surveillance Device

Attach a webcam and use it for your home or shop surveillance device. Use a motion detection software such as Video Spy which triggers when motion is detected and keep an eye on your small toddler when your cooking or in bathroom.

Learn Hardware

So your not too familier with hardware structure and don’t want to risk you new PC, use your old PC and This Article to learn some basic hardware assembling and deassembling.

Electronics Engineering Experimentation

How about turning you PC into a lab for experimenting various electronic, such as Oscilloscope, Function Generator, Simulators, Logic Analyzer? Check This.

Emulator / Games

Install an emulator and play old c64 games with you kids (don’t forget to buy some accessories though). Or you can also use it for mustiplayer gaming if only your configurations allows so.

Earn From It

If you have moderately fast connection you can create a seedbox using utorrent webui or torrentflux php script and sale it on internet, there is a very high demand of quality seedboxes on internet.

Exchange / Trade In

Check This for exchange programmes by different companies.

Donate It

There are many organisations where you can donate your old PC to those who are poor and in dire needs and you can also write off some taxes. TechSoup Maintains a list of places where you can donate.

Throw It

(Please don’t take this idea seriously its very bad for our environment) If you really are not a fan of old Pc then throw it out of your desk and make sure it lands to my place..lol

There are many other uses such as Internet browsing, keeping accounts, blogging, etc etc.

If you are rather bored with this techy article and is a lover of creativity why not try and convert you Pc into something amazing (or rather funny). Make your ols PC a Fridge, Aqaurium, Garden .. (Creative people are really sick..lol) Check This.. You need more such ideas ? You must check this.

Launchy is a free windows and linux utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager.

Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes!

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Ok thats what Josh Karlin, the smart graduating student the creator of launchy thinks, but here we’ll focus on what i think of this preety nifty tool...

Why Should You Switch ??

Yes…obviously thats ought to be the first question, if your not “i install anything” typo user, Now in present conditions i can predict with a guarantee you have hundresds of applications installed, right? “Hey wheres that software, it must be on the list, search..man where its gone” .. these are the lines a average startmenu user will utter, when he’s looking through his start menu, searching for the grim app, which he even dont remember the position was, i’m sure it occured to you many times.

Lets do a interesting calculation, you use startmenu, normally to launch a application u need to make minimum 3 click atleast in xp, vista does have its own search but i feel it disgusting to use. so i assume you’re fast and you take 1.5 sec to launch a application, so daily  average people launches minimum 50 apps, just calculate u’ll know. so it comes out to be 50*1.5 thats 75sec/day, moreover theres is mouse touch fatigue which i severly hate myself. Now after using launchy for 1 year i cannot leave without launchy, it take me 0.3 sec to launch an app, even without touching the mouse, even if i assume i take 0.5 sec its 50*0.5 which is 25sec, i save 50 secs minimum perday and a whole lot of fatigue. so i save minimum of 5 hours per year, its too much for me too waste, don’t know about you though.

Ok I Got It But Only For 5 Hours??

No.. its not only for 5hours, its for accessibility, whats the GUI for? WHy dont we use dos to launch programme? it will be just couple of hours more time? Yes..its for accessibility and making you different who would like to hunt down the huge list for a minute, i’d rather press CTRL+SPACEBAR (Default Launchy Shortcut) and type first few characters and voila the progs on list, its rather faster in happening the writing it here. More over Launchy has a wide variety of options integrated into it, The default skins are wow looking , you can even make you skin or get some from net.

Browsing Programmes

So Its All About Looks And Accessibility??

Isn’t that enough to make you give it a try…?? No… Ok here the list of some more things launchy have in offer, You can add custom directory even extensions to catalog (Heres a idea forget you media library, add mp3 extension and the music directory in catalog and next time you want to listen just press CTRL+SPACE and type few chars..voila!! So you see its not restricted and btw did i say it learns as use it??

Theres more…. there arte plugins too..!! Now how can that be helpful ??? How many times do you need to switch on your calculator, launchy has it integrated, type “234-47″ it gives you result !! ditch that calculator, then theres search plugin webby, type in google, or amazon(u can add to list) then press TAB and type your search term and voila!! Check it yourselves…Check your weather, Browse yur whole computer, ditch the mouse too, and moreeeee!!!

Browsing Directory

Doing Calculations

What Are You Waiting For??

Isnt this all enough??? What are you waithing for guys?? What…??? Am i missing something?? Ohh..err the links …lol, heres the links give it a try and then post a comment if its helpful.

• Main Launchy Site
• Download Launchy