The noise from the laptop fan is back; however this time instead of taking the laptop to a repairman’s shop, I decided to do the cleaning myself
But how do you open and lift of keyboard of these HP business series laptops (Hp 6910p, Hp 6920p, Hp 6930p)?
Well, power off your laptop and disconnect the supply from main, get hold of a screw driver
At the backside of the laptop you see three screw holes with the little keyboard signs with them, you have to take out these three screws to free the keyboard, in the following picture you can see the location of these screws on a HP 6910p latop
now open the laptop, in the 1st row of buttons (the one which contains the “F” functions keys) you will see 4 support clips (the 1st one is right next to the esc key the 2nd on is after the F4 key and than after F8 and F12)
pull all of these clips towards the back one by one, now the keyword is lose and you can life it up by slightly pulling up any key.
However, don’t drag the keyboard too much as it is still connected to the motherboard via a data cable, just rest it at one side and now you can inspect the interior of the laptop as well as clean it to your liking
The below picture shows the location of the clips
I had been having this problems for many months, whenever I turn on my laptop running Windows XP from the hibernation or in standby mode than the all the internet or network connections disappear and will go missing, the connection icons in the Windows Task bar will also disappear and If you open up start >settings > network connections than there will be nothing present there, however when you reboot the computer than everything comes back to normal and this problem occurs every time with hibernation and sometimes with standby.
Anyway, today I decided to dig down the problem as it was very frustrating to reboot the computer and lose your work. It turned out that the problem is due to the hanging of couple of windows services to solve this without reboot take the following steps
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If you want to paste some copied stuff or cells in a Excel worksheet than you can use the following shortcuts or hotkeys
- Ctrl+V Paste Edit, Paste
- F3 Paste Name Insert, Name, Paste
- Ctrl+” Copy Value from Cell Above Edit, Paste Special, Value
- Shift+F3 Paste function into formula Insert, Function
remember after copying a cell in excel do not double click on any cell before pasting as the double click will force excel to clear the copied data from the clip board, it is very annoying but we have to live with it!
There are times when we feel annoyed and frustrated by the constant bombardment of incoming calls at our cell phone
If you want to disable your incoming calls than it depends on your phone model, in most of the Phones you can disable incoming calls by going to settings > Call Barring and there you will find the option of blocking incoming calls
however, this is a very crude method and of your incoming calls will be blocked if you need to block ssome specific number or unknown numbers than you will have to install some custom application on the phone to handle this.
If you are using Nokia than some of the newer phones have “Adv. Comm Manager” installed which can be using to block sms or calls from specific number and has the option of a white list and black list.
Most Mobile Phones from Sony Ericssion also have this feature present so you dont need to install some extra software to achieve it.
Another tip is that you can change the ringtone of a person and set it to “no ring” and of-course you can always turn you phone to silent mode to stop the callers from bugging you
if you need help with disabling incoming for your particular mobile phone than please post in the comments below and we will try to help you
I just noticed the a process named Plugin-Container.exe running on my laptop
I was immediately alerted as the name Plugin-Container seemed very unfamiliar and I thought that I might have got a virus.
Anyway, a bit of quick investigation revealed that this is nothing harmful Plugin-Container.exe is a process related to Firefox browser and is used by Firefox for managing video plug-in like Adobe FLASH and Quick Time, basically the plug-ins have been moved to a new process of their own so any problem or crash of the plug-in will not effect the main Firefox.exe process
It is a new released feature and is present in Firefox 3.6.4 which was just released on 22nd June. Now I must give myself a pat on back for the watchful eyes 
The other day someone request me to remove vocals for them from an audio mp3 song.
There are many free software’s which claim to remove vocals from songs.
1) Audacity
2) Winamp with Analogx Vocal Remover plug-in
3) Karaoke Anything
4) Wavosaur
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There is no way you can copy text from places like this
You can copy text easily in Windows using the Crtl+C or Ctrl+Insert key combination’s, but the above commands only work in certain text areas, but what if you want to copy text appearing in ‘Getting started’ Tab of Microsoft Word ? certainly you won’t be able to select the text , you can’t highlight it. the above mentioned commands won’t work here.
But hey wait, actually you can copy text from this place, or any place for that matter, let me tell you how
1) Install a OCR reorganization software , the one I used is ‘capture text’, It can be downloaded from capturetext.com , you get a free 21 days trial, so no worries
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You must have looking those excel spreadsheets where they have neatly crossed a line, If you have ever wondered that how can you put such a cross, than don’t worry, It is really easily and just takes one click.
Actually, the line crossing feature in Excel and Word is known as strikethrough
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We all know that Gmail offers a free email forwarding service, i.e. you can define an email address in you Gmail account and Gmail will forward all incoming emails to that address. But are there any options other than Google Gmail ?
Today I tired to search for any free email forwarding service provider other than Gmail and the results were disappointing.
The only other free service that I could find was HotPoP.com, all others required paid subscriptions to avail the forwarding feature.
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OK, so the new Apple iPhone for 2010 i.e. iPhone 4G has been now ‘officially’ announced
As compared to iPhone 3GS the new iPhone 4G boasts many news features and enhancements
A quick iPhone 4G vs 3GS comparison shows following major differences
1) A new front camera for Video Calling
2) Multitasking powers
3) Ability to record 720p HD video at 30 frames-per-second
4) Screen resolution has been enhanced from 320 x 480 pixels to iPhone 4’s 640 x 960 pixels
5) Back camera has been hugely improved from a mere 3MP to a new 5MP camera with flash
6) iPhone OS 4.0
7) iPhone 4G is slightly smaller in size with reported dimensions as 115 x 59 x 9 mm, 25% thinner than the iPhone 3GS
Talktime for 4G is claimed to be 7 hours on 3G
9) Wifi now also supports 802.11n along with 802.11 b/g
10) New mirco Sim port
Last but not the least, you can also entertain yourself by playing FarmVille on iphone 4G,people were not able to play Farmville on earlier iPhone versions due to restrictions put on Adobe Flash by Apple