1. Account sharing

When you import your photos to Windows Photo Gallery members of your family with different user accounts won’t be able to see them as they’ll be saved on your profile. Let them join in by sharing the folders.

2. Shared folders

To share your snaps with people who don’t use your computer, try Windows Live Messenger. In a conversation look at the toolbar, click Share Files > Open your sharing folder and drag and drop any files or folders you wish. These will transfer to your friend’s PC in seconds.

3. Windows Live Spaces

If you’re using Windows Live Spaces, you can post your snaps online where everyone can view them. Just go to your space and click the Share Photos link. This takes you to a page where you can upload your favourite snaps, and your friends can view slideshows of your summer excursions.

4. Email

Emailing photos used to be a pain, especially as pictures can easily be 3MB a time. Luckily, Windows Vista makes it easy. If you’re using Windows Mail or Microsoft Office Outlook just click email and choose the size you want to send the picture at, and everything is done for you.

5. Facebook

One of the main reasons for the success of social networking phenomenon Facebook is the unique way it lets you share photos. Instead of just forcing your friends to view your snaps, it lets you ‘tag’ any of them captured in the shot, and the photo will then be added to their gallery. This makes it a great way to accumulate personal photos.

6. Izimi

Izimi is a service which allows you to post your photos online with a unique web address, which is ideal for using your pictures in blogging services such as Blogger or WordPress. Best of all, there is no compression or deterioration of the quality of your image.

7. Flickr

Flickr allows you to upload photographs to your account, then offers you total control over them. You can choose to only allow friends or family to see them, or allow the entire Flickr community to stumble across your snaps and marvel at your photography prowess.

8. Snapfish

Shapfish offers a great place to store your photos online, with unlimited space for members. You can then share your photos with other Snapfish users, or get them printed out and share them the old-fashioned way.

9. Make a DVD

Using Windows DVD Maker you can make slideshows and burn them to disc, so your friends and family can watch your escapades from the comfort of their living room. Alternatively, making a photo DVD is an excellent way to get photos off your hard drive, and still enjoy them when you want to.

10. Slideshow

If a DVD player is a little too old-school for you, try using Windows Media Center for a fantastic slideshow. By using a media extender you can view this on your living room TV for ultimate comfort.

Make sure you have an accurate WEI score. Follow our advice to optimise your PC, then close down all open applications and run the test again.

2. PERFORMANCE TWEAKS

If your CPU score is over 5 then overclocking, while risky, might help you reach the maximum. Check your BIOS setup program and documentation for advice.

3. FIND A REPLACEMENT

Upgrading your CPU may deliver the best results. Check your motherboard manufacturer’s web site to see which CPUs it supports, then comparison-shop at uk.shopping.com.

4. CHECK SPEEDS

Can this processor really deliver a 5.9? Visit shareyourscore.com/ ComponentScores.aspx to see how it performs on other people’s systems.

5. RAMP UP YOUR RAM

Tweaking memory timings in your BIOS setup program may deliver an extra point or two, but can also make your system unstable. Be very careful.

6. FIND OUT MORE

If memory overclocking seems scary, then buy faster RAM instead. The Crucial Scanner (www.crucial.com/systemscanner) will try to find compatible memory for you.

7. NEW HARD DRIVE

If hard drive speed is letting you down, then look for an upgrade with performance-enhancing features like a 10,000rpm rotational speed and 16MB cache. 8 OVERCLOCKING
Slow graphics? Overclocking your graphics and video cards with programs such as PowerStrip (www.entechtaiwan.com) can make all the difference.

8. 3D SPEED

If your video card is still too slow, it’ll have to be replaced. Once again, shareyourscore.com will tell you which card types are capable of the magic 5.9.

9. MOTHERBOARD TWEAKS

Visit your motherboard manufacturer’s site and look for BIOS and motherboard driver upgrades. Using the latest optimizations could deliver the push your score needs.

Following are the steps:

1. Download the latest version of Nokia PC Suite from here and save it on your local hard drive.

2. Locate the Setup File and Right Click on the package and select Properties.

3. On the following window Click on Compatibility tab.

4. Then Click on the button in the bottom that says “Change Settings For All Users”

5. In the following window that appears make the following changes:

- Select Run As – Windows Vista

- Tick Run this program as an administrator (in the bottom)

Now click Ok to close the windows which also saves the settings.

6. Come back to the Setup Package and again Right Click it and select Run As Administrator.

7. The Setup will launch and install Nokia PC Suite to your Windows 7 OS.

Tip: Folow the same procedure for instaling Ovi Suite & Nokia Software Updater (NSU).

However, this theory has recently been contested by a group of experts from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), who say that we could make the planet able to support life even beyond the 1 billion years marker currently theorized. But, in order to do that, we’d have to get into some pretty serious geoengineering schemes. The scientists say that the best way to prevent temperatures from skyrocketing and oceans from evaporating is to simply pump out vast amounts of nitrogen from our planet’s atmosphere, which is mostly made up of the stuff.

In a study published online in the June 1st issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the Caltech team showed that the concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), the main greenhouse gas responsible for global warming, had actually been decreasing for the past 3.5 billion years. That is to say, the pressure the gas exerts in the atmosphere is becoming ever-smaller; on the other hand, it is the main compound that regulates the amount of heat the atmosphere gets, and also determines how much of it the air disperses.

“We’re nearing the point where there’s not enough carbon dioxide left to regulate temperatures following the same procedures,” says a co-author of the PNAS paper, the Caltech Nico and Marilyn Van Wingen Professor of Geobiology, Joseph L. Kirschvink. Together with a number of colleagues, the expert believes that the only solution we may have of making our planet inhabitable for, say, the next two billion years, would be to decrease its overall pressure, rather than increase that of CO2. The move could add another 1.3 billion years of lifespan to the planet, and would allow it to retain its oceans, ecosystems, vegetation, and possibly human populations, for longer too.

The team likens the carbon dioxide with the weaves on a cotton blanket. “The cotton weave may have holes, which allow heat to leak out,” says graduate student King-Fai Li, the lead author of the new paper. “The size of the holes is controlled by pressure. Squeeze the blanket and the holes become smaller, so less heat can escape. With less pressure, the holes become larger, and more heat can escape,” adds Caltech professor of planetary science Yuk L. Yung, who collaborated with Kirschvink for the new research.

The team says that the reduction process of atmospheric nitrogen may already be underway. The compound is naturally drawn into living things when they are born, and is then buried in the ground when they die. This means that it may not even take a global effort of pumping nitrogen out of the atmosphere, but simply an intervention to boost the planet’s natural abilities of doing just that. The experts believe that the pressure currently being recorded in the atmosphere is, in fact, significantly lower than it was when the planet was first formed, some 4.5 billion years ago.

“Hopefully, in the future we will not only detect Earth-like planets around other stars but learn something about their atmospheres and the ambient pressures. And if it turns out that older planets tend to have thinner atmospheres, it would be an indication that this process has some universality,” explains Kaveh Pahlevan, also a graduate student at Caltech. “We can’t wait for the experiment to occur on Earth. It would take too long. But if we study exoplanets, maybe we will see it. Maybe the experiment has already been done,” Yung argues.

“It didn’t take very long to produce life on the planet, but it takes a very long time to develop advanced life. Adding an additional billion years gives us more time to develop, and more time to encounter advanced civilizations, whose own existence might be prolonged by this mechanism. It gives us a chance to meet,” he adds, highlighting the fact that it took well over four billion years for intelligent life to develop on Earth, to the point where we came along.

Today tip is about the secret codes of nokia mobile phones and will work on most of the latest nokia mobile sets. You can display the hidden information of mobile sets and troubleshoot the routine problems using these codes.

Follow the list of latest nokia codes list:

*#7780# —> To restore the factory settings of mobile set

*#3283# —> To verify the set Manufacturing date

*#746025625# —> To stop the sim clock

*#67705646# —> Use to delete the operator logo

*#73# —> Use to reset game scores and phone timers

*#0000# —> Use to display the mobile software version

*#06# —> To display the IMEI Number of the mobile

*#92702689# —> To display the mobile warranty related settings (Serial no, Made, Purchasing date, Repaired date, Life time).

*#7760# —> To display the Production serial number

*#bta0# —> Use to display Bluetooth MAC address

*#9999# —> Use to display the mobile software version

*#147# —> If you are using Vodafone then this code will help you show the last call detail

*#2640# —> To display the mobile security code

*#7328748263373738# —> Apply to resets the set default security code

*#43# —> To verify the call waiting status

*#2820# —> To verify the Bluetooth information

*#7370# —> To format the mobile phone memory

*#delset# —> To delete the GPRS AND EMAIL settings

#pw+1234567890+1# —> To display the lock status of mobile set

#pw+1234567890+4# —> To display the lock status of your SIM

There are a lot of benefits of upgrading your phone’s firmware. You may get functional enhancements, bug fixes etc. Some issues that you might be having with your phone can be solved with a firmware upgrade.

Updating Nokia Mobile Phone Firmware:

Updating the firmware on the Nokia phone is very easy, we only need 3 things, the internet connection, Nokia PC Suite and Nokia Software Updater. There are steps that you can do to update the firmware on your Nokia phone.

Things to do before a firmware update:

1. Install Nokia PC Suite, and back up all the stuff from your phone to your computer.
2. Charge your phone battery to its full level.
3. Beware that any hindrance (like power off, etc.) during the update process can damage your phone.

Let’s get started:

1. In your Nokia mobile phone, type in *#0000#
2. Your Nokia mobile will now display the firmware version it’s running
3. Carefully open the back case of your mobile, and also take away the battery.
4. Note the product number down
5. Go here and type the product number. You’ll now know if a new version of firmware for your Nokia mobile phone is available
6. Download the Nokia Software Updater. Click here to download it
7. Install the Nokia Software Updater
8. Connect your Nokia mobile phone via the USB port, and also make sure your computer is connected to the internet
9. Run the Nokia Software Updater by clicking on the icon on your desktop
10. The Nokia Software Updater connects to the internet, checks for updates, and then detects your phone to start installing firmware updates for your Nokia phone
11. You might see some fuzzy things going on in your Nokia phone, and that’s perfectly normal to happen during a firmware update
12. When all’s done, the updater gives a confirmation message and then the phone restarts
13. You can now disconnect the phone from the computer

Congratulations you have the latest firmware. Let me know in the comments if you have any question.

Whenever you plug a USB drive in your computer, a window will appear (if your autorun is enabled).

Don’t click on Ok , just choose ‘Cancel’.

Open your command prompt. Type ‘cmd’ in the run box or on the search panel if you are using vista

In the command prompt type the drive letter of your usb device and press enter. ex. C:\F: <— then press enter

Type dir /w/a and press enter. ex F:\ dir /w/a <— then press enter

This will display a list of the files in in your flash drive. Check if the following files present on your USB device.

* Autorun.inf
* Ravmon.exe
* New Folder.exe
* svchost.exe
* Heap41a
* or any other exe file that you find suspicious.

If you spotted any of the above files, then most probably your drive is infected.

To remove the virus, type in to your command prompt “attrib -r -a -s -h *.* and press enter. This will remove the Read Only, Archive, System and hidden file attribute from all the files.

To delete the virus just type del and the filename ex. F:\del virus.exe and hit enter.Delete all the files that you suspected is a virus. After deleting the virus, run a virus scan on your USB device just to make sure that your device is clean.

Remove the USB drive and plug it again. In most cases, the real culprit is “Autorun.inf” file which gets executed when someone clicks Ok in the dialog window which appears above. Thus the infections can spread.

According to Apple, “iPhoto includes a feature that allows you to rebuild the currently selected iPhoto library. Sometimes rebuilding the library may resolve issues such as the library appearing to be unreadable, missing photos, or other issues related to reading the iPhoto library structure,” the company explains.

The document continues with an important note advising users to back up their existing iPhoto Library folder before using the rebuild feature. According to Apple, “a backup allows you to restore the iPhoto Library if anything unexpected happens during the rebuild that prevents the library from rebuilding correctly.”

Also noteworthy is that, before performing a rebuild, you should install any iPhoto updates by using Software Update. Apple claims it’s possible for a software update to resolve your issue, therefore you may not need to rebuild. “It’s also a good idea to search Apple’s Support Page for your specific iPhoto symptom before doing a rebuild, just in case there is a more specific article or relevant solution,” Apple adds.

On the other hand, if you’re sure rebuilding is what you need to do, Apple outlines these exact steps for you to get the job done properly, and safely. To rebuild the iPhoto library:

- Quit iPhoto if it is open.
- Hold down the Command and Option keys on the keyboard.
- Open iPhoto.
- Keep the keys held down until you are prompted to rebuild the library.
- A dialog will appear with rebuild options. Select the options you want to use.
- Click Rebuild to begin the rebuild process. This may take a few minutes to complete.

The Mac maker then goes to offer a few guidelines to determine which options to choose in the rebuild dialog. Visit Apple here for those principles and more information on how to rebuild your iPhoto library.

Before doing the steps below make sure that your Acrobat Reader is not running or else it will lock the files and will not allow you to move any files.

1. Open your My Computer and go to the installation folder of your Adobe Acrobat Reader. It is usually found on C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat x.x

2. Goto “Reader” folder

3. Move (Cut and Paste) all the files and folders from the “plugins” directory to the “Optional” directory.

4. Your done. Now you have a Reader that almost loads as fast as a notepad.

Digital photo printing is just like regular photo processing, but the added advantage is that you can change your photos anyway that you would like, and see how they will look, before you actually get them printed.

Here’s what you need to know about optimizing your pictures ahead of time.

Step One – Scan in your photo if necessary. If you don’t have your picture already on disc or on a digital camera, you’ll need to scan in the original. A flatbed scanner will work best for this, to reduce any warping of the picture. Most scanners come with image software that will allow you to easily import the photo on to your computer.

Step Two – Open the picture in a photo editor. It is a good idea to take a look at your photos before you send them in for digital photo printing. This will give you a chance to see if there is anything wrong with the picture before you send it in. Typically, you may need to:

Rotate the Picture – Some cameras and scanners will produce images that are upside down. You can easily fix this by using a rotate tool in photo editing software. Just click the rotate button until the picture is right side up.

Remove Red Eye – This is a common problem, even in digital pictures. If you don’t want the red eye effect to appear on photos, you’ll need to do some correction. Today’s editing software for photos usually comes with a feature that makes this very easy. When you’re done removing the effect, you can save the image and it will be ready for digital photo printing.

Correcting Colors/Hue/Saturation – Sometimes, a photo may not be perfect. Before you send it for digital photo printing, you may need to adjust the color, hue or saturation. This can easily be done in photo editing software. Open the image, and look for the tool that will adjust these settings. Typically, there will be a slider bar that will let you play around with the settings until you are happy with the finished results.

Setting the Quality of the Image – In order to get great results with digital photo printing, you’ll need to have a high quality file. When you’re ready to save your photo, make sure that you use a .jpg or .gif extension. Your software should ask you how high you want the quality to be. Select the highest value and finish saving the image.

Once you’ve completed these steps, you’ll be assured that your images will be perfect when you upload them to your free online photo album service for digital photo printing. The results are typically much better than traditional photo processing and it’s always nice to be able to fix problems before you have the photo printed.