Facebook Signup & Login Page’s

Posted by Raghavendra at 8:11 pm
Whenever there is a discussion about social networking sites, the name that is heard more is Facebook. It is worlds NO.1 social networking site at present which has users more than twitter and Google +. Just in few years of time it gained attention of many Internet users from each and every corner of the world with its unique features. There are almost 900 + million Facebook users till now according to the recent statistics. Starting from a School going children to the Old grannies, everyone is using Facebook accounts these days. If you haven’t created a Facebook account yet, then you are on a right spot. This post will let you know about “How to create a Facebook account” and ”How to login into Facebook account” using detail screen shots.

Before starting first let me clear you two things:

  • Sign up Facebook – Creating a Facebook account
  • Login Facebook – After login into your Facebook you can access your Facebook account.

How to Signup Facebook account:

You can sign up for a new Facebook account absolutely for free. As Facebook says “It’s free and always will be”.
Follow these steps to create a Facebook account within few steps. Check the screen shots clearly and you won’t get any confusion.
1. Go to www.facebook.com
2. On the home page itself you will see a page for signup. Enter all your details as mentioned below
Facebook Login/Signup Page
  • In the first 2 boxes present at the first row enter your name followed by your surname.
  • In the Boxes present in the 2nd and 3rd row enter your email address (Not a fake one). You will get all notifications to your email, so make sure that you enter correct email address there
  • Enter your Password in the box, make sure that you set a strong password instead of your mobile number or any others name.
  • Choose your Date of birth and select male or female according to your sex.
3. After entering all your details click on SIGN UP.
4. Now you are just three steps away. You will see a page similar to the screen shot below
Step 1: Enter your email address and click on FIND FRIENDS button. Through this you can search your friends on your email address on Facebook easily. If you don’t want this to be done, you can just simply click on SKIP
Step 2: In this step you can search your friends from your school and collage easily. When I created my Facebook account, I found many of my friends through this step. So instead of skipping it, just search your school or college in the input boxes and find your friends on Facebook. You can skip this step by clicking on SKIP.
Step 3: In this final step you need to upload a Profile picture. Profile picture is the image that is shown on your profile indicating you, so please upload your real image and click on SAVE & CONTINUE.
That’s it . . . ! Now your Facebook account is created successfully.

How to LOGIN into Facebook account:

Signing up a Facebook account takes much time. But, it won’t take much time to login into your Facebook account.
1. Go to www.facebook.com
2. Enter your email address and password that you used while creating your Facebook account and click onLOGIN.

In case if you forget your Password follow the steps below:

2. Click on FORGET PASSWORD-> Below the PASSWORD input box and you will be redirected to a page to search your profile. There enter your email address and hit SEARCH
3. Now hopefully Facebook will show your account with your profile picture, click on “THIS IS MY ACCNOUT” and then Facebook will ask you few options to verify your account, you can choose mobile verification or email address conformation to change your password.
4. If you choose email conformation a code will be sent to your Facebook account and to change your password your password
5. After entering the code you will be redirected to the page similar to the above and by entering your new password twice you can change your password .
Happy Facebooking mates.

How To Get Gadgets Back in Windows 8

Posted by Raghavendra at 8:08 pm
Gadgets are like mini widgets which offer information at a glance and provide easy access to frequently used tools.Microsoft introduced Gadgets for the first time in Windows Vista, however there was a big improvement in the usability and functionality of Gadgets in Windows 7.
Unfortunately, Microsoft decided to remove the gadgets from their latest operating system i.e. Windows 8. This was a shocking news for all the users who loved gadgets and used them frequently.

But here is some good news for them. We are here with a freeware which will help you to get your awesome gadgets back in Windows 8.

The freeware is named Windows 8 Desktop Gadgets and comes from WinAero, who are one of the leading names in Windows Customization software’s. 

Here’s how to get back Gadgets in Windows 8:

(1) Once the app has been downloaded to your computer, extract the ZIP file to get the installer.

(2) Then go ahead and run the installer named DesktopGadgets.N.
(3) Here select your desired language and click OK.

(4) Now click on Next and and let the installer complete installation.

(5) Once the installation has completed, right click on the desktop and Voila you will see Gadgets option in the right click menu, just like Windows 7.
Now you can add the gadgets the same way you were used to do in Windows 7. 
  • Complete Guide to Customize Windows 8 Start Screen.

How to Increase Mozilla Firefox Browsing and Startup Speed

Posted by Raghavendra at 8:05 pm
  • Are you experiencing slow speed and lagging web experience from your favourite browser- Mozilla Firefox? This generally happens after using Firefox over time. 
  • Restarting browser doesn’t help and neither restarting the computer. So how can you improve and refurbish Firefox’s declining speed and efficiency?
Well, over the due course of this article we’ll be discussing on the topic how to speed up your Mozilla Firefox? We’ve gathered some tricks and tweaks that will put your Firefox again into efficient and balanced position. And we believe, if you’ll carefully follow this guide and apply all the methods together, you’ll experience a 100% of speed increase, be it a web browsing experience, Firefox start up time or browsing speed.

Tweaks to Speed Up Mozilla Firefox Browsing:

  • Before moving on to some Tweaks on increasing mozilla firefox speed, check out the article on – How to Increase Internet Speed.

Configuring settings in Firefox’s “about:config” option:

1) You can increase the speed by Reducing RAM required by Firefox for its Cache Management. 
Follow the steps:
  • Open Firefox browser and type “about:config” (without quotes) in the address bar.
  • In the search field, look for: “browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewer” and change its value to “0”.
2) By default at a time, Firefox makes only one request while opening a web page for you but by increasing and allowing Firefox to make several requests at a time, we can increase the page loading speed and this can be achieved by enable pipelining.
  1. Open Firefox browser and type “about:config” (without quotes) in the address bar.
  2. In the search field:
Find:  “network.http.pipelining” & change to “true” by double clicking on it.
Find: “network.http.proxy.pipelining” and change it to “true”.
Find:  “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” and change it to 10.
Now browser will make 10 requests at once.

3) This trick involves in changing the amount of time assigned to browser it uses to act on received information and it works effectively if you’re using a broad band connection.
  1. Open Firefox browser and type “about:config” (without quotes) in the address bar.
  2. Right Click anywhere in empty portion and click New> Integer. Name the new Integer as:  “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and assign it a   “0” value.
  3. Similarly you can create the  following values to increase speed of Firefox:
Create a new Boolean: “network.dns.disableIPv6” and set value to “false”.
Create a new Integer: “content.notify.backoffcount” and set the value to 5.
Create a new Boolean:  “plugin.expose_full_path” and set the value to “true”.
Create a new Integer:  “ui.submenuDelay” and set the value to 0.

4) Finally the last method with which you can reduce the RAM usage of Firefox when it is minimized to taskbar. This little hack will help you to free up some RAM for your system when you’re not browsing.
  1. Open Firefox browser and type “about:config” (without quotes) in the address bar.
  2. Right Click anywhere in empty portion and click New> Boolean. Name the new Boolean in the pop up as:  “config.trim_on_minimize” and assign it “true” value.
  3. Restart the Firefox.

Using Firefox extension- FasterFox:

There’s another way to increase the browsing or Internet speed in Firefox with the help of an extension/add-on for Firefox called FasterFox. It works pretty cool for me and I was able to notice some significant improvement in browsing speed. However, it won’t work well on my old computer with basic configuration.  So I won’t recommend it to users with low-configuration systems.
How FasterFox works?
  • FasterFox recycles all the useless or ideal bandwidth and utilizes it to load web pages much faster. 

Basic ways to speed up Firefox:

Remove Unwanted Addons and Pugins:

  • To decrease the start-up Firefox loading time, remove unwanted add-ons or extensions.
  • All add-ons lower the start-up loading times by fraction of seconds, therefore more the add-ons higher will be start-up loading time.
  • The add-ons or extensions that used Internet connection can lower the browsing speed, so we’ll suggest you to avoid those add-ons that use Internet connection.
Disable Unwanted Addons,Plugins and Extensions.

Clear Cookies from Time to Time:

  • Cookies, cache, history and other temporary files are also responsible for Firefox’s declining speed and efficiency. We’ll suggest them to remove all these files 2-3 times a month.
You can remove these files by going to: options>Security. Choose “clear your recent history” to wipe history and “Remove cookies” option to remove cookies. Also delete the unnecessary bookmarks.
  • There’s another small effective trick to decrease the start-up Firefox loading time. Right click on the Firefox icon and choose properties.
  • Select the target field and in the end of url “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe”, give a space and type “/Prefetch:1” (without quotes). Remember to put space as without specifying space this trick will not work.
All the above mentioned tweaks and tricks are fairly easy to apply. We believe these tricks will make your favourite browser at least 2-3 times much faster. Although some tricks may not work for you as some of them depends upon the configuration of your system and some upon Internet connection. Anyway, if you have any interesting working trick to speed up the Firefox, do share it with us through comments.

Some more Features Articles:

  • Increase Internet Speed.
  • Speed up Windows Performance.
  • Increase youtube Buffering Speed.

How to Add a Shutdown,Reboot Buttons to Windows 8 Start Screen

Posted by Raghavendra at 8:04 pm
Windows 8, the latest operating stem from Microsoft has tried to unify the experience from Tablets to laptops and to desktops. This Operating system is way more touch friendly than its predecessors and has with its sleek approach to simplify all the day to day tasks.
However, there is one point where this Operating System didn’t performed as per the expectations of the users. And that point is the ease with which one can Shutdown or restart the system. In earlier versions of Windows, user just need to click on the Start button and select the Shutdown option to shutdown the system. However that is not the case with Windows 8 as Windows 8 does not feature any Start button. In fact the Start button has been replaced by the Start screen. So, to Shutdown the system, one has to Go to the Power option under the Settings charm and then select the Shutdown option. Lengthy, isn’t it?

So, today we are here with a tutorial following which you can add a Shutdown and Reboot tile to your Windows 8 Start Screen so that the whole process becomes simple and you get to shutdown or restart your system just with one click. So lets get started.

Check out the video tutorial on adding Shutdown and Reboot buttons to Windows 8 Start Screen:


Follow the steps to Add Shutdown and Restart Buttons:

(1) First of all launch Notepad. This can be done by pressing Win Key+R which will call up the run dialogue box and then type notepad and hit enter. Or you can even search for notepad from the start screen and then launch it.
(2) Then copy and paste the below given text to notepad.
(3) Now click on the Save As option in the File menu and in the File name enter Shutdown.vbs Don’t forget to enter .vbs
(4) Next in the file type, select All files and click on the Save option.

(5) Then switch to the location where you saved the file and run the file once. The file will open for a second and then will automatically disappear.
(6) Now switch to the Start Screen and Voilla. You will see that the Tiles of Shutdown, Restart and Log Off have been automatically pinned there and now with one click you can Shutdown or restart your system.
  • Also Check:Customize The Number of Rows of Tiles on Windows 8 Start Screen
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