Author: SUREN

Easiest way to upload multiple photo in facebook

These days facebook has become a popular social networking site. Almost everyone of us has got the facebook account. You can simply share your photos, videos links your status etc. While sharing photos it little tedious to upload the multiple photos via facebook itself. So what to do if you have that folder of a party snaps in your drive and want to upload all on facebook with a single shot.

This is where I use Picasa. Let me tell you a little about Picasa, if don?t know. If you know just skip to the next paragraph. Picasa is a software to manage all your digital photos (also video) and also view them. It has a nice interface and is easy to use. It also have several handy image manipulation tools that is a real time saver. You can fix a crooked image, or vanish those pimples from you face. Also there is a powerful collage tool which I really like. This software is available in all other OS (Linux,Mac os) apart from windows.

Download Picasa

Picasa is originally meant to upload photos directly to your Picasa web album. But its not the limit you can also use Picasa to upload the photos to your facebook account. All you need is the facebook apps for the Picasa called Picasa uploader.

Visit this site  http://apps.facebook.com/picasauploader/

Download it from there all the instruction about its usage is given there.

When you are done you should be able to see this facebook button on your Picasa.

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Just select the photos you want to upload at once and click the facebook button.

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When this appears in your browser you can use default or user your existing facebook albums or create one. When you are done last thing you want to do is approve the uploaded photo in facebook. You can approve all the photos at once.

Also if you like windows live photo gallery to do it you can download its plugin from the internet. http://liveuploadfacebook.codeplex.com/

Hope you are uploading lots of photos to facebook.

Setting up time to shutdown your computer using at command

Ever wondered if you could use timer to turnoff the computer? Yes you can. Though there are many software?s to do that work you can do the shutdown using few lines of command at the command prompt itself. At command is very helpful at scheduling the different task that can be executed by the help of it.

I find the at command very helpful at night when I am watching movie on the computer and fell asleep. You can play songs on your media player and set a clock to shutdown after one hour when you are asleep. Also you can set time when you are downloading file which will take, say 30 minutes to download, then you can set the computer to shutdown at 40 minutes.

Here?s what you need to do to shutdown your computer at your desired time.

at hh:mm shutdown -s -f

You need to enter the time in 24 hours format. The /f uses the force shutdown. You can set the time before shutdown by adding /t xxx to the shutdown command. Enter the value in seconds instead of xxx. For 10 seconds delay use /t 10

eg:

To? force shutdown you computer at 11PM type

at 23:00 shutdown -s -f

To? force shutdown you computer at 11PM? with 10 seconds delay before shutdown type

at 23:00 shutdown -s -f -t 10

If you like to hibernate instead of shutdown you can try

at hh:mm shutdown -h

If you have problem executing the cmd in vista or windows 7 run the command prompt with administrative privileges. Right click the cmd prompt and click run as administrator.

You can get more help about the at command from the Microsoft support site.

You can tweak the command to do other tasks as well. Have fun experimenting with it.Winking smile

Customize your startup application

Ever noticed how fast your computer loaded when you recent formatted your computer and then it slowly began to take time to load as you install more and more programs. Well that?s because your computer needs to startup more and more application and services at the startup due to installation of more and more programs. This can be really irritating because you have to keep waiting until your computer loads fully.

There are many application that can help you reduce or customize the startup applications. But why use other applications when you can customize it within the windows. Keeping startup application to minimum helps you to startup your computer much much faster. You can disable the unwanted programs that unnecessarily starts at system boot.

This is how you customize the startup application.

1. In the search box type msconfig

OR

press windows+r and type msconfig

2. In system configuration window select startup tab

3. Uncheck all the programs that you don?t need at the startup like messenger etc..

3. Apply the setting

The good thing is you can always enable the programs later if you like it to run at the startup. Customizing the startup really helps to save load time of the windows try it.Smile

Hiding system reserved disk partition in windows 7

When you install windows 7 in freshly formatted disk drive the windows by default creates the extra partition named system reserved partition for the better performance. By default the partition is hidden and does not show in my computer window. But in case if you have that partition showing in your my computer windows you can hide it anyways using disk management.

Here is what you do to hide the system reserved partition in windows 7.

  1. Type diskmgmt.msc
  2. Right click system reserved partition
  3. Click change drive letters and paths..
  4. Remove the drive letter
  5. Ignore the warning and Accept

This should help you to get rid of the system reserved partition that has been bothering you.Smile

Running old programs that worked in XP or Vista, in windows 7

Many of us who used to run some programs in windows xp which worked fine but didn?t work on the latest version of windows. I am involved in designing and have the need to run the old programs like pagemaker. Windows 7  can be troublesome when you have that old software bundled with your device and its program does not work and you don?t have the newer release of the program or other old but helpful programs. Well this can be solved at some extent.

In windows 7 you can use the compatibility mode to run your old games or software that is giving you trouble and wont open. There are two ways, either you can use troubleshoot compatibility let windows decide to make the program run or you can do it manually. Here?s how you do it.

Using Troubleshoot compatibility wizard

  1. Right click the program
  2. Click troubleshoot compatibility

Follow the instructions and try running the programs in different compatibility modes.

Configure manually

  1. Right click the program
  2. Click properties
  3. Click the compatibility tab
  4. Click run this program compatibility mode for and select the version of windows on which the program worked fine.
  5. Apply the settings

You may want to change the configuration in settings section also, if the above does not work.

You can also apply the compatibility mode for the setup files as well to install the old programs.

This helped me run some old programs like pagemaker, fontgrapher, the font thing run fine.Smile

Hope this was helpful.