How to check if your orkut friends have new orkut features?

The bubble shown in below screen shot is the indication of New Orkut user.

new orkut bubble

Do you need New Orkut invites ?

I have very limited invites so i can’t gave it to every body and neither i fairly decide whom to choose and whom to reject. So i decided to choose from persons who tweet this post with hastag “#neworkut”.

Tweet This to get New Orkut invites

Get new orkut invites http://bit.ly/2fIKOf (via @honeytech)

Note:

1.If you can’t tweet the comment in this post to claim your invites. I’ll select you from random.org selections.

2. If you have spare invites the please donote it to the persons here.

Update:

Congratulations to first few winners

1. Patrícia Rodrigues
2. Omkar Dutta
3. Tamil Selvan
4. Piyush mahajan
5. Pradhyuman Singh
6. Saurabh Rajpal
7. Ginni
8. Ankit Saxena
9. Vishal Alhat
10. Lucas Machado
11. Harshit Purwar
12. Gurpreet Singh
13. Tarun.Reflex
14. Dhiraj Pandey
15. Mahesh Kukreja
16. Luis Gustavo
17. Alfredo Martins
18. Prabhjot Bhatia

Congratulation’s to following new winners

19.Sujit Philip
20.Thiago Silva
21.Breno
22.@rennantorres
23.@drkhalid
24.@zozo_pokerface
25.@hiqasim
26.Bharat Grover

Note: I arranged many more invites and you need to comment/Tweet to get new Orkut invites

Please add me on orkut to receive the invites.
http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Profile.aspx?uid=3000571757575733541
(orkut only allows to send the invites to friends)

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In order to fight back Google enhanced many features in new orkut but they seems to be cloning from facebook. Here i pointed out following two points:
1.New orkut have “Fewer pages, faster browsing” which is expected to be cloning of facebook lite (chek out the screen shots of facebook lite)

2. The targeted friend suggestions is expected to be cloning of facebook friends suggestions

Screen Shot of my New orkut Page

new orkut screenshot

What i liked in New Orkut?

In new orkut i liked the options to customize the profiles but still i’m missing the fanpage, FBML and applications of the facebook.

What i disliked in New Orkut?

I didn’t like the typography and UI of the new orkut as compare to previous versions. New Orkut is still in early phase and expected for the open api and better features.

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1. Twitter Lists -

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2. Listed -

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3. Reply and delete -

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4. Add and View all link -

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5. Direct Message -

Direct message is an interesting feature that allowed you to converse privately, but this was available only for people whom you follow. Now you can send direct messages to one you are not following. But then this is matter of concern, as we have twitter filled with spammers. So we have another interesting feature to tweet people secretly away from bad eyes.

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In your profile, you will find “manage lists” options in between follow and scrolling action button. This feature lets you to get people featured in any of the lists created by you.

I hope there are more interesting features to come up in nearing time. Go ahead give it a try and have fun tweeting and hey don’t forget to follow me on Twitter.

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1. Windows Live Photo Gallery –

This is excellent software helping you get your photos and videos from your camera to computer. It allows you to locate your favorite photos and share them with anybody you wish. Editing features come up with adjust exposure, color, or detail by hand, or use auto adjust. You can even create amazing panoramas—Photo Gallery stitches several photos together in just one click. Browsing by date, caption and tagging people are some of the cool feature you would like to check out.

2. IrfanView –

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative tool designed graphic viewer that goes well with Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003, 2008, Vista, Windows 7. This is extremely simple tool for beginners and also for powerful experts. Some of the exciting features would include, supports almost all file format, file search, toolbar skin option, Cut/crop, IPTC editing, Lossless JPG rotation, loads of plugins, Capturing, hotkeys and much more worth giving a look.

3. Paint.NET -

This tool was actually intended to be an alternative to Microsoft Paint, but soon with its highlighting features it ruled and become one of the best tool helping the image to crop, rotate, adjust colors, resize, make collages and many more. Every feature and user interface element was designed to be immediately intuitive and quickly learnable without assistance. You would love to check out their special effect that offers everything from blurring, sharpening, red-eye removal, distortion, noise, and embossing are included. Also included is our unique 3D Rotate/Zoom effect that makes it very easy to add perspective and tilting.

4. Picasa -

Picasa is free photo editing software from Google that makes your pictures look great. Sharing your best photos with friends and family is as easy as pressing a button. Together, Picasa & Picasa Web Albums make it easy for you to organize and edit your digital photos, then create online albums to share with friends, family & the world. Some of the exciting features would include, edit to perfection, get organized, be creative, add places, and simple sharing. The feature I love the most is that the Web Album allows you to post your photos online.

5. FastStone Image Viewer –

FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image converter, editor and browser. It does carry amazing array of features, which includes image viewing, comparison, cropping, managing, red-eye removal, renaming, add texts, watermarks, emailing, border effects, color adjustments and many more. Read our review on FastStone Image Viewer.

6. Apple iPhoto -

iPhoto makes managing your photos as easy as taking them. It helps you organize your photos so you can find them fast. Edit them so they look their best. And share them with your friends and family. Further iPhoto gives you more ways to keep track of your photos by organizing them according to who’s in your pictures, where you took them, and when you took them. Places to go, event to remember and experiment with effects are some of the cool features you must have a look.

7. XnView -

XnView is a fast multi-format graphics browser, viewer, and converter. It can read more than 400 file formats, e.g. GIF, BMP, JPEG, PNG, TARGA, multipage TIFF, camera RAW, JPEG 2000, MPEG, AVI, Quicktime. EXIF & IPTC metadata are also supported. The image viewer has an Explorer-like browser that allows quick and simple browsing of directory contents. XnView supports red eye correction, crops and transforms JPEG images losslessly, generates HTML pages and contact sheets, and provides batch conversion and batch renaming. Slide shows with transitions effects, screen capturing, WIA & TWAIN support (scanner & digital cameras), image comparison, file operations.

8. PicaJet Photo Organizer -

PicaJet Photo Organizer helps you automatically manage 1000s of digital photos in seconds. It’s impossible to list here all the features that PicaJet photo organizer has. Photo indexing is faster than in other competitive products. PicaJet allows you to selectively index folders or files at any time, review and edit photos as desired, without pigeonholing you into an awkward interface structure.

9. GIMP -

GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a nice distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring. It is a powerful piece of software with capabilities not found in any other free software product. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert-quality photo-retouching program, an online batch-processing system, a mass production image renderer, or an image-format converter. GIMP is modular, expandable, and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything.

10. Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 – (Its a shareware)

Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 software combines power and simplicity so you can make your photos look extraordinary, share your life stories in unique print creations and web experiences, and easily manage and protect all your photos and video clips. Exciting features of this software would include, Recompose photos to any size — without distortion, Easily manage everything from one convenient place, Quickly find your best photos, and many more.

These are only some of the best available and worth giving a try, do let us know your favorites via comments!

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Gios PDF Splitter and Merger

Gios PDF Splitter and Merger is a powerful, user-friendly, handy yet small tool that help you split PDF files into individual page or merge multiple PDF files without trouble. This PDF tool is developed to offer you quicker and more competent access to required information from your PDF files, reordering them in a way that makes them simpler to run and handle. In fact, it is the first ever free open source PDF split and merge utility written in C#. Gios PDF Splitter And Merger is released under LGPL license, so you are can access it as long as you desire and it is as well portable, so you away from installing trouble.

The app is easy to understand and is divided into two major panels –

First panel on left will permit you to adjust the “Project Setting” and let you browse through local files on computer you wish to run. Further you are free to select location for your output files and access features available. Always ask destination file, Overwrite destination file without prompt, Open with default reader after creation are some among features that can be enable or disabled.

Second panel on the right will let you edit and view “Element Settings”. Here you can view file path with your image viewer or with default reader. Further you can select “Include this element in the merger or not” option by clicking on the checkbox. The exciting feature is that it allows you to check out number of pages in the chosen PDF file or preview of the image selected. Including all pages in conversion run or a handful is up to you.

In other words, all you need to do is add files, click on merge or split, select location for output and Gios PDF Splitter and Merger will do the rest. Your files are automatically saved to specified location once the process is completed. Also try out drag and drop option to save time and make the task even simpler and faster. This 150KB tool is certainly exciting and useful interface ever designed to support PDF. There are a lot of possibilities for making use of Gios PDF Splitter and Merger. We are sure you could think of a situation where this one will be helpful!

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1. Opera Mobile

Let’s face it Opera Mini Browser has always remained ahead of Internet Explore and opera keep upgrading its features to the best. This browser is faster; carrying advanced features such as zooming, panning, widgets, save pages or pics, bookmarks and many more options that are better user-interface than IE. If you really want the best experience while browsing/surfing then make a choice with Opera Mobile that delivers an ultimate web experience.

2. NewsGator Go

NewsGator Go! can be beyond excellent for RSS reader that is not only free but also fast and easy to handle. It offers you instant access to news, entertainment, blogs, finance, hotels, games, or anything for that matter. Just create an online account there and use the service by choosing the feeds you wish to track down. The impressive part is it also allows you to clip articles and store them to have a look later.

3. Google Sync

This one is a must for all Gmail users. Gsync Synchronize the built-in Mail, Calendar and Contacts apps on your Windows Mobile device with your Google account. Now you can get your Gmail pushed directly to your Windows Mobile device regardless of the place you are in. Further using your WinMo device’s native calendar, you can also access your Google calendar, and be alerted for upcoming appointments with sound or vibration.

4. SRS WOW HD Audio

SRS WOW HD Audio is the best and most useful add-ons for Window Mobile. It leaves behind Microsoft’s own window media player by offering improved audio experience. This program requires Window Mobile 6.0 and above to great excellent full audio spectrum. Read our review on SRS WOW HD Audio.

5. CorePlayer

If you enjoy watching lot of videos then you may not find a better option than CorePlayer player, which is a Core pocket and open source media player for especially designed for desktop, mobile phone, portable media player, PDA, GPS, or convergence device. Apart from supporting wide range of formats it can also play audio, video and image files in more sophisticated formats. The advanced functionality can load your video smooth and fast without a problem.

6. Windows Live Messenger

If you are love chatting with your friends, family or colleagues then get this excellent app called Windows Live Messenger. You can enjoy similar IM experience you have at home or office apart from keeping all your contacts in one place for finding it when you need. However, this mobile app does not comprise each and every feature you have it with desktop version, yet sending/receiving emoticons, changing status and much more is possible.

7. Pocketcm Image  Viewer

PocketCM is a set of finger friendly and customizable applications for windows mobile developed by Quentin Pouplard. PocketCM Contact Manager allows you to scroll your list of contacts, call and edit them. It is the first finger friendly application developed by Quentin (actually, it is the rewrite of its .Net version, ContactManager) and was followed by PocketCM Keyboard which quickly became one of the best virtual SIP out there for Windows Mobile.

8. Dashwire

Having a backup of everything we own on mobile is so important, that why we have this app letting you back up your contacts, messages, photos, and videos online where it can be accessed from PC’s web browser. Apart from backing up your valuable data, you can also share photos and upload videos to others of Flicker and Facebook. There’s also a cool messaging app in-built comprising lots of goodies.

9. EverNote

This is an excellent application that stores notes, documents & images and further gives me the knack to access & search them from anywhere. It runs on Mac’s, PC’s, PDA and online & so regardless of where you are, you’ve got entrance to your required information. The best feature of Evernote is syncing, whether you carry one system or thousands – this will sync all together.

10. Pocket Uno

Uno is one of the world’s most popular family card games. Just play cards from your hand by matching color, number, or word. Try to rid yourself of cards before opponents do! Rules are simple but the gameplay offers hours of fun.

Do help us upgrade our choice on these Window Mobile apps by letting us know more useful and fun applications if you come across 

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I noticed few results on Bit.ly which are listed as follows

1. First i test for the tinyurl where i short the http://www.google.com/webmasters/index2.html into http://tinyurl.com/y8swgbx. When i again try to short the tinyurl through bit.ly it reflects the warning messages.

bit.ly-warning

Warning – this site has been flagged and may contain unsolicited content.

Latter i thought there might be any issues between bit.ly and tinyurl so i should check with another url shorter service.

2. I pick up is.gd and short the url http://www.google.com/webmasters/index2.html to http://is.gd/4vFvv. When i again try to short http://is.gd/4vFvv into http://bit.ly/4rnuPk, it reflects the same warning messages.

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4. http://bit.ly/2tgXDe with source http://u.nu/9ctm3 also reflects the warnings

5. http://bit.ly/RBwmz with source http://tr.im/CEkY also reflects the warnings

6. After searching for other url shorter service i found re-url.me. I again short the http://www.google.com/webmasters/index2.html into http://re-url.me/2755 and that into http://bit.ly/2DBHO7.

Observation: This time http://bit.ly/2DBHO7 doesn’t reflect any warning and successfully redirect to http://www.google.com/webmasters/index2.html

Question: Why Bit.ly ban the redirects to other url shorter services ? Is it due to competitions or to really avoid the phishing? If we ask this question to bit.ly then they will sure say that “It is hard to track every urls so its better to auto scrap the urls having questionable re-directions”

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Google Mobile – No one on internet can live without Google, hence Google Mobile App is here to serve as a portal to all Google Web Apps for blackberry users. It is all-inclusive off Gmail, Google Maps, YouTube, Google Sync and more. You get the fastest access to Google Search and it also launches your preferred Google products. The best part is there is no need to install this app separately.

Opera Mini – Mobile user always have complains of slow speed while surfing internet. But not anymore, just get Opera Mini for web browsing that increases the surfing speed at which are provided on devices by passing page requests via Opera servers. Over-all it will improve your browsing experience, with fast loading pages, ability to zoom in/zoom out and much more options.

Viigo –  Viigo is one of the most excellent mobile RSS reader designed for users. It lets you add multiple feeds from your preferred sites and view news, clips, entertainment, stocks & money data, flight information, podcasts, weather information and more. You are allowed to add up to 2,500 subscription and all stories are automatically updated as fast as every 30 minutes without needing to refresh your device.

Blackberry Appworld –  Blackberry Appworld allows you personalize with tons of apps designed for your BlackBerry Smartphone under one roof. You are free to download BlackBerry App World from your PC or directly to your BlackBerry Smartphone at one click. The limitation to this app is that you should have a PayPal account that is free, so as to get through checkout of some apps. Download this app to check the weather, play games, track the market and more from BlackBerry App World.

Facebook –  Sharing what’s on your mind is the mantra followed by millions of Facebook addict. Now we have Facebook for blackberry users in form of an app that allows you to do anything on Facebook like update status, Poke or write on your friends wall, upload pics and much more. You can get all these features totally for free by downloading this app.

Twitterberry – This is a superb app for blackberry that makes your micro-blogging twitter experience great. You are free to read tweets from your friends list, send your own tweets through your @ replies, and even write direct messages straight from Blackberry. However, you can preview only the first 40 characters of the tweets, and you will have to click on each tweet to read them entirely.

Palringo – If you are instant messenger addict then Palringo is must for you. You might have come across iSkoot for IM and Skype friends on blackberry, but Palringo allows all major IM network such as AOL, Google, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Skype, and Yahoo. Voice and text chat is available with other users of Palringo on Android, iPhone Symbian, or Win Mobile.

Pandora Mobile – This is must for Music lovers. It allows you to make new stations, listen to existing ones, rate them and more. The Mobile app has is efficient enough to play over EDGE connections, that means you can to listen pretty much anywhere you get decent signal, not only in major cities. It is even possible that you would soon quit looking for app that offers you to load songs. The minus point here, is that it is allowed only for US users.

Amazon App – I have seen many people ordering their day to day needs from Amazon. So we have this app featuring one click purchasing with Amazon Prime, package tracking, personalized recommendations, Wish List, and more. You can shop over 40 product categories available and thousands of merchants needless to mention. All orders placed on Amazon app are processed right from Amazon’s secure server.

Boopsie -  Find your data in seconds – that’s the tag line of boopsie. Yes, it allows you search your content, data or articles from sites like Wikipedia, Amazon, IMDB, and many more. Boopsie is compatible with all web-enabled phones. High-speed downloadable clients are available for Android, BlackBerry, J2ME, Palm OS, Symbian S60, Windows Mobile and iPhone.

That’s the 10 best apps for Blackberry we found and it would be great if you share your own favorite with us via comment!

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Yourhtmlsource – This site has excellent HTML tutorials and well-researched links on all aspects of web design, equally suited to beginners and advanced webmasters.

W3schools – Again as mentioned earlier this source can be of great help if you desiring to learn HTLM.

Htmldog – I’m sure you know this site. The idea of HTLM Dog is to take the somewhat convoluted official specs for XHTML and CSS and present them in a much more readable fashion.

W3- This short tutorial is meant for people who want to start using CSS and have never written a CSS style sheet before.

Htmlcsstutorials – A nice site designed with easy navigation to offer you knowledge about XHTML and tips on CSS. You get complete reference for html CSS with examples.

Html – HTML.net provides guidance and help about designing and developing websites.

Tizag – This can be a stepping stone to the budding webmaster and a handy reference to the veteran developer. Tizag is always changing its tutorials and references to incorporate the latest in web design.

Boogiejack – This is an HTML help site featuring standards-based HTML tutorials, CSS tutorials and other website design help and resources.

Htmlgoodies – This site has group of lessons set up to be covered over a week’s time, one tutorial per day. HTMLGoodies is your resource for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, ASP and other web development topics.

Echoecho- You can use this tutorial either as a complete introduction or as an A-Z reference to HTML. If you’re completely new to HTML you should start with the section that covers HTML Basics.

Css-tricks – You can locate hand-full of video and text tutorials with CSS-trick. Don’t forget to sign up with their RSS to get some smart tricks on CSS.

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A simple way to back up and achieve all your data is ArchiveFacebook. This is a free tool that allows you to save content from your Facebook account directly to your hard drive. If you are using any other browser then you will have to use extension by installing Firefox so as to backup data and it can be uninstalled later.

Currently ArchiveFacebook can save your:

• Photos
• Messages
• Activity Stream
• Friends List
• Notes
• Events
• Groups
• Info

All you need to do

• If you are Scrapbook Firefox Extension users then you would have to uninstall it as both cannot be run simultaneously
• Then get a Facebook vanity URL for your account as ArchiveFacebook does not work without it. Once you log in with username you are set for further.
• Now you can install Archive Facebook extension from your add-on gallery. Just visit the page and click on download.
• Once the installation is done you should see a new menu item “ArchiveFB” in Firefox between the Bookmarks and the Tools menu.
• Select ArchiveFB –> Archive from the main menu.
• Have patients. It will take several minutes to an hour to archive your account depending on the amount of content to be archived.
• When the archiving has completed, you will see a “Facebook” menu option added to the ArchiveFacebook menu. Select this option to view your archived account.

ArchiveFB will store your Facebook date copy within your browser Firefox; you can find ArchiveFB folder automatically generated in your browser profile folder where your data is stored. In case you use different browser then go to Tools > Options > Organize tab and specify the location where you needs the data to be stored. You might have also tried SocialSafe that offers the similar service at $2.99, however ArchiveFacebook is a better option because it is free of cost and can be used right from your browse.

Firefox has always impressed it’s user with add-ons and this is certainly a great addition, go give it a try now and back up all your imperative data!

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The interesting part is you have password-protected digital video library on web and can be edited right at your browser. And to get the footage into the site, check the two options: send your media by UPS or you can upload digital video directly. You could ship the following formats to Pixorial for doing base work of digitally recording them for you: VHS, VHS-C, Digital8, Hi8, Betamax, miniDV, and 8mm, Super 8 and Super 8 film with sound, DVDs, and even memory cards up to 6 GB. For direct uploads it supports .avi, .flv, .mov, .mp4, .mpeg, .dv, .rm, .wmv. and 3gp.

As for the fee structure you have free option for 10GB limit on uploads and a 60-day limit. If you wish to go for an annual membership with unlimited storage ad-free applications and other boost then you got to pay $24.99. Currently it supports Firefox and Internet Explorer, however it does not support safari because Safari’s cache won’t store the large files needed for video. Therefore each time you use Pixorial, you would have to wait for your videos to load. Firefox and Internet explorer eliminates this issue.

Overall its neat and friendly user interface designed for easy to use tools for video editing, collaborating and extremely flexible methods for getting your video footage done. So gear up now and hold your memories today by having a look at Pixorial and discover how it can actually help you stay with great moments!

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How to show rss feeds in wordrpress pages

There are some parameters which can customize your requirements like:

• $xml_file = Feed Url for example i use $xml_file = 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/honeytechblog';
• Value of i for no of links, for example i<5 shows 5 links of the feed

Alternate Code

(tested on various clients blogs)
<ul>
<?php
error_reporting(0);
$url = "http://feeds.feedburner.com/micro-news";
$xml = simplexml_load_file($url, 'SimpleXMLElement', LIBXML_NOCDATA);
echo $xml;
if ($xml == "")
{
echo "Feeds are down, Try again later";
}
else
{
$blog = $xml->channel;
for($i=0; $i<3; $i++) {
?>
<li> </li>
<?php
}
}
?>
</ul>

If you wants to run this php code apart from the Wordpress themes i.e in wordpress posts and pages then you need plugins like Exec-PHP. Exec-PHP will executes PHP code in posts, pages and text widgets .

This post is dedicated as an answer to amitbhawani question

Is there any Wordpress Plugin which shows 5 Recent Posts of any Feed in a Wordpress Page? Ex :Show my news blog latest posts on about page

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Before Buying Laptop

10 Things To Remember Before Buying An All-purpose Laptop

Memory – RAM (Random Access Memory) is a type of device used to store system memory. It is an important factor when considering buying a laptop as this is where your applications would be stored. While 512Mb (thanks to unitechy for correcting the typo of GB into Mb)  is ok for basic workings, you get 2GB (can be upgraded later) of RAM space with most system these days and that support high-end features such as 3D gaming, video editing and graphics. It is always best to get the basic necessities done and then upgrading it to the requirement of each one.

Hard Drive – Hard drives are the central storage device for data on your computer. In other words it can serve as a secondary storage device, for daily backup, or as a work center. The most important quality of any hard drive is its storage capacity as it decides the amount of data a user can store. Anything less than 80GB could be a bad option, again it can be upgrade later. FireWire or USB 2.0 are best options available for external hard drives that can improve your overall performance of your laptop.

Processor/CPU – We call it brain of computer, where it processes the instructions. We have well known AMD and Intel ruling the market, based on your budget go with one. But remember Intel would be expensive, yet offering fast performance than the AMD which could be cheaper. You are getting processor to speed up your programs and keep in mind there is no upgrading option available, so go with the best without disturbing your budget.

LCD Screen – You will find flat LCD screen for laptops and that can make your lapy look sleek and sexy. Laptop screen is distinguished by its size e.g. 13 to 17 inch in standard case, but remember the smaller, the portable. Majority of laptops are found with Wide-screen display, which have an characteristic ratio of 16.9 that offers larger, sharper and over-all better viewing. Most people today prefer going for 14 inch laptops that are not only great for viewing your favorite video but also helps portability.

Optical Drive – Data writing and reading can be done with Optical drive device. A high-level configured laptop would come with a CD-ROM, DVD-ROM and a burner. All-including these features would be named as “combo”. Optical disks can store much more data — up to 6 gigabytes, than most portable magnetic media, such as floppies. Compact discs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs are common kinds of optical drive which can read and record at its best.

Keyboard – What do we do without keyboard? They are so important for each one of us to type in and use short cuts. In case of Desktop PC we would have almost same kind of keyboard, but with laptop computer you will find some of the keys placed differently and come in different size (according to the size of laptop). The pointing device is a touchpad helping you to move the curse like a mouse. You must choose keyboard according to ergonomics and try out few times before purchasing.

Battery – Battery life remains on top of priority list for most of us when getting a laptop, as we certainly not want our system to show red light asking to recharge in middle of something important. On an average all laptops today give you backup up to 3 to 4 hours, so if you are not travelling much then this is decent enough. But if you find yourself out often with your laptop then start looking out for higher-capacity batteries. Also buying additional battery is possible if you don’t mind carrying few extra unit of weight.

Weight – Portability is the key for laptop and you should run a check how much weight you can carry. Generally you would come across weight between 3 to 9 pound, but then you can get all-inclusive features with light weight laptops too. It is a great option to go with light-weight if you want to buck up your system with extra batteries, drives, and other features that adds weight. Mini Notebooks are the buzz when you think light-weight laptops.

Graphics Board – A GPU that is Graphics Processing Unit is an exclusively designed processor that offloads 3D graphics rendering from microprocessor. Modern GPUs are extremely well-organized at influencing computer graphics, and their highly parallel structure makes them even more effective. So make sure you get it right if you are too much into graphics or into computer games.

Connectivity – Wireless connectivity is what you need when buying laptop that is well portable. Two USB ports are essential requirements, and if you plan to have digital camcorder then you would need firewire port. Further for monitor and projector you would need VGA port. While for additional image quality you must have DVI or may be HDMI port. Any all-purpose notebook usually comes with 802.11g wireless connectivity.

Getting one laptop for all-purpose can certainly be tricky but little research before jumping to conclusion can help. Just think why you need a laptop for and think some more and you have the answer With notebook in your hand, you have access to Internet, work on computing and do your works anywhere in the world!

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