Use Pen Drive As RAM

Hi Friends!

As promised, this post is dedicated to learn how to use pen drive as RAM. We will learn to do that in just 2 steps... ya you heard me, just 2 steps!

So let's get started (Win XP users will have to use third party software like ebooster)

Step 1: When you insert your USB 2.0, right click on USB -> Properties.

Step 2: Click on ReadyBoost tab.

Best Practice: Use Dedicate this device to ReadyBoost to avoid accidental deletion of data from RAM portion of your pen drive.

Click Apply -> OK.

Two points are noteworthy:

• Even if you accidentally remove your pen drive, the data is there on the hard disk( but reading from hard disk will deteriorate performance!)
•  All the data written in RAM portion of your pen drive is encrypted using AES 128 standard. So there is no issues as cached data is encrypted

And, we are done... just 2 steps.

Happy computing!

Know Your Mobile Number

Hi friends!

I am sorry I promised you that my this blog will be on how to use pen drive as RAM, but one of my friend took a new SIM and while giving me his new contact number said that he has forgotten it!!

The question arises: does he need to go to his room.. take out the SIM's envelop and then know his contact number? No, Not in today's world!

In today's consumer focused market, most of the telecom providers provides simple codes through which you can request your contact number :)

Let's look at some of the codes from various telephone operators( for Indian users only!):

Provider	Code
Vodafone	*111*2#
Reliance	*111# or *1#
Airtel	Sms IM to 57070 or *140*1600#
BSNL	Call 24365 and ask them
Docomo	*580#
Idea	*100# or *789#
Uninor	*1#
Virgin	*1#
Bpl	*222#
Loop	*222#
Videocon	*1#
Aircel	*#1#888#

I hope this list covers our needs. In case it doesn't, post it as a comment.

Catch you all soon! ^_^

Use Hard Disk As RAM

Hi Friends!

We all face performance issues in our system(general sense!) like the computer is slow... Why does system becomes slow? From where (memory) does CPU takes data to execute (forget about cache right now)? What is RAM?

Now let's get an idea about what RAM is:

RAM is Random Access Memory( i.e memory reads can be Random) , is faster (approx. 10 times faster than Secondary storage) and all the programs to be executed are brought into RAM and then fed to CPU.

So the focus of this blog will be to use spaces in our Hard disk as if it were RAM (a concept called as Paging in OS). So let's get started

Step 1: Go to Start-> Computer(right click)-> Properties

Step 2: Now on the left pane, under Control Panel Home, click on Advanced system settings

Step 3: Navigate to Advanced tab, under Performance tab, click on Settings... 


Step 4: When Performance Options window, click on Advanced tab.

Step 5: Under Virtual memory, you get to change the paging file size for all drives. Click on Change... button (step 3-5 are shown below)

Step 6: Here you can uncheck Automatically manage paging file size for all drives and set values as per your requirements

Click OK. It will ask you for a restart. Restart your system and we are done!

In the next post, we will learn to use pen drive as RAM.. till then enjoy your machine!! ^_^

Add Images to Signatures in Gmail

Hi Friends!

Today we are going to take a different domain in our regular tricks.

In this posts, we are going to learn to add images to our gmail messages. So let's get started:

Step 1: Navigate to Settings as shown

Step 2: Once inside Settings, navigate to Labs 

Step 3: Enable - Canned Responses and Inserting images

Step 4: Now go to Compose Mail. Write whatever you want as your signature and add image (click on the icon, Choose file to the image file and OK)

You will have something as shown above.

Step 5: Now click on Canned responses. Further steps are shown in figure

Step 6: Now discard this message. Click on Compose Mail-> Canned responses -> Insert ->Signature(the name you gave for canned response created in last step)

Kudos.. Cheers! We have added image to our Gmail message. Now whenever we need to compose a mail, just follow step 6. Nothing more! In my case the canned response is as shown below

Happy emailing!! ^_^