Perk Up Your Life with Tech Solutions

Technology is what that has overtaken the globe these days. Lives are now ruled by rich technological tools and equipments. Though, this development has made life and everyday work much easier than before; the hassle that comes with such life style is nothing new to us. Artificially intelligent products cannot come up to the durability and reliability of a human mind. Aren’t you always under the threat of a sudden hard disk crash? Aren’t you bothered about the unexpected sudden low signals of your wireless equipments?  Don’t too many email addresses annoy you? Aren’t you concerned about the privacy of your personal files? No need to worry anymore, as I have come up with the solutions for some of your concerns that have toughened your otherwise-happy life. In the following lines, you shall find keys to your greatest tech related worries.

1. Data Recovery and Backups:

Who on the earth can dare say that he/she is not living under a fear of losing the saved data one day due to ANYTHING at all; though they have prepared finest backups and installed great software? This is a universal dilemma. Of course, you can never be 100% confident about the reliability of software or a backup method, as a machine is only a machine that can refuse to work anymore any single moment. But this does not mean that you should go all hopeless, and forget the thought of preparing backups. Non-reliability apart, you should always have prepared your data backup to confront any unwanted situation.

There are three kinds of data loss; Data Corruption, Accidental Deletion, and Physical Damage to Media. All these kinds have to be tackled differently.

• Data corruption is a result of intruding malicious codes such as Trojans, Viruses and Worms. Install anti virus programs, and prepare backup of your data t face up to this danger.
• Accidental deletion does not need to be explained, as its name explains it enough. Software like Recuva, SoftPerfect File Recovery, and Undelete Plus can help you deal with such a situation.
• Physical damage to hardware is really bad, like scratches on your memory cards, CDs and DVDs etc. Unstoppable Copier, IsoBuster, and Zero Assumption Recovery can help retrieve your lost data.

Also, you should look out for automatic recovery and backup software such as SyncBackSE (free) and plan regular backup jobs. To fight against natural calamities like fire, lightening etc or theft, always backup your precious data to a remote server on the internet. Two unlimited yet affordable examples are Carbonite and Mozy Home.

2. Keyboard Shortcuts instead of Mouse Clicks:

It isn’t very easy to switch your mouse and keyboard between your hands. While you are typing e.g. you do not find it easy to move your hand from the keyboard to the mouse every now and then for simple tasks. It complicates, as well as lengthens the work time. There are few shortcut key combinations that work in place of mouse. Few are quite well known to everybody who is into everyday computer use.

• Ctrl + A = Select All
• Ctrl + B = Bold
• Ctrl + C = Copy
• Ctrl + D = Font
• Ctrl + F = Find
• Ctrl + G = Go To
• Ctrl + H = Replace
• Ctrl = I = Italics
• Ctrl + K = Hyperlink
• Ctrl + N = New
• Ctrl + O = Open
• Ctrl + P = Print
• Ctrl + S = Save
• Ctrl + T = New Tab in Firefox
• Ctrl + U = Underline
• Ctrl + V = Paste
• Ctrl + W = Close
• Ctrl + X = Cut
• Ctrl + Y = Redo
• Ctrl + Z = Undo
• Alt + Tab = Choose from opened windows
• F1 = Help
• Shift + Arrows = Select Text

Launchy and Typeltln for Windows, and Quicksilver and TypeIt4Me for Mac are advanced keyboard shortcut tutors.

3. Health, Money and Savings:

Internet can even help you regulate your daily routine and health status. Websites like Fitday and WeighWatchers get your details from you, and help you control your diet habits and weight gain.

As far as money matters are concerned, Mint and Wesabe can aid you to track your expenditures, balance your checkbook, and get personalized charts of income versus expenditures to have a check on your spending habits and its ratio relation with the income you earn.

Fuelly and MyMileMarker can help you grasp the last bit of mileage out of every expensive tank of gas with their miles-per-gallon tracking system. Register there, and get personalized advices, tips, comparisons and an opportunity to talk to like minded people in the Community sections.

4. Clean Inbox Everyday; Make it a Habit:

Why should you keep emails with unimportant stuff and silly facts in your inbox? It is better to keep it as clean as possible. To achieve this level of cleanliness, you have to make it a habit to purify your inbox from every unwanted mail.

Here is a tip. Make three folders in your mailbox namely Action, Later or Archive. Firstly, respond those that will take under 2 minutes. Those which will take more than 2 minutes should be put into the “Action” folder; this is your to-do task. Those that you will need in near future e.g. a product delivery details should be kept in the “Later” folder. Mails that you would be in need of in future for references should move to “Archive”. Simple, isn’t it?

5. Control the “Cable-Web”:

Who doesn’t hate the look of the entangled network of cables around the electronic gadgetry? That web is such a mess that you can hardly tell one cord apart from another. Dust coating is another issue. When you have to plug out a cable, the confusion goes worse.

First of all, label your cables. Print out the names, or get a pack of Pilot ID Labels, and attach those to every cable of yours, so that you do not have to face the confusion any more.

Secondly, get an under-the-desk cable tray for arranging your cords in a managed way when they are plugged. This will help you eradicate the “horrifying cable web” from your floor.

When your cables are detached from the machine, attach an ordinary cable catcher or a binder clip to the edge of your desk. These methods will surely give your computer area cleaner and tidier look.

6. To-Do-List:

You are a human, aren’t you? You can forget, what is the big deal? Just get yourself an organizer which can manage your everyday to-do-list. “Remember the Milk” is one of the best websites that offer online task managing solutions. It offers variety of alerts for distinguishing one task from another. Also, it features task categories, notes, file attachments, priorities, tags, due dates; plus a FireFox extension that integrates the service with your Gmail inbox.

7. Digital Photographic Memory: your camera phone:

Your camera phone is not only to snapshoot your friends and your own self, but it can be used as a digital photographic memory tool. You can take a photo of the band your fiancée admired, discreetly; you can shoot an important article off a magazine; or you can also capture the price tags with products as a reminder to help you when you have enough money to buy it.

A new stem of Web services can turn digital snapshots of whiteboards and documents into searchable PDF documents. You can find your required document by emailing the photo of document or whiteboard to Qipit.com.

8. Price Protection System:

There are few Deal Search Engines and social sites that will help you look out for best prices of the products you are interested in, before you go out and buy one. Such sites include RetailMeNot.com, SearchAllDeals.com, and BeatThat.com. Also, there are services like PriceProtectr.com which monitor stores that have price protection policies, so that you can get a refund if the prices go down after you bought your item. Amazon Price Watch Software helps track your wish-list items and you can seek refund at RefundPlease.com.

9. Fuse Email Addresses:

Gmail is both an email host and an email client. You can put five email addresses into your Gmail using POP3 standards via built in Mail Fetcher. Go to the Accounts tab and set up your external email ids, check your emails, and reply them; all from one single page.

10. Privacy Factor:

It is a natural instinct that we all have our secrets, and we never want to reveal them to other people; yes, not even to our closest buddy! Whether it is your personal stuff or business secrets, you should keep it away from the reach of children, rivals and thieves. TrueCrypt is free encryption software that protects your personal files by putting them in a password-protected virtual folder. Functions such as opening them, writing and reading can only be done by one who has a Master Password.

That is all for now. By adopting the above mentioned habits and following the methods will not only save your precious time, but make your life easier and more comfortable than ever. Follow the ideas, have a better and relaxed life.

Written by “Seemab”

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