Some of you people used online plotters, even with collaborative nature. A web application where user can plot text, images and share it applications like skrbl or scriblink. But today I saw a mechanical text plotter, which I feel very interesting. The tool consist of micro controller and some mechanical motors to control and plot texts. The pen in hanged in two rubber belts and two motors, they called it bipod.

Check out this youtube Video.

This is a research product, but I guess this product need to be merchandised. Anyway the mechanical parts for this are heavily complicated when compared to its electronics parts. The device is not so grim but it is cool.

This post mainly intends to bloggers, web enthusiasts etc. Yesterday onwards google needle service is up and running however the service is under alpha release it is open to public. Google needle provide us set of services which includes.

1) Page rank calculator.

2) Retrieve your keyword’s position in google search.

3) Download Youtube video provided the URL.

Page rank calculator

This service will check the page rank of the URL, moreover google needle provide you HTML to embed the page rank in your blog.

Retrieve your keyword’s position in google search

One of the most annoying process for bloggers is to find the keywords position of a particular keyword in google search result. Google needle provide you the same service, this will avert the complication for keyword’s index from google search list. This is the most wonderful service that need to be lauded.

Download Youtube video provided the URL

This service will be helpful for those who want to download Youtube videos. You can enter the URL, the service will provide you Youtube video as flv file. This service is ominous for Youtube, however it is working well.

I guess more service are cooking in the lab, thereby making google needle a multi service platform.

Are you looking for expert advice about your queries? I would suggest LinkedIn answer section is the best place to ask expert advice. You know why?

LinkedIn the real social network

LinkedIn is the social that create real value for the time spend in using the social network. I can strongly suggest LinkedIn is the best social networking platform available, simply because the community in LinkedIn are mainly highly skilled professionals, entrepreneurs, successful personalities available across the globe.

As I mentioned above that community in LinkedIn are highly skilled professionals, this is the right place to ask your queries and get expert advice. The answer section that differentiate widely from yahoo answer because the question will be displayed only to relevant people thereby chance for getting right answer drastically increase. I will explain the steps to ask question in LinkedIn.

Step 1)

Click on the answer hyper link available on the top. Type your question and click next.

Step 2)

You can select the targeted audience and category to receive this question. This will be displayed to right people and get best answer.

If you are not a member of LinkedIn, don’t wait join now itself.

Ho I need to wait for 5-6 minutes to make my laptop shutdown because I am using Microsoft Vista on my Laptop!!!. I googled about this and I found some information to avert this problem.

Edit some information in the Regedit can increase the speed of shutdown in Windows Vista.

Start Run (Windows Key +R) program and type regedit and hit enter.

Navigate through HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control

On the right pane Modify the WaitToKillServiceTimeout string by right clicking on the string. The value will be 20000, make it 5000 instead. This worked well for me.

You bought a new laptop that is embedded with Genuine Windows Vista and you are weird due the sluggish performance of Vista? By default the Vista sidebar is activated on the start up, that make the system slower. The user can add different gadgets like RSS reader, clock, CPU meter, Notes etc in the Sidebar. Ousting the sidebar saves some amount of memory so that we can increase the performance. Go through the steps described below.

Step 1)

Right click on the windows sidebar on the system tray. Check out the image below. If it is not there just go through this way Start->Programs->Accessories->Windows Sidebar

Step 2)

The Sidebar Properties window will be shown un-check the Start Sidebar when Windows starts. Click OK and Apply. Check out the figure below.

This amendment will saves considerable amount of memory thereby increase your system performance.

Check your Microsoft Vista updates regularly, also save considerable amount of memory.

You have a broadband network, still your page request taking lot of time to serve. Use google web accelerator to speed up the page serving. Google web accelerator serves pages through powerful global systems of Google.

How Google web accelerator works?

Google web accelerators stores copies of frequently asked web pages in Google’s powerful systems.

The accelerator downloads only slightly changed data.

Accelerator manage the computer’s internet connection.

Compress the data before downloading into the local system, when the requested page serves from Google’s server.

Prefetching some specific pages in accordance to user requests.

How to install and manage Google web accelerator?

1) Download Google web accelerator.

2) After installing the accelerator your browser will entitled a icon with some specific status as below.

a) means the google web accelerator in running and the needle indicates downloading speed.

b) means page your request is not serving from Google’s server, so the page download makes time.

c) web accelerator is turned off.

Not at all the pages serves from google server. If the requested page is an HTTPS or some files like mp3, flv then the page doesn’t come from cached because of security reasons.