Sunday 22 December 2013

How to Speed Up my Windows 8 PC to Work Faster - 10 Tips

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Do you have Windows 8 installed and are thinking about tweaking its performance? Or have you installed many apps and softwares and now the question “Would this effect the performance and booting speed?” is clicking in your mind. Well today let’s see how to tweak the performance of Windows 8. We all know how certainly fast Windows 8 is compared to earlier version of Windows like 7 or Xp. The following tweaks or methods will certainly speedup your windows 8 performance even faster.

Changing Power Settings :

This is the most easy Tweak. Just open the Charging Power Settings by accessing the Control Panel and set the option to “Set to High Performance”. 

Closing Unnecessary Programs at Windows Startup:

Now, whenever your computer boots it analyses and reads Startup Programs on Startup. Some Programs get enabled at Startup by default on installing them. Such type of Programs increase the time your computer takes while booting. Take the following steps to disable them on Startup. 
  • Press Win + R
  • Type in ‘msconfig’ and press Enter
  • Choose Startup tab
  • Uncheck programs that are unnecessary for loading at Startup
  • Click on Apply and Ok
  • It will prompt you to restart
  • Changes will take place once you will restart
Note: In previous Windows versions the startup items list was present in system configuration manager which can be accessed using msconfig command. But Microsoft has moved the startup items list in Windows 8. Now it can be accessed using Task Manager.
  • You can open Task Manager by pressing "Ctrl+Shift+Esc" keys together. Now go to "Startup" tab and here you can click on the unwanted item and click on "Disable" button to remove it from startup list.
  • You can start these programs again by manually selecting them.
Registry Cleaner:

Throughout your life you install so many Programs and then Uninstall them. But these programs leave behind the registry keys like the breadcrumbs for Windows. The Windows reads or goes through these registry keys every time. So you therefore, need to cleanup these registries using a registry cleaner. It will not consume much of your time. Here is the Registry-script which will tweak some settings in Windows 8 Registry to make Windows faster. It will reduce timeout values, set Windows to automatically end not responding tasks, make menus to show faster upon clicking and tweak various other settings.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktop]
"AutoEndTasks"="1"
"HungAppTimeout"="1000"
"MenuShowDelay"="8"
"WaitToKillAppTimeout"="2000"
"LowLevelHooksTimeout"="1000"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelMouse]
"MouseHoverTime"="8"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControl]
"WaitToKillServiceTimeout"="2000"

Just copy and paste this in Notepad and save this as registryspeed.reg. Then Open this file and Click yes when UAC dialog opens. After that again click yes to install these settings.

Effects of this Tweak:
  • End the tasks of the Applications or Apps which are not responding and taking much time to close by Windows Automatically
  • Decrease menus show delay time. After that When you click the menu, it will open faster.
Disable Animations and Increase Performance:

Windows 8 comes with lots of candy features. It will show animation effects even while minimizing and maximizing a window or closing programs. These candy features might amaze you but they  You can disable these animation effects for tweaking your Windows 8. 
  • Press Win + R
  • Type ‘Command’ and press Enter
  • Now type SystemPropertiesAdvanced and press Enter
  • You can view System properties with Advanced tab
  • Now click setting button in Performance section
  • Now you can see a performance Option Window
  •  You can uncheck boxes on animations that you don’t want to see or you can use ‘Adjust for best performance’
  • Click Ok

Note: Here is the list of animations which you need to disable. 
  • Animate controls and elements inside windows
  • Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing
  • Animations in the taskbar
  • Fade or slide menus into view
  • Fade or slide Tool Tips into view
  • Fade out menu items after clicking
  • Save task bar thumbnail previews
  • Show shadows under mouse pointer
  • Show shadows under windows
  • Show translucent selection rectangle
  • Slide open combo boxes
  • Smooth-scroll list boxes
A Few More Things to Do to Make Windows 8 Faster:

After following all above mentioned tweaks, you should be able to notice sufficient improvement in your system’s performance. Even though, apart from these steps, you should also do following things regularly: 
  • Use antivirus and keep it updated
  • Download and install latest updates using Windows Updates
  • Use latest drivers for your computer hardware
  • Install only necessary software's (Download All Softwares)
If you have any other tips and tweaks to increase the speed of the Windows 8, do share with us in comments
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How to Create your Own Animated GIFs Online - 5 Best Ways

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GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format. Well normally you have seen many times moving images if you thing they are videos then you are wrong!! Here in this article we explained what are GIFs actually and how to create them online easily.

What Is The Concept Behind GIFs ? 

 Graphics Interchange Format is a technique in which images are compressed to lessen their size without compromising the quality of the images. This technique of compressing the images was first patented in 1985. 

How To Create Your Own GIFs : 

 There are numerous way to create your own GIFs, but here are some selected few which are simple and efficient ways to make your own GIF online.

One of my favorite option available on internet. Make a Gif has a very user friendly interface and you are just a 2-3 steps away from making your Gif.
Using Make a Gif you can select images like around 10 images to create your Gif. Morevover Make a Gif allows you to create Gif directly from a YouTube Url.
Limitations I can say is,the image you wish to upload should be less than 2 MB.


Just  another option for you to create you favorite Gif. ImgFlip allows you to directly create Gifs from the existing videos or you can share a link of video from interet as well.
  • ImgFlip provides a wide option for customizing you GIFs.You can specify the speed,size,FPS( frame per second)etc.You can download you Gif once you've done with everything for free .
  • You can directly add the video url from any website.All the popular format like - flv, avi, mov, mp4, mpg, mpeg, wmv, 3gp of videos are supported by IMG Flip.
  • Basically,you can create videos upto 70 MB , but IMG Flip allows videos of size 100 MB. I think the free version will also do if you want to convert a video in Gif.
  • So overall, IMG Flip is also a great option for you to create your own Gifs.


Gif Maker is another online portal which helps you create awesome Gifs without giving a single penny. One I like about Gif Maker is,it does not require any kind of registration.
So as shown in the image, it comes with a control panel where you can customize your Gifs accordingly.
  • Main features we can see here is – The size of the video ( Canvas or Frame ), the speed of the animation,also you can directly give a url of any video from internet.
  • Once you have created your Gif, you can download it. The image format supported are - .png , .jpg or .gif .
  • Gif Maker is good in all sense but the size of the image you are uploading should be less then 2 MB , pretty less .
  • Gif Maker is so user friendly that even a non technical person can use it and create his/her own Gifs.
So , if you want to create a Gif of small size images, Gif Maker comes handy.

  • My favorite Gif maker as it can create Gifs of images ranging from kb to mb.Size of the images is not the issue for Gickr.
  • If you are using Flickr,the Gickr will be the best option as you. This online portal allows you to directly grab images from Flickr or upload from your computer.
  • Just like other option shared here,Gickr also enables converting the You Tube videos into your favorite Gifs. You can add at the max 10 images for creating funny and flashy Gifs.
  • Once you have done with it you can download it and use it anywhere you want.Gickr is good the customization option are less as compared to IMG Flip. You can also control the size and speed of the images and videos.

One of the most widely used option to create Gifs online.Picasion gives lot of option to choose images from.You can select from Flickr, your picasa account or directly from your system.
The biggest advantage is, Picasion gets connected to your webcam and hence you can just take click or make video and it automatically gets uploaded to Picasion( Obviously you internet connection should be enabled ).
Picasion and Gickr mostly have the same features. Picasion also accepts 10 images of variable sizes. You just have the control of speed and size of your Gif that you are creating.
When you are in hurry and just need a Gifs , Picasion wiil be the quick solution for you.

Conclusion

So next time you want to create a banner or want to create some GIFs our own to be placed on your website don’t forget to refer this article.

Hope you like this article.Please let me know if you face any problem while creating Gifs.Also don’t forget to share your experience of how and where you use Gifs.Comment section is all yours. Cheers ! 
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How to Create Animated GIF using Camtasia Studio from Video and Images

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Cmatasia is a powerful desktop screen video recorder which is used by many people all over the world in all most all the fields. Camtasia is so powerful with so many advance features with simple user interference.
Camtasia can not only allow you to record your desktop video, It also allows you to save the video in the GIF image format! with simple one click.
How to Create GIF from your Own Video:

 In this post we are going to show you How to create GIF images with camtasia. If you are not interested in creating the GIF images on your computer then check this post to create the GIF images online.

 Note: Before getting started you need to get the camtasia from here [official link] free version is available for 30 days.
  • If you want to create a GIF from already created video then you can directly import the video by hitting on import media.
  • If you want to create a GIF from the video which is to be recorded by using camtasia then you can Hit On "Record the Screen" and start recording your activity on your desktop.
  • After completion of the recording your video edit the video as per your need. And then Hit on Produce and Share.
  • When you click on Produce and Share you will get the a popup window with title "Production Wizard".Just like in below screen capture.
Select the custom production settings and click on next to continue. 
  • In the next window you can select the format of the output video.As our Aim is to create the GIF image we will select the GIF and click on next.
And the remaining steps are so simple you can continue by hitting next button and create the GIF image.

Conclusion:

Camtasia is a huge software.To create the simple GIF images from the videos need to try these Online tools which are really too small in size when compared to Camtasia.

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Top 5 Free Best Android Video Player Apps

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Androis top and best mobile operating sustem with all features that man needs. Android provides this features in the form of apps currently there are 854548 Android apps in Android Market and out of them 23% are low quality apps!(Source AppBrain as on 7/9/2013). Finding out a best app from such a huge number of apps from Android Market store is really tough a job for any one!We here at All TechSoulz had decided to review the Apps on Android App market and make your work easy to find out the best apps on Android for Your needs.
Here in this article we have covered the Top Best and Free Video Player apps for your Android Mobile and Tabs.

 Also Check: 10 Android and iOS Games to Kill Boredom!

 1.MX Player

 This is one of the best Video Player app available on Android Market for Free!. MX Player is completely a featured pack video player that every Android Wishes for.And this is first Video Player to support the Multi-Core Decoding.

 Features of MX Player:
  • Easy and Simple User Interference. 
  • Supports Multi-Core Decoding
  • Supports Hardware Acceleration.
  • Kid Locking, which can lock the screen only to the video player, so that Kids can't access other settings of your Mobile.
  • Supports Almost all the Popluar Video formats
  • Auto Resume Option is awesome feature of MX player
2.VPlayer

 VPlayer is awesome for those who watch YouTube Videos more, VPlayer is having awesome and simple Graphical User Interference. 

 Features of VPlayer:
  • VPlayer Uses Less Battery to play your videos! This is one of the best feature Vplayer.
  • Play YouTube Videos directly from your Vplayer!
  • You can also Use Vplayer to play the Facebook videos too!
  • Supports Hardware Acceleration.
  • Can play HD Videos without any Problems!
  • Supports almost all the Popular video Formats.
Note: Vplayer is available for only 7 days Trail, You need to Buy Vplayer Unlocker to Use full version of Vplayer.

 Also Read: Most Addictive Games for Android

 3.MoboPlayer
Mobo Player is best video player which can play 90% of the video formats. 

 features of Mobo player:
  • Supports HD videos.
  • Supports Multi-audio streams and multi-subtitles.
  • Videos can be streamed through HTTP, RTSP protocols.
  • Simple and Great User Interference
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4.Easy Video Player
Easy Video Player is for those who want some privacy on their videos, Yes Easy Video player lets you to have privacy control on your videos. This feature makes the Easy Video Player different from other video players.


Features of Easy Video player:
  • Great Privacy Control on your Videos.
  • Supports all the popular video formats.
  • Wifi_transfer is enabled.
  • Advanced Video Sorting.
Download Easy Video Player
5.BSPlayer
BSPlayer is for those who are looking for simple video player with awesome features. 

Features of BS Player:
  • You can Play files directly from uncompressed RAR files! 
  • Kid Lock is also present in BS Player!
  • Background playback in popup window.
  • Supports Hardware Acceleration, which can improve the payback speed!
  • Supports all the popular video formats.
  • BS player is available in both free and paid options.You can get the free version from Google PlayStore Download Here
There are some more video players for android which are not reviewed by us,Here are some of the video players which you can try.

6.VLC For Android
VLC the most loved media player on OS has entred into mobile video player with it's new VLC for Android which is in beta State.
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