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AppUpdater is a free command line utility, which acts like Linux’s apt-get command. This utility  lets you automatically install, update & remove various applications through one single command (each for each process).

Appupdater is available for Windows, Unix, MAC OS X & Linux, however it’s no where close to apt-get (at least the repository of Ubuntu), so I’ll suggest not to install it on linux and stay happy with apt-get. Windows users should install this software for sure, as they’ll find it much better and most of the applications supported by this amazing utility will suffice your day to day activity with the computers.

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Windows XP’s search has that search assistant which sometimes can be bug and freak us out. At least, I don’t like that a lot and this is one of the reasons that I shifted to Copernic Desktop Search. However, if you are not interested in installing any other software and if you were happy with Windows 2000 like search then by playing with registry (Caution : Playing with registry is not cool and it may harm your computer), you can throw away the search assistant.

Here’s what you need to do :

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Well, the only pain in using Linux is that it doesn’t have the drivers for many hardware devices (although, things are improving pretty fast). It can be even painful if the device is your printer.

Luckily, if you have a HP printer, then your life isn’t in danger. You can install and run most of HP printers without any problem by following these steps :

1. Open Terminal
2. Type sudo apt-get install hplip and press enter
3. Select Y if asked

This will install the HP Linux imaging and printing and then to configure your printer follow these steps :

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We all know that how we can save the environment by saving electricity and we can make the difference in it, by simply changing our computer usage habits. If we, keep our computers off or if we can simply keep the monitors off then we can save lot of electricity.

Most of the times, it’s just because of laziness we keep leave the monitor and computer on, without realizing that we are harming the environment.

Here’s a quick tip, which can help you in putting your computer to sleep mode and that too by a simple click of a button. Follow these steps to help the environment :

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I’m one of the guy who prefers using Keyboard for most of my tasks and I try to avoid the mouse as much as I can and for that I make use of shortcuts as much as I can. We can easily make use of Global shortcuts to ensure that whenever we use those shortcuts in our computer, the desired task get completed. At least, opening of certain programs is one of the thing which I love to do without touching the mouse.

I’ll show you that how you can open notepad pretty fast in windows and you can then follow the same steps with other most used programs by you.

1. Go to Start->All Programs->Accessories
2. Right click on Notepad and select Properties.
3. Under shortcut, enter any shortcut combination you want (as an e.g. put CTRL+SHIFT+1) and then click OK.

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