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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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We all want to ensure that our eyes don’t hurt when we are using the computer and for that we have to take care of the screen resolution settings. We all know that how we can change the screen resolution in windows, oh! did I assume things ? Well, here’s what you can do to change it -

Changing screen resolution in Windows :

1. Right click on Desktop & select properties.
2. Click on the Advanced tab on the top.
3. Use the slider (where it says something like – 800×600 or 1024×768 & change it to something else and click apply.

Repeat the third step, till you find the best possible resolution for your monitor.

Well, now that you know how to change the screen resolution in Windows, here are the steps to change them in Linux (in general) :

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Well, this post is not from me rather, its not even published at TipsoSaurus (Although, I wish it was here) but to give the credit to Alek I thought that I’ll write this small link post.

Alek has written a comprehensive post about, what can be done with a broken laptop and I believe that most of us can make use of the tips and suggestions by him for not just laptops but our old desktops too.

Other helpful tips :

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We all are fed up of SPAM blogs, the ones who just simply take excerpt from your blog posts and say that “we recently stumbled across a good post around blogosphere & there goes your post….” and link to your post and at the end make money doing nothing or rather ranking good in Google with the help of your hard work!

Keith thought of fighting against such blogs along with Ashish and me but unfortunately Keith’s tough schedule just didn’t help. Anyway, I think that as a full time blogger, I should pickup the task which was left in between.

I’ve been thinking about what exactly can be done about these blogs and after discussing it with Daniel, I’m still running short of ideas.

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VoIPStunt is a VoIP service which lets you make cheap phone calls to normal PSTN (your regular landline phone) or mobile phones. I’m a huge fan of this service as it allows me to make free phone calls to lot of countries and I just have to charge it for a small amount but I get to make lot of free calls to various countries and make use of each and every penny I invest in this service or rather much more than that.

So, while I shifted to Linux, I noticed that VoIPStunt didn’t have Linux version and that did dishearten me. However, luckily they support SIP protocol (the protocol behind Google Talk) and that allowed me to configure VoIPStunt and use it on my Ubuntu!

Here’s what I did to ensure that I could use the dirt cheap services (and cool too) of VoIP Stunt :

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