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When I first got my hands on an Android phone, it had a 1150mAh battery. Normally, it wouldn't last a day without recharge. Sometimes its a real pain, running out of fuel so fast. I surfed forums, tried apps and many tweaks. I experimented over time and finally cracked the mystery. Now I manage just near 3 days on average without recharge and guess what? its on the same battery. It may last 4-5 days on standby! Here's a thing or two I learned from my experience.

As an Android phone user, you would probably have experienced what its like to match up with your data plan to avoid unpleasant financial issues. Smartphones depend heavily on the Internet and Android is no exception. Unless you are willing to dedicate a reasonable amount of money to afford an unlimited data plan, it's most likely that you are forced to keep your droid unplugged from the Internet  most of the time. Not to mention how dumb your phone would look like with its data turned off. So, lets find out to lessen the burden via some alternative Internet connections

Ever wondered to set a webserver  on your own  and declare access from the Internet? Seems challenging and expensive. Yes it will be if you plan to do it professionally, but setting up a experimental and temporary one is not that hard; trust me. Here I will cover the basic procedure for setting up that experimental server. 

If you are a blogger using Google's Blogger platform, I'm sure you have met with some Widgets which you can add to your blog as simply as Clicking a button. While most blogger widget makers provide this One-click installation method, you too can!

Peer-to-peer is a networking model where the two parties involved in either sides of a connection have the same functionality. In contrast, Server-Client model offers one party to run a service while the other uses it. In P2P , both parties are servers+clients themselves and each party is called a 'node'. For two devices to connect P2P,

The final transit of Venus in 21st century took place on 5 th and 6 th of June 2012. The transit lasted for 6 hours and 30 minutes. Transit of Venus is considered a rarest predictable phenomenon. Venus transits occur in pairs seperated by 8 years of time and each pair is seperated by more than a century. The first transit of this century took place in year 2004 on 8 th of June.

Visual Basic applications exhibit considerable dependencies. In order to execute a Visual Basic application, those have to be fulfilled. The special environment which backups execution of VB apps is called the VB runtime environment. Unlike most runtime dependencies exhibited by similar languages, VB is a relatively special case. The VB executable is a true PE(Portable Executable) file directly executable by Windows OS. The runtime environment is required in the middle way as the VB app starts relying on the runtime environment to do work for itself. (Read more on Ups and Downs of VB )

Visual Basic 6.0 was released in 1998, it gained huge popularity and became one of the best products of the time. However within the next few years, rather than an updated version, Microsoft announced a new product, .NET which was a totally new environment where there is no backward compatibility with previous VB applications. .NET hit the market in 2002 with VB.NET replacing VB 6.0  Introducing a new language is a significant risk, both from technical and marketting points of view. But Microsoft risked a new system without continuing their proven success at the time. Why?

Microsoft Visual Basic has come a long way since 1991 when it was officially declared. Since its introduction, it revolutionized the world of software development. By the way credit to the 'Visual' concept goes to some one else(find out it here ). It made software development so easy that soon it became one of the most popular programming languages of all time.

There are a couple of rating widgets for blogger for free. 5-Star Ratings, Thumbs Up-Down Ratings, Yes-No Ratings, 1-5 Ratings etc. To my knowledge, there are 4 service providers to choose from.

Cabinet files(a.k.a. Diamond files) are the Microsoft Windows Archives. These archives can store multiple files/folders into a single file with or without involving data compression. Since every Windows system is natively compatible with cab files, Windows provide enough facilities to create, extract, or rebuild cab files without requiring additional software.

When it comes to distributing a collection of files, a software, or a setup. One of the best choices is to make the distro in the form of a Self-extracting Archive( why? ). If you chose to go with this solution, you will have to use some tool to create the SFX. Ofcourse, that's no big deal; There are plenty of software which allow you to produce self-extracting archives. Winzip, WinRAR, 7zip, etc may be the obvious choice. But, have you ever noticed that the Windows Operating System holds a built-in utility for this? Strange enough, but it's true.

I'm sure most of you have dealt with data compression. The concept is shrinking the space consumption of files and folders. WinRar , 7zip , Winzip , KGB archiver are some famous utilities for this purpose. Keep in mind that its not the software, but it is the compression algorithm that does all the magic(Software are just different different implementations of data compression algorithms) Now, let's say you run a bunch of files weighing 200MB through one of these compression software and came up with a single compressed file with 150MB. Clearly we have a saving of 50megabytes here. This compressed file is literally a pack of data. If you plan for a distribution, this is the obvious choice. However...