Monday, September 29, 2008

GATE 2009 CIVIL ENGINEERING SYLLABUS

Civil Engineering - CE

 ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS

 

Linear Algebra: Matrix algebra, Systems of linear equations, Eigen values and eigenvectors.

 

Calculus: Functions of single variable, Limit, continuity and differentiability, Mean value theorems, Evaluation of definite and improper integrals, Partial derivatives, Total derivative, Maxima and minima, Gradient, Divergence and Curl, Vector identities, Directional derivatives, Line, Surface and Volume integrals, Stokes, Gauss and Green's theorems.

 

Differential equations: First order equations (linear and nonlinear), Higher order linear differential equations with constant coefficients, Cauchy's and Euler's equations, Initial and boundary value problems, Laplace transforms, Solutions of one dimensional heat and wave equations and Laplace equation.

 

Complex variables: Analytic functions, Cauchy's integral theorem, Taylor and Laurent series.

 

Probability and Statistics: Definitions of probability and sampling theorems, Conditional probability, Mean, median, mode and standard deviation, Random variables, Poisson, Normal and Binomial distributions.

 

Numerical Methods: Numerical solutions of linear and non-linear algebraic equations Integration by trapezoidal and Simpson's rule, single and multi-step methods for differential equations.

 

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING


Mechanics: Bending moment and shear force in statically determinate beams. Simple stress and strain relationship: Stress and strain in two dimensions, principal stresses, stress transformation, Mohr's circle. Simple bending theory, flexural and shear stresses, unsymmetrical bending, shear centre. Thin walled pressure vessels, uniform torsion, buckling of column, combined and direct bending stresses.

 

Structural Analysis:Analysis of statically determinate trusses, arches, beams, cables and frames, displacements in statically determinate structures and analysis of statically indeterminate structures by force/ energy methods, analysis by displacement methods (slope deflection and moment distribution methods), influence lines for determinate and indeterminate structures. Basic concepts of matrix methods of structural analysis.

 

Concrete Structures: Concrete Technology- properties of concrete, basics of mix design. Concrete design- basic working stress and limit state design concepts, analysis of ultimate load capacity and design of members subjected to flexure, shear, compression and torsion by limit state methods. Basic elements of prestressed concrete, analysis of beam sections at transfer and service loads.

 

Steel Structures: Analysis and design of tension and compression members, beams and beam- columns, column bases. Connections- simple and eccentric, beam' column connections, plate girders and trusses. Plastic analysis of beams and frames.

 

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING 


Soil Mechanics:Origin of soils, soil classification, three-phase system, fundamental definitions, relationship and interrelationships, permeability & seepage, effective stress principle, consolidation, compaction, shear strength.

 

Foundation Engineering: Sub-surface investigations- scope, drilling bore holes, sampling, penetration tests, plate load test. Earth pressure theories, effect of water table, layered soils. Stability of slopes-infinite slopes, finite slopes. Foundation types-foundation design requirements. Shallow foundations-bearing capacity, effect of shape, water table and other factors, stress distribution, settlement analysis in sands & clays. Deep foundations'pile types, dynamic & static formulae, load capacity of piles in sands & clays, negative skin friction.

 

WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING 

Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics: Properties of fluids, principle of conservation of mass, momentum, energy and corresponding equations, potential flow, applications of momentum and Bernoulli's equation, laminar and turbulent flow, flow in pipes, pipe networks. Concept of boundary layer and its growth. Uniform flow, critical flow and gradually varied flow in channels, specific energy concept, hydraulic jump. Forces on immersed bodies, flow measurements in channels, tanks and pipes. Dimensional analysis and hydraulic modeling. Kinematics of flow, velocity triangles and specific speed of pumps and turbines.

 

Hydrology: Hydrologic cycle, rainfall, evaporation, infiltration, stage discharge relationships, unit hydrographs, flood estimation, reservoir capacity, reservoir and channel routing. Well hydraulics.

 

Irrigation: Duty, delta, estimation of evapo-transpiration. Crop water requirements. Design of: lined and unlined canals, waterways, head works, gravity dams and spillways. Design of weirs on permeable foundation. Types of irrigation system, irrigation methods. Water logging and drainage, sodic soils.

 

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

 Water requirements: Quality standards, basic unit processes and operations for water treatment. Drinking water standards, water requirements, basic unit operations and unit processes for surface water treatment, distribution of water. Sewage and sewerage treatment, quantity and characteristics of wastewater. Primary, secondary and tertiary treatment of wastewater, sludge disposal, effluent discharge standards. Domestic wastewater treatment, quantity of characteristics of domestic wastewater, primary and secondary treatment Unit operations and unit processes of domestic wastewater, sludge disposal.

 

Air Pollution: Types of pollutants, their sources and impacts, air pollution meteorology, air pollution control, air quality standards and limits.

 

Municipal Solid Wastes: Characteristics, generation, collection and transportation of solid wastes, engineered systems for solid waste management (reuse/ recycle, energy recovery, treatment and disposal).

Noise Pollution: Impacts of noise, permissible limits of noise pollution, measurement of noise and control of noise pollution.

 

TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING

 Highway Planning: Geometric design of highways, testing and specifications of paving materials, design of flexible and rigid pavements.

 

Traffic Engineering: Traffic characteristics, theory of traffic flow, intersection design, traffic signs and signal design, highway capacity.

 

SURVEYING

 Importance of surveying, principles and classifications, mapping concepts, coordinate system, map projections, measurements of distance and directions, leveling, theodolite traversing, plane table surveying, errors and adjustments, curves.


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GATE 2009 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SYLLABUS

Mechanical Engineering - ME

 ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS 

Linear Algebra: Matrix algebra, Systems of linear equations, Eigen values and eigen vectors.

Calculus: Functions of single variable, Limit, continuity and differentiability, Mean value theorems, Evaluation of definite and improper integrals, Partial derivatives, Total derivative, Maxima and minima, Gradient, Divergence and Curl, Vector identities, Directional derivatives, Line, Surface and Volume integrals, Stokes, Gauss and Green's theorems.

 Differential equations: First order equations (linear and nonlinear), Higher order linear differential equations with constant coefficients, Cauchy's and Euler's equations, Initial and boundary value problems, Laplace transforms, Solutions of one dimensional heat and wave equations and Laplace equation.

 Complex variables: Analytic functions, Cauchy's integral theorem, Taylor and Laurent series.

 Probability and Statistics: Definitions of probability and sampling theorems, Conditional probability, Mean, median, mode and standard deviation, Random variables, Poisson, Normal and Binomial distributions.

 Numerical Methods: Numerical solutions of linear and non-linear algebraic equations Integration by trapezoidal and Simpson's rule, single and multi-step methods for differential equations.

 APPLIED MECHANICS AND DESIGN 

Engineering Mechanics: Free body diagrams and equilibrium; trusses and frames; virtual work; kinematics and dynamics of particles and of rigid bodies in plane motion, including impulse and momentum (linear and angular) and energy formulations; impact.

 Strength of Materials: Stress and strain, stress-strain relationship and elastic constants, Mohr's circle for plane stress and plane strain, thin cylinders; shear force and bending moment diagrams; bending and shear stresses; deflection of beams; torsion of circular shafts; Euler's theory of columns; strain energy methods; thermal stresses.

 Theory of Machines: Displacement, velocity and acceleration analysis of plane mechanisms; dynamic analysis of slider-crank mechanism; gear trains; flywheels.

 Vibrations: Free and forced vibration of single degree of freedom systems; effect of damping; vibration isolation; resonance, critical speeds of shafts.

 Design: Design for static and dynamic loading; failure theories; fatigue strength and the S-N diagram; principles of the design of machine elements such as bolted, riveted and welded joints, shafts, spur gears, rolling and sliding contact bearings, brakes and clutches.

 FLUID MECHANICS AND THERMAL SCIENCES 

Fluid Mechanics: Fluid properties; fluid statics, manometry, buoyancy; control-volume analysis of mass, momentum and energy; fluid acceleration; differential equations of continuity and momentum; Bernoulli's equation; viscous flow of incompressible fluids; boundary layer; elementary turbulent flow; flow through pipes, head losses in pipes, bends etc.

 Heat-Transfer: Modes of heat transfer; one dimensional heat conduction, resistance concept, electrical analogy, unsteady heat conduction, fins; dimensionless parameters in free and forced convective heat transfer, various correlations for heat transfer in flow over flat plates and through pipes; thermal boundary layer; effect of turbulence; radiative heat transfer, black and grey surfaces, shape factors, network analysis; heat exchanger performance, LMTD and NTU methods.

 Thermodynamics: Zeroth, First and Second laws of thermodynamics; thermodynamic system and processes; Carnot cycle. irreversibility and availability; behaviour of ideal and real gases, properties of pure substances, calculation of work and heat in ideal processes; analysis of thermodynamic cycles related to energy conversion.

 Applications: Power Engineering: Steam Tables, Rankine, Brayton cycles with regeneration and reheat. I.C. Engines: air-standard Otto, Diesel cycles. Refrigeration and air-conditioning: Vapour refrigeration cycle, heat pumps, gas refrigeration, Reverse Brayton cycle; moist air: psychrometric chart, basic psychrometric processes. Turbomachinery: Pelton-wheel, Francis and Kaplan turbines' impulse and reaction principles, velocity diagrams.

 MANUFACTURING AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING 

Engineering Materials: Structure and properties of engineering materials, heat treatment, stress-strain diagrams for engineering materials.

 Metal Casting: Design of patterns, moulds and cores; solidification and cooling; riser and gating design, design considerations.

 Forming: Plastic deformation and yield criteria; fundamentals of hot and cold working processes; load estimation for bulk (forging, rolling, extrusion, drawing) and sheet (shearing, deep drawing, bending) metal forming processes; principles of powder metallurgy.

 Joining: Physics of welding, brazing and soldering; adhesive bonding; design considerations in welding.

 Machining and Machine Tool Operations: Mechanics of machining, single and multi-point cutting tools, tool geometry and materials, tool life and wear; economics of machining; principles of non-traditional machining processes; principles of work holding, principles of design of jigs and fixtures

 Metrology and Inspection: Limits, fits and tolerances; linear and angular measurements; comparators; gauge design; interferometry; form and finish measurement; alignment and testing methods; tolerance analysis in manufacturing and assembly.

 Computer Integrated Manufacturing: Basic concepts of CAD/CAM and their integration tools.

 Production Planning and Control: Forecasting models, aggregate production planning, scheduling, materials requirement planning.

 Inventory Control: Deterministic and probabilistic models; safety stock inventory control systems.

 Operations Research: Linear programming, simplex and duplex method, transportation, assignment, network flow models, simple queuing models, PERT and CPM.

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Sunday, September 28, 2008

GATE PRACTICE PAPERS

Information Technology

Mechanical Engineering

Electronics and communication engineering

Computer Science and Engineering

Electrical Engineering

CIVIL Engineering

NOTE:HOW TO PREPARE FOR GATE EXAM?

HOW TO PREPARE FOR GATE EXAM?

Preparing for GATE can be as easy as preparing for your college examinations. Just take little cautions while studying any topic and do remember that GATE paper focus on your in depth knowledge of subject, your basics, presence of mind during examination etc.

I’ll recommend following while preparing for your GATE exams people may differ as this is my personnel opinion :

1)Always follow standard books for GATE. Try to cover complete syllabus. If not possible expertise in what ever portion of syllabus you practice.

2)Try preparing notes after reading every chapter/topic. This may initially take some time but will help you while revising before paper. Click here for expert tips to prepare notes for GATE.

3)While reading any chapter/topic do ask your self following questions “What”, “How”, and “Why” and see improvement

4)Best way to prepare is to follow cycle Learn, Test, Analyze, Improve, Learn, Test, Analyze, Improve ……
Youdowetest.com can help you when you test your self for GATE and its free.

5)Do remember that GATE is completely objective question based test. Most of time solving objective questions is tricky. Learn tips to solve GATE objective questions from GATE Tutor .

6)In case of doubts do ask some expert or use forums to discuss questions as provided by youdowetest.com or ask me at gate.tutor@gmail.com

7)Don’t worry if your percentage in university exams is low as GATE admissions do not consider them. Just maintain minimum percentage required by many colleges including IIT’s. Look at GATE Cutoff and eligibility section to know eligibility and cut off of various colleges.

8)Group study is one of the best ways of preparation. Divide sections/topics between you and your partner and have a brief session on topic from your friend before you actually start topic. This will save your time and efforts and will improve your and your partner’s understanding on the topic.

9)Normally coaching for GATE is not required but if you are not able to concentrate much then this is a good option.

Recommended Books for GATE/Articles

Articles

Design of Helical Spring by Prof S.S. Chauhan
Mathematical Induction Tutorial by GATE Tutor

GATE Computer Science Books

  • Mathematical Logic: Discrete Mathematics by Tremblay Manohar, Probability , statistics and queuing theory " by S.C.Gupta & V.K.Kapoor
  • Graph Theory: Narsingh Deo
  • Linear Algebra: Higher Engineering Mathematics by B.S. Grewal
  • Numerical Methods: S.S. Sastry
  • Formal Language and Automata Theory: Formal Languages and Automata theory " , J.D.Ullman etal
  • Analysis of Algorithms and Computational Complexity: Introduction to algorithms " - Cormen etal, " Computer Algorithms " - Horowitz and Sahani
  • Digital Logic: " Digital Logic circuits and Design " by Morris Mano
  • Computer Organization: " Computer Organisation " by Morris Mano

Some Other Important books
" Multiple choice questions " - Timothy . J . Williams , TMH publications
" Gate Question Papers " - G.K.Publishers

GATE Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering Books

  • Network Analysis: Van Valkenburg
  • Network and Systems: D. Roy Choudhary
  • Integrated Electronics: Jacob Milman & C. Halkias, Millman & Grabel
  • Integrated Circuits: K.R. Botkar
  • Op. Amps & Linear Integrated Circuit: Gayakwad
  • Digital Logic & Computer Design: Moris Mano
  • Signals and System: Oppehum, Willsky & Nacob
  • Automatic Control System: Benjamin C. Kuo
  • Control System Engineering: Nagrath & Gopal
  • Principle of Communication System: Taub & Schilling
  • Communication System: A. Bruu Carlson
  • Electromagnetic Waves & Radiating Systems: Jardon & Balmain, JD Kraus


GATE Electrical Engineering Books

  • Network Analysis: Van Valkenburg
  • Electromagnetic: Willain H. Hayt
  • Electrical Machinery: PS Bhimra
  • Electrical Machines: Nagrath & Kothari
  • Power System Engineering: Nagrath & Kothari
  • Electric Power Systems: CL Wadhwa
  • Automatic Control System: Benjamin C. Kuo
  • Control System Engineering: Nagrath & Gopal
  • Electrical & Electronic Measurement and Instrumentation: AK Sawhney
  • Integrated Electronics: Milman & Halkias, Millma & Grobel
  • Digital Logic & Computer Design: Morris Mano
  • Power Electronics: PS Bhimra

GATE Civil Engineering Books

  • Strength of Materials: Gere & Temoshenko, B C Punamia
  • Structural Analysis: Negi, S Ramamurtham, C K Vang
  • Concrete Structures: Punamia & Jain, H J Shah
  • Steel Structures: Duggal
  • Soil Mechanics & Foundation Engineering: Ranjan & Rao, Venkat Ramaiha, S K Garg
  • Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics: Modi & Seth, R K Bansal, Subramanyam
  • Hydrology: Subramanyam
  • Irrigation: S K Garg
  • Highway Engineering: Khanna & Jasto, Kadiyali.

GATE Mechanical Engineering Books

  • Enginnering Thermodynamics: PK Nag
  • IC Engine: ML Mathur and RP Sharma
  • Gas Turbine and Propulsive Systems: PR Khajuria & SP Dubey
  • Fluid Mechanics: Modi & Seth, RK Bansal
  • Compressible Flow: SM Yahya
  • Heat and Mass Transfer: JP Hollman, RC Sachdeva
  • Refrigeration and Air Conditioning: CP Arora, Domkundwar
  • Fluid Machinery: Jagdish Lal, RK Bansal
  • Theory of Machines: RS Khurmi, Malik & Ghosh
  • Mechanical Vibration: Grover
  • Machine Design: Shigley, VB Bhandari
  • Material Science: WD Callister, IP Singh
  • Production Engineering: Kalpkjian Schmid, Amitabh Ghosh & AK Malik
  • Industrial Engineering: O P Khanna, Buffa & Sarin
  • Operations Research: Kanti Swarup
  • Strength of Materials: Gere & Timoshenko, BC unamia, Sadhu Singh


  1. Make notes short and concise
  2. Maintain formulas, short-cuts and tips/tricks in notes
  3. Every field of study has its own vocabulary, so identify words and terms used to represent specific concepts. Maintain them in your notes.
  4. Sometimes objective questions can be used to test your ability to distinguish concepts, ideas, theories, events, facts from each other. Construct diagrams, charts, tables or lists to summarize relationships.


NOTE:GATE PRACTICE PAPERS

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Steps to Protect Yours Orkut Profile When Hacked

It can be a nightmare if someone else takes control of your Google Account because all your Google services like Gmail, Orkut, Google Calendar, Blogger, AdSense, Google Docs and even Google Checkout are tied to the same account.
Here are some options suggested by Google Support when you forget theGmail password or if someone else takes ownership of your Google Account and changes the password:

1. Reset Your Google Account Password:
Type the email address associated with your Google Account or Gmail user name atgoogle.com/accounts/ForgotPasswd - you will receive an email at your secondary email address with a link to reset your Google Account Password.
This will not work if the other person has changed your secondary email address or if you no longer have access to that address.

2. For Google Accounts Associated with Gmail:
If you have problems while logging into your Gmail account, you can consider contacting Google by filling this form. It however requires you to remember the exact date when you created that Gmail account.

3. For Hijacked Google Accounts Not Linked to Gmail:
If your Google Account doesn’t use a Gmail address, contact Google by filling this form. This approach may help bring back your Google Account if you religiously preserve all your old emails. You will be required to know the exact creation date of your Google Account plus a copy of that original “Google Email Verification” message.

It may be slightly tough to get your Google Account back but definitely not impossible if you have the relevant information in your secondary email mailbox.

Blocking Myspace Manually To Restrict Children and Office Staff

Blocking or unblocking of some website is necessary in this generation , As many parents are concerned about there children , The same problem is with some office staff also .so some officers can also used this trick to block myspace or any other website in there offices also.This trick will really helpful for parents who wants to block myspace in there home computer in order to restrict there children to surf myspace.
For Blocking any website (Like orkut,youtube,playboy,myspace,facebook) in which you dont want yours friends Family members etc to visits etc you have to follow below steps carefully.

1)Click the Start button and select Run. Now type the below text in      Run box: 
        "notepad c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts"

2)A New notepad window will open on your screen containing some Information. Just goto the last  line of the file, hit the enter key and type the following:
 "127.0.0.1 Facebook.com
 127.0.0.1 Playboy.com
 127.0.0.1 Myspace.com"

3)Save the file and exit. You are done. Now None of the above websites will open on yours  computer you can block as many websites as you like using above trick.

If you want to remove the banned website, open the same file as mentioned in 1st Step and delete the blocked website .This is a very easy and free of cost trick to block any website.

Guidelines to Protect Orkut Profiles Security Tips

It is very important to save yours personal Information, If you have habit to store them in yours socialnetworking profiles Specially when it is yours Orkut Profiles , Below are some importantSecurity tips provided byOrkut that are helpul to protect yours orkut profile online.
1. Don’t share: keep your username, password and personal information secret and change your password regularly.

2. Don’t script: Never paste a URL or script into your browser while logged intoorkut.com — no matter what it claims to do. Don’t click on links in emails that claim to be from orkut or Gmail. Scan your computer regularly for viruses,spyware, and adware.

3. Don’t spread: Never enter your Google Account login and password on sites other than orkut.com and other Google properties. Never check “remember me” when you’re on a shared computer.

If you want to learn more about staying safe on orkut, more tips are available in the orkut Privacy Security Center. Have a question about safety that isn’t posted orkut Help Group.

Taking care of all above points will not only make you a perfect Orkuters but also a dedicated social Networking users . So Remember Think Befor You Do.

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Restore Previously Open Folders After Shutdown

If you need to access lot of folders on your home computer or on the network regularly, then you can set them re-open automatically, when you will login, shutdown or restart your computer next time. There is no need to open regularly used folders manually, just configure the simple sitting, your computer will automatically reload all the previously opened windows.

By default windows XP disables this option to reload automatically all the previously opened windows, when you login on, shutdown or restart your computer.

Follow the given steps to configure your computer to reload previously opened folders automatically after shutdown. 

  • To edit this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights.
  • First click on Start button then go to Control Panel. 
  • Open the “Appearance and Themes” option in control panel then click on Folder Options. 
  • A small windows dialog box will appear with the title “Folder options”, click on View tab.
  • Under the Advanced setting section, scroll down to bottom and click the “Restore previous folder windows at logon” option and then click Ok button to save sitting.
  • Now when you log off, restart or shutdown, your computer will automatically open the previously opened folders from the same location as before.

Multiple Logins In Yahoo Messenger At the Same Time

To enable multiple logins in you Yahoo! Messenger, Follow these steps :

  • Click Start Menu And Click On “RUN”
  • Type “regedit” and click OK
  • You will see the REGISTRY EDITOR
  • Navigate to “ HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Yahoo/Pager/Test “
  • Here in right side panel, right click to create a new Dword value with name Plural and give it value 1.
  • Close the registry editor and enjoy multiple yahoo logins.

Speed Up Browsing

When you connect to a web site your computer sends information back and forth. Some of this information deals with resolving the site name to an IP address, the stuff that TCP/IP really deals with, not words. This is DNS information and is used so that you will not need to ask for the site location each and every time you visit the site. Although Windows XP and Windows XP have a pretty efficient DNS cache, you can increase its overall performance by increasing its size. You can do this with the registry entries below:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache\Parameters]
“CacheHashTableBucketSize”=dword:00000001
“CacheHashTableSize”=dword:00000180
“MaxCacheEntryTtlLimit”=dword:0000fa00
“MaxSOACacheEntryTtlLimit”=dword:0000012d

Make a new text file and rename it to dnscache.reg. Then copy and paste the above into it and save it. Merge it into the registry.

Some Cool Google Talk Tips And Tricks


With Google Talk being the talk of the town right now, some people loving it, and some hating it, I thought of posting some cool and useful tips and tricks for those who wanna tweak and get some more juice from it. I will try to keep it short and easy.

~Some General Info n Tips~

1. Insert Line Breaks - If you want to have a message that spans multiple paragraphs, just hold shift and hit enter. You can add as many new lines as you want to create.

2. Bold Text - To write something bold, you can use an asterisk before and after the word, like *this*.

3. Italic Text - To use italics, use an underscore before an after the word, like _this_ .

4. Switch Windows - Hitting tab will cycle through open windows. It will select minimized conversations, to expand them just hit enter. If you just want to cycle through IM's and don't care about the buddy list, control-tab will do that and will automatically expand a minimized conversation if you settle on one.

5. Length Of A Single Message - A message can be max 32767 characters long.

~Some More Tips And Tricks~

1. How To Make Conference Calls:
What you need to do to have conference calls: Open up a copy of Google Talk on all computers with which you wish to conference. After one copy is opened make a new shortcut for Google Talk but at the end of the target add /nomutex. If you installed it to the default folder then your shortcut should read "C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe" /nomutex. Open 2nd instance of the software on every user's computer. After this start a chain: User 1 should connect on one instance to user 2. User 2 will connect on his second instance to user 3. User 3 will connect using his second instance back to user 1. With this chain everyone is connected to everyone.

2. Nickname & Status Message:
You can't change your nickname in a way that other people will see it change. Every nickname in the Google Talk contactlist is the part that is before @gmail.com (only the alphabetical characters are used) or the name you chosen for your GMail account. To change the nickname need to go to your Gmail account and change the name there. Choose Settings, Accounts, and then Edit info. Click on the second radio button, and enter your custom name. As a result all of your emails will have that nick as well, there is no way to seperate the two. You can add a website in your custom message, it will be clickable when someone opens a conversation window with you.

3. Contacts:
You don't need to say Yes or No when someone wants to add you as a friend; you can simply ignore it, the request will go away. (On the other hand, someone with whom you chat often will automatically turn to be your friend, unless you disable this).
Wierd: The Gmail account 'user@gmail.com' can't be invited as your friend.

4. Keyboard Shortcuts:
  • Ctrl + 5 (KeyPad) - Selects all the text typed.
  • Ctrl + 1 (NumPad) - It goes at the end of the last line.
  • Ctrl + 7 (NumPad) - It goes at the begin of the last line.
  • Ctrl + F4 - It closes the current window.
  • Alt + F4 - It closes the current window.
  • Alt + Esc - It Minimize the current open window.
  • Windows + ESC - Open Google Talk (if it's minimized, or in the tray).
  • F9 - Open Gmail to send an email to the current contact.
  • F11 - It initiates a telephonic call with your friend.
  • F12 - It cancels a telephonic call.
  • Esc - It closes the current window.

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Take A Broadband Speed Test Today!

No doubt your broadband supplier would have assured you about the broadband speed, but have you ever tested that how fast are the actual connection. There are many online broadband speed tests available over the Internet from which you can choose one broadband speed test and check the accurate results and while you are performing the test you should make sure of one thing is that you should not be using your internet connection for any other purpose at that moment of time.

It is quite necessary to close any other application or internet window which you have opened just because they might affect your broadband speed. Then you need to enter the entire details of the package which you are using currently. Then you need to run the speed test and then the results will show out the actual speed in comparison which is been quoted by your provider. This speed is important when you download information from the Internet pages and especially when you are downloading music, or any online games or email attachments and other files along with that and also while you are making Internet Phone calls. These test results would give whether the data has been transferred between your computers alone or through any distributed network and it will also give you a perfect idea on how fast is your broadband connection.
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