Use Mouse Keys to move the mouse pointer

With Mouse Keys, you can use the numeric keypad on your keyboard—instead of the mouse—to move the pointer.

To turn on Mouse Keys

1. Open Ease of Access Center by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking Ease of Access, and then clicking Ease of Access Center.
2. Click Make the mouse easier to use.
3. Under Control the mouse with the keyboard, select the Turn on Mouse Keys check box.

Moving the pointer using Mouse Keys

After you turn on Mouse Keys, you can use the numeric keypad to move the mouse.

To move the mouse pointer		Press
Up and to the left		7
Up		8
Up and to the right		9
Left		4
Right		6
Down and to the left		1
Down		2
Down and to the right		3

Selecting a mouse button

Before you use Mouse Keys to click items on your screen, you must first select which mouse button you want to be the active button: the left button, the right one, or both.

To		Press
Select the left mouse button		The forward slash (/)
Select both buttons		The asterisk (*)
Select the right mouse button		The minus sign (-)

Note

• If you choose to make the left mouse button the active button, it will remain the active button until you choose another button. After you select a mouse button, you don't need to select a mouse button again until you want to change buttons.

Clicking items using Mouse Keys

After you choose a button, you can click items on your screen.

To		Do this
Click an item		With the left button selected as your active button, point to the item, and then press 5
Right-click an item		With the right button selected as your active button, point to the item, and then press 5
Double-click an item		With the left button selected as your active button, point to the item, and press the plus sign (+)

Dragging items using Mouse Keys

You can use the numeric keypad to press and hold the active mouse button and to release it. This is helpful if you want to drag an item.

To		Do this
Drag an item		Point to the item, and then press zero (0)
Drop the item		Point to the location where you want to move the item, and then press the decimal point (.)

Notes

• You can also turn on Mouse Keys by pressing Left Alt+Left Shift+Num Lock.
• To change options like how quickly the mouse pointer moves and whether your computer makes a sound when you turn on Mouse Keys, in the Ease of Access Center, under Control the mouse with the keyboard, click Set up Mouse Keys

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Chennai vs Brisbane Heat - Champions League T20 Live Streaming

Watch Champions League T20 Live Streaming of Champions League T20 2013 on 17 SEP 2013 to 06 OCT. Champions League T20 Match, Champions League T20 2013 Live Cricket Streaming online 2013. Watch Champions League T20 Match, Champions League T20 2013 Live Match, 2013. Watch Champions League T20 is telecast on Star Cricket, Sky Sports HD and Geo Super, PTV Sports and Cricket One. 

 

Match scheduled to Start: India

Champions League T20 5th ODI Match Live – Channel 1

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Priyanka Chopra is the Most Dangerous Celebrity

Priyanka Chopra

Take that Mogambo, there are new villains in town. :) A new research conducted by computer security brand McAfee has brought up some interesting results! The organisation decided to find out who’s the most dangerous celebrity online – as in, which celebrity name is most used by cybercriminals to take advantage of those people who seek more information about their idols. These cybercriminals use the celebrity’s name along with keywords such as ‘wallpapers’, ‘videos’ and ‘nude pictures’ to attract people to malware-ridden sites. And this year, Priyanka Chopra topped the list of celebrities, with 79 infected results in her name.

The others include:

Most Dangerous Celebrities 2013

Interestingly enough, this brought up a point: men are more dangerous than women! Priyanka, Kareena and Sunny were the only women to make it to the top 10. Also, Katrina, Bipasha, Deepika and Aishwarya all dropped out of this year’s list – last year they were 2nd, 5th, 7th and 9th respectively.

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Simple Audio (Wav/MP3) Editings with Audacity

How many times you end up with a music track that you just want to trim a portion out of it? You might first question which tool to use, and how to get it done. There are numerous tools out there to do this kind of stuff, and even more than that. Most of them cost money, but you can also find some freeware that do the job as well.

Luckily, I've found a freeware that let me edit audio tracks and save them as MP3 and some other formats, it's called Audacity. So go get a copy for yourself and try it, I believe it's all you need to do some simple audio editing tasks.

Once you download and install the Audacity, launch it and you'll see something similar to this:
             

Then follow the steps below

1. Open the audio file (Wav or MP3) (File > Open). The file shows up as follow, note that this sample file has two audio channels (stereo), so you'd see two rows of wave signal.
   
   
2. You can play the file from the beginning by selecting the Play button, or you can select a starting point by clicking the mouse on the wave signal then click Play. While the audio is playing, the cursor moves indicating the position of the wave signals being read.
3. To cut an unwanted portion of the audio, simply play the file and identify the start and end points of the wave signal you want to cut. Then click and drag the mouse to highlight this portion and click on the scissors button to cut.
   
   
4. To add a fade-in at the beginning of the file, click and drag the mouse to select a portion at the beginning of the audio wave. Then select Effect from the top menu and select Fade in.
   
   
5. Similar to fade-out, select a portion of the wave at the end and select Fade Out from the menu.
6. To adjust the volume of the entire audio file: Edit > Select > All, then Effect > Amplify. Then adjust the volume with the slider and click OK, don't forget to check the box Allow Clipping
                                
7. You can also adjust the volume for just a portion of the audio file by select and drag the mouse to highlight the portion then use the Amplify menu.
8. Once you're done editing, save the file as Wav or MP3: File > Export As WAV or Export As MP3.

Download Audacity : Click Here

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How to Write Good Stories: Tips and Tricks For The Beginning Content Writer

If your writing skills are good enough and you are considering building a career out of content writing or ghost even, you might find yourself in the troubling position of spending two or three hours on a average six hundred words article. Which is not bad, if your value in life is to focus on quality rather on quantity – basically to distinguish yourself from the other farm – writers out there who had the same idea for their future careers. But in a cost-effective world, if you are good enough as a freelancer, you might find yourself not being able to respect all the deadlines and all your clients’ wishes and needs. If you were lucky enough to get hired by a guest posting writing services company, the amount of work is likely to overcome the speed of your fingers typing. You will be the slow one, or the one that doesn’t meet the criteria and your fabulous career in SEO or independent blogging might not see the desired outcome. So what do you do? Sacrifice content for quantity? Definitely not! Stir your wheel to more shallow approaches? Definitely not! So what do you do to write awesome content and many articles a day?

Choose your fields of interest
Content writers should be able to write anything about everything, but this doesn’t mean you have to be a scientist having deep knowledge on every possible subject. Find your best and most comfortable niches (which should be more than one, experts say) and develop them. Use your past college knowledge or even your personal hobbies and start working on them. Make a database with the best and updated information on a subject, read, and study and have them at hand. When you will need to write about a specific topic, you should know exactly where to look. Use high authority websites and even take notes about news and recent development in a field, they might be useful later. Having multiple niches at your fingertip is the best thing you could achieve: cross-referencing subjects and intertwining them allows you to be more creative, to draw inspiration more easily and to ease up the process of writing. Making analogies, being able to provide educated comparisons and interlinking different fields is one key to success in professional content writing.

Build a story starting from a general outline
Just as in creative writing, having an outline helps you save time. Before putting the words on the paper, you should know  what is the story’s subject, what are its main points, where do you want to lead your readers to. Give the story a purpose. Professional writers, just as novelists make up a story having only a vague idea and improvising along the way. This doesn’t mean that inside their heads they know nothing about what they are writing about. As a beginner content writer, your outline should include an introductory paragraph, configuring the premises, the general story and the goal, followed by the actual content. You already know it should be unique, original and highly informative so the next step and the hardest, is to provide that content.

Research
Many beginner writers lose themselves in this stage, spending a great amount of time cross – referencing the information they found, analyzing multiple sources, wanting to give their best. These are the hours that differentiate you from a prolific writer. What is to be done? First rule of journalism says to check your source and you can do it easily, because you already have an ever-growing database of resources you can verify and get inspired by. Next step is to permanently ask yourself the same question over and over again: what is this article about? Restrain your interest to the story’s subject and keep in mind that you are not working on a doctoral thesis. If you have to present five new business opportunities, do exactly that: present them, having in mind the person who reads the article. Is that information useful to them? Does it provide enough data for them to start searching on their own, if interested? Is the information presented in a logical, simple, attractive way? Will they bother to finish the article and read the conclusions? You will see that comments about business ethics stranded far away from your purpose to presenting the business, so you should know where to stop when developing on a subject.

Clear the mess at the end
Take a look to the beginning and look at what you are typing now: are you still on the subject? Does it still sound like having a purpose and is still loud, clear, informative and easy to read? If not, brush the text until it serves its real purpose. It may take you some extra – time, but once you become a little more skilled, you’ll end up doing it as it goes.

Writer’s block is only inside your head
It is true that even novel writers and professional content writers meet the so called “writer’s block”, when they don’t know where to begin and where to finish, what to write and how to sound like they are not completely bored. Many experts say that you should write no matter what. But in truth, you might end up with a messy article, showing your lack of mood and creativity and your complete disinterest in the subject. This doesn’t pay. If you experience the phenomenon, you should try to find your own methods to overcoming it. Some writers go for a walk, others read (inspiration comes from the most unexpected of places!), others take a break and do something else. You will be more efficient and your work quality will be higher if you take a break and come back in full force than making efforts to put some words on the paper, just because you have to.

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Gamers Need the BenQ Professional Gaming XL2411T Monitor

When you’re caught in the action of a shooter and have to shoot enemies coming from all sides, it’s good to have an ace up your sleeve. And this could be the BenQ XL2411T, a 24-inch TN monitor with an incredible refresh rate of 144Hz. Developed together with professional players of Counter-Strike, the gadget allows you to see twice as much information in one second, compared to a regular monitor that only has a refresh rate of 60Hz.

BenQ Monitor is 3D-ready, meaning it can be easily transformed into one that allows viewing three-dimensional images. For that, you need a special kit that includes glasses. Nvidia 3D Vision can be a solution for you.

So, we’re talking about a dedicated monitor for amateur and professional gamers, gaming enthusiasts who need adrenaline. Ordinary users might find tiresome for the eye the refresh rate of 144Hz.

The monitor has a simple black frame, measuring about a centimeter and a half. In the bottom right you will find the on / off button and other four touch buttons that allow you to make settings. They are represented by just one dot, and their functions appear on the screen above, when you touch any of the dots.

The right LED is green when the monitor is on and orange when it’s in standby to save energy. On the right side of the monitor is also a jack.

The BenQ gadget is adjustable, which will increase your comfort if you play entire afternoons. You can tilt the monitor, you can alter the height for a distance of 13cm, you can twist it 45 degrees to the left and right, and you can even turn it clockwise to stay in portrait mode. The BenQ gadget seems built well, so no need to worry that you’ll damage with such movements. But it’s not the only monitor that is able to adjust in this way. Find out more on Ten Mania.

The product is not very thin, but not thick and can be mounted in a variety of ways because supports standard VESA 100x100mm.

The monitor has several ports: VGA, Dual Link DVI-D and HDMI.

144Hz refresh rate
Designed specifically for gaming, the monitor provides a clear and fluid image, a special delicacy, and no lag, no matter how small, which gamers will appreciate. It refreshes 144 times per second and there is no little difference between what you see on screen and what happens actually in the game. In the case of a shooter, this will help you detect and annihilate enemies more quickly. Compared to a regular monitor, the BenQ has 2.4 times more frames per second for viewing information and sensitive user will tell the difference.

Displaying twice as much information compared to a refresh rate of 60Hz, with a very short response time of the pixels, and with a lag that tends to zero, the monitor features an exceptional fluidity. Fluidity in games is superior to LCD classics gaming monitors of 60Hz.

Picture
The contrast is excellent, and the black is impressive. You will be able to watch movies or use it for games even in a dark rooms, because the picture will be excellent.

BenQ Monitor lets you see well even in dark scenes, through Black Equalizer technology. In this case dark images are made lighter, without overexposure.

BenQ XL2411T has a First Person Shooter display, with which you will obtain optimal brightness, contrast, sharpness and color balance when you play. These settings are made by professional gamers who collaborated with BenQ and should help you pass more easily through situations of a game that puts to the test look and agility.

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Re-enable underline keyboard shortcuts

By default, Windows 7 has the underlines for keyboard shortcuts like those shown in the picture to the right disabled. To re-enable these underlines in all Windows programs follow the below steps.

1. Open the Control Panel.
2. In the Control Panel click Ease of Access.
3. In Ease of Access click Change how your keyboard works.
4. Finally, check the Underline keyboard shortcuts and access keys and then click Ok.

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The Top 10 Most expensive Painting in the World

Archimedes once famously said, “Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand and I’ll move the world”. He did. And  for the records, he wasn’t really the only one that astounded the world, in the art world; we have people like Pablo Picasso, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, Edvard Munch, one of the greatest Norwegian painter who ever lived.

There are others which this post can’t possibly contain if I was to begin naming them. We have Vincent Van Gogh the Dutch painter, I also can’t end mentioning names without remembering Leonardo Da Vinci, the famous painter known for the extremely popular Mona Lisa painting which is rumoured to be worth a staggering 1billion US dollars.

But the reason these painters are well known and sort after today, wasn’t because they all came from rich homes, far from that, it was genuinely because of what they were able to accomplish with just a wild imagination and a paint brush.

And they, with just those two intrinsic things, have made paintings worth multi millions of dollars.

Below are 10 most expensive painting works wrought solely by their hands in today’s world -

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1. The Card Players (1892-93) – Paul Cezanne

Amount– $259 million

This painting is among a series of 5 oil paintings famously created by the French post-Impressionist artist Paul Cezanne during 1890 – 1893. One of the oil painting (the largest one actually) was sold in 2011 to the royal family of Qatar for a staggering price of $259 million, thereby making it single-handedly the most costly art work ever sold in the world. The rest of the oil paintings are housed in different museums in America.

                       

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, houses one. Two are owned by the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia. The remaining two are housed in Courtauld Institute of Art, London and Musee d’ Orsay in Paris.

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2. No. 5, 1948 (1948) – Jackson Pollock

Amount – $140 million

This extra-ordinary masterpiece was painted by an American painter Jaskson Pollock, which is popularly known for his profound contribution to abstract expressionist movement. But back to the painting, it was painted on an 8’ x 4’ sheet of fibreboard.

          

It was originally owned by the Samuel Irving Newhouse and was late sold for an insane amount of $140 million to an unknown buyer in 2006 which was said to be David Martinez, managing partner of Fintech Advisory LTD.

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3. Woman III (1953) – Willem de Kooning

Amount – $137.5 million

This awesome painting was mastermind and painted by Willem Kooning; and it’s among the 6 series of painting he did which main theme was a woman (as shown below). All 6 paintings were later completely around 1951 – 1953.

                                        

Then in 2006, David Geffen (the present owner at that time) sold it to billionaire Steven A. Cohen for a mouth watering $137.5 million, which ended up making it the third most expensive paintings ever sold.

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4. Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907) – Gustav Klimt

Amount – $135 million

This painting is the first Adele Bloch-Bauer’s portrait that was painted by famous painter Gustav Klimt (the second one is the 10^th expensive painting on this post).

                                  

This beautiful painting was later sold to Ronald Lauder in New York for a staggering amount of $135 million, which automatically made it the 4^th most expensive painting in the world.

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5. The Scream (1895) – Edvard Munch

Amount – $119.9 million

This painting titled, “the scream” is among the 4 series of masterpiece painted by the popular expressionist artist Edvard Munch around 1893 -1910. The artwork depicts a figure which seems to possess an agonized face which a surprise look against a mixture of an orange and fiery red sky.

                               

Leon Black later ended up buying this masterpiece of art for an auction price of – $119.9 million, thereby making the scream the 5^th most expensive painting in the world currently.

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6. Nude, Green Leaves and Bust (1932) – Pablo Picasso

 Amount – $106.5 million

The Spanish masterpiece Pablo Picasso painted Nude, Green Leaves and Bust in 1932. It features his mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter.

                        

This masterpiece which was formally in the possession of Los Angeles art collectors Sidney and Frances Brody and was later sold at an auction for a hectic amount of $106.5 million, which made it the second highest world record price for a masterpiece sold in any action.

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7. Garcon a la Pipe (1905) – Pablo Picasso

Amount – $104.2 million

Garçon à la Pipe which means “Boy with a Pipe” in English is a masterpiece painted by the famous Pablo Picasso in 1905. This was precisely when he was 24 years old, and the oil drawing explicitly features a Parisian boy holding a pipe and having is head crown with different flowers.

                                     

The masterpiece was later bought by the Barilla Group through an auction, which they won for a staggering amount of $104.2 million, making it the 7^th costliest painting in the world.

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8. Eight Elvises (1963) – Andy Warhol

Amount – $100 million

This silkscreen painting of Elvis Presley is a masterpiece done by American pop artist Andy Warhol in 1963.

                  

The masterpiece was later sold for $100 million on November 26, 2009 to a private broker Philippe Ségalot; making the portrait, automatically, the 8^th most expensive painting in the world.

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9. Dora Maar au Chat (1941) – Pablo Picasso

Amount – $95.2 million

This masterpiece is again another art work of Pablo Picasso which he drew his mistress, Dora Maar, seated on wooden chair with a cat around her left shoulder.

The painting was precisely painted around 1941, during the time when the France nation was being occupied by the Nazis.

                                 

In 2005 – ‘06, the painting was bought in an auction for $95.2 million by an unknown art collector, which made it the 9^th most expensive work of art in the world.

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10. Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II (1912) – Gustav Klimt

Amount – $87.9 million

This elegant long portrait is a 1912 masterpiece painted by Gustav Klimt. The woman in the portrait is the wife of rich industrialist Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer.

Her portrait was reportedly seized from their family house by the Nazis during the World War II. So after the world war, it was later made to rest in an Austrian museum.

                                           

Then In 2006, the family wanted to take possession of the portrait back and as you’d imagine, the Austrian museum refused to give the portrait back. And in January, 2006, this led to a long court case that ended in the Austrian museum handing over the portrait to the niece of Bauer.

The painting was later auctioned of at a whopping pay of $87.9 million to an art collector, and that deal made it the tenth most expensive paintings in the world.

Now, I’d have to end this post as they’re literally 100’s of other paintings that still exist which are also equally costly too.

So let me ask, out of the top ten lists I just made you scan, which picture was the best for you and which one did you think didn’t deserve the price tag.

Use the comment box below to let us know your answer; we’ll be expecting it.

Thanks for reading.

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Mozilla Firefox - Useful shortcuts

Below is a listing of all the major shortcut keys in Mozilla Firefox. See the computer shortcut page if you are looking for other shortcut keys used in other programs.

Shortcut Keys	Description
Alt + Home	Open your home page.
Alt + Left Arrow	Back a page.
Alt + Right Arrow	Forward a page.
F5	Refresh current page, frame, or tab.
F11	Display the current website in full screen mode. Pressing F11 again will exit this mode.
Esc	Stop page or download from loading.
Ctrl + (- or +)	Increase or decrease the font size, pressing '-' will decrease and '+' will increase. Ctrl + 0 will reset back to default.
Ctrl + Enter	Quickly complete an address. For example, type computerhope in the address bar and press CTRL + ENTER
Ctrl + Shift + Del	Open the Clear Data window to quickly clear private data.
Ctrl + D	Add a bookmark for the page currently opened.
Ctrl + I	Display available bookmarks.
Ctrl + J	Display the download window.
Ctrl + K or Ctrl + E	Move the cursor to the search box.
Ctrl + N	Open New browser window.
Ctrl + P	Print current page or frame.
Ctrl + T	Opens a new tab.
Ctrl + F4 or Ctrl + W	Closes the currently selected tab.
Ctrl + Shift + T	Undo the close of a window.
Ctrl + Tab	Moves through each of the open tabs.
Spacebar	Moves down a page at a time.
Shift + Spacebar	Moves up a page at a time.
Alt + Down arrow	Display all previous text entered in a text box and available options on drop down menu.

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