We often use to-do lists, notes and other task management software to organize, record and optimize our daily routine but one of the most important platforms where we spend significant amounts of our time is the Personal Computer. Microsoft Windows always comes with an easy to use Task Manager that allows you to achieve the same goal by analyzing a list of tasks and processes along with the system consumption information. The importance of Task Manager was often realized when the system would get very slow while some of the programs became unresponsive. The Ctrl+Alt+Del keys would always save us in such scenarios and when the explorer stops responding, all you need is to create a New Task with the identity explorer.exe. The End Process and End Process Tree have always been a life-saver for both the usual and the expert users of the computer. But the Task Manager was never an all-in-one solution and you would often had to rely on third party tools to get a better picture of the system resource consumption, startup management, tweaks and optimizations. With Windows 8, the new Task Manager is a comprehensive solution for both the novice as well as the advanced users of the operating system. This post will show you how life has been made simpler by this powerful system tool.

Just like an investor carefully studies the company or area where he or she intends to rest the finances on, in hope of a far greater return, online ad placement requires in depth study of a particular website, its ranking, subsequent traffic and competitor websites. You may also want to compare analytics with respect to both global and regional level and then decide whether your investment in the form of online ads is worth it. You can also figure out the duration and expected return of investment within the time frame. If you’re just interested in analytics, Google AdPlanner does not disappoint you but presents estimates of traffic statistics of the website in focus, while giving you a preview of the traffic distribution with respect to age, gender, location, audience interests and the respective affinity. Google AdPlanner is a powerful tool based on  GDN Research and customized media plans that encourage you to analyze websites and webpages by placement, for placement and audience planning. It not only provides you the data but also suggests suitable ad sizes that can yield maximum returns. Using both AdSense and Google Analytics, Google AdPlanner provides great insights to the world wide web for your benefit.

The internet is so full of diverse information ranging from different sources and relating to unimaginably large number of topics, that to filter out specifics of the much needed area is more of a challenge. Using search engines may be a good idea, but Google may not allow you to sift out data and trends from the social media and blogs in a comprehensive manner. At first, this may not seem much of an issue but getting insights to this fast growing community and having the ability to traverse these diverse and opinionated landscapes can be of great value. For instance, assessing popularity of a particular news issue or an event can be easily translated to an analysis with the help of social media or the alternative connection to the wider society. IceRocket is a useful search engine that allows you to instantly search for keywords and areas of interest in various aspects like Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Images and the like. In addition, benefitting from the buzz drawn out by this utility, you can find out trending items and searches whenever needed. Gathering content, analyzing data and organizing it in a smooth manner can surely be made easier using IceRocket.

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One thing that instantly comes up when one things of mathematics, equations and all those variables fluidly connected together to derive complex solutions from seemingly meager problems, is the image of a blackboard (or a whiteboard in the modern era). We all realize that quite rapidly, the virtual whiteboard is taking the center stage. With online education websites, virtual classrooms, video lessons, assignments and literally every component of learning becoming accessible through technology, more and more people are turning to their computers and the internet for learning. Now, imagine a situation where you’re faced by a huge assignment and you don’t have a solution manual to confirm whether you’re on the right track or even a silly-mistakes checker. Most of us make silly mistakes at the start of our solution that ends us up on the wrong side of the outcome. Inkulator is a Windows App that instantly detects handwritten mathematical equations and calculates them for you so that you can verify and diagnose the areas causing the wrong result. It provides an experience where you don’t have to click buttons and then erase parts of the equation, if you got it wrong but encourages you to jot everything in your own handwriting and then presents the solution, with ease.

Whether it’s getting in touch with friends and family separated by hundreds of miles in distance or may it be an office meeting on a serious agenda point, there is one need that is strongly felt by users across the globe regarding VoIP applications or take the most popular example, Skype. This need is the ability to maintain multiple sessions of the same application. Many offices, companies and businesses use Skype for collaboration in a manner that the entire workplace is connected with each other using Skype. If you need to share data and you’re connected to the same network, transfer speeds wouldn’t get any better. If you have a brief query to address and you can’t get up from your chair and navigate your way to the respective colleague, simply start a chat on Skype. But just like email accounts, Skype accounts also need segregation between personal or home and office or work contacts. You can create groups, no doubt, but a separate experience is what is usually needed. In this post, we highlight a light-weight application that allows you to effectively address this problem and maintain multiple Skype sessions using either your Skype or Hotmail accounts.

Looking for a tool that could help you in creating requirements and documents overviewing design for applications and software? In order to ensure that your design, whether it be applicable to a web page, smart phone app or a software, gets across to the UI/UX designers as well as the coding team, you must rely on feature-rich and user-friendly mockup and wire framing tools that enable you to fully convey your ideas on paper. Balsamiq is a resourceful and well-known application that allows you to achieve results in a manner that it is perfectly understandable by designers, product and project managers as well as the software developers. This means that you can finally spend more time in improving the actual layout and feel of the app being developed rather than being stuck at the very first step. Giving the process of creating innovative wireframes a realistic look, it ensures the retention of a sketch-like layout so that the focus remains not on the details but the concept on the basis of which new and improved mockups would come to life.

Every once in a while you may end up realizing that the installed programs list on your computer needs a cleansing operation. It is well-known that your system performance is highly dependent on the amount of resource consumption may it be hard disk space or memory or both by the applications installed on to your system. While uninstalling you may end up realizing that a third party application did not have an uninstaller in the package and deleting all relevant files would only lead to erroneous registry and slower system performance. In such situations, you require an uninstallation assistant that would eliminate the respective programs and remove all traces of it from the hard disk, registry and the system settings. With IObit Uninstaller, you can easily rid yourself of those undesired toolbars and programs that you have tried your utmost to dispose off. In addition it allows you to re-scan your system to remove any leftovers for good.

With mobile and internet technology reaching all corners of the world and till the very depth of your pocket, wherever you go, book reading has become a rare necessity. People often preferring conducting a Google Search instead of the extensive exercise of going through a book. But despite these shortcuts, the only thing technology has been able to do is identify the loyalty of reading enthusiasts. Quite often you may endure a temptation to buy a book and place it tidily in your bookshelf waiting to be read, one day. Instead with the frequency of flipping a page, mobile devices and other books start flocking your bookshelf and your workplace giving out just the studious and thoughtful impression you need. Shelfari is an online repository for information regarding a variety of books on various topics by a range of writers. It allows you to create virtual bookshelf where you can place all the books in your wish list or those that are present in the physical bookshelf. In addition to organizing them in multiple sections, you can add reviews, details and information regarding the book while exercising the right to connect it with the social media whenever needed. Hence, discussions are easily generated by people of mutual interest giving rise to a stronger conviction towards reading and sharing the lessons with the public.