Tips and Tricks

How to Disable Laptop Touchpad

by Siddartha on May 20, 2012

If you want to know How to Disable Laptop Touchpad, we’ll help out with this tutorial. For people who got used to use a desktop, don’t feel comfortable with the laptop’s touchpad for cursor movements and want to disable laptop touchpad and want to access the cursor with the traditional mouse, then this tutorial will help you. Personally, I don’t feel that comfortable with my touchpad, so I always use my traditional mouse for more productivity. After connecting our mouse, there isn’t any need for us with this touchpad.

Considering an example, if you are playing game then normal mouse feels really great ahead of our Laptop’s touchpad and also if you are scrolling down the documents and other things will definitely annoy us if we are using touchpad. So, in order to solve that issue, here are the few ways that helps you to know how to disable laptop touchpad.

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There are various ways of disabling your Laptop’d touchpad, let us check them out.

How to Disable Laptop Touchpad

#1.Method – 1

  • Most of the Laptop manufacturer provides a dedicated Key on the keyboard to disable Touchpad.
  • Just Press that key and your Laptop’s touchpad will be disabled. It is the easiest way that helps us to disable the touchpad of your Laptop.

#2. Method – 2

  • You’ll find the touchpad icon in the notification area of your Laptop, and all you have to do is, to just double click that icon or to right click it to switch into the touchpad option and now you just have to disable the touchpad from here as: Mouse Properties Tab -> Device Settings -> Disable. This is one of the easiest way possible.

how to disable laptop touchpad

  •  But sometimes you might not find that touchpad icon in your notifications area, then you just have to follow this process : Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Devices and Printers -> Click on Mouse -> Mouse properties tab -> Disable.


#3. Method – 3

  • This is yet another way to disable laptop touchpad. Initially click on the Start Menu.
  • Type “Device Manager” in the search box. Click on the “device manager result” option and a Device Manager window will be poped.
  • Now you have to expand “Mice and other pointing devices”.

how to disable laptop touchpad

  • Now, you have to right-click on the touchpad’s entry and click on the disable option. Thus, in this way you can also disable the touchpad of your laptop.

I suggest you to try out every method shown above, but sometimes for few Laptop brands these things might not work and for those people who wanted to know How to Disable Laptop Touchpad, try out TouchPad Pal software. Hope you’ve enjoyed our article on How to Disable Laptop TouchPad.

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6 Best Ubuntu Tweaks, Tips and Tools

by Siddartha on April 19, 2012

I have been a huge Ubuntu fan since my college days. Although, I have switched to Mac, but my love for Ubuntu is irreplaceable. I am compiling this post just to showcase how powerful this incredible operating system is.

In this post, I have compiled the best Ubuntu tweaks, tips and tools. To be precise, once you are done reading this post, you will able to amplify the strength and capability of your Ubuntu OS.

Ubuntu is a Geek’s master weapon, and configuring any damn thing is a Geek’s habit. Hence this post is all about nurturing a Geek’s habit of configuring things and making it better for himself. Below listed tweaks, tips and tools can be used by any Ubuntu user regardless his or her Ubuntu knowledge.

Ubuntu Tips and Tricks

6 Best Ubuntu Tweaks, Tips and Tools

#1. Mount Partitions At Startup Automatically

Ubuntu never mounts a partition or hard drive other than the one on which its OS sits. If your machine runs on multiple partitions, you surely want each and every partition to be accessible once you start your Ubuntu machine.

There is a nifty tool, PySDM which lets you configure your Ubuntu such that it would mount all the partitions at the startup automatically. Hit the below command to install it on your machine:

sudo apt-get install pysdm

Once its installed, go ahead and run it. Now choose the partitions that you want to be accessible straight away, name them and click on Apply button. That is it!

#2. Backup Files On Ubuntu

Like Mac OS X, you do not have anything like Time Machine which would take care of your data. But you do have, DejaDup which is tool which comes with all the latest versions of Ubuntu distributions.

Launch it and configure it do start with the scheduling of jobs to backup your data on Ubuntu and save it directly on your local system and even on remote servers or cloud.

#3. Best Music Player For Ubuntu

I have labelled amaroK as the best music player for Ubuntu. This tool is not just about playing songs, creating playlists as it is much more that. In fact, it is much more than any music player you have ever come across.

Its linked up with Wikipedia so that you can search stuff about artists, album, and more. It also displays lyrics of the song, and you need not install any plugin for it. You can even search and download album covers.

#4. Add Spice To Booting Themes

Are you bored of the way Ubuntu shows up whenever you turn it ON? If you are, then you have to try BURG which actually adds so much to the bootloader that you would love the way it turns ON.

You can install it by the below command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bean123ch/burg

Downloading the tool just wont do as you need themes which you could use as booting screens. Below is the command to download all the required updates and themes.

sudo add-get update && sudo add-get install burg burg-themes

sudo update-burg

#5. Get going with Ubuntu One

Not everybody is aware of the free cloud storage service offered by Ubuntu, namely Ubuntu One. I recommend you to try it once if you are looking for a free cloud storage service. In order to start with it, navigate as System > Preferences > Ubuntu One. Now go ahead, create an account for yourself and start using it.

#6. Turn Off System Beep

Ubuntu is one of its kind. Unlike other operating systems, Ubuntu will cause your CPU make noice whenever something wrong happens. Didn’t you get it? I am talking about the super weird beep that occurs in case of an error happening. You can turn this annoying sound just by hitting the below command:

rmmod pcspkr

But if you want to enable it back, you can hit the below command:

modprobe pcspkr

Guest author Dwarka Rao is editor at PcsPlace – A Tech Blog and Review Unit.com.

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How to solve the problem of Poor GSM Communication?

by Siddartha on January 19, 2012

Mobile operators are not able to provide the reliable cell phone communication for all subscribers. And today cellular communication problems don’t surprise anybody. The more users there are, the higher is the probability of the system failure. The number of network users is growing, the profits of cellular operators also, but the quality of services become worse. How to resolve this problem without waiting for the cellular operators’ help?

The mobile subscribers have to worry themselves, because to seek the compensation for poor service is almost impossible.

I think that you also often got into the situation where a call is vital, or your line is busy, or different people can not get through to you; when a weak signal in the road or a communication problem in the country house do not allow you to make a call in time. I think that at least one of the questions you answered yes.

But there is a good solution of such problem – the gsm signal booster. The anytone repeater can solve the problem of unstable mobile signal in the city occurred because of the concrete walls, metal structures and tall buildings.

What is the mechanism of the action?

The first step of work is to install an external antenna – you have to detect the area, where the gsm or 3g signal is the best, using a special instrument; then you find the place where an external antenna can be securely fastened (it’s usually a wall of the building, a tall tree, etc); you fix the antenna at the required angle.
This externe gsm antenna receives the mobile signal through the cable and sends it to the special unit – the mobile signal repeater (extender), which is installed inside the building. The cel phone repeater amplifies the signal and transfers it to remote places via the cable and an interior antenna inside.

Such equipment is necessary for parking spaces, basements and suburban homes. It helps to solve the problem with not only the gsm communication, but also with the internet connection as well as there are 3g signal amplifiers, suited to enhance the 3g signal.

So you can solve all questions of poor wireless connection of different standards, using the mobile signal booster suitable for you.

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How to Get Back to Old Facebook Chat Version

by Siddartha on August 2, 2011

In this post, we are going to deal with How to Get Back to Old Facebook Chat Version from the current update of Facebook Chat version. Facebook is the No.1 Social Networking site in the world with over 500 million active users. Previously after launch of Google+, Facebook started feeling the heat and tried too much to withheld it’s grip on the Social Networking world. In the process, Facebook have launched Video Chat and New Version of Facebook Chat by disturbing the Old Facebook Chat version. The Facebook Fans opposed and were really depressed with the current update of Facebook Chat. Which is the reason I’m writing this post, in order to help you to get back to Old Facebook Chat version. So, let us check out how to get back to previous version of Facebook chat.

How to Get Old Facebook Chat Back

How to Get Back To Old Facebook Chat Version

There are 2 ways to get back to Old Facebook Chat Version. Let us check out them :

#1. Installing the Disabler of Facebook Chat Sidebar

This step works for people who use Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Opera. An extension that enables you to get back to Old Facebook Chat version is released for these 3 Popular Browsers. Here is the Extension for various browsers

  • Mozilla Firefox : GreaseMonkey
  • Google Chrome : If you are using Google Chrome, then there is no need for you to install GreaseMonkey. You need to install a Facebook user-script that which reverts you back to Old Facebook Chat version. You just need to install it in your chrome browser and you will get back your Old Facebook Chat back. Else, you can make use of this Google Chrome Extension to Get Back Old Facebook Chat.
  • Opera : Opera Add-on to Get Previous Facebook Chat back.
Get Old Facebook Chat Back

#2. The 2nd way to get Old Facebook Chat Back is using a special version interface which creates a Pop-up window on which you can get Old Facebook Chat version back. Of course it’s not a complete suggestion, but its a partial was to break the New Facebook Chat version and switch back to previous Facebook Chat version. This might be bit annoying for you as it opens the separate window just for Chat box. You can get this Old Facebook Chat version interface from here. [Pop-Up Old Facebook Chat version]

Hope you enjoyed reading “How to Get Back to Old Facebook Chat Version“

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