HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY- GOOGLE'S DOODLE

New Delhi: The doodle on the Google India home page this year is a familiar symbol - independent India's first stamp.

The first stamp issued by free India was months after Independence on November 21, 1947 and it depicted the Indian national flag with the popular slogan - "Jai Hind (Long Live India)" written in Hindi. The stamp was valued at three and one-half annas.

Google has been commemorating India's Independence Day on its India home page since 2003.

Independent India's first stamp was for three and one-half annas and was issued on November 21, 1947.

Maximizing the Battery Life of your Laptop

Maximizing the Battery Life of your Laptop

There are three main ways to maximize the life of your laptop. Let’s call the first method “eliminating to save power;” the second “caring to maintain power;” and the third, “adding to increase power.”

Eliminating to Save Power

The first crucial step in maximizing the battery life of your laptop is to understand what drains the laptop’s power. Once you determine the biggest power drainers, you can focus on saving laptop power by eliminating the biggest power-draining culprits.
The Windows 7 Engineering blogreleased a pie chart which displays where the power in your laptop is allocated to. With an astounding near 50%, the laptop’s LCD screen sucks up the juice. So, the obvious answer with this, is to dim your screen!

Where the power goes in a modern Windows laptop

Friedbeef.com offers some other good elimination tips on saving the battery’s life:

1. Dim your screen
2. Cut down on programs running in the background
3. Cut down on external devices, such as external hard drives, flash drives, WiFi, a mouse
   

   Don’t let your laptop overheat!
4. Don’t multitask
5. Turn off the autosave function in Microsoft word and excel
6. Lower the graphics use