Speed up your computer by using READY BOOST feature

You can speed up your computer significantly. Follow this link if you are running WINDOWS VISTA or WINDOWS 7.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Turn-ReadyBoost-on-or-off-for-a-storage-device

Note:

• If your computer has a hard disk that uses solid-state drive (SSD) technology, you might not see an option to speed up your computer with ReadyBoost when you plug in a USB flash drive or flash memory card. You may instead receive the message, "Readyboost is not enabled on this computer because the system disk is fast enough that ReadyBoost is unlikely to provide any additional benefit." This is because some SSD drives are so fast they're unlikely to benefit from ReadyBoost.

• In some situations, you might not be able to use all of the memory on your device to speed up your computer. For example, some flash memory devices contain both slow and fast flash memory, but ReadyBoost can only use fast flash memory to speed up your computer
  

• Source (Microsoft website)
  

Looking up your IP address from CMD on Windows

1. Hit "Start"
2. type CMD in "run"
3. When CMD window opens, type IPCONFIG
4. It gives you your IP address (says IPv4 or IPv6 based on the protocol suite)

Java Packages

This is the best tutorial that I cam across to clear up the basics of Java Packages...
http://www.jarticles.com/package/package_eng.html

Converting Images to THUMBNAILS

Converting an image to a thumbnail might often be necessary in webpage designing. A very good tool that I came across is SIMPLE THUMBNAIL CREATOR and can be downloaded from here.

1. Select the Images
2. Set the output constraints
3. Converted!
4. Its that simple

Masking Phone Numbers