Social Networking Addiction

Social networking has been the latest addiction for the youth of the modern times. Ever wondered why and how we get addicted to social networking sites? The reasons are many and some are really very strange. Social networking has been a very recent concept (not older than a decade). That being said, most of the youngsters of the present times have some fantasies which the social networking sites make reality.

Every youngster always lives in a virtual world where he keeps dreaming that he or she should be able to communicate with a person of the opposite sex indirectly. Social networking sites are a virtual world where the youngsters get to achieve this. A chat box just makes it easier to communicate with each other and to add to the fun you also get to see the photograph of the person you are chatting with. If someone annoys you, you can also hide yourself behind the screen by removing him from your friends list. That is not all there are many techies and software professionals who hang around the social networking sites for a very long time. The reason with them is different.

Most of the techies sit on their bench for a long time and need to take a look into their systems. It is not unusual to find a techie chatting with a member of his own office even if he or she were sitting in a cabin next to him. With so much of work load and pressure, the techies find the social networking platform to be a suitable means of getting rid of their stress which they most often complain about. They just need to find some way out of their work and hence their gprs activated phones are updated with softwares that keep them live in touch with all the changes that are taking place in their account.

Social networking is not good as far as addiction is concerned. Everyone in recent times wants to see how the lives of other people are going on around them. Getting a chance to sneak into the personal lives of other people is also one more valid reason why people turn towards social networking. The social networking platforms really steal your attention if you get addicted. Getting addicted to anything is not a natural behavior and has to be avoided.

People who are on social networking platform are mostly addicted. If you want to know whether you are addicted to social networking or not then let us have a simple test. Spend a week without looking at the status of your account and don't even think about the status of your wall page. If you think of the status every day and every hour know that you are addicted. Which is definitely not a good thing: nor for you nor for the people around you. So look out for some other means to get out of the social networking addiction. Music is definitely a very good way to get out of any kind of addiction. Try your way out to get out of the social networking addiction and let the whole world know how you did it by leaving your comments below.

Are Cracked Softwares Safe To Use

Cracked softwares are free and easy to download from the web with so many crackers seriously sitting for a long time in front of a computer just in order to crack a protected software. With so many students using laptops and computers, it is rather difficult for them to buy softwares that are costlier than their budget. There are a lot of freewares out there, but most of them are designed for Linux and the rest of them have limited functionality. When we literally want a software very badly we need to buy it and I have a very strong reason for supporting this claim.

If you are a businessman you can never afford to download a cracked software. Cracked softwares are softwares obtained by reversing the one written by the original developer. There are many things which run behind the scene when you are installing a cracked software.  If you have downloaded your software from a torrent site, be sure that your computer is under the risk of being attacked by a malicious program.

Cracked softwares can crash your system. Let me tell you a few things about crackers. Crackers are not hackers in the real sense of the word. A hacker needs to be a serious and well equipped software programmer who does programming on the go. A real hacker is very swift at his keyboard and programming skills and he never messes with existing software developed by others. Instead, he installs a software, sees the functions in it and builds his own software which will work much better than the existing one which he tried. Hackers never work for other organizations and are very costly to hire. Most importantly hackers never crack.

A cracker uses a set of programs and cracks a protected software and distributes it for free. This brings serious loss to the software developers and the software vendors. If all the softwares in this world were bought ones, the economy of some developing countries would improve far beyond the present scenario. Gaming companies suffer a lot when their games get cracked and are being distributed for free all over the internet.

Crackers use a set of softwares like debuggers, assemblers, dis-assemblers and dumping tools in order to crack an existing software. The concept is pretty simple: take a software which is passsword protected or which has time limitation or some other such flaw. Hackers then disassemble it just like a doctor dissects his patient. Then they find the flaw in the software and remove it. Reverse engineering is a different field: in it there are some serious people who reverse a software and tell the programmers about the flaw in their design. Cracking requires serious looking into the assembly code of a software, seeing the type of protection involved and breaking it. Later they patch the software with their exe files or provide the exe files in a separate folder which the user copies and pastes in the program folder and replaces the original file with the tampered one.

The problem with cracked softwares is that certain crackers are nasty people. It could be someone who is not being cared for in this world despite being pretty talented, or it could be someone who just for the sake of fun wants to trouble people. With lot of cracked programs in your computer one day you will see very discouraging effects in your computer. Some effects include: the CD drive opening automatically, the system getting restarted automatically and much much more. If you have business related valuable data in your system, the cracker can retrieve it if he is capable of introducing a program most often called as a worm into the cracked exe file. A safer way of using cracked programs is to go for programs that have keygens attached with them. These are safer programs and also easier and convenient to download. But, if you have the money, it is always better to go for a bought version of the software that you want to use. Else you will need to personally study and understand reversing softwares so that you can avoid malicious programs from reaching your computer.

HP Laptop Overheating Issue And Its Reasons

HP laptops getting overheated has been a matter of concern for most HP customers. The overheating of the HP laptop is not a very serious issue. I recently went to a HP servicing center to get a HP Laptop repaired and took my chance to ask the technician the reason for the overheating issues being addressed about the HP Laptops. The reasons are as follows:

HP laptops do not get overheated. As a matter of fact the statement is true: it is not the laptop but it is the processor which gets overheated.

The reason why the processor gets overheated is because HP laptops more often come with an AMD processor. There are many things in an AMD processor which helps it beat the Intel processors when it comes to performance and technology being used. An AMD processor uses a latest computing technology called as 3DNow! instruction set. 3DNow! defines a set of SIMD (single instruction multiple data) instructions that can perform multiple floating-point operations per clock cycle. In addition to the 3DNow! technology it also supports SSE computing technology that is used by Intel in order to deal with compatibility issues. With 3DNow! AMD processor can process and handle multiple processes within a single clock cycle. Intel does not use 3DNow! technology and this has something very much to do with  the overheating issues that comes up with the HP laptops all the time.

It is the processor which gets overheated because it has to do a lot of work in a single clock cycle as compared to Intel processors. HP dos only one thing: it takes a group of hardware devices from different companies (DVD writer from LG, Motherboard from some other company and so on), rigs them up and develops a software which can run the hardware installed on the laptop. At the most it is the outer cover which is being designed by HP and some device hardware which HP manufactures.

AMD processors getting overheated in your HP laptop should not trouble you as long as you are not holding your laptop on your lap for a very long time. The HP laptop though gets heated up very quickly due to AMD, gives you a very solid performance when it comes to entertainment. If you are a keen observer you will find that HP screens give you a very good high definition display in the true sense of the word. The processor is built well enough to sustain the heat generated and should not be a matter of concern as far as any damage is concerned. If you are so specific you can buy a cooling device for your laptop. Always keep your laptop on hard surfaces unless you do not mind getting your lap burnt.

HP laptops are performing good and hence have still survived in the market despite the overheating issues. Some people prefer HP laptops when it comes to gaming. In fact the configuration of HP laptop when powered with AMD processor and a good graphics card can be a real entertainment pack and churn any data thrown at it with complete ease. The overheating with HP laptops will always be an issue unanswered as long as they will be using the AMD processor. But the technology under the hood is something which can beat the claims of overheating issues of HP laptops.