How My Laptop Increased My Productivity

Improve your productivity by using these tools

From the past 2 months I have been using my Laptop for blogging and web browsing in order to make Geeky Brains Blog more useful and productive.

Initially I have struggled to find some time to write this blog as I am working full time in an MNC.But later I have found some useful and productive tools(both online and offline) which helped me a lot to concentrate on blogging alone.

The machine I owned : Dell Inspiron N4050 powered by 2nd generation intel core i5 processor(2.4GHz) + an AMD graphics card which can handle a decent amount of graphics.

So this is not a high end laptop made to deploy in NASA machines but It is still a good computing device which came in my budget.

I use both Linux and Windows on my machine | most of the time I play with my laptop changing different kinds of operating systems. But this has shown a major effect on my productivity in the last month.So i have decided to use Windows 7 along with Ubuntu 12.04LTS which is quite simple and beautiful.

Besides we have a Netgear router installed in our Apartment so that our 4 laptops and 1 ipad mini can share the 15Mbps wifi connection.(Before NetGear Hardware Router I was using Connectify hotspot. Connectify software can turn your laptop into a wifi transmitter)

 Coming to the point, Here I will give you some rough ideas which may help you in your day to day computing.

Notepad ++ | This is my favorite text editor I have ever used in my programming life. It supports many languages with auto completion feature. If you ever try to write some code I suggest you to include this tool in your collection.Most of the time I will edit html in this app

DropBox | I drop every important file here. Thus I never lose my important files.Both my Windows and Linux versions contains Dropbox. Using DropBox you can install many apps. (inside dropbox) which are really productive.

If you haven't used DropBox yet then you must try it now to explore the possibilities

ThunderBird : this is an opensource e-mail client from Mozilla foundation.I check all my 4 email account mails here both online and offline. Smart ! is in't it. Then get it here.If you are familiar with Outlook by Microsoft then I can say that Thunderbird is an alternative for it.this works on both Windows and Linux versions.

EverNote : My favorite note taking  app. You can use both online and offline once you download it. I also use EverNote Clearly browser extension for reading webpages like an E-book.

Hibernate | I use this in Windows 7 PC when ever I go out from my room for a long time(say 4 hours), So that when I come back to my laptop I can directly start from the point where I have left earlier (Instead You can also go for windows 8 if you can upgrade)

I KISS every thing on my Desktop !!! yeah :) I Keep It Simple and Silly. 
I use "Rainmeter" application for customizing themes and skins of my desktop. It will give many more options to make your computer desktop almost like a tablet. Currently I am using a simple & minimalism theme as shown here.

Desktop with Rainmeter application

  
I use JetClean to clean my registry and maintain all installed software. This will improve the performance of my PC. I suggest you to run this tool frequently to maintain your PC performance. I use Microsoft paint for my making basic pictures on my blog. I have downloaded and installed a bunch of fonts to make my words beautiful. I guess this article will help you in some ways (at least one of the above). I am trying to update this list soon. So please keep visiting us. Be Curious :) Be productive :)