Monday, 28 July 2014

GIF Screen Recording using Recordit

There are lots of tools available for Windows that are very useful in your day to day life. One of them is Recordit. It is a very easy to use software for Windows by which you can capture your screen in GIF file i.e. you can record your screen activities in the form of GIF files and save them or upload them on the web.

As GIF files don’t need more space they are easy to share on the Internet and you can able to make videos of your screen activities with this simple tool Recordit.

How to record your screen in GIF

You need Recordit software for making your GIF videos of your computer screen. It is free software for Windows. You may direct upload GIF files to the Recordit servers from where you can further use the file on the web or download it for your own use. It is available in a free as well as a paid version. We are discussing about the free version now.

With free version of Recordit you can record the computer screen for upto 5 minutes which more than enough for any GIF file. You can download Recordit from here.

*. After downloading and installing you will see a small camera icon in your system tray. You just need to click on that and then select the area for recording and click on Record button.

camera icon

*. Once you are done with the recording you can click on Stop button to stop the recording or you can also click on flashing icon for Stop from your system tray.

stop icon

*. Now Recordit will automatically upload the video on the server after which you will be notified by a small system tray icon. You can click on it to view the video.

uploading video

*. To download the created video you must click on the GIF button on the bottom right corner of the video player and then right click on the GIF file opened and then click on Save image as.

*. You can view previously created videos by clicking the Recent Screencast menu from the system tray icon.

screencast icon


Recordit is very easy to use software by which you can create your free GIF screen videos which are very small in size. So enjoy creating GIF videos of your computer.

Friday, 25 July 2014

View your computer’s power Efficiency Report

The common issue of your system slow down might be occur many of the time and you don’t have any clue how this occurring and what is the cause of the problem. You have a Windows trick that may minimize your problem a little bit and you could able to see how your system OS performing now and what is the problem in your system.


You have a powerful tool in your Windows OS i.e. very well known Command Prompt that will help you finding the problems in your system. Following little info might help you sorting out some issues of your system.

How to find your PC’s Power Efficiency Report

You don’t need any special tool for this, you can do this with your Command Prompt i.e. cmd. You just have to open cmd in administrator mode.

*. Open cmd in Administrator mode and type powercfg –energy


power efficiency

*. Now your system’s power efficiency report will available to you after 60 seconds and also you may check the information which will automatically stored in a html file at C:/Windows/system32/energy-report.html


energy report

That’s very much easy isn’t it! Enjoy with this small trick…….!

Wednesday, 23 July 2014

How to check Original Installation date of Windows

Windows installation date

Are you looking for the original installation date of your Windows? You can find it easily but did you know how? Then follow this post to know more.

Every Windows OS when installed on any system then its information stored automatically in a system file during installation. This system file saved during installation into Windows directory. You can get it easily just follow simple steps as mentioned below.

How to check installation date of Windows

You can check Windows installation date and other information about your Windows operating system from using a command from command prompt. Below steps will help you more.

*. Press Win + R and type cmd to open Command Prompt.

*. Type systeminfo.exe and press Enter.

*. Wait for few seconds and you will get all the information about your Windows including Windows installation date and time.


You just found another useful information about your Windows isn’t it! More such hidden features are included in your Windows stay tuned for further updates.

Friday, 18 July 2014

How to make portable apps with Cameyo

Making portable applications is the necessity for any computer user who works on different systems for the same work. Every time when he/she wants to change the stored information in that application he/she needs to copy all the files from one system to another. But, if you don’t want to do like this every time then you may create portable apps by which you are able to run the applications from any USB stick without installing the actual application.
Cameyo official

All the information stored in that application will be also available and changes made in the portable application also changed the information in the main application. So, you won’t need to manually change the information every time. For doing this you need a software program named Cameyo.

How to make portable apps in Windows?

Following steps will help you in creating portable apps.

*. Download Cameyo from their official website here.

*. After installation you will proceed towards the Windows as shown in the screenshot below.

start cameyo

*. Now you need to select Capture an installation and then press OK.

*. Cameyo now start capturing initial screenshot of your system. See below fig.

Initial screenshot

*. It will take some time to complete initial snapshot so keep patience. Then you need to install application which you want to make portable after seeing following window and then click on Install done after installation.

install done

*. Now it will take post installation screenshot and after finishing you will be presented with following window.

Package created

*. Now your job is done you can find out the stored portable app in 
the following directory C:\Users\<your username>\Documents\Cameyo apps


Enjoy creating portable apps with Cameyo and keep visiting for updates.

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