Introduction to GitHub:An Open Source Community for Developers

Most of us have heard about GitHub as an open Source Community for Developers, but what does it actually means and how we can get started to use one of the popular platform used by many developers to make contribution to open source projects. So let’s get started,

GitHub is a Version Controlled System mainly used for source codes. In simple words, It can be used by developers to put there codes of project at one place which can be accessed easily by there teammates. So they can change the code as per there requirements and get the job done easily. I know many of us will be confused due to this so let’s take an example.

Suppose, in college you are working on Group project with your team members. You have divided your tasks in your team. Now you have finished your task and want to combine your work with the remaining work done by your team members. For that you asked your team for project codes and they given you.but suddenly you realized that you have to make some changes to your own work but it will be difficult task for you to do that work again from certain point which also affects the work of your teammates.

Therefore imagine a situation where you have one copy of your project which can be accessed by all of your team members so that they can make required changes without affecting previous code, it will be very easy as compared to your method. So here comes a GitHub. With the help of github we can put our projects folders on web, can make changes to source codes and access these changes by retrieving it to your local system by using command line tool known as Git. It consists of some commands in order to push your projects on GitHub server, make changes to your project files and pull back those changes back to your local folder.for more information about how to use github command line tool,go to

https://github.com/swapnil2222/Online-College-Portal

You can also download the different projects provided by different developers and organisations and can contribute to there project by providing bug fixes, error corrections or by adding new features.

Here are some references for getting started with Github.

https://github.com/

https://help.github.com/articles/github-glossary/

How to improve battery performance of your laptop.

Hey everyone,Sometimes you have been facing problem of draining your laptop battery very quickly.

 So, today we are going to see some ways to extend battery life of your laptop.

1.  Switch to Power Options:

This can be done by right clicking on battery icon present at right side on Taskbar. There are some options like,

Balanced (Recommended):  It is in-built Recommended options but truly speaking its minimize battery’s life. The energy consumption with hardware is responsible for this.so avoid this power option.

Power Saver: This option save energy by reducing your computers performance wherever possible. Also the heating issues faced by most of us is also reduced, so it is highly recommended to use Power saver. Approximately It increases time up to 45 to 50 minutes compared to Balanced mode.

High Performance: This is usually of no need because its drain your battery by consumption of energy.

You can also change plan settings by clicking on link as shown above, but it is optional and the options they specified are enough.

       2. Improve performance of your laptop:

You also need to optimize performance of your laptop or PC in order to run it smoothly. This can be done by cleaning the temporary files by pressing windows +X  then select run option like,

  

Then type %TEMP% in run and by clicking OK you will see temp files on your screen. Delete all files permanently by pressing shift+del . Now you can observe performance increased in some manner.

       3. Disk cleanup:

It is another way to improve performance of your system by cleaning junk files. This can be done by à

Go to My Computer àLocal Disk C(Drive)àright click on C drive and Go to property like,

Then choose Disk cleanup and window will popup like this ,

Then select file to be cleaned up and click ok. In this way unnecessary files will be deleted which enhances system performance.

 Some Useful tips:

Never charge your laptop to 100%, it makes cell of your battery weaken. And make sure to remove plug when battery charges upto 80-85%.

It is not a good idea to work on your laptop when you are charging it. Also close the un-necessary applications that are running in the background by using Task Manager.

Don’t use screen savers, it drains battery very fast.

Make sure to clean battery by using dry cloth or with the help of cotton wools atleast once in month.

So by following these above simple steps you will significantly see the performance is improved of your laptop.