Having a backup is handy when you want to reinstall your operating system and the softwares all from the beginning or when you want to replace your existing hard disk with a new one with all your previous data in the old hard drive. Though making a backup copy of your disk is a time consuming process, its well worth it. We list some of the free tools that will help you do this.

XXCLONE : Windows

XXClone has got a very good reputation around the web. The program copies the files one by one, so that it doesn’t copy empty space. But the advantage is that the copied data would be fragmented so files could be accessed faster.

This feature makes the utility different from other disk imaging softwares. If you have a hard drive partition that doesn’t boot, xxclone helps to copy that data too.

XXClone comes with features to make quick boot disk, clone a non system volume, make bootable copy of your hard disk, shutdown your pc after a backup is completed etc.

The hyper sync algorithm option under the its advanced tab will help you make faster backups.

The app can clone a volume into another which has a different file system ie. You can copy from FAT to NTFS file system. With these good features, the program it self is compact and small in size when compared to the size of installation files of other backup programs.

EASEUS Todo Backup : Windows

Todo backup guides you from beginning till the end to make a successful backup of your data. Easeus comes with neatly labeled big buttons and clean interface, the program wont be so complex for new newbies. It has a Universal Restore feature that lets you create a snapshot of your system which that is not hardware specific. This means you could use the same backup copy to restore to a pc with different hardware configuration.

It also comes with the feature to mount snapshot copy of your hard disk and you could browse the files and folders and pull individual files if needed. Easeus Todo Backup is for people who are willing to backup and cull backups manually.

The program also comes with a linux distro CD which help you recover your system during a crash. If you think of backing up and copy hard drive data for replacing your old hard drive with a new one, the disk cloning feature will help you do the data migration easily and you could schedule backups too so that the program will do the job in the background.

Easeus has the ability to convert the backup images to virtual drives, with which you can easily create VHD and boot from windows 7. It provides you the option to compress, encrypt and split resulting backup image.

With all these nifty features, Easeus Todo backup stands head to head with those commercial applications.

DriveImage XML : Windows

DriveImage XML is small sized utility, that will help you to make copy of all the files on the disk even if they are in use. It will help you to restore the backup images to drives without the need of rebooting windows.

The program uses Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Services to make copies of the files in parallel while the drive is being used.

The problem with the tool is that, if you want to do a complete system restore with the backup image, you need to boot into another drive because it wont allow you to restore the backup to the same drive you are booted into. But this problem could be fixed by making the target hard disk as a slave drive (may be on another pc) and you could boot into the primary disk of that machine and perform the system restore to your actual primary drive (slave on other machine). Next you need to make the restored drive as Active via the Windows Disk management tool and then reboot to boot from the restored hard disk.

It has a Drive to Drive feature that helps to create the clone of an entire partition to another free partition, and that too without the need of creating an image. Unlike other programs DriveImage XML helps you to create backup image of USB/Flash Drive.

Paragon Backup & Restore Free – Copy Hard Drive Entirely

PBR lets you copy your important files on your entire hard drive or just specific files by setting up filters to filter out copying music, movies & other not so important files. This becomes really handy when you have a backup medium with comparatively small size. It can create backups as VHD’s (Virtual Hard Drive) for Microsoft Virtual PC, Virtual Box, Fusion & VMWare.

Like the above said softwares PBR gives you the options to compress, encrypt, split, mount and schedule backups. If you want to to restore only specific files, PBR has the option for that too.

Its unique features include the ability to create differential backups, shutdown your pc after the backup process, ability to set filters for backups, create bootable USB/Pendrives and the  disk management functions such as Formatting a had drive, changing drive letters, make a partition as active, create partition, assign partition etc.

The Differential backup feature is helpful if you are in the habit of making continuous backups. Using differential backup will ensure that only the modified files are being backed up instead of copying all the files and making a full backup each time. But remember differential backups would eat up much more space than a full backup since it creates a new image file every time.

For using the differential backup feature in PBR, you need to first create a full backup of your hard drive. Afterwards you should choose the differential backup option which would ask you to point out the full backup image. Paragon compares the full backup image with the files present on the system to check whether they have been modified.

Although the program is Free, you need to get a product key from Paragons website inorder to use the program for domestic purposes.

Clonezilla : Open Source

Clonezilla stays apart from other free disk imaging tools by being friendly to more advanced users. It copies and restores only used sectors in a hard drive.

Clonezilla lacks the incremental and differential backup features which are seen in most of the other free disk imaging softwares. The interface is not user friendly, users accustomed to user friendly backup programs might find it difficult initially in getting things done with clonezilla.

Clonezilla comes in two flavours, Clonezilla Live – using a CD/DVD or USB to clone (single PC) & Clonezilla SE (Server Edition): A DRBI server is used to copy hard drive’s in multiple machines.

It supports a plethora of file systems and Supports Windows, Mac & Linux.  If you are concerned about a program that offers backend support then, this is not for you as it is an opensource program, Clonezilla well suits you if you are looking for a solid backup program.

Macrium Reflect Free Edition – Windows

Macrium Reflect is one among the most downloaded programs used to copy hard drive data.  The program doesn’t have the differential backup feature that the paragon offers, but it is very simple to use. It gives you slightly more compressed version of the backup files than Paragon and is similarly faster. With macrium xml definition files can be created which can be saved for creating backups later. Double clicking the xml file would start the backup operation without any user input.

It also comes with the feature to mount backups and restore files individually. Like most of the other utilities it creates the backup by copying sector by sector and stores the data to a single file.

Verdict

- So which is the best Free tool to make backups & Copy Hard Drive Data?

All of these tools excel with their own unique features, but without making this long, the best utility to make consistent backups and suits most users will be the Easeus Todo backup and Clonezilla considering their features and usability.

Which is your favorite tool to create backup of your data ? Which utility do you recommend ? Let us know in the Comments..

You might sometimes delete the bookmarks accidentally or the bookmark might not work due to a corrupt file. You’ll be saved in such a situation if you have activated the cloud sync service that Firefox provides. Yes, firefox sync feature is staggering useful if activated, you’ll not have the pain of moving your firefox data to another pc for resuming your browsing session. Syncing firefox on a new pc would help you resume the work you’ve paused in another pc. Its really that useful. Sorry about talking too much regarding this, I’m sure this tend some users to start using the sync feature if you’ve still haven’t started using it.

Restore Bookmarks in Firefox

1. Bring up the Bookmarks Manager Library by Clicking Bookmarks > Show All Book Marks.
2. Click on “ Import and Backup “ to see the drop down menu.
3. It is important to create a current backup of your existing bookmarks. (This is important!). For this click on “ Export Bookmarks to HTML “.



4. After creating the backup, Hover the mouse over “ Restore “ option this show you backups of bookmarks created by firefox on different dates.



5. Clicking on a date would restore the bookmarks but it overwrites the existing bookmarks. No worries, just import the bookmarks backed up earlier and you’re set to go.

There is another option for creating backup of the bookmarks file manually. For this you need to click the “ Backup “ option which shows up when you click on “ Import and Backup “ . The backup file would be saved in JSON format.

You will see an option below those bookmarks backup (see step 5) , to “ Choose File ” which will help you to restore the bookmarks using the json file.

Did you come across such a situation where you lost all the bookmarks ? Did you get them back via any other option ? What did you do to restore them ?

After jailbreaking your iphone, open up cydia and search for iblacklist. Now install the app. The full version of the app costs 12$.  The free version allows you to add upto two numbers.

1. Once the app is installed, tap on iblacklist and the window will popup showing a number of options from that tap on ” Enable “.

   

2. By default the call and sms blocking will be set to ON. You’ll also have the options to turn ON blocking for the mms and facetime.
3. Now tap go to the main screen of iBlacklist and tap on ” Blacklists ” > You’ll have the options to add a new black list. By default you’ll see a ” General BL  ” list. You could either create a custom list or move ahead by tapping on it.
4. Tap on the (+) sign and you’ll see more options to Add the number from contacts, add from recent calls and from recent messages. Now add the number using any of these options and tap on ”  Save “.
5. The main screen of iBlacklist gives you option to set a password for security.
6. From the main screen tap on Call Settings and you can configure the Filter Options such as Show status bar icon, sound notify, vibrate, block calls with less than x number of digits etc.
7. The  ” Action Setup  ” option on the main screen allows you to set the actions to be performed when you receive the call. Tap on it and you’ll see Whitelists & Restricted Number.
8. Now tap on ” Restricted Number “  & you could choose whether you need to give a Busy Signal, Accept & Hangup, Voicemail. Besides the other two options choose any of these three which suits you the best and tap on Save.
   
9. Now save you settings and you’re set to block the mobile numbers.

• Insert the Windows 8 DVD into the drive / a bootable windows 8 USB Drive.
• Open up “ Control Panel ” from the main Mero Window.
•  Click on ” General ” and you could see the ” Reset Your PC & Start Over ” option on the right pane.
• After Clicking on the ” Get started ” button you will see the following screen.
• Click on ” Next ” and windows will bring up another screen asking whether you want to remove all the files from all the drives or you just want to remove the files in the drive windows 8 is installed. Clicking on the ” Show me the list of driver that will be affected ” option will show you the drives that would be affected during windows reset process (Applicable only when you choose  ” all drives ” option).
• Clicking on ” Only the drive where Windows is installed ” is preferable if you are concerned with the files stored in other drives.
• Now click ” Reset ” option in the window displayed. The Windows 8 reset process would start off and reboot your PC.
• The process would take a while and once this process is finished, you’ll be asked to enter the Windows 8 product key. If you are using the developer version of windows 8, you can progress by clicking the ” Skip ” button.
• Now Accept the Windows 8 License Agreement and Windows will ask you to enter the Computer Name.
• Thats it. Your Windows 8 PC will be back to new again.

If you don’t want your files to be removed and only need to have a fresh copy of windows 8 installed its better not reset windows 8. Instead go for the Refresh your PC option which will preserve all your documents while doing a reinstall of the operating system.

1) Turn OFF Location Services

Applications like camera, compass, maps, find my iPhone etc uses the location service to keep track of your location. You can turn the setting to off if you don’t use it at all or you could selectively turn off the location service of an app that you are not using frequently.

Settings > Location Services > Turn Off (completely or selectively)

2) Turn OFF Bluetooth

Keeping bluetooth enabled while it isn’t necessary would eat up your battery life as the device would timely keep searching for new devices to connect. So turn it off when unnecessary.

Settings > General > Bluetooth > OFF

3) Turn Auto Brightness ON

Allowing the iPhone/ iPhone / iPad to automatically adjust its brightness level would ensure that it adjusts the brightness level suitably for you while making use of the battery optimally.

Go to Settings > Brightness > Turn ON Auto-Brightness

You could also adjust the brightness level afterwards to make it suit for you.

4) Disable Ping

Ping service can be seen just below iTunes.

Settings > General > Restrictions > Enable Restrictions > Ping > OFF

5) Turn OFF iCloud Sync

Being one of the newly introduced feature in iOS 5 that help you to keep your files synced across the cloud, you could turn it to off if you doesn’t really use this service or you could disable it completely or selectively. Mail service may be disabled in iCloud, as emails are already stored in the cloud.

Settings > General > iCloud > Turn Off

6) Turn OFF Time Zone Adjustment

To disable Time Zone adjustment, tap

Settings > Location Services > System Services > Set Time Zone to Off

7) Disable Diagnostic & Usage Reports

Enabling this feature would send error reports to apple. To disable it,

Settings > General > About > Diagnostic & Usage > Don’t Send

8) Disable 3G & Cellular Data

You could turn off the 3G and data services if you are connected to the internet via Wifi or if you are not planning to use internet services.

Settings > General > Network > 3G, Cellular Data> OFF

9) Turn Off Push Notifications

If you don’t want the device to fetch new mails frequently, you could turn it off or increase the time interval for fetching new data as that would increase the battery life.

Settings > Mail,Contacts,Calendars > Fetch New Data > Set to Manual or a higher time interval

10) Turn Off Vibration

While the vibration alerts you in silent mode, its better to turn it off if you use it in the general mode. To turn off vibration, Tap on

Settings > Sounds > Vibrate > OFF

These tips would help you get some more battery life out of your iPhone / iPad / iPod touch running iOS 5.

iTunes Lyrics Adder is working in Windows 7, Windows Vista & Windows XP. The software runs using .NET Framework.

Without much further waiting let’s begin the tutorial:

• First things first, check if your computer has a good recent version of .NET Framework installed. If it doesn’t then head on down here and download and install it. It’s not that big just about 50-60 MB.
• Now that your PC fits the minimum requirements we can move on to the actual tutorial. First is to download and install iTunes Lyrics Adder from here.
• Now that you have it installed run iTunes then while iTunes is running run iTunes lyrics adder.
• If you have doubt whether some songs may contain comments in Lyrics section then don’t select “Only search and add lyrics to songs without one”. After picking which one you want just select one of the repositories to download the lyrics from such as azlyrics.com or mp3lyrics.org. Now all you have to do is wait for the search and adding process to complete and you are done. Also a log of the songs for which lyrics have been found and added will be shown after the process.
• If you want to check the lyrics that you just added to your songs in iTunes just right click on the song and then select the Lyrics tab.

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This process is now so simple with the Air Video app. It acts as a server and streams the videos to your iphone. Air Video is available as both Windows and Mac Versions. The app needs to be installed on both your PC and your iphone.

After launching the app it goes into the Windows Taskbar near the notification area. Double clicking the icon will launch the application window showing the shared Folders Tab (See the Screenshot).

Shared Folders tab will be blank during till you add folders to it. The bottom Window has the options to add a Folder, iTunes Playlist or Remove the ones if you already have added any. Shared Folders tab shows you the Folders with videos you have added for streaming to your iphone.

Now Click on the Start Server Button to get the air video server running. Next you need to download the Air Video app from App Store. Air Video app is free but it displays videos which are randomly selected from the shared folder. The full version lists all the videos.

After downloading and installing Air Video app on your iphone, turn on the Wifi From Settings. Now choose your local network connection if multiple networks are available.

Now start the Air Video app on your iphone. Now tap on the “ + “ on top left of the app. Your pc will be automatically detected and the computer name would be displayed. Tap on the name, it will present you with the folders you’ve added to the desktop app to stream videos to iphone.

If the videos aren’t properly formatted for iphone, Air Video has the option to Play the Vide with Live conversion. During Live Conversion, the desktop app uses the pc to make it compatible for playing on the iphone.

You could also stream via the internet, for this launch the Air Video application on you pc and go to the Remote tab. Now tick the box showing, “ Enable Access From Internet ”.

On doing so you will see a pin number being displayed below it. Note down the pin number displayed.

Now on the Air Video app on your iphone, Tap on the “ + “ on top left and tap on “ Enter Server PIN “.

Enter the pin number you noted down earlier on the screen and tap on Save. Now you can stream the videos via internet.

The additional settings in the desktop versions include the ability to password protect, Starting Air Video along with windows, listening to custom port etc.

Air Video is just a great app that is a must have for all the media enthusiasts.

Without any further delay let us begin the tutorial now.

• Check whether you have .NET Framework installed in your PC. If you do not have it then visit this page and download it.
• Now that your PC passes the Minimum System Requirements for using the software we can continue with the rest of the tutorial.
• Visit this page and download the free tool. Once you download it just extract it then run it.
• Modifying the Background Image is pretty much straight forward just select the image and pick the directory for which you wish to use the image for. The software even allows you to use the same image for all subjects folders.
• If you are not able to see any changes then just open Task manager and click End Process on Windows Explorer. Now press Windows Key + R, type in explorer.exe and click on OK.
• That’s all you have to do to use a custom background for Windows Explorer in Windows 7.

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Without further waiting lets move on to how to use the free tool:

• Using Wireless Network Watcher is pretty much straight forward and simplistic. First download the file from here. It is a small file just around 250 KB. After downloading the tool extract it then run it.
• It will scan your Network quickly and display the results. The results will display the IP Address, MAC Address and the device’s Name and Manufacturer.If you want to save the results just select all the results and click on “Save selected Items” button.
• This would help you quickly note down the culprit who has gained access to your wireless network unauthorized.

That’s it now you can easily find out if anyone is using your Wireless connection behind your back. For more such helpful tips subscribe to our RSS  Feed or like our Facebook Page.

Some people tend to be frustrated over the quick advance from 3G to 4G service, because they feel as if the wireless companies are merely putting out something new and asking people to pay all over again for wireless Internet service. However, most people who have made the switch to 4G service would say it is well worth the upgrade, as, in many cases, 4G service is considered to be up to four times faster than 3G. This is almost difficult to believe, if you have enjoyed the clarity and fast download speeds of 3G wireless service; however, 4G is bringing us the quickest and most reliable wireless Internet we have ever seen, at fairly competitive prices.

If you are considering making the switch to 4G and have been reading about different providers, you may have noticed a sort of debate raging between what Verizon calls LTE service and another type of service called WiMax. Essentially, these are the two leading competitors that have emerged in the 4G market, and while both services offer you access to 4G level service and speed, there are a few differences between them that you may want to be aware of before choosing a provider.

WiMax service tends to have more of a flat rate, whereas Verizon’s LTE offers different rates based on the amount of data space, etc. that you want available on your wireless device (basically, how much you are going to use it). Additionally, Verizon’s LTE service offers automatic 3G/4G combination service, meaning that if you venture into an area where 4G service does not yet reach, your device will, on its own, switch back to 3G so that you never lose the Internet. These are just a few of the basic differences between the two services; more can be seen on their respective web pages, and you would be encouraged to give them a look when choosing your provider.

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• First download and install RDM+ on your PC. Download it from here.
• Install the desktop Client on your PC. Ensure that you have Active Sync on your PC. If you don’t then download and install it from here.
• During the the installation you will be asked to create an ID and after the installation you will be using this ID so pick a remember-able ID and Password. After the installation open RDM+ and note the computer number given to you.
• Now run RDM+ for Smart Phone or Pocket PC and follow the instructions given in it. Enter the ID and password and Computer Number when it is asked.
• Now all you have to do to access your PC from your phone is connect to your PC while RDM+ is running on your PC and run the RDM+ app on your Windows Mobile.

That’s it. It may not be as good as using Windows on your PC but you can do pretty much anything you would do on your PC on your Windows Mobile Device now.

Speed might be one of the main reason why you have opted for a far more expensive internet connection and still you get slow download speeds when in need? So, if you are in a similar situation, then its time to find out whether your isp is reducing your download speed.

Go To Glasnost and run a test. The test might take up to 500 seconds and it would check for both uploads and downloads separately. Glasnost also checks by running the tests using at different ports on your pc since ISPs can use port numbers or other transport protocol identifiers to check a flow’s treatment. For example, P2P traffic is sometimes identified based on its port numbers.

A java applet runs on your system to emulate the data flow that is then used by Glasnost and the results page is displayed.

You need to run the test at different times of the day mainly during peak hours and make sure you are not browsing or downloading during the test to get accurate results.

With Glasnost you can check the download speed for P2P apps like BitTorrent, eMule etc. and Email, SSH Transfer, HTTP transfer, Flash Video etc..

Just follow these simple steps to prevent Facebook from tagging you Automatically:

• Click on Account drop down menu and then select Privacy Settings.
• Now scroll down and click on Customize Settings. Scroll to the Things Others Share section and click Edit Settings near Suggest photos of me to friends. Now a dialogue box will appear as in the picture above. Just click on the drop down arrow near Enabled and change it to disabled.
• That’s it. Now photos of you won’t be automatically tagged.

If you ever feel like re-enabling this option just follow the same tutorial and change the Disabled to Enabled again. For more such helpful tips subscribe to the Computing Unleashed RSS Feed.

It is very simple to get a different IP address. In this tutorial we will just be using a simple software, Hotspot Shield. Hotspot Shield is a security software that helps keep your privacy. It changes your IP Address thereby letting you gain access to all the sites that block you based on your geographic location. Hotspot shield is completely free and available for the following OS:

• Windows 7
• Windows Vista
• Windows XP
• Windows 2000
• Mac OS X 10.4
• Mac OS X 10.5
• Mac OS X 10.6
• Mac OS X 10.7

Just follow these simple steps and you will be able access restricted sites in no time:

• Go to this site and download and install Hot spot Shield.
• Once you do that run the program.

• Wait for a few seconds till you are connected and thats it. This is what the newly opened window should look like. You will be having an IP Address that will show that you are somewhere in the United States.
• If you want to be sure that you are properly connected just check the location that is given by your IP Address by going here.

That’s all there is to do. You will now be able to access restricted sites on your geographic location. For more of such helpful tutorial subscribe to our RSS Feed.

Unlocking Boot Loader:

• First thing is to download the two packages you will need for unlocking boot loader – Fast Boot Package and the Sony Ericsson Drivers.
• Once you have downloaded then extract them. Now that you have extracted them the next thing you need to is find your xperia play IMEI number. To see your phone’s IMEI number dial *#06#. This will show the IMEI number. Keep the screen like that. Don’t press OK just yet. Now visit this site in your PC.
• Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on Continue. Accept the Terms and Conditions then you will be asked for your IMEI number, Name and Email. Fill them in and submit it to receive a KEY. Note it down.
• Next step is connecting your Xperia Play to your PC in fast boot mode. So first Switch Off your phone. Then holding the Search Button in your phone plug in the USB Cable. Windows will show an error in installing the drivers. This is where we use the Drivers we downloaded earlier. Now open Device Manager from Control Panel. Your phone will appear in Other devices drop down Menu. Right click it and click Update Driver Software. Click on Browse for Driver Software. Select the Folder to which you extracted the drivers(All the Folders need to be included so be sure to select a folder that has all these folders as sub-folders) and Click Next. Click on Install Anyway in the Warning that Appears. The Installation should finish in a few seconds.
• Now that your phone has its drivers installed we can begin the actual unlocking process. Open the fastboot folder. Holding Shift key Right click there and then click Open Command Prompt here. Once Command Prompt is open type fastboot.exe -i 0x0fce getvar version. This command is to ensure that your phone is properly connected. If your phone is properly connected this will retrieve a version number. Next type in fastboot.exe -i 0x0fce oem unlock 0xKEY. Replace KEY with the Key you git earlier from the Sony Ericsson  Website. Hit Enter. This will take a few seconds to finish executing.
• That’s it. Now just unplug your xperia play mobile.

How to Root Xperia Play:

• First thing is to download the necessary Root Package from here.  After downloading it copy it to the fastboot folder mentioned in the earlier section. Note down the name of the .img file you just downloaded. In the provided link the name is play_modded. Once you are done copying it, open Command Prompt there as we did earlier by Holding Shift, Then Right Clicking then clicking Open Command Prompt here. In Linux and Mac open Terminal.
• Now execute the command:
  >For Windows - fastboot flash system play_modded.img (If you are using a different image change the command as required)
  >For Linux - fastboot -i 0x0fce flash system play_modded.img
  >For Mac - fastboot-mac -i 0x0fce flash system play_modded.img
• Now just wait while the file is flashed onto your phone.

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If you are not familiar with it yet then check out the Blackberry Play Book’s specs below:

• 7-Inch LCD Full-touch Screen
• QNX OS, also supports Android 2.3 Apps
• 3 MP front camera and 5 MP back Camera
• 1 GHz Dual Core Processor
• Micro USB and Micro HDMI support
• 3.5 mm Audio output jack
• 7 Hour Battery Life
• Pre-installed PDF reader, Word, PPT viewer and dedicated YouTube application
• Multitasking support
• Wi-Fi support (3G version not yet released)

The Blackberry Play Book can be bought from HomeShop18.com, Amazon.com, Shopyourworld.com and Ebay.in. The prices can vary from site to site. But an average price is provided below.

• BlackBerry Play Book 16GB – Rs. 32,999
• BlackBerry Play Book 32GB – Rs. 39,999
• BlackBerry Play Book 64Gb – Rs. 45,999

This feature can be made available in Windows 7 by installing Aura.  Aura Beta 3 also brings an option to make Aero Color change with IE 9 Tab color along with the Getting Color from the Wallpaper and from Active Window icon. Aura requires .NET Framework 3.5 or better to run. Just follow these simple steps to make Aero Glass color change automatically with Wallpaper Or IE 9 Tab color:

• First download Aura from here. Install it just like any other program.

• Open Aura and Select “Get Color from Wallpaper” and Check “Use IE 9 Active Tab Color”. If you want to change the color Intensity then click on “Click here to open color settings”.
• Apply it. Then close it and make sure it is not running in the background.
• Now open IE 9 and then Open Aura again. That’s it.

Now as long as you have Aura running in the background Aero Glass Color will change with the Wallpaper when IE 9 is not running and change according to IE9 Active Tab color when IE 9 is running. Using Aura you can also make the Aero Glass Color change with the Active Window Icon.

Just follow these simple steps in order to use a Custom Background in Gmail :

• Log into Gmail like usual. Don’t use Basic HTML version. Now near the top right corner you should be able to see “Settings”. Click on that.
• Now select Themes Tab. This will reveal the default themes provided by Google. Along with the Default themes there will be a “Create Your Own Theme” option. Click on that.

• A new window should open as shown above. Now just modify the basic colors of the theme by clicking on the down arrows in this window. If you click on the down arrow in the top left corner there will be “Select” option allowing you to put a custom background as shown in the picture. Also click on the arrow at the bottom left corner and select an image.
• Remember that you are using the same image twice so there may be some kind of cut line in the image. If you want to get rid of this the only way is to use a single image. You can either crop the image into the required resolutions or just add background in the top left arrow menu only. This will give you a single image as long as the height of the window is less than or same as that of the image you used. The best method is to just use a really long image . If you are putting a tiled background then you do not have to worry about aspect ratios that much. Just add the tiled background in both menus.

That’s it. Now you can use your own custom images as background in Gmail.

Just follow these steps to get your Windows as good as new:

Remove additional User accounts

Having many Users on your computer can lead to loss of a lot of memory on your Hard disk as the preferences of all the Users will be saved. So it is best to remove these additional accounts. To remove additional User accounts:

• Run cmd.exe to open Command Prompt. In command Prompt type this in net user administrator /active:yes and press Enter key.
• This will activate the Default Administrator account. Now just Log off from your Account and Log into the Administrator Account. After that right click Computer then click Properties.

• On the left sidebar you can see “Advanced System Settings”, click that to open a system Properties Window. Click the “Settings” option near User Profiles. After that just select all the other accounts and delete them.

Remove 3rd Party Applications

Installing 3rd party softwares always take a toll on your PC. They can leave behind many side effects such as Invalid Shortcuts, Empty Folders, Saved Preferences, Log Files and Options in Context Menu. These side effects are the reason why a lot of people prefer to Reinstall Windows once in a while. But there is no need to resort to such drastic measures all the time. You can actually remove all these problems with a few Tweaks in Windows Registry or with some softwares. Follow the following steps in order:

• Uninstalling Third Part Applications – To uninstall all of your 3rd party applications you have to take Programs and Features in Control Panel. Then just right click each of the programs that are not by Microsoft that you have installed in your PC and click Uninstall. If the Uninstaller asks whether or not to keep Preferences, choose to Delete these Preferences. This is the only actual time consuming step all the others are very fast when compared to this step.

Remove Files and Folders Left behind

• Now we are going to fix any damage done to the registry and also remove anything left behind after uninstalling of programs such as empty folders and also invalid shortcuts. For this we have for you a simple, free tool – Glary Utilities. Download it, Install it. You don’t have to upgrade it or anything. It has all the features that we need without updating. Open Glary Utilities and Under “1-Click Maintenance” Click on Scan for Issues. This should take a  couple of minutes only. This will remove all invalid shortcuts, traces, temporary files etc. Now only thing remaining to do on Glary Utilities is to remove empty folders.  So go to Modules in main window of Glary Utilities. Then click duplicate file finder. Now just select the drives in which you installed softwares. If you have drives which you maintain by yourself for storing data it is not necessary to check there. After the list of empty folders is generated by Glary then just check the ones you wish to delete or to just click Check All under the Check option and then click Delete Checked Folders. If you are sharing any folders on a network they will cause some trouble in deleting. So if you do have any shared folders then stop sharing them. To do so right click Computer then Manage. In the Computer Management windows that will now open select shared folders then Shares. You can stop sharing folders from here by right clicking on them and clicking Stop sharing.

• Now all that is left in this section is to remove logs from your PC. This is quite simple. Just run cmd.exe to open Command Prompt. Type in Del *.log /a /s /q /f. That’s it.

Remove Shell Components and Startup Programs

This step is for those who decided to skip the 2nd step i.e. Removing 3rd party applications. Usually after uninstalling any program shell components that it added will be removed. In case was some error and it was not removed then you can remove them by following these simple steps.

• Removing New Menu Items – If you have any items in this menu that were left behind after un-installation of a program due to some error or because you did not un-install the program then you can remove it using this simple tool. This tool helps disable these items from New Menu. Download it from here. Open the program and select the item you want to remove from the New Menu  and click Disable.
• Removing Right Click Menu Items – Installing many softwares will lead to piling up of such items. You can remove them using this software. Just go to the Remove Tab from the Main window, right click on the item then click Delete.Download the software from here.
• Removing Start Up Items – You can either use some software such as CCleaner,  Glary Utilities etc. or you can do it my Opening System Configuration and then removing them. To open system Management run msconfig. Then under the Startup tab in the System Configuration just un-check the items you want to remove.

Your Windows installation should be as good as new if you follow these simple steps. It is best after following these steps to create a Restore point. To create a restore point just search for “Create a restore point” in start menu. Click the Result to open a System Properties Window. Then just click Create. That’s it. Now you have a Clean Windows Installation and also have a restore point in case Windows ends up in its old unclean state again.

Requirements

# 1) Windows 8 Setup DVD or ISO File.

# 2) USB Drive with more that 4 GB Space available.

# 3) You must be using Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8 operating system while following this guide.

# 4) Utility to mount iso files (if you are proceeding with the ISO file)

Installing Windows 8 From USB Drive

1) Connect your pendrive / usb drive to your pc and backup the data inside it.

2) Click the Start button and type CMD inside the search box. Right Click the cmd.exe icon and click on Run as Administrator. Windows command prompt will now open up.

3) Now inside the command prompt window type DISKPART and hit enter.

4)After seeing the following message (above) type LIST DISK and press enter. The command will help you find out the disk number of your plugged in usb drive.

5)The Below image shows the usb drive being labelled as Disk 2 with the size shown as 14GB. It is actually my 16GB pendrive. This might be different in your case.

6)Now execute the following commands one by one. In the SELECT DISK 2 command the disk number is obtained from step 5.

SELECT DISK 2

CLEAN

CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY

SELECT PARTITION 1

ACTIVE

FORMAT FS=NTFS

ASSIGN

EXIT

The Format option might take some time to finish depending on the size of the flash drive.

7)Minimize the command prompt windows after the format process has been complete.

8)Next we need to update the USB drive with the bootmgr code for this, either  Mount the Windows 8 ISO file using a virtual disc utility (MagicDisc is a good one) or Insert the Widows 8 setup DVD and note down the drive letter.

9)Bring up the command prompt window and type I:\>CD BOOT (I is the DVD drive / virtual drive in my case).

10)Now finally execute I:\boot>BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 K:

11)Close the Windows command prompt window and copy all the contents from widows 8 DVD or mounted virtual drive to the USB drive.

Note: For booting from your pendrive you need to enter the BIOS setup and enable the boot from Removable drive option (you may refer to the Mother board manual and check how to change the boot device priority).

After enabling the option to boot from removable drive, just plug in your USB drive and proceed with the windows 8 installation.

PDAnet is a great software to tether your Android Phone. But the full version costs around $15. It does allow a trial period and even after the trial period you can browse the Internet but the only problem is not being able to use secure connections. So you won’t be able to use Gmail etc. But if you are tethering just for emergency situations for browsing sites then should just use trial as you can always check your email from your phone. But buying the app for $15 is much better than paying around the same thing but on a monthly basis to your cellphone company.

• First download PDAnet for your computer from here and install it as you would with any other software. It does not require any configuration. In case you don’t have Internet on your PC then don’t worry as you can download PDAnet PC software on your phone after installing PDAnet on it.
• Next download PDAnet for your Android phone from here or just search for it in the Android Market.
• After installing PDAnet on your Android phone run it. Then tap Enable USB Tether as in the picture.
• Now just plug in your Android phone using your USB Cable and it will connect to the Internet Automatically, if it doesn’t then right click the PDAnet icon in the system tray and click Connect to the Internet.

PDAnet is also available for other OS such as Palm OS, Blackberry, iOS and Windows Phone and can used on Mac OSX also.

Just follow these steps to turn on your PC using your Android Device:

• First we have to make sure WoWLAN is supported by your PC and that it has been enabled. In some PCs Booting via Network Adapter may be disabled. If you are not sure whether it is Enabled or know that it is Disabled, then Reboot your PC. Now take your Motherboards BIOS and look whether an option such as “Boot to Network” or “Internal Network Adapter Boot” or something similar under Boot Options has been Enabled. If not Enable it.
• Now we have to look if your Network Card supports WoWLAN. It is available on most Network Cards, even if they are a couple years old. But just to be safe will we check it. To check:
  >First Open Control Panel(Run “control panel”). Then Open Device Manager. Then double click on Network Adapters then right click your Network Adapter and take Properties. Navigate to the Power Management Tab in the newly opened dialog box.  Make sure “Allow this device to wake the computer” is checked. If the option is not available then WoWLAN is not supported by your Network Adapter.
• If your computer supports WoWLAN and WoWLAN feature has been enabled then we can begin the actual tutorial. Lets finish off what is there to do on your PC before we move on to your Android device. PC AutoWaker requires two pieces of information from your computer to control it remotely. First is your WLAN Access Point Name (SSID). You can get this by just going to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Network and Sharing Center. You can get SSID from your Android Device but just in case it may by chance fail to detect it we will just find it from the PC itself. Or you can just head to Settings>Wireless & Networks>Wi-Fi Settings in your Android Device to get it.
  
• Now that you have the SSID the next step is to get your PC’s MAC Address. To get the MAC Address first Run( Windows key+R ) cmd.exe. This will open Command Prompt. Now type in “ipconfig/all”. You will be provided a long list of information. Just note down your computer’s MAC address(Physical Address) from this list. Now you are read to do to the remaining of the tutorial so get your Android Device.
• First thing is to install PC AutoWaker. Go to Android Market, search for the app and install itor just head here to install. Once installation is over you can start adding PCs which you want to remotely control with your phone.
• To Add a PC first open PC AutoWaker . From its main screen select Add PC. Now just provide a name for your PC, then your PC’s MAC Address, then the SSID ( There is a get current connection information option. But just in case it might fail is why this tutorial explains how to get it manually. ).  Now the App will ask if you want to wake the computer automatically when your phone connects to this WiFi connection. You can un-check it if you want to wake your PC only manually.
  
• To Wake your PC manually open PC AutoWaker Main screen. Tap on the PC that you registered. It is open a dialog box. From that tap Wake. If you only have one PC registered with the App then just tap Wake All from the Main Screen.

• First is Google News. It is easy to use. Just type in the search box and begin. It shows a timeline also so it is easier to find what exactly you were looking for. You will also be notified if the articles you are clicking are not free for viewing. In addition to being a huge archive of old Newspaper articles you can also get latest new.
• The Olden Times is a great place to find really old Newspaper articles. It has articles dating back to 1788. But there are no recent articles. It only has articles till 1920. But everything is free. So that is a great advantage.
• Newseum is a great way to find news articles from different places. It provides the front pages of around 800 newspapers from all around the world. You can the front pages of different newspapers of previous days and not just the current day. Its great for finding something that happened a few days ago or more that you may have missed.
• Trove is provides a large collection of newspapers but it comprises of only newspapers from Australia. The newspaper articles are available here as PDF files.
• A similar place is the Library of Congress. It provides newspaper articles from 1880s to 1920s. It comprises of articles from across America. It is available as PDF here also.
• Using Wayback Machine is a great way to get old articles as you can view exactly how a page looked like in the past. The websites of most Major Newspapers provide many articles in the homepage. So to get old articles just use Wayback Machine to reach the date that you want. Type in the website and you will get many images of the site. Just navigate to the one you want.
• NewspaperARCHIVE provides the largest newspaper article collection dating back to 1753. It will cost $9.99 per month when considering a year subscription.
• TimesMachine provides a large database dating back to 1853. It has a very easy to use interface. But it is available to home delivery subscribers only.
• Times Archive provides free viewing of front pages of newspapers dating from 1785-1985. For viewing specific articles a per day charge of £4.95 has to be given.
• The Boston Globe provides free articles till 1979 and the older ones cost $2.95 per article.The collection of articles dates back till1924. It is a cheaper alternative if you looking for a specific article.

By using these sites you can find old newspaper articles very fast. If you know of any more such sites feel free to comment.

The best option for buying an iPad in India is to just buy it off the Internet. If you order it from Shop Your World you will get it in 6-8 weeks. The 16GB, 32 GB and 64GB prices are given below:

• iPad 2 16GB (Wi-Fi) – Rs 36,500.00
• iPad 2 32GB (Wi-Fi) – Rs 42,900.00
• iPad 2 64GB (Wi-Fi) – Rs 49,500.00

This site accepts all major Indian Credit and Debit Cards.

iPad 2 has also come to eBay.in but the cost vary from seller to seller. So head over to eBay and check out the different pricing available.

So are you going to buy iPad 2? Please leave your views about the iPad 2 as comments.

There is another option to get rid of this frustration.

>First Install Eternal Sunshine Extension for Google Chrome.

>Now you need to collect the usernames of the people you want to hide. Getting the username is simple. While some people like to set their over unique username which you can find from their profile link, others have their username shown as a number after http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id= . This number is what you need to use to hide them. If you want to hide a lot of people I suggest copying all the usernames first into a notepad file, its just easier that way.

>Now that you have the usernames copy each username, click on the eternal sunshine icon near the address bar. Just paste the username using Ctrl +V then hit Enter.

After hiding a person on Facebook with Eternal Sunshine:

• His/Her Updates will not be shown in News Feed.
• If the person was added as Family earlier, then the Family status will be removed.
• His/Her Photo Album or Photo Page will not be suggested in the Side Bar.
• He/She will be removed from Frequent Friends on Chat List.

Using Eternal Sunshine is a great extension if you have a lot of friends, out of which you do not stay in touch with many of them. It helps ignore the person without Unfriending them.

Windows Hider is a free tool that helps you to categorize your running Applications and Windows and then hide or show them according to your needs. With this tool you can organize your Windows and Applications into different groups.

The name of these groups can be changed and also then different groups can be hidden or shown with a single click or use of a hot key. Also, the software allows you to choose whether or not a group will be muted.The Hot keys can be set from Options> Settings. There are hot keys to hide Windows Hider,Mute sounds of all groups and also to un-mute all groups.

In short this is a great freeware to help make working on your computer faster and more productive.

To set Bing as your default search engine just visit this page. Your browser will be automatically detected if it is one of the above mentioned browsers. The instructions to set bing as the default search engine of your browser could be found on the same page.

Subscribe to Computing Unleashed for more tricks and tweaks like these!

>First, Download Java from here and install it.

>Now you have to download the Android SDK from here. While downloading for windows select the Compressed .zip file, not the “recommended” .exe file.

>Once that download is done, extract the contents of the .zip file. After the extraction, open SDK Setup.exe.

>Now the SDK will get a list of packages available from Google. If there is an error go to Settings and check “Force https://…”.

>Now you will be shown a list of platforms. Unless you want to try all the versions of Android, select only the versions you want to try as each Platform is about 50-75 MB in size. For the others select them then click Reject.

>Now you will be able to see an “Installing Archives” dialog box. Once the download is over click on “Close”.

>Next we set up the Virtual phone. Click on “Virtual devices”, then “New…”.

>Now just select the Skin, SD Card Size& Android Version you want. Now Give a name to your Virtual Device and then click “Create AVD”. When you click this there can be a small time lag till a message comes that the Virtual Device has been created.

>Now select your virtual device from “Virtual devices” and select “Start…”.

>Now a screen with “ANDROID_” will comes with the underscore blinking.

>After which the Android Start Up screen will become visible and then you will reach your home-screen. Thats it. Now you can use your Android Virtual Phone.

With the Emulator you can do many things that you can do with a real Android such as:

• Browse the Internet just as in an Android Mobile.
• Check out the Menus, Widgets, Wallpapers, Settings etc…
• Install free Apps off the Internet.

Sadly with this emulator you will not be able to use the Android Market Place to download Apps.

In order to restore your Gmail Contacts to a previous state :

>Select Contacts on the right sidebar. Then depending on which group of contacts you wish to restore, select the group.

>On top of the contact list you will be able to see an option “More Actions”. Click that and then select “Restore contacts…”.

>Now select the time you want to restore your Contact List to. And click “Restore“. Thats it. As simple as that. You can restore back to 10 minutes, an hour, a day, a week or even a month.

Now you have no reason to be scared while managing your Contacts.

Earlier, the only option to make changes to a pdf file was to purchase the Adobe Reader.

PDF Files are usually made non writable ie. only readable. But now, editing pdf files has been much easier with the new free alternatives for Adobe Acrobat Reader and other free online tools that would help you modify pdf files with ease.

Editing PDF Files Online

Here, are some of the tools and services that will help you in modifying pdf files.

#1) PDF Escape is an online PDF Editor that will help you edit / modify PDF files for free. This free tool will also help you modify the contents of a password protected pdf file too.

All you have to do is to navigate to the site, upload the required pdf file and then make the required modifications and download it. Its that simple!

You could use the PDF Escape online service either as a Registered or Unregistered user. Users who register would have the ability to log back into previously worked sessions and save the file in their respective online accounts.and the registration is free.

#2) PDF XChange is a free desktop version of pdf editor and viewer.

If you are looking for advanced pdf editing PDF XChange will help you. Editing embedded images, adding new text into the pdf file etc. would be very easy.

#3) Fillanypdf will help you in filling pdf forms online for free.

To fill a pdf form online just upload the desired pdf file either from your pc or from a link. You could also link it so that other people could also fill the form, share them etc. PDFFiller is a similar service that allows typing into any sort of pdf form online.

It’s not recommended to upload your confidential documents online, the Free offline pdf editor like PDF XChange would be a viable option in such cases.

There are some other ways in which you can remove these pesky Ads:

>If hiding Ads each time you log in doesn’t bother you then you could just click the Hide Ad option arrow on the side of the advertisement. Of course this is only temporary. But while checking mail from a computer which you do not use regularly then this is enough.

>While using your personal computer you may want a more permanent solution.  There are solutions for both Firefox and Google Chrome. For Mozilla Firefox just install this add-on. For Google Chrome install this extension. Installing the above extension or Add-On will remove the Ads and thus provide more space for your use.

With these small modifications you can use Yahoo Mail without annoying Ads taking up valuable space.

You could get many friend requests in facebook and if you have approved someone once and want to block that person for a while, then here is how to do it. Follow the below given steps to block someone on Facebook.

1. Login to your Facebook account.

2. Click on the ” Account ” option on the top right which brings a drop down menu.

3. From that, select ” Privacy Settings “.

4. Click the ” Edit your lists ” link under ” Block Lists ” at the bottom of the page.

5. Now type the name or email address of the person you want to block in the respective fields and block him/her.

If you feel that you need to unblock someone whom you blocked in the past, then go to block lists and click on the ” Unblock ” option available there.

The first thing to do is to find the causes  for battery depletion specific to your phone usage.To do this you can just use the Android’s Built-in Battery Usage Screen. To get this just go to Settings, then About Phone, then battery.You will reach a screen like this one.

The main causes for exhaustion of the battery are the calls made and the Display. Usually in phones in which the brightness is set to a value around half, the percentage is usually much higher.

Now we begin making changes to the phone in order to increase battery life.

>Firstly reduce the brightness to a less but still comfortable value. But if you are using the phone in the outdoors for most of the time then set it to a higher value as performance is more important than battery life.To reduce the brightness go to Settings then Display then Brightness. Using the auto adjust option is usually the best option but if you need maximum battery life it is better to just use manual  adjustment. In display also reduce the Screen timeout time to as low as you are comfortable with.

>Back Ground Task running is a serious drain on the battery so try and use a Task Killer like Advanced Task Manager or Tasker. If some of these background problems are not used by you much then just uninstall them from the phone from Settings then Applications then Manage Applications.

>Another common cause for battery consumption are the apps that sync constantly with the Internet. These include the Email Application, Facebook Application and even your Twitter and Seesmic  Apps. In the Email App go into Account Settings and then reduce the Email check Frequency. in the Seesmic and twitter Apps go into Settings and then background Updates to set the Update Interval. in the Facebook App from the main screen go to Settings then Refresh Interval to adjust the Interval.

>If you use Internet on your phone rarely then you can use APNDroid to kill off the Internet Connection on your phone. It works on T-Mobile and AT&T but not on Verizon.

>The main way to increase battery life is to use the phone efficiently. The best way to do that is to change your phone’s processor clock. For this however you need a rooted phone. SetCPU is a great app available in the Android Market and you can set the value of the processor clock a different times. If you set the value to a lower one then obviously you will get less performance but better battery life.

>You can also recalibrate your battery for better battery life. but this will have effect in some cases only. But its better to try it on your phone also. To recalibrate your battery first drain it completely then after it switches off turn it on again and wait till it switches off after it switches off charge it completely for around 8 hours and then repeat the process. In some cases where there was damage done to the battery, a large difference can be seen.

>Next we deal with the most easily seen battery killers-the Widgets on the Home Screen which use Data from the Internet  and also the Animated Wallpapers that most people use. If you want to you can keep the Animated Wallpaper as even if you do remove it there will only be a small difference in the Battery Consumption.

>Next is how you use your phone. Some common problems such as using the phone every few minutes just to look at the home screen and leaving it in hot environments can majorly drain the battery.

>Leaving your Bluetooth and Wi-Fi on can drain your battery if its being continuously used. So if your phone uses these at regular short intervals for example to search for a Wi-Fi network when you are outside, then its better to switch Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Off. Do so just go into Settings then Wireless and Networks and then you can switch off both.

>If you need GPS a lot then use Wireless Networks instead of Use GPS Satellites and also you may want to turn off features that use GPS of the Twitter, Weather and other such apps.

If you do all these you will notice a significant change in the battery life. Just remember that the key to having long last battery life on your Android is to think minimalistic. If you have any other tips just leave it as a comment.

More features include Game Center, folders in iPad and the findmyiPhone app is now free with the new update.

You could update your idevice to the new iOS 4.2 just by connecting to itunes and then selecting the device and by choosing update.

If you dont prefer this metheod, here are the direct download links for the iOS 4.2 IPSW

iOS 4.2 for iPad:

• iPad

iOS 4.2 for iPhone:

• iPhone 4
• iPhone 3GS
• iPhone 3G

iOS 4.2 for iPod touch:

• iPod touch 4th Gen
• iPod touch 3rd Gen
• iPod touch 2nd Gen

iOS 4.2 for Apple TV:

• Apple TV

Note : You need to have the latest version of itunes 10.1 if you want to update to iOS 4.2 via itunes.

The working is pretty simple. If you turn Auto Monitor ON then the software monitors your Clipboard and it will be shown as in the Above Picture. Once it is displayed in the software you can change the Case and then you can either press Clipboard if Auto change is not Selected or if Auto Change is selected then just paste it back into whatever it was that you Copied/Cut it from in the first place. You can even keep it “Always on Top”.

This software helps you to correct many common mistakes such as:

>Forgetting to put Capitals in the beginning of sentences. To correct the mistake use “Sentence Case”.

>Changing back to lower case if you accidentally typed with Caps Lock ON. To do this use ”lower case” or “tOgGle cAsE”.

>You can change it to all capitals if you had forgotten to turn ON the Caps Lock or had the Caps Lock on and then typed by holding Shift by using “UPPER CASE” or “tOgGle cAsE”.

>You can change the case to Title Case in case you forgot by using “Title Case”.

>If you forgot that Caps Lock was ON while typing a heading or a sentence and used Shift such that the alphabets that need to be Capital are small and those which need to be small are in Capitals then just use “tOgGle cAsE”.

This a great software for those who have to type a lot but are careless while typing. It helps relieve frustration in a great way.

With this, you will be able to make changes such as making the menu bar always visible (to make menu bar visible the first time,you may have to press Alt key) (if switch this off menu bar will be always invisible), adding menu bar on top, setting InPrivate Filtering to Always ON, Adding 3D Border between the Web page and toolbar, Making Internet Explorer Start Up in to Internet Explorer in Full screen mode, Changing Size of Toolbar icons, Changing the maximum number of Simultaneous Downloads and Rows in the Favourites Home Page.

Like other Browsers Internet Explorer 9 also will keep track of your history and make a favourites page from that data. But using IE9 Tweaker v1.0 helps you create the Favourites page by yourself. To do so, Firstly click “Create Custom Favourites Homepage“ which will open a new Window as seen below.

Just edit the Home Page by adding the Web Addresses and you are done. Just make sure you select “Set homepage to custom page”. This comes in handy if you find new sites or if you like to keep The Favourites Page organized.

To get the free 15 minutes of International calling you will have to register.To register just visit this site.Enter the info that is asked  and you are done.To make free calls you will have to enable the usage of 3G and Wi-Fi in VoIP Settings.

Using Vopium you can also chat with your friends on Google Talk,Skype,AIM,ICQ,Windows Live Messenger,Yahoo and Twitter.Vopium is not only available for Android but also for other platforms such as Symbian,java,iPhone,Blackberry and Windows Mobile.

Google Instant can be activated in beta/dev/canary versions of Chrome. To activate it just:

>about:labs in the search/address bar of Google Chrome.It will open up a page as seen below. Just select ‘Enable’ on Instant.

>Now all you have to restart Chrome.

You are now ready to search using Google Instant directly from your Address/Search Bar.

You can speed up your Internet Explorer by:

>Disabling Add-Ons and Accelerators

To remove add-ons first take the menu bar by pressing Alt.Now select Tools>Manage Add-Ons.

Here you will be able to see your Add-ons and the time that they consume on their startup.Just select the ones you don’t need and select disable. You could remove them all if you are looking for maximum speed or just a few which which you use less often as each Add-On consumes very less. Also disable Accelerators which you do not usually use by selecting Accelerators in Add-On types and selecting disable.

>Stopping Auto-Update of feeds

Updating of feeds can slow down your browsing is you have subscribed to a large number of feeds or have a slow net connection.To stop auto-update of feeds, select Tools in the menu bar(to show menu bar press Alt) now select Internet Options.

Go to the Contents Tab and select Settings in Feeds and Web Slices.

Now you can either uncheck “Automatically check feeds and Web Slices.

>Turning On Pop-Up Blocker

Select Tools in Menu Bar then Internet Option.Under Internet options select Privacy Tab.Now check Turn-On Pop-Up Blocker.

Having a fast Browser is always important and can make all the difference. After following the above steps you will find out how fast Internet Explorer 9 Beta really is.

>First you need to download and install Unfriend finder for your browser.At the moment it is only available for Opera, Safari, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.If you are using Mozilla you will also need to install Greasemonkey.

>The next step is to login to your Facebook account. You will see an additional option “Unfriends” to the options on the on the upper right side of the Facebook window.Click it to see the people who have deleted you from their friends list.The only problem is that you will get to know of your Facebook friends removing you from their friends list only after few days of removing.

Another great feature of this application is that you can see the people who ignored your friend request now just like Facebook notifies you when someone accepts your friend request in Notifications in Upper left side of the Facebook window.

Please remember that by installing this application you will have access to information which may cause you to become sad and bitter.Maybe this is one of those features Facebook left out for the sake of the users.

Nokia E7 Specifications

Dimensions

123.7×62.4×13.6mm (LxWxH)

Weight

176g

Estimates Operating Time

>Talk Time (WCDMA/GSM): 5 h/9 h

>Standby Time (WCDMA/GSM): 20 d/18 d

Display

>4-inch polarized AMOLED

>Full Touch Screen(640×360 pixels)

>Clear Black Technology

Multimedia

>8 Mega Pixel Camera with dual LED Flash

>720p Video Recording

>Dolby Digital Plus Surround Sound

>HDMI Out

>Receive live updates from different social networking sites.

>Three different customizable Home Screens

>Music Player supporting MP, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, WMA, AMR and others

Navigation

>Positioning using GPS, A-GPS, WLAN and Cell-ID

>Free Navigation Forever from Ovi Maps in 70 Countries and includes guides from Lonely Planet and through Michelin for tips on travel,restaurants,weather and hotels.

The Business Aspect

>Comes loaded with the needed apps such as QuickOffice,World Traveler,  F-Secure Anti-theft and Vlingo.

>Other Business apps such as Bloomberg, F-Secure Mobile Security and others available through Ovi Store.

>Mail for Exchange

>Microsoft Communicator Mobile

>Support for intranet and extranet portals built on Microsoft Share Point Server allowing access to corporate systems.

Connectivity

>WLAN IEEE802.11 b/g/n

>Bluetooth 3.0 allowing Stereo Headsets

>GPS, A-GPS and Cell-ID positioning

>Micro-USB 2.0 for file transfers and charging.

>USB On-the Go

>TV Out

>HSDPA Cat 9 allowing speeds of 10.2 Mbps,HSDPA Cat5 allowing 2.0 Mbps

Colors

Green, Blue, Orange, Silver White and Dark Grey

Security

>Cisco and Juniper SSL VPN Support along with rich IPsec VPN compatibility.

>Microsoft ActiveSync certificate based Authentication for higher security and F-Secure Anti-theft allowing lock,wipe and locate of misplaced mobile through Software update in 1Q2011

>Rich OMA DM support with enforceable encryption and device controls such as Camera And Bluetooth

Pricing and Availability

This awesome phone is set to release in the fourth quarter of 2010 and is priced at 495 Euros excluding taxes.

Will Strafach has developed a new fix that will help you get HDR Feature in iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G. If you need to apply the fix on your iphone, you’ll need to have a jailbroken iphone.

Enable HDR Photos in iPhone 3GS & iPhone 3G

#1) Search for “ OpenSHSH “ in Cydia and install OpenSHSH .

#2) Next you need to get to the following files.

(For iPhone 3GS  Users)

/System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/N88AP.plist

(For iPhone 3G Users)

/System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/N82AP.plist

#3) Now, Add a key with the name “hdr-image-capture” with a boolean value of “true” to the “capabilities” section of this property list. Save the plist.

#4) Replace the original file your iphone with the modified version of the file using SSH.

#5) All you need to do is just reboot the iphone.

Thats it! you are now ready to take HDR photos on your iphone 3G or 3GS.

>To get started download MakeiPhoneRingtone.

>This problem makes ringtones but they have to be 40 seconds long or less and needs to be in AAC format. So we first have to prepare the songs to be used in MakeiPhoneRingtone app.

>Select iTunes-Preferences-General-Import Settings. Now adjust the settings as in the picture.

>Now find the sons you want to make ringtones out of in your iTunes library. Now right click it and select Get Info.

>Now adjust the time in options tab as shown in picture. You can select your own starting and stopping time to get the best part of the song, as long as it is less than 40 seconds.

>After Changing start and stop time right click the song and select Create AAC version. The conversion will take a few seconds per song.

>Now open MakeiPhoneRingtone and drag the newly created AAC files into it from iTunes library.

>If you make AAC files that are more than 40 seconds you will get the following warning.

>If you follow the steps correctly the files will come in the ringtones folder in iTunes instantaneously.

>Now just sync your iPhone to use the ringtones. Make sure you select sync ringtones before syncing.

You can now use the ringtones for different  contacts or for alarms. Try experimenting with the start and stop time to get best ringtones. You might even become addicted to experimenting with these ringtones.

>To do so just add “pdf” or “filetype:pdf” after your search topic.

>Press Enter or Click search

>You will be able to see [PDF] before the results, this means that the link will lead you to a PDF file.

>If the “quick view” option is there after the result, it means you can preview the PDF file using Google Docs before downloading it.The PDF will be opened for preview in a separate window.

Now you can get what you need quickly without going through multiple results which provide none of the info that you are searching for.

There are many legal ways to get paid apps from the Appstore. But patience is a must for some of these ways. A jailbroken iPhone/iPod Touch is not needed to get the apps. Here are a few ways by which you can get paid apps for free.

#1) FuelMyApp helps you to get paid apps for free inreturn of a review for it. You are first required to buy the app buy yourself then give it a review within 72 hours of purchase. then you will receive a refund via Paypal. But there is speculation that positive review are only getting refunds.

>Giveaways can be found in many place such as AppSafari.com where paid apps are given away every day. Promo codes which are updated every few days are there for all apps.

Other sites such as OpenFeint.com

and FreeAppADay.com also provide paid apps free of cost but only 1 app is available per day.

#2) FreeAppAlert updates you with all the latest Free Apps on Appstore. (Some of these apps don’t usually stay free for long)You can even get daily emails on Free Apps with links to view the app on the Appstore or FreeAppAlert.com

#3)AppMiner is a free app that lists all free apps and Apps with changed prices. From your iPhone/iPod Touch you can select apps from it which launches the AppStore. An interesting feature is that you can add apps to your watchlist and then get notifications on price changes.

#4) Appshopper lists price variations in paid apps and notifies you when there are price changes in apps in your wishlist if you signup for a free account. You can even list only the popular apps instead of searching for a long time through Apps which are not popular.

All apps are with the information about it which you would normally get in the Appstore. Similar services are provided by Apptism and 148Apps.

To install Froyo manually on your Droid Incredible all you have to do is follow these steps:

>Check if you are on a stock ROM as this update will work only if you are.

>Download the Official Android 2.2 Firmware.

>Make a copy of the downloaded file to the root directory which is your microSD and name it as “update”.zip.

>Switch Off your phone. Now reboot it with Volume down button pressed.

>Now in the bootloader screen select recovery using volume keys to navigate and power button to select.

>Upon seeing the “/!\” symbol press volume up and power to show recovery options. As earlier use volume keys to navigate and power button to select “apply sdcard:update.zip”.

>When the installation completes you will see “Install for sdcard complete”, now just select “reboot system now”  to finish.

>First you need to have Jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch. Check out other posts on this site for help with jailbreaking.

>After that you need is Cydia,which is an alternative to your iPhone/iPod Touch’s installer.

>Now using Cydia install dTunes(which includes Safari download plug-ins in its installation) and Mobile Terminal.

>Now visit a torrent site of your choice in Safari and download the .torrent files.(Note that download will start only if plug-ins are installed properly)

>Then open dTunes and select the .torrent file which you downloaded using Safari.

>Now open Mobile Terminal and type the command ./gettorrent to begin downloading.(Down speed depends on not just your Internet Connection but also the number of seeds, so look for torrents with larger number of seeds.)

>After the downloads finish, you can retrieve it from root/var/mobile/Library/Downloads.

Things could go wrong if the browser wont start up and you don’t remember the password correctly. You wont be able to view those stored passwords in the browser.

Google Chrome Password Decrypter is a small utility that would help you recover those stored passwords in google chrome without opening the browser.

Google Chrome Password Decrypter is created to work on Linux, MAC OS X and Windows.

One handy feature that this utility provides is the ability to export the restored passwords to a file.

Download Google Chrome Password Decrypter

The Parental Control feature in Kaspersky not only allows you to block access to specific websites, it gives you a lot of good options like blocking persons in IM’s, limit internet usage, restrict usage in specific days, Restrict the type of downloads  and many more..

Block Sites Using Kaspersky Parental Control

• From the Kaspersky Window, click security and bring up the Parental Control.
• Now click the “Enable Parental Control” check box and choose “Child” from the drop down menu under “ Operation Profiles “.
• Click on the Settings button on the right side of the window. You will see the Parental Control window being opened now.
• Click Settings in the Parental Control Window. The “Child” profile settings window will be opened now. Go to the Restrictions tab and click on the ‘Set Restrictions’ radio button and tick the checkbox left to ‘Block access to web addresses’ option.

  

• On choosing the Select Option you could add the websites which you need to block.
• You could also block unwanted sites by choosing the categories below.
• Now Proceed by clicking OK on all the windows. You will be asked to enter a Password to make sure that others cant change the settings back.

Now access to all those selected websites will be denied by kaspersky on all the browsers.

Yes thats right you can now watch some of the Bollywood and Hollywood movies in HD quality for free in Youtube. The movies coming under these channels can be watched legally without shedding out any money.

Though the movies are free, you will be shown advertisements before the movie gets played.

via [Techie-Buzz]

Download iRecovery for Windows. If you are using an OS other than Windows XP SP2 run it in Windows XP SP2 using compatibility mode and make sure you run it as the Administrator. Windows users need to install Libusb-win32 to run iRecovery.

>After successfully completing the installation of the program, run the test program and list the usb devices, excluding my new device.

>Start iRecovery in Terminal/Console and make sure that you use ”iRecovery -S”  instead of iRecovery.

>Now all that is left to do is execute the following commands.

setenv auto-boot true

saveenv

/exit

>And then ofcourse reboot your iPhone by pressing Home and sleep together for 10 seconds and you are done.

Here i will explain how you can Configure MAX CDN service with the popular W3 Total Cache Plugin.

After logging in to the MAX CDN account,

• Click “Manage Zones” and then Click “Create pull zone”.

You will now see a screen as shown below.

• You could fill the required fields by referring the above image.
• On the “Custom CDN Domain” Field you could enter a custom subdomain name if you want. for eg. cdn.mydomain.com. You only need to set the correct cname records for the subdomain if you are using it.After saving the zone, MaxCDN will give you a new domain name for which you could create a CNAME record that points from your CDN URL (cdn.mydomain.com) to the long URL that MaxCDN provides.
• Make sure you tick the enable compression option if your webhost support it.

Installing MAX CDN into WordPress using the W3 Total Cache Plugin

• Now Open up the General Settings tab on W3 total Cache and scroll down the settings page to see the Content Delivery Network Option.
• Now tick the enable option and select Mirror: Netdna/MAX CDN from the drop down list.
• Now go to the cdn settings page of w3 total cache plugin and enter the host address you got earlier from max cdn for eg cdn.mydomain.com . This would be the case if you have setup the cname records other wise it will be the long url provided by max cdn itself.



• Now click Save Settings. Thats it.

Your static files will now be served from the max cdn network.

I use W3 Total Cache plugin for speeding up my website. The only setting i left behind was the cdn integration option and now that too is filled. Now the website is blazing fast in loading! Thanks to MAX CDN.

Why i choose MAX CDN Service for my Speeding Up My Website?

MAX CDN is used by most popular websites like Mashable, BuySellAds, User Voice, Copy Blogger etc. and is very easy to implement even on complex websites and supports almost all web host’s control panels.

You only need to pay they as per the usage and the cost per GB is just 0.09$. This is much lower than 0.23$ offered by Amazon service and similar competitors. The also have very good customer care support from Mo-Fr 9am to 7pm (PST) phone and chat support plus 24/7/365 email support is available by true CDN experts.

Here is a small chart that shows it all.

I am sure you will be impressed by now on seeing the chart.

Features of MAX CDN

• Compatible with shared hosting, virtual private servers and dedicated servers / clusters
• Transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration with Media Library, theme files and WordPress itself
• Caching of (minified and compressed) pages and posts in memory or on disk, caching of (minified and compressed) CSS and JavaScript in memory, on disk or on CDN
• Caching of RSS (comments, page and site) feeds in memory or on disk, caching of search results pages (i.e. URIs with query string variables) in memory or on disk
• Caching of database objects in memory
• Minification of posts and pages and RSS feeds, Minification (combine and remove comments / white space) of inline, embedded or 3rd party JavaScript (with automated updates)
• Minification (combine and remove comments / white space) of inline, embedded or 3rd party CSS (with automated updates)
• Browser caching of CSS, JavaScript and HTML using future expire headers and entity tags (ETag)
• JavaScript grouping by template (home page, post page etc) with embed location management
• Non-blocking JavaScript embedding
• Import post attachments directly into the Media Library (and CDN)

For now, as per the promotion offer, you you get their service for just 39.95$ for 1TB usage. This would be a fruitful amount for new users.

Get MAX CDN For 39.95$ – 1TB Usage

If you don’t know what a cdn is, its just a way to distribute your websites files into different high speed servers around the world so that when ever you load the particular website, it will load much faster. Since the contents are being delivered  from a server much near to you.

There are some advantages of using a cdn network

#1) First and foremost, your website will load 2–3 times faster than the current speed. This would result in getting more page views for your website.

#2) As google now consider website load speed as a ranking factor, this would also help in boosting your serps (Search Engine Ranking Position).

#3) Since most of the files on your server gets delivered from the cdn servers, the load on your hosting server also decreases considerably and there wont arise a need to spend more for more bandwidth.

Should i use a CDN Network for my Website?

Still if you are in doubt whether you need to use a cdn network or not then here are some points for you to consider.

#1) A normal site visitor wont stay for long in your website if it doesn’t load fast. At least it should have an average load speed ie. under 10 seconds.

#2) Using a CDN Network will help you more in reducing the server load, especially when you are using a shared server, as the mostly used files are being taken off from the server where your website is hosted and delivered from the cdn server.

#3) You could use more plugins and heavy theme files for your site as this create a problem as the files are being delivered much faster than normal.

#4) Using a CDN network would definitely help you in speeding up the website when all other options like compressing images, reducing http requests for JavaScript’s and css files etc don’t offer much speed difference while loading the website.

For Computing Unleashed, we use the MAX CDN network to serve the static files such as images, css and JavaScript files. You could see and feel how fast the website load now. The site now load 3 times faster than before(after implementing the cdn network). We found the MAX CDN network very useful and its easy to setup.

Windows 7 doesn’t provide a specific option to backup the drivers alone. Double Driver lets you easily do it.

With Double Driver you could backup, view and restore the installed drivers in windows 7 quickly. The program usage is very easy.

After downloading Double Driver installation package, extract the contents and run the dd.exe file.

Features of Double Driver

• List, save, and print drivers details
• Backup drivers from current Windows
• Backup drivers from non-live/non-booting Windows
• Backup drivers to structured folders, compressed (zipped) folder, and self-extracting capability
• Restore drivers from previous backup
• Available in GUI and CLI application
• Portable (no installation required)

The utility is small in size (2.03MB) and is easy to use.

Download Double Driver

A web service called TwtImage will help you search and find shared images on twitter very easily.

The usage in very simple. Just enter the keyword to be searched in the box and press enter, the corresponding images will be displayed below. Initially 25 images would be displayed and clicking on the “load more” button will load more images.

The cloud tag seen displayed the most searched terms. On clicking an image you will be directed to the original source.

Right now, TwitImage indexes images shared on sites like TwitPic, TweetPhoto, yfrog.com and img.ly.

So when the next time you would like to find an image shared in twitter, TwtImage.com will help you in finding it out.

1. Tap down on the text which you want he font size to be increased. Hold the finger for a few seconds.
2. Now a small popup with Select, Select all, Paste, Copy Style options would appear. Pick “Select All” from those.
3. With the text selected, tap on the “i” icon on the top menu (You could find it some where below the battery status indicator icon ).
4. With the style tab being selected in the window, go to the bottom of the options shown under. You will find the “Text Options” at the extreme bottom.
5. You can now use the up or down arrow keys to increase the font size on the document in ipad.

Disable Autorun in Pen Drive in Windows XP, Vista or 7

1. Type in ” gpedit.msc ” in Run to open Group Policy Editor.

2. Navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System.

3. In the right side, double click on ” Turn off Autoplay “.

4. Check the enabled option and change the ” Turn off Autoplay on ” option to ” All drives “.

5. Apply the changes to disable autorun of pen drive.

That’s it! The Autorun feature will be now disabled.

Let’s come to the topic now. If you want to Boot your Droid X in recovery mode, then here are the instructions to do it.

1. Turn off your Droid X.

2. Press and hold the Home button and then power button simultaneously until Motorola’s logo apperas.

3. Release the Home button but continue to hold the Home button until an exclamation mark is displayed on the screen.

4. Release the Home button and press the Search button one time.

That’s it! Now your Droid X will enter into recovery mode.

NOTE: Use the volume up and down buttons to till you get the ” reboot system now ” option and press the camera button after that.

You might have given the option to save the password for that particular site when your browser asked, the first time while entering the user name and password while logging in. The browser will automatically display the password if you have saved it before and you only need to press the login button. But if you need to know / don’t remember the password that is hidden behind the asterisk characters here is dead simple way to see those passwords quickly.

For firefox users, there’s always the option to see saved passwords. But this trick is far more simple than that and works on Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Netscape, Safari and Opera. Here’s what you have to do.

Visit the login screen of the desired website.

The browser will automatically shown the passwords in the fields, but will be hidden with the asterisks characters.

Now, Copy and paste the following code in your address bar and press enter.

The password will now be shown in a small window.

Tip: Always note down the important passwords of your online accounts in a piece of paper and keep it safely. Never leave the passwords for the browsers to remember.

There are four security zone settings in internet explorer. In the case of normal usage,  the settings coming under the Standard Internet Zone will be used unless the sites are listed in the trusted sites or restricted sites zones.

To get to the Internet Options go to Tools > Internet Options from the main menu and navigate to the Security Tab.

Now increase the security level by moving the sliding bar upwards based on the requirement you need. For eg, if the pc is intended for public use, its more wise to set the security settings to high or medium level.

Setting the slider to high level might prevent some sites from loading and some features on sites get disabled. And there’s always the Trusted Sites list where you could add those frequently used sites.

This will ensure that all the features of the sites you visit would be available irrespective of the security level you set.

Users with some expertise could go for the custom settings. If you have deep knowledge regarding web technologies or if you could find out what a particular setting does, then this one is the best option to go for. You bump up the security and disable unwanted features as well.

Are there any more tips you would like to include with this? Post it in the comments.

Some use special softwares to monitor the installation process of the trial softwares (so that the complete modifications done by the software installation can be tracked) and later uninstall the software completely once trial is over while some would totally reinstall windows just for the sake of running that trial software again and again. There are some other good programs which can do some date alterations so that these trial programs could be run forever.

Time Stopper is a tiny utility which eliminate the time limit existing into trial software usage period. This tools support the usage of more than one trial software with it. You can configure the program to make a program to be run at a particular date. So, you don’t have to worry about altering the usual system time from the system tray. This trick might now always work with all the softwares.

How to Use Time Stopper Software To Run Trial Softwares

1. After opening the time stopper program, Browse and locate the exe of the program to be done
2. Now choose a date and time. Make sure you choose a date that is after the program installation and is before the expiration date of the program.
3. Now click open software on the desired date.

You could also create a shortcut to run the software another time without the need of opening time stopper software again.

Download Time Stopper

Note :- This post is for educational purposes only. Do support the software manufacturers by purchasing the licensed softwares if you like them.

We don’t usually notice them easily but when we come to see a dead pixel in our monitor, there’s that feeling of un-comfortableness that remain in our mind. The dead pixels could form either due to the malfunctioning of the transistor responsible for carrying current to the pixel. Dead Pixels are some times found on a newly bought LCD monitor. But in such cases you could opt for a replacement if the manufacturer permits so. Before opting for a replacement, make sure you have checked the manufacturers warranty claims because most manufacturers don’t bother giving a replacement for a single dead pixel.

In case of you want to check for any such non working pixel in your monitor, try using the Dead Pixel Locator software.

If you see any dead pixel on your LCD Screen, there are quite a few things you could do at your home or office.

How To Repair Dead Pixels on LCD Monitor

# 1) JScreenFix is an online tool to fix Dead Pixels Easily.

The tool launches a small applet in a separate browser window and you can drag the window to the respective spot or run it in full screen. The app could fix dead pixels with in under 20 minutes.

#2) Turn off the monitor. Now apply mild pressure over the pixel area and then rub the area around the stuck pixel with a soft  microfiber cloth. This is important because there is a big chance of scratching your LCD Screen surface if you other clothes which have rough texture. Now with the pressure applied over the pixel area turn on your monitor. The dead pixels might be gone when you turn on the monitor.

If the pixel is still stuck on your screen and does not go  even after trying the above mentioned methods, you could contact the manufacturer for a replacements if the warranty claim permits so.

Also Read: How To Check For Dead Pixels Before buying an LCD Monitor

The printers come with features like direct connection to the internet via an Ethernet cable or Wifi and you could easily take those prints without the need of installing any device drivers.

How the printing is done via Email?

Every printer will be assigned a unique email address to which we send the documents, pdf’s and pictures to be printed. This opens a new way for printing directly via new devices such as mobiles, ipad etc. All those devices which could be used to send email could be used to print your  required stuff.

Multiple email attachments will be printed on separate sheets and you only need to make sure that you have sufficient paper and ink stuffed in the printer. The printing process would take around 25 seconds. During this time the documents to be printed are send to hp’s data center and it is then rendered to the correct format there and sent to the printer and the printing job starts.

Apps For Printer

This printer can now be fetched with new apps too like in the ipad and iphone, these will help you get webpages directly and print them. HP ePrintCenter has details about the new apps available for hp printers. Google calendar can help you to take printouts of calendars etc.

There is another great feature too. The printer helps you store Scanned documents to the google docs directly. The scanned images will be stored into your google docs account as a a pdf file.

In short these are some great features that we wish to have in our home printer right now. Go can go to Hp.com for more details.

The Sn0wbreeze developer iH8sn0w has come up with a new update to Sn0wbreeze 1.7 to lets you to jailbreak iPod Touch 3G only if you have SHSH blobs saved for iPod Touch 3G 3.1.2.

Download Sn0wbreeze 1.7

Also Read: How to Update iPhone 2G to iOS 4

These addons will help you get a lot of seo information regarding your site. This is what most of the webmaster would love to see. Because only with those details we could identify where our site is and upto where we could take it to. All you need to do is take a note on those info’s and do the necessary steps to improve the SERP. The newbie’s might be not know on what all factors does the search engine ranking position (SERP) of your site depends upon. But with these good seo addons for firefox you will learn those parameters and would be able to outrank your competitors in the search results.

#1) Seo Quake Addon

Soon after installing Seo quake and restarting firefox this add addon integrates into the Google Search results. Each and every search result will be enhanced with numerous seo information. So you don’t need to do each and every search analysis to know your competitor’s information.

Seo quake displays the Google PR (Google PageRank of current page), Google Index (Number of indexed pages. Google version), Google link (Number of links, pointed to the current page. Google version (Except links from concerned domain)), similar parameters for many other search engines (Yahoo, MNS, Yandex, Rambler, Baidu) and some other miscellaneous parameters.

Download SEO Quake Addon For Firefox

#2) SEO For Firefox

This addon is similar to seo quake. But it provides a lot more and different information. After installation the addons integrates into the search results inside firefox and various information like Page rank, Domain Age, Linksm number of .edu links, .edu page links to the page, .gov links, del.icio.us, technorati links, alexa rank, cached pages, dmoz listing, no of page links, bloglines subscribers, listings on dir.yahoo.com and finally the who is information ragarding any website.

Apart from this it also provides links to various other seo tools such as Google Trends, Overture View Bid, SEO Book Keyword Research Tool, Google Traffic Estimator, Google Keyword Sandbox to help you more with this.

Download SEO For Firefox

#3) SEO Professional FireFox Toolbar

Personally I use this addon mainly helps in getting the number of yahoo backlinks to a website. But there are some other features that makes me like this addon more. Apart from displaying the backlinks count you can also set it to display the google page rank and S-Rank.

Right clicking its navigation icon shows off even more seo tools and functions. They include options such as WHOIS information, Indexed Pages (Seznam, Google), Google Analytics, Google Keyword Tool, Google Insights and Searchability Seznam.cz. All these options are actually links to their corresponding pages. For eg, if you click on Indexed pages (Google), a new tab will be opened in firefox showing the indexed pages in google search results.

Just after loading a website, its details such as backlinks, Page rank etc are displayed instantly.

Download SEO Professional Addon

#4) SEO Doctor Addon For Firefox

This is one of my favorite addons which i‘ve been using in firefox since I found it. Seo Doctor Addon differs from the other seo addons. Upon Installing the addon, you will see a small flag displayed at the left side of firefox status bar and one inside the address bar. Thee color of the flag changes to Red, Yellow and Green based on the SEO optimization of the current webpage. If the SEO optimization is done perfectly, it gives off a 100 score and green flag and that’s what every webmaster should look into when seo optimizing their websites.

To the right of the flag, the Preserved Page Rank (Page rank flow), Links n Page, Daily Visitors to site/search engine visitors, and no follow links highlight and an option to disable seo doctor will be displayed.

Like the SEO professional addon, this too gives of instant results on loading a webpage. All you need to do is to click on the flag and that would open up a small window from the bottom of firefox. You will see a lot of seo parameters and suggestions being displayed inside this window.

Download SEO Doctor For Firefox

And if you have any doubt regarding fixing those red items in seo doctor addon, just drop in a comment below, i can help you.

With each separate core running at a speed of 1.2 GHZ these would handle almost all the processing like hot knife on butter.

Other features includes support for a powerful GPU, 24-bit WXGA 1280 x 800 resolution support, HSPA+ networks and 1080p video encode/decode support.

The new MSM8260 and MSM8660 are substantial since they are going to be the first ever dual CPU Snapdragon from Qualcomm.

This device possibly targets the new comer from HTC ie the HTC Vision.

HTC Vision Specs

The phone is expected to have a 4.3inch display, dual-CPU processor and the Gingerbread (upcoming firmware for Android). The new phone is said to come with a new display technology which we have never experienced before.

Screen Shot Of how the HTC Vision might look like

The MSM8260 and MSM8660 chipsets for mobiles would deliver much powerful performance which includes

• Scorpion 1.2 GHz processor and 600 MHz DSP for high levels of web application and multimedia performance
• Support for innovative 3D/2D user interfaces and console-quality gaming via dedicated, high-performance graphics engines
• 16 megapixel camera
• Full 1080p HD video playback and recording
• Support for DTS/Dolby 5.1 surround sound
• Integrated Assisted-GPS, including support for Glonass satellite services
• Support for stunning 24-bit WXGA (1280 x 800) displays
• 45nm process technology for ultra-low power consumption

Note:- Before proceeding with ant thing ensure that you have a backup of the wordpress database.

1. Login to the Hosting panel of your account and choose Subdomains and create a new subdomain eg. media.yoursitename.com/.

   

2. Now login to your wordpress dashboard and navigate to Settings > Miscellaneous (“Media” in WordPress 3.0) and enter the new location for the images upload folder.

   

   You could not only store images in the folder, but also your css and javascripts can be hosted in the subdomain, you only need make the desired changes to the themes files after that.

3. As seen in the image above don’t select the check box “organize my uploads into month and year-based folders”.
4. Here I have used the default wordpress images folder. (It might create a problem if you have subdirectories in there ie if you have organized the uploads into month and year-based folders before). So, its better if you could start using a new directory like public_html/imgs to upload your images.
5. Now all the images you upload from now on will be downloaded from the subdomain.
6. If you’ve got some expertise in wordpress then you can continue with the rest of the steps. Else stopping here would do just fine.
7. => Advanced Level Proceed with Caveat!
8. If you want to update the images in your post and media library to the new address, so that the previous images also will be pushed to the subdomain, just run these queries from phpMyAdmin.

   

   

9. Now run the following mySQL query.

10. UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content,'http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-content/uploads/','http://images.yourdomain.com/')

11. Make sure you dont forget to make the necessary changes to the urls in the query before running it.
12. The url of images inside the posts will be updated by now with the new domains address. Now we have the url’s in the media library left. So run the following query too.

13. UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = REPLACE(guid,'http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-content/uploads/','http://images.yourdomain.com/')

14. Now we need to update the search engines too with the new address for the images and also we need to avoid duplicate content as google would now see two urls for the same image. So open up your .htaccess file in the wordpress root directory and add the following code to it.

15. RedirectMatch 301 ^/wp-content/uploads/(.*)$ http://images.yourdomain.com/$1

16. Most probably this should be added before the # BEGIN WordPress line.
17. That’s it, the images will be hosted in the new subdomain.

A competent alternative to all such programs is UltraRDC.

The developer of this program faced a similar situation like yours. He even mentions it in the program’s introduction:
“If you’re like me, you spend a lot of your day with a multitude of terminal services windows open to the machines that you’re setting up, fixing, etc. There are a few apps out there geared towards managing these windows and connections but, at least to me, they tried to do too much. I really needed something to just display my windows in a tabbed interface and, other than that, stay out of my way.”

With that aim in mind, the developer took the help of Weifen Luo’s excellent DockPanel Suite and was able to apply a Visual Studio look and feel to his program, with tabs for each terminal services window and an auto-hiding pane for favorites and history.

The entire program is designed to be user friendly and makes it easier to add new remote connections and connect to them through simple mouse clicks.

Windows 7 features including support for tabbed thumbnails, Aero peek, and jump lists are also supported by UltraRDC.
UltraRDC is a 1.6 MB setup file to download, is compatible with Windows operating systems, and can be gotten from HERE.

Typing “msconfig” in your Run window will open a window that has a tab titled Startup (you can access run by pressing Window Logo key + R). Under this tab you can see most of the programs that initiate with your computer’s startup.

However if you are looking for a better application that shows you all startups processes and gives you control over them, then you need to look into WhatInStartup.

Another handy freeware utility by NirSoft, WhatInStartup provides you with a comprehensive list of startup applications. Sized at less than 50 KB and requiring no installation, you can easily download the setup archive and run the executable within.

When you open the program, just the columns titles and their number will indicate how fully each startup application is investigated by WhatInStartup.

These columns can help determine whether a process is system or user related. If it is user related, you can safely disable it from running at startup. You can disable the process permanently so that even if it gets auto-enabled, WhatInStartup will disable it again.

WhatInStartup is compatible with almost all Windows versions and is a utility which all Windows users will appreciate.

#1) Performance tweaks for firefox 4 to increase the browsing speed

Type “about:config” (without quotes) in the address bar and proceed by pressing the I’ll be careful, I promise button. Now in the filter field type in the following values one by one and set its value accordingly. For eg, type network.http.pipelining, you will see the corresponding value appearing below, double clicking it will set the value to true or false and if its some thing which has a value to be set, a popup window appears where you could enter the value for the field.

network.http.pipelining => true
network.http.proxy.pipelining => true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests => 12
content.notify.backoffcount => 5
plugin.expose_full_path => true
ui.submenuDelay => 0
network.dns.disableIPv6 => true
javascript.options.jit.chrome => true
javascript.options.jit.content => true

If any of the above value doesn’t appear, then follow the steps below.

For a setting with true or false value. For eg, if you don’t see the value being displayed below while typing content.notify.backoffcount on the filter field just right click on an empty space and select Boolean from New. Type content.notify.ontimer in the box and set its value to true.

The same is applicable if you are setting a integer value, except that you need to select Integer from the right click menu.

#2) Speeding Up Firefox 4 by cleaning up the SQL Data base

Firefox uses a my sql database where various values and entries are being stored during its usage. With time this get accumulated like unwanted registry entries left behind after an uninstallation in windows. So its necessary to clean the firefox 4 database once in a while.

• For this, Press Ctrl + Shift + J in your firefox browser. You would see the error console window being displayed.

• Click inside the code field and paste the following code and press on Evaluate.

  Components.classes["@mozilla.org/browser/nav-history-service;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsPIPlacesDatabase).DBConnection.executeSimpleSQL(“VACUUM”);

  

• Firefox will now freeze for some time and will be back to normal.

#3) Keyboard Shortcuts for Firefox 4

In one of my earlier posts I have created a list of 20 useful keyboard Shortcut for browsers to enhance your browsing experience and speed up your work. Check those out.

#4) Addons to browse faster on Firefox 4

Adblock Plus extension will block the advertisements you see on various websites and there by making things easier to read and enhancing your browser experience.

Install from the Firefox add-ons page

If you have got used to photoshop, using both the programs might create some difficulty as the menu structures of both the programs are very much unlike. There are some good plugins and tweaks that could possibly make gimp like photoshop.

So instead of a long video tutorial explaining each and every transformation of gimp to photoshop, here is a video tutorial that will help you in understanding this quickly.

Making Gimp Similar To Photoshop

Have you used this before, comment down your experience?

Finding Location of the Email Sender

1. On the email header, you will see a “Received: from” text after which a name and ip address displayed.

   

2. In case of so many entries note the ip address shown in the last entry.
3. Now type the ip address you got into this trace route tool.
4. The location of the email sender will be shown in the map.

Finding the Details Of Email Sender

A service called Spokeo does reverse email look up and can probably give the details of the email sender. You just need to enter the senders email address in the required filed.

Spokeo searches web documents, social networks and even the who is information related with domain names to trace out any information related with the email address. The results include the photos related with the person, social network profiles and blog updates if any.

1. Under the Tools in Google Chrome menu bar select Options.



2. On the Google Chrome Options Window, click the tab “Under the Hood”.
3. You will now see the Reset to default Options at the bottom right of this chrome options window.



4. Click it and proceed with the confirmation to Restore chrome settings back.

Whats new in WordPress 2.5 for iOS

• New Add Blog feature adds all of your WordPress.com blogs in one easy step
• Optimized for the Retina Display on iPhone 4
• Fast application switching
• Better handling of drafts in progress when quitting the app
• Cut and Past function works correctly in iPad
• Performance enhancements, UI improvements, and bug fixes

The user reviews confirms that this one is easy to use and is a powerful one for easy blogging. iPad users would find it more comfortable using the new wordpress app.

The new wordpress for iOS is compatible iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad and requires iOS 3.1 or later.

Download WordPress 2.5 for iOS

1. Backup the wordpress database first.
2. Then i made a backup of .htaccess and wp-config files. Since i don’t use any other languages in wordpress i didn’t take the backup of the languages directory in wp-includes/languages/.
3. Next i downloaded WordPress 3.0 and extracted all the files into my pc.
4. With the exception of the wp-content folder, i replaced all the other files in the ftp directory with the extracted files including the wp-admin and wp-includes folder.
5. Now login to the dashboard of your wordpress site.
6. A screen asking you to upgrade the wordpress database will be shown.



7. Click the upgrade WordPress Database Button and you will see the following image if successful.



8. Now if you have any other languages install just replace them with the backup files took earlier.
9. You are now on WordPress 3.0!
10. Happy Blogging…

If you have any troubles upgrading to wordpress 3.0 manually you can post them in the comments, i will be happy to help you out.

Would any body like to wait up for a slow loading website? Of course we hate to wait for such sites and there is less chance the visitor will browse through other posts in that site. You might have every other thing in your blog to stick down the visitor and reduce the bounce rate. But you might be wondering for the reason when your bounce rate gets reduced even after implementing things like related posts, post interlinking etc. Here comes the important factor the speed of the site.

From my personal experience i was able to reduce the bounce rate of my site from 75% to 68% and my page views increased after making my site load fast.

My previous load time was around 12 – 15 seconds and after speed optimization the load time is now under 4 seconds! & More over i am on a shared hosting and haven’t used any of the cdn services too!

After learning a lot of optimization techniques i decided to put some of the basic things together as a Speed up wordpress post.

You can check my sites loading speed at PingDom.

As i am currently on my vacation i decided to help some people to get their wordpress sites optimized for speed.

Getting Your WordPress Site Optimized For Free

You might be wondering how much i will charge :). And let me tell you for the time being the service the Completely Free of Cost. I will Do it For You Absolutely Free Of Cost!

All you have to do is to retweet this post and click the facebook like button and post a comment regarding Speeding Up WordPress. Then just drop in the required information via the Contact Page.

I do it on a first come first serve basis and i will be free only for a few more days! So be fast!!

When viewing 3D visuals you’re actually tricking your eyes and mind into a feeling that there is depth where there isn’t. But it begins to look less like a trick and more like a serious deception if we add two things into consideration: one, that perceiving depth is an active process that involves muscles and movement, and two, vision is a learned skill.

I’ll make this much more simpler. When you focus on a nearby object say your monitor and when you look on a distant object like a tree, your eye knows to perform some transformation in your eye muscles and the lens inorder to bring those objects into focus. But, when you see an object in a movie, your eye quickly tries to adjust to that object’s distance by deforming the lenses but this doesn’t actually happen. Your brain thinks, “That car should be coming into focus!” But it doesn’t and it won’t for the foreseeable future, and meanwhile every time the focus changes, or the shot changes, or the camera moves, or the characters move, your eye is attempting to refocus, to change its shape. This creates fatigue in the muscles and confusion in the brain.

For example, you’re looking at the main character, but glance at a moving car in the background, an action which can be involuntary. When you track something coming closer to you, your eyes converge more and more until, as it comes right up to your nose, you’re maxed out, cross-eyed. But when something moves toward you in a virtual world, your eyes attempt to converge more in order to keep it centered, and it doesn’t work; they must keep the same angle of convergence the entire time. This isn’t a hard task in itself — we all keep a single state of convergence intact for long periods whenever we see a movie, read a book, or work in front of the computer for a long time. But unlike in 3D movies, when you’re doing those things you’re not receiving conflicting depth cues maliciously suggesting that your eyes need to be rotating to keep things in focus. And every time your eyes try to do so, to look at something closer or more distant than the current object, they produce no results and so must give up. Actually, they do produce results — in the form of more eye muscle fatigue and headaches.

This might seem silly, but there have been reports of people having depth perception trouble after watching a 3D movie at home or in the theater.

Most of the things return to normal and so as the eye. This could be bearded by mature eyes. But when a child’s visual system is taught with a significant portion of its input being a virtual 3D environment on a 2D physical plane, the brain will form with such a system being “legitimate,” possibly to the detriment of normal vision. And this is without reckoning the potential damage from the lack of visual variety such a child would experience.

A child exposed to excessive amounts of 3D media may not only develop incompletely due to lack of stimuli, but may develop incorrectly due to the presence of misleading stimuli. So its better to limit the child’s interaction with the 3d monitors and tv until the toddler reaches at least 6 years of age or much more.

Here are a few things that you could consider doing about it

1. If you are a diehard entertainer and cant miss out the 3d visuals make sure you buy the best 3D monitors or TV. This is because slow LCDs and shoddy synchronization are bad for both you and the image.
2. Avoid watching the 3D visuals for a continuous period of time. Make sure you take breaks in between. Its hard to stop in between a movie. But this is a must when considering our safety more important than entertainment.
3. Never buy active shutter-based displays
4. Its Good To Wait until 3D gets better : Its a good idea to wait for some time until much advanced and more safer things evolve in the 3D arena. Early adopters would make the wrong move compromising their safety and money.

3D is definitely a superb thing which can entertain you even more and take you to another dimension visually once its early sprouting pains are over.

[via crunchgear]

iPod Rescue is a nifty freeware that help you to restore music from your Windows formatted iPod in case of a hard disk failure or if a system crash destroys your iTunes installation and takes your music collection with it.

ipod rescue runs on windows 7, Vista and XP. Before running the app make sure you have got the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 installed in windows.

ipod rescue is portable and you could run it without installing.

Restoring Music From ipod using ipod rescue

1. Connect your iPod to your pc.
2. Click on “Select iPod” to select your ipod from the displayed window.
3. Choose the songs which you want to restore.
4. Choose “Rescue” to copy the songs from your iPod to your computer.

It also has the option to Customize filenames of restored songs.

Download IpodRescue

The mac version of counter strike will be almost like the windows version. Like Team Fortress 2, the Mac and Windows users will be able to play on the same servers . This is one of the needed features since the game rely on multiplayer play.

The company has been releasing new games for the Steam platform every week but due to their appearance at E3 last week they missed out last week.

Once you have installed the Steam for Mac client you can head over to the Mac Beta page.

[via Maccnn]

Creating Short URL’s in WordPress 3.0

1. Go to the Posts tab from your wordpress dashboard.
2. If you want to get the shortlink for a post which has been already published, then edit the post.
3. You’ll see another tab Get Shortlink being displayed along with the Edit option under the post title.

   

4. Just click the Get Shortlink button.
5. You will see the shortlink of the current post being displayed in a small window.

   

You can now share the branded short urls in twitter, facebook etc without depending on other services.

The tool is small in size and will support the removal of following norton 2011 products.

*Norton AntiSpam 2004/2005
* Norton AntiVirus 2003 through 2007.2
* Ghost 2003, Ghost Version 9.0 and 10.0
* Norton GoBack 3.1 through 4.2
* Norton Internet Security 2003 through 2007.2
* Norton Password Manager
* Norton Personal Firewall 2003 through 2006
* Norton SystemWorks 2003 through 2007
* Norton Confidential Online 2007
* Norton Internet Security Add-on Pack
* Norton Save and Restore 1.0
* Norton 360

Note : Before using the norton uninstall tool makes sure you have copied down your norton product key as you might need to enter the product key again when you are reinstalling norton 2011.

Norton removal tool is supported by windows versions and should be run only if you have problems uninstalling norton 2011 products normally via windows.

Download Norton Removal Tool

To ensure we read that interesting piece we missed, we could bookmark the webpage. However the bookmark would remain on our computer and will not be accessible from somewhere else (like a computer at work). A perfect solution for this is Instapaper.

Instapaper is a free to use website that lets users quickly create an account and store countless URLs in it; later we can log into Instapaper from any computer and view our saved URLs. Adding URLs to our account can be done in 3 ways.

1. We could simply log in to our account, click on the ‘Add’ link and fill out the URLs details. These details include the path of the webpage, its title, and summary. The title and summary fields are optional.

2. We could use the bookmarklet provided by Instapaper. This bookmarklet can be placed on our browser’s toolbar and clicked to add the currently open webpage to our Instapaper account.

3. Chrome users can use Instachrome, which is an extension developed by “edgar.js” to facilitate Instapaper’s usage on Chrome. This extension places an icon onto our Chrome address bar. Clicking on the icon drops down a window. The window includes choices which can add the current URL to our Instapaper account, let us view all unread entries in our Instapaper account, and viewing our Starred / archived items. Hotkeys for these functions can also be assigned.

Overall, whether you use Instapaper’s own bookmarklet or the 3rd party tool Instachrome, you can ensure that you never again skip an interesting article online.

Click here to visit Instapaper’s website and here for the Chrome extension, Instachrome.

Kaspersky Lab Products Remover tool can completely uninstall the kaspersky products from your system. The tool is free and portable and is compatible with windows xp, vista and windows 7.

To remove a particular kaspersky product, run the tool and enter the product code in the required filed from the picture shown.

Then select your desired product and click on the Remove Button.

The desired kaspersky product will be removed completely from your pc. You might need to restart your pc after the installation.

You might also like know how to activate kaspersky 2011 using a key file and use it offline.

Download Kaspersky Lab Products Remover

To Download Skype For Sony Ericsson phone visit http://skype.com/m from your smart phone. You will be automatically directed to the download page of skype compatible for the phone.

Alternatively you can also visit the Sony Ericsson Play Now arena later this month. Skype for these sony smart phones  cone with the following features.

• Make free Skype-to-Skype calls to other Skype users anywhere in the world*
• Save money on calls and texts (SMS) to phones abroad.
• Send and receive instant messages to and from individuals or groups
• Share pictures, videos and other files.
• Receive calls to their existing online number
• See when Skype contacts are online and available to call or IM
• Easily import names and numbers from the phone’s address book

Skype for Symbian will run on any Sony Ericsson smartphone using Symbian ^1, the latest version of the Symbian platform.

But this is not the case with countries like NewZealand, Hong Kong, Australia and Singapore. Due to their government policies apple sell the legally unlocked iphone 4. It means you wont need to unlock these phones in order to use the local service providers sim card in iPhone 4. When you buy it from apple what you would get is a factory unlocked iphone 4 which is legal and doesn’t break the warranty of the iphone4. Moreover you wont be put into any contracts like the other countries and you could use the iphone 4 with the service provider of your choice.

If you are thinking of buying the new unlocked iphone 4 and want to sell your old one here is a ppost on where to sell old iphones ?.

If you are visiting the above mentioned countries or if you have got some one in there, be sure to get factory unlocked iphone 4 from there and you dont need to worry regarding the warranty of iphone 4.

Buy Unlocked iPhone 4 (Approximate Prices)

iPhone 4 16 GB (factory unlocked):

HongKong - HK$ 5,388 => USD 695 => 570 Euro.
New Zealand - 1,150.00 NZD => 791 USD => 655.033 Euro.
Australia – 879.00 AUD => 746.991 USD  => 617.287 Euro

iPhone 4 32 GB (factory unlocked):

HongKong – HK$ 6,288 => USD 812 => 667 Euro.HK$ 6,288 => USD 812 => 667 Euro.
New Zealand - 1,349.00 NZD => 928.172 USD => 768.422 Euro
Australia – 1,040.00 AUD => 882.469 USD => 730.121 Euro

Apart from these three countries like Malaysia, Greece, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Belgium, Slovakia, South Africa, Turkey, Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Macau and UAE are authorized to sell the factory unlocked iphone 4.

Zoho Notebook is a Firefox addon that allows you to copy text from webpages and store them in your Zoho notepad. One you copy text on a website, you can add it to Zoho by right-clicking on it and selecting the Zoho option that comes in the menu. Alternatively you can use Zoho’s shortcut located at the bottom right of Firefox.

Resultantly a window pops up, again in the bottom right of Firefox; it asks you a book name to add the note to. You can even spread your notes over pages in this Zoho book.

Recorded entries then show up in your book with their URL included.

The button highlighted in the red rectangle in the image above, can be used to add notes yourself.

The text editor for notes includes options to choose bold, underlined, and italic text. Hyperlinks and bullets can also be added to text.
If at any time you feel the window is too small, you can simply resize it to suit your preferences.

Zoho Notebook is a brilliant Firefox addon which does an excellent job at what it is made for. Click here to get the addon.

However such sharing raises many privacy concerns. Facebook has constantly been under the spotlight for its bad handling of privacy settings. The main criticism is that Facebook does not simplify privacy controls enough; resultantly people who do not bother going into advanced controls leave the privacy settings as they are which sometimes has unwanted consequences.
Thankfully there is one tool that handles all Facebook privacy issues very competently. This tool is Privacy Defender.

Privacy Defender is a Facebook application. The application has been created by Reputation Defender with the aim to simplify Facebook’s often confusing privacy controls. To start using the service, click on the orange “Learn More” button on the application’s homepage; after this you will be prompted by Facebook to allow the application access to your account.

When you allow the app Facebook access, it will show up a screen explaining how to use Privacy Defender.

As the instructions explain, all you have to do is drag the gray bookmarklet to your bookmarks toolbar or add it as a bookmark.

When you click on the Privacy Defender shortcut, your Facebook privacy settings will be evaluated by the application and you will be shown some easy controls to your overall Facebook settings.

The interface is quite user friendly and will be convenient for many Facebook users, particularly new ones. With simple clicks and a pie-chart like display, you will be able to set up your privacy. With the privacy issue out of the way, you can continue enjoying all that Facebook has to offer.

Visit Privacy Defender here.

With Gazelle, you could easily sell your old iphone without worrying about the things which you might have earlier did. Gazelle will take your device off for presumptively less than what you might be expecting from ebay, but its an easy way to sell your gadget without much worries.

Here is something that will make gazelle even more interesting, they will even pay for shipping and send a box for you to send out your iphone or others.

Gazelle now has a mobile version of its website specially optimized for the iphone users, so it will be more easy to sell the iphone itself from there.

Once you’ve completed selling your phone to Gazelle, the price will be locked for 30 days. So, no worries regarding the shipping process, until you have your new phone.

If you are planning to but the new iphone by selling the current one, go ahead and sell the old iphone with gazelle.

Under the “Preferences” Menu in Safari, Open up the the “Advanced” section.

Click on the “Show Develop Menu“ in Menu Bar. Tick that option.

Now a new section “Develop” will appear in the menubar. Under the “Develop” menu tick the “Enable Extensions” option.

Now just download your favorite safari addons and it will get downloaded with the addon .safariextz and will be automatically opened in safari and you will be asked to install the  addon.

The addon will be added to the browser and you can use it right away.

If you have got a genuine serial key for kaspersky 2011, then this guide will help you convert kaspersky 2011 serial to key file. With the key file in your computer lets start.

1. Click on the Kaspersky license manager from the main window (seen at lower right).
2. The License management window will now popup with two options for you. Click on the “Activate the application with a new license” option.
3. Disconnect your internet connection and enter this code. T1JVS-NNMBD-K1QTN-SUBP8.
4. Followed by that an error window will be displayed with a message “Activation error:Cannot setup server connection”. Now Click on “OK”.
5. You will now be shown with the window to activate kaspersky 2011 with license key.
6. Just browse and locate your new license key file and done.

Also Read : How To Activate Kaspersky Offline

Following are the feature’s of iphone 4 which crushes out iphone 3gs.

• Glass front and back
• Front facing cam for video conferencing
• 5 megapixel camera with LED flash
• 720p HD video recording
• 960 x 640 resolution with 800:1 contrast ratio (4 times better than the previous iPhones)
• Gyroscope (3-axis)
• Gyro + accelerometer provide 6-axis motion sensing
• Rotation about gravity
• Apple A4 chip
• 32 GB of Storage
• Dual mic suppression
• 802.11n WiFi
• 300 hours of standby battery time (3G talk time: 7 hours, 3G web browsing: 6 hours, WiFi browsing: 10 hours, Video playback: 10 hours, Music playback: 40 hours)
• 3.5-inch screen
• 24% thinner than the iPhone 3GS
• 3.5 inch mm headset jack
• Micro SIM tray

Powered by the new iphone 4 operating system, the device comes up with 1500 new features. iphone OS 4 is available as of today for developers only and it will be available publicly via new iTunes on June 21st.

Price of iPhone 4 16 & 32 GB

The pre-order starts online from June 15th. The iPhone 4 pricing will remain the same every where. iPhone 4 16Gb will come with a price tag of $199 while iPhone 4 32GB will cost $299. Because of this the iphone 3gs will be pushed to just 99$.

AT&T customers will luck out with the ability to upgrade to the new iPhone 4 up to 6 months early. This means AT&T customers whose contracts end anytime in 2010 will be able to upgrade early

This addon is very useful for people who are having slow internet speeds. As the name suggests Load Tabs Progressively addon will load the background tabs one after the other and you can browse without any problems.

You will have the option to set the maximum number of  tabs to be loaded concurrently, maximum number of unread loaded tabs, next tab to reload etc.

You can set the value maximum number of concurrent loading tabs according to the speed of your connection and based on your current requirement. If you are downloading any other files then you could give a small value in there and if your internet connection has more speed then setting the value higher wont be a problem.

Download Load Tabs Progressively Addon for firefox

#1) The first thing to find out the cost per unit of electricity in your area. You could find it from your last months electricity bill or by checking the website of the electricity company. A simple google will fetch you the desired details.

#2) Now we have to find out the power consumed by various components in your pc. This is usually expressed in kW (kiloWatt). It is not necessary to find the power consumed by the pc components manually. Joulemeter from microsoft will help you find an estimate.

Joulemeter takes the processor, screen brightness, disk usage, run up time etc into account and gives you and estimate of the electricity usage.

Calculating Total Cost Of Running Your PC

Multiply the following to get the cost of running your laptop or pc.

Cost per unit (in kWh) x Power Consumption of your PC (kW) x Number of Hours You Use your PC or Laptop (in hours).

Your pc power consumption will be usually in watts. So don’t forget divide the number by 1000 to convert it to kilowatts if you are manually calculating it. Joulemeter represents the power consumption in kWh under its statistics.

Eg. If you use your computer for 9 hours a day with the pc power consumption being 100watts and the price per unit of electricity is around 3Rs or 10¢. Then the cost of running your pc is calculated as 9 x (100/1000) x 3Rs or 10¢ = 2.7 Rs or 9¢ per day. So, that amounts to 270¢ a month.

Dont Forget to post in your pc’s power consumption..

Button Maker is an awesome tool to create pure css buttons in minutes.

All you have to do is to simply adjust three sliders and done. The code for your new css button is ready. You will have the options to choose the gradient colors, text hover colors, font etc. Choose then according to your needs and Just press the View the CSS button and you will get the code.

But there are few limitations for the css code. They wont work with internet explorer as it doesn’t support css3 now. In firefox, chrome and safari every works fine. But if you have little expertise in css coding you could easily add a background color code with the css to make the button appear in internet explorer too.

Download CSS Button Maker

Some programs like Antivirus softwares also start running with the startup of Windows. But it is a necessary one. There might be many other programs which you don’t want to start along with the Windows 7 startup. So you could remove those programs. Just do the following to remove those programs from Windows 7 startup.

1. Click on the start button.

2. Type msconfig in the search box and open it.

3. Select the Startup tab.

4. Uncheck the programs you don’t want to start during startup.

5. Click on OK and then Apply.

6. To finish off the procedure, restart your system and you are done.

Now the programs you selected will be removed and will not run at Windows 7 startup anymore unless you enable them again using msconfig.

Click Start and type in “cmd” and you will see the command prompt icon.

Right Click the cmd icon and choose “Run as Administrator“.

Now in the command prompt windows type in the following command.

fsutil behavior set memoryusage 2

Now restart windows 7.

Using the following query will give you the current value.

fsutil behavior query memoryusage

Always make sure you have sufficient amount of ram 2GB or more before performing this tweak.

You can also check my Speed Up Windows 7 Guide to Make Windows 7 much more Faster.

Snap Bird is an online tool which will help you find a tweet together with the keyword. Unlike twitter search tool, snap bird is not just limited to the timeline, it will also include the mentions, Direct messages etc.

Snap bird provide you with the following advantages over twitter. Ability to search tweets,

• Further back than 10 days
• Within only your friends’ tweets
• Within your Direct Messages
• Within any user’s favorites

The Search options also include ability to search some ones time line, Your friends tweets, some ones favorite tweets, tweets mentioning you, your received dm’s and your sent dm’s.

1) 20200k

This is a huge online directory with a lot of popular books, free ebooks. The books are divided into various categories. The popular ones include Arts & Photography, Biographies & Memoirs, Business & Investing, Engineering, Books for Children, Health, Mind & Body, Science, Computers & Internet and many more. These have a lot of sub categories too.You could find tons of free books in here and if you are interested you could get the link to download the book too.

2) Google books

Google too has the service to find popular books online. Millions of books from various libraries and publishers can be found easily with the Google Book Search. You could also find various categories such as Business & Economics, Cooking, Computers, Family & Relationships, Games, Gardening, Health & Fitness, House & Home, Psychology & Psychiatry, Religion, Self-Help, Social Science, Technology & Engineering, Transportation, Travel and a lot of others. Upon searching a book, you could find the results with the book title, author name and other details included.

3) Digital Library

A good book directory with a collection of 30,000 books online. They have search options to find the books by author name, title etc.

4) Ebooks download free

This is one of the biggest ebook sharing website which mainly include books for the people related with computer. Their popular categories include Ajax, ASP dot net, C Plus Plus, C Sharp, Computer Hardware, CSS XHTML, Databases, HTML, Java, Javascript, SEO, Web design, Visual Basic etc.

5) E-library

Includes tons of popular books which are put into a number of categories. Clicking on a book would also display the Book Title, Description etc.

6) Free book spot

A huge online ebook resource with books under 96 categories which add up to 71,97 GB of data. The new books can be downloaded and read without the need of any registration.

7) Getfreebooks

They provide a good collection of ebooks which can be downloaded free of cost. Moreover you will also be able to download the free books in HTML, MOBI, EPUB, RTF, PDF, LRF, PDB, TXT formats.

8 ) Online computer books

An online book data base for the computer geeks. Books are categorized into Java books, .NET books, C# books, VB.NET books, ASP.NET books, MS-Office books, Ajax books, XML books, C++ books, C books, Web Design books, PHP books, Python books, Flash books, Graphics & Video books etc. All the books in here are legally free to download and read.

9) Ebooks directory

They currently provides 3500+ books under 414 categories. The book list is daily growing very fast. You can download all the ebooks and even submit your own and promote it. Plus you could comment on posted books too.

10) Free book centre

A great free online book resource for people interested in computer stuff. They include books about programming languages, Systems Programming , Linux, core computer science etc. The categories are neatly organized and you could easily pick out your interest fast.

Feel the List is not enough? Do add your suggestions and opinions too.

Since most of the site having the same posts copied from one another, almost all the codes i got were the same.

Problem with Displaying Related Posts without any Plugin

The problem i found is that, after the related posts were displayed at the end of the post, the comments displayed on the current page comes from the last post in the related posts list. I found this fault the next day only. So i thought of finding a fix for the code. I have made some changed to the codes and here are them.

Showing Related Posts without Plugin based an Categories

<?php $categories = get_the_category($post->ID);
  if ($categories) { $category_ids = array();   
foreach($categories as $individual_category)
$category_ids[] = $individual_category->term_id;
    $args=array(
        'category__in' => $category_ids,
        'post__not_in' => array($post->ID),
        'showposts'=>5, // Corresponds to Number of related posts to be shown.
        'caller_get_posts'=>1
    );
 $my_query = new wp_query($args);
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
echo '<h3>Related Posts…..</h3><ol>';
while ($my_query->have_posts()) {
$my_query->the_post();?><li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"
rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li><?php }
echo '</ol>'; } } $post = $backup; wp_reset_query(); ?>

Now paste the code in single.php ust before the post ends or just after <?php the_content(); ?>.<?php the_content(); ?>

Displaying Related Posts based on Tags without Plugin

<?php
  $backup = $post;
  $tags = wp_get_post_tags($post->ID);
  $tagIDs = array();
  if ($tags) {
    $tagcount = count($tags);
    for ($i = 0; $i < $tagcount; $i++) {
      $tagIDs[$i] = $tags[$i]->term_id;
    }
    $args=array(
      'tag__in' => $tagIDs,
      'post__not_in' => array($post->ID),
      'showposts'=>5, // Corresponds to Number of related posts to be shown.
      'caller_get_posts'=>1
    );
$my_query = new wp_query($args);
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
echo '<h3>Related Posts…..</h3><ol>';
while ($my_query->have_posts()) {
$my_query->the_post();?><li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"
rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li><?php }
echo '</ol>'; } } $post = $backup; wp_reset_query(); ?>

Paste the code just after the post content to display the related posts. You can change the value of ‘showposts’=>5 to a desired number. It corresponds to the number of related posts to be displayed.

Here is how the Related Posts are Displayed Based on Categories (I use this style with a little css applied)

If you have got some css code for the related posts code then just apply to this code easily. Just put this the whole code inside the div tag corresponding to the related posts css.

If you have any trouble displaying the related posts in your site, feel free to comment down. I ll try my best to help you…

1) First download the Google Chrome Setup file. Usually when you download the setup file from google chrome’s website, the installation automatically begins, so we can’t get the set up file back. So download the latest google chrome version from  softpedia. Just google “Google Chrome + Softpedia” or visit this page to directly get the individual setup file of latest google chrome build.

2) Now Right Click the Chrome Setup File and Choose Extract using any file compression tool like winrar or 7-zip.

3) Now Open the extracted folder and you will see another compressed rar file called chrome.rar. Extract that file too. Now open the extracted “Chrome” folder to see a folder called Chrome bin.

4) Now open the “Chromebin” folder and copy all the files.

5) Navigate to the Portable Chrome Folder, “GoogleChromePortableDev\App\Chrome-bin”. That was the folder in my case, but it might vary some times, so all you need to do is to find the “chrome-bin “ folder inside the portable chrome directory.

6) Paste and replace the files in this directory existing once windows asks.

7) Now just open your portable Google Chrome Browser and check the version and it will be updated!

If you have any problem updating portable google chrome version just comment on, i will help you.

Google Chrome 5 Stable Build Features

Like the bookmarks, you will be able to sync the browser preferences that include thtmes, startup settings, page zoom settings, web content settings, preferred languages and home page settings.

Zealous extension users can enable each extensions inside the icognito mode too via the extensions manager.

Html5 features such as the App Cache, Geolocation APIs, web sockets  and file drag-and-drop will also be supported in Google Chrome 5.

Even the Chrome’s bookmark manager have been given a facelift with HTML5:

Though the internal flash player is included by default, you need to enable it by adding –enable-internal-flash parameter to chrome shortcut while launching.

Download Google Chrome 5 Stable Version

Recovering Google Account When You Forget the Password

Here is what you have to do in case you google account password is lost.

Case 1) #You have access to the secondary email address you have set

When you have access to the secondary email address you have set in your google account, and you cant login to your current google account.

Before going with the password reset process you can try using a tool called Google Password Decrypter which retrieves the google account user name and passwords stored in applications such as Google Talk, Google Picasa, Google Desktop Search, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome.

Visit The Google Account Password Reset Link and enter your email address and click submit. You will receive the password reset assistance mail in your secondary email address. Now just login to the secondary email account and click the link to reset the google account password and you can recover your google account back.

Case 2) #You don’t remember your secondary email address, it had got expired or you cant access that too

In such a scenario, a security question will be asked and you have to provide the answer to the question to proceed with the password recovery process.

Case 3) #You have forgotten the answer to the security question

In this situation google wont have any way to verify your identity, so the only way is to fill up this form.

Make your best guess on dates if you’re not sure about them and try to include as much information as you can.

Case 4) #Hacked Google Accounts Not Linked to Gmail

If your Google Account doesn’t use a Gmail address, contact Google by filling this form. This could help in bringing back your Google Account if you scrupulously preserve all your old emails.

Recovering Google Account When it Has Been Hacked

If you feel that your account has been hacked by some one there is nothing to panic.

When your gmail account is hacked, most probably the hacker will be wise enough to change your secondary email address too. So you’ll miss that method to restore your account.If you are lucky enough you can answer the security question and gain back the access. (If the hacker had forgotten to change it) .

The next way is to fill up this form with the most probable details. Its better if you can give the email address of the person who first sent you that invite for Gmail.

1. Click the Start button in Windows 7 and type “Power” in the search box.
2. From the Displayed Lists, Click on “Power Options“.
3. On the Power Options window, you will have a power plan selected by default. Click “Change plan settings“.
4. Click on “Change advanced power settings“.
5. You will now have the Advanced Power Options window, expand “Power buttons and lid” settings.
6. Turn the settings to “Do nothing” on both On battery and “Plugged in“. This is upto you. Running the laptop on with the lid closed
   while in the battery power is not a safe option. So its better to keep it on when the laptop is plugged to the power source.

   

7. Now Click on “Apply” and “OK“. That’s it.

From now on, your laptop wont go to sleep or hibernated state when the lid is closed.

But there is a small issue if you run the laptop closed. It might get heated up considerably as some heat is also expelled through the spaces between the keyboard keys.

Https is widely used by shopping websites, banking websites and others who include secure  information’s such as login details, credit card details etc. This will ensure that the information wont be accessed by any other intruders and there by protecting your information.

When you access the google secure search, you can check the start of the address bar for a https. But the ssl search is in beta state and it includes only the core google search. So dont think that it will cover the googe image search, video search etc.

Google Secure SSL Search – Privacy Principles

To distinguish between the normal google search page and the secure version of the search page, google had made a small modification which you can see in their logo itself.

Since SSL connections need a little more time than the usual http connections, you will notice a small time lag in search speed. But what you wont lose is the same great search results!

Remember, google ssl search wont prevent your search queries from being collected by google. It only prevent those from being collected by your ISP’s and other third party network. Also the search information can be obtained by the government in case needed.

We could expect google extending more security features like these to their other services too.

iPad Jailbreak Video

The jailbreak is all software based, and is as simple to use as blackra1n. It is completely untethered, works on all current tethered models(ipt2, 3gs, ipt3), and will probably work on iPad too.

Here is another video released by geohot (the infamous iphone hacker) confirming jailbreak of iphone.