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Windows 7 is one of the most widely used computer operating systems in the world. Due to its standout features, ease of use and trusted brand-Microsoft, Windows 7 is a powerful package all together. Though Windows 7 is almost a perfect OS, it does lack a few minor features and one of them is creating a password protected folder. You do have the option of creating separate accounts, but the option of creating password protected folders is missing out. Many softwares are available in on the web that allow you to create password protected folders, but in this post I'll tell you how to make password protected folders on Windows 7 and that too without any softwares! Just follow the steps given below:- 1) You need to create a new folder and save is anywhere with any name. 2) Now, open the folder and right click in the blank area inside it. 3) In the menu that pops up, select New-> Text Document. 4) Open the text document you created by double clicking on it, ...

Ubuntu and Android have finally joined hands for the sake of humanity! Ubuntu, the most popular free OS for PCs' and Android, the most loved mobile OS, have come together to bring you the functionality and charm of both, on the same device. Recently, Canonical ltd. announced an upcoming free and open source variant of Ubuntu designed to run on Android phones. Ubuntu for Android   was showcased at the Mobile World Congress this year and is expected to come pre-loaded with some phones in the near future. The basic concept/idea behind Ubuntu for Android is that your phone becomes a mobile PC, wherein you can switch from Android to Ubuntu full desktop mode when you dock your device to a bigger display along with a keyboard and mouse. FEATURES OF UBUNTU FOR ANDROID:- 1) As both Android and Linux share the same kernel i.e. is Linux, both of them run at the same time on the device. Hence, there is no need to reboot. 2) Once the device is connected to the desktop monito...

Android is truly a great OS when comes to multitasking and performing out of the box functions. But just like any other OS, it doesn't give you the utility to clean up your internal memory. The internal memory is being continuously used up by the cache files produced by apps, call log, text messages, search history etc.. Therefore. it becomes imperative to clean up your device once in a while to free up the cluttered space and make it faster. So, here is a list of the top 4 apps that you can try to clean up your Android :- 1) HISTORY ERASER-   History Eraser is currently the top app in the Google Play Store that allows you to clean up your Android device without any hassles at all. The interface is pretty easy to use and understand. As shown in the pic, you can tick mark whatever you want to delete/clean up from your device and then click "clean selected" button at the bottom, a prompt will appear telling you whatever you are deleting, just click on "do it...

Windows phone 7 is catching up fast in the mobile OS market. With its intriguing charm, snappy transformations, metro user interface, it has left many in awe and gasping for more! But with majority Android users out there, it would be tough to change places with Windows Phone owing to the great features Android comes bundled with. But still you can have a taste of Windows Phone 7 on your Android! Yup, that's true! An app called "Launcher 7" is bound to give you the true Windows Phone 7 experience, without spending a buck! Launcher 7 is a Windows phone 7 style launcher for Android. One standout feature of this launcher is that it completely replaces the existing Android home screens with Windows phone 7 type "metro" user interface. In the default mode, the background screen is black with tiles in green colour, but you have the option of customizing the tiles, the way you want. You can also change the tile colour, status visibil...

How often does it happen that you like an app and it turns out to be paid?? The Google Play Store boasts more than 200,000 apps that you can download, but not all are free. Good quality apps like SPD shell 3D , NFS Shift etc. cost anywhere between 4$ to 20$. So, in case you want a taste of these apps, you'll certainly need to shell out some big bucks! In case you want to act clever and get your hands on the paid apps for free, here's what you need to do:- I. BLACKMART ALPHA METHOD:- 1) Download Blackmart alpha. Blackmart alpha is an Android app that allows you to download paid Android apps  for free. Its just like another Android market, with cracked versions of the paid apps. To download Black mart Alpha- CLICK HERE 2) Once you download the Blackmart alpha .apk file on your device, install it. 3) After installing Blackmart alpha, open it, you'll find it similar to the Google Play Store. You'll see a list of apps that you can download. You can search for...

Android is attracting hoards of app developers across the globe.As it provides an Open Source Development Platform, developers are cashing in on the opportunity to create apps and custom ROMs. As presumed, creating apps for Android is not that easy. It requires you to have appropriate coding skills, proper knowledge of the softwares that implement the codes and a thorough understanding of the development environment. But, there do exist some websites, that help you in creating Android apps, step by step, without any prior knowledge of softwares or coding languages! So let's have a look at them:- 1) APPSGEYSER- This amazing new website provides you a free online platform to create apps for Android. Appsgeyser allows you to make your very own Android app in 2 steps plus a majority of the apps can be created in less than 5 minutes! The USP of Appsgeyser is that it allows you to share/ distribute your apps via the Appsgeyser market place and the Google Play Store (An...

Today, technology is progressing  swiftly,  changing the way we work, making our lives easier to live and access!  Many of you might have heard about remote controlling PCs with phones and tablets, but how many of you have actually tried it? Android and iOS app developers are actually working hard to provide us with great quality apps that make technology even more fun and interesting. Hence, in this article I'll talk about 2 apps that will allow you to access your PC just like a remote control, no matter where you are! 1) LOGMEIN IGNITION - Available on Google Play Store for Rs.1652.24 or around $30- Click Here to purchase. Available on App store for $130- Click Here to purchase. Logmein ignition has been around for quite a while now. The great thing about this is that it securely allows you to access your PC over the internet and control stuff just like a remote control. You'll need to download its PC version as well . Once you've signed up and compl...

So far you might have heard about USB tethering on Android. Tethering means using the data connection of your phone to run internet on your PC. But have you heard about reverse tethering??? This term might be new to a few of you. Reverse tethering is a process by which you can share the internet connection of your PC with your Android device! Yup, that's true. But before you can make full use this standout feature you need 2 things:- a) You need to have a rooted Android device. If you don't, check out the article How to Root your Android-The easy way b) You need an app named "Reverse tether" from the Google Play Store. To download Reverse Tether- CLICK HERE! This app is the trial version, you can use this feature only in the afternoon and late evening. To enjoy full freedom, you can download the paid version that costs around $5 in the Google Play Store. Steps you need to follow:- 1) After rooting your device and installing Reverse tether on your dev...

Android is the most developer friendly mobile operating system in the World right now. Giving a stiff competition to its rival, apple. It has come a long way and is still setting high standards with its upcoming versions. One of the features that sets Android apart is that it provides an Open Source Development Platform that is free of cost. You can customize your Android device the way you want, but to achieve that you'll need to root your Android. Rooting is a process that provides you access to the core files on your Android. Rooting can be compared to jailbreaking on iPhone. But rooting is not as easy as it sounds, many procedures are available for you to follow. Always make sure to back up the files on your device before following any such procedure coz you might end up with a dead phone after the procedure, so be careful! In this process I'll make use if SuperOneClick, an easy to use software that helps in rooting almost any Android device out there. To download ...

by TechStormer TS Are you pissed off with the internet speed on your Windows??? Even though you have a great data connection do you still want to increase the speed of your internet?? Well, computer science is lifeless without tricks. In this article, I've provided you a simple trick that you'll need to implement on Windows. After you've done with the procedure I've provided below, just observe the changes in the internet speed ( believe me, the difference is large!). STEP 1) Start up your PC and click on the "start" button on the desktop. STEP 2)  Now open the "run" window and type in " gpedit.msc"  and press ok. This will open the Local Group Policy Editor window. STEP 3) Open Local Computer Policy-> Computer Configuration-> Administrative templates->Network->  QoS Package Scheduler-> Limit Reservable Bandwidth. STEP 4) The Limit Reservable Bandwidth screen will pop up. STEP 5) You'll find th...

Today, many softwares are available on the web that allow you to download videos, especially from You tube. But its usually a hassle when it comes to downloading such softwares and then in turn downloading the videos of your choice from You Tube. Hence,just to shrug off your worries, a few sites allow you to download You Tube videos without downloading any softwares! 2 such sites are:- 1) www.savevid.com 2) www.keepvid.com Now just follow these simple steps to download the video of your choice:- 1> Open You Tube.com 2> Now open the video that you want to download. 3> Copy the URL of the video. E.g.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIeFxDfShmY&feature=g-vrec 4> Now open savevid.com or keepvid.com and paste the URL in the URL text field. 5> Click on download. 6> You'll get various links for downloading your video in various formats viz. MP4, 3GP, FLV etc. 7> Download the video in the format of your choice! Now enjoy You Tube videos se...

In case you are bored off the timeline on your Facebook profile or just want to disable it for no reason, stop worrying and follow these simple steps to achieve your goal  :- 1> Login to your Facebook profile. 2> Open the Facebook developers page . Here you'll find the apps you've installed on your profile. You'll also find the timeline app that was created to enable timeline. 3> Now click on the edit app button on this page. 4>  Now to disable the timeline app, you'll need to delete it. So click on delete app on the bottom left hand side. 5> Next, click on the confirm button to confirm the deletion. 6>  After confirmation, timeline on your Facebook profile will be disabled. Disable Timeline on Mozilla Firefox (Add-on method):- In case you just want to disable timeline on Mozilla Firefox, follow these steps:- 1> First,open Firefox and head to the add-on screen. 2> Now search for the "User Agent Switch...

3G USB dongles are fast gaining popularity in India as well as other parts of the world. No doubt, a 3G dongle provides flexibility and portability along with a pretty fast connection speed. Now, here I'll tell you about my experience with the Reliance Netconnect 3G USB dongle. Before going for Reliance I did go through what others had to offer viz. TATA Photon, MTS, Airtel, Vodafone etc. But no one came close to the affordable plans Reliance had to offer. I took the 5GB data plan @7.2 Mbps and after 5GB is consumed, data usage is unlimited @150Kbps.All this for Rs.750 per month. The other specifications are shown in the pic above. I've been using this 3G dongle for about 4 months now and I must say that I am pretty satisfied (though not completely). The maximum download speed that I have experienced is 4.2Mbps which is standout and upload speed of around 0.3 Mbps, which is also commendable. I have tried the dongle on Windows and Linux, it works pretty smoothly on b...

A Techie in simple terms, is a person who is expert in or enthusiastic about technology, especially computers (courtesy, Google search). You might wonder why I am so interested in the life of a techie? Well, according to you, a techie is just a regular person, leading a pretty ordinary sort of life. True, but still I would like you to have a glimpse of what exactly a techie does in a day (especially the ones who work from home!). For all those techies out there, read on! MORNING: ->Get up at 9am (sometimes even 10 or more!) with the alarm buzzing on the iPhone or Android. -> Stay in the bed, while reading the latest news, not in the newspaper but on your iPad! ->Brush your teeth, with an electric brush. ->Grab a cup of coffee or tea made up in the electric kettle, its convenience that matters. -> Hungry? Order breakfast online(McDonald's, Domino's etc offer online service) or just press the speed dial button on your phone. 30 minutes or the food's...

Samsung galaxy S III, the fiery successor to the globally popular Galaxy S II ,created quite a buzz when it was unveiled on 3 May 2012 in London. Touted as the next big thing in the smartphone arena, the company did not leave any stone unturned for the promotion of their human friendly Android superphone. With its nature inspired theme and catchy one liner, "made for humans, inspired by nature", Samsung didn't just speak, it actually incorporated some out of the box features into the phone, so lets have a look at them:- 1)  POP UP AND PLAY-  While playing a video, if you suddenly get a text message or want to browse the net or read an important email, just click on the bottom right hand side of your screen. Your video would pop out and keep playing, while you can do your tasks without pausing or stopping the video! You can even move around that video on the screen as per your convenience. 2) S VOICE- Considered as the twin brother of Siri, it uses natural ...

Ubuntu is a computer operating system that is catching up at a great pace in today’s world due to its versatility. Ubuntu is based on  LINUX  and is committed to the principles of free software development. It is distributed as a free and open source software! The reasons why you should have UBUNTU as an operating system are:- 1> FREE- UBUNTU is entirely free of charge. 2> PREINSTALLED OFFICE- You don’t have to buy Office (Word, Power-point, Excel etc.) separately. It comes with OpenOffice preinstalled. 3> NO VIRUSES- You are free from Viruses so you don’t have to buy another upgrade of Norton or any other Antivirus software. 4> NO COSTLY HARDWARE- You don’t have to buy costly hardware to run UBUNTU (RAM, Processor, HDD etc.). 5> STABILITY- UBUNTU is very stable as compared to other operating systems. 6> SINGLE UPDATE MANAGER- You can update everything on your system with just one update manager. No need to run separate Update m...

Android, the most popular operating system in the world today is marching forward when it comes to OS updates. The latest update being Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.