We have been shown you how to create a bootable USB (Universal Serial Bus) pen drive using the Windows command prompt or some free software. The only problem of booting your system from a pen drive is the motherboard support. These days all the new modern PC usually have added the option of boot from USB in their BIOS (Basic Input Output System) settings, but if you are using an older board that does not support this feature then what would be your alternative? Fortunately there is a solution for you using a free utility application which is called PLoP Boot Manager. It is a small application that allows you to boot from different operating systems including CD/DVD ROM and USB. PLoP Boot Manager can access your PC USB and CD/DVD ROM without the need of using the BIOS. If you do not know how to create a USB bootable drive then follow the link below:

6/13/2014 Read More

As everyone has some personal files or folders such as documents, pictures and videos on their Android phone, some users like to hide their private files for privacy reason. There are different and various free and pay application available in the market that can manage your files and folder including hidden them. Today we want to show you how to hide your folders in Android devices by changing their attributes. Some of you may already know that by adding a dot "." In front of any file or folder, the Android OS will hide the corresponding file or folder. Nobody can view the hidden files unless you enable the Show Hidden file option in file manager settings. As you can see, anyone who knows this method can easily access the hidden files by simply activating this option, but still if you do not want to use any third party application you can use this method.

1/05/2014 Read More

A GIF file or Graphics Interchange Format is a bitmap image that supports up to 8 bits per pixel for any image which in result allows a single image to indicate its own palette of up to 256 different colors chosen from the 24-bit color space. A GIF image can also support animation and for each frame, it permits a separate palette up to 256 colors. An animated GIF is a collection of some frames that are revealed in sequence. Last past few years the animated GIFs have become very popular among the users and these days, they are used widely over the Internet. Today we intend to introduce you a freeware application called Instagiffer that offers you creating animated GIFs from any movies. But one main feature of this software beside its user friendly GUI and ease of use, is it also can create animations from any YouTube video.

12/18/2013 Read More

Some of the users may disable the Windows Update due to some reasons. But the problem with disabling the update is that the Windows Defender also no longer will update unless you enable the update again. The Windows Defender is a defense system against spyware and malware which is provided by Microsoft as a feature of the Windows 7/8 operating systems.

The Windows Defender functionality has the ability to scan the entire system and clean all suspicious software. Although it does not have the features and functionality of a paid antivirus but as a user, you must first take full advantage of all tools of any operating system then go for external tools and software that are available in the market. So keeping the Windows Defender up to date and using it time to time to have a clean system is a good idea. Let see how to update the Windows Defender automatically even if the update is disabled.

12/17/2013 Read More

Although the Microsoft Windows has provided some options for customizing the Windows Start menu but they have their own constraints and limitations. For example there is no configuration to add your favorite folder (not the default Favorite Folder) to the Start Menu. If you have a personal or any other folder that you use too often and want to add it to the Start Right Pane for faster and easier access, what would you do? Fortunately you have an alternative by modifying the Windows Registry and add any folder to the Start Menu. In this article we will show you step by step how to achieve this task. What we are going to do is change the value of the Favorites key containing in the Shell Folders path in the registry and add our own folder.

11/24/2013 Read More

Although these days we are seeing the growing of high speed internet service providers but still there are some users over the internet that don’t have access to such services. If you are among such users and suffer from the low speed internet connectivity, you can use some utility tools and configuration to speed up your Internet. The trick we are going to show you today is, that how to find the fastest available DNS Sever for your IP address and then use it to increase the Internet speed. But before we start let talk about what is a DNS Server?

11/20/2013 Read More

In the Microsoft Windows operating system by using the Alt key and the NUMPAD, you can create a range of characters that usually a standard keyboard doesn’t have. This range starts from 0 to 255 decimal numbers which the last one is the invisible character (Alt + 255). If you want to create folders or files without a name to show off to your friends or just want to get rid of text under the desktop icons, you can use the invisible character to rename an existing or new folder, icon or shortcut and make the text under them disappeared. First of all we see how we can do this trick and then we will check all ALT + NUMPAD ASCII symbols together.

9/26/2013 Read More

If you use an Android device such as a phone or tablet, you may face the problem that some applications access the Internet in the background without your consent or permission. This sort of unauthorized access can cause slowing down your Android performance and consuming your Internet bandwidth. One way to solve this problem is to use third party utility programs to manage and configure all your installed applications on your device. But even though these kind of applications have their own limitations and cannot solve the problem as some certain Android programs still would using your Internet connection bandwidth on the background and creates unnecessary data usage. Fortunately the Android OS has provided a new feature to restrict background data usage. This feature is available in the Android 4 and above version and can be set through your device settings. When you restrict an application, it cannot access the Internet in the background unless you execute the application. To do this, follow these steps:

9/21/2013 Read More

It was the September 2011 that we wrote an article about 12+1 tips for Google+. Since that time, the Google has done lots of improvements and changes to the giant social networking site "Google+". So I decided to write a new post about some tips and guides that make your experience more pleasant when you use the Google Plus. The Google+ is the second largest social networking site in the world with currently 359 million active users. It has 500 million registered users in which 235 million are active in a given month. Currently the Facebook with one billion active users is the most popular and first largest social networking site over the Internet, but no doubt in the near future the Google+ would bits the Facebook popularity. Below are some shortcuts and tips that you can use when you are on the Google+:

9/17/2013 Read More

While you are surfing the internet, signing up certain websites, and doing online shopping, you need to enter your personal information such as email address, credit card number, phone, and your home address. All these data can be viewed by anyone who has access to the sites server database. Even today we see that NSA keeps eye on internet users’ activities. Besides the governments spying on the people, hackers are all over the internet and they do anything to find out your credit card or bank account numbers. In 2012 alone there were 12.6 million reports about identity theft. Protecting your online privacy is an important factor that you should consider while using the internet. A few weeks back, we introduced you a free service called TrashMail that provides you fake email addresses to use on the internet. In this article we are going to tell you about another service called MaskMe that does the same thing. The MaskMe is a free service by Abine, Inc., the online privacy company and can create disposable email addresses for you. One main feature of this service is it also provides you fake phone numbers and credit cards. By using MaskMe, you do not need to enter your real email address, phone and credit card information on a website. When you are shopping online, the MaskMe creates unique disposal information and auto fills in the spot. This service is available as an extension for Firefox and Google Chrome and is free to download and use. The free service includes email forwarding, passwords generator and auto fill features. The MaskMe website offers a premium version as well that can be used to sync data between your devices, and creates credit card and phone number. To try MaskMe go to the MaskMe add-on for Firefox or Chrome links and install it on your browser.

9/10/2013 Read More

We all have some favorite movies and Video songs on our local system that in some situations you may want to extract the audio from a certain movie or clip. Let say you like the music of a particular video song clip or background music of your favorite movie and want to have it as a separate audio format. If you search the Internet you will find out various applications that would do this task for you. But if you are using the Windows operating system, then instead of installing any unknown application, you can simply use the Windows Movie Maker to do the trick. With the Windows Movie Maker, you are not only able to extract the whole audio but even you can pull out only a part of it according to your need. Just follow the steps below:

8/28/2013 Read More

We all while surfing the Internet, come across websites that we want to copy a portion of an article (or the whole article), a sentence or a quote on that site/s and save it in a text file for offline reading or later references. What we would do in this case is that we highlight the text that we need, right-click on it and from the menu, select copy (or simply using the Ctrl + C shortcut). Then we open a text editor like Notepad or Microsoft Word and paste the content in the clipboard. But if you are using the Firefox web browser, there is a useful add-on available that make the whole process much easier for you. This add-on called "Save Text To File" and created by a software engineer "Robert Byrne". When you install this add-on in Firefox, you can save any text directly to a file in the specified directory chosen by you on any website. To install and use "Save Text To File", follow the steps below:

8/07/2013 Read More

Do you want to boot your system with just one click or by pressing a key on the keyboard? You can do this by enabling the Keyboard Power On options in the your system BIOS settings. Depends on you computer model and manufacture, you find this option in the Power Management or Integrated Peripherals. First of all restart your computer and when it's starting to boot, hit the Delete or F2 key to access the system BIOS setup configuration. Now select the Power Management or Integrated Peripherals and in the next window, select keyboard Power ON or Power ON Function (again depends on your system model).

If you are not able to find the Integrated peripherals or Power Management, probably it must be a similar option in the Setup menu.These menus usually consist of the options below:

6/11/2013 Read More

Checking your system total CPU usage and its performance is easy using the Windows Task Manager but it has its own limitation. Another way is to use the Windows Resource Monitor but if you want to view the CPU usage in real time then typeperf command will help you. This command writes performance data to the CMD or as log file. Even you can save the data as a text or an Excel file. Let see how to use typeperf command:

6/10/2013 Read More

As you all know, all web browsers have the ability to save your passwords and user names when you type them in websites log in pages. So the next time the browser will automatically complete the sign in fields for you. As you may visited and signed up in many sites, manual tracking of all your user names and passwords is very difficult. Last time I told you how to view cached passwords in web browsers using the browsers' developing tools. In this post I'll show you how to manage and view your saved passwords in popular web browser "Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Internet Explorer".

6/05/2013 Read More

When we are surfing the Internet, we view so many websites that offer free services like download, tutorial, newsletter etc. Some of the sites ask for subscription with your email address before they allow you to use their services. What if you want to subscribe to a certain site but also want your identity to remain unknown? Want to send an email to someone without letting the person or company find out who really you are. What would be the alternative in these situations? The answer is a fake email. TrashMail.net is a website that offers you creating disposable emails. All emails that sent to these emails will be forwarded to your real email address without revealing your identity. You can install the TrashMail add-on on your Firefox or Google Chrome browsers, create a new email address and set up the limitation for this email. Your Inbox will not fill with spam as the TrashMail rejects all spam mails and newsletters. You can register on the TrashMail website as a free member or as a paid member. Free members can have 300 active disposable email addresses and they can reserve them for 365 days. As a paid member, you will get more features such as forward emails indefinitely; send them by a SSL secure web form and much more. Let me show you step by step how to use the TrashMail disposable email address.

6/03/2013 Read More

If you belong to those groups of users who use the Windows Command Prompt so often, then probably sometimes you must bored with the default dull black background color of the CMD window. But you can use the MS-DOS color command and CMD Properties to change the color scheme (background and text) and give a colorful look to the Command Prompt window. First I’ll show you how to use the window Properties for changing default color and then the MS-DOS color command.

5/28/2013 Read More

No doubt that Facebook is one of the most popular social networks in the world. With 1.06 billion monthly active users and 680 million mobile users, we can say it is the biggest social network website (compare to the Google + with 343 million active users). The giant social networking website contains more than 50 million brand pages and 10 million applications. Facebook users share their personal photos, update their status and chat with each other (conversation) daily. Did you know that you can download a copy of your Facebook data on your local machine? That is correct like the Google +, Facebook also gives you the ability to make a backup or copy of all your data on their website. You can easily download your personal archive of your Facebook information and data. This archive will be include of your photos and videos shared by you on the Facebook, all your wall posts, messages and chat conversation and even your friends’ names and some of their email addresses. I have to mention that Facebook will download only email addresses for friends who have allowed this option in their account settings. What you will not get after downloading the archive are your friends’ photos and status updates, other people personal information and comments you left on other people’s posts. To see how to download your Facebook information, just follow the steps below:

4/24/2013 Read More

If you want to open any Windows user account and you don’t know the user’s password, you can use the Command Prompt to create a new password and enter the account. You can do this before you enter the Windows login by bypassing Login Screen. As we are going to use CMD for this trick, you are even able to create new user accounts, modify existing user accounts or execute other programs all in the Windows Lock or Login page. The first thing we need to do is to open the Windows Command Prompt at the Login page. To do this, follow these steps:

2/21/2013 Read More

Did you know that you can display a message at the start up time in the Windows 7 or 8? There might be many reasons for you to show a message when the computer starts and before it enters the Windows environment. You can use the message as a reminder for yourself or other users who use the same system. If you work in an office then you can use this trick to show a legal notice or important messages to the employees when they log in to the Windows. In this post I'll show you how to show message during log on by using Windows Group Policy or Windows Registry. Follow these steps:

1/31/2013 Read More