This feature definitely eases the access in everyday computing, but it’s not available by default in Windows. Desktop Media for Windows Today I will talk about a simple yet useful tool, Desktop Media that will bring this missing feature to Windows. To get started, download and install Desktop Media on your computer and launch it. The tool will start minimized in the system tray. Double click on the tray icon to open the configuration Window....

Now, Koushik Dutta, the creator of ClockworkMod recovery (the recovery of my choice) has updated his Helium backup app. This update makes it really easy to back up app data (and not the app itself) using just your Android phone. First, you need to enable debugging and connect the phone to a PC/Mac/Linux machine (there’s also a Chrome extension) so it can run some code that enables backup features. But once that’s done, you don’t need to be tethered to the PC....

social services like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and social utilities like Google Docs and more. More services mean more scattered content, more upload work and more backup concerns. Social Folders promises to take care of all that. It lets you manage all uploads right from your desktop and works as a backup solution too. Social Folders is a sync system that tracks any changes in the file content of your associated profiles and matches the web and local versions....

Skipscreen is a nifty Firefox add-on that lets you bypass these pop ups and downloading quickly without getting stuck on these file sharing websites. This addon supports many such sites including Rapidshare, Megaupload, 4shared, Hotfile, Mediafire and many more. To use this addon, download and install it, and then restart your Firefox browser. Now go to Tools-> Addons. Under “Extensions” tab, go to the Skipscreen option. Skipscreen preferences will open....

As you can see above, it’s a list of all the Google products you use, your email addresses associated with them, and other important links. You can also use the Google Dashboard to take a quick look at some numbers that you give you an idea about how much do you use a Google service. Following image shows one of my Gmail accounts (yeah, am dependent on it, I know)....

The default EarPods that comes with the phone have hardware keys using which you can not only answer calls, but also control music playback. It even accepts compatible earphones with hardware buttons, making it easy to shuffle songs without taking the phone out of the pockets. However, when it comes to Android, there are different OEMs and manufactures and most of them don’t have a feature to use headphone buttons to shuffle songs....

That’s where cloud storage-based backup of photos comes into place. Saving photos to the cloud servers comes handy when you want to switch phones too. Further, storing photos in the cloud gives you the freedom to access them anywhere and on any supported device. We have two popular storage services at our disposal — Dropbox and Google Photos. In this post, we shall compare them and tell you which one to use....

Let’s admit it. You’ll use several online services that require a unique and strong login info every time. Using the same weak password can make you vulnerable to hackers. And that’s why a password manager is important. Both Apple and Google’s eco-system is filled with several options. And choosing a suitable one with maximum security is a crucial process. After all, you are going to fill it with all your confidential information, and some of it may include access to the banking and shopping sites....

You are on a computer where you do not have administrative rights to install antivirus software. But you need to scan for malware, and You want to double-check your system (or just a single downloaded file) for potential security threats by running it through a spyware scan. I can give you a few more backdrops of security threats we face in our everyday use of computers, but let these two show you the importance of having a good alternative security solution at hand....

But efficiency demands that you do sync them, and keep them updated. Earlier we have looked at multiple ways to move contact information between email clients, backup your iPhone contacts, and even move contacts between two mobile operating systems. Today, we will try to save ourselves a bit of labor again by automatically extracting phone numbers from our emails and syncing them to all our devices. So, say hello to our new friend on the web – Morse....

Personally speaking, I am not a fan of Facebook chat. With contenders like Skype and Gtalk, Facebook chat always seems to fall behind. Apart from chat however, Facebook has become a necessary part of my life. It has become easy as hell to check on with friends, view their snaps, schedule events. Likewise, for others, may be the chat part of it has become integral to their Facebook experience....

activate picture password feature on Windows 8 , I have been looking for ways to get the similar feature on my Android Phone. Thanks to XDA developer kevdilu , Android users can now use similar photo gesture unlock feature on their devices as well. The app comes in both lite and a paid version. In this article, I will tell you how to use the lite version to access the feature and then we will be talking about the difference between the lite and the pro version....

However, if you have a Gmail account, Google has made it easy for you to separate the two. Further, Gmail has fantastic features for all set of users — from regular to power users. However, the often confusing ones are Mute, Archive, and Snooze. All the three functions are interesting and sound similar but perform very different roles. In this post, we will dive deep into these three functions and understand the primary differences between them....

Goodbye Nexus, Hello Pixel This event is going to be special for another reason. Well, special might not be the choicest word, but it will be the event where Google finally kills the Nexus name. They stuck with it till last year and called their products the Nexus 6P and 5x, when a year earlier they had launched the Nexus 6. There can’t be a Nexus 7 as we already have a tablet by that name....

Google knows there’s a segment out there that needs a bit of hand holding. Good To Know is a Google initiative that teaches greenhorn computer users all about the dos and don’ts of online safety. Good To Know is very much like those public service campaigns we see on popular media these days. But more than them, things like ‘setting unique passwords’ or ‘how to use Google SafeSearch’ impact the way we use our computers every day....

Not only does the battery case provide your iPhone with extra juice to power the device, but also attends to your music needs. It also gets a bigger battery in its case than Apple’s official battery pack which is priced at $99. Apple’s battery pack gets a 2365 mAh battery while Griffin Reserve gets a 3000 mAh battery pack. The Reserve case also charges via your iPhone’s Lightning charging connector — meaning no need to carry an extra USB to charge the case....

It’s Not Spying, It’s Tracking The scary sounding stories made it out to be that Windows 10 could access all your local files and was tracking accessing your other personal data. Both of those stories were attributed to misquoted or misattributed quotes from Microsoft’s privacy policies. The quote, first pointed out by Rock Paper Shotgun was as below. The scariest part was “files in private folders”. WHAT? Microsoft has access to my personal files?...

This new update follows Messenger’s Instant Games update that the company announced on Wednesday, which allows users to play games within the Messenger app. Reactions were first rolled out for posts by the company more than a year ago and their popularity seems to have grown ever since. “We’ve been listening to people and know that there should be more ways to easily and quickly express,” the company stated while launching reactions Comments only had a ‘Like’ button beforehand and the addition of reactions is surely going to boost interactivity within post comments....

Aforesaid, MIUI 9 comes with a lot of enhancements and features and well, if you ask me, some of these features were long overdue. However, apart from these, MIUI 9 has a nifty tool hidden and it goes by the name of Game Booster. As suggestive of its name, it boosts the performance of your games. In this article today, we will see how the tool works and how it helps in boosting gaming performance in MIUI 9....

Researchers have found that the reason behind you ignoring the warnings and popups is that you might be weak at multitasking. BYU’s Information System Researchers have found that 90% of users ignore PC security warning if they pop up at the wrong time. In the new study, which was done in collaboration with Google Chrome’s security engineers, they’ve concluded that the reason is “dual-task interference” or multitasking. After conducting MRI tests, they found that an interruption during important tasks like typing, watching a video or uploading files can lower the neural activity....