That helps when we have something very confidential to share and wish to leave no trace whatsoever. Stuck for a similar need? Burn Note is what might help. All you need to do is navigate to the service website, type your message and click on the Send button. Well, that’s not just it. If you want you can expand the Options menu and choose the type of note display, enable/disable timer, set expiry time and choose a password....

In the recent past, Google has become quite transparent regarding its efforts to make Android a secure platform and has been constantly providing security patches for Android. Google’s Nexus and Pixel devices are the first ones to receive the latest Android updates. Likewise, these security patches are first released for Nexus and Pixel devices and if you own a device from some other manufacturer, you’re at their mercy. Every company has to customise the security patch update according to their device’s specification after approving it — making the process lengthier....

importing contacts , chatting with Facebook friends etc. Now in Outlook 2013 Preview, we can see an interesting feature using which you can connect Facebook, LinkedIn and other such social accounts and follow your friend’s activity right from the Outlook desktop Interface. So let’s have a look at how it can be implemented. Note: This trick won’t help you importing any of the Facebook or LinkedIn contacts to Outlook 2013....

Real creative. When you turned on your laptop after a fresh Windows 8 install, you were greeted by the beautiful Metro tile based UI – the Start screen. The screen was filled with apps, tiles, that had pictures of people you didn’t even know, telling you the news, sports scores and where to travel next. Pretty? Yes. Useful? No. At first, we were fooled by the appearance. Oh, the Bing app looks so cool with the ever changing background and the sharp typography....

On prolonged use, I realized that most of the new apps that now follow the ICS trend have a three dot menu button somewhere on the app screen but the apps which have not been updated yet, the phone introduces a three-button strip at the bottom of the screen to open the menu. The first screenshot above is of an ICS optimized app with integrated three dots menu button. The second screenshot, on the other hand, is of a non-ICS optimized app with the system three button menu at the bottom....

If a user does not have premium access to these services, they can be very annoying. Some of the shortcomings for a free user are waiting time, captcha security, no support for download managers and lack of parallel download. Now with DebridMax you can download files from most of such services (like Megaupload, Rapidshare, Fileserve, Filesonic et al) as a premium user with out paying a single penny. What is DebridMax DebridMax is a downloader that allows you to download files instantly and at the best of your Internet speed....

Now you can do things like use Pocket to save pages for offline use. But that’s mostly just text and some images and majorly for articles. What about formatted web pages or a complicated website? It falls apart. Yes, you can just take a full page screenshot on your iOS or convert the page to PDF. But if you don’t want to do all that and only want an offline copy of the web page just as it is, read on....

Log into your Gmail account and click on the wrench icon to go to the Settings page. Select and display the Labs tab which displays all the experimental apps for Gmail. Scroll down to the Apps Search lab feature which should be somewhere near the top itself. Click Enable and Save. Now, any search that you initiate within Gmail will also search through your Google documents, and the doc results will appear beneath the Gmail results....

Of course, you can scan the document and then use a free online OCR tool to convert the picture to text but chances of finding a scanner nearby could well be bleak. Chances of having a smartphone near, may be an Android, are considerably higher and that’s enough to convert the document to digital format using OCR. We will see how you can use your Android phone’s camera to shoot photos of document and then convert it into plain text using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology....

The understated steps apply to Firefox. Step 1: On your browser address bar key in about:config and hit Enter. Step 2: Search for view_source.editor.external and change the value to false by double clicking on it. Step 3: Now, search for view_source.editor.path and set its value to the .exe location of the desired editor. I am sure most developers will vouch for it because you will be able to perform actions more easily....

Whether it’s an SMS or a text in FB messenger, one would be required to open the app to type in the reply manually. But what if I told you that there is a certain app that can ease up that part for you? And that it can throw in a dash of humor and intelligence as well. Too good to be true, ain’t it? We are living in the era of never-ending tech innovations and trust me, in this age, there’s nothing that can’t be done (almost)....

This quirky feature means that the Instax Link Wide printer is slightly expensive. So that brings us to an important question—is the Instax Link Wide better than the HP Sprocket 200? Or, are the extra features on the Instax printer worth the extra dollars? Well, that’s what we will find in this post today as we compare the HP Sprocket 200 to the Fujifilm Instax Link Wide. Since it’s going to be a long post, let’s get started, shall we?...

One can always assign the picture to a contact manually using the built-in tools on the phone. However, doing the job manually kills the fun, especially when you have hundreds of contacts you wish to assign respective display pictures to. So today we are going to look at making this process hassle-free. We need the pictures from somewhere and what better than pulling them from social networks like Facebook, WhatsApp et al?...

If you want web content filter in your Windows 7 PC then you need to install Windows Live Family Safety. This guide tells you how to do that. Setup Windows Live Family Safety Windows Live Family Safety is a free tool by Microsoft that lets you setup web filter and monitor your kids activity on the internet with the help of a few settings. Here are the steps. First of all download and install Windows Live Family Safety on your computer....

Students Get Less Benefits During the Free Trial Students Get Exclusive Discounts Account Sharing is a New Perk for Students Once you’ve invited them to join, you can successfully share your Prime membership regardless of whether you’re a student or not. The above article may contain affiliate links which help support Guiding Tech. However, it does not affect our editorial integrity. The content remains unbiased and authentic.

But have you wondered how a thermal printer works? We will explore that in this post to tell you all you need to know about thermal printers. However, check out the following first, Here are the best compact printers for Mac Print photos like a pro with these affordable photo printers What Are Thermal Printers A thermal printer uses heat to transfer text and images to paper. Sometimes, the printer heats selective parts of the paper to turn it black....

The added syncing function is useless if you can’t access or create Sticky Notes on Android, iOS, or web. To counter the problem, Microsoft has making Sticky Notes available on iOS and Android via other apps and on Mac using the Outlook platform. The company is also leveraging the Microsoft Launcher app on Android for deep integration of Stick Notes. In this post, we are going to talk about how to access Sticky Notes on Mac, iOS, and Android....

Anyway, the point is that these background photos give a personalized feeling to the services, like they are designed exclusively for us. Gmail themes also did a decent job by providing many great themes one could apply to get rid of the monotonous black and white background, but with the latest integration of the ability to apply custom background as themes it has taken it up a notch and you can now put any picture you want as your Gmail background....

I noticed that while I was forgetful of a lot of things, I never forgot to pick my phone up (time to time, and especially when I’m leaving some place) and causally check it for the time and to see if I had any new notifications. At this point, this is almost muscle memory for most of us. So I decided to merge these two practices and convert the lockscreen into a sticky notes of sorts....

The ability to strike through text can be incredibly useful when you want the original text related to any revisions to stick around before finalizing any edits. Strikethrough formatting comes in handy when collaborating on documents with others, especially if you don’t like the Suggesting mode in Google Docs. Despite the lack of a visible option, Google Docs does support the functionality of the strikethrough text. Let’s start by checking out what you must do to add or remove strikethrough text in the Google Docs web app on the desktop....