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Social networking sites like Facebook and Google+ are flooded with different types of memes these days. These memes are in the form of text or emotions pictures. These memes are very much involved in the social viral activities and viral stories on certain topic. People use Meme as their daily conversation.

We may wonder how these memes are created. For those who want to create their own customized memes here is one of the meme creation service http://memeful.com.

Memeful is very easy to use and free service to create memes with customized text.

*. To create your own meme head over to the website http://memeful.com and select the available memes.

*. Type in any text in the two text boxes provided and click on Create or you can also upload any picture from your PC and then enter text and create a meme.

That’s it now you can save the created image or share it directly on the social networking sites from the social links provided. You can also try http://imgflip.com/memegenerator for meme creation.

Friday 3 October 2014

Friday, October 03, 2014

How to Delete and Turn off your Google Search History

By Snehal

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Every person likes to search on Google at any moment whenever he/she needs any type of information from the web, Google is a guide for anyone who is surfing on the internet. But most important thing that we are not very well aware of is that Google stores every single word that we search on their search engine. Every query that you search on Google and all the websites that you visit from the Google search results are anonymously recorded by the search giant.

According to Google, the recorded search data is used to provide you with better search results and recommendations across Google’s products. But most of the people are not that much aware of the fact that Google is storing their personal search queries and visited URL’s.

But don’t worry, Google does allow you to delete your search history. You can delete entire search history or some portion of the search history.

How to Delete your Google Search History

Following steps are simple enough to know more about deleting Google history.

*. Go to https://history.google.com/history and login with your Google account.

*. Now select the check box beside Remove items for removing history. You may select the specific search query or the entire history that you want to delete.

*. If you want to delete recent history from last hour or last week you can do so by clicking on the cog icon and selecting Remove items.

That’s it, now all your Google search history will be deleted permanently. however Google will still keep on recording your search queries and websites visited, until you turn this feature off.

How to Turn Off the Google Search History

Go to the Google search history page https://history.google.com/history/settings or click on the cog icon and select Settings and click on the Pause button to permanently turn off the Google search history.

After this Google won’t remember your search history. You can allow Google to track your history by clicking on the Start button anytime by the same way.

Sunday 28 September 2014

Sunday, September 28, 2014

Recovering data from Scratched or damaged CD/DVD’s

By Snehal

You have noticed that many of the time your CD/DVD’s scratched due to not using them for a longer period of time. All of us mostly depend on cloud data storage and USB drives or hard drives due to their portability and last longer ability. CD/DVD’s mostly have the data that is very old but due to the importance of the data we have to keep them in good place, but they damaged in any case and data recovery is the most complicated problem for ourselves from them.

For this problem we have found solution. This might help you recovering data from your CD/DVD’s in easier way. Here we are suggesting two easy to use programs which can be used to recover data from damaged CD/DVD’s.

Roadkil’s Unstoppable Copier is a simple, small and easy to use program which is mainly designed to recover data from scratched or damaged CD/DVD’s.

Every time when you tried to copy any files from scratched CD/DVD’s you may encounter numerous errors such as “Not readable” or “Corrupted”. This is the reason why Roadkil’s Unstoppable Copier here to help you. It is a free program which you can download from here.

Another program is CD Recovery Toolbox which also support for the new format Blu Ray disc’s. This utility is capable of recovering data from both scratched, damaged or corrupted optical discs. You can download it from here.

New and modern gadgets overcome the use of CD/DVD’s but still they’re used for storing important backups. So, hopefully if you have facing problems of recovering data from damaged CD/DVD’s then this post will help you….

Thursday 25 September 2014

Thursday, September 25, 2014

How to know if your E-mail account compromised in Cyber Attack

By Snehal

Hacking, Internet

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You have noticed that in the recent few years cyber crime is increased a lot. Everyday we hear news about cyber crime or hacking through mail servers, etc. Even the top websites like facebook, twitter, gmail, yahoo etc. also get hammered by the cyber criminals to get the sensitive information of the users. Personal information on these sites open to these criminals can cause vey serious issues to ourselves.

In the few days of time you may heard about stealing of personal photos of Hollywood celebrities by iCloud hacking and sharing it on internet. This is a major kind of issue. It proves that although you delete your personal information from the web it may recoverable by these cyber criminals. So be alert is the only solution don’t reply to unknown persons or mails in your inbox.

But good news is that you can now know about your e-mail status in cyber attack. The website https://haveibeenpwned.com, let you know about your account status in a cyber attack. What the service does is, it collects the breached data which have been made publicly available and when you enter your email id, the service compares it with its database of compromised accounts and notifies you know if your email account is found in any of the recent security breaches.

In another recent news you may heard that millions of e-mail accounts were hacked and the mail providers suggested to change the credentials of the users. So this service is very useful to let us know about our mail account. The site https://haveibeenpwned.com only stores the e-mail id and usernames of the compromised accounts. If you have more doubt, check out their FAQ page for more details.

Make sure from now that you check if your account has been compromised and do let your friends know about this service as well.

Tuesday 16 September 2014

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

How to zoom into Videos with VLC

By Snehal

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Zooming into images is a normal work that you do everyday, anywhere, on your PC or your mobile but do you know you can also zoom into video files. Definitely you’ve noticed that you need to zoom into video files while watching high quality movies or just while watching any video for make yourself able to view smaller parts of the videos behind it.

This difficulty can be overcome. Yes, and it’s simple too. You know how to do it? Well you don’t have to be a scientist for this, you can do it by using your VLC media player, isn’t it cool to have such a feature.

Steps to make a zoom into videos

Steps are very easy to follow, just follow below steps to do your work.

*. Open any video file with VLC media player.

*. Now press Ctrl+E to open Adjustment and Effects window or click on Tools from menu and select Effects and Filters.

*. Click on Video Effects tab and then click on Geometry tab.

*. Now just mark the checkbox near Interactive Zoom and you’re done.

*. You will see a zooming option available on your VLC at left upper corner, using that option you can easily make a zoom in your videos like you increase the volume.

Isn’t it so much easier? definitely it is...!. Enjoy zooming videos and keep connected with us for more such valuable tricks.

Saturday 13 September 2014

Saturday, September 13, 2014

How to save news feed on Facebook

By Snehal

Facebook, Internet

Nowadays everyone has a FB account and they’re very much familiar with news feed on facebook. Sometimes there were lots of posts by our friends and we don’t have time to read it completely and also some valuable posts shared by different pages that we need to be saved on for later reference. But don’t you worry for that now, because facebook introduces a new option to save your news feed on your facebook account and you may able to view it later whenever you need it.

Where is save option on fb/Facebook?

Finding a save option is not much difficult on facebook. You have to login to your facebook account and you will see lots of news feeds or you can say posts by different users or pages.

You have to point out the post you want to save and after your decision to save a post just click on the small drop down arrow icon from top right corner of the post and and you will see a option to save. Click on that and your post will be saved for later references.

You can access your saved news feeds by vising the link https://www.facebook.com/saved or you can also have an option to click on the saved option which is available on left side in the apps or favourites section on the home page.

We know you should enjoy this simple tutorial. Keep following us for some more….

Wednesday 10 September 2014

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Find out most shared stories on Social Network with Buzzsumo

By Snehal

If you are eager to know about the trending stories on the social media then Buzzsumo is for you.

Whenever we make a search on search engines it gives results according to their algorithm but these results may not be latest results they may be older because search engines not updated in real time so we don’t get real time results. But by using social network this can be easily bypassed, because when any latest story liked or shares on the social network it becomes a popular source of information. As likes and shares increases the popularity rank of the story also increases. So the same activity of social sites captured by Buzzsumo and present you the relevant results.

What is Buzzsumo ?

You may be confuse with all this, so let me clear you that buzzsumo.com is a service like a search engine which provides you up to date information about on a specific topic, trending stories on the social networking sites.

You have observe that social network becomes the very popular and faster medium in recent times to share information than traditional news sources like television or other news broadcasters. So can take help of Buzzsumo to find the trending news or story on any topic.

You have to just enter two three words relevant to the topic for which you want to search for just like a search engine or you can also enter URL of the social site and the results will be available quickly.

Search results Buzzsumo trending content

If you need to increase the relevancy, you can even filter Buzzsumo results as Article, Videos, Infographic, Guest posts, Giveaways etc. You can also filter results by their time period.

Buzzsumo is available for free by its basic plan you can also buy premium plans for better results.

Just sign up on buzzsumo.com and start searching for trending stories now….

Sunday 7 September 2014

Sunday, September 07, 2014

Troubleshooting Guide to Windows 7,8 or 8.1 installation

By Snehal

Did you experience some problems during Windows installation? If yes then this guide may help you better understand Windows installation.

Microsoft build Windows installation procedure with easy to use user interface that is very easy to use for any normal user. But sometimes due to some reasons it may cause some errors or troubles that makes installation of Windows somewhat complicated. Every normal computer user experience such type of problems and not able to solve them easily but here you will able to solve your problem.

If you have installed any other operating system on your system or want to dual boot Windows with Ubuntu or other OS then you have to face some problems related to partition. Before we begin you should know about the commonly used partitioning methods that are used by different systems or OS.

There are two types of partitioning methods that are used by different operating systems. First one is MBR and another is GPT. Now modern Windows operating system uses GPT partition only and some old Windows version and Linux distribution operating systems use MBR partition scheme.

What is MBR and GPT?

MBR that stands for Master Boot Record is the old standard for managing the partition in the hard disk. The MBR resides at the very beginning of the hard disk and it holds the information on how the logical partitions are organized in the storage device. MBR uses 32-bit to record the partition, each partition can only go up to a maximum of 2TB in size. MBR is the only place that holds the partition information. If it ever get corrupted , the entire hard disk is unreadable.

GUID Partition Table (GPT) is the latest standard for the partitions of a hard disk. Unlike MBR that limits each partition to only 2TB in size, each partition in GPT can hold up to 2^64 blocks in length because it uses 64-bit. In Microsoft Windows, that size is limited to 256TB.

Steps to install and handle trouble?

Now you are somehow familiar with basic partitioning schemes. So now let us start the procedure of Windows 8 installation.

*. Make a bootable DVD or USB pendrive with Windows 8, 8.1 setup and restart your PC to make your system boot from external device i.e. DVD/USB pendrive.

*. After booting you have to normally choose the language, timezone and keyboard layout.

*. Then click on install now and accept terms and conditions as you usually do.

*. Now you will be presented with partitioning wizard. If you have a valid GPT partition scheme then you can directly choose next and follow the instruction but if you are facing problems with partitioning scheme like as following screenshot then follow the next step.

*. Press Shift+F10 and a Command Prompt window will appear.
Enter the following commands one by one:

DISKPART
LIST DISK
SELECT DISK #

(# is the number you saw in the previous step.)

CLEAN
CONVERT GPT/MBR
(You may use GPT or MBR it depends on your partition type if it is of GPT then yoy have to use MBR and if it is MBR then GPT)
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY SIZE=50000

(The size is in MB, so enter the amount that you want to use for your main system partition. i.e. C:\ drive)

FORMAT FS NTFS LABEL "SYSTEM" QUICK

*. After this click on refresh and then select the partition you just created and click on Next.

That’s it…! Now follow the wizard for installation and your Windows 7,8 or 8.1 OS will be installed without any trouble.

Thursday 4 September 2014

Thursday, September 04, 2014

How to change Startup sound of Windows

By Snehal

Are you a long time Windows user? Surely you are not new to the Windows OS. Most of the computer users make you of Windows OS.

Some or all the users were annoyed with Windows Startup sound. Windows doesn’t provide default setting to change the Startup sound. But you can change your Windows system’s Startup sound with some methods. First method you can use to change startup sound of Windows is by hacking or you may say tweaking registry setting but it is very complicated for a normal user.

There is another method to change the startup sound with the help of a free program named Startup sound changer. This is very is to use program and you can easily change your system’s startup sound.

How to change Startup sound?

*. Download Startup sound changer from here.

*. Run the downloaded file with administrator privileges. You will be presented by the following interface.

*. Now click on Replace and select the .wav audio file that you want to set as the default startup sound for Windows.

*. Finally click on play to hear the changed sound.

Note: The file size should be less than 1 MB and the file format should be .wav.

That’s it! The startup sound for Windows would be changed. Restart your computer and you would be able to hear the new startup sound set by you. In case you want to revert back to the default startup sound, simply click on Restore.

Monday 1 September 2014

Monday, September 01, 2014

How to hide Drives from Windows Explorer

By Snehal

Sometimes you have a private data that you needs to be hidden so you use hidden feature of Windows to hide some private files. But if you need to hide entire drive then you may face some difficulties. You are very well aware of hiding files in Windows but, did you know you may also hide your drives from appearing in the Windows Explorer.

For protecting your privacy in this post you will able to know about hiding drives in Windows.

How to hide drives ?

There are certain tricks by which you can hide drives from Windows explorer but from these tricks you will have to edit windows registry. For any advanced Windows user this is an easy task but for a normal user it is somewhat tough.

Fortunately a tool that doesn’t needs to tweak registry is available for you. This tool is NoDrives manager which is a free and simple to use and and can help you hiding your logical drives in Windows Explorer. But note that if you type the name of the drive in the Windows Explorer then it will be shown to you, so keep your drive name private for make it inaccessible to others.

Following steps will help you more.

*. Download and install NoDrive manager from here.

*. Run NoDrive manager and select the drive you want to hide and click on Save changes to hide the drive.

*. Now you will be prompted with a dialog box instructing you to restart your PC or log off and log in it again for the changes to take effect.

*. Now just restart or log off your system and your drives will be hidden.

*. To recover hidden drives uncheck the checked hidden drives and click on save changes and restart or log off your system.

Along with the drives on windows, the tool can also be used to hide CD / DVD drives. You can also assign a password protection to NoDrives Manager application for your security after assigning password nobody can access the application or hide or unhide drives without your permission.

That's it from the easy tutorial for hiding drives from your Windows explorer to protect your private data from others. Hopefully you should enjoy doing it.

Thursday 14 August 2014

Thursday, August 14, 2014

How to find out details of website for safe browsing

By Snehal

Everyday we deal with different websites for different kinds of information. Mostly we don’t care about a website and don’t know how safe it is to browse. Sometimes some websites may be infected with suspicious content that can harm your system. Although you trust the site you must identify about it’s protection for your own safety.

In the past it is very easy for the user to find out the harmful websites because of the poor designing of websites and annoying notifications but nowadays with the mastered improvement in the designing of such harmful websites may confuse anybody and they may not easily detectable for a normal user.

Fortunately for a user there is an easy solution in the form of a browser extension named WOT.

What is WOT ?

WOT is a browser extension that is available for all popular browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera. WOT notify users about a website whether it is safe to browse or not. Once installed, the extension icon appears on your browser and changes color of it according to ratings provided by millions of users for that website around the world.

Download links for WOT

For Google Chrome
Download Link

For Firefox
Download Link

For Opera
Download Link

If a website is harmful, the extension will show a red light and in case it is completely safe, it will display a green light.

Apart from the browser icon WOT also displays a icon near search result links to alert you before you click on that link. It’s also a very amazing feature of WAT that help you protecting yourself before clicking any link.

Being an experienced web user or a newbie to the Internet all the users can protect themselves with this extension. So enjoy safe browsing on the Internet.

Monday 11 August 2014

Monday, August 11, 2014

Identify details of song used in YouTube video

By Snehal

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All of you watch lots of videos on Internet and mostly YouTube as it is the most popular and amazing video sharing community that powered by search giant Google. Lots of the time when we are watching different videos on YouTube there are certain songs or music included in the background of videos but we didn’t able to understood from where it was taken.

Mostly when the popular artist’s song or popular music in the background then it’s easy to find out the details but the music of certain advertisements and random user content won’t be find out easily. This kind of difficulties can be overcome now.

You don’t need to be worry for this now because here is the solution for you. For solving this problem you have to give a try to Audentifi.

Audentifi is a audio identifying service for YouTube which can help you identifying unknown audio from YouTube videos.

How it works ?

Audentifi is a simple and easy to use service. You have to just copy and paste the YouTube URL in the input box provided and click on Identify songs.

Audentifi will now scan the song used in YouTube video and if it is identified by Audentifi then it will show the song and artist name. Also you will be presented with the link to purchase the song from Amazon or Itunes. Alternately, you may search for that song on Internet to download it for free.

Since it is a new service we can’t say it a perfect service but it is very good service. Most of the cases it identifies the audio which is unknown to us.

Friday 8 August 2014

Friday, August 08, 2014

Universal Viewer: Open different format files with single program

By Snehal