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Failure of Windows 10 Operating System

How Windows 10 Operating System failed Microsoft ...

It is highly arguable if Windows 10 should be called a failure or not. For some people it is a good combination of Windows 8 and Windows 7, while for others it has introduced more issues than it fixed.

So let’s first discuss why we should consider Windows 10 as another failure before looking into better alternatives for Windows 10.

For past few years Microsoft has been known to produce one failed…

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How to Extend iPhone Battery Life with iOS 9

How to Extend iPhone Battery Life with iOS 9 ... Great Tips .. #ExtendiPhoneBatteryLife ...

Apple’s iOS 9 has come up with great new features, but many iPhone users are experiencing low battery life specially with older iPhone models. So it is right time to know all the tips and tricks to extend battery life of your iPhone and iPad with iOS9. Many of these settings will work with other versions of iOS also. –

1) Turn-off Siri –

If you are not actually using Siri, it is highly advisable…

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How To Use Android Device as a Torrent Server

Use your Android Mobile as a Torrent Server... #TorrentServerOnAndroid ...

Do you want to use your Android Phone or Android Mini Tv box (such as MK808) as a torrent server, where torrents will keep downloading in the background and you can add/remove torrents from remote computer.

This is easy to do on a Windows or a Linux PC because of clients such as uTorrent and Transmission, as they already come with a Web interface. However on Android platform we miss such feature…

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How to install Windows 10 using USB Flash Drive

How to install Windows 10 using a USB Flash Drive ... #Windows10Install ...

Windows 10 can be installed on any machine running Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1 operating system (OS) using the same Product Key. Microsoft is giving Windows 10 upgrade free for Windows 7/8/8.1 users.

Here we will use a pen drive to install Windows 10, however process of creating an ISO file and installing Windows 10 from DVD is also same.

Lets check how to immediately upgrade your Windows 7…

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How to Create Prototype for your Mobile App idea

How to convert your Mobile App idea into a working Prototype into quick steps ...

You have got a great mobile app idea but not sure how to proceed on it. Lets see how to reach from a great mobile app idea to a presentable App prototype in just few quick steps without doing any programming and only by using your mobile phone .

Process of prototype creation starts with drawing of wire-frames/visual designs for screens. These designs can be created on computer (using a software…

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How To Create ext2/ext3 based Linux partition from Windows

How To Create ext2/ext3 based linux partition from Windows OS ...

Ever wondered how to format a disk with ext2, ext3 or ext4 file system if you are running a Windows based machine. One way is to boot your computer using a Linux based live CD and create partitions from there. But easiest way is to use a Windows based partition manager which can format a disk with any file format.

Lets check few free Partition Manager software which run on Windows OS still they…

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Drive Ahead: A game for car fight lovers

Drive Ahead: A game for car fight lovers

Do not get misled by the name of this game, it is not for car racing lovers. It is a hardcore action game for which is about car fights. Drive Ahead is a small but an extremely addictive game to play.

Game plan of Drive Aheadis pretty simple, you have to smash head of your opponent with your vehicle while saving your own head. One who first smashes the opponent for five times wins the game. This…

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How To Change iPhone Video Resolution

Learn to change iPhone Video recording resolution ...

By default any new iPhone records video in 1080p HD resolution and it does not allow you to change the video resolution. This results in losing most of the iPhone memory in recording just 20-30 minutes of video.

One minute video with 1080p resolution can occupy more than 100MB memory space. It is difficult to use such huge video for sharing or for transfer purposes. In many scenarios you do not…

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How To Stop SMS, WhatsApp And eMail Preview on iPhone Lockscreen

How To Stop Message And eMail Preview on iPhone Lockscreen ... #NoPreview ...

Unwanted preview of message or email on your iPhone lock screen may leave you red faced when you are sitting with other people and do not wanted them to see the message on message notification. Stopping such message preview is pretty easy, lets see what settings you need to change –

1) SMS and iMessage Preview –

Go to Settings > Notifications > Messages > Scroll down to see Show Preview setting…

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Secretly Click Photos from iPhone

Secretly Click Photos from iPhone ... #SecretPhotos #StealthPics ...

Hide&Snap is an intriguing app which allows you to secretly click photos from iPhone. This can come handy when you’re sitting with other people and you do not want others to notice that you are clicking a picture.

Such as while traveling in a metro or bus you may wish to click picture of the guys sleeping in-front of you with his mouth open. Or in a restaurant while sitting with friends you want…

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How To Discover Great Movies To Watch

How To Discover Great Movies To Watch ... #MovieFinderApps ..

Are you spending a lot of time in finding good movies to watch next and still most of the time you end up with some Waste-Your-Weekend movie. Don’t worry help is here and now you can use wonderful mobile apps which will suggest you great movies based on your preferences or based on what your friends and other people are recommending. Lets see how to discover few great movies to watch on our next…

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Neato: Take quick notes without unlocking iPhone

Neato: Take quick notes without unlocking iPhone... #QuickNotes, #Neato...

Neato is a quick note taking app which doesn’t even require to unlock the phone.

Neato adds a widget in the Notification Center so just swipe down to open and start adding notes.

Earlier this would have not been possible without jail breaking the iPhone but with new capabilities added in iOS 8 now it can be done.

Neato allows integration with Evernote and Dropbox. So your notes can be saved…

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Movist: Manage Your Movie Collection on iPhone

Movist can manage your Movie collection on iPhone... #Movist, #ManageMovieCollections...

For movie lovers, Movist is an indispensable app which manages movie’s collection. Movist integrates with Trakt account and allows users to sync it across the devices.

Interface of the Movist app is divided into 4 different lists –

1) Collections -

Create your collection here. Once you acquire a movie add it to your collection list.

2) Wish list-

What all movies you want to get, helps you in…

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Detect What Technology A Website is using

Detect What Technology A Website is using internally ...

You visited a very attractive website and you wanted to know what all technologies have been used to build such a nice website. There are online utilities which can scan any given website to detect and reveal details about all the technologies working behind the website.

1) BuiltWith -

BuiltWith is one of the best websites and gives almost every detail regarding the technologies a website is…

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Always Appear Active On Cisco Jabber

Always Appear Active On Cisco Jabber... #CiscoJabber...

If you are using Cisco Jabber messenger in your office, you must have faced the problem that Jabber will start to show your status as ‘Away’ if your system is inactive for 5 minutes or if your computer is locked. Jabber messenger will be showcasing your ‘Away’ status even if you do not want others to know.

Lets see how can we prevent this automatic status update and how you can always appear…

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Cleen : Quickly Clean Photo Space on iPhone

Cleen : Quickly Clean Photo Space on iPhone ... #CleanMobileStorage ...

Cleen is a clever app intended to help you in removing unwanted photos and quickly cleaning photo space on iPhone. Whenever you feel that mobile storage is filled with images and you want to delete some of them to make more free space on mobile, Cleen is the app for you.

Interface of Cleen is easy to use and gives gesture based options. Moving the image up will add it to favorites, moving it…

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Apps to Play YouTube Music in the Background

Apps to Play YouTube Music in the Background on iPhone... #YouTubeMusic ...

Use of YouTube is not limited to watching videos only. Now YouTube has become a favourite destination for listening to music also. But when you run YouTube app on iPhone it stops playing music as soon as you close the YouTube or lock the device, as YouTube doesn’t run in the background on iPhone.

Here we will look at the different approaches to handle this problem and get YouTube music playing in…

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