Amazing Stuffs to do with your Pendrive

The introduction of the thumb drive by IBM and Trek back in 2000 was revolutionary. It saw the beginning of the first viable replacement of the floppy disks that had been used for conventional data storage since the mid-70s. With the fallout of the floppies between 2002 and 2009, thumb drives (later pen drives, pocket drives, flash drives and USB drives) made their way into being the most convenient method of storing data that can be carried around in your pocket.

The physical size and capacity of current flash drives in the market open avenues to more creative programming, helping people get more portable. Here are some innovative uses of a pen drive:

Predator

Everyone likes their privacy, and the people at Predator know it. Predator is a software created to lock your PC using your pen drive as a key. Most people use direct login.

The installer program will automatically start Predator. 

1. If not, you can launch it manually via the Start Menu>All Programs>Predator item or via the Predator icon on the Desktop.
2.  A dialog box will ask you to enter a password and to prepare a USB flash drive.
3.  Insert your USB drive and click OK to continue.
4.  Keep in mind that the current contents of your flash drive will be unchanged by this operation. Then you see the Preferences window. 
5. Type the password of your choice in the “New Password” field. You will use it to unlock your session if you lose your USB key. You must enter at least six characters, letters, figures or signs. The password is case-sensitive. Also, avoid typing characters that require the AltGr key because this key is disabled in the Password Dialog box later. 
6. Check that the drive letter displayed under USB key drive actually matches your flash drive or choose the correct letter from the dropdown list.
7.  Click the Create key button and finally, click Ok.

ClamWin Portable Antivirus

Eradicating Viruses in any system is usually quite a task. Taking your own data storage devices to alien PCs is always a possible viral hazard. ClamWin reduces chance of your storage devices and hardware contracting viruses from other systems. A free Antivirus for Windows it has a track record for having a high detection rate of viruses and spyware. The Clam Antivirus Team updates its database regularly to include a new virus or variants of old viruses almost regularly.

To install the Antivirus on a pen drive, download the setup from: http://portableapps.com/apps/security/clamwin_portable

Once downloaded, install it in the location of your pendrive. After installation, go to H:/ClamWinPortable/ and run ClamWinPortable.exe (Replace H:/ with the name of the pendrive you’ve installed clamwin on).
Clamwin would prompt you to update your databases. Once updated, you’re set.

VLC Portable

In a scenario when using a PC where the system is uncared for (other offices, cyber cafes and in college), that a program as commonly available as VLC hasn’t been installed on it. VLC Portable is a program used to fix this inconvenience. It is a mobile version of the VideoLAN Player which can be installed on your pen drive and carried around, complete with codecs and a multilingual language pack.
To Install: Download the portable package from the VLC Portable page at http://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/vlc_portable  and begin installation. 

A PortableVLC directory will be created and all the necessary files installed.

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Posted at Friday, December 27, 2013 |  by Rajat Khandelwal

8 Super Fun Things To Do On #Google !

There would hardly be a day when we don't visit Google. Be it for a random search, or for a news or for checking our good old Gmail! So how about shifting seats from typical work searches to some fun tricks? Here we bring to you 8 must try tricks to have fun on Google.

1. Explore Mars!

Simply go to Just go to www.google.com/Mars and explore the awesome mars!

2. Add periods in login ID

Have fun by logging in by randomly adding periods in your log in ID. Google doesn't recognize periods as characters!

For example your email id is 123@gmail.com, try logging in with 1.2.3@gmail.com and you will still be able to login!

3. askew

Try Googling for the word "askew" and enjoy the result!

4. Google Sphere

First turn off your 'Google Instant predictions' Search in Google search settings. Then type 'Google Sphere' and click "I'm feeling lucky".

5. The loneliest number

Yes Google knows it all! Even the loneliest number! Just search "the loneliest number".

6. Using blocked websites!

So your school or office has blocked a certain website that you want to use? Simply Google for "cache:WEBSITENAME.com" and win!

7. Play games on Youtube!

Yes you can play games right inside YouTube while watching your video! Just type "1980" while watching a YouTube video and fight attackers from blowing up the video. There are many more games available with different key combinations, how to find them? Google!

8. Beatbox on Google!

This one is specially fun! Go to Google translate and enter the below text. Set the language from German and click on the speaker to listen.

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Posted at Saturday, November 16, 2013 |  by Rajat Khandelwal

Few Tricks for All The New iOS 7 Users!!

At long last, iOS 7 has arrived. That is, it arrived for everyone who didn’t say “Developer? Oh, yeah, I’m totally a developer. Cough” and wiggle into the Beta months ago.

iOS 7 is a strange new land, especially on day one. Out with the gradients, in with the trippy fluorescents. Your favorite app? It probably looks completely different now.

It can be confusing, but we’re here to help. iOS 7 has all sorts of nifty little tricks tucked away in places that are in no way immediately obvious, especially if you haven’t followed Tim Cook’s every word along the way.

If you’ve been using iOS 7 for a while, you might know some of these. Hell, you might know most of these. But we tried to cover the bases to make sure that most people learn a thing or two. (Know all of these? You’re way cool, high five. Share another trick down in the comments!)

Swipe Down For Search:
search

Gone are the days of having to swipe or tap your way to iOS’ dedicated search page. You can now access Spotlight search from anywhere on the homescreen. Just swipe down in the middle of the screen.

You can use Spotlight to quickly search across your device’s apps, emails, and contacts — but curiously, it seems that Apple has removed Spotlight’s ability to search the web. I’m pretty sure I never actually used that, but this is the Internet so I’m supposed to complain now that it’s gone.

Swipe Up For Toggles:
control panel
Toggles! At last!

Fixing what is perhaps one of iOS’ most glaring, long-lasting omissions, iOS 7 puts one-click access to things like Airplane mode and Wi-Fi/Bluetooth toggles just one swipe away, instead of hiding them in settings.

To get to the new Control Panel, just swipe up from the bottom of the screen anywhere you might be. You’ll get buttons for Airplane mode, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Do Not Disturb, Orientation lock, and sliders for brightness and media control. Oh, and there’s a flashlight in there. So if you were thinking about building a dedicated flashlight app, now is probably not a good time.

(Pro tip: The control panel is available from the lockscreen. Also: if the control panel is sliding out and interrupting your Candy Crushin’ time, you can block it from sliding out while in an app in your settings.)

Reveal iMessage and SMS Timestamps:
timestamp

iOS has always been kind of weird about telling you when a message was sent or received. It’ll tell you when some messages came through — but only if it’s the first one that’s come through in a while in a given thread. If you sent a bunch of messages around 12:45, for example, you’d normally only get that first 12:45 timestamp.

With iOS 7, you can reveal the timestamp for each and every message. Just grab one of the speech bubbles in a thread and swipe to the left. Tada! Timestamps! Never argue about exactly when a message was sent again! (Because, yeah, I’ve had those arguments. Seriously. Sigh.)

Built-In Level:
level
Building a house boat? Hanging a picture? Just want to show off one of the stranger new tricks that your iPhone has picked up?

iOS 7 has a built-in bubble level, of all things. I thought it was a pretty strange addition at first… but then I found myself using it one day. Then again the next.

To get to the level, open the compass app. Though not immediately obvious, there’s a second page to the app; swipe to the left, and you’ll be at Apple’s level.

(Pro tip: Double-tapping the screen resets the level to consider whatever angle the phone is currently at to be 0°. That design choice, expressed through a series of colored flashes, isn’t super intuitive.)

Swipe To Close Safari Tabs:
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Safari has a new, scrolling 3D tab interface that allows for just about as many tabs as you want.

Alas, these tabs also have new, tiny “X” buttons that make closing them quickly a bit of a pain.

Forget the X button — it’s for chumps. Swipe the tabs away to the left, instead. It’s a whole lot faster, and requires less precision when you’re trying to dump a bunch of tabs on the go.

Call/SMS/Facetime Blocking:
Blocked

“Surely, there’s got to be a way to block phone numbers,” said every iPhone user ever.

Really, just type “How to b” into Google and let it autocomplete. First result? “How to block a number.” Second result? “How to block a number on iPhone.” Third result? “How to be happy.” This feature is in greater demand than happiness! Happiness!

Yet, until now, there hasn’t really been an easy way.

With iOS 7, it’s finally a pretty straightforward process to block people from calling, messaging, or FaceTime-ing (FaceTiming? Facing? Agh.) you. You can find the block list at either Settings > Phone > Blocked; Settings > Messages > Blocked; or Settings > FaceTime > Blocked. Note, however, that the block list is universal — block them in the phone settings, and they’re blocked on FaceTime, too.

App-By-App Cell Data Usage/Blockage:
Cell
Want to see which app is using up all of your cell plan’s precious megabytes? Want to keep Pandora from streaming unless it’s on Wi-Fi?

Pop into Settings > Cellular and scroll down to the bottom. You can see which apps have used the most cell data and block any app from using cell data at all. (Note: An app needs to have used cell data at least once for it to show up in the list.)

How To Close Apps:
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We’ve had a bunch of requests for this one since this post first went up, so here you go.

Apple changed the App Switching/App Closing mechanism up a bit with iOS 7. It used to be that to close an app, you’d double tap the home button, wait for the app drawer to slide out, then press and hold on an icon until the little “X” appeared.

With iOS 7, the whole thing looks and works a bit more like webOS of yesteryear. Double tap the home button to bring up the fullscreen app switcher, which provides a screenshot of each running application in a sideways-scrolling carousel. To close an application, simply swipe the app’s screenshot up and off the screen.

(Note: You really shouldn’t need to close apps all that often. Unless the app has crashed and refuses to fix itself or it’s doing something that is eating your battery, iOS 7 is designed so that most apps use little to no resources when in the background.)

Bonus Tricks:

Folders can now be paged, allowing them to hold a huge number of apps.
Safari still has private-browsing mode, it’s just in the app itself now instead of hidden away in settings. Find the switch in Safari’s tabs screen.
Airdrop, Apple’s much touted system for wirelessly transferring files to other nearby iPhones, only works with the iPhone 5 and later. (I’ve spotted many a 4S user wasting time trying to figure out how the heck to turn it on, when the option simply isn’t there for them. Don’t worry, I wasted a good 10 minutes myself.)
Miss the “List” view in the calendar app? It’s still there, just not immediately obvious. Tap the search icon to bring up a scrollable list.
If you’re into using default ringtones, give Apple’s list another look. They’ve added a bunch of new trancy ringtones and chiptuney text alerts.
Siri has picked up a bunch of new tricks. You can toggle settings (“Turn On Do Not Disturb”), ask for recent tweets (“What is TechCrunch saying?”), show you pictures (“Show me pictures of cats”) pulled from Bing, provide Wikipedia info inline (“Tell me about TechCrunch”), post to Facebook, play back voicemail, list recently missed calls, and find restaurants on Yelp and make OpenTable reservations.
iOS 7 keeps tabs on where you hang out most, allowing it to cache relevant nearby data. It’s neat, if a bit spooky. Once you’ve used iOS 7 for a while, go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services to view a list of your frequent haunts. You can also turn this feature off at the same location.
Know any other tricks that we should list? (“LOL SWITCH TO ANDROID” doesn’t count.) 

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Posted at Wednesday, October 09, 2013 |  by Rajat Khandelwal

Facebook status update via iPhone without an iPhone.

Facebook status update from Desired Device (via iPhone without an iPhone):

Login to your Facebook account and update your status, just visit and search for your desired device on top right corner of the page: http://statusvia.org/



Other FACEBOOK TRICKS

1.Trick to update blank status:

Simply enter @[3:3: ] in your status update box. To update your blank status as a long statement, paste the code one below another as showed below:
@[3:3: ]
@[3:3: ]
@[3:3: ]

2. Download Full Facebook Album in a single click:

Now you can download a full Facebook album in a single click. Just visit this app called Facebook2zip. http://facebook2zip.com/

3. Go offline for a particular person:

Instead of going offline for all of your friends, now you can go OFFLINE for a particular person. Just open that person's chat pane and click on the settings button. You'll find a button saying 'Turn off chat for xyz', just click and you are done.

5. Update Facebook status with symbols:

Facebook status symbols do not have to use the inbuilt facility. But we're cool with the status message through the use of symbols is a Facebook trick. Just visit: http://fsymbols.com/all/
Then double click copy and paste the desired symbol in your status.

6. Post Facebook update in blue

Paste the below mentioned code in your status update box and write your text in place of 'your text':
@@[1:[0:1: your text]]

Source: EFY times network

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Posted at Tuesday, May 14, 2013 |  by Rajat Khandelwal