Admit it, if you have been a longtime windows users, you would have definitely developed a dislike for the default startup sound on windows. Unlike all other system sounds that can be changed from the windows sound theme settings, the startup sound is the only exception which cannot be changed on windows with the default settings provided. So how would you change the windows startup sound? Well...
How to View and Extract files from Google Chrome’s Cache
Whenever you browse a website or watch a video on a web browser, The browser always downloads the data to its Cache memory first and then it displays it on the browser. So basically if you are watching a youtube video and then you decide to download it to your computer, you don’t have to download it over again. What you can do is, you can open your browsers cache location and copy the video...
How to Enable the Developer Options on Android 4.2 and above devices
If you have upgraded your android phone to Android 4.2 or higher, you would be surprised to see that your phone wont have the Developer options in the settings. The same happened with me when I upgraded my Galaxy S3 to Android 4.2. After the upgrade I found out the developer options was missing and since I had to enable USB debugging, I was desperately searched the internet for a solution...
How to Know if your Email Account was Compromised in a Cyber Attack
In the past few years, cyber crime has increased drastically. Every other day we hear news about cyber criminals breaking into the servers of big corporations and siphoning off millions of private information about the company and as well as the users. Companies like Twitter, Adobe, Ubisoft and many more have been the victims of massive cyber attacks that have led to compromise of sensitive user...
How to Backup Steam Games to DVD or External Storage Media
If you are a PC gamer, I don’t even need to introduce you to Steam. Owned by valve corporation, Steam is one of the worlds largest online game store for PC games. The Steam store sells only digital copies of PC games and most of the time its prices are less compared to other retail and online sources for PC games. Few years back games were generally purchased through retail channels such as...
How to Share your Android Phone’s Screen on a Computer
Do you want to share your Android phone’s screen on your computer? There are many reasons why you might want to share your android phone’s screen on a computer. If you are a developer or an app tester, screen sharing would be very useful for you. The only problem with sharing your android phone’s screen on a computer is, most android apps that are capable of doing so would require a rooted...
Find the Fastest DNS Server for your Internet Connection on Windows
You can’t deny it but most of us are addicted to fast internet speeds. When your internet’s all good, surfing and browsing through sites is a breeze. But there comes a time when your internet gets slow as a snail. There can be many reasons why this happens, but the easiest and quickest fix for this problem is to change your computer’s DNS servers. DNS servers are like a phonebook of the...
How to Hide the Last Seen Timestamp on Whatsapp for Android
After the acquisition of Whatsapp by Facebook for a whooping $19 billion dollars, most of the employees at Whatsapp have now become millionaires overnight. While Facebook and Whatsapp might be busy celebrating the moment, they do have a surprise for you as well. One of the feature that most of you have anxiously waited for has now made its way to the latest version of Whatsapp for Android. With...
Create Desktop Shortcuts to Shutdown, Lock or Restart Windows 8.1
Most of you probably dislike the new shutdown menu in windows 8 or windows 8.1. Unlike windows 7 , the shutdown controls in windows 8 and 8.1 are not easily accessible by the user. But you do have at your disposal a few shortcut keys combinations to perform various tasks such as shutdown, restart or hibernate your computer in windows 8 and 8.1. For those who want easy access to functions such as...
Post Audio Comments and Voice Messages on Facebook using Google Chrome
How do you prefer to interact with your friends on Facebook? you poke them, post on their walls or comment on their posts. When major social networks apps such as Whatsapp and Wechat are already offering audio messaging as a standard feature, why is Facebook lagging behind? Although the Facebook messenger app for android and iOS has a feature to send voice messages to your friends, but on the...