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Do you wish to access your personal documents remotely, or music / videos, photos stored on your personnel computer, or on your mobile phone while you are travelling or when you are in office? The simplest solution is to copy all your data from the source to a portable hard drive and then carry it around. However, this is a cumbersome approach as you would require syncing manually the home computer with your portable disk.There are many other innovative ways these days. In this article, let us explore to see some technologies, tools to make this job easier whenever & ... Read More

The latest version of Windows for Desktop surfaced in March 2017 with titled version 1703. The latest version has brought many changes starting from Bing search engine integration to Skype video call, all under one roof. Also, Microsoft has added some new font styles to make it even more competitive. Microsoft’s recent work in this regard gives a clear idea on which direction it wants to improve its services. In fact, there are now many competitors in the market that are offering documentation software, such as MS WORKS.They are doing such a good job that Google Docs has also given ... Read More

Looking at the safety concerns of your Organization, an anti-virus software is a basic requirement in today’s technology-savvy world. Every now and then, we keep on getting new viruses launched in the market. This, in turn, requires a basic anti-virus software being installed on your PCs.If you are a start-up or a small scale technology firm, it is difficult to invest in a good and costly anti-virus software. Worry Not. We have some great anti-virus software available in the market for free or we can say at a very less price. These products are free only for non-commercial use; if ... Read More

Spyware is an unwanted program that gets installed in user’s system without his/her permission and tracks all the activities like important log-in information, valuable data, internet interactions etc. In addition to that, it hampers the performance of systems and even redirects web browser searches.Its rank on vulnerability is high because detection is very difficult. Before some spyware will be installed on your system, you have to open or click on some programs. The usual sources of these are spam folders of your mail, free downloaded software, misleading pop-ups and corrupt websites. Unless you are not sharp enough to judge these ... Read More

What do you visualize when somebody coins the term ‘input device’? A keyboard, a mouse, a joystick or may be a touch screen. For the majority of the world’s population, keyboards have been the symbols of input devices. Whether you are a professional or a hard-core gamer, a keyboard would always be the primary input device for you.Keyboards have been around with us since the beginning of the typewriters and digital computers. The keyboards we see now have evolved across a plethora of inventions, innovations, and technological advancements. In the present world, we have smartphones, smartwatches, smart washing machines, smart ... Read More

How many times have you thought of sending multiple images to your loved ones but just because of the file size would have easily avoided. Gone are those days of worrying about file sizes as now embrace compression based online tools to your rescue. Here we have shortlisted a few online tools which can help you compress images without losing quality. Hope you will be excited to discover for yourself. Go ahead and make the best use of these tools.Compressor.ioThis is the best image size optimization tools as it allows the user to choose between lossy (picture quality reduction) and ... Read More

Google Chrome is probably the fastest browser that fetches results at lightning speed. When Google was launched in September 2008, Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer were the go-to browsers. However, it was only a matter of time when Chrome started making its strong presence and now, it is the most preferred and the most popular web browser. It has more than 1 billion active users and its ever-growing list of admirers is a testimony.The best feature is the beauty of keyboard shortcuts. Believe me, you can save a lot of time and the following shortcuts can be mastered in less ... Read More

Millions of people use Microsoft Outlook for managing their email, meetings, and contacts. It offers so many features but few of us really know how to make the most of its features. When you use these useful features effectively, Microsoft Outlook enables you to do your work seamlessly and as efficiently as possible.Few of tips and tricks are listed belowAvoid Repeated Typing with Quick PartsIf you need to use a standard passage of text over and over again, save it as a Quick Part for easy insertion in emails. To do so, simply highlight the text in the composer window, ... Read More

Netdata is an enormously optimized Linux utility that presents real-time (per 2nd) efficiency monitoring for Linux techniques, applications, SNMP devices, etc. And shows full interactive charts that certainly renders all collected values over the web browser to investigate them. This article explains about how to find a real-time performance monitoring tool for Linux Systems.FeaturesIt monitors total and per Core CPU usage, interrupts, softirqs and frequency.It monitors Memory, RAM, Swap and Kernel usage.It monitors Disk I/O (per disk: bandwidth, operations, backlog, utilisation, etc).It monitors Network interfaces including: bandwidth, packets, errors, drops, etc).It monitors Netfilter / iptables Linux firewall connections, events, errors, ... Read More

Coined by a creatively influential and inventive team of Carnegie Mellon professors comprising Luis von Ahn, Nicholas J. Hopper, John Langford and Manuel Blum, CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. Captchas was first put to use in the early 2000 by the reputed search engine giants Alta Vista and Yahoo. Touted as one of the most powerful weapons that helps fight web spams and dubious chat bots, Captcha is a befitting solution to prevent fraud URL submissions as well.Turing TestTuring test is a test named after the father of modern computer science- ... Read More