Posted by Prashant Tyagi on August 14, 2012 in Google,How To,iPad,iPhone

Post image for How to Open Google Drive Documents in iBooks Google Drive like any other cloud service allows you to store your documents which are synched automatically and are available on all your devices.  You can store your documents, PDFs, photos etc. and you are given a free storage of 5GB to store your stuff. Besides Client for Windows and Mac, Google Drive is also available as app on your mobile devices like iPhone or android devices. You can download Google Drive app from respective aRead More...

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Posted by Apurva Tripathi on August 14, 2012 in How To,Mac

Mountain Lion came with a lot of goodies: Messages, Reminders, Notes, Notification Center, Game Center etc. However, there is one app is still missing from Mountain Lion – it is iBooks. Apple has shown no intention of releasing iBooks for Mac and probably intend to keep it for iOS devices only. I guess Apple is missing something here – you can read your favorite books on iPad, iPhone and iPod, but not on your Mac – it is not goRead More...

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Posted by Apurva Tripathi on August 11, 2012 in Android,How To

Samsung Galaxy S II users sometimes face this issue when they cannot change brightness on Samsung Galaxy S II. their and also Samsung smartphone owners face this issue of their Samsung shutting down. One of our reader, Matt K. has this question "I'm unable to change brightness on my Galaxy S II. Please help as I could not find a relevant solution in Google on the topic - cannot change brightness on Galaxy S II" This issue happens usually when yoRead More...

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Posted by Apurva Tripathi on August 10, 2012 in Android,How To

Windows PC users do not an additional software to connect your Android phone to your computer. Mac users do not have the seamless ability to transfer files from Mac to Android phones. Android File Transfer is an application for Macintosh computers (running Mac OS X 10.5 or later) you can use to view and transfer files between your Mac and an Android device (running Android 3.0 or later). Click Here to download Android File Transfer application.Read More...

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Posted by Apurva Tripathi on August 9, 2012 in Android,How To

A few Samsung Galaxy S II and also Samsung smartphone owners face this issue of their Samsung shutting down. One of our reader, Matt K. has this question "My Samsung keeps turning off. It cannot be booted until I remove and replace the battery. What can I do to avoid my Samsung Galaxy S II shutting off." It is really tricky to find out what’s going wrong. Many a times, there’s an app that has been installed and is messing with the Read More...

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Posted by Prashant Tyagi on August 8, 2012 in How To,Website

Whenever I look for something on Amazon, for next few days I see Amazon ads for that product almost all over the internet. Amazon doesn’t care even if I was just browsing that product on their store.  Their system thinks that if I was looking for a product on Amazon there are strong chances that I may buy that product if persuaded by these advertisements on partner websites. If you are also unhappy with this unwanted advertisement and wantRead More...

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Posted by Apurva Tripathi on August 7, 2012 in How To

Normally prices go down and that is what we as consumers tend to believe. However, that is always not always the case. While it is true that overall the prices do go down over a longer period of time, however, the prices do show a lot of variation in shorter period of time. I love to buy products from Amazon because I do not need to pay sales tax and also, it is usually at Amazon that I end up getting the lowest price of a product, apart from theRead More...

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Posted by Prashant Tyagi on August 5, 2012 in How To,Website

Ok, So you found that important article on internet and now want to save it for future reference. Usually people would either bookmark the page but what if the page is removed from the website later in the future. Best way which I would think is to save the page as PDF on your desktop. There are few software which once installed can let you hit ‘Print’ and then save the page as PDF. But now with Internet, ‘once called a space agRead More...

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Posted by Apurva Tripathi on July 25, 2012 in How To

Why do you need to track a person’s phone? Tracking a person’s phone can lead to privacy concerns by the owner of the phone. Well that is not the point of debate of this article. The intent of this article is to tell you how to track a cell phone, if the need arises. Need to track a cell phone may be due to unwanted calls from a person and for your own safety. Yellow pages or similar directories do not have listings for cell phones anRead More...

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Posted by Apurva Tripathi on July 19, 2012 in How To

Roku HD Streaming Player  delivers all the streaming entertainment choices, HD video quality, and ease-of-use that Roku has always been known for. You get free movies, 450+ channels, including Netflox, HBO GO and Amazon Instant Video. Roku works with virtually any TV, includes built-in wireless, and sets up in minutes. Roku gives you more freedom as to where to place the device and turns your TV into a streaming machine. To start streaming cRead More...

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Posted by Apurva Tripathi on July 8, 2012 in How To

Smart phones have made cell phones are popular amongst kids. It isn’t uncommon anymore to see kids playing with cell phones while waiting for doctors appointment or playing with cell phones in the back seat of a car. These smart phones provide web browsing similar to that of a home computer at 3G or 4G speed. Monitoring cell phones usage is also very difficult for parents to monitor because they are commonly used outside the home. Easiest wRead More...

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Posted by Apurva Tripathi on July 8, 2012 in How To

Amazing how much technology has progressed in last few years that it feels like the digital world has been here ever since. Many old physical media storage solutions are increasingly getting phased out and collecting dust. If you have a collection of slides you want to preserve and display, your best option is to convert them to digital media. There are many slide conversion services that will convert your slides to digital images for a fee, orRead More...

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Posted by Apurva Tripathi on July 5, 2012 in How To

MP4s work better than AVIs on most of the portable devices. Most video players can interpret AVI files, but you may find need to convert AVI to MPEG-4 if you’re an Apple product user – be it iPod, iPhone or iPad. You need files in the MPEG-4 format to play them on your iPods, iPhones or iPads. AVI or Audio Video Interleave format, is a video file format created by Microsoft in 1992 to play videos on Windows. AVI files employ minimalRead More...

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Posted by Apurva Tripathi on June 25, 2012 in How To

Downloading a torrent is typically a two-step process and requires you to first download the file and then open it up in a client. Boxopus is a new web application that lets you skip the client and download torrent files directly to your Dropbox account. If you do not have a Dropbox account, you can click here to get a free Dropbox account. To get this working, you need to link your Dropbox and Boxopus accounts. Once linked, you only need to dragRead More...

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