Near Field Communication technology or NFC in short, is one of the coolest additions in smartphones these days, especially Android. One tap and your phone can transfer contacts, files, website URLs, notes, even money and so much more with another NFC enabled device!
Continue readingMicromax Canvas 4, a mid-range smartphone is seeing hype and excitement comparable to the likes of multinational brands — perhaps for the first time for an Indian manufacturer. Promising specifications better than many high-end devices, it has led people into thinking that this company is offering much more value at much lesser price. Which is […]
Continue readingDubious applications for Windows that offer you free smileys and dictionary (cough Babylon cough) and automatically install annoying browser toolbars & add-ons are no new thing. But of late, scores of trusted applications have also joined the league by packing in similar spamware in their setup. Applications such as µTorrent, KCleaner, AVG, Veoh Player, GOM […]
Continue readingWhile technological advances continue to ease our lives by transitioning our physical world jobs to the displays of our personal computers, maintaining the secrecy of our account credentials has always been an area of concern. Be it when we’re purchasing something on the internet using our plastic cards or logging into our bank accounts, it […]
Continue readingYou might be a rockstar of PC tips and trick, but there is a large, really large group of people who don’t know few simple PC tips that can save time or effort on a daily basis. Few people are just ignorant and don’t use them. I have shared earlier some stupid windows 7 Tricks […]
Continue readingNo matter how much I curse PayPal but it remains as only solution for my international transactions. It is well known fact that PayPal takes higher currency conversion while paying and lower conversion while withdrawing. For a country like India where 1 USD equals 55 INR, it makes huge difference even if we are able […]
Continue readingSome friends in my Google Talk chat list had a weird email ID which goes something like this- some_random@public.talk.google.com. When I can see them, chances are that even they can see me on their list. It means I am publicly visible to many people. Little search on this revealed that, these are the people whom […]
Continue readingBetter late than never. Yahoo email account holder can now activate SSL encryption on their accounts. It is another layer of privacy protection while accessing email inbox from web. HTTPS is enabled by default on other email services like Gmail and Outlook but Yahoo! makes it optional.
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