Dropbox, with its amazing API and user interface, is an amazing and one of the best cloud backup service. Dropbox gives a head start of 2GB free online storage space to all its new users. Of course, you can make your way to 8GB of free Dropbox space, but that would require referral programs and [...]
How Ribbon Interface can be Disable Permanently in Windows 8
After the huge success of the ribbon interface in Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft has been adding it to almost all its applications (Windows live, Paint, Word, etc.). Now in Windows 8, they have gone an extra mile and added the ribbon interface to Windows Explorer. If you ask me, I love the ribbon interface. It [...]
How to Open Windows 8 Metro Apps from Desktop Shortcut
Things used to be so much simple in Windows 7. You want to shut it down, just press the shutdown button in the start menu. You want to open Computer, just do it from the Start Menu. You want to create a desktop shortcut for an application, just select the option from the rights click [...]
How to Get The Windows 8 Charm Bar in Windows 7, Vista and XP
If you have your hands on the latest release of Windows 8, the Consumer Preview, or you at least follow the news regularly, you must have come across the new tool bar called the Charm Bar. This all-new bar is a system-wide tool bar in Windows 8 contains five buttons, and helps to get access to [...]
Why Hackers want to launch self satellites to block Internet censorship
The last few months have been filled with debate and controversy relating to online piracy,internet censorship and freedom of speech. Much of this has been focused around the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) in the US. Advocates of the acts claim that they are trying to protect the [...]
BBM and GTalk Chats Can No Longer Be Used to Cheat
You gotta love technology. Just when you thought there was nothing left, no remaining area in which technology could make your life better than it already is, along comes the stealth software that stops users of BlackBerry Messenger and GTalk from cheating on their spouses; or organising riots without their parents’ knowledge; or, basically, having [...]
Google Chrome Can Now Sync Multiple Browsing Profiles
The internet world is revolutionized since Google released its Chrome browser. With its ability to launch in a jiffy and load the web pages almost instantly the browser became an instant success. The innovative thing in Chrome is that one can search from the address bar itself and it runs applications at lightning speed. Another [...]
