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patches on my HTC One X every other day, it’s very important for me to create a complete backup of my phone that I can rely on. Well, that’s just my case, but it’s always recommended to create a periodic backup of your phone. You never know when your shiny gadget decides to go kaput leaving you hanging in the lurch. There are many android apps available on Play Store that claim to take a backup of your phone on your internal SD Card....

Best of Guiding Tech in Feb, 2012 Understanding Google Alerts and 7 Interesting Ways to Use It A great guide on Google Alerts, how to set them up and how to use them creatively. 3 Awesome Add-ons to Watch and Manage YouTube Videos From Chrome Toolbar Chrome add-ons for those who tend to visit YouTube every 30 mins or so. 4 Incredibly Easy Ways to Share Internet From Windows PC 4 quick and ways to share the Internet from your Windows computer....

We are sure that you will come across several such special moments this upcoming holiday season. Won’t it be awesome if they can be captured instantly and transformed into photographs with the help of instant cameras and portable photo printers? It would be great, right? Giving this a thought, we have listed some of the best deals on few instant cameras and portable photo printers that you can buy during the Black Friday 2017 sale....

YUMI is like the mother of all bootable USB creation tools. With YUMI, you can create a multiple booting pen drive with several Linux distros, Windows operating systems and lots of other bootable tools like antivirus rescue disc and clean-up tools. That’s not all, YUMI will create a bootable disk with a menu to help you select the distros easily at the time of boot. So let’s see how you to create a multi-boot pen drive with YUMI....

As long as I am copying files from an external source, I can easily save them to a secondary drive. But when I download files on my browser, by default they are saved in the systems drive’s Downloads folder. Of course, one can move and sort these files later manually. But why to go manual when you can automate the task? So today I will show you how you can change the default download directory of the four most popular browsers....

country-restricted apps which are available to a user only when they browse from a specific country, which is usually United States, and Windows store is no different. Currently there are a lot of apps in Windows Store which are only available to the US user. Today we will see how we can view and install such apps on our Windows 8 devices by accessing the US version of the store....

alternative web browsers found in the App Store on your iPhone, there is no way for you to make any of them the default one . In fact, that privilege has always belonged to Safari alone, and unless you have a jailbroken iPhone, every time you tap on a link on any app, it will open in Safari. However, despite the importance of what being the mandatory default browser on the iPhone represents, Safari still keeps your browsing history by default available to anyone with access to it....

And lately more and more casual users are turning to social platforms like Instagram to share their creativity (don’t say that to your photographer friend). But none of these services cater to the story teller in you. Today we will talk about two new services that do. Why Create Photo Stories The best use case for Photo stories is for travelogues. Because when you share a picture of your travels, it’s not just a picture, it’s a narrative....

You can purchase and download it easily from the Microsoft store (the iso file that is). Once you purchase a copy of Windows 7 ISO file and download it on your computer, you have two options to go with. First, you can create a bootable DVD. Second option would be to create a bootable USB flash drive. After creating the bootable media, you can install Windows 7 easily from it....

MS Outlook as a email client. Also, chances are that you have integrated multiple email accounts to deliver mails to your desktop client . In such a scenario, when you receive a lot of mails then it becomes important to know how to segregate them and check the important ones first. Rather than doing this manually, you may want to have dedicated folders for different types of emails such that the incoming messages are stacked in their respective folders....

How about creating your own customized stock watcher that stays on top of other windows and keeps a track of your favorite stock while you are working on other stuff? Sounds interesting? Let us see how to get it done. Steps to Create a Stock Watcher To reach our objective we are going to use a tool called On Top Replica, which can clone any window and keeps it on top of other running applications....

The nav bar can be quite boring at times. Unlike the other aspects like icon packs, widgets or wallpapers, the nav bar has lesser colorful features. But all is not lost yet, the Play store gets tons of new apps and the Navbar apps is one among them. So, without further ado, let’s see what the Navbar app has under its hood. Navbar — A Brief Overview The Navbar Apps lets you customize the Android home screen navigation bar to your heart’s content....

And over the years Facebook has refined itself to an extent where the control of information being given out by a person is absolutely in their hands. And today we will be taking a closer look at these settings and find out what is optimum for people. You Can See, Just Not Everything The average Facebook profile has a mix of public and private moments that need to protected from the public eye....

But from what I have noticed, the internal tool to rollback creates more issues than fixing them. Programs fail to launch, shortcuts go missing, system files and drivers don’t work and much more. You are left hanging on a bridge where neither end looks promising. But don’t worry, we’ve got you covered if you haven’t upgraded to Windows 10 yet. Using Macrium Reflect you can capture the image of your Windows system drive and if you don’t like the Windows 10 update, you can restore to the said image....

We have known PDF files to have a similar behavior. Many say that XPS is an attempt from Microsoft to outdo Adobe on its product. However, we will concentrate on understanding its use rather than contradicting on other stuff. Go Green: Request our users to use electronic prints whenever possible. Let us try and save some paper on an individual level. How to Get Started With XPS XPS comes installed and activated on a Windows 7 machine....

Android is messy. There’s always too much going on. And where there’s a mess, there’s an app developer who thinks he’s got the right solution. Even Google has an alternative launcher on the Play Store called the Google Now Launcher. That’s how bad it’s gotten. And I’m not even talking about the amazingly feature-rich, yet far too complicated launchers like Nova and Apex. On the other side of the spectrum are things like Z Launcher (which I loved) and Aviate, putting a strong foot in the automation camp....

Whether it’s Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or Google, all these have a stripped down version of their standards apps. These stripped-down versions are usually called as the Lite apps or Go apps in case of Google. Talking about Facebook (FB), it has a lite version of both the main app and its Messenger. We have already compared the Facebook Messenger and its Lite version. In this post, we will compare the Facebook app and its Lite version....

We have talked about GMD Gesture control for Android using which you can get powerful actions using simple gestures. But the app requires root access and to be frank, not everyone can afford that. Finger Gesture Launcher for Android is a cool alternative using which one can get gestures support even on a rooted Android phone. So let’s see how to configure the app to get the most out of it....

While the competition in this domain, the team at Flock has strong reasons to believe this and the new strategy would help make a mark as a solution provider, instead of being just another tool to facilitate internal communications. Flock recently announced a vast suite of applications that businesses can integrate into this business communication tool in order to offer more functionality to users. Going forward, this portfolio will be expanded to offer more connected services to businesses....

There is, however, a bit of a twist this month as instead of 4 free games right at the beginning of the month, all Xbox Live Gold members will get 3 free games in the first week and 2 more from December 16 onward. So, if you have already purchased the Xbox Live Gold membership, dive in! Others can register themselves and join the party. In December 2017, Xbox One users will get all 5 games while Xbox 360 users will only get 2 games....