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Giveaway: SecretSync Can Encrypt/Secure Your Data in Dropbox, SugarSync And More

The way people store data has changed with the inception of cloud storage. Services like Dropbox and SugarSync have made accessibility of data truly simple, quick and real-time. Not only do they provide users substantial storage space but also promise to keep the data confidential. But that’s what every other storage service out there says, [...]

How to Quickly Disable or Change Function of a Keyboard Key in Windows

An average keyboard has 100+ keys. A gaming keyboard might have more. Each key has a purpose; but more often than not the purpose of some keys escapes us. In all my years of computing, I haven’t used all the Function keys for what they were meant to be used for. In the disuse of [...]

How to Roll Back Drivers in Windows 7

February 22, 2012

We humans believe, or I should say follow a false myth that new is always better. The best example I can give to prove this statement wrong is the latest update of my graphics driver. Till I was on my old display driver everything worked smooth. None of the games crashed, no blue screens, no [...]

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GT Explains: What is MD5 Checksum and How to Verify it

February 21, 2012

I still cry over the day I bricked my brand new Samsung Galaxy S while installing a custom ROM on it. I had to wait couple of weeks to get it fixed!! It wasn’t a noob installing a custom ROM.. I knew all about it (am a writer for GT you know). But I was [...]

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The Complete Guide to Setting Up & Using Speech Recognition in Windows 7

February 20, 2012

The computer has definitely come a long way. From the first, gigantic ENIAC to the amazing Macbook Airs and Ultrabooks of today, they have become ubiquitous and indispensable. But the popular practice of using the keyboard and the mouse to control the computer has remained unchanged for years. Mobile phones have moved towards being smartphones [...]

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How to Add Colors to Folders in Windows For Better Folder Management

February 20, 2012

Although there are many Windows Explorer tools out there to make the daily usage of it more productive, folder management can get a lot more difficult and tricky than one can think. I think one of the pertinent issues that most of us come across often is that we just can’t instantly seem to locate [...]

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25 Awesome Wallpapers of Popular TV Show Stars (House, Barney and More!)

February 18, 2012

Some people go outside to have fun. I know few who take walk in a park, play some sports, go to a movie or do some other random stuff to entertain themselves. Others, like me, spend all of their life glued to a screen, for their vocation as well as avocation. Obviously, watching TV shows [...]

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How to Automate Call Recording For Specific Skype Contacts

February 18, 2012

Few days ago many of us celebrated Valentine’s Day (singles among you probably celebrated Freedom Day… or may be Depression Day!). Luckily, touch wood, this was my first Valentine’s Day when I actually had a Valentine (yeah, for an average looking geek like me, it’s a real big deal)The sad part of the story is [...]

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Mouse Scroll Not Working? Here’s How to Scroll on Chrome and Firefox

February 17, 2012

The mouse is our choice of weapon when we take on the web. This humble, almost taken-for-granted invention has brought about an evolutionary change in the digital man. What would we be without it! But a mouse could also be a stumbling block if we don’t optimize it to deliver us the productivity we seek. [...]

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How to Never Miss an Update From Your Favorite Facebook Page

February 17, 2012

Staying up to date with the latest happenings in today’s age is both difficult and easy. Difficult because we are busy and there’s so much of information around that filtering it becomes painful. Easy because, well, there’s so much of information around.. provided you can productively sort it and grab what’s important. When it comes [...]

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New Soluto Review: Now Speed Up Boot Time of Multiple Computers

February 17, 2012

“My computer is running slow!” That’s an often repeated complaint tech troubleshooters have to contend with. Noobs and the technically disinclined expect a magic wand to come and do the job for them. Could it be Soluto, the well-reviewed one-stop solutions that aims to speed up your computer? We also took a look at it [...]

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5 Cool Windows 7 Calculator Features You Probably Didn’t Know About

February 16, 2012

A lot of us, who are otherwise computer addicts stuck to it all day, still prefer the good old desk calculator over the virtual one in their PC. Whether it is because it’s quick and easy to use, or may be the old-habits-die-hard thing, I don’t know. What I do know is that if you [...]

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How to Filter and Block Incoming Calls, Texts on Android

February 16, 2012

Are you getting unwanted calls from a creepy stalker or is a brokerage house after you to buy stocks via them? May be you are frustrated with constantly deleting the spam texts that you seem to get in dozens each day. A call manager is what you need to get rid of all these problems. [...]

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How to Intelligently Group Your Chrome Extensions Using the Context Add-on

February 16, 2012

The easy availability and installation of extensions in and from the Chrome Web Store means the users end up adding a number of extensions which they tend to lose track of over a period of time. That’s not bad though… here at Guiding Tech we’ve already had so many posts on cool Chrome extensions. And [...]

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How to Hide Photos and Videos On Android with Keep Safe

February 16, 2012

In general terms, a mobile phone is a device on which you can make or receive calls and text messages. A smartphone on the other hand, is anything you want it to be. With the advent of high resolution cameras and limitless memory, you can capture and save anything on your phone you could wish [...]

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A Better Way to Download Images from Google Image Search

February 15, 2012

You can always conduct a reverse image search by uploading images to Google Image Search but the opposite isn’t that straight-forward, meaning you can’t directly download images from the search result pages. Why one needs to download them you may ask? Well, for using them in projects, articles and other such content-based work. Google Image [...]

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How to Get a Fake Call, SMS and Create Fake Call Logs On Android

February 15, 2012

Whenever I find myself struck in a boring situation or with boring people and I need an excuse to get out of there, all I say is, “Sorry guys, Mom’s calling, need to leave.” (yeah well.. still Momma’s boy). The best thing about this excuse is that my Android smartphone makes it damn easy to [...]

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GT Explains: What is the Difference Between EPUB, MOBI, AZW and PDF eBook Formats?

February 15, 2012

Even as recent as a few years back, eBooks were read by a niche audience. It hadn’t trickled down to wider readership. Project Gutenberg was perhaps the first large scale effort to digitize books into electronic formats. Most of it still relied on PDF (Portable Document Format) to read electronic text. Now, eBook readers are [...]

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