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For many people, task managers are as essential as email. Because of this, being able to organize your upcoming tasks and reminders in the most efficient and intuitive way can be priceless. Naturally, if you have a Mac, Reminders might seem like the obvious choice. However, like in my case, you might not feel right [...]
Although there are many well known free antivirus solutions like Avast and AVG, Microsoft Security Essentials aka Windows Defender in Windows 8 has gained a lot of popularity lately. With a decent malware detection and removal rate, Windows Defender is now trusted by many home based Windows users. However, one difference between the third-party antivirus [...]
Speech recognition engines (or voice command enabled services), I believe, are still in the process of evolving and being fine-tuned. They have complex algorithms and learning theories associated with them. However, their growth has been tremendous and most of us have had a chance to use them in the form of some web service or [...]
In the past we have talked about some online services that use the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) to run the server side application on the client side. While talking about them, I might have told you to allow JRE to run on the page. But if I would have been talking about the same services [...]
Siri is by far one of the most innovative things to come out of Cupertino in the past few years. It debuted with the iPhone 4S a while back. It has had its problems but still it has earned quite a following since then due to the unique personality that it shows, but mostly thanks [...]
Copy and paste is something that we need quite often and cannot do without. There are so many instances and minor occasions when we perform this activity without even realizing. Take for example, copying a contact from an address book and sharing with someone, saving a piece of message from an email or copying an [...]
Life is just too busy to remember all the important dates, events and tasks in hand, isn’t it? And, that is why I feel that calendars and to-do lists have a very important role to play in our lives. However, I also feel they are useless unless they are always in your pocket or an [...]
In past articles we have already covered a few basics about Siri and some tips that can help you work much better with it. This time, we take a look at a few essential settings of Apple’s digital assistant and at how to make it more private and secure. Configuring Siri First, let’s start by [...]
Spotify might be unbeatable when it comes to collection of music but it lacks advanced features of a music player. Sometime back we showed you how you can integrate equalizer to Spotify for better sound output from your speakers and we will take it from there today, and enhance Spotify a bit more by incorporating [...]
Adding applications to Windows startup is a necessary evil. It can be useful when we have to run certain applications automatically (like a web server or some mailing and messenger clients). But as these startup applications initiate simultaneously when Windows starts, the computer can become completely unresponsive when there are too many apps in the [...]
Few days back we talked about customizing Windows Phone 8 lock screen which included details on how to enable password/lock on the phone, how to choose the pieces of information you wish to see there and more. Well, today we are set to discover the customization options for Start Screen on such devices. The Windows [...]
As we’ve shown you before, Vine is a unique video app based on a very clever idea: Shooting videos of just six seconds that can then be shared with the world. It seems now though, that more and more users are realizing how fun and addictive Vine can be, which has turned this already popular [...]
Some of the most popular apps on the Mac are definitely text editing apps. These apps allow you to create texts that can be as simple as common notes or as complex as entire novels. However, while text editing applications on the Mac tend to take the spotlight when it comes to working with text, [...]
Few weeks ago I discussed a nifty application for Android called Llama using which a user could automate simple tasks on the the smartphone based on specific events. Automation of tasks really serves as a helping hand at times and I thought that it would be very useful if a similar app was available for [...]
