How to Make Calls From Specific Contacts Silent Permanently on Any Smartphone

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Previously, we have shared few apps using which an Android user can easily block calls from specific contacts if they are not in a mood to accept them. However, not everyone owns an Android and sometimes you just can’t block a caller. The reason could be that you don’t want the caller to know that [...]

Load Android ICS Browser Plugin on Demand on Slow Phones

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Be it computers or smartphones, modern-day browsers consume a considerable amount of device memory. If you are on a powerful Android phone with dual or quad-core processor, you will hardly notice a thing. But if you are surfing on an entry level or mid-range phone with limited free memory at disposal, serving every single request [...]

[Quick Tip] Quickly Locate Black and White Images in Google and Bing Image Search

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A bit of contrast makes life better. Just like it does in colors. But that’s not to say that black and white isn’t fascinating. It has its own charm. Besides, I have experienced that black and white pictures grab more attention and help us concentrate on the picture details rather than the colors. So, whenever [...]

How to Set Up Vacation Responses on Windows Live Mail Desktop Client

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Windows Live Mail (WLM) is probably one of those desktop email clients which are simple yet effective to use. It carries the genes of MS Outlook and caters to all basic needs of organizing and managing emails, calendar, contacts, etc. However, it misses on some important features like setting up automated vacation responses (as that [...]

How to View and Delete YouTube History on Android

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Latest version of YouTube for Android came with many new features to maximize video viewing experience for the user. The ability to pre-cache videos on Wi-Fi network while charging the phone was a great addition for those who are on a limited mobile bandwidth plan. Another great thing YouTube recently introduced was the ability to [...]

How to Download All The Images You Have In Your Email With Lost Photos

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After having me digitize his entire movie collection, my dad recently brought a new digital photo frame to view all the photos in the living room from time to time. However, soon after unboxing the frame, he handed me the memory card and asked me to download all the great photos he had on his [...]

How to Create, Manage and Use Contact Groups on Gmail

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In the past we’ve seen how to create and use a distribution list in MS Outlook. The obvious advantage is that we can send an email to multiple people without having to type each email address in the To  field. Moreover, it zeros down the risk of missing somebody in the list while sending out [...]

Give Firefox A Makeover with the Simple Browser Customization Add-on Called Stratiform

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Customization is the name of the game. From customizing how we start the day on our desktops, to how we start off with our web browsing.  We like to fit everything to our tastes, because the defaults are usually boring. When it comes to web browsing and the browser, there’s a lot to choose between [...]

How to Customize Android Status/Notification Bar Using Omega StatusBar

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If I had not left the eye candy world of HTC Sense with all the custom themes and patches and installed basic Jelly Bean ROM on my device, I would have never realized how basic the looks of Android were. Previously, we have already discussed how you can customize your Android phone lock screen and [...]

A Review of Tabs Outliner, Probably the Best Way to Manage Multiple Tabs in Chrome

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Tabbed browsing has been a great evolution for browsers. But tab clutter is a term that speaks for itself. Too many open tabs are not only difficult to manage but they are liable to crash too. That’s why ways to reduce tab clutter and prevent them from crashing have come in through the window. Tabs [...]

How to Disable Specific Keys on Keyboard While Playing Games

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I love to play online games in my free time to kill my boredom. In these online games, you need to be swift and thus uses of hotkeys are preferred over mouse clicks and most of these hotkeys are in combination with the Ctrl and Alt keys. However, the Windows key that sits between both [...]

[Quick Tip] How to Search Within Apps Using Default Android Google Search

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With Windows 8, you can use the Window search to search within apps in Start Screen and directly get the results you are seeking even without opening the app. But do you know that you can do the same using Android search? As far as I am aware, only a handful of users know the [...]

IE 9 Add-ons: The Various Types and 3 Best Ones Among Them

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When Internet Explorer 9 came to the market it showed a lot of potential in the new features that it brought along. One such interesting thing was allowing users to pin their favorite websites to the Windows taskbar. These days Microsoft has been trying to market the add-ons available for IE 9 so that the [...]

How to Install Hybrid ROM on Your HTC One X to Get Tablet-like Display

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I always wanted to try out a hybrid ROM on my HTC One X. Hybrid ROMs are basically a bridge between tablet and phone interface, and can be used on devices with a large screen size. And my HTC One X definitely fits the bill. In the past, the hybrid ROM for One X always [...]