Computer Tricks and Secrets

In the beginning of the New Year, if you are planning to buy the best gaming laptop either for you or for someone else. Then, it is vital to take a look at following top 10 best gaming laptops that we compiled for you in a single platform. Ranked 10# Lenovo Y50 Touch 4K It is a high-performance gaming laptop that supports multitouch up to ten fingers that provide some excellent visibility to the keyboards. CPU: 2.4GHz Intel Core i7-4700HQ (quad-core, 6MB cache, up to 3.4GHz with Turbo Boost) Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 860M (4GB GDDR5 RAM); Intel HD Graphics 4600 Operating System : Windows 10 Home 64 RAM: Up to 16GB PC3-12800 DDR3L SDRAM 1600 MHz Screen: 15.6-inch, 1920 x 1080 FHD, LED anti-glare backlight Hard Drive ( Storage ): 1TB HDD (5,400 rpm with an 8GB SSD cache) Ports: 2 USB 3.0, 1 USB 2.0, combination mic/headphone jack, HDMI, 4-in-1 card reader, Ethernet, SPDIF Connectivity: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3160, Bluetooth 4.0 Camera: 720p HD webcam Weight: 5...

Facebook’s Free Basics has been on fire in India since its inception. First it started with internet.org but even it got a lot of negative response from experts all over the country as it was violating Net Neutrality. And now again Facebook has come up with Free Basics in collaboration with Reliance. Again all the experts started firing Free Basics as it was violation Net Neutrality in the country. If you are new here is everything you need to know about Net Neutrality . In an attempt to save Free Basics from getting banned in India, Facebook came up with this strategy by sending notifications to all the people and signing up in support of Free Basics. What does the notification say? This notification is very persistent, and it comes whenever one of your friends signs up without his/her knowledge. A regular internet user who doesn’t has much knowledge about Net Neutrality and Free Basics tend to fall for it and signs up in support of Free Basics which you shouldn’t. When you click on...

How can a software company like Automattic make money when they are giving away WordPress blogging software for free? WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg shared how WordPress makes money: 1. Web Hosting – WordPress offers web hosting services to big brands like WSJ’s All Things D, CNN, TechCrunch, Time.com and more. The pricing for WordPress VIP Hosting starts at $15,000 per month. 2. Google AdSense – Free blogs hosted on WordPress.com may sometimes carry Google AdSense ads and the ad revenue goes to WordPress. The Google ads will only appear if all the following three conditions are met: The visitor is not using Firefox browser. He has logged out of his WordPress account, if he has one. The referring source is not a WordPress powered blog. So if you land on abc.wordpress.com from xyz.wordpress.com, you won’t see any Google Ads. Even with all these conditions, the revenue generated from serving Google AdSense ads on WordPress.com hosted blog may still be significant as they do aro...

Amazon owned Junglee.com is probably the biggest price comparison website in India. Unlike other comparison engines that mostly focus on “popular” online sellers, Junglee lists prices from smaller stores as well that aren’t well-known brands but may sometimes offer better deals. Get email notifications when prices drop What some may not know is that Junglee offers price alerts, a useful feature that is not even available on its parent Amazon website. You can add one or more items to your watch list on Junglee and the site will send you an email alert whenever the price of a monitored product drops by 300 or more. To set your price alert, open any product page on Junglee – like this listing of iPhone 6 – and click the button ( screenshot ) that says “Price too high”. Next click the “Set alert” button and the product will be added to your watch list. You can manage all your price alerts from this page . Junglee’s price tracker is reliable but a downside is that it will not show prices f...

CrashPlan at a Glance Price: Individual Unlimited: $5.99/month, $59.99/year, $114.99/two years, $189.99/four years Family Plan Unlimited: $13.99/month, $149.99/year, $289.99/two years, $429.99/four years Pros: Runs on Windows, Mac and Linux Local backup Unlimited File Size Locked File Backup Backup email reports Seeded Backup Mobile apps now available. Cons: Options can be confusing No Sharing No virtual drive Requires Java to run. High memory usage often gets in the way of regular computer use. Backup can be slow and speed can degrade over time. Sign Up Download iOS App Download Android App Full CrashPlan Review CrashPlan offers a myriad of options to backing up your data. Backup to another local drive, another computer, a friends computer or online to CrashPlans servers. Add to that the ability to run on Windows, Macs and Linux machines and you have a backup service that appears to do it all. Installation Installation of CrashPlan varies depending on...