Computer Tricks and Secrets

Need not to say what Facebook is right?? Almost everyone knows what Facebook is but most of them don’t know its secrets and some of the unpopular features in it. Here are some of the secrets you have never known about it. 1. Facebook tracking: Most of them are not aware that Facebook tracks your each and every activity while you are on Facebook. When you are on Facebook and open some other stuff in a new tab or new window, then this information is sent to Facebook from some other third-party. There are billions of users over the world, which means each and every one’s activity is being tracked by Facebook in daily life. In order to prevent Facebook tracking our activities, there is an extension ‘Facebook disconnect’, which helps in preventing the airing of information from some third-party to the Facebook. 2. Save the stuff: There are several posts posted by someone or other on Facebook. In order to save your favourite post, Facebook has recently provided an option for saving it where ...

You have been using Google Alerts for keeping track of anything new and interesting on the web around your topics of interest but did you know that there exists a plethoro of other email alerting services that are again very useful and do not cost a penny. Let me just dive right in. Follow your World – The is a Google service that allows you to track satellite images of various locations within Google Maps and Google Earth. You’ll get an email alert each time Google releases new and updated aerial imagery for the various locations that you are tracking. Newsle – The service tracks news websites and alerts you when any of your friends or people in your social network appear in news stories. It analyzes your LinkedIn and Facebook accounts to determine your friends and colleagues. Brook – Your Twitter timeline is a never-ending stream of tweets and sometimes good tweets get lost in the noise. Brooks sends you a daily email digest of the five best tweets from your favorite tweeter...

Your mobile phone has a globally unique number associated with it, called the IMEI number, that uniquely identifies your device within the mobile network. If your phone gets lost or is stolen, you would need to provide this IMEI number to the law enforcement agencies and the telecom operator for them to blacklist your device and prevent anyone else from using your phone on their wireless network. As you probably know, it is relatively easy to find the IMEI number of your mobile phone. While there are apps that will help you retrieve this number with a tap, you don’t really need one. Just open the phone dialer, call *#06# and the IMEI number will be displayed on the phone’s screen. Alternatively, you can open device Settings – About Phone – Status and long-press the IMEI number to copy it to the clipboard. If you have however lost your phone but did not record the IMEI number beforehand, you can still retrieve the number from your Google Account. Just go to google.com/settings , sign-i...

Ten years ago Facebook was just cresting as the cool new social media site that helped you keep in touch with the people you didn’t actually like in high school. We fed it our thoughts and feelings, shared our meals and locations and our top ten movie lists, kept it up-to-date on our relationship status, political views, favorite links, and personal information — all in the name of staying connected, and all without a thought to our security. But with a decade of questions regarding how Facebook makes money  now answered, and a general understanding of how sharing information online can be dangerous (while the platform constantly updates its security protocol ), we continue to use it anyway, even though many of us are just checking in as ritual and have threatened our exit from Facebook for years. Of course, screen time in moderation is, for the most part, perfectly acceptable, and social media can offer a few genuinely beneficial uses. But before you log in or tap that app on your sma...

Typing on a small screen is for suckers. Say it instead. If you have an iOS device, Siri, Apple's much-improved digital personal assistant for iOS, can take care of many things faster than you can through tapping. With iOS 9, you don't even need to touch your iPhone or iPad to get things done — just say "Hey Siri" and it will be ready to execute your command. We know, Siri isn't perfect — it can't access every app you have, for example, and it requires an Internet connection to do anything — but here are some ways you should take advantage of its services. 10 Siri Tricks You Never Knew About "Find photos I took in San Francisco." Instead of scrolling through thousands of photos looking for the ones you took on a specific trip, ask Siri to narrow down the options for you. As long as you have Location Services enabled for the Camera app, your phone tags each photo with the place you took it. You can also ask Siri to show you photos from a specific date...

This week I have been testing the various online backup services, both paid and free, and here’s a summary of how these service compare against each other. Why use an online backup service? While it is easy to create a  local backup  of your computer, the physical media where you are storing the backups, like the DVDs or external disk, may not be very reliable in the long term. The other disadvantage is that local backups don’t always happen in real-time. It is therefore recommended that you switch to an online backup service – these are inexpensive and will automatically copy your computer’s data over the Internet to a more secure off-site location (aka the data center) in near real-time without your involvement . Which Online Backup Service Should You Use? If you only have a limited amount of data (< 2 GB) on your computer that you want to store in the cloud, any of the following backup services should solve your problem without you having to shell out a penny. All the above onlin...