Computer Tricks and Secrets

It happens all the time. You are sitting in a restaurant with friends or driving to work and there’s some beautiful music playing on the FM radio station. You would love to buy a copy of that music album for yourself but the problem is that you didn’t get the lyrics so how do you find out the name of that song. “What’s the name of that song ? I don’t remember the lyrics” Search engines like Google or Bing won’t be of much help unless you know a couple of words from the song lyrics or have some clue about the name of the artist or the band. How do you then identify the name of that lovely song? Well, here are some of the best music recognition services that can help you discover song names without having to know the lyrics. You may use them to identify music playing from the radio, TV, Internet or that CD playing in the bar. Find the Song Name Without Knowing the Lyrics 1a.  Shazam  – Shazam is a mobile application that you may use to find song names from your iPhone, BlackBerry, Window

While there are workarounds that let you easily download all your  Facebook data , including  email addresses  of your Facebook friends, one of the important pieces that you still can’t move out of Facebook is the phone book. Export Phone Numbers of your Facebook Friends Most of your Facebook friends have put their phone numbers on their profile pages and you’ll love to import them to your mobile phone’s address book but unfortunately Facebook doesn’t offer an option to let you do so. There’s however a new Chrome extension that be of immense help here. Called Facebook Friends Exporter, this extension will let you export phone numbers, email addresses (not just the primary address but all the other email addresses as well), IM screen names and website URLs of your Facebook contacts in a standard CSV file that you can quickly import into Outlook, Gmail or any other address book. Alternatively, you may also choose to import your Facebook friends details directly into Gmail /Google Contact

Sesh wants to watch YouTube videos and web photos on his large TV screen and is wondering if there’s an easy way to connect the laptop computer to the TV. Well, there are several ways to connect your computer to a Television depending on what ports are available on your PC and your TV (we used an HP Windows computer and a Sony Bravia HDTV for this example). How to Connect Laptop to a Television Screen – Step by Step Step 1:  Most computers have an S-Video port that can be connected to the S-Video input of your TV screen using a very cheap S-Video cable (this cable is round with 4 or 7 pins). If you have an older monitor, you can use the 15-pin VGA cable to connect the computer to the TV and it will offer better picture quality than the S-Video cable. S-Video Cable VGA Cable DVI Cable The newer HDTVs and laptop computers have DVI ports so a DVI Male to Male Cable or DVI to HDMI Adapter Cable can be used to hook the computer display and the TV. The DVI to HDMI cable can be used when your

You can insert YouTube videos in your PowerPoint presentations in two ways. You can either “embed” the Flash video in the slide itself or you can link to the YouTube video from the slide that will auto-play when the presenter clicks on the video link. Which approach should you follow? It depends on the venue of the conference. If they will have high-speed Internet (or Wi-Fi) at the venue, you can stream the YouTube video live from the Internet else you may download the YouTube video on to your computer and embed it as a local file into the relevant slide of your presentation. How to Insert YouTube Videos in PowerPoint This is the recommended option if you are sure that the presentation venue will have good Internet connectivity.   Download and install the YouTube Wizard plug-in from  here  and it will add a new “Insert YouTube Video” command to your PowerPoint Toolbar. You simply have to type the URL of the YouTube video and follow the wizard to embed the YouTube video player in your c

Wireless Networking (Wi-Fi) has made it so easy for anyone to use Internet on your computer, mobile phones, tablets and other wireless devices anywhere in the house without the clutter of  cables . With traditional wired networks, it is extremely difficult for someone to steal your bandwidth but the big problem with wireless signals is that others can access the Internet using your broadband connection even while they are in a neighboring building or sitting in a car that’s parked outside your apartment. This practice, also known as piggybacking, is bad for three reasons: It will increase your monthly Internet bill especially when you have to pay per byte of data transfer. It will decrease your Internet access speed since you are now sharing the same internet connection with other users. It can create a security hazard* as others may hack your computers and access your personal files through your own wireless network. [*] What do the bad guys use  – There have been quite a few in

The PDF file format was originally created by Adobe in the early ’90s and it now the most popular format for exchanging all sorts of documents including presentations, CAD Drawings, invoices, government forms and other legal documents. There are several reasons why PDF file format is so popular. PDFs are generally more compact (smaller in size) than the source document and they preserve the original formatting. The content of a PDF file cannot be modified easily and you can prevent other users from printing or copying text from PDF documents. Also, you can open a PDF file on any computer or mobile device natively.  How to Edit PDF Files without Adobe Acrobat While PDF Files are “read only” by default, there are workarounds that will let you modify any PDF document for free without requiring the source files or any of the commercial PDF editing tools like Adobe Acrobat. We are primarily focusing on tools that let you alter the actual contents of a PDF files. If you are looking to manipu

For the last ten years Sony and Ericsson have been joined together in the mobile phone industry, but this long industrious partnership has just come to an end after Sony purchased Ericsson’s 50% share of the partnership at the end of last year. This is the end of Sony Ericsson, and the new Xperia S, just unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, is the beginning of a new chapter for Sony’s smartphone division.   Sony Xperia S Android Phone This phone still keeps the Xperia branding of earlier Sony Ericsson phones, and possibly even the Sony Ericsson branding by the looks of the demo model on show at CES, but it looks markedly different to Xperia phones launched in the last few years. Since the Xperia X10 Sony Ericsson’s smartphones have been uninspiring – they have all looked very similar with no unique style to separate them from other  mobile phone contracts  available. The New Xperia S The Xperia S is a different story. It seems to have adopted many design principles f

If you have ever installed any operating system in you pc or laptop by yourself, then you must be knowing that almost all folks install the OS in C: drive as it appears selected by default. Increase C: drive space in windows 7 without formatting Whilst  installing OS we usually forget to think about future. If your career is associated with computers, its less likely that you won’t require a bigger size of C drive in your pc.I got popup from the system about low disk space in C drive, where my windows 7 is installed and as its the Primary partition of the drive so I can not format it simply and also OS resides in the C: drive. So I think of moving/extend my primary disk space by assigning some space from other local disk (suppose D drive) and add that extra space  to C drive without formatting the C drive.I have searched in Google “How to Increase C drive space without formatting” and found lots of links, gathered lot of information and installed various software’s like Acronis Disk Di

How to Find iPhone Manufacturing Date Finding manufacturing date of your iPhone is not a straight forward as you have to identify it from its serial number. You can know the year and date of manufactured for your iPhone by looking at it’s serial number. iPhone serial number is made of six(6) items, you have to decode the iPhone’s serial number, look out for:  FM Y PW UID CL S FM  = Factory and Machine ID (1st and 2nd digit) Y  = Year (3rd digit) PW  = Production Week (4 and 5th digit) UID  = Unique Identifier (6,7 and 8th digit) CL  = Color (A4=black) and (9 and 10th digit) S  = size (S=16GB, T=32GB) (11th digit) So just by looking your serial number you can know that when your iPhone was born 

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