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  • Free Softwares to Lock & Hide Folders on Windows 7 / Vista / XP

    Free Softwares to Lock & Hide Folders on Windows 7 / Vista / XP

    If your friends or siblings use you computer a great deal, you may have a coupe of files you wish to keep from their view. These may range from documents, movies and other personal stuffs. I wrote a post on how to hide your folders and files on Windows XP using a batch file but…

  • Windows 8 Consumer Preview – Video, Screenshots and Review.

    Windows 8 Consumer Preview – Video, Screenshots and Review.

    Microsoft finally released the consumer preview of the much anticipated Windows 8. While some consider it a great OS which has a great user interface, others criticize it as another failure just like Windows Vista. Of course, the OS is still very much in a beta stage and there are bound to be bugs here…

  • How to Run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on Windows PC

    How to Run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on Windows PC

    If you’re a symbian freak like me or an iOS addict who’s wondering what the noise about Android is all about and curious to have a real Android experience without buying a new device, you should find this post interesting. Similarly, if yor Android device is running Android 3.0 Honeycomb, you might want to know…

  • How to Run and Switch Between Multiple Windows / OS Without Restarting your Computer

    How to Run and Switch Between Multiple Windows / OS Without Restarting your Computer

    It’s been a while since my last post on symbian phone hacking but this time around, I’m bringing something different from mobile stuff. I’m posting a tutorial with detailed screenshots on how you can install, run and switch between multiple operating systems with a software called VirtualBox. VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64 /…

  • Best 3 Emulators to Run Mobile Java (.jar) Games & Apps on your Windows PC

    Best 3 Emulators to Run Mobile Java (.jar) Games & Apps on your Windows PC

    If you love mobile java games and applications and would love to run them on your computer, this post is definitely what you’ve been looking for. In my search I’ve come across three different emulators that allow you to run .jar files meant for mobile phones on your desktop. Now you can play mobile games…

  • Activating “god mode” in Windows 7

    Activating “god mode” in Windows 7

    If you’re hearing god mode in windows 7 for the first time, I’m sure it definitely sounds like a very exciting feature. God mode is actually a feature in Windows 7 that allows you to easily find things you probably didn’t know exist in your OS. It gives you the complete list of all settings…

  • Download Official Facebook Chat Application / Messenger For Windows

    Download Official Facebook Chat Application / Messenger For Windows

    I hardly use facebook chat but recently stumbled across the new facebook chat application that might be useful to our readers who love facebook chat. Facebook recently released  an IM application and I took some time to test run it just to see what it looks like. It’s a stand-alone messenger application but still needs…

  • “Hibernate” Feature Missing on Windows XP?

    “Hibernate” Feature Missing on Windows XP?

    My Sony Vaio laptop recently crashed due to a defect in its Nvidia Geoforce 8400 video card and I had to use a friend’s computer for a while, a pentium 4 computer with Windows XP Professional Edition running on it. I haven’t been using this operating for quite a long time now and going back…

  • How To Run Android Apps On Windows PC

    How To Run Android Apps On Windows PC

    If you love Android apps so much to the point you feel like running them on your personal computer, then Bluestacks app player is what you’re probably looking for. The possibility of running Android applications has always been an exciting but the first method I found might look a bit hard especially if you’re not…

  • Recover Overwritten Files In Windows 7 And Windows Vista

    Recover Overwritten Files In Windows 7 And Windows Vista

    I was working on my notebook the other day when i made a really silly mistake: I overwrote a file with another having the same name. I was worried, angry and felt really stupid because once you overwrite a file, you can never find it in the recycle bin. I didn’t know what to do…

  • Disabling Startup Programs To Make Windows Boot Faster

    Disabling Startup Programs To Make Windows Boot Faster

    It can be really annoying when your computer boots very slowly because there are too many programs trying to start up. Many installed programs automatically gets into the startup folder at installation and excessively prolongs boot time. Your Windows might start up but won’t be ready for proper use because the stratup programs are being…

  • Top 7 Mobile Phones for Content Creation in 2024

    Top 7 Mobile Phones for Content Creation in 2024

    Content creators, we see you hustling day in and day out to inspire, entertain and give us all the feels through your work. From brainstorming ideas and writing scripts, to setting up that perfect shot and editing for hours on end – it’s a labour of love, isn’t it? If a content creator is in…