All of us have experienced the popping of dialog boxes and confirmation messages while working on various applications and tools on our machines. For example, whenever we head towards deleting anything we are asked, “Are you sure you want to delete this file/folder?” and more often than not, the answer to that is “Yes”. Now, keyboard users hit Enter almost instantaneously while mouse users drag their pointer to the Yes/Ok buttons and then left-click on it....

social services like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and social utilities like Google Docs and more. More services mean more scattered content, more upload work and more backup concerns. Social Folders promises to take care of all that. It lets you manage all uploads right from your desktop and works as a backup solution too. Social Folders is a sync system that tracks any changes in the file content of your associated profiles and matches the web and local versions....

Things are different today and our contacts are backed up online. But is it foolproof? Though we can rely and trust on services like Outlook, Gmail and Yahoo, we are uncertain on being hit by bad luck. In case of some malfunction (or any other reason), we could end up losing all the contact details (email addresses, phone numbers, etc.) that we have stored on their servers. So, if you are borderline paranoid like me, you would always create a backup of your contacts and have them stored on your hard drive....

Because let’s face it, even though it doesn’t have as many features as Facebook, it still can do more. And as a user, you can do more on Twitter than just write 140 characters at a time. Here are our top picks for Android apps that will add to your Twitter experience. 1. Chhirp Tired of typing out tweets that don’t get enough attention anyway? Then here’s a cheeky alternative: how about recording an audio clip that really convey how you feel?...

Radbox is one such service that helps you save online videos quickly and comfortably, for watching later. It makes the entire process easy by offering a bookmarklet, and hence works on all the browsers. It also works with all major video sites like YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion etc, and offers sharing options. So lets see how it works. You’ll need to sign up with them in order to start using it....

On the other hand, the Beats Powerbeats3 earphones are not only popular, but they’ve also enjoyed a far longer run in the earphone market having debuted in 2016. So, what makes the Powerbeats3 headphones different from the Bose SoundSport Free earbuds? Is it only the design, or is the dissimilarity far greater than that? In this post, we explore the three key differences between these two earphones to help you make an informed decision....

This is great news for Android users running older devices and struggling with the few MBs of storage space left, after accumulating hundreds of photos, videos and everything else. Especially for a country like India, where budget phone launches have seen extravagant launch events and unprecedented media frenzy, this move by Google will be welcomed with open arms. Expensive Data Plans? No Worries If you’re out and about or live in an area where data plans are too expensive, Google Maps now lets you switch you to Wi-Fi mode to completely download the maps of wherever you are traveling....

we compared the native calendar app of the iPhone to Calvetica ($2.99, universal), a third-party app which aims to completely replace Apple’s native offering. Besides Calvetica though, another very popular alternative calendar app is Agenda ($1.99, universal), which offers a similar approach to event organization as Calvetica does, focusing mainly on minimal looks and high usability. So, now that you know how similar these two apps seem to be, you must be wondering which of these is the better deal....

CloseAll is a smart utility which lets you close all the open programs and windows in one click. It’s just 9KB in size and portable i.e you don’t need to install it. Just double click on Closeall.exe after extracting it from the zip file and it will start working. Yes, it is that simple. Smart ways to use CloseAll Here are two nice tricks to use this program effectively....

Notifications really got one of the biggest updates yet for Android. But while all the new features are great, notifications still might not be how you want them. Notifications are the most personal thing on the phone, so it makes sense that you should have total control over them. Thankfully, there are plenty of settings in Lollipop we can tweak to get there. Interacting with Notifications on the Lockscreen After you update to Lollipop, notifications will show up on the lockscreen by default....

Though Windows 8 has pleasantly surprised everyone with its amazing features, nothing is perfect and in less than a fortnight of the developer version release, programmers have started finding some shortcomings and glitches and, consequently, have started working on tweaking tools. Metro UI Tweaker for Windows 8, developed by Lee Whittington from The Windows Club, is a nifty tool to tweak the Metro Start Menu settings that are unavailable to users in Windows 8 directly....

Introduction to Droid Explorer When it comes to tools and applications using which one can manage an Android phone using the computer, Droid Explorer is state of the art. It has many features apart from the basic one – the ability to easily access Android phone on a computer. So let’s see how we can install the tool and then have a look at some of the interesting features that it provides....

The Charts and Drawing features are the ones which have been ramped up. The Charts and Drawing tools come with their own respective editors and are more than handy for your day to day document jobs. Charts in Google Docs The Chart Editor is perhaps one of the richest tools you can find on Google Docs. The options can go a long way in enhancing your spreadsheets if you use the right chart type, of which Google provides quite a few....

pen drive with just 2 GB of data, or it could be your iPod with your entire music collection . Heaven forbid, but the error message that flashes – USB Drive not recognized – has all the potential to send you up the wall. You don’t need to, in spite of the frustration welling up inside you. There are several fixes for the above scenario. It could be as simple as plugging the USB drive into the read USB port instead of the front one, or just restarting the computer again....

While Google Meet is a video calling app, Facebook Messenger is primarily a messaging app. Though there are a few overlaps, they differ considerably under the hood. Let’s understand what these differences are and how they affect the way you work. 1. User Interface Rooms is part of Messenger and not a separate app. It’s a feature that Facebook will later bring into Instagram, WhatsApp, and Portal too. Most of you should be familiar with Messenger layout, but here is the quick version....

The Android L LockScreen will now look a lot like the iOS lockscreen with notification banners and shortcut buttons for the camera and dialer. With Android L, one can directly view all the Android notifications right on the lockscreen and get to the corresponding app directly. Have a look at the following video for clearer insight on how the Android L LockScreen will look. Saves time, right? So let’s have a look at how we can get that lockscreen on our droids right now and skip waiting for the update to be released for our respective devices....

However, at times you will notice that they have disappeared all of a sudden. The reason could be that you have manually (intentionally or accidently) or automatically (when the browser closes) cleared the browser history and/or cache. Note: Thumbnails never get rendered for websites beginning with https in order to prevent secure information from being traced. Here’s how to get them back. Step 1: Open Firefox and hit on the + button on the tab strip....

I myself keep checking the battery charge left on my laptop by frequently pointing to the tiny battery icon on Windows 7, and it’d be safe to assume that you do the same too! But lets face it, the battery icon in Windows 7 (and Vista, and XP) sucks. It doesn’t show much information by default, and you’ve to repeatedly hover your mouse over it to see the charge left in your battery....

However, if you have a Gmail account, Google has made it easy for you to separate the two. Further, Gmail has fantastic features for all set of users — from regular to power users. However, the often confusing ones are Mute, Archive, and Snooze. All the three functions are interesting and sound similar but perform very different roles. In this post, we will dive deep into these three functions and understand the primary differences between them....

Typeform made a debut in 2012, and carries a modern interface that makes the process of filling out forms (and creating them) a joyful one. But if you place them side by side, which service is best suited for you? Is Typeform the tool that you were always looking for? Or, should Google Forms be always the ubiquitous choice for conducting digital surveys and quizzes? Well, that’s what we are going to find out today as we compare some of the best features of both Google Forms and Typeform....