How To Create Restore Point In Windows 8.1

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Restore Point, a feature first introduced with Windows ME, is one of the unique and best features of Windows operating system to quickly restore system files to a previous state without making changes to saved data. Windows automatically creates one restore point every week and also creates restore point prior installing updates. While Windows 8 […]

5 Ways To Harness The Power Of The Crowd

Crowdsourcing can take on lots of different forms. Between social media and niche crowdsourcing sites, you can harness the power of the crowd to get just about anything. Whether it’s raising funds, looking for information, news, photos, or videos, there are niche sites that can cater to your exact needs. We’ve asked you before what you think of crowdfunding sites, but what about crowdsourcing sites in general? We’ve listed five of the most popular types of crowdsourcing websites below. Crowdfunding The most common form of crowdsourcing that has taken off has to be crowdfounding, in large part due to the...

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Generate Temporary Email Address with MailDrop

MailDrop is an online free email services that provides a temporary and disposable email address. So you never need to use your real email address on less trustworthy websites.

Using it you can choose custom aliases for your temporary email address and use it with any site or app.

Temporary Email Address with MailDrop:-

• No Signups required


• Custom Aliases


• Block Spam E-Mails


• No Password required

MailDrop has some restrictions through. It is designed for no privacy and no security, anyone who can guess or know your email address can see your inbox.

Mail Drop inbox hold upto 10 messages, and any inbox which does not receive a message within 24h will be automatically cleared.

MailDrop also restricted to Plain text or HTML e-mails, but must be less than 100k in length. All email attachments are automatically removed.

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Try the New Google Search Interface in Chrome 29

If you enable "Instant Extended API" in the recently released Chrome 29, you also get a new Google Search interface that hides the search box, has a new navigation menu and a new share button. This also enables the updated new tab page which is actually a simplified Google homepage.

To try the experimental new tab page and the new Google interface, paste this in Chrome's address bar: chrome://flags/, use Ctrl+F to search for "Enable Instant Extended API" and click "Enabled" in the drop-down below "Enable Instant Extended API". Then click "Relaunch now" at the bottom of the page to restart Chrome. To disable this feature, use the same instructions, but click "Disabled" instead of "Enabled".

How To Set Windows Media Player As Default In Windows 8.1

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Both Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 ship with a bunch of Modern UI apps and some of them are pretty good. The Music app that ships with Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 is the default software to open audio files. While the Music app in Windows 8 is pretty good and it has been revamped […]

How To Disable Aero Glass For Windows 8’s Demo Version Message

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Those of you have upgraded to Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 would know that the eye-candy Aero isn’t part of Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 default. Ever since Windows 8 Preview was released about two years ago, Windows enthusiasts and developers have been trying to add Aero back to Windows 8 but Aero Glass for […]

YouTube's Cat Easter Egg

YouTube's app for iOS has also been updated and added many of the features from the Android app. You can watch a video while searching for the next one, just like picture-in-picture, search for playlists and use the "play all" button.

There's something that only works in the iOS app: an Easter Egg. I've only tested this on an iPad, so I don't know if it works on an iPhone. Open the YouTube app (make sure you have the latest version - 2.0), keep a finger on the left sidebar and use another finger to swipe right until the list of videos because almost empty. You'll see a funny cat with a play button.

{ Thanks, Jonah and Max. }

YouTube 5.0 for Android

YouTube 5.0 for Android brings a lot of new features. The player has fewer buttons:

You can search YouTube, check your subscriptions or the video history, while watching a video. It's quite clever: the video is minimized when you tap the arrow from the top-left corner and it continues to play. You can go back to the video by tapping the small player. Unfortunately, this only works in the YouTube, so don't expect to see the minimized player when you close the app.

There's a new interface in the landscape mode, but only for tablets. Until now, the video played in full-screen when you switched to landscape, but now the YouTube app shows suggested videos, comments and more. You can tap the full-screen button in both the portrait and landscape mode.

Other changes: a new app icon, no more +1 button, HD and CC toggles when you tap the overflow button (a strange decision), playlist search, a new slide-out navigation and more.

The new version is gradually rolled out, but you can manually download the APK file from here.

YouTube Tests Sticky Header

Google tests an oversized sticky header. It's a lot bigger than the existing header and it has a fixed position, so you can quickly use the search box, upload videos or open a playlist even when you scroll down.

Unfortunately, it's way too big:

YouTube also experiments with relocating the share button next to the like/dislike buttons and adding sharing buttons for Facebook, Twitter and Google+.



How to enable these experiments? If you use Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari or Internet Explorer 8+:



1. open youtube.com in a new tab



2. load your browser's developer console:



* Chrome or Opera 15+ - press Ctrl+Shift+J for Windows/Linux/ChromeOS or Command-Option-J for Mac



* Firefox - press Ctrl+Shift+K for Windows/Linux or Command-Option-K for Mac



* Opera 12 - press Ctrl+Shift+I for Windows/Linux or Command-Option-I for Mac, then click "Console"



* Safari - check this article



* Internet Explorer - press F12 and select the "Console" tab.



3. paste the following code which changes a YouTube cookie:



document.cookie="VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=JX5TVkqGL3I; path=/; domain=.youtube.com";window.location.reload();



4. press Enter and close the console.



To go back to the regular interface, use the same instructions, but replace the code from step 3 with this one:



document.cookie="VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=; path=/; domain=.youtube.com";window.location.reload();



In other related news, the channel cards seem to be publicly available.



{ via Techno-Net }

Full-Featured vs. Basic Linux Code Editor: Eclipse and Geany Compared

If you’re someone who writes code regularly, it’s highly important that you use a code editor that you’re comfortable with. Under Linux, there is a large selection of editors to choose from, each one aimed at different types of programmers. Choosing just two editors to compare is really hard, but I chose my two favorites: Eclipse and Geany. These two editors are fantastic at what they’re aimed to accomplish, but they’re still vastly different from one another. To take a closer look, I compared these two by the interface, amount of features, overall ease of use, and other characteristics such...

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Google Maps for Mobile Adds Waze Incident Reports

The latest major update of the Google Maps app for Android and iOS added incident reports and many people wondered if the data was obtained from Waze, a service acquired by Google in June. Google used other providers, but it now also uses Waze data.



"Users of Google Maps for Mobile will now benefit from real time incident reports from Waze users. This means when Wazers report accidents, construction, road closures and more on Waze, the updates will also appear on the Google Maps app for Android and iOS in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Germany, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Switzerland, UK and the US," informs Google LatLong.



Google Maps only shows this message next to the traffic incident: "reported via Waze app".

Waze added some Google features: local search results powered by Google Maps, Google Street View and Google satellite imagery in Waze Map Editor.



"Waze users report millions of blockages and accidents per month. 'I think it will have a pretty big impact,' said Brian McClendon, VP of Google Maps. 'A big fraction of GMM users will see these.' As McClendon described it in an interview Monday, Waze will continue to be focused on two core things: its community, and helping people who commute. As for Google Maps' perceived strengths? Those are search, exploring, finding businesses around you, and offering more imagery, according to McClendon," reports AllThingsD.



Will Waze continue to exist as a standalone app? That's obvious. Google could have easily added a "report incident" feature to Google Maps, but not many people would have used it. It takes a lot of time to foster a community of people that manually add data. Google usually obtains data automatically. For example, the Google Maps traffic feature uses aggregated data from users. "Your phone sends anonymous bits of data back to Google describing how fast you're moving. When we combine your speed with the speed of other phones on the road, across thousands of phones moving around a city at any given time, we can get a pretty good picture of live traffic conditions".



Panoramio is a similar service acquired by Google and it still exists after so many years. Panoramio's high-quality photos are added to Google Earth and Google Maps.

Translate Google+ Posts and Comments

Google+ added translation links for posts and comments written in languages you may not understand. Click "Translate" and Google+ will translate the post and the comments. This only works for public posts and the feature is only available on the desktop Google+ site.

Here's what happens after clicking "Translate":

This feature is not that useful if you use Chrome, since the browser has a built-in translation feature that works in Google+ just like it works for any other site.

"The Google Translate team is always working to make information more accessible to individuals around the world. In Google+ this means bringing people together regardless of their written language, and breaking down language barriers that can limit the exchange of ideas," informs the Google Translate blog.