It is a common thing for people nowadays who use a USB drive with different public PC’s and they get affected with thousands of worms and Trojans. Many times, these Trojans affect the USB drive so bad that not only all the data in it is erased, but also it corrupts the USB flash drive. The term ‘corrupts’ here means the USB drive is no more accessible onto a PC. The system shows the memory as 0 bytes after checking its properties by right clicking on it. Even after trying to format it, Windows gives various errors and it fails to format the drive and make it work again. Here, I have some ways in which you can try to get back the data you have lost due to corrupted USB.

It annoys a lot if you have a limited bandwidth internet connection or a slower one, and some background processes are eating up your data as well as lowering surfing speed. I have the same problem with my laptop having Windows 7 – 32 bit installed in it. I noticed a service named ‘svchost.exe (netsvcs)’ is the reason behind this mess, so I started doing various experiments to stop the service so that it will stop eating my internet bandwidth.

Many times, while transferring data from your computer to your USB drive, you wont get satisfactory file transfer speed. This happens due to slow transfer rate of USB. To solve this problem you might have tried restarting your computer, unplug or plug-in USB and formatting it but even after this you might have found the same result. But the USB Speed can easily be optimized if you follow the right steps.

Most of the times while using a Windows XP or Windows 7 pc, sudden crash of an application pops up a small error window. This error window is used to report Microsoft about the cause which crashed the application in your operating system due to any reason. This actually helps Microsoft to study the error which crashed the application and then to solve that particular error. This feature can be easily disabled by going through following simple steps

Today, firefox it the most popular, widely used web browser in the world. It becomes dofficult for most of the web serfers like me to move to another machine or after changing OS and re-build the bookmarks, browsing history and passwords in firefox. So, here is a toll that can be used to take peropdic backup of all your firefox’s data, which can be restored on another machine and/or after installing fresh copy of firefox to use it just like before.

Today, Google is the main tool that we use to search anything we want on the web. But if you want to access it without internet connection on your phone then? Yes you can do that! As i have described in the last post, you can use some special set of keywords and send them as SMS on some numbers and you will get the search rearults accoording to your query directly on your phone vis SMS. Follow these steps to search anything via a sms without any third party application.

Don’t you have a smartphone? Are you been jealous of your friends having 1 or 2 of them? Don’t worry, you can do nearly all the mobile tricks they can if you know how to use your ordinary phone. However, the day-to-day routine becomes increasingly more inconvenient for those who can’t download an app at the snap (or touch) of their fingertips.

If you think you’re behind because you don’t own a smartphone, you should know there aren’t as many smartphone users as you’d think. There are plenty of ways to utilize your phone for more than just texting and calling. Even if you have a smartphone, sometimes you run into an area without service, so it’s good to know how to get back to basics.

So, here are few things you get a costly smartphone to do for, but these thing can be done by your ordinary phones! Check out how.

Google has released the latest version of its mobile operating system (version 2.3) named Gingerbread on the Android’s second birthday. While version 2.2 code-named Froyo was major in terms of improving speed, performance. Gingerbread focuses on improving user interface with new keyboard layout, support for internet and video calls, better gaming and media experience.

Now a days, USB flash drives is the most common and convenient way to carry and transfer files from system system. Each and every person who uses computers uses flash drives atleast once a day.
But while transferring files through USB flash drives our system often get infected from the malicious virus which can generate various problems. And it is obvious that if the USB flash drive will remain infected with virus, it will be affecting all the computers with infection which it is once plugged in.

Microsoft frequently releases Security and other essential updates for windows. These updates fix newly discovered bugs and increases efficiency and protection of Windows OS. If you don’t have internet connection or have slower internet then you can’t get the updates directly from microsft. instead you have to use a third party application called Autopatcher.

AutoPacher allows you to download for your windows Operating system and saves it for offline installation. This gives you the liberty to update any computer without internet connection.

Hacking someone’s Facebook account and then posting unacceptable content is the most popular method to take revenge these days. Recently hackers are been active in most areas of India and hacked thousands of  facebook accounts and post unwanted contents. This can happen to anyone and its better to take preventive measures rather to face embarrassing situations later. Here are the security aids you can use to protect your facebook account from being hacked.

VOIP means Voice Over Internet Protocol which is used to transmit  Voice calls over Internet. There are many applications which can serve the purpose but the only requirement is that both the phones should have same application installed and Internet connectivity (preferably Wifi or 3G). Here are the few applications that can be used on your Android or iOS device to make VOIP calls absolutely free of cost.

Businesses are much more clever now. They see how popular the web and social networking is and often block those sites from employee access. Not only are work places doing this, but so are schools, colleges, even some libraries and churches. If you want to access your social networking profiles, email or blogs from one of these locations, it can be frustrating. At a company that does live chat customer support software that I work for we needed to access our tools from all over the world and it was very difficult. Also we all know that it’s really hard to stay away from these sites for 8-9 hours a day while at work or school; so here are 8 methods you can use to access these blocked sites.

You’re the computer whiz in your circle of friends and family, which means, inevitably, somebody is going to call for tech support. If you can’t fix it in person, these are the best approaches we’ve found for troubleshooting from far away.

With distance being a formidable foe, and without the ability to see the computer in question, there are limitations to what you can do. You can, however, get Aunt Sally’s computer working again, regardless of whether you, or she, have a mastery of remote desktop software and command line codes. Here’s how to break everything down, step by step, in Plain Joe English.

Internet Download Manager or IDM is one of the finest download accelerators available for downloading purpose. It works in both Windows and Ubuntu (Linux). It can speed up downloading process upto 5 times your normal download speed. Portable version of IDM helps you to manage your downloads right from your USB sticks.
You have to run EXECUTABLE file in Ubuntu using Wine. If you have not installed wine then click here for complete guide to install and use wine in Ubuntu.

So what is Wine? WINE (Wine Is Not An Emulator) is an open source software which translates Windows applications (Executables) into equivalent POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) code that Linux can understand and use. By using Wine, you can now run Windows apps and software i,e. .exe files on Linux (Ubuntu). So how to install and use Wine in Ubuntu 11.04 (Linux)? Here is a step by step procedure to install wine easily via terminal commands.

Blogger.com is one of the most popular blogging platforms on the Internet, yet if you have a blog with them you are often stuck with the default Blogger.com favicon. Hard to brand your blog with your own personal touch when you have the Blogger.com favicon on the address bar. If people bookmark your blog they won’t see your favicon and might quickly forget about your website. There is no reason why you can’t change the favicon on your Blogger.com blog to one of your own design. You just need to follow these easy steps and soon your Blogger.com blog will sport your great new custom made favicon.

Technology is advancing day-by-day. Even judging by the apps being launched every hour, it is “okay” to say that technology is advancing by each passing hour. If you don’t agree, read on the next few lines of this articles. Take the example of transferring files from PC to phone. Earlier we used to transfer files to phone using a data cable, then came the wireless transfer via bluetooth, and now we introduce to you the first ever wireless and “Bluetooth-less” transfer, using Nokia Drop. Now you bet about advancement in technology.

We usually set password for our memory card for privacy and security, but the common mistake every one does at least once in out life time forgetting password. If you set password for mobile memory card, then you should be not forget the password. If you does then the only option is to formate your memory card with the help of the card reader and eventually the loss of all your data stored on it. There is a way to break the security wall. If you are a Symbian device lover then no need to worry about the password. You can crack them in few minutes.

With the rise in laptop buyers its essential for laptop users to make sure they use their laptop batteries to the fullest and make sure they can achieve the highest performance with the available battery. Generally most laptops are claimed to have 4-6 hours of battery life but in real it comes to 50% of the promised backup time because of many factors like heavy laptop usage while on battery backup, running USB Based gadgets, CD/DVD Roms etc and shedding down huge battery life. You also need to make sure about some battery life saving tips because the laptop batteries generally have a life of around 1000 recharge cycles. Here is a list of 19 essential tips which can almost double your laptop battery life and offer you a better laptop experiance.