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Use The Disk Defragmenter Tool To Speed Up Data Access On Your Hard Disk
Utility program used to manage the files and used to tidy up the space on your hard disk, so the operating system can access data faster and easier. When operating system data on the hard disk, storing data in the first available sector on the disk. In this case the data file stored on disk in a dispersed form, referred to as "fragmented files". Fragmentation slows down computer speed data access. You can boost your computer performance by de-fragmenting your hard disk.
In the process of de-fragmentation, data from each file are stored in continuous sectors. There are many third-party software available in the market for this purpose but you can use a program called Disk Defragmenter utility in Windows operating system. To start the Disk Defragmenter tool, first make sure all running programs are closed.
To run the Disk Defragmenter tool, click the Start button, type Run and type dfrg.msc then press ok. Then the Disk Defragmenter window will appear. Select the drive and press the defragmenter. If you have a large hard disk, this process can take several hours. We recommend you do this every 1 (one) month if you want to improve your computer performance.
How to Use PowerPoint Word Excel on iPhone With CloudOn
How to Use PowerPoint, Word, Excel on iPhone With CloudOn:
For many people, one of the most important features that an iPhone and other iOS devices still lacks is native support for Office documents, namely, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Surprisingly, Microsoft has announced that it will bring the popular productivity suite to iOS devices sometime next year.
However, there are a few excellent alternatives in the App Store that we have showed you already, like Google Drive and Dropbox. Even so, what these apps offer are more like workarounds and not a direct way to interact with your Office documents.
Thankfully though, CloudOn solves that with an app that allows you to access, create and edit all your Office documents on the go, and does so while integrating with other services so everything is kept up to date.
Here’s is a quick look at how CloudOn works.
Upon opening the app you will be greeted with a short, but useful demo showcasing the app’s most important features. Once within the app, you are presented with your accounts’ panel, where you can access all of your documents from some of the most important online services, including Dropbox, Google Drive, Box and SkyDrive.
Once you start navigating each of the services within the app (Dropbox in this case), you will feel right at home with the interface, since CloudOn follows how files are organized on each of them.
Note: While CloudOn is powerful enough to handle most Office documents, I found it odd that it wouldn’t recognize some simple .TXT files.
Of course, CloudOn is not about opening simple text files, so I immediately tried it out with some quite heavy Excel spreadsheets and Word documents.
Working with spreadsheets on CloudOn turned out to be like walking with shoes among dunes, which means that it was mostly pleasant but with a few annoyances here and there. On the positive side, CloudOn had no trouble opening even the most data-heavy spreadsheets that I threw at it. However, scrolling through them brought memories of some of the worst web apps that I’ve tried on the iPhone. I have an iPhone 4S, which is no slouch but still, navigating through my spreadsheets felt slow.
CloudOn almost instantly makes up for it however, with the variety of editing options that it offers for you to tweak and work with your spreadsheets. It doesn’t offer the full array of Microsoft Excel’s editing tools but what was there worked well and was far more than anyone editing spreadsheets from a smartphone should need.
The experience while working with Word documents was slightly better, with my documents not lagging that much when scrolling through them and with the variety of editing tools offered being on par with what was offered for spreadsheets.
Syncing also worked as expected, with every edit that I made on my documents updating almost instantly on my Dropbox folder.
Besides the normal document editing tools, CloudOn also offers you the ability to create both folders and documents from the ground up, all of which worked without problems in my tests. When working with photo files though, I noticed that not all of them showed well on more than one occasion, which must surely be caused due to a glitch or bug in the app that needs fixing.
One last important feature that I almost forgot to mention about CloudOn is its Recent Files option, which shows the most recent files you’ve worked with, saving lots of time that would otherwise be spent browsing and searching for them.
Via Guidingtech
How to Use PowerPoint, Word, Excel on iPhone With CloudOn
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For many people, one of the most important features that an iPhone and other iOS devices still lacks is native support for Office documents, namely, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Surprisingly, Microsoft has announced that it will bring the popular productivity suite to iOS devices sometime next year.However, there are a few excellent alternatives in the App Store that we have showed you already, like Google Drive and Dropbox. Even so, what these apps offer are more like workarounds and not a direct way to interact with your Office documents.
Thankfully though, CloudOn solves that with an app that allows you to access, create and edit all your Office documents on the go, and does so while integrating with other services so everything is kept up to date.
Here’s is a quick look at how CloudOn works.
Upon opening the app you will be greeted with a short, but useful demo showcasing the app’s most important features. Once within the app, you are presented with your accounts’ panel, where you can access all of your documents from some of the most important online services, including Dropbox, Google Drive, Box and SkyDrive.
Once you start navigating each of the services within the app (Dropbox in this case), you will feel right at home with the interface, since CloudOn follows how files are organized on each of them.
Note: While CloudOn is powerful enough to handle most Office documents, I found it odd that it wouldn’t recognize some simple .TXT files.
Of course, CloudOn is not about opening simple text files, so I immediately tried it out with some quite heavy Excel spreadsheets and Word documents.
Working with spreadsheets on CloudOn turned out to be like walking with shoes among dunes, which means that it was mostly pleasant but with a few annoyances here and there. On the positive side, CloudOn had no trouble opening even the most data-heavy spreadsheets that I threw at it. However, scrolling through them brought memories of some of the worst web apps that I’ve tried on the iPhone. I have an iPhone 4S, which is no slouch but still, navigating through my spreadsheets felt slow.
CloudOn almost instantly makes up for it however, with the variety of editing options that it offers for you to tweak and work with your spreadsheets. It doesn’t offer the full array of Microsoft Excel’s editing tools but what was there worked well and was far more than anyone editing spreadsheets from a smartphone should need.
The experience while working with Word documents was slightly better, with my documents not lagging that much when scrolling through them and with the variety of editing tools offered being on par with what was offered for spreadsheets.
Syncing also worked as expected, with every edit that I made on my documents updating almost instantly on my Dropbox folder.
Besides the normal document editing tools, CloudOn also offers you the ability to create both folders and documents from the ground up, all of which worked without problems in my tests. When working with photo files though, I noticed that not all of them showed well on more than one occasion, which must surely be caused due to a glitch or bug in the app that needs fixing.
One last important feature that I almost forgot to mention about CloudOn is its Recent Files option, which shows the most recent files you’ve worked with, saving lots of time that would otherwise be spent browsing and searching for them.
Conclusions
It is true that in less than a year Microsoft will finally offer a set of native iOS Office apps, yet in my case I really don’t see the need for them. Office has become a tool needed mostly by companies and by those who create complex documents. For everyone else, options like CloudOn (and other inexpensive productivity tools on the App Store) offer great functionality for free.Via Guidingtech
How to Use Android or iPhone As a Presentation Remote Control
Presentations has significant importance in many fields such as classroom lecturing, businesses, etc. To deliver a presentation to an audience, usually we use a remote control or a wireless mouse to change the slides. However, if above two options aren’t available, here is how you can use your smartphone (iPhone or Android) as a remote control for your presentation.
Presentation Remote is a free web service that lets you control your presentations with your smartphone (currently it works with Chrome and Safari browsers only). The working procedure is very simple, just as described below.
- Install the extension “Presentation Remote” in Chrome from Web Store and then install a free mobile app “de Mobo” on your Android or iPhone.
- Now, open the “Presentation Remote” web app in Chrome and click “Connect” button. It’ll show a QR Code. On your phone, open “de Mobo” app, tap “Create Connection”, and then scan the QR Code to establish connection with your phone and computer (Make sure the phone and computer are using the same Wi-Fi network for reliable performance).
- Once both your phone and computer are connected, copy and paste the presentation URL into the text field. You can use PPT, PDF or Word document saved on your Google Drive or Dropbox as well as Slideshar, Scribd or Google docs presentation.
Now just swipe on your phone to change the slides or page, toggle the full screen view by pressing full screen button the phone, single tap the timer to start or pause the timer and double tap the timer to reset the timer. That’s all!
Via Techtrickz
Use Multiple Google Accounts in Chrome Web Browser
I have always found it annoying having to use multiple browsers to sign into several Google accounts. I’ve also found it annoying that I had to install add-ons and extensions in browsers like Firefox to get it to work properly.
Personally, I like to use Google Chrome and none of the other browsers. In every other browser, you have to install some kind of add-on or extension to sign into multiple Google accounts in the same browser. Luckily, with recent versions of Google Chrome, this is now a built in feature!
I have no idea when it was released, but I just found it while playing around in the settings for Chrome. In this article, I’ll walk you through the steps to set it up and show you how it works.
Using Chrome with Multiple Users
To get started, click on the Wrench icon and then click on Settings.
Now click on Add new user at the bottom under Users.
It’ll pop up a new instance of Google Chrome and ask you to sign in:
Once you enter your email and password, you’ll see it says you are now signed into Chrome. You’ll also notice another big change: a big icon sitting at the top right of your browser window:
When you click on it, you can see the list of users. Now in Chrome on PC, the icon shows up at the far left instead of the far right. When you click on the icon, you’ll see a list of users. By default, if you haven’t customized anything, it’ll call the original user First user and it’ll just create a random name for the second user, Sneaky or AgentX or some other random name.
If you go back to Settings in Chrome, click on the (Current) user and then click on the Edit button.
Now you can give the user a more practical name and also choose a different icon from their small selection.
In order to edit the other user, you have to switch to that user using the icon at the top of the browser window. Then go to Settings and then click Edit again. Here are my two users setup after the customizations:
It works great and you can sign into multiple Google accounts at the same time. The only downside currently that I see is that it opens the new user in a new Chrome window. It would be nice if they could somehow get it to work so that you could open a different user account in a separate tab in the same window! But other than that, it’s way easier than installing add-ons and logging in multiple times, etc, etc. Enjoy!
Use Your Android Phone’s Hardware Buttons Backlight as Notification LED
Use Your Android Phone’s Hardware Buttons Backlight as Notification LED:
Some Android phone has a front LED light for missed calls, texts and emails, which is handy for those who put their phone into silent mode most time. You don’t need to wake up the phone over and over to know a missed call, email or text messages. However, some devices do not have such a dedicated notification LED, but you can bring similar notification feature to such phones also.
Even if your phone has no notification LED, there are few applications available at Play Store to bring LED notification like feature, but may not work with all phones. To overcome this, an XDA forum member GermainZ has released an app called ButtonLED. This app should work on all rooted devices, as long as they have a flashlight and proximity sensor. It allows you to have LED like notifications without actually having the LED light.
Unlike similar apps that use your screen for notification, ButtonLED only uses the hardware buttons’ backlight (that is, your screen remains stays off) and is customizable to some extent.
How does it work?
- Download the app (download link below) and install it. Open the app, scroll down and open the folder “Auto locate brightness file”.
- Chose hardware buttons brightness file (if there are more than one file, choose first one), then tap on “Test ButtonLED”.
- If your capacitive buttons flash, you’re good to go. Otherwise, you will need to select a different brightness file and test it.
Also, you can customize the app to some extent. For example, you can enable or disable notification for missed calls and emails, LED on off duration, suspend the notification when the battery goes low etc.
ButtonLED can be downloaded from source here.
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Some Android phone has a front LED light for missed calls, texts and emails, which is handy for those who put their phone into silent mode most time. You don’t need to wake up the phone over and over to know a missed call, email or text messages. However, some devices do not have such a dedicated notification LED, but you can bring similar notification feature to such phones also.
Even if your phone has no notification LED, there are few applications available at Play Store to bring LED notification like feature, but may not work with all phones. To overcome this, an XDA forum member GermainZ has released an app called ButtonLED. This app should work on all rooted devices, as long as they have a flashlight and proximity sensor. It allows you to have LED like notifications without actually having the LED light.
Unlike similar apps that use your screen for notification, ButtonLED only uses the hardware buttons’ backlight (that is, your screen remains stays off) and is customizable to some extent.
How does it work?
- Download the app (download link below) and install it. Open the app, scroll down and open the folder “Auto locate brightness file”.
- Chose hardware buttons brightness file (if there are more than one file, choose first one), then tap on “Test ButtonLED”.
- If your capacitive buttons flash, you’re good to go. Otherwise, you will need to select a different brightness file and test it.
Also, you can customize the app to some extent. For example, you can enable or disable notification for missed calls and emails, LED on off duration, suspend the notification when the battery goes low etc.
ButtonLED can be downloaded from source here.
Use Copy Paste Hotkeys To Upload Images To The Web With Snaggy
Copying and pasting images works best on your desktop computer between apps and from one folder to another, but you won’t find too many web apps that allow you to paste images directly to their interface. Most, if not all image hosting services will have you manually upload or drag & drop an image from your desktop. Very few of them would allow you to paste images view the Ctrl+V shortcut that you’re used to, and fewer still extend that functionality to images you might have copied online rather than from your computer. Snaggy is like an image clipboard for the internet that also supports your desktop. It lets you copy and paste images from any website or your computer, and paste it in the app via the Ctrl+V shortcut. Snaggy has a built in editor that will let you crop images, annotate them with text, and draw on them. It uploads the images online to its own server, from where you can then share it using a direct link or one of the many social network buttons.
When you visit Snaggy, you will get the feeling that Ctrl+V is all that’s impressive about this web service, but it’s much more than that. You can copy and paste an image from your desktop or from a website and paste it here. When pasting images from your desktop, the service will ask for permission to run a Java plug-in, and to access your clipboard.
The weird thing about the service is that it doesn’t support drag & drop for your desktop images. It is rather odd that a service supporting the Ctrl+V shortcut does not support drag & drop while the majority of image sharing services like Minus and Imgur do. It comes of as a ‘neither may live while the other survives’ thing, where you can only have one image pasting feature and not both.
Once you paste an image to Snaggy, it gives you a link to share and the option to edit the image as well. Snaggy’s image editor is disappointing when it comes to the interface, in contrast to the home page of the service. There are only a few select functions available in the editor, but the page still looks messy for some reason. Perhaps it is the color scheme that is a little off-putting, but the image itself isn’t presented well either and could do with a border at the very least.
The focus of the editor interface is on the share link. Below it are controls for cropping, drawing, adding a rectangle, or annotating the image. The service responds to Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y functions for undoing and redoing an action. To apply and save a change you made to the image, click the action button in the center and then the save button to its right.
Each time you save the image, a new version is created and uploaded. You will notice the link changes after each save. This means that if you edit the image, you will have to share it again since the changes will not be reflected in the first link you shared. If you check the ‘Delete original image after saving’ option, older versions of your image will automatically be removed from the server.
It isn’t clear how long Snaggy keeps an image or if there are any size and format restrictions to this web service. You can manually delete an image by clicking the ‘(delete this image)’ link at the bottom of the page. Clicking the link opens it in a new tab and should you want to paste another image, you will have to return to its home page again.
Snaggy is best used for quickly sharing online images without having to save them to your desktop first.
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[via Lifehacker]
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