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‘Seen’ on Facebook Chat

Social Networking Giant Facebook stumbled with yet another update. It left many users confused as well as outraged. During a instant chat session on Facebook, If you send a message to a fellow user, and if your message is seen by the person on the other side, It displays ‘Seen’  with a check mark and followed by the time, when the message was seen. Picture displaying the New ‘Seen’ Notification on Facebook Chat Many users expressed their discontent as it intrudes the privacy of a user. Kiss goodbye to Ignoring annoying messages from your annoying friends. How to Disable Seen Notification on Facebook Chat Currently, there is no efficient way of disabling this feature.   One way is to avoid opening the chat box .  You can also try reading message’s short description on the message’s page without clicking on it. A friend of mine suggested a way to hide that you’ve the message on Facebook chat by not clicking on the message input box (Only works

eSata vs Usb 3.0 | The Speed Factor

eSata made it’s debut as an extension for one most the most popular data transfer technology, SATA. On the other hand, USB 3.0 is on it’s way to the top. So you might be wondering which one to choose for your device eSata vs Usb 3.0 | Speed and Performance Usb 3.0 was much of an overhaul of USB 2.0 in terms of speed and performance. It now supports speeds upto  5 GB/sec  almost 11 times that of old school USB 2.0 which hardly reached 500 MB/sec. While on the other hand, eSata finishes the marathon first with bandwidth clocked nearly 6 GB/ sec. But in practical, there won’t much speed variation. eSata handles data writing a little faster than USB but loses to it at reading data. One point that should be noted before deciding on choosing between eSata and USB 3.0 is backward compatibility. USB 3.0 port does support older devices compatible with USB 2.0. Here’s a video which brings out comparison between eSata and USB 3.0 in terms of speed and performan

Top 5 Best Legal Websites to Watch Free Online Movies

I know Many of you out here are movie freaks. Do you find DVD rentals too costly or too busy to go to the movie theaters? I’ve compiled list of Top 10 Best Websites to Watch Movies Online absolutely free. No Monthly Fee, No subscription. There a literally hundreds of sites which offer copyrighted movies and TV shows, to protect copyrights and protect the financial field of movie production, I’ve only included Websites to Watch Movies Legally. Best Websites to Watch Movies Online Hulu Hulu  is one of the best Websites to Watch Movies and TV shows online Legally. It contains almost every TV show. Only for US residents  Awesome Playback quality and pretty exhaustive collection of movies Free usage is feature and usage restricted which can be unlocked by subscribing for Hulu Plus, a paid Online Movies and TV Show providing service.  Youtube Movies Youtube Movies  is probably the most popular Movies library coming from the line of one of the most

Top 10 Tricks and Pranks on Notepad

Scare your friends and make them believe their computer is ‘Possessed’ with these simple Computer Pranks, most of which only require a notepad. Scary Notepad Tricks and Pranks 9. Automatically Close and Open CD/DVD ROM In Notepad, Copy paste the below code and save it as ‘anyname.vbs’ Set oWMP = CreateObject(“WMPlayer.OCX.7″) Set colCDROMs = oWMP.cdromCollection do if colCDROMs.Count >= 1 then For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count – 1 colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject Next For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count – 1 colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject Next End If wscript.sleep 5000 loop You must somehow persuade your friend to open the file or set up a plot to scare your friend with this trick 8. Text to Speech in Notepad – Ghost Voice You can convert Text to Speech in Notepad. Copy and Paste the below code into Notepad and save it as ‘anything.vbs’ Dim msg, sapi msg=InputBox(“You are going to Die”) Set sapi=CreateObject(“sapi.spvoice”) sapi.Speak msg Change ‘You are going t

How to create Wifi hotspot on Iphone

Personal Wifi Hotspot feature is currently available only for Iphone 4.  AT&T Iphone 4 users can create a Personal Wifi Hotspot on their Iphone handsets.  Literally you can turn your Iphone into a portable 3G router.  It is yet another feature introduced by Apple and AT&T to cash from it. To enable this feature, users are levied an extra charge of 20$ per month which also includes 2 GB of usage data.  How to create Wifi hotspot on Iphone legally 1. Contact AT&T or any other CDMA provider which has this feature enabled and get the Personal Hotspot Option authorized. 2. In your Iphone Handset browse to ‘General Settings’ , In ‘Network’ tab slide the Personal Hotspot option to ‘ON’ You can also set a password for the  network. To access this WiFi network in other devices, just select this network from available network list. How to create Wifi hotspot on Iphone without monthly fee Iphone 4′ s Personal Wifi hotspot feature announcement has left ma

Yahoo TimeTraveler

Yahoo recently rolled out the most flexible travel guide app, Yahoo TimeTraveler. It’s innovative functions and analytic design makes it stand out of the tough competition What if you’re stuck with delayed flight timings or at a tourist spot and have not travel schedule pre-planned? Forget the old-hat methods of running into a travel kiosk, inquiring about the local sight seeing. Yahoo TimeTraveler app creates a new dimension of planning your travel the ‘smart’ way.  All you need to do is provide your location, Destination and time available for the travel. Using it’s Flickr integration and complex algorithms, Yahoo TimeTraveler plans a travel based on your available time. How cool is that? You can also share the plan with your friends via social networking and can also record your travel for future references and sweet memories. How Does Yahoo TimeTraveler work? Yahoo TimeTraveler app is integrated with Flickr Database. Through it’s unique algor

Download Torrents on Android ?

Torrents are the best choice to share and load files. Keeping Piracy aside, a torrent in my opinion is the best file transfer solution.  There are countless advantages of torrents to classic file downloads. Torrent downloads on Android is something many smartphone users are unaware of. Unlike the Apple Appstore which initially filtered out torrent clients from entering, so it had lot of complications like Jailbreaking involved in the process. Fortunately Torrents for Android works out of the box. Download Torrents on Android Ttorrent Lite  is a free Torrent client for Android devices. It consists almost every feature of full fledged Bittorrent client like Download Speed limit, Wifi Mode, Tracking, Torrent Search. Ttorrent Lite has very friendly User Interface. It is pretty much similar to utorrent client for PC. The sidebar has tabs for various download status such as Downloading, Completed, Checking, Paused e.t.c You can view the torrents currently bein

How to Fix Image Loading Error on Facebook

Facebook, invariably the fastest growing website can often get their users strangled up with connection and interface problems due to it’s massive server load. One of the problems many a users have been troubling with is Facebook images not loading or showing up. Images Not Showing up on Facebook Every other day there is an outrage among the Facebook  ‘Seen of Facebook Chat’  users regarding the Images Not Loading bug. Facebook Error report team had been constantly spammed with complaints regarding the Images Loading bug. How to Fix Images loading Error It could get pretty annoying for Facebook addicts like me, If the images do not properly load or show up. I’ve compiled solutions for some common reason posing the Image Load error Secure Browsing SSL certificate Few hours ago today, Facebook had issues with SSL certificate rendering users who have the Secure Browsing enabled. Sign in your Facebook Account Browse to ‘Security’ in Account Settings Click

Why People Use Browsers Other Than Internet Explorer

If you don’t already know what an internet browser is, it is what you use to browse the internet, it is the program you are using right now to read this post. For a long time the vast majority of people simply used what came with windows, Microsoft Internet Explorer. There have been various versions released over the years, with upgrades, new features, and better performance  but it hasn’t slowed down the interest of web users in alternatives like Mozilla Firefox and Google’s Chrome browser. For the most part, at their core the programs serve exactly the same purpose but there are several reasons why people choose to use other options. Features: Programs like Mozilla Firefox have loads of cool plug-ins. A plug-in is a little add on that gets installed to make your web browser a little nicer. Some of the are just cosmetic, ways to make your web browser look different, to give you a custom look. Other add on programs make life easier things like toolbars and other plug

How to Verify Facebook Account without a Phone

Facebook constantly rolls out updates to control the population of spammers and ensure quality social networking. It included a security check which pr0mpts to confirm our phone number. Purpose of Phone Verification A lot of social media websites upgraded email verification to the next level, Phone number verification. The system sends you a code through either through SMS or a phone call and you must enter the code to verify your account. If you restrain from getting phone verified on Facebook, you will be constantly bugged to enter a Captcha for every friend required and page like. There is already an obvious level of spam in Facebook, No wonder if Facebook makes Phone Verification Mandatory in future. How to Verify Facebook Account Without A Phone 1. Disposable Numbers:-  Disposable Numbers are easy to setup call redirection services which adds an extra privacy layer on the Internet. Google Voice  allows free Call Redirection to unlimited number of mobile phones

Top 5 Siri Tricks for iPhone 4S that can Amaze you

Siri is the most adorable app on iPhone 4S. The  Artificial Intelligence powered app unarguably makes our life easier. But there are few Siri Tricks, even Apple freaks like you and me never knew. Top 10 Siri Tricks 1. Set up Contacts and Relationships You can get Siri Recognize your contacts and relationship. For example speak out ‘Rachel is my wife’, It will recognize your command and pops out a confirmation message to let Siri Remember if ‘Rachel Grin is your wife’. If you choose ‘Yes’. It will remember the relationship and when ever you input ‘Call my Wife’, It will automatically call the phone number associated with Rachel Grin. 2. Let Siri Do your Homework Siri is integrated with Mathematical knowledge database ‘Wolfram Alpha’, It can solve many mathematical equations as well as expressions. It can also answer geographical and general knowledge questions such as ‘ What is the time in USA, Distance between New York and Chicago’ e.t.c.