Microsoft’s "Learn for Success" Program Now Open for IT Students

Microsoft’s "Learn for Success" Program Now Open for IT Students

Thursday, April 16, 2015 / No Comments

Microsoft’s "Learn for Success" 

Microsoft is inviting young IT students to participate in its summer internship program, with only 37 positions available across branches in Pakistan, Egypt, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. In order to make it to the list of selectees, candidates will be required to take part and prove themselves in a competition that Microsoft calls ‘Learn for Success’.

How to Show or Hide File Extensions In Windows 8

How to Show or Hide File Extensions In Windows 8

Saturday, January 31, 2015 /

Since Windows 8 has been released for both Tablets and Desktops, some functions have become very user friendly and easy to implement for users while others have been made difficult. The choice is between a pointing device like a mouse or touch friendly screen. For example, the start menu has been removed. The users who have been using the start menu for ages and have been accustomed to it will feel annoyed and it will take some time to get familiar with the new Metro interface.

If you frequently use Windows  Explorer, you may be familiar with how to show or hide file extensions in Windows 7 or earlier versions of Windows. It was always the same like going to Tools –> Folder Options –> View. Since Windows 8 comes with the ribbon interface, this has changed. In my opinion, the ribbon interface has made it easier to show or hide file extensions in Windows 8. Not you can easily show or hide file extension by going to the View ribbon tab and checking the option “File name extensions”.

Record your Skype Calls Automatically [Skype Auto Recorder]

Record your Skype Calls Automatically [Skype Auto Recorder]

Thursday, January 29, 2015 /

Skype is a very useful instant messaging tool for individuals and businesses. There are many businesses which make use of Skype for communicating with their clients. There are times when we want to record our voice calls on Skype. Unfortunately there is no built-in feature for voice recording in Skype.

There are several third party tools which can record Skype voice calls for free. Skype Auto Recorder is one such free software which can make your life easier by automatically recording all the voice conversations on a computer. It only needs configuration once and then starts recording all the calls from Skype.

How to Send Large Files And Folders Online With uTorrent

How to Send Large Files And Folders Online With uTorrent

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No email system or instant messenger allows the user to send large files online. If you have a big video, or a movie or a lot of pictures to send, you should take the concept of ‘mailing them’ out of your mind. For Google, you can only send a maximum file size of 25 MB. Most other email services will use the same limit. Uploading files to cloud storage takes a lot of time. Even downloading them is not an easy task.

If you have huge amounts of data and want to send it to your friends, uTorrent can do the transfer work for you without actually uploading the data online. Since uTorrent works for all platforms including Windows, Linux, Mac OS etc., this method should work on all Operating Systems. We will be running this tutorial on Windows 8.

The benefit of downloading files through uTorrent is that the downloads can be queued and can actually be “resumed” when the source (where the original files reside) becomes available. In this article, we will go through how to send large files through uTorrent with resuming capabilities.

How To Extend 30 Day Trial Software To Run Forever

How To Extend 30 Day Trial Software To Run Forever

Wednesday, January 28, 2015 /

If you have recently downloaded a trial software and want to test it for more than the trial period which is normally 30 days, this article is exactly for you. This article describes different ways to extend the trial period of trial software.

The below methods will not be able to get you complete software. If the trial version of the software runs with limitations, they will still run in limitation as the trial software will always remain in trial using these methods.

Please note that we are suggesting these ways only for people who want to evaluate the software for more than 30 days and then buy the software. It is always recommended to buy a software if you like it. This will help the developers keep the software up to date.

The best way to use the software in extended evaluation is to contact the software vendor and ask them for an extended evaluation time. They will most probably entertain your request and give you some extended evaluation time.

Reinstall the software/Reset Date and Time

The easiest way to reset a trial version of the software is that you can uninstall it and then re-install it again. This will reset the trial  version. Most modern software use advanced techniques and will not allow you to reset the trial version of the software even after re-installation.

The other workaround is to play with your system date and time. You can adjust your system clock to a earlier date after installing the software. The software will continue to work as it uses the system date to see if the 30 day trial period is over or not. Most modern software have protection against this method. If these two methods fail, you may see the next method.

How To Enable Right Click and Copying On Any Webpage

How To Enable Right Click and Copying On Any Webpage

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Recently a client asked me that he had to copy a lot of data from a website but the website would not let him right click or even select the text and copy it. He said that this was a weired problem and was only one website was affected by this problem. Upon some research and analysis I came to know that the website was using a script (JavaScript) to disable the right click menu and preventing copying of text and images from the web page.

This JavaScript trick is usually used to prevent people from copying data from a webpage but it can be misguiding and frustrates people. If anyone is using this trick, he may well be losing loyal visitors and even customers. Anyways the solution to this problem is quite simple. Let’s do it for all three browsers.

3 Ways To Disable Windows Update Forced Restart In Windows 8

3 Ways To Disable Windows Update Forced Restart In Windows 8

Thursday, August 28, 2014 /

“Your PC needs to restart to finish installing updates. If you’ve already saved your work, you can restart now”. How many of you have seen this warning when Windows 8 automatically downloads and then installs the updates? In this article, we will talk about how to disable Windows Update forced restart warnings.

If you have been using Windows 8 for a while, you must have come across the annoying warning “Your PC will restart in 2 days”. The amount of time decreases with each warning message and at last you will see this warning message 15 minutes before Windows 8 restarts automatically. Unfortunately, there is no way you can stop the restart from happening except quickly running the command shutdown /a from the command line. This command will stop the automatic shutdown process.

We present three ways to stop Windows 8 from forcing the PC to restart:

1. Using Windows Update Force Restart Disabler

This is by far the simplest way to prevent Windows Update from restarting the computer. You will only need to download and run Windows Update Force Restart Disabler. It will automatically disable Windows Update from automatic restarts. When you run the utility, it will ask administrative privileges and then give a success or failure result.

2. Using Group Policy Editor

If you are using Windows 8 Professional or Ultimate editions, you will be able to use the Group Policy Editor to disable Windows Update restart notifications. Follow the steps below:

Importance of Users Generated Tags, Votes and Links for Traffic

Importance of Users Generated Tags, Votes and Links for Traffic

Tuesday, August 26, 2014 /

The positive impacts of social bookmarking for distributers of news locales, online journals, and other sites is remarkable. Social bookmarking can acquaint destinations with others with applicable tastes, drive movement to your site, and profitable backlinks.

Generated Tags, Votes and Links for SEO

Observing social bookmarking administrations like Delicious and StumbleUpon help web indexes in numerous courses by:

• Indexing Sites Faster : Humans bookmark sites launched by their friends or colleagues before a search engine bot can find them.
• Deeper Indexing : Many pages bookmarked are deep into sites and sometimes not as easily linked to by others, found via bad or nonexistent site navigation or linked to from external pages.
• Measuring Quality : Essentially if more users bookmark a page, the more quality and relevance that site has. A site with multiple bookmarks across multiple bookmarking services by multiple users is much more of an authority than a site with only several bookmarks by the same user.