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Top 10 apps responsible for your smartphone Battery drain

Karan S

Are you tired of your smartphone battery running out before the day is over? It can be frustrating when you expect your phone battery to last a full day, but it dies before evening. The most common culprit that drain your battery are the apps installed on your phone. You may be surprised to learn that some of the most popular apps are the biggest battery consumers. We discuss the top 10 battery draining apps. We provide tips on how to reduce battery drain while using them. Criteria for selection…

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What a people search engine is and how to find anyone

Karan S

A people search engine is a helpful tool you can use to locate information on people, much like you would use a phonebook, except that you can find out more about the people. You can use it for Google searches, social media, or in conjunction with a phone book to look up numbers and addresses, and how Radaris deep data search can help you find people with accuracy. Why use a people search? Maybe you’re looking to reconnect with an old classmate or find out if your new neighbor is…

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Make your videos rise above the noise on social media

Karan S

If your firm has decided to take the plunge and get into social media video marketing but doesn’t know where to start, then this article is just the thing for you. The good news is that you don’t need to be the next Steven Spielberg to produce a short explainer video – but you will need to clue up on what’s important when planning and producing your video. Make your company stand out With this in mind, here’s a few best practices for making your videos rise like cream to…

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Zoom has privacy issues – Safe and Secure Alternative services

Karan S

As the Social distancing norms are being put to practice across the globe, the urge to be in touch with other ‘social animals’ is one ‘communicable’ disease whose spread can not be curtailed. This is when people turn to virtual conferencing services. Zoom is Video Communications service that has risen to astronomical popularity of-late. The Zoom (NASDAQ: ZM) stock price sky-rocketed from $70 at the end of January 2020 to almost $160 towards end of March 2020. And March, 2020 being the golden month for Zoom, when their App downloads…

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Top 4 Solutions for Reverse Phone Lookup

Karan S

There is nothing more annoying than seeing a missed call on your screen. If the number is in your contacts, you’ll see a name. But if it’s an unknown number, chances are you’ll be left scratching your head, wondering who on earth was trying to call you. Read on for some useful information about how to check who’s been calling you. What is Reverse Phone Lookup? Reverse lookup is a way of searching for an unknown number, to find out what person or business the number is associated with. Thanks…

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All about Facebook’s new crypto currency - Libra

Karan S

Facebook claims that it wants to access people without a barrier of any bank account. Facebook wants people to make it easy for them to transfer money just like the way they transfer messages by one click. The goal that Facebook seems to target is reduced fee, with easy Money transfers. Unlike commissions charged by crypto-currency sellers, fee to buy Libra with fiat currency (your country’s local currency) is going to be very low. So for users, one will be able to buy and exchange Libra crypto currency just like…

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Study: Video games help people relax

Karan S

Apart from having a comfortable pillow to help make you sleep better, did you know that video games can actually help you feel more relaxed? Video games are often frowned upon as something that lends to an unhealthy lifestyle. Most parents tell their kids that Nintendo or PlayStations are bad because these consoles make people anti-social and can offer up violent content. Of course, several scientific studies have debunked these beliefs, and now, it would seem that they actually do more good than initially thought by most. Howard Markman, a…

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How to Post Animated GIF on Facebook

Tarandeep Singh

Google+ has be the addictive destination for sharing hilarious Animated GIFs, which led Facebook users asking for more. Facebook had been quick to learn and copy from facebook but GIF is one thing they just won’t give to the users for unknown reasons. For years, it was not possible to post and share animated GIFs on Facebook, but its up for a change now. GIPHY lets you share animated GIFs on Facebook right into the Timeline/ news feed stream. GIPHY is a huge GIF repository that allows users to browse and…

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Get Facebook Home on Android APK

Tarandeep Singh

Facebook Home is for Android has been announced for release on April 12th 2013, however a pre-release build has leaked to the web. The APK leaked on the web comes from pre-production model of HTC First ROM. We gave it a shot its rather jerky slow and buggy. We hope to see a better version coming to Play Store. For now if you’re feeling brave, this is the thing you should try out. However, you must note that this leaked Facebook Home supports devices only upto 1280×720 resolution, any phones/tablets…

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Software Tracks user Activity, predicts Future using Social Networks [Video demo]

Tarandeep Singh

There have been millions of privacy allegations raised against Social Networking sites like Facebook. Facebook has indepth knowledge of who you’re and what you like to do. What if this kind of information leaks on to somebody’s hands? US Government and several federal agencies in US are believed to have access to Social networking database of Trillions of users worldwide. This has raised concerns of privacy in every part of the world. A security firm which takes projects from defense, has secretly developed an application that is capable of tracking people’s movements…

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How Facebook Tracks Users

Tarandeep Singh

Social sites that track user activity and sells user data is Evil, hands-down. There have been number of concerns which have taken all the Big players to court. Whether its Google over Wifi streetview data, or Microsoft’s SmartScreen, one thing is pretty clear, Facebook wins all Evil crowns. Facebook is known for breaking all the privacy boundaries and number of incidents & allegations are above all. Facebook is known to store your private data and never delete it. May it be the photos you upload to facebook, those are never…

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Stop / Block Tracking by Facebook, Twitter, Google, Advertisers

Tarandeep Singh

Facebook’s internet wide tracking had sure raised considerable concerns. For those who are not aware, Facebook can track your visits and behaviors across sites even though you didn’t sign-in specifically to a visiting page. It can track your likes, dislikes and interests and no wonder what all. It later compiles all the private data and sells to the advertisers. This data is not anonymized by any way. However, even Google & Twitter track users but its way more anonymized to begin with. Google tracks user’s web history and other behaviors…

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Facebook filing IPO - $FB Valuation

Tarandeep Singh

The biggest debuts for a U.S. company is almost here as Facebook readies itself for its Initial Public offering. The Social networking company is valued at one of the highest ever nearing for a young Tech company: $75 billion to $100 billion. With 800 million+ users, its a country of its own. Facebook would file IPO around Wednesday of next week (i.e. Early Feb 2012). Morgan Stanley would be leading the deal, but it could fall into hands of Gold man sachs as well, who valued them last year. Of course Facebook and…

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How to Get New Facebook Profile Timeline Now

Tarandeep Singh

Facebook has announced New profiles with Timeline of all your events, occassions of the past. The music you like, things you love to do, are all summoned up.   Facebook is rolling the feature first to developers, and in next few weeks for rest of the users. You can get it now, using the easy steps below: To summarize, the new features are available to Facebook developers as of today and would eventually be available in next few weeks. But you can get around this by becoming a developer. No…

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HowTo Migrate Facebook Friends, Photos, Videos to Google Plus

Tarandeep Singh

The permanent migration from Facebook to Google Plus may not happen for you immediately as most of your friends never made it to Plus, and to your surprise most of them didn’t even hear about it. Its a good time to actually make that happen by inviting them all in single shot, as you migrate your Facebook data including Photos, Friends to Google Plus. How to Migrate Facebook friends to Google Plus Facebook won’t let you export your Facebook friends to Gmail or Google Plus for their own anti-competitive reasons.…

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