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9 Tips to Help you Survive in Last Oasis

May 5, 2021May 6, 2021 Karan S

Stealing, fighting, hiding, and navigating the desert are some of the things you have to do to survive in Last Oasis. The world here is brutal; the sun, scorching and burning up regions. You have to keep moving to stand a chance. Your home and vehicle is a walker you must build, equip and protect as several other pirates would kill to have your walker and all the goodies stored in it. You have to be ready to leave a region once the sun’s heat has overrun it. When this…

How to reach Pro in PUBG Mobile squad game

April 26, 2020April 26, 2020 Karan S

PUBG Mobile remains on top of our proffered list as we continue with our gaming guide series. The game offers Co-Play which takes mobile gaming to a different level thereby maintains interest in the game for long hours of gameplay. Our readers from China could not get taste of the full PUBG Mobile game, they satiate themselves with a softer version of the game named Game for Peace. And those who can not afford high–end phones and want to taste this great game, they can enjoy PUBG Mobile Lite (it…

Speedup [TurboCharge] Web browsing on Linux, Mac OS X, Windows

January 13, 2011January 13, 2011 Tarandeep Singh

If you happen to be on a fast (and really fast) broadband connection, this tip would actually help you out getting there, even faster. Most of the modern day web browsing speed is limited by the peeks of the IO of your hard disk drives. High seek times and relatively slow transmission rates when compared to RAM speeds can add up to actually gives out slow browsing experience. Even switching to a SSD harddrive won’t help you much as SSDs are more helpful when writing/reading large data files. The Problem:…

Lock PC with USB drive

December 29, 2010December 29, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

There are 100 of better ways to lock your PC than using a password. You can use camera based facial recognition, you can use voice activation and even USB key. While others can be faked and broken easily, USB drive is the most fool proof way. Predator, an application for windows, locks your system when you are not there, even if your Windows session is still opened. It uses a regular USB flash drive as an access control device. Simply Download and install Predator, and pair a USB drive with…

[Bulk] Upload Folders to Google Docs [GDrive]

December 15, 2010December 15, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

Dropbox offers a great solution for cloud storage since it retains your folder structure, easily accessible later via PC, Mac, iPhone or Android. But the problem with dropbox is that they are much more expensive. For 50GB, they charge $10/month equaling $120 per year. Compare this with Google Docs GDrive: $5/year for 20GB (and same price for all multiples of 20GB). The price difference huge, plus Google docs’ storage is shared among all Google applications: Gmail, Picasa, Docs, you name it. And coz Google is all about goodness, if you stop paying…

Transform Windows 7 to Snow Leopard

August 16, 2010August 16, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

If you are tired of watching the same look and feel of Windows 7, or you envy Mac OS X Snow Leopard for X reasons, it’s try to change the UI and transform the Experience. We’ve already shown you in the past How you can Transform Windows 7 XP Vista to Mac OS X Leopard. Now lets go little further to match look and feel of Snow Leopard on your windows 7, Vista. Snow Transformation Pack will change the appearance of your whole system, including the login screen, icons, wallpapers, sounds,…

Schedule Email in Gmail

August 14, 2010November 23, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

Scheduling an email is something everyone thinks about having at some point of time. Wishing your closed ones on various occasions (birthdays, anniversaries) or sending reminders to your business partners, colleagues, is always delightful. Unfortunately, most email providers don’t support any of such features and the end result is that you end-up relying upon a thrid party website that promises to do so, but lacks genuineness. Don’t worry about it, Boomerang will help you get over this problem by integrating itself into Gmail. So, even if you use Google apps for your business,…

Watch Hulu outside US without Proxy

August 7, 2010August 7, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

Hulu is the most popular online video portal for OnDemand TV Programs online in US. But Why should the rest of the world live in the dark? Till now it wasn’t possible to Watch Hulu Videos outside USA without proxy. With proxies enabled, video streaming sucks across the seas and the result is a choppy video even on highbandwidth connections. How to Watch Hulu Videos Outside USA without Proxy Step 1. Install this Firefox addon that lets you modify the request headers to Hulu.com. Once installed, go to Tools >…

Best Dual, Multi-Monitor Software

July 17, 2010July 12, 2012 Tarandeep Singh

Adding Multiple monitors to your setup definitely increases productivity. But it can get all tricky without use of the right software. Windows 7 gives you a decent Multi-Monitor support, but trust me its only the beginning. While hunting down for better Multi Monitor softwares, I tested a dozen of available options and then shortlisted a few options: 1. Display Fusion DisplayFusion kills the pain and adds a taskbar to every monitor that works and looks just like the Windows Taskbar. It also lets you put different wallpaper on each monitor right…

Google Docs OCR - Converts Images to PDF, Text

June 22, 2010June 22, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

Google seems to be taking Google Docs to mainstream with Rich set of new Features like Realtime collaboration, improvements for better support of office docs, they added public file sharing, and now OCR - Optical character recognition, as an alternative to other Free Online OCRs. The new Google Docs OCR will let users upload any image and convert it into PDFs, plain text for editing, on demand in a flip of seconds. To use OCR, look for the ” Convert text from PDF or image files to Google Docs documents” checkbox…

PayPal Alternatives - India, World

February 10, 2010February 10, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

PayPal has now officially declared that it has cut-off all transactions to India over the next few months. Paypal sucks, that’s no new fact to everyone who’s reading this. They charge hefty transaction surcharge and still provide zero satisfaction. This eBay company is filled with ignorance that no one else but users understand. Let’s give them what they deserve: Alternatives. “Google Checkout” and “Amazon Payments” are, perhaps, the best Payment gateways, but they are limited to US and UK. I’ll walk you through the best alternatives for potential readers from…

How to speed-up Internet Explorer IE8 - Paint it in Chrome Frame

September 23, 2009 Tarandeep Singh

60 percent of Internet Users can’t get full Internet experience since they are limited by the browser they use. IE has come a long way from IE6 to 8, improving performance, adding few new features, but they are still leaps behind it’s competitors - Safari, Firefox, Chrome. IE8 gave a push to performance which give 70-80% faster performance than previous generation. As compares the modern browsers it’s still lagging behind by 3x - 5x times. It’s not just about the performance, the web-standard adaptation had been pathetically slow. For instance…