Best Free VPN Services To Anonymize IP & Secure Internet Connection. Last week, we discussed the advantages of virtual private network over leased line-based private and hybrid networks, VPN tunneling technologies and types, and also showed you a simple way of creating a VPN connection. Apart from encrypting the communication, VPN is also used as an alternative to proxy servers to secure the communication between two clients & client and server, on a network. One of the reasons why most users prefer using VPN service instead of proxy server, is that, VPN provides strong encryption, and in some cases, multi-hopping connectivity, making it very difficult for external sources to trace down the connected systems. This VPN-provided anonymity lets users access region-restricted websites, data portals, content sharing platforms etc, from any part of the world. In this post, we will look at VPN services that you can use to anonymize the connection as well as secure the communication. proXPN proXPN VPN client is available for both Windows and Mac OS X.
Tunnel Bear. Lytro. HOW TO: Make Free iPhone Ringtones. Ringtones — They are the darlings of the music industry and the bane of anyone subject to hearing a bad one. If you're sick of your plain old telephone ringer but don't want to download a canned tone, you don't need to spend extra money to turn your favorite song into a ringtone for your iPhone. There's a way to create ringtones in iTunes from your existing music. Once you've done it, you'll be making ringtones faster than you can download them. It is not, however, the most obvious process. Simply follow the steps outlined here to create your own tones right from your computer. More iPhone Resources from Mashable: - 10 Useful iPhone Keyboard Shortcuts, Tips and Tricks- 10 Incredible iPhone Portrait Photographs- 10 Incredible iPhone Photographs- 10 Ridiculous iPhone Accessories [PICS]- 5 iPhone Apps to Help You Learn to Dance.
How to Use Wireless Sync in iOS 5. The new wireless sync feature of iOS 5 makes syncing your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch via Wi-Fi with a computer running iTunes an easy matter. To get started, make sure you’ve synced your iOS 5 device with your computer via cable at least once; also make sure you allow iTunes to wirelessly sync with your device by selecting “Sync with this iPhone over Wi-Fi”. From here on out, you should be able to sync the device wirelessly with your computer by following the steps below. 1.
Make sure your computer is connected to a wireless network and is running iTunes. 2. 3. 4. 5. Congratulations! PC Dies Before It Can Begin to Boot. When Kennyrosenyc turns on his PC, it dies before it even begins to boot. He asked the Windows forum for help. You can't blame this one on Windows. If the PC shuts down before it tries to boot off the hard drive (or off of a CD or flash drive), then you definitely have a hardware problem. And the piece of hardware that's giving you the problem is almost certainly not the hard drive. You're going to have to decide between fixing or replacing the computer. But before you do that, you must rescue your files--especially if you don't have a recent backup.
Since you can't boot off a CD or flash drive, and therefore can't use a live Linux variant, you'll have to remove the hard drive from the old computer and attach it to another computer as a second drive. If the working PC is a desktop, you can open it up and install the broken PC's drive as a second, non-booting drive. Once a working computer can access the drive, you can copy your files to another location. Read the original forum discussion. How to Create Android and iPhone Ringtones. These days almost everyone with a cell phone seems to have either an iPhone or an Android handset. One of the easiest ways to differentiate your device from the next one is to select a good ringtone. Having a unique chime to signify phone calls or text messages proves invaluable in a crowded room or at a family gathering, but it's important to avoid the plain old system-default tones that everyone else uses.
Express yourself in sound snippets by creating your own custom ringtone. It's easy. Buy an iPhone Ringtone The official way to obtain custom ringtones for your iPhone is to purchase them through the iTunes Music Store directly on your phone. This procedure is very simple, and it downloads the ringtone directly to your device. Create a Custom Ringtone However, if you want to customize your choices and make a unique ringtone from any song you own, you have an unofficial alternative.
Your song snippet should now appear in iTunes. How to Stream Digital Media From Your Windows 7 PC. With the immense popularity of digital cameras, smartphones, and tablets for taking pictures and capturing video, and the wide availability of affordable digital music and movies, many people have amassed enormous collections of digital media. Much of that media typically finds its way onto a PC or mass-storage device of some sort--and, unfortunately, it can sometimes go unused for ages.
Flipping through pictures or videos and relaxing with some good tunes is always appealing, but sitting in front of a PC isn’t the ideal way to enjoy such content. You may be surprised to learn that sharing digital media across different devices and platforms is quite easy. Windows 7 with Windows Media Player has built-in tools and DLNA/UPnP support for easily sharing digital media libraries with compatible devices.
And allowing access to the media across a network or the Web requires minimal configuration. Getting Started Next, click the Stream drop-down menu again, and select More streaming options. Prepare Your Smartphone and Laptop Travel Toolkit. Create Customized Desktop Backgrounds in Windows 7. Reader Edwin wants to know how to change the themes in Windows 7. Specifically, he has multiple photos he wants to use for his desktop background, but can't find a way to add more than one. If you've ever right-clicked your Windows 7 desktop and then clicked Personalize, you've no doubt encountered the themes that Microsoft bundles with the OS.
These include collections of desktop backgrounds--snazzy photos that appear behind your icons. It may not be immediately obvious, but it's possible to add your own collection photos, and even mix them in with the current desktop theme (which consists of not just photos, but also icons, sounds, window colors, and screen savers).
Here's how: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. That's all there is to it! Contributing Editor Rick Broidawrites about business and consumer technology. Quick Windows Networking Fixes. Setting up and maintaining your home PC network is easier than ever before in Windows 7--but that's not saying much. Many networking issues still aren't easily addressed from Windows 7's control panels. That's why we've compiled a list of common networking problems and quick fixes. Reset Your IP Address If your system's connection to a network is unreliable, or you're getting IP address conflict error messages, try renewing your IP address.
First, click on the Start button, navigate to the Command Prompt (Start Menu, Applications, Accessories, Command Prompt), right-click it, and select Run as Administrator from the menu. This will open a Command Prompt window with Administrator privileges. Flush Your DNS Cache Whenever you type a URL into a Web browser, your PC asks your Domain Name Service server (DNS server) to translate that into an IP address, and caches that information.
Power Cycle Your Modem/Router the Right Way Disable and Add Exclusions to Windows Firewall. Microsoft Windows Live Mesh Review & Rating. Microsoft's free file-syncing service, Windows Live Mesh (free), lets you access your home PC's files from the office and your work documents while at home, even if one of those machines is a Mac and the other is running Windows. Easy to understand and with a clear dashboard, Windows Live Mesh is a very good service for keeping your files intact, up-to-date, and available to you no matter where you are. One bonus you'll find in Windows Live Mesh that you won't get in other file-syncing services is remote-desktop functionality, or the ability to see and control one machine, such as your home desktop computer, from another.
Windows Live Mesh sits under the umbrella of Windows Live Essentials, a suite of Microsoft tools and services that encompasses email, instant messaging, photo storage and sharing, and more. If you're looking to adopt a new file-syncing service and that's all, my one complaint about Windows Live Mesh is that it's difficult to escape the rest of the package. How To Enable AirPrint for iOS Printing From Any Mac or Windows PC. You have an iOS device like an iPhone or iPad, you have a printer, and you want to print things—the only problem is your printer isn’t AirPrint compatible. No problem, read on as we show you how to print to older printers. In the fall of 2010 Apple released the iOS 4.2 update that included a host of updated features including support for a new mobile/wireless printing protocol AirPrint.
At the time there were barely a dozen HP printers that supported the service and even though the number has grown and includes a handful of offerings from the major printing companies there are still thousands upon thousands of printers—old and new—that do not support AirPrint. There’s absolutely no reason to go out and buy a new printer when you can easily tweak your existing printer to support printing from your iOS device.
There are actually two ways to go about achieving iOS-to-printer communication if you don’t have an AirPrint compatible printer. What You Need Installing and Configuring FingerPrint. How Do I Install Software from a CD When My Laptop Lacks a CD Drive? Recently I became the mostly happy owner of an HP Pavilion dm1z. I say “mostly happy” because I wasn’t thrilled with its performance. To give the system a boost, I decided to swap the pokey 5,200-rpm hard drive with a speedy Solid State Drive (SSD). The Samsung SSD upgrade kit I bought came with Norton Ghost 15--a utility that would copy the entire contents of my existing hard drive to the new drive--on CD.
But the Pavilion, like so many ultrabooks, ultraportables, and other ultra-compact laptops, has no CD drive. How was I supposed to install Ghost? A friend of mine had a similar problem with some new drive-less systems he’d purchased. This begs the question: If your PC lacks an optical drive, how can you install software that’s stored on a CD or DVD? You have two options.
Second, try downloading your software instead. I downloaded it, installed it, then activated it using the license key that came with the actual disc. Optical drive, shmoptical drive. 10 Tips to Make Your Web Browser Less Annoying. Has your browser got you down? Are you sick of wrestling with Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or whatever program you use to access the Web? If all of your life's problems stem from browser annoyances, I probably can't help you--but I can give you some quick and easy fixes for common browser issues. Here's how to find a missing URL bar, sync your bookmarks across multiple devices, keep your passwords handy and secure, and save seemingly unsavable images. Find a Missing URL Bar (or Other Toolbars) Maybe you clicked a bunch of things you shouldn't have, or maybe your cat jumped on your keyboard, because now you can't seem to find your URL bar. In Internet Explorer, right-click any toolbar and check Address bar.
In Firefox, go to View, Toolbars and check Navigation Toolbar. In Safari, hold down the Command (Ctrl if you're on Windows) button, the Shift button, and the Backslash (\) button. Sync Bookmarks Learn Nifty Keyboard Shortcuts and Mouse Gestures Tab and Window Management. 7 Quick Windows 7 Fixes. 1. Open Apps the Easy Way Want to launch programs in Windows 7 without lifting your hands from your keyboard? You can open any app on your PC by hitting the Windows key and typing the first few letters of the application's name (chr for Google Chrome, it for iTunes, and so on), then hitting Enter. You can also press Windows + 1 to open the first app pinned on your taskbar, Windows + 2 to open the second app, and so on. 2. Tweak Windows's AutoPlay Settings Ever wonder why DVD movies automatically start playing the moment you pop them into your PC? 3. By default, Windows 7 automatically changes the size of your open windows if you drag them to the edge of the screen. 4.
When you're having problems with Windows or your everyday applications, try using those apps with a User Account different from the one you usually use and see if you have the same problems. 5. File extensions (a holdover from early DOS days, believe it or not) tell you what kind of file you're looking at. 6. 7. How to Roll Your Own Instant Photo Upload on Android and iOS. How to Use Your Smartphone to Remotely Send Downloads to Your Home Computer. Re-posting here. Seems I posted in a "dead" topic. I didn't see anyone mention this, so maybe I'm the only one with this issue... I've been using the Dropbox method for a while nowto get my media center PC to download torrents that I find using my desktop PC. It's simple and works to "save" the torrent files even if the Media Center PC is powered down for some reason. Every now and then, as my Media Center PC attempts to load a torrent I get a "not valid bencoding" error pop-up.
Does anyone know of any sort of workaround to either make uTorrent ignore the popup or to put some sort of delay in place before it opens the incomplete file? How to Make Skype Play Nicely with Google Voice. My setup Is much better...but only Android friendly. What I end up with in the end is simple incoming and outgoing calls using GV ANYWHERE in the world that I have wifi. I travel a lot so its perfect. I can take and make calls (and text) in nearly any Hotel and airport in the world and it is transparent to anyone who i call or is calling me....and it uses 0 minutes. Here's how: 1: I ported my cell phone number I have had for years to Google voice and set my phone to "Always Use Google Voice" for calls. 2: Install GrooveIP from the Android Market and log it into your GV account. 3: Install Tasker from the Android market. 4: Install "Locale Google Voice Plugin" from the market. 5: Create a Tasker profile and action to change your GV forwarding OFF of your cell phone and too GTalk. 5a: Open Tasker 5b: Click the green check box on the bottom left to create a profile. 5c: In the "First Context" window select "State" 5d: In the "Category" window select "Net" 5k: Select "Google Voice Settings"
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