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Some Useful Sites For Checking The Safety Of The Links

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Looking with suspicion at everything may not be a good idea, but having a suspicious look at certain things is quite reasonable and needed at times as well. What about the various links that we receive from our family and friends daily? There may be a risk-prone to our devices from those spam links if we don’t take certain or required care. There are several websites available that can help you to uncover the truth of these dangerous links and check out if there are any safety issues.

Checking The Safety Of Links

AVG Threatlabs:

This can be the best choice among the various available options for all those people who would like to check the safety of the links that they have, or the links they receive from their dear ones. AVG Threatlabs actually scans the links for malware and other related threats. You just have the enter the URL and it will show you the results.

With AVG’s massive name in the online community, this site from them is an extension of their reputation.

Kaspersky VirusDesk:

The world famous Kaspersky security firm is here with the Kaspersky VirusDesk for the internet users. This tool not only scans the links and URL of the harmful or dangerous websites but also allows the users to upload suspicious files. Users can simply enter the suspicious URL that they wish to check the security for and then simply click on the scan. This tool even lets the user disagree with the results shown which allow the researchers on the website to find out more.

ScanURL:  

This is an independent website that takes your link queries seriously through a secure HTTPS connection. The results after scanning the URL will naturally show whether the site is safe for you to visit or not and if it is not safe it says the site is dangerous and avoid visiting it.

Phish Tank:  

This site alerts the users about phishing sites instead of focusing on the malware in the links. Once you give it a URL that you may suspect of a phishing operation, it will check it and then give you instant results about the website. Phish Tank is worth a visit for checking the links that you have to pay a visit for.

So, the next time when you are about to click on some unknown link sent by someone to you, then do remember that you have got these websites to check whether the link is safe or not.

You Need To Check Out This Best To-Do App For Android

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A To-do app is a great way that you can use to increase the productivity.  You can offload the tensions and worries of task management from your brain and thus you can concentrate more on your task. But you have to put in a lot of your time and efforts in finding the best time management application in Android that suits you the best and fits your needs.

Take a little amount of time to learn about this application and you won’t regret as you discover this wonderful application that has the ability to replace the to-do app that you are currently using.

The Android app that we are going to introduce here in this piece of article is TickTick

TickTick – To-Do App Features:

It has a simple interface with simplicity, readability, and usability as its key elements in a design.

It has three panels in which the first and the main panel the currently active and all the tasks in your list. The left menu lets you switch to the various lists. The right panel shows the various details and even lets you edit the task.

This Android To-do app lets you organize your individual tasks with the various interesting and useful features it has in store. Users can add notes for the task, add comments and include attachments. Comments and notes, attachments adding features come in handy for the users when they had to do a task in collaboration with others.

The app even allows the users to sort the tasks for easy access and recognition as well. Users can also set reminders of the various works they need to finish in time or have got a deadline for.

This TickTick application can thus be your best choice, do try it and subscribe to the premium version if you think it is worth it.

Do try this app and stay organized!!!!

Fun Things That You Should Try Doing When You Feel Bored

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Every one of us might be definitely loving and enjoying our work life, but at the same we feel a kind of a burden at the end of the day and to give yourself some diversion from the routine day, then you must be having kind of hobbies which you can try to get some relief from the regular work and to make your life less boring you should also be trying some fun things now and then and here are a few of such fun things that you can try when you feel bored or even not to get that bored feeling.

In this generation of the online, these fun things are for the online users.

The Onion And The Daily Mash

If you feel bored of the regular headlines and the firing topics, the serious discussions, then you must try visiting this place once, and you will have fun reading the news here. The website labeled itself as America’s finest news source while it concentrates on all the fake news, so get some giggles while you read the news here.

And The Daily Mesh is the British version of this American website onion, so you can try this as well if you would like to have some laughs.

Awkward Family Photos

If you love watching the funniest videos, then this can be a great choice for your entertainment to keep your boredom away from you, so give this website a try when you have really nothing to do. This website Awkward family photos contains most of the awkward pictures of the families that have decided to keep them on the web rather than locking them on their desk.

Talking Animals

If you are a pet lover, then this website can really make your time fly like nothing, give this YouTube channel a try and you will be stuck with it for hours. The Talking Animals YouTube channel anthropomorphizes the household pets.

These are some of the things that we think you might know but you can actually have lots of fun doing, so check these out and you can also try playing your fun favorite games online.

Also, you always have lots of stuff to read from ComputerEra which will not only keep you entertained but also educate you.

How To Reset BIOS Settings To Default On Your Computer

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BIOS which is called as the Basic Input and Output System is the basic system behind our PCs and laptops booting process. Our systems very normally and casually perform the boot process every time we switch on our devices. But what if something corrupts this process and prohibits our system from booting, this may turn into a terrifying problem as you don’t actually know how to proceed when your computer doesn’t start at all.

In some cases, opening your computer’s housing will void your warranty, and you run a significant risk of permanently damaging your computer while doing so. If you can’t access your BIOS, your best course of action is to take the computer into a tech department instead of doing it yourself.

Reset BIOS

There may be a number of reasons for this problem, and if you ever happen to encounter this kind of a situation, here are the simple steps that you can try to reset your BIOS settings

  • You need to turn on the computer first and then keep on tapping either F2, F12, or delete key to access the BIOS or UEFI. UEFI is the newer version of BIOS and it offers
  • Once you see that open, you can see the option Setup Defaults at the bottom, click F9 which works many PCs, then it will ask for confirmation, just click yes
  • In case you don’t find that option, then you can find the option Restore Factory Defaults under the security tab
  • Clearing the BIOS and setting them to their Factory Defaults will remove any kind of changes that you have made, so remember that

After resetting, just save and then exit to make those changes effect.

Caution: Be careful when altering BIOS settings. The BIOS interface is designed for advanced users. You can change a setting that could prevent your computer from starting correctly and you could suffer a potential loss of data.

How To Try Android Paid Apps On Google Play Store For Free

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Google Play store has a huge collection of apps with more than 2,00,000 apps in it. While a lot of the applications are available for free download, there are also some paid apps which you need to purchase before having to check them out.

How To Try Paid Apps

Amazon runs a parallel store where you can get the chance to actually try them before buying.

But the best way where you can try the apps in the Google Play store is just buying them and then returning them for the full refund. Here is how you can do that

  • Go for any app that you might want to try either from your desktop or from your Android device and just buy that app by paying for it
  • After downloading and installing the application, you can go and check it out for the next 10-12 minutes
  • After you are finished with checking out the application, just head to the android market, then go to My Apps, then select the app which you want to have a refund for
  • You can find a refund button there which you can just hit and find the app automatically uninstalled from your device
  • After the uninstall has been done, it will ask you for the reason of returning the application, check ‘I’d rather not say option here’ and the app amount will be refunded

Thus refunding option in the Google’s app market can be helpful to us like this. But there are a few important things which you need to remember while doing this refund process

  1. The refund time of an app is only up to 15 minutes after you download it from the Google play store, after 15 minutes the refund option will be disappeared
  2. The refund option works only one time, if you have refunded the app once, you won’t get the option to refund even after you uninstall and reinstall the app

Thus this is the best trick where you can try paid apps.