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Several games to engage your kids this summer

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Summer holidays have already been started for schools. And you don’t want your kids to go outdoors for playing. Just download some applications for your kids on your smartphone, so that they may be engaged in playing some very interesting games. So here by I share with you the information of some interesting mobile games.

Tap Tap Dash:

It’s a very interesting game where the player has to collect diamond by going through a white coloured path where there will be many curves and as you go on playing the levels, new levels will be unlocked and new characters also enter.

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The name of the things:

This is the best app for your toddlers and you can easily teach them English words and the names of animals and various things using flash cards.

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PlayKids:

Cartoons are the most favourite for every kid. Here is an app to entertain your kids perfectly. This app has a great collection of cartoons that even works offline. So do try it for sure.

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Roll balls into a hole:

This is very interesting game where the player has to take the balls into the hole. There will various colours of balls like red and white where the player has to first lead all the white balls into the hole and then the red ones. As the levels increase the holes will also increase and the holes also start to move.

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BiDot:

One more interesting game to engage your kids. This is a game where there will be two colours of balls in two boxes of two different colours. The player has to make the balls enter the boxes of their respective colours by moving the wall between the two boxes. The new balls keep on coming.

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Swing:

This is a game where the player has to swing between the pillars using the rope. At the same time he has to collect diamonds.

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Brain it on:

It is the most interesting game that will sharpen the brain of your kids where they have to solve the various puzzled by drawing on the screen. Just give it a try, your kids will love it.

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Violin- Magical Bow:

Tired of playing these games, now just try something different. Play a violin. It will be not as difficult as playing violin in real with music notes, but will be very easy to play. You can actually play various songs in the violin. Try this, you will love it for sure.

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Traffic rider:

If your kids love racing games, then it could be just awesome game for them. This is a game which gives you the realistic bike riding experience where you can select among the various models of bikes.

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Now, do download these games in your smartphone or tab and let your kids have some fun while staying indoors and I am sure you will also start playing these games along with your kids.

Amazing things that you can do with the Google Search engine

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Google is the most popular search engine and is a name that needs no introduction to the internet users. In fact many use Google as a synonym to internet. Google’s search engine is popular and many use it regularly. But many don’t have known about these amazing tricks. So here I share with you some interesting and amazing tricks with you guyzz, so that you get to know the tricks and start using Google in a more smart way.

Spin the Webpage

The first awesome and amazing thing that you can do with your Google search engine is, just search for “do a barrel roll” or “Z or R twice”. This search will spin your web page. Yes just try and see this trick. You will be amazed.

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Tilt the webpage

A search for the words “tilt” or “askew will tilt your webpage. Now amaze your friends by using this trick in front of them.

Webpage with Os

Searching for “zerg rush” will create a search results page that is being eaten by Os. Click on the O three times to kill it. Yes its fun. Go and try it. You will like it for sure.

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Special Days

Yes. Now search for special days and holidays on Google now and get reminders. So there will no possibility of missing Mothers’ day and Fathers’ day.

Books search

Are you interested in searching popular books of a particular author. Its so easy. Just type “books by author name” in the search and Google will present you the popular books of the author.

Songs search

Similar to the books search, you can also search for songs by the particular musician. Just search in the browser for “songs by musician name”. You will get the results.

Google Translate

Many of you may know Google Translator but definitely not this manual feature which allows you to write the symbol or letter in any language and then translate it to the language of your choice.

 Google Now

Do you know that you can actually speak your searches and when you try these searches you will be amazed. Just try these

“Make me a sandwich”

“What time is it?”

“Show me something cool”

Vintage Google

Just search for “Google in 1998” and you will be presented with the 90s version of Google.

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Currency Converter

Yes. You may have already know this. But do you know you can directly convert currency in a single search in the search bar. Search for example 120 Rupees in USD. You will get the converted amount.

Set a Timer

Google can be your personal timer. Yes you heard me right! Just search for “Set timer for ____ time” and it will count down and buzz you when the time is up.

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Play Atari breakout

Just search for “atari breakout” in Google image search and you will be surprised.

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What more are you looking for? Just try these amazing tricks now and have fun.

 

 

Do We Really Need Panic Button for Smartphones?

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Smartphone today have everything that we need in terms of daily technology usage. They are integrating into the lives of people intensely than before. This integration has touched the physical security of women in India. Indian government is making it a ‘must’ to have panic button in smartphones that release in India by 2017. How far this will be helpful to stay safe from attackers?

We have seen so many apps that help to track, alert and notify the dear ones in case of emergencies. Are all those apps successful in protecting women from disaster?

No! Not 100%. Mobile apps are nothing but software applications that need to be invoked by the person manually. User who might have set their smartphones to battery saving mode and low memory usage mode for better software utility on the device might not able to run the software automatically unless opened manually. Any software application takes a couple of seconds to start and initialize the services which is impossible to operate while they are being threatening. This stood as a barrier for giving the 100% throughput of the idea of building security apps.

Will Panic Button work now? Is it a good idea?

The software has failed and now its time to try the hardware part, that too from the government as compulsory unit. Placing a button dedicated for panic situations might not actually help women while facing the threat. The buttons of the smartphone get pressed sometimes unknowingly and that won’t do harm because we will be having the locked down. Having a panic button might raise false alarms to the dear ones and the police thereby increasing in the mis-utilization of the feature.

Smartphone companies even had to make separate units only for India that may effect the Indian mobile phone market to very extent. Decreased market may lead to increase prises due to demand which would turn out to be a side-effect of adding a panic button.

Software of hardware, no matter what, the victim should be able to reach the phone from her purse to raise the panic alarm. This functionality cannot be set to auto intelligence which may again lead to false alarms. Panic button might be a good idea but it won’t work out practically. Instead, Indian government better teach women and college girls the physical defensive techniques in the education curriculum.

What do you think? Please share you opinions on this in comments and help country find a solution.

Make your life easier with these keyboard shortcuts

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Many of us are already aware of the well known keyboard shortcuts like ALT + F4 and CTRL + C, there are some more uncertain shortcuts which many of us tend to neglect. These keyboard shortcuts are not only helpful for an average user, but also for the advanced users. You can save lot of time and effort if you use these shortcuts properly, so lets get started.

Windows Key + D

This keyboard shortcut instantly shows the desktop and it’s job is equivalent to the “Show the Desktop”. It quickly minimizes every open window and shows the desktop.

 Ctrl+ Shift+ Esc

This is the shortcut used to directly open the task manager.
Ctrl+ Click

If you want to open a link but don’t want to disturb the current tab, then just hold the control button and click on the link. This helps to open the link in the background.

Alt+ Print Screen

It just does the work of the Print screen button. It is used to take the screen shot of the current active window.

Shift+ Click

If you have check a lot of dialog boxes with the same Yes or No. then you can just use this shortcut which will save your time a lot. Just hold the shift button and then click on the yes box to make all options Yes or click No to make all options NO
Ctrl+ C

Have you ever got an error message from your computer and don’t know what to do. You can just copy the error message on your computer to share it with your technical guy. This shortcut copies the error message to your clipboard. You can paste it somewhere to share it.
Ctrl+ T

For opening the new tab in the internet browsers, this keyboard is helpful.

Ctrl+ Shift+ T

This is the shortcut key to reopen the recently closed tabs

Ctrl+ Shift+ N

This shortcut opens the Private incognito window in Google Chrome Browser.

Ctrl+ Shift+ P

This is for opening new private window in Mozilla Firefox.

Alt+ Enter

It inserts the .com automatically after entering the domain name in the browser.

Shift+ Enter

This will insert .net to the domain name.

Ctrl+ W

This shortcut is for closing the current window in the browser.

Ctrl+ Backspace

This is used for deleting the wrong word that you have recently typed.

Ctrl+ Left or Right Arrow key

It is used to move the cursor for moving one word at a time rather than the default one character at a time. It is used to navigate quickly.

Ctrl+ +

This is used to zoom in the webpages. You can use this shortcut key when the webpage is not legible.

Ctrl+ –

This shortcut does the reverse of the previous shortcut.

Ctrl+ 0

This is used to reset the webpage’s zoom.

Windows key+ M

This shortcut also used to minimize all the open windows.

Ctrl+ L

This keyboard shortcut is used to quickly jump to the address bar of the website.

Windows key+ Pause/Break

This is used to open the System Properties dialogue box.

Ctrl+ Shift+ Delete

This shortcut is used to open the options to delete the browser cookies, search history.

Windows Key+ L

To lock the computer instantly.

Ctrl+ H

It shows the history.

F2

To rename the selected file, this shortcut is useful.
Ctrl+ F

This shortcut opens the find option in any program.

Ctrl+ S

As everyone is familiar, this is used to save the work done on any program instantly.

Ctrl+ Home and Ctrl+ End

This is for instantly going to the starting or ending of the page.

Ctrl+ P

This shortcut prints the current page.

Space Bar

Many don’t actually know this trick that you can move down to the page when you press spacebar.

Ctrl+ Tab

This is used to navigate between the tabs in your browser.

Alt+ Double click

This is for opening the file’s properties.

Train your computer to welcome you

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We do many things with our computers like we do personal tasks, and official tasks as well. And we also use it to browse internet. But many users don’t know some cool and fun stuff that we can do on our computers.

We have seen many English movies that they are being greeted by their computers, if you are thinking that its just limited to their computers and cannot be done through our computers, then here I am to prove you wrong. You can actually make your computer greet you every time you login in to your PC and here are the few simple steps, you need to follow.

You can make your windows greet you with a custom voice message at start up

  1. First you have to click on the Start Menu and then navigate to accessories and Notepad.
  2. Copy and paste the following in the Notepad

Dim speaks, speech

speaks=”Welcome to your PC, Username”

Set speech=CreateObject(“sapi.spvoice”)

speech.Speak speaks

  1. Replace the “Username” with the name that you would like to be greeted by the computer.
  2. Click on the File Menu of the notepad and then click on Save as option and then select all types in Save as Type option and save the file with any name of your choice with the extension .vbs.
  3. Now copy the file that you have saved.
  4. Navigate

Windows Xp: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start                        Menu\Programs\Startup

Windows 7, 8 Vista: C:\Users\ {User-Name}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

  1. Now paste the file.
  2. You are done, the next time, you login into your PC you will here the custom Voice message.( I mean your computer will greet you)

For best result, you are advised to change the sound scheme to no sounds. This can be done as follows.

Go to Control Panel>Sound and Audio Device>Then go to Sounds Tab>Select No Sounds in the Sounds Scheme option and then click on Apply and Ok. That’s it you are done.

So I hope you liked this trick and would try it for sure. It will leave your friends in wonder and they think that you have a very intelligent PC that greets you with your name in the start up.