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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.

A Few Tools That Can Help You To Beat Ransomware

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Even though we use antivirus software and programs for our devices and systems, no antivirus tool can be 100% secure. One of the biggest common issues faced by home users, businesses, and enterprises is the ransomware. It is highly difficult to fight with it, but not impossible remember.

Ransomware infection is something that scans for specific file extensions in your system and encrypts the files by locking them and the user can’t be able to open them until he/she pays the ransom amount which is usually in the form of bitcoins.

Now let us know about some strong antivirus tools that have the ability to protect your system from these ransomware attacks.

Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2017

This tool has won the Best Virus detection award continuously for six years. It protects the system files, documents, pictures, music and videos from any unauthorized attacks.

Overall, it is a great tool to defend your system from any such attacks.

Trend Micro Antivirus+ Security 2017

While the earlier tool focuses on protecting some specific files and folders, this program moves forward and prevents the modification of folders, behavioral analysis, file backup, restoring. It even has a hotline number that anyone can call.

Avast Free Antivirus 2017

It is one of the best free antivirus programs available. It has various features like scanning of active malware, behavior-based detection, blocking of malicious URLs and much more.

This one cannot be better than the previous tools which protect from ransom attacks but is much better than an unsecured system.

 Cybereason RansomFree

This is a free tool that you can use alongside your existing virus security solution for protecting your system from ransom attacks. It places bait files in the locations where the ransom attackers often begin the encryption process.

Microsoft EMET

Microsoft EMET is the Microsoft Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit that offers some extra layer of protection for the Windows users. It is not a magic wand, but it is designed to disrupt some of the most common attacks.

Kaspersky Anti-Ransomware Tool

It is a free tool and works completely like the other ransom attack blocking tools as we discussed earlier. This tool runs in the background protecting your system from any kind of malicious activity, monitors your system’s behavioral patterns.

How To Share Your Location Via Text Message in Your Android

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Sharing our exact location has become very easy these days. Our smartphones have given us an easy way to share our current locations with our friends and dear ones and every one of us might be using this option very often these days, but as we all know we should be needing the internet access for this process and what if you don’t have access to the internet but still have to share your present location. Here is how you can do this sharing via text messages on your Android device.

Share Location Via A Text Message

The method is pretty simple and you don’t have to struggle a lot with this, just follow the steps below.

  • And to do this thing, you will be needing the Android messages app installed on your device and many of our devices have this application by default, so you don’t have to worry. If you don’t have just get it downloaded and installed on your device
  • And you need to set this application as your default messaging application on your device
  • Then once you are done with the basic and the beginning setup, then just tap on create new message option, and then select the contact to which you wish to send your location to
  • Then tap on the plus icon and then select the option location from the pop-up menu and it will locate your position on the map and then will show up the thumbnail inside the message, then you can add the required message that you wish to send along with it and then finalize the text message to send it.
  • This simple way of sharing your presence on the map via Android messages can thus help you in sharing your presence with your friends and dear ones via text messages easily.

Do try this process the next time you need and you will like it.

How To Use The Web Without A Browser

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If you are reading this article now, then you have probably browsed the ComputerEra website using the browser. But have you ever thought of using the internet or the web without the help of a browser? We must all agree that web browsers are amazingly popular among internet users and we just think of nothing else when we wish to browse the internet and just tap on the browser icon whether it is a mobile, computer, or even on the smart TVs these days. So, there are a few other tools and ways that can help you browse the web without browser.

Downloading Files Without Browser

So, we just think you don’t have a browser but you have to download the browser. You have got two options for downloading files without a browser and one if the Windows Powershell, the second one is the FileZilla. Using Windows Powershell, also you can simply download files with the help of some commands.

Installing Softwares Without Browser

Yes, you can even get the software downloaded on your PC, laptops or mobile devices without the help of a browser. There are play stores at your service. There is an app store, play store, and windows store and you can get the required software or applications downloaded onto your devices.

Using Social Media, Mails

So, social media browsing has become one of the favorite time passes for many of us, and if you think you cannot browse the social media and stay connected with people without the help of a browser. You always have the option of using applications either on mobile devices or computers even by getting the applications from the stores.

You always have got the option of using the mail services through inbuilt apps in all kinds of devices and if you don’t like the default provided apps, then you can get the third party apps.

You don’t have to stay disconnected from the web and people on the internet if you don’t think of using the browser. There are many chat applications that you can make use of that can help you stay connected. News applications help you in getting the news updates.

So, you might think about why to try using the web without browser. It is actually a secure and private way of browsing the internet.

How To Create A Compressed Zip File Using Different Ways

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Compressing the file is one such a really useful and simple to learn things among the various things we do online. But many of us will be neglecting this task and will be depending on others, but it is really a simple that anyone of us can do pretty easily. Zip files are in demand because of their portability and easy transferability as they occupy less space and will be easy to transfer and share across devices between persons. So, here are the two different ways using which you can create compressed zip files of the files that you want.

Creating Compressed Zip Files

As a first thing, you need to place all the files that you wish to compress at the same place that is inside a single folder. This step makes your task simple and tension less.

It is advised that you stop doing any other processes are anything is happening behind as compressing big files.

Then all you need to do is just simply select all the files that you need to have inside the zipped folder and then right-click on it, then click on the ‘send to’ option and then choose the ‘compressed folder’ option.

That is it, your compressed zip file will be ready.

Using KGB Archiver

The process of creating compressed file or folder can also be done using a compression tool for a better-compressed file. KGB Archiver is one such a really useful compression tool that lets you compress a 1GB file up to 100MB.

All you need to do is just download and install the tool on your computer, then run the tool.

Then when you open the application, it will show some options in the window, select the ‘compress files’ option and click on ‘next’.

Now on the next screen, you need to just browse through the files of your computer and select the location of the compressed file and choose where you want it to be saved. Also, choose the compression level and also add the files that you wish to compress and then finally click on the next option and the process of compressing will begin. Your compressed file will be ready in a few minutes.

We hope these simple steps help you in getting your files compressed.