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Some Of The Best Tools For Troubleshooting Network Issues

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Network issues are such a bad thing that they make us feel so annoyed and helpless at the same time. If the internet is available, then you can solve problems and troubleshoot various issues, may it be a minor hardware problem, or software problem or something minor, but what can we do if the problem is with the network itself, we cannot do anything, it becomes almost impossible to think anymore. Just kidding!!

But these days we have become so much dependent on the internet that we search for everything on the internet.

Tools For Troubleshooting Network Issues

Speedtest:

If you haven’t completely lost your network connection, but have been experiencing some ups and downs in the network, then you should try testing your network speed in the Speedtest by Oakla which is very popular for performing network tests and checking the speed of the network.

Wireshark:

This is one of the most used network analysis tools.  It shows you each and every bit of traffic to your network, and that’s why you need to filter to see only what you need. You can select a wired or wireless network connection and then the Wireshark will show you a live list of connections of all the network traffic on your machine. Click on a certain packet to view in detail.

NetCrunch Tools:

It is a tool that can take multiple roles for you and helps you in troubleshooting the network. You can register in it with your Facebook, Google, or Microsoft account, and then you will see a home page with three options before you. It has about twelve useful tools, of course, everyone one of them may not be useful for you, but they are a good package.

Microsoft Message Analyzer:

This is an official tool from Microsoft. It is packed with a ton of options which is quite overwhelming for the users. But if you take some time in understanding it, then you might feel it as a very useful tool for your network.

Make the process of troubleshooting network issues a fun with this kind of tools.

How To Send An Email In The Form Of A QR Code

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QR Code is an easy way of transferring data or information from one screen to the other. They offer easy transformation of various information like a newspaper ad, computer display screen, display window in a retail store. You can use these codes to send mail id, website address which offers the convenience of leading to that page without having to enter a single character.

This technique can also be implemented and used while sending emails. You can easily write and send a message inside a QR Code.  

Send Text In The Form Of QR Code

This is a great option for those who feel it is boring to mail in the regular old style. When the person on the other side scans that code, the message that you have sent will open in the email program that he or she is using on their device ready to send a reply. They don’t have to hit the reply button, the reply button. And you can compose the QR that contains your text pretty easily and includes just a few steps.

  • First go to the website <a href=http://www.qrstuff.com/>QR Stuff</a>
  • Then choose the Email message option from the various options available on the left side of the screen.
  • Then it will show a form where you have to fill in the information in those boxes.
  • Just fill the mail address, subject, and body boxes.
  • And finally, you just have to download the code for sending it to anyone. It can be done by simply clicking on the download QR Code option there.
  • That is it, you can share it now.

Just to give you a look at how it works, I have created a code here, just try scanning this code on your device.

qr code

When you scan the code, it will show you two options copy and mail, click on the mail option and it will ask you which email program you want to use for opening that one, click on the one and it will open the mail ready to reply.

 

How To Recover Deleted Text Messages On Android

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Losing personal data from our mobile phone is something really worrying. Even though the default text messaging app in Android is not being used much these days, but some of our important data like the bank withdraw details, deposit details and other OTP related data and many such things need to be accessed using the default Android messaging app. So, this makes us still stick to the Messaging app. What if we lost our text messages data? We just cannot lose it just like that. We need to find a way to recover deleted text messages. Check out the simple process.

Here is how you can recover deleted text messages in Android

The first thing that you need to remember is that you need to plan before head to recover deleted text messages. You also should need root access to recover the text messages in Android. The text messages backup services also don’t offer you free services and you need to be paying them for the recovery process.

SMS backup and restore is a service available for free. You can just simply download and install the application. After the installation process is done, just give it access to permissions that it will ask you. This application is easy to setup, backup and restore.

After installing and giving access to permissions, just tap on the set up a backup on the main screen of the window. This application even allows you to choose to backup phone calls along with text messages. Going to the advanced options, you can choose to backup only certain conversations according to your choice and wish.

Finally setup the backup process whether daily, weekly or hourly as you want it to be. Then hit the back up now option and you are done with protecting your messages using the application SMS backup and restore.

We hope this simple application helps you to recover deleted text messages in your Android device.

How To Record TV Shows On your Computer/Laptop

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The satellite setup boxes offer the viewers some kind of convenience by allowing them to view the TV shows according to their schedule. But they do not allow the users to transfer the content across the devices for viewing them at a later time or sharing them with their friends/family. Even though the satellite providers haven’t come up with this kind of a thing, the viewers would always love to transfer the recorded the television shows to their other devices. So, if you are one such a person who wishes to record TV shows, then don’t worry here is how you can do that from your computers/laptops.

So, you will be needed to follow the below steps for this

Steps To Record TV Shows:

Hardware Setup

Hauppege HD PVR allows you to record TV shows, so here we go.

You need an HD PVR to be connected to your TV outlet.

Then also plug the component video cable from the video-out section of your cable box and audio cables to the video-in section of your Hauppege HD PVR.

Then connect the USB cable from the PVR to your computer.

Software Setup

Install the HD PVR windows driver and the total media extreme recording program on your laptop or computer whichever you use. After installing the program, just launch it and click on record TV option. Configure the settings according to your choice. Also, choose the recording format of the files.

So, this software setup completes the process almost. After you complete these steps, you can begin to enjoy the feature. At the bottom of this ‘total media extreme’ program you will find an option ‘save to…’, you need to determine the location of where the file needs to be saved. You will see a capture button which you can simply hit to start the recording.

This is the simple and easy way of setting up for recording TV shows so that you can enjoy them on your various devices later. Hope you find it useful.

How To Send Self Destructive Files Using Firefox Send To Send

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The practice of sharing files over the internet has been around since a long ago. Many of us make use of various different kinds of apps and cloud based services for sharing data online with our near and dear ones. But there is always a security threat for the files that have been sent over the internet, this insecurity of the users had made Firefox think a bit and develop Firefox Send which offers you a secure and easy way for transferring files over the internet. It is a tool that is available for the users to use for free.

Sending Self-Destructive Files

This brilliant and interesting tool from Firefox is a free self-destructive file sharing service launched by Mozilla. The data that is being transferred over this tool is encrypted. Here are the simple steps that you need to follow if you wish to send files over the internet easily.

  • First, you have to go to the Firefox send  portal from your browser
  • Then you just have to click on the option Select a file on your computer which will open your library window
  • Now just browse through the Library and select the files that you wish to send over the tool and click on Open
  • As the Firefox Send tool will start uploading the file to its servers, you can just simply sit back and relax
  • As soon as the upload process is done, you can find a shareable URL which you can simply copy and share with someone you wish to share the file with
  • Or else you can also choose to click the option Delete file if you wish to delete it
  • They can simply copy and paste the URL into their browser and click the option download to download it
  • The files uploaded to the Firefox servers will automatically be deleted after 24 hours or immediately after the users download them whichever is earlier

Use this free service to send files that are self-destructive in nature.