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Some Of The Tech News Digests That You Must Give A Check

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You must very much be able to stay updated with the tech news from the world of technology through ComputerEra. But you may not be able to or interested towards learning the whole news as it may take a lot of your time, so here are some of the tech news digests that will give you a quick tech digest or podcast. Do check them out for sure.

Techmeme Ride Home

This is a news digest platform that will give you a 15-20 minutes duration and it will have the tech news highlights that can give you an idea of the tech news of the day. If you are going to work or to home back from work, then you can catch up all the tech news that has happened in the day. This podcast can be accessed through RSS feed on any podcast applications.

Morning Reader

Morning Reader is another really useful and interestingly curated news app with a simple and clean interface. It shows you the headlines from only a single source. It presents the news by picking the best news source for you. Morning Reader has got a separate section for various important sections of technology news like the cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. You can make use of the web app or even create a shortcut in your mobile or even have the application downloaded.

Tech News Weekly

Tech News Weekly is another most essential and useful podcast for tech geeks. This team now has got a weekly tech podcast that has got a twist. It is all about taking a deep dive into the biggest tech news of the week. This will definitely be a great option for those who don’t have time to check the tech news every day.

TechBites

This is another useful one in our list of the tech news digests with a two-fold approach to the daily technological news. It curates the best news from different tech sources and creates a full homepage with the information of tech news that you may need or want to know.

So, don’t miss trying out these sources. Stay updated with technology.

How To Free Up Your RAM Space Hogged By Your Google Chrome

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Chrome the most popular browser and the most widely used browser is very much known for hogging memory. This can make your device go slow, to avoid this you can follow some simple tips and thus make chrome’s RAM usage at a minimum level. Follow these simple things and free up RAM space on your device

Web browsing has become more complex than people give it credit for. Think about it: When you’re using a computer, most of what you do takes place in your browser, from opening tabs to watching videos and using web apps or extensions that integrate with the rest of your machine. That’s a lot of stuff.

Steps To Free Up RAM Space

  • Temporarily closing your tabs can help you a lot. You can make use of a variety of extensions to suspend the tabs and stop them from using up your RAM
  • Selectively suspend tabs by using come awesome Google chrome extensions like OneTab, TooManyTabs
  • If you are not in a way to choose and suspend the tabs then let Chrome choose for you, some apps like TabMemFree, TabWrangler will help you to suspend the unused tabs for you.
  • Enable text mode in Google Chrome as it would load all the web pages in text mode which saves a lot of memory. This will remove texts and other extras from the website.
  • Read mode helps you in case you want to view images, this mode will strip out flash and ads out of the web pages.
  • Clean up your Chrome extensions and unwanted extras.
  • Always keep your Chrome updated.
  • Clear up your cache regularly

These tips will help to free up RAM, try these and your browser should work fine. Clear out some space in RAM and then you will be able to do the task of browsing really quick and fast without any kind of lags.

Here Are Some Little Tools That Help You To Write Better Emails

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We get to write, forward, reply to emails every day. They may be work-related, personal emails or any others, we get to pass through mail-related task every day. Now here in this piece of article, I am going to take you through some little tools which will definitely help you to write and send better emails.

Email, like it or not, is the one tool that pretty much everyone has, everyone uses and everyone checks on a daily basis, so the business use of email isn’t going anywhere soon as an external communication tool. Then how can we ignore the sharing of information regarding the simple tools that make your email experience a better one? Here we go

Tools For Better Emails

Giphy for Gmail 

Like GIFs? Of course, you do, you’re currently on the internet. Now you can easily include the entire spectrum of human emotion in your emails.

three.sentenc.es

The Three Sentences mantra isn’t going to work for everyone, but some people it will work like a charm.

The website, ‘three.sentenc.es is a personal policy that all email responses regardless of recipient or subject will be three sentences or less. It’s that simple.‘

Gorgias:

Stop creating templates in an unstylish way. They will not come to your use, other than using your space and they will be on drafts. Now you can create stylish chrome extension and productive templates by using a simple tool Gorgias. This is available as a free Chrome extension.

Grammarly:

The Grammarly Chrome extension helps you in a very brilliant way by checking for any grammatical mistakes and errors in your mail and thus saving your time of checking or rereading the mail before you send it. This one tool will definitely help you in sending better emails.

These are the little tools and extensions that might help you to be quick, clever and great at sending emails. Make use of these and send better emails.

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 the 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 with 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 like we discussed earlier. This tool runs in the background protecting your system from any kind of malicious activities, monitors your system’s behavioral patterns.

Whatsapp introduces new privacy settings

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Whatsapp Groups

Whatsapp became a part of everyone’s life.  There are a lot of issues people are waiting to be corrected by the Whatsapp. The company has fixed one such feature at present.

Every Whatsapp user may have been participating in at least some of the Whatsapp Groups.  Sometimes people join themselves to the Whatsapp Groups because they want to get the information from the particular group. Most of the times the contacts they saved on their phonebook, adds them into unknown groups without the prior consent of the user.

It becomes very annoying to leave from the groups people join us. Whatsapp users continue in the Whatsapp Groups for the sake of their friends even though they are not at all interested in such groups. Finally,  a solution has arrived for the issue. WhatsApp introduced new privacy settings for the groups. Now onwards there are three new privacy options available for you for the Whatsapp Groups.

The first one is, you can approve or disapprove every Whatsapp Group invitation sent by the users. If you selected this option, for example, if somebody tries to add you to a Whatsapp Group, you will get a notification immediately regarding that. You can choose whether to join or not. The second one in the Group Privacy Options is you can get group invitations from those contacts which you have already saved on your phone book. Here you must remember one thing, any contact which is there on your contacts list can join you into the Whatsapp Groups. So you need to save contacts wisely.

The final option is,  anybody can join you in whatever group it may be, as they are doing right now.  You shouldn’t select this option, to maintain the privacy. The new Whatsapp Group Privacy settings have already come to existence. If you couldn’t find the new settings, you have to wait patiently for them until they arrive for your account.