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Email addresses that you must have in your address book

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Here in this piece of article I am going to present you some important and useful email addresses that you should have in your mails address book as they will come handy in times where access to certain websites are restricted. With the help of these mail ids you can still be able to publish and post on them through the email messaging.

The most useful email ids that may come to your rescue when you are restricted from the certain websites on the internet are listed below.

Flickr:

If you have to upload some of your photos to your Flickr account, you don’t actually need to go to the Flickr website to do that, but there is an email id using which you can upload your photos directly to your Flickr account. The address can be found in the settings  page of your Flickr account, when you email your photos top this mail id, they will be most instantly shown up your account.

You can even specify the privacy of your photos while uploading, sending your photos to secret+public@photos.flickr.com will make them public and secret+private@photos.flickr.com will make them private.

Evernote:

You can even file notes to your Evernote account by using the mail id. You need to use @ symbol to send note to the particular Notebook. For example, if you send a mail with the subject line Shopping list @Bangalore #trips, then it would create a note with the title Shopping list in the notebook named Bangalore, tagged with trips. Your Evernote email address can be found in the settings tab of your Evernote website.

YouTube:

If you are a windows mobile user, or if the YouTube application on your phone doesn’t work for any reason, then this mail id will come in use of you at times. You can find your secret email address by going into the settings of your YouTube account. Send the video that you wish to upload to that mail id and you will even receive a mail about the successful uploading of the file.

Screenshot:

Add some beauty to your screenshots, just mail the screenshot to the email address and it will email you back to your device adding a nice frame work making it even more awesome. The email id is smartphones@mailchimp.com

Synonymns & Definition:

Get the dictionary definition and synonyms by sending a blank email to the email id with the subject line as “define myword”, replace myword with the word that you would like to know the meaning for and the email id is wsmith@wordsmith.org

Facebook:

Yes you can even post into your Facebook wall by just sending an email.  The email id can be found in the Mobile section of your Facebook Settings. Include photos and videos in the mail and they will be posted in your Facebook wall and the subject line becomes the caption of your photos or videos and they will made public by default. Send a mail to the mail id without any attached files,, then the subject line become your new status update.

So get these email addresses added in your address book and make use of them.

Surprising notepad tricks that everyone should try

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Windows Notepad is a basic writing application that is very much neglected I guess. Everyone knows that Windows Notepad as just a basic writing app which gets dominated by the various other feature filled applications. Actually notepad is powerful than what it actually looks like. Here are some surprising things that everyone should know about Notepad tricks, that are useful tips.

Get Line Count:

To view the number of lines in a Notepad document, you will have to display the status bar first, for that you have to View menu and then check whether the status bar option is checked. Windows Notepad even has a GOTO option just like the Microsoft Word and you can use it by just pressing CTRL + G, which opens the dialog box and there you can type the exact line number that you want to go to.

Find the Windows Product key:

You can retrieve your Windows Product key using a simple trick on Windows Notepad which is just copy and paste the following code in Notepad and save it with the extension .vbs

Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
MsgBox ConvertToKey(WshShell.RegRead("HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\DigitalProductId"))

Function ConvertToKey(Key)
Const KeyOffset = 52
i = 28
Chars = "BCDFGHJKMPQRTVWXY2346789"
Do
Cur = 0
x = 14
Do
Cur = Cur * 256
Cur = Key(x + KeyOffset) + Cur
Key(x + KeyOffset) = (Cur \ 24) And 255
Cur = Cur Mod 24
x = x -1
Loop While x >= 0
i = i -1
KeyOutput = Mid(Chars, Cur + 1, 1) & KeyOutput
If (((29 - i) Mod 6) = 0) And (i <> -1) Then
i = i -1
KeyOutput = "-" & KeyOutput
End If
Loop While i >= 0
ConvertToKey = KeyOutput
End Function

 

When you open this file, it will show you the windows product key.

Test your Antivirus:

Find how safe your PC is under the surveillance of your antivirus program. Just use this simple trick. Save the following harmless code of text in your Notepad.

X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

Your Antivirus software should pick it up as a malware and should take action accordingly. This will be small test for your antivirus software to know whether it is functioning properly or not.

So these are some surprising things that you can do with the Windows Notepad.  Do try these Notepad tricks and start using Notepad in a differently useful way. Useful tips in Notepad can be useful to you.

10 Best Android apps that are not available in Google Play Store

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Play store has almost a million applications in its store covering applications of various categories and types and for various uses. But there are still many apps that haven’t been available on the play store for some reasons. These can be installed easily if you know where they can be found. But upgrading these apps should be done manually and it will not show you any update notifications, so you yourself has to keep an eye for upgrading the apps with latest versions.

Here is the list of some apps that cannot be found in the Play Store.

Amazon Underground:

The official app of Amazon which is available in the Play store is among the very popular shopping apps, but the Amazon Underground direct app which has all the shopping features along with access to Amazon App store. And another interesting thing is it gives free access to apps, games worth 20,000$.

Amazon Video:

Once you have downloaded the Amazon Underground app, you can also download this Amazon Video app which enables you to watch the Amazon Prime instant video subscription on any android phone and tablet which is normally available only on Amazon fire tablets, iphone and ipad.

Humble Bundle:

This is an app that helps you to get the paid apps for cheap. By purchasing games in bundles this will help you to get the apps for the cheapest prices. While you make the purchases, you can also choose how to split your money in between game developers and charity. Download the humble bundle app directly to your device and choose to update and download apps, but you have to first purchase them on the website.

Real Money Poker apps:

You won’t find these official real money poker apps in the android store as you do in the apple store. A simple search in the google help you to find out the games online, but be sure you download it from the official website.

Xposed Framework Installer:

It is a must have app for all the rooted android devices and this will give you the ability to make system level changes to your device. Installing this app in android kitkat and lower versions is as simple as installing an apk file while installing it on lollipop will take an extra step.

Tasker:

It is one among the most powerful android tools that are available on the playstore. This app is available for free on a 7 day trial. Go to the tasker website and use the free trial and you can also uninstall and reinstall the app to extend the free trial.

MiXPlorer:

It is real hidden gem like app that can be downloaded from the xda source. It is a nice file explorer with an efficient search function, it supports various file formats and it also has built in text editor, image viewer and media player.

CF.lumen:

This is the best blue light filtering app available on android phones which helps you to protect your eyes from the harmful blue light and helps you to have deep sleep. Download the app straight from the source to activate the freeload mode or if you download it from play store, you need to unlock.

Viper4Android:

It is a very powerful audio equalizer app for rooted android devices. It will give you great results if you dedicate some time in learning this app. This version of app available in the Play store is not official and you can download it from the official source.

Transdoid:

This is a download manager which helps you to manage your downloaded torrents right from your android device.

Best Extensions and apps for your Google Chrome browser

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Chrome has a Web store that has a large amount of extensions and apps that make it work more efficient. I hope and wish that these extensions and apps will help you to improve your web experience.

One Tab:

This is a tab management tool that is available as an extension in Google Chrome Web store that allows you to free up about 95% of memory which will help your browser to speed up. All your tabs will be converted into a single with the links of the tabs once you click on the one tab icon which will be available on the top right of the browser once add the extension.

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Google Dictionary:

This dictionary extension by Google is a must have as it will help you to instantly know the meaning of the word on any website or anywhere on the web by just double clicking on the word. This extension is the most useful and will help you to know the meaning of the word without leaving the webpage.

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Lyrics for Google Chrome:

This extension will help you to have the lyrics displayed while you stream r listen to the music online from music sites like YouTube, Spotify and Gaana. Isn’t it cool to get the lyrics of the songs that you listen online without having to search for them separately.

Evernote Web Clipper:

This official Evernote extension will change the way you use the web definitely. This allows you save the information on the web directly from the web using Evernote web clipper and access the information at a later time across various devices. You can save the webpages as bookmark, screenshots and articles.

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Awesome Screenshot:

This is one of the best extensions that Google chrome offers. This extension allows you to take the best screenshot without using any kind of additional softwares or applications and also give various editing options and annotations that you can make to that screenshot and share them with your friends.

Grammarly Lite:

This Chrome web extension corrects your spellings, grammar and punctuation mistakes while you write online. It acts like your English teacher and corrects you when you are wrong.

Gmail Offline:

This is a must have extension for all those who use mail a lot. It allows you to read and respond to the mails without internet access. The queued actions will be processed once the internet reconnects.

Hover Zoom:

This app allows you to quickly view the thumbnails of the images in full size without having to open them in the new web page. When you add this extension in your chrome, then you will able to view the images in large zoomed size without having to load them in the new page.

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Chrome to Phone:

If you are an android phone user, then you can use this extension which lets you to send the web links directly from your browser to your phone. You need install Chrome to phone android app where you can view the links send from your browser.

BugMeNot:

This extension helps you to bypass any compulsory web registration in some websites while you surf through the internet.