Switch from Android to iPhone

Apple released its first application for Android devices, and it allows you to turn your Android phone into an iPhone. Application name is "Move to iOS" the application does exactly what it promises to users.

Don't set-up your iPhone until you have downloaded the application and are good to go on your iPhone. The transfer procedure will not work if you have fired up already your iPhone and set up. If you have, then you will have to follow the guidelines from Apple to transfer your content or start from scratch.

From the new iPhone, you have to choose the "move content from Android" after you have worked on the first screen where you choose connect to a Wi-Fi network and language; then you have to enter 10-digits of code. Once you entered, it's time to turn back to your Android and start the Move to iOS application.

The transfer time might vary depending on the size of content that you want to transfer. Our experience took five minutes, with some pictures that were stored in Google Photos. The only difficulty was at the end, when Apple wants you to recycle your Android device. Unless it's a omit some piece of data, you will be better off selling to any third party to get cash back.

Easy Trade Up

Microsoft wants you to own a new Windows 10 laptop and they will pay you when you switch from your old MacBook or laptop.

A promotion offer from official has been launched named it “Easy Trade Up”, by using this offer users can get $200 for an old laptop and $300 for selling a MacBook. After that user can spend that money back to buy a Windows 10 laptop that will cost around $599, Users will purchase it directly from Microsoft Store.

The list of Windows 10 devices from which users can choose includes the Asus ZenBook UX205, Dell XPS 13, and HP Spectre x360.

Surprisingly, Microsoft has not added its own devices in the list. Sadly, both the Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book are nowhere to be in offer.

If your device isn’t more than five years old, you can get good price by selling that device through Amazon, eBay and even Gazelle. And if your laptop is more than five years old then it makes sense to go through Easy Trade Up program by Microsoft.

More than 1.1 million users has been installed Windows 10 on their devices, its great news for Microsoft and awful for manufacturing companies, as most individuals held off on buying new device when they want to upgrade their OS for free. After a low period of PC sales in the summer, it's not much surprising to expect such kind of offer from Microsoft and manufacturers to get users to buy new device.

LogMeIn Big Deal

LogMeIn a specialist remote access computer company has bought the most popular password management company LastPass for $125 million. LogMeIn announced the statement on October 9th.

The acquisition has been finalized, both companies are interested and the deal will be ended in the coming weeks.

LogMeIn CEO announced that “LastPass has a great business, a beloved and award winning product, millions of loyal users, and thousands of great business customers…We believe this transaction instantly gives us a market leading position in password management, while also providing a highly favorable foundation for delivering the next generation of identity and access management solutions.”

Average person remembers around 24 passwords, and more than 64 percent of people admit that they use the one password everywhere on the internet; the opportunity for success in this category is great.

LastPass:

LastPass was developed in 2008, and makes computer applications that generate most strong passwords and then translate them in secure digits. The company specialises in make Suring their security application integrates with different kind of browsers, both on mobile and desktop applications. While the core application can be used free of cost, you have to pay for additional features.

LogMeIn:

LogMeIn was developed in 2003, and have a great reputation in their field. The company offers remote desktop support tools and software to individuals and businesses. Software also has a free version that was regarded well by its users as being most powerful tool for a free program.

Skype Update

Microsoft made the Skype Omnipresent. The application for video chat can be used by everyone in the world with just an internet connection, even users who don’t have a Skype account.

The new feature enables Skype users to generate a URL and spread it on the internet for direct video chat; users can also participate in group calls. The links can be spread in several ways, such as Facebook, Twitter and email, allow users to chat with anyone via Skype for Web.

Initially, this feature compatible and works fine on Windows, Mac, Android and iOS users. The only restriction is that the feature is available to use only for UK and US residents. Soon company will make it accessible globally, according to an official statement.

Now that anyone can use Skype with internet connection, it's funny if we think about it three weeks before, when Skype was down and no one was able to use the Skype for some hours. Of course, Microsoft accepted and fixed it in short time.

Company has worked with diligence to build Skype usage, including developing a public app that offered a single user experience among all types of operating systems and devices, enabling Skype to convert calls into six different languages and giving secured access to business owners on iOS devices.

Around 300 million people are using Skype across the world, making Skype the 8th biggest social network, according to survey from Statista.

Download Android 6.0 Marshmallow

Android 6.0 Marshmallow is now available to download only for Google Nexus devices as an OTA update!

Android operating system is the most popular over the entire world, billions of devices installed Android operating system around the world, that’s why it's so amazing that Google has brought a new version, far better than ever previous versions.

As usual the new version comes with a variety of new features and improvements, and while it will debut on new Nexus smartphones Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X, soon it will be available to download for most modern Android smartphones for free of cost.

The 6.0 Marshmallow update is commonly given out by your phone’s manufacturer and it may take some months to upgrade with new Android 6.0 Marshmallow, before upgrading make sure that your device is compatible with new version.

If you are so exciting about new version and can’t wait that long, there are other methods to download and install new Android 6.0 Marshmallow right now on your device.

Right now only the preview or uncomplete version of Marshmallow has been released and available only for Nexus 9, Nexus 6, Nexus 5 and other Nexus Players. This procedure can be performed with other Android phones, but right now we really don’t recommend it, as it's probably end in failure – or even a broken device. You have been warned to install it on your device.

Delete All Emails in iOS 9

We have heard the complaints about people are not able to delete all email from their iPad or iPhone. There have something technical to do, as they need weird finger gymnastics and it doesn’t work all the time.

Happily, Apple has heard this complain too, so in latest iOS9 they have included a quick method to delete all email easily. Just go in your inbox, click the Edit link in the top right corner in inbox, then click the Trash All link in the bottom right corner. You will be given a warning to confirm that are you sure to delete all your email? Do so and all your emails will be deleted and sent to the trash folder. Remember that this method will not work if you are in the folder of All Inboxes- it will work only with per-account basis.

If you want to delete all email from your iPhone, go to your All Trash (or Trash) folder, tap the Edit link, then hit the Delete All link, and then confirm. Now all unwanted emails removed permanently!

However, if you are not using iOS 9 yet, you still need to use a workaround. Select Inbox or All Inboxes, press Edit button, hit the circle to the left side of each of your email, then click and hold for a while Move button with one finger, then, with other finger, uncheck all the emails you checked recently. When you move your finger from Move button, all of your emails should be selected to shift into new location; select to move them to the Trash.

Microsoft Office 2016

Microsoft is a productivity organization, claims Satya Nadella CEO. While that offers a verity of solutions from the cloud services Office 365 to the mobile applications for Android and iOS (along with Skype, Dynamics and Power BI), for everyone, MS Office is the most productivity software.

That said, between Apple's Pages and Numbers, Google Docs, Box's Office viewers and even Libre Office, Microsoft Office has multiple competitions. With MS Office 2016, Microsoft need to upgrade its basic features, develop a cloud based services like Office 365 and OneDrive, and deliver extra tools for tablets and smartphones that never have a keyboard.

There are some wonderful new functionality in welcome screens and individual apps across the Office suite on the front interface, as well as new management and security and features. But this is a slightly familiar option, to the feature that we have not found yet in PowerPoint or Word 2016. New Office has the simple click-to-run feature that lets you use complete Office before the actual installation finishes (the small video clip you watch plays in PowerPoint 2016 actually). If the any option you want hasn't download, the Office will let you know about that download – and priorities installing that option next so you utilize it.

Microsoft reports that Office 2016 will look more colorful; we would call it little bit chunkier than previous versions as well. In fact the front interface now offers you an option of five basic Themes to choose from rather than the three Themes in previous Office 2013. You can still choose light grey or white background and header on each display, and only display the accent color for all programs in the backstage and status bar menu that starts from the File tab on the top.

The medium grey theme is have little bit similar contrast with the dark grey theme in previous Office 2013, with a black backstage menu and dark grey  background – the dark grey theme in Office 2016 really a dark grey contrast, so that commands and icons have even dark colors. Some people like the look and feel but this theme is just an accessibility feature for those who have visual problems.

The MS Office 2016 preview is only available for Office 365 users currently, and only for those who have Pro Plus subscriptions (because they add the license for all features and applications), but not all of the security and management features coming with the suite are enabled yet.

Admins have more customization choice for the Click-to-Run feature (you still use the deployment tools of Office to work with) and officials say there are some security updates and bug fixes in the program installer. You'll be allowed to see how you get new features and bug fixes without disabling security updates and you can manage your system to get monthly updates in your Office 2016. We have not yet seen the final list of features for new release, but the way pf people pay for Office 2016 is making it more impressive than previous releases. More Office users are purchasing an Office 365 packages that let them use Office 2016 without paying anything extra.

Google Drive 6 New Features

Google's added some amazing new features to its online productivity tools such as Sheets, Docs and Slides. These cool new features are not only for students, since they're available to use for anyone with a Google account.

Voice Typing

Google's been perfect in voice recognition for performing search queries and now putting those abilities in Google Docs. Now user can dictate instead of manually typing, just speak it what you wanna write, with support of 40 different languages.

To use this function, open a document from Google Drive in Chrome web browser. Then click on Tools and choose Voice typing. Then adjust microphone setting, start speaking and Google will write what you say, including punctuation marks.

Research from Google Docs

In the Android app of Google Drive, there is a new Research feature for Docs that allow you search from Google without closing your documents. You can use this amazing feature to read and find information, add images links from Google Images, copy and paste text into your document.

Templates

Google tools are all getting improved, well-designed templates that allow you quickly design a resume, slideshows, budgets and much more. Go to the individual tool for Sheets, Docs and Slides you'll see many templates at the top. Click on More link to see extra features, organized by category, such as school or work.

New Changes Button

In shared Google documents, you can easily see activities performed by contributors and collaborators. A "See new changes" link in the toolbar that let you gets a run-down of the changes and adjustments made by your collaborators.

Explore in Sheets

A wonderful feature is added to spreadsheet tool, Sheets, will automatically create many types of charts for you. This allows you take quick look to your data.

Those charts will update automatically according your data in sheet. You can highlight special fields to make charts on for particular data.

New Forms

Google Forms are a perfect way to get data on almost everything from a group of peoples, offering you full flexibility with the each question you ask. With the new Forms feature, you can customize colors, change background colors and insert GIFs and images to your survey.

IOS 9.1 Beta

Apple’s iOS 9 will be available in next few days; Apple isn’t wasting any time to get the new version to the hands of beta testers. Apple’s iOS 9.1 is now available for download for those users who have already signed up for Beta Software Program. In addition of new emoji, the build will includes APIs for Live Photos and 3D Touch so devices remain busy while building applications that support those functions. If you are not expecting too much fun, the new version of iOS 9 intend for public consumption hits next week.

List of top 10 video editing softwares

In this post, we have made a list of top 10 video editing software. We will take a look at core features, such as supported input formats, supported output formats, pricing and supported platforms of each video editing software that we listed.

10. Adobe Premier Pro

·         Key Features: Multi Track editing, linear timecode display, HD Support, unlimited audio and video tracks, storyboard mode and NDE.

·         Supported Formats: Able to support every popular video format.

·         Supported Platforms: Windows, Mac and Cloud.

·         Price: Different plans are available through official site of Premier Pro.

9.  iMovie

·         Key Features:  HD Support, NDE, linear timecode display, 2 video tracks and 4 audio tracks and storyboard mode.

·         Supported Output Formats: QuickTime compatible with HD Support.

·         Supported Input Formats: QuickTime compatible with HD support.

·         Supported Platforms: Macintosh and iOS.

·         Price: $14.99.

8. Corel VideoStudio

·         Key Features:  Non-destructive editing, HD Support, 6 video tracks and 4 audio tracks, storyboard mode, linear timecode display.

·         Supported Output Formats: Almost every popular video format, including functionality to export files.

·         Supported Input Formats:  Almost every video format.

·         Supported Platforms: Windows.

·         Price: $79.99.

7. Pinnacle Studio

·         Key Features:  Non-destructive editing, High Definition Support, Multi Track editing, linear timecode display and unlimited video and audio tracks.

·         Supported Output Formats: MPEG-4, MP4, DVD, MKV, QuickTime and some device based platforms.

·         Supported Input Formats:  MVC, AVI, MKV, QuickTime, HDV etc.

·         Supported Platforms: Windows.

·         Price: $59.95.

6. Cinelerra

·         Key Features:  HD Support, Multi Track editing, Non-destructive editing, linear timecode display and unlimited video and audio tracks.

·         Supported Output Formats: Almost all Video Format, including HD.

·         Supported Input Formats:  Almost all Video Format, including HD.

·         Supported Platforms:  Linux.

·         Price: Free.

5. Sony Vegas Pro

·         Key Features:  Non-destructive editing, HD Support, linear timecode display and unlimited video & audio tracks.

·         Supported Output Formats: WAV, MP4, MVC, WMV, MP3 etc.

·         Supported Input Formats:  MP4, AVI, WMV, OMA, WMA, OGG, AAF, AIF etc.

·         Supported Platforms:  Windows.

·         Price: $599.95.

4. Lightworks

·         Key Features:  Non-destructive editing, HD Support, storyboard mode, linear timecode display and unlimited video tracks and audio tracks.

·         Supported Output Formats: Almost Every Video Format including HD ones.

·         Supported Input Formats: Almost Every Video Format including HD ones.

·         Supported Platforms:  Mac, Windows and Linux.

·         Price: Lightworks is free, but it has a Pro version as well.

3. Sony Vegas Movie Studio

·         Key Features:  Non-destructive editing, HD Support, storyboard mode, linear timecode display and unlimited video tracks and audio tracks.

·         Supported Output Formats:  AVI, MPEG-4, MP4, WMV, WAV etc.

·         Supported Input Formats:  AVI, MP4, WAV, QuickTime, WMV, MPEG-4 etc.

·         Supported Platforms:  Windows.

·         Price: $49.95.

2. Final Cut Pro

·         Key Features:  Non-destructive editing, HD Support, up to 99 video tracks and 99 audio tracks and storyboard mode.

·         Supported Output Formats:  Any format that is compatible with QuickTime.

·         Supported Input Formats:  Any format that is compatible with QuickTime.

·         Supported Platforms:  Macintosh.

·         Price: $299.

1. AVS Video Editor

·         Key Features:  Non-destructive Editing, HD Support, Dual Audio track and Single Video Track.

·         Supported Output Formats:  AVI, WMV, MP4, SWF, MPG, FLV etc.

·         Supported Input Formats:   AVI, MKV, MP4, FLV, 3GP, AMV, MPG, DAT, VCD etc.

·         Supported Platforms:  Windows.

·         Price: $59.

Change Desktop Wallpaper in Windows 10

Windows 10

After installing Windows 10, do you want your previous familiar desktop wallpaper back? Or you just want your screen to look better as your personality? Don’t worry; the same features are available in Windows 10 too that have been a staple of previous versions of Windows.

To get started, right click on your desktop or you could go to Settings (using new Action Center's "All settings" or by writing Settings in Cortana search box).

Whichever method you choose, select Personalization (click on Personalize, if you choose to right click on desktop). Here's the screen that you will see:

Note it display you a glance of your desktop as you choose different selections in the Settings dialog. You can see, you have an option between using a solid color, picture, or slideshow for your desktop background, aka wallpaper.

Right now sampling of 5 pictures display under "Choose your picture," link but you're not restricted to those. You can choose any image file on your local drive that's in JPEG, JPG, PNG, GIF, TIF, or any other format. After you have selected the wallpaper that you want, you need to choose how to display it on the screen, because not every picture has the same aspect ratio as your screen. Your fit options are Fill, Stretch, Fit, Center, Tile, and Span. That lets you spread a picture across multiple screens, a feature that Windows 8 introduced.

Apple's next IOS update, coming on June 8, 2015

IOS 9

IOS 9 is latest operating system from Apple for its i devices like the iPad and iPhone, released at the global Developers Conference on June 8. iOS 9 develops on the content that was introduced in iOS 8 and iOS 7, bringing little design improvements, improved functionality, refined features, and performance improvements. iOS 9's great focus is on proactivity and intelligence, allowing its devices to learn more user interaction and act on that data, opening apps when we think in mind about that, making recommendations on different places that we might like, and helping us throughout our daily life to ensure we're where we want to be at the same time.

IOS 9 Features

Low Power Mode

I cannot say much things about new Low Power mode feature. I love that because it asks at 20% and again at 10%, and then turns off itself automatically once you are charged up to 80$%. And you still can use all the features of your iPhone: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Location Services, GPS, etc. 

Automatically organize your selfies in Photos

A small but very useful tweak to the new iOS 9 to keep all your photos well organized, if you are a selfie enthusiast, it is very useful for you. Pics taken with the front camera get placed automatically in a Selfies folder.

New San Francisco font

A font designed by Apple that was also used in the Apple Watch. This latest San Francisco font is used in Spotlight search, Settings and in the native applications.

An intuitive Shift key

I really love this tweaks made to the existing iOS keyboard—especially the Shift key in IOS9. I know, this is very far from revolution, but this tweak makes it very easy to tell if the caps lock is turned on or off.

Go back to previous app with small, new Back button

The new Back button rocks my way of using iPhone and iPadPro. If I am using Twitter, and I got notification or message from Instagram, I can view that message, tap to Instagram, switch inside Instagram, and still can go back to Twitter.

Siri is now your new personal DJ 

In new iOS 9, Siri’s gotten a lot worth. Siri is not only serving up data about the different directions and weather, but it can answer all your complex questions like, “get me photos from last winter.”

Easy editing of long piece of text

Feature is only work with iPad, you can put two fingers on the keyboard and it quickly becomes a trackpad, and let you select large piece of text with one click. The new feature on the bar assit you format the content or copy/cut/paste it with one tap.

How to Set Up a Local Account

Windows 10 makes it little bit difficult to have a secondary user account, but all its takes to read this post carefully.

By default, when you upgrade or install windows 10, you need to use your Microsoft account. By using Microsoft account you can get access to all of Microsoft’s services online, such as the OneDrive and Windows Store. But if you would like to store your stuff on desktop at least or as much as possible or you don’t want anyone from your family to access Microsoft’s cloud then having a local account will be the best option.

To get started with local account, open the Settings and select Accounts from left column. If you only want to create an account for yourself then click on Your account > Sign in with a local account and follow the wizard.

Windows 10 most useful keyboard short cuts

Go to Settings App > click on Family & other users > click on Add someone else to this PC.

In the next screen, click on “The person I want to add doesn’t have an email address.”

In next screen, Microsoft wants you to fill the form by using Microsoft account. We will not use that, of course so we’ll select the option at the bottom of the screen “Add a user without a Microsoft account.”

You only have to do in this screen is type a user name, password (twice), password hint, and then hit Next.

That’s it! Now you have a local account to use as you want.

You can’t use some of Microsoft’s cloud functions with a local account, but some of them still alive, such as Wi-Fi Sense, OneDrive and Cortana. Some of these are opt-in features, but to ensure they aren’t bugging constantly you or sending data to the cloud check.

Windows 10 Keyboard Shortcuts

Windows 10 Keyboard Shortcuts

In Windows 10 brings a ton of new shortcuts to help you easier accessibility to the new Cortana, Action Center, virtual desktops and Task View. In fact, that Microsoft also introduces a full functional Word document in Windows 10’s Windows key shortcuts.

If you are new with shortcuts, one glance at this list can be overwhelming and there are many keyboard shortcuts that don't include the Windows key. To assist you explore it a bit, here is a list of 20 most useful keyboard shortcuts for Windows 10. 

This list is not only about Windows 10. Many of shortcuts will work with previous versions of Windows too, and you will find some shortcuts for standard as well.

How to Set Up user account on windows 10

Windows 10’s newest functions (Works only in Windows 10)

·         Windows key + C: Launch Cortana in listening mode (for voice commands) 

·         Windows key + Ctrl + left or right arrow: switch between virtual desktops

·         Windows key + Tab: Open Task View

·         Windows key + S: Launch Cortana 

·         Windows key + I: Open the Settings app 

·         Windows key + Ctrl + D: Create a new virtual desktop 

·         Windows key + A: Open the Action Center 

·         Windows key + Ctrl + F4: Close the current desktop 

Standard Windows shortcuts (Works in older versions of Windows too)

·         Windows key + PrtScn: Take a screenshot of full screen

·         Windows key (Windows 7 and up): Open/close the Start menu

·         Alt + PrtScn (Windows 7 and up): Take a screenshot of current window and copy it to your clipboard 

·         Windows key + X (Windows 8.1 and 10): Open/close the Start button’s right-click context menu 

·         Windows key + L (Windows 7 and up): Lock the desktop 

·         Windows key + left or right arrow (Windows 7 and up): snap current window to right or left of screen

·         Windows key + E (Windows 7 and up): Launch File Explorer 

Browser shortcuts (works in Edge and most other browsers)

·         Ctrl + Tab: Cycle through your open tabs 

·         Ctrl + T: Open new tab 

·         Ctrl + L: Highlight current URL (good for typing a new address or copying the current one) 

·         Ctrl + D: Bookmark page 

Ctrl + Enter: add “.com” to the end of a web address (e.g. type ‘google’ then Ctrl + Enter to get google.com)