The HD2 was HTC’s last Windows Mobile-based phone when it released in late 2009. It has, or really had, an active hacking community that made the phone do various amazing things like run Android, Windows Phone 7 and even Ubuntu-Linux. Today, we saw an all-new hack released for the HD2: it’s called USB Host and it allows your HD2 to, well, play as host device instead of client in order to connect to different USB peripherals. Developed by the Dark Forces Team (aka the folks behind the RSPL/HSPL tool for WP7 phones), today’s USB Host brings cool new functionality to the aging HTC HD2 smartphone. [...]

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Windows is very democratic in its allocation of CPU time – just about any program you run gets full access to every processor core by default. This sounds like a good idea at first, but it isn’t. Yes, some of the programs you run need to consume all the CPU power you have available, but there are plenty of others that are less important. Many of those system tray icons represent tools that you need to run, but aren’t exactly critical. There’s no need for them to have the same level of access to your CPU as, say, that game you’re going to play next. Many PC users don’t [...]

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Google recently introduced video and voice chat on their Google Talk app for Android. While, officially, this is specific to Android 2.3.4 only, we’ve gained information regarding how you can video/voice chat using Google Talk on phones which aren’t on Android 2.3.4. Follow the guide after the break!   The hack comes from the usual suspects: the highly capable folks over at XDA-Developers. A member who goes by the name of britoso has managed to make video/voice chat work over Google Talk on most phones running Android 2.3 “Gingerbread”. He extracted the .apk file from Android 2.3.4, [...]

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Apple released Lion Recovery Disk Assistant that let you allow to create recovery on an external drive which is capable to reinstall Lion, repair the disk using Disk Utility, restore from a Time Machine backup, or browse the web with Safari. Note: This is necessarily important to remember that user can create an external Lion Recovery with Lion Recovery Assistant application while their Mac has an existing Recovery HD. How to Create USB Recovery Drive with Lion Recovery Assistant Step-1 Download Lion Recovery Disk Assistant application Step-2 Attach your USB or insert an external drive Note: [...]

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Probably the best tip we can give you for a happy iPhoto life, is to try and take good pictures in the first place. So we’ll kick off with 20 top tips for better photos. And the great news is you don’t need anything fancy. Even an everyday compact camera can take great shots when you know how to get the most from it. And if your photos still aren’t quite right, iPhoto has the tools to fix them. It might not be as advanced as Photoshop, but what it does, it does quickly and simply, and underneath that simple-looking surface is an impressive image-editor. iCloud: everything you [...]

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HTC has finally launched an official Desire Gingerbread update, which will update the HTC Desire to Android 2.3.3. There’s a pretty big catch, though. This is not your traditional “over the air” update that’s all nice and easy. Instead, users have to download and install Android 2.3 on the HTC Desire manually. Also, HTC has issued a lengthy disclaimer alongside the Desire 2.3.3 update, in which it claims this is a slightly hard thing to do and that it is “not for general public use” and that the company “disclaims liability” should anything go wrong. However, [...]

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Easy to create, good compression, wide software support – Zip files are an excellent way to save disk space and network bandwidth. Until, that is, one of your archives becomes corrupted, or a download is incomplete. You may then find your archiving tool refuses to work with the file at all, in which case you’ll need some third-party help if your data is to be recovered. In theory this shouldn’t be a problem. A quick Google search for something like “fix zip file” brings up a host of promising tools, some of which are free, and all promising that they’re the [...]

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A Guide to Taming Privacy Concerns Around Google+ – ZoneAlarm Blog has put together an interesting 6-step guide for new people joining Google+ and how they can protect their privacy on a social network that claims to have way more privacy controls than Facebook, yet you can’t have private profiles. Google+ now has 20 million users worldwide in just 2-3 weeks after it’s launch in their invite-only field test. And as it grows, the concern for privacy and keeping yourself protected from cyber-criminals also increase. Check out the various steps below to ensure your privacy is safe on Google+.

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There are many social bookmarking sites such as stumbleupon, reddit, digg that are used by several people for diverting internet traffic to their own sites. One of the best sources of getting traffic online is through social media. Social media traffic is the best source of getting traffic to your site. Social networking websites are in the topmost list of traffic hungry people. They give a different meaning to the social media. Bookmarking links around the web at a centralized location and allow people for tagging it is a different experience. Now let us have a look at how getting traffic from [...]

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Facebook is one of the most popular social networks. There have been several other social networks available before the introduction of facebook. They were famous at some point however none got the fame as the facebook get. There are many uses of facebook. It is used for business purpose. It is also used to keep in touch with all your friends. Many online services and products are promoted through facebook to get new clients and huge traffic to your site. Facebook traffic also has great importance in increasing the page rank of the site. Now let us have a look at how to get traffic from Facebook. Facebook [...]

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