Tips & Tricks

Youtube is slowly rolling out the highest-quality 1080p Full-HD HDTV standard videos for public consumption, although very limited new videos with highest quality have now started to appear on the site - as there is no way to search them yet here are few to feast your eyes - Tron Legacy Trailer, Avatar Trailer, Everest Summit.

Now, as the title says here is how you can download the Youtube videos in their full-glory when available using the simplest of all tricks demonstrated ahead.

File-sharing service Megaupload forces free-downloader's to enter image-verification code and wait for 45 seconds to download the file, we had shared many tips, tricks and tools to bypass this limitation but all of them are obsolete now.

Today I am going to share a wonderful, fast and simple way to bypass megaupload limitation allowing you to download files as premium users even with your download manager.

McAfee is one of the oldest and well-known anti-virus vendor and we had shared free McAfee promotions and here is another one leaked on internet, this one allows you to enjoy a full 3 user license valid for 12 months of genuine McAfee VirusScan Plus 2010 with SiteAdvisor.

McAfee® VirusScan® Plus offers proactive PC security to prevent malicious attacks, so you can protect what you value as well as surf, search, and download files online with confidence. McAfee SiteAdvisor’s web safety ratings help you avoid unsafe websites. This service also provides security against multi-pronged attacks by combining anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewall technologies. McAfee’s security service continuously delivers the latest software so your protection is never out-of-date. You can now easily add and manage security for multiple PCs in your home. Moreover, improved performance allows it to protect, without disturbing you.

There are numerous free SMS websites and hacks which advertise allowing users to send free text-messages across the globe but most of them fall short of their claims allowing free SMS's to selected operators only, but new free online SMS service KuripoTxt worked as advertised allowing absolutely free international text-messaging.

Due to some unknown reasons Windows XP started throwing the error below whenever I tried to empty my recycle bin, I was sure that the recycle bin folder structure got corrupted somehow and after tinkering here and there I was able to fix this annoyance pretty easily as shown ahead.

Hacker's succeeded in cracking Microsoft Windows 7 activation even before it got officially released on 22 October 2009, now the same guy Hazar has came up with another utility 'RemoveWAT' which claims to completely remove Windows Activation Technologies (WAT) from the operating-system allowing users with illegal copies of Windows 7 to activate their copies and enjoy retaining genuine status letting them receive all updates from Microsoft, this will even let them pass the genuine check in Microsoft software's like Windows Defender.

The utility claims to uninstall the whole WAT thingy with all traces from the OS, after applying this crack there will be no windows activation section in Windows 7 control panel.

It is advisable to keep your operating-system and software's updated for optimal computer performance and security and Windows allows automatic update functionality to ensure this; however if your computer does not have a functional internet connection getting updates can be a bit tricky and you need to get offline-update files via an internet connected PC and install them on your computer.

Microsoft Windows 7 operating-system supports Windows Update Stand-alone Installer (.msu) which is used for distributing standalone update files for computer's without internet connection, follow the simple trick described ahead to download all updates in a single go.

If you keep up with latest tech-news you must have heard about the Palm Pre and Apple tussle regarding support for non-apple devices in iTunes, If you are also looking for an iTunes replacement for syncing your music collection with non-apple devices or simply don't like using iTunes we had shared free iTunes alternatives which got the job done easily like WinAmp iPod Plugin and iTunes Agent; but all new utility DoubleTwist takes this to a whole new level by providing syncing support for wider range of devices and comes equipped with music purchasing facility via Amazon® MP3 Store (coming soon) posing a direct competition to Apple iTunes music store.

DoubleTwist supports both Windows and MAC platforms letting users choose and sync pictures, videos, music or iTunes playlists with hundreds of devices like Apple iPhone, iPod, Palm Pre, Android phones, BlackBerry, Sony PSP, Archos 605, Sony Ericsson Walkman & Cybershot phones, Nokia N & E Series phones, Windows Mobile 5.0/6.0 platform devices, LG's Viewty and Shine, Motorola (V9 and V3xx)/most Razr phones, Amazon Kindle, Nintendo DSi, most digital cameras and flash-memory-based camcorders.

Posting and receiving updates via SMS is one of the most important feature every Twitter users wants, sadly, free SMS notifications from twitter are not sent to all countries citing texting costs - the good news is that Airtel users in India can now enjoy receiving free SMS notifications from Twitter and posting updates to twitter @ Re.1/SMS using the newly introduced 53000 short-code for Airtel India users.

To get started simply SMS START to 53000 and follow instructions to complete linking your device to twitter, if you are new to twitter SMS Signup to 53000 (all SMS's to short-code 53000 costs Re 1), somehow sending the above commands did not worked for me so I used another approach as instructed next.

Diskeeper is an well-known name in disk-defragmentation software segment, and the company has now came-up with something very exciting - their latest HyperBoot app can bring-down Windows start-up time by more than 54% increasing overall system performance by 118% as claimed and demonstrated by the company in a Live lab test (video after the jump).

What HyperBoot does is that it physically remaps Windows boot data on the disk-drive bringing it closer for minimizing spindle access delays, the application also continues to optimize Windows as new application are installed offering overall PC performance boost including faster shutdown times.

Already partnered with ASUS, the company has announced to provide its new HyperBoot(TM) "instant-on" boot time technology as a pre-installed feature partnering with worldwide OEM brands, the latest version of HyperBoot works with Windows XP and Windows 7 supporting hard-disk drivers and solid-state disk SSD) drives.