AOMEI Backupper is a new program released by AOMEI Technology. The best part is, it being totally free for home and commercial use. Owing to the increased applications and files being installed on personal PC, it is inevitable to be faced with hardware failures, virus attack and system crash. So, backup before hand is an essential step to prevent data loss. AOMEI Backupper is the utility which enables you to do easy backup and recovery operations for your data.

Overview:

No hidden quirks, no plug-in components, and 100% clean. A simple and clean graphical interface looks pleasant to the eyes and is easy to use. There is no need to search for a help article because a novice or inexperienced computer can easily handle it. Meanwhile, the options are in the left side, just like other products.

Bored with the old iOS lock screen, here is an awesome lock screen replacement for your iPhone. Give your iPhone the Android Jellybean lock screen, the new lock screen theme features a draggable circle to unlock your device with the added functionality to directly access and launch applications like Camera straight from the lock screen. Customizations to circle, icons, transparency, apps and theme can be done from Settings.app. Video demonstration and download instructions posted after the jump.

Here's you chance to grab a free activation key for Company of Heroes 2 Beta, the sequel of popular real-time strategy video game developed by Relic Entertainment. The game staged during World War II will officially feature the USSR's Red Army as a new faction (after the release of the Eastern Front fan mod in 2010) and will take the player on various stages of the Eastern Front campaign, from Operation Barbarossa to the Battle of Berlin. It uses the new Essence 3.0 engine which includes new environmental effects and the "True Sight" system, which only allows players to view the environment through their own units' line of sight.

Game video trailer and steps to get your free key posted below.

Decompressing RAR achieves is one basic functionality one would need on there Raspberry Pi mini-computer, while users can always download and install unrar-nonfree package from aptitude using apt-get install unrar-free, a better solution is to download and install unrar 4.1.4. Sadly, Unrar 4.1 is not available as a package in the RasPi repo. However, users can still download and install it using the following commands :

Imagine the confusion when your WiFi network is showing all available WiFi access points in the neighborhood except the one you want to connect to, adding more confusion - the same access-point is visible and connectable from other devices. Since, your WiFi access-point is visible from other devices and your WiFi client can see other access-point we can be sure that the two particular devices are working fine and are only having issues communicating to each other.

Samsung exclusively focused on only major new features while recently announcing their flagship smartphone model - the Galaxy S4. However, this smartphone features a lot more sensors and innovative new functionality under the hood. Here is a comprehensive list of new innovations and sensors this phone possesses which missed the initial media coverage.

rpi-update is an excellent utility to get all the latest updates and patches for your Raspberry Pi Debian operating-system. But being a utility which downloads and installs all the latest, cutting-edge core OS components it can mess things at times. A recent bad core-patch made Raspberry Pi unbootable for many, after downloading all the files successfully the RPi will fail to boot with the red LED on and green LED flashing 3 times telling a problem with boot files.

Microsoft Windows 8 allows users to enjoy both tablet and laptop computing using a single device, but imagine the joy of using a single computing device which can work as a Desktop PC, Tablet and a TV and that too offering two operating system flavours the Microsoft Windows 8 as well as Google Android. The hybrid All-in-One device Asus Transformer AiO P1801 does exactly the same and is out now for users to purchase (from next month in USA).

Micrsoft DirectX has been always the technology driving graphic card sales, but this might change soon. Back in January Microsoft sent a letter to its MVPs saying "DirectX is no longer evolving as a technology. Given the status within each technology, further value and engagement cannot be offered to the MVP community." However, this was later clarified with an official announcement that XNA was being discontinued not DirectX.

Now, adding more support to this suggestion, AMD's Vice President of Global Channel Sales - Roy Taylor has said there will be no DirectX12 at any time in the future during an interview given to a German magazine.

Lasers the future high-tech weapons of war are no longer Star Wars science fiction, watch the video below demonstrating US Navy using Laser as weapon to blind and destroy a UAV out of the sky.