Do you think that you are very bad with addresses and navigation? Do you not remember the location of a place even when you have visited it couple of times before? Well, this is the case with many of us and we get lost on the way in spite of knowing where we should head to. But this issue can be resolved easily because you would find that technology has advanced a lot and you can make use of the GPS system for car. This way you can save yourself from forgetting directions and locations.

What does a GPS do?

We all can have issues with reaching a place and if you are thinking of making it without any glitches on the way then it is wise that you invest in a GPS system for car. The Global positioning system has many in-built maps and you will certainly have no hassles at all in reaching your destination. These maps act as navigation guides and you can refer to them as you travel around the cities and towns in India. You would find that there are many popular manufacturers which can help you with excellent devices and you can buy them online as well.

Things to keep in mind while purchasing

The GPS system for car can be bought at a low cost and you would find that there are many models available in the market. You can buy them in accordance to your budget and the most important factor that you should keep in mind while you want to buy a GPS system is the screen length of the device. The more the length the better details it would be able to cover. With this you should also check the multimedia features like connectivity which is usually not available in the regular models.

If you are thinking of getting a better GPS system for car then you should check the number of maps that have been uploaded to the device. With this, you should also check whether you can upload more of them or not. Your GPS system should be upgradeable in this sense and you would be able to reach any place that you want to be in.

This one is important

Most of the providers offer wrong maps with their GPS system for car so you need to check them before you make an investment. For this, you can go for a test of the device and do some runs through it which will help you make your decision.

This article aims at providing information on some of the most popular android games for mobile phones.

Cut the Rope

This is an immensely interesting puzzle game, which can keep you stuck to it. The goal of the player will be to feed a really endearing monster. A candy with which the monster is to be fed, is tied to a rope and one would need to cut this rope so that the candy goes straight into the mouth of the monster. The graphics of this game is really cool and somewhat cartoon like. Each time you try to cut the rope and miss it, the game gets even more exciting.

Drag Racing

There is a certain odd fun in Drag Racing that is not there in other types of racing games. The competition is between two tracks running straight on the same track. Obviously the one faster than the other shall take away the trophy. One gets to choose from a wide variety of cars. If you wish to include your friends in the game, you can select the multiplayer option that enables you play with your friends through the internet. Each win shall give the player more points. Drag racing doesn’t require a player to steer the vehicle. What is most important in this game is how well you time your gear changes. Your success will depend upon the correct timing. There is nothing difficult about the game and it is a rather simple one. The points one earns can be used to purchase new cars or rather upgrade the old ones. It is undoubtedly true that this game gives you one hell of a ride.

Angry Birds

Which of us have not heard the name of the craziest and funniest android game available today, the Angry Birds? The game is basically based on principles of physics and has some awesome graphics. What one needs to do is shoot birds by using a slingshot at the pigs who have taken the birds’ eggs away. On destroying all the pigs, the eggs are retrieved. There are several types of birds, which come in different colors and some of them even have certain special powers. Undoubtedly, this game is quite justifiably the most popular. There are three versions of this game available.

Cost Efficient

Virtual Private Servers are independent packets on a single server. Since a number of VPS can be hosted on a single server, hosting suppliers or providers can experience “Multi-Tenancy” in this form of hosting. In fact multi tenancy is an integral part of the VPS because only one template is installed on the server at a time and then multiple independent “Virtual machines” can be put in the single template through the abstraction layer. This is the major factor in lowering the cost of the VPS hosting as compared to the dedicated servers.

Back up

This is one of the important aspect of VPS since it provides effective backups against data loss. Ordinarily in the Dedicated server no abstraction layer is present and the data is directly hosted on the main kernel. A faster route to recovery is provided by the VSP’s in which data is stored in an image which can be rebooted on another domain quickly in case of data loss. Along with this VSP’s can be live migrated between different domains or nodes with zero downtime in between. The growing importance of securing backup files has made VPS a mainstream part for all the webmasters and web hosts.

Scalability

More information and resources can be added to VSP servers without any downtime and they can be scaled up and down according to the demand. It means that certain upgrades can be done and accordingly scaled as per the specification. In the dedicated server there is forced downtime for any kind of upgrades. It may be RAM, CPU or any other upgrade there is definitely a time lag in shared and dedicated web hosting.

Root Access

The VPS provides all the solution and services of a shared network and it is worth mentioning that it can be held at a lower price than shared hosting these days. For testing purposes VPS is very useful and with the full root access you can experience all the aspects of the dedicated server.

Keeping in mind all the above advantages the VPS hosting has created a revolution in the hosting arena and it is must for your web business.

Install Timeline Addon

You need to begin by installing the add-on and you will find an additional extra tab in the Microsoft PowerPoint Ribbon. It is synonymous with endless numbers of tools. As you are in the process of creating a new timeline, you need to click New button in the Office Timeline ribbon.

Create Your First Timeline

This will help towards starting a wizard and you will be guided with the simplest process of all.

1. The first process will entail you to choose the timeline style. Thereafter, you have to pick the Gel or Flat look and click on Next. After you have finished creating the timeline; you have the convenience of changing the style as well.



2. As you go to “Enter Milestones page” you can take the assistance of custom colors, title for each milestone as well as event date. It is your choice to make milestone in the form of a flag shape or diamond shape. Similarly, you need to equally decide whether you want to place the milestone above or below the timeline. You can easily change any of these options later. After adding the milestone, you are required to add click and then continue by clicking on “Next”. Thereby, you will be able to get your free timeline.



3. This stands out to be the final step. You are required to enter the intervals for a task. It is advisable to select different colors since it is going to help you towards distinguishing each and every single phase on timeline. In order to be able to start in a better and enriching way, add start as well as end date prior to starting the phase. Thanks to the “Shapes” option, you get the convenience of selecting different types of shapes for each interval. Hence, as you are done with the same, you are required to click “Finish”. Thereby, it signals the creation of timeline. Great isn’t it?

Voila All Done

The timeline which is created can be edited even further with the assistance of this option from the Office Timeline ribbon. In this way, you have the convenience of changing the timeline type along with changing the color of the main timeband. Apart from that, you equally have the option of adding as well as removing decorations from the timeline in the form of elapsed time, today marker, add more milestones etc.

If you want to experience the sea change in terms of look and feel of the timeline, then apply the PowerPoint presentation template. You can take the assistance of screenshots (below). As it shows different timelines which are used and along with that, “Change Timeline Type button” was used in order to switch timeline styles as well.

Hence, by checking out the aforesaid image, you are able to ascertain the powerful timeline creator since it is used for creating effective, awesome and everlasting results for your projects as well as business presentations.

Today, I am gonna share a cool and awesome website with you guys using which you can easily create a QR Code of your data. For those of you who don’t know what a QR Code really is here is a brief introduction to QR Codes.

What is a QR Code?

QR stands for qurifying. QR are codes are a type of bar codes.QR codes are actually 2 dimensional bar codes, As bar codes contains information in them which can then be read by a bar code reader as we see in shopping marts. QR Codes also contains information such as text, link etc. which can be read by any modern smart phone. Most of the smartphones have a built in app for that. In android we have an app called NeoReader which can read QR codes using the camera lens.

What can you do using QR Codes?

By using QR codes you can make anything interactive. For example you can put one on your business card with some useful information or you can put one in promotional flyers with a link to google maps telling them how to reach to your office. You can put one of books with information like from where to buy the book. There are many more uses of QR codes. I can just keep on going. So, without wasting more time let’s get started with how to actually create these codes.

How to create QR Codes?

Creating QR code is very easy and fast. Just visit qurify.com. There you will see a big blue box, in that box just put the information which you want to qurify i.e. the information which will be contained by your QR code. After putting the information just click in the quirfy button. That’s your QR code is ready to be used and spread. Your code will appear on the right hand side in a few seconds. One thing to note is that you can put only a limited information in codes. In this case its maximum 255 characters.

Hope you guys liked the articles and gonna make a lot of QR codes for yourself. Do share your QR codes with us in comments sections. We would be excited to know what use you found of QR codes. Share your feedback and suggestions in the comment section.

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To be very honest if anyone start to watch a video on Youtube he/she definitely would want to download it to the PC in order to avoid the waiting of streaming in future. And nowadays there is seldom someone who does not how to download a Youtube video, but to those who do not know this article will be of a great help and will surely get you to know 4 major ways to download a video from Youtube. These are :

Desktop Applications

The first thought that comes to anyone’s mind is to download software that would help to download these videos at any point of time. These include software’s like the IDM or the Internet Download Manager that allows you download the video being streamed instantly. Other software’s like the Youtube Downloader , Tube Sucker, Video Get, VDownloader and many more. All you got to do is just Google them and download to experience easy downloading from Youtube.

1. Internet Download Manager
2. Tube Sucker
3. Video Get
4. VDownloader
5. Youtube Downloader

Websites

There are times when you are at a place where you do not have the access to the software’s through which you can download the videos. As a result you get stuck. But not to worry as there is a simple solution as there are websites where all you got to do is put in the URL of video you want to download and click the download button. You will get options for which format do you want your video in and BINGO your download starts. Sites that come under this category are keepvid.com, savevid.com, downloadyoutubevideos.com etc.

1. SaveTube.com
2. KeepVid.com
3. SaveVid
4. Download Youtube Videos

Chrome extensions

This is one of the most efficient ways as all you have to do to download a video is add this extension to your chrome browser and as and when you would want to download a video you just click it cause its right there in front of you on your browser. The extensions name is Youtube Downloader-1.1 and is available free on the chrome store.

1. Youtube Downloader 1.1

Mozilla add on

Just like the Chrome browser the Mozilla Firefox has a few add ons too for downloading videos some of which include Youtube DownloadHelper, Easy Youtube Video Downloader, Fast Youtube Videos Downloader etc.

1. Youtube DownloadHelper
2. Easy Youtube Video Downloader
3. Fast Youtube Videos Downloader

We hope that these ways to download videos might help you a great deal in every way and every atmosphere and help you enjoy videos you want to view any point of time

To begin with and to clear your doubts answer this question. Have you ever pictured devices and gadgets that have been simply projected on screen in movies but are almost impossible in real world? Well if you have’nt then you can now with Google’s spectacular “Google Project Glass”.

What is Google project glass?

Talking in a lay man’s language that will help you understand what exactly is the Google project glass. Let’s take an example as easy as the one where one can view projected screen on a transparent LCD that seems to be looking as a simple screen projected in mid air. Now if the same set of apparatus is
made to a size that is small enough to be set onto a wearable glass integrated with a heads up display and a battery hidden in the frame. Is you can picture what I am trying to say then you have a good idea as to what the Google project glass is. As well informed by the Google blogger Seith Weintraub, Google
project glass will consist of a transparent LCD or AMOLED display that will put information in front of your eyeballs. Thanks to the location aware camera and GPS you will be able to scroll and click on information simply by tilting your head. These spectacular glasses will have voice input and output too.

What are the specifications?

According to the New York Times these glasses will run on android and will have a small screen attached in front of your eye that will have motion sensors, GPS and 3g or 4g data connections. The best part of this device is that it can be connect to smart phones, via Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0.

What all can I do with the project glass?

According to the videos shared by Google itself let’s say that you will be monetized to be looking all hi-tech and sci-fi crazy person with people far off talking to you right in front of you, you will be able to find your way using the Satellite Navigation. As of the future view you might be able to view your favorite movie hall and check out the latest movie up there, invite friends and even tell them the way to get there. A cool technological technique making you look a person beyond the horizon you are in.

When do we get to see the amazing gadget and how much could it cost?

Google states that by the year 2014 this project glass will be available to the common crowd. And the price has been set approximately as that of a smart phone around £500.

Any disadvantages?

As they say every advantage has a disadvantage. So does this gadget too. Something so close to your eyeball might blast it with the great number of ads popping while you look at something, not to forget the distraction while you focus on something and these pop ups annoy you to the extent of getting distracted and irritated.

As known to all and to those who do not know, Youtube has always been a leading result for online videos streaming. From videos on HOW TO’s to videos on the first word that comes on to you lips its all here. Initially started by three employees of PayPal, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim in February 2005, this site allows you to share, upload and view videos across the globe. Within a year this site was ranked amongst the top 5 site in the world and was later bought by Google in October 2006.

In today’s world seldom do people know about Youtube, but this article shall tell you something that is not known by many. As known to all that Youtube provides you with various wide spread range of videos even on the move. But what is it that you do when these videos that you eagerly wait to “load”
or “buffer” (in technical terms)?

Well here’s a solution and an answer to your question. Why don’t you play famous snake game while your video loads?? And that too on the very own screen of the video.

How to play the game

All you have to do is press the up arrow key twice and start the wonderful game of snake within the window where your video gets played. And not to worry because your video is loading behind the game that you are enjoying. This is a simple trick so as to save you from getting bored while the video you want to see loads on the site.

We hope this information gets you to enjoy the much waiting time when your video loads. Stay connected with this blog for more interesting articles like these.

Specifications

Powered by a 4000 mAh battery and an android 4.0.3 interface and packed with a 2MP rear camera and 0.3MP front facing camera this tablet has a display screen of around 7inch and screen resolution of 1024×600 pixels. Adding to all this Me Y2 Tablet includes a 1GHz processor, 1GB RAM and 8GB internal memory storage.

Connectivity

Talking about the connectivity the Me Y2 Tablet has an inbuilt SIM card slot, support features like Bluetooth, Wifi and 3G too. It also comes with preloaded apps like Twitter and LinkdIn. To add the fun this tablet comes with an interesting app that consists of a bunch of Indian recipes
known as the Sweet N Spicy.

Competitors

For example, other low-cost tablets such as Lava E-tab, Zen Ultra Tab and Micromax Funbook come with Google Play Store and also offer complete entertainment to the users that too under Rs. 7000! HCL Me Y2 can compete with Reliance 3G tab V94. This tablet is quite similar in specifications as well as price.

Drawbacks

As known to all that every advantage had disadvantaged similarly every great gadget n matter how lavish or complicated it is has some drawbacks. HCL’s Me Y2 Tablet has some too. To begin with this Tablet lacks connection with Google Play store although HCL provides its Me App store as a substitution but that does not fulfill the place of the Google Play Store even though the app store of HCL contains some great apps itself.

On the occasion of the launch on this device Mr. Gautam Advani, the executive vice president and head, mobility, HCL Infosystems said, “The HCL ME Y2 is yet another spectacular product of our company. This tablet delivers a great and user friendly experience to our customers through its advanced features. With the great boom in the production of tablets in the market and the increase in the “on-the-go” connectivity, ME y2 promises a user friendly interface with smooth connectivity.”

Dogs

Many jailed burglars have noted that a loud, barking dog is often a greater deterrent than a burglar alarm. While a dog should not take the place of a home alarm system, it is an excellent addition to one. German Shepherds are an excellent breed to consider; however, any loud dog that is not overly friendly to strangers will do. If you have small children, certain breeds of dog (like pit bulls) are not recommended. However, German Shepherds are usually very protective of kids and friendly with them.

Alarm Systems

A good home alarm system will automatically notify law enforcement if an unauthorized person tries to break into the house. Some of these alarm systems will also allow the homeowner to check on the house using a laptop computer or smartphone. These can also be good for checking up on your teenagers when you are out of the house. Having cameras in the house can allow you to check & see what your kids are up to while you are at work, etc.

Lighting Systems

Having good lighting outside the house is a must. There are some lights that are attached to a motion detector; these lights will go on if someone starts moving around in the yard. However, they can also be set off by your outdoor pet or even a neighbor’s pet that can get into your yard. It is often best to install bright outdoor lights that stay on at all times, as no intruder will want to risk being seen in a brightly lit yard. It can be a very comforting feeling to be able to glance out your window & quickly and easily know if there is anyone in your yard because it is totally visible.

These measures may cost some money but they are fairly simple to implement and will make sure that your home is safe and secure at all times. You will also want to stay abreast of new developments in home security, as the world is changing at a fast pace and you have to change with it to ensure that your home will always be a safe, secure place for you and your family. New advances in technology can be overwhelming but at the same time, so useful.

Max Oser is a not-so-secretly obsessed with celebrities and pop culture. He likes to add his own opinion to stories, and look at them from a different angle. He also likes to write about general lifestyle topics, such as home improvement, safety, and social media and sometimes writes about companies like Lifeshield.