Friday, 3 October 2014

How to Delete and Turn off your Google Search History

Every person likes to search on Google at any moment whenever he/she needs any type of information from the web, Google is a guide for anyone who is surfing on the internet. But most important thing that we are not very well aware of is that Google stores every single word that we search on their search engine. Every query that you search on Google and all the websites that you visit from the Google search results are anonymously recorded by the search giant. 
google history logo

According to Google, the recorded search data is used to provide you with better search results and recommendations across Google’s products. But most of the people are not that much aware of the fact that Google is storing their personal search queries and visited URL’s.

But don’t worry, Google does allow you to delete your search history. You can delete entire search history or some portion of the search history. 

How to Delete your Google Search History

Following steps are simple enough to know more about deleting Google history.

*. Go to https://history.google.com/history and login with your Google account.

*. Now select the check box beside Remove items for removing history. You may select the specific search query or the entire history that you want to delete.

remove google history

*. If you want to delete recent history from last hour or last week you can do so by clicking on the cog icon and selecting Remove items.
history settings

That’s it, now all your Google search history will be deleted permanently. however Google will still keep on recording your search queries and websites visited, until you turn this feature off.

How to Turn Off the Google Search History

Go to the Google search history page https://history.google.com/history/settings or click on the cog icon and select Settings and click on the Pause button to permanently turn off the Google search history.
turn off google history

After this Google won’t remember your search history. You can allow Google to track your history by clicking on the Start button anytime by the same way.

Sunday, 28 September 2014

Recovering data from Scratched or damaged CD/DVD’s

You have noticed that many of the time your CD/DVD’s scratched due to not using them for a longer period of time. All of us mostly depend on cloud data storage and USB drives or hard drives due to their portability and last longer ability. CD/DVD’s mostly have the data that is very old but due to the importance of the data we have to keep them in good place, but they damaged in any case and data recovery is the most complicated problem for ourselves from them.



DVD

For this problem we have found solution. This might help you recovering data from your CD/DVD’s in easier way. Here we are suggesting two easy to use programs which can be used to recover data from damaged CD/DVD’s.


Roadkil’s Unstoppable Copier is a simple, small and easy to use program which is mainly designed to recover data from scratched or damaged CD/DVD’s.


dvd copier roadkils unstoppable

Every time when you tried to copy any files from scratched CD/DVD’s you may encounter numerous errors such as “Not readable” or “Corrupted”. This is the reason why Roadkil’s Unstoppable Copier here to help you. It is a free program which you can download from here.



Another program is CD Recovery Toolbox which also support for the new format Blu Ray disc’s. This utility is capable of recovering data from both scratched, damaged or corrupted optical discs. You can download it from here.



recovery toolbox cd copy

New and modern gadgets overcome the use of CD/DVD’s but still they’re used for storing important backups. So, hopefully if you have facing problems of recovering data from damaged CD/DVD’s then this post will help you….

Thursday, 25 September 2014

How to know if your E-mail account compromised in Cyber Attack

You have noticed that in the recent few years cyber crime is increased a lot. Everyday we hear news about cyber crime or hacking through mail servers, etc. Even the top websites like facebook, twitter, gmail, yahoo etc. also get hammered by the cyber criminals to get the sensitive information of the users. Personal information on these sites open to these criminals can cause vey serious issues to ourselves.

Cyber attack

In the few days of time you may heard about stealing of personal photos of Hollywood celebrities by iCloud hacking and sharing it on internet. This is a major kind of issue. It proves that although you delete your personal information from the web it may recoverable by these cyber criminals. So be alert is the only solution don’t reply to unknown persons or mails in your inbox.

But good news is that you can now know about your e-mail status in cyber attack. The website https://haveibeenpwned.com, let you know about your account status in a cyber attack. What the service does is, it collects the breached data which have been made publicly available and when you enter your email id, the service compares it with its database of compromised accounts and notifies you know if your email account is found in any of the recent security breaches.

i have been pwned

In another recent news you may heard that millions of e-mail accounts were hacked and the mail providers suggested to change the credentials of the users. So this service is very useful to let us know about our mail account. The site https://haveibeenpwned.com only stores the e-mail id and usernames of the compromised accounts. If you have more doubt, check out their FAQ page for more details.

Make sure from now that you check if your account has been compromised and do let your friends know about this service as well.

Tuesday, 16 September 2014

How to zoom into Videos with VLC

Zooming into images is a normal work that you do everyday, anywhere, on your PC or your mobile but do you know you can also zoom into video files. Definitely you’ve noticed that you need to zoom into video files while watching high quality movies or just while watching any video for make yourself able to view smaller parts of the videos behind it.

This difficulty can be overcome. Yes, and it’s simple too. You know how to do it? Well you don’t have to be a scientist for this, you can do it by using your VLC media player, isn’t it cool to have such a feature.

Steps to make a zoom into videos

Steps are very easy to follow, just follow below steps to do your work.

*. Open any video file with VLC media player.

*. Now press Ctrl+E to open Adjustment and Effects window or click on Tools from menu and select Effects and Filters.

*. Click on Video Effects tab and then click on Geometry tab.

 interractive zoom vlc

*. Now just mark the checkbox near Interactive Zoom and you’re done.

*. You will see a zooming option available on your VLC at left upper corner, using that option you can easily make a zoom in your videos like you increase the volume.             

                             VLC zoom video
Isn’t it so much easier? definitely it is...!. Enjoy zooming videos and keep connected with us for more such valuable tricks.

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