July 2015

Short Bytes: Windows 10 steals your internet bandwidth without your knowledge to share updates with others. This option is enabled by default in Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro. You can turn this feature off…

Traffic fingerprinting is a technique used to sniff the web traffic by analyzing the data packets’ flow pattern- without removing the encryption. This technique has been recently used successfully to break the layers of anonymity of…

The recently proposed Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) by the government looks like another surveillance law that outrightly gives it the power to look through your personal information without issuing any warrants. Most of you…

Mark Zuckerberg announces Virtual Reality to be the next step after video for Facebook in its Q2 earnings call. Immersive 3-D content will be the future for human communication overtaking videos and gaming. There us no stopping…

Windows 10 is released and I’ve been writing about the new features Microsoft is planning to provide in this next version of Windows. In this article, I’m going to talk about the WiFi Sense feature built…

Short Bytes : Windows 10 upgrade keeps your files, apps, and settings, but it changes your app preferences of last OS. Today I’m going to tell you  how to change default browser and programs in Windows…

Mozilla CEO Chris Beard has written an open letter to Microsoft CEO demanding the choice and control for Windows 10 users. He has written this letter, because according to him Windows 10 makes it a…

Facebook Internet drone – Aquila Short Bytes : With Facebook Internet Drones, the company is one step closer to provide Internet For All. The engineering wing at Facebook has developed Aquila Drones that would beam down the…

Short Bytes : Bing search is deeply integrated in Windows 10 and you can’t change this search engine from your Cortana desktop search. Answering this problem, Bing2Google extension for Chrome does this in just in a…

Microsoft has released a list of Lumia phones that will be getting Windows 10 Mobile upgrade at the time of launch. Not all devices will get Windows 10 at launch and devices like the 630,…

Do familiar things Do unexpected things Do great things   Desktop Task view has been added Suppport for multiple desktops Task view replaced the App Switcher Windows Apps apps now can run on the desktop…

Short Bytes : Microsoft has released Windows 10 ISO files for performing a clean install on your PCs. It should be noted that not everyone is able to get the update on release as Microsoft is…

Short Bytes : Microsoft is already preparing your Windows 7 and 8 PCs by downloading Windows 10 installer files. Many eligible users who have already registered for the big upgrade, are already seeing complete installer files…

Short Bytes : Microsoft has launched its Arrow Launcher for the Android community. It’s the private beta version of Microsoft Android launcher that is into the markets. The launcher is all about quickness, but lacks the…

Short Bytes : Many of you would be wondering- why I’m writing this “how to get Windows 10 at the lowest price” article when Windows 10 is available as a free upgrade for Windows 7 and…

$400,000 super helmet If I asked you to tell me about the most expensive bikes on the planet, you will come up with a Harley, or an Ecosse- and with the awesome design and engineering…

This is the 4th post in the series covering top open source projects by most popular companies in the world. Today, we are covering the top Airbnb Open Source projects. Airbnb, which has made an incredible progress in…

Short Bytes : Windows 10 launch is just around the corner and Microsoft is expecting to convince as much as users to take the advantage of its free Windows 10 upgrade offer. Now that Windows 10 terms of license agreements…

NASA’s exoplanet-hunting Kepler spacecraft has spotted another Earth-like world. The space agency today announced the discovery of Kepler-452b, the smallest planet we’ve found yet orbiting inside a star’s habitable zone — the places around a sun…

It not always that you keep an extra storage device in your backpack whenever you are out, but you never know when the need arises. One thing that people never forget is the charge phone or the…

Today is the Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 release day. These software from the house of Microsoft have finally graduated exiting the preview stage and are now ready for download. Microsoft’s flagship development environment Visual…

Image: Cambridge Illustrators The researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have successfully programmed the friendly bacteria inside our body to detect diseases like colon cancer and immune disorder- and treat them. They have unveiled sensors,…

It’s been a long time since Spacebook launched its dual screen laptops. For those who don’t know, these were the huge multi-screen hardware that got as heavy as 10 pounds. Well, for today’s generation, that doesn’t…

Windows 10 will be available in a physical media, and no, it won’t be just the DVDs this time. The company has stated that Windows 10 copies will be available on USB drives shortly after…

The world is changing fast. Not long ago, before buying a computer or a laptop you would go through a rigorous process of choosing the brand, configuration, aesthetics, and the most important of all- budget….

Windows 10 Pro Build 10240 ISO 32 64 Bit Overview Microsoft is planning to release its new operating system i.e. windows 10 and before its release Microsoft has come up with lots of builds aiming…

Are you sick and tired of Google Chrome? It’s the right time to ditch it and switch to Vivaldi web browser. For those who don’t know much about Vivaldi, it’s a web browser from ex-Opera…

Moneypenny is named after the James Bond character who serves as his secretary Facebook Messenger is soon getting its very own virtual digital assistant dubbed “Moneypenny.” This means Siri, Google Now and Cortana- Windows 10’s…

Now, this is called a gift. The US Government is seemingly concerned about the children and students from the not-so-prosperous households. Partnering with the White House, Google Fiber is bringing free internet to the low-income households in…

In a recent interview, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talked about the company’s future plans in depth. In the interview, he covered topics like the future of Windows Phone, Microsoft’s Universal Windows app platform, and the…