BullGuard – A Free Online Malware Detection

BullGuard Virus Scan – a new cloud based antivirus tool – certainly doesn’t disappoint in this regard. The free web service is designed to perform a brief scan of your computer to detect malware, which is a good start before commencing a thorough troubleshooting process, in order to save time.

The service makes use of a specially designed plugin that’s automatically installed to your web browser, so you may run the scan at any time with just a single click. Almost all major web browsers including Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer are supported by BullGuard. Better still, you can always try it on any other web browser to find whether it works for you or not. Getting started with BullGuard Virus Scan is fairly easy; you just need to visit the webpage via the link provided at the end of this article and click ‘Start Scan’.
BullGuard then automatically detects and installs the appropriate extension/add-on for your web browser. For instance, if you use Google Chrome, you’ll be prompted to install the appropriate extension for it – simply click the Add button when prompted to install it. BullGuard then begins its scan on your PC, analyzing key system areas of your computer such as system files and folders, and showing its progress in a bar so you may keep a tab on the scan process, which is generally quite fast.
Once the scan is completed, BullGuard shows you the results. It should be noted that BullGuard doesn’t really remove any viruses or malware it finds, but merely detects their presence on your machine. On the bright side, you can click the ‘Download Free’ button after the scan to download 60-day free trial of BullGuard Internet Security 2013 suite to remove any threats found, or simply use an alternative antivirus solution for the purpose.
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Smartphones Are Getting Smarter With HUD

When the mobile first came out you could basically call other people with a phone and that was it, then you could send a message using SMS. Gradually mobiles phones develop to host many features, so many in fact that it has helped reduce the purposely of buying separate products. A smartphone can call, take pictures, access the internet, listen to MP3s, take pictures, record videos, play games, watch movies, read ebooks and much more all on a handheld device. Now the next stage of smartphone evolution is coming…

A satnav company called Garmin have designed and created a portable HUD (Head UP Display) that works with your smartphone and an installed application. The final result is that you can watch a projection on your windscreen that will inform you distances, current speed and speed limits as well as project directional arrows. This function takes full of effect of your smartphone by using the phone’s built-in speakers or even the car’s speakers if your phone is paired via Bluetooth to broadcast voice prompts.

Benefits of this device is that it will increase safety as you can remove it when you are not in the vehicle and also it is seen as less distracting than having to look down on previous GPS and navigation devices. Also HUD is no longer being limited to top of the line luxury motors but instead have become increasingly common in mod range vehicles. This type of technology is essential for fighter pilots to use.

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Rovio Stars’ New Game Tiny Thief Coming To Android Store

Rovio Stars, a new app developer under the wings of Rovio, announced that they would be releasing their first game, Tiny Thief, on July 11th. Following this announcement, a teaser video was released today that gives us a glimpse of the gameplay. 5Ants, the developer has brought a real Rovio look and feel to the game, though it does not appear you’ll be flinging of flipping objects on-screen. Instead, users will have to use some brain muscle to solve puzzles and find hidden objects as they work their way through thirty different stages. Watch the teaser video below.
We surely will be downloading this promising and fun looking game! 11th of July is the date to write down.

 

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How to Manage All Your Email Accounts with Windows 8 Mail

 

With the Windows 8 Mail app, Microsoft introduced an application that actually makes managing emails very easy and convenient. The interface is visually pleasing, simplistic, intuitive, and yet the app is surprisingly comprehensive. When was the last time you heard so many good things about a Microsoft product? For those of you using Windows 8 and looking for an application to manage multiple email accounts, give the native Mail app a try and consider the following tips&tricks to save time wile managing your emails.

Managing multiple accounts from one app saves time because you have everything in one central location. Switching between email accounts in Windows 8 Mail is very convenient and more pleasant than jumping back and forth between browser tabs. To add accounts, go to the Mail app, bring up the Charms bar on the right, go to Settings, open Accounts, and Add an account. Select the account and proceed with setting it up. Repeat these steps for any additional accounts.

When you have added several email accounts to the Windows 8 Mail app, it makes sense to individually pin them to the start screen. Each tile will show the number of read emails for the respective account. A large tile will also display sender, subject, and an excerpt of unread emails. The advantage of having separate tiles for each account is that you can go straight to each mailbox from the start screen. To pin a mailbox to your start screen, open the Mail app and look for the list of your email accounts in the bottom left. Select the account you want to add to the start screen, right-click or press & hold to bring up the menu, and pick Pin to Start.

When you use the Mail app on a desktop without a touch interface, there are three keyboard shortcuts you must know to work more efficiently.

• [CTRL] + N to compose a new email
• [CTRL] + R to respond to an email
• [CTRL] + D to trash an email

As you are composing an email, you might want to save the draft, add an attachment, or format the text. You can quickly bring up the Options bar at the bottom of the screen by clicking the [Menu] key — that’s the often neglected key between [ALT GR] and [CTRL] on the right-hand side of your keyboard. The Options bar also comes up when you highlight text. Use the [TAB] key to switch between items.
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Hemlis – Fully Encrypted Messaging App

Peter Sunde, co-founder of The Pirate Bay, is planning to create an encrypted messaging app that’s so secure that even its creators won’t be able to read the messages that get sent.

Called Hemlis — which means “secret” in Swedish — it’s described as a messaging app along the lines of WhatsApp or iMessage. The difference is that the intention is to use end-to-end encryption to protect your privacy.

In-keeping with the Pirate Bay philosophy, the app won’t use advertising or sell user data-=-so it’s planning to fund itself through an initial donation scheme and subsequent charge-for services. In the first instance, it’s looking to gather $100,000 to develop an app for iOS and Android.

The core app will—so the devs claim—then be free to download, but certain features, like sending images, will be pay-for. People who make donations of $5 and up, though, will receive a codes for the full, unlocked version of the app.

The team behind Helmis say that if the entire funding pool isn’t raised you’ll get your money back—but given they’ve already racked up $24,571 that seems unlikely. You can read more about the project over on the Helmis site.

VIA | Lifehacker

 

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How to Bring Offline Mode Back To The New Google Maps App

The new Google Maps for Android just started shipping late last night, but folks are already bein’ all grumpy about the sudden disappearance of one of Maps’ old features: offline map mode. In previous releases of Maps, users could save chunks of the map for later use (like when you’re traveling abroad on a roaming plan and downloading a few megabytes of data would cost you somewhere between seven and eight billion dollars.) In new Maps, you can’t.
Google says the feature just wasn’t totally ready for the new version yet. But wait! There’s an easter egg that kinda-sorta brings it back.

When you want to cache a map for later perusal, here’s all you’ve got to do:

• Zoom the map view to the region you want to cache
• Tap the search bar
• Type “Okay maps” (an homage to the “Okay, Glass” voice-command used on Google Glass)
• Hit the search button

It’s not quite as easy as the old “Make available offline” button used to make it and it might freak out every once in a while (hence it being an easter egg), but it seems to get the job done.
*Note: You’ll obviously need to be on the newest, just-released version of Maps [the one without offline map mode built right in] for this to work. Also, just like with the old Maps app, navigation and directions won’t work offline. Those sorts of things are churned out on Google’s servers.
via TechCrunch

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Facebook’s Graph Search Is Here – Check Your Privacy Settings

Graph Search is rolling it out to everyone over the next couple of weeks. So if you were waiting for the right time to go through your privacy settings and hide the embarrassing stuff before the whole world sees it, you can stop waiting. It’s the right time to do it.

The tool allows people using natural-language searches to find nearly anything indexed on Facebook just like: “photographs of friends before 1999? or “restaurants in San Francisco”, “single women who live nearby”, etc.

Here are three key things you should check to protect your information:
Photos: Depending on your friends’ privacy settings and whether they use tags, unflattering photos may be available to unintended audiences. Before graph search, people would have to go to an individual’s profile and look through the photos section to find pictures that a person was tagged in. Now, your photos are one query away and can show up through search variables such as location, time and other people.
To review your photos, click on your profile (you can get there by clicking your own name on either the top left or right side of the main homepage), and then click on “Activity Log.” On the left side of the screen, click on “Photos” and then “Photos of You.” A stream of your photos should show up in chronological order. On the top bar, under the “Shared with” option, select to see what photos are exposed to certain audiences, such as “public,” “friends” or “friends of friends.” For example, if you click on public, you can see every photo exposed to Facebook’s members, such as Instagram photos you shared with Facebook and a friend’s public photos you are tagged in. Go through the list to make sure you are comfortable with the content. If a friend tagged you in a photo you don’t want to be tagged on, untag yourself so that it isn’t searchable. While you can’t remove your friends’ photos from Facebook, you can ask them to take the photos down. And you can enable “Tag Review” under your activity log to review any tags friends place on your content.

Profile: You can show up on graph-search results based on interests, location, gender and other information in your profile. Click on your profile and then click on “About.” You can go through each section by clicking the “edit” button in each box and then selecting the audience that you want to share that information with, such as “public” or “only me.” If you scroll beyond the basic profile info, you’ll see different interest buckets such as movies and books. On the top right corner of each box is a pencil button that reveals an “edit privacy” option. Click that and select which audiences get to see what stuff you’ve liked.

Future posts: Facebook provides a shortcut to set default privacy settings for future posts. On the top of the page you should see a small security padlock icon. Click that, and then click “Who can see my stuff.” The first option is to select the audience for “Who can see my future posts.”
via The Wall Street Journal