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We’ve written about a method to group and organize apps on Chrome. Today, we will tell you how to manage, classify and create groups and profiles for your browser extensions. Context is a Chrome extension which allows you to categorize your extensions in such a way that you could group enable/disable them. Do you really use all your extensions at the same time? I am sure you don’t and that’s the reason you will love to switch between contexts to have only the required extensions activated at a time....

Having said that, there are third party tools available that could help you get a custom logon background. Windows 7 Logon Screen Rotator is one such tool. As the name implies, it lets you rotate your Windows 7 logon screen with the images of your choice. It’s a portable tool and doesn’t require installation. You can download the zip file, extract it and run the LogonScreenRotator.exe file. A screen will appear as shown in the screenshot below....

playing some video games on a sunny day unaware that something really, really bad is coming your way. Suddenly, a report shows on the news saying Earth has been invaded by mutants made of, guess what? Right, mud. And just like that, your main character jumps out of his porch with a water pistol in his hands in hopes of ridding the world from the mutant “mudds”, which he will find while he runs, jumps and shoots across a world full of traps, obstacles and, yes, cute mutants made of mud....

app will come out that will surprise you due to its originality and usefulness. This is just the case with Bump, an app that allows you to share your photos wirelessly with other iPhones, iPods, iPads and surprisingly, with your Mac as well. All in a very original ad funny way: By “ bumping ” your iPhone against the device you want to share with. For fans of the app, Bump has been around for quite a while, but its recent update has made it better, prettier and more usable than ever....

It is also common to have this error message pop up in the middle of an ongoing conversation. This issue is usually due to poor signal strength in your location. Other system configurations and call settings could also be responsible for the Call Failed error. Luckily, you can easily get this fixed on your own. We’re certain that at least one of the solutions listed below would get you back to making uninterrupted calls on your iPhone....

Trapit (Beta) is a well-designed, free to use web application you can add to your list if you like your online news to be served straight up front. Trapit says that we don’t have an unlimited attention span or the time to go scouring the web for news of interest. That’s why it uses an automatic algorithm that gets the news to us on our favorite topics for easy consumption....

Tryphone is a web based mobile phone simulator which has virtual handsets that you can test drive. It gives you an almost real experience by allowing you to perform some specific functions by clicking on the phone‘s buttons using the mouse cursor. You can also watch demos of some important handset functions such as downloading applications, adding a new contact, watching videos etc. This service gives basic information about the mobile handset like technical specifications, user reviews and ratings....

There were a lot of amazing things happening this week, and we’ll ensure you get served the best of it in a jiffy. Major News this Week Sundar Pichai in India: Plans for SMBs and IIT Kharagpur Lecture In an event in New Delhi on Wednesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the launch of Google’s My Business as part of their ‘Digital Unlocked‘ initiative, which will enable more small and medium enterprises to go online and further the cause of Digital India....

I found two alternatives. Let me tell you about them. 1. Saved.io Saved.io (Saved from here on) is a simple browser based utility that doesn’t even need an extension to function. You’ll have to register for an account before starting. Saving with Saved is really simple. To save a link, type saved.io/ in front of any URL in your browser’s address bar.To save a link to a specific list, type (listname)....

optimize our Macs’ performance , there are a lot of cools things that the very OS X lets us do that most of us are not even aware of. In fact, as you will see below, in some cases OS X saves you time and allows you to get your Mac running smoother even before you start it. Read on to find out about these really cool tips. Schedule Your Mac’s Startup and Shut Down Times For some of us, our Mac is more than just a tool for writing, editing, media viewing and other usual tasks....

Add to that that on iOS, you can only see one app at a time on your screen, which means that if you want to view or work with several files stored across various services, you will have to juggle between apps quite a lot. Thankfully, this problem is nothing to be afraid of with the arrival of apps like doctape Viewer and doctape – files to go! for iPhone....

use ours in our own, unique way , whether that means that we tweak little bits of it or completely personalize our computing experience. In any case, in order to get our Macs to perform the way we want, most of the time we will end up using one or more third party applications that let us do things that our Macs’ native ones won’t. So today I thought I would share with you three of the most interesting apps that I personally use to make working with my Mac a much more pleasant experience....

social services like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and social utilities like Google Docs and more. More services mean more scattered content, more upload work and more backup concerns. Social Folders promises to take care of all that. It lets you manage all uploads right from your desktop and works as a backup solution too. Social Folders is a sync system that tracks any changes in the file content of your associated profiles and matches the web and local versions....

activate picture password feature on Windows 8 , I have been looking for ways to get the similar feature on my Android Phone. Thanks to XDA developer kevdilu , Android users can now use similar photo gesture unlock feature on their devices as well. The app comes in both lite and a paid version. In this article, I will tell you how to use the lite version to access the feature and then we will be talking about the difference between the lite and the pro version....

This new update follows Messenger’s Instant Games update that the company announced on Wednesday, which allows users to play games within the Messenger app. Reactions were first rolled out for posts by the company more than a year ago and their popularity seems to have grown ever since. “We’ve been listening to people and know that there should be more ways to easily and quickly express,” the company stated while launching reactions Comments only had a ‘Like’ button beforehand and the addition of reactions is surely going to boost interactivity within post comments....

Aforesaid, MIUI 9 comes with a lot of enhancements and features and well, if you ask me, some of these features were long overdue. However, apart from these, MIUI 9 has a nifty tool hidden and it goes by the name of Game Booster. As suggestive of its name, it boosts the performance of your games. In this article today, we will see how the tool works and how it helps in boosting gaming performance in MIUI 9....

However, when it comes to Android, most of the times there’s an app for that. Last time we discussed an app that can get the Smart Unlock feature on rooted Android devices. But this time, we will be talking about an app that will mirror the feature without root access. Sounds interesting, I know! So let’s have a look at the app and see how it performs. Smart Unlock for All Android Devices As I already mentioned, Smart Unlock can be installed on any Android device running on Android 4....

What if you approached life’s challenges from the point of view that you are working you way through a video game. Instead of viewing life’s obstacles as challenges, what if you viewed them as missions or quests to be completed. Superbetter is a game which help us to view our challenges from a different angle in order to cope with and even overcome them. How it Works We will focus on the Superbetter website in preference over the Android and iOS apps since the website is the most general offering with the most functionality....

While I am not as active in the gaming scene as I used to be back when CS 1.6 was a thing, I do enjoy using Discord, a VoIP app built for the gamers. I recently started using it and find it engaging as well as fun. Also, it vaguely reminds me of Yahoo! Group Chats. Download Discord On the other hand, as I like to follow the blockchain related news and stay updated on projects that interest me....

And that’s just one example. Contextual App Folder (C.A.F.) can do a lot more. It creates a folder on the home screen and changes the apps inside it, as per the actions defined in the settings. What is Contextual App Folder (C.A.F.)? Contextual App Folder or C.A.F is an app that creates one dynamic folder on your home screen based on the context of an action or a trigger. C....