Twitter has added new options to enable two step login verification for signing on to your Twitter account. Two step login verification involves entering your usual login username and password, in addition to entering a secret code sent to your registered mobile phone number. This way only you, who possess the mobile phone, can sign on to your account. Even if hackers steal your username and password, they will not be able to sign on to your account because they do not have your mobile phone.
Read moreHow to Add Mobile Phone to Your Twitter Account
Twitter is a very popular micro-blogging service and everyone is loving it. If you do not want to miss on Twitter tweet updates while away from your computer, you can attach you mobile phone with your Twitter account. This way you would be able to receive latest Twitter tweets in form of SMS (text messages) on your mobile wherever you are.
Read moreHow to Rebuild Icons Cache in Windows 8
Sometimes Windows starts to show mixed up, mismatched, or misplaced icons in Windows File Explorer. For example, Notepad icon for picture files, Internet Explorer icon for text files etc. This is usually a case of corrupt icons cache. Due to this corrupt icons cache you see mixed up icons in Windows File Explorer for different kind of files. The icon cache can be rebuilt using the following process.
Read moreWise Folder Hider : Hide Your Secrets in Windows
Everyone has something to hide in their computer. The grown ups do not want kids to touch their important documents while the teenagers have their own stuff to hide from their parents. If you too have something to hide on your computer, then you can use the free Wise Folder Hider to hide your folders, files and drives.
Read moreHow to Save Any Document as JPG, PNG, BMP or TIFF Image
Suppose you want to share a document with the rest of the world but do not want them to be able to edit or modify it, then the best option for you is to share that document in form of an image. Images are viewable and printable, but they cannot be modified as easily as a Microsoft Word or PDF document. You can make use of the free Image Printer software to convert just about any type of document into an image. It can save the documents in JPG, BMP, PNG or TIFF formats.
Read moreHow to Convert TIFF Images to PDF Files
Before the PDF files, TIFF images were being used by all the universities, governments, legal firms, artists and other professionals to store the files in lossless format. But now Adobe has made the PDF files so popular that everyone want everything in PDF format. So of course, you also would want to convert the old TIFF images into the modern PDF documents. Fortunately, there is a freeware application called TIFF to PDF that can help you convert TIFF images into PDF files.
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Securely Delete Files with DeleteOnClick
When you delete files from the hard disk or any other media (like USB keys), the files are removed from the file tables but their contents stay untouched. So anybody using tools like Recuva can un-delete your files (including the pictures, videos, documents that you thought you had deleted) and access them. If you want to securely delete your files so that no one is able to recover them, then you can use a freeware tool called DeleteOnClick.
Read moreHow to Remove Duplicate Bookmarks in Firefox
When you find an interesting website, TrishTech.com for instance, you add it to your bookmarks list so that you can visit it later easily without having to look for it. But sometimes we bookmark a website more than once, without realizing it. This results in having the same website bookmarked under different categories multiple times. If you want to remove the duplicate bookmark entries, then you can can make use of the Bookmarks Deduplicator plugin for Firefox.
Read moreUnlock Files or Folders with EMCO Unlock IT
Sometimes, when you try to move, delete or rename a file or folder, Windows refuses to do so and shows a message that the file(or folder) is in use by another program. This is because the handle to that file (or folder) is opened by a program intentionally or by mistake. Some malicious programs do this intentionally so that you cannot remove their files. In any case, you can use the freeware EMCO Unlock IT to detect and remove any locked resources, files or folders.
Read moreRemove Malware Using Free SUPER AntiSpyware
Malware writers are always looking forward to new ways of targeting their victims. New types of malware are being released into the wild everyday on the internet. If you are lucky and smart, then you would have installed an antivirus product to fend off such malware attacks. But if you get infected through some unfortunate event, then you should use a specialized software. SUPER AntiSpyware is such a free software.
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