Saturday, July 16, 2011

Turn Windows 7 into a Wi-Fi hotspot

If you have ever wanted to turn your laptop into a Wi-Fi hotspot, a new feature in Windows 7 which allows you to tether your phone or other wireless device to your laptop.

Open up the Run command with Administrative permissions and run: Start --> All Programs --> Accessories --> Command Prompt --> Right click and click 'Run as Administrator' (type following command)
netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=HotspotName key=YourPassword

Set the network adapter with:  (type following command)
netsh wlan start hostednetwork

After running the command, "Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter" must appear in your network and sharing settings.
Enable "Allow other network users to connect through this computer's Internet connection" under your Sharing tab, under properties.
Now you are good to connect your phone or other wireless device to your laptop and share internet.

Alternatively, you may use following software to turn Windows 7 into a Wi-Fi hotspot

Connectify 

Maryfi 

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Android Phone Vibrator

Having a cool or an embarrassing ringtone go off at the important business / personal meeting.
'Phone Vibrator' application puts phone into Vibrate/Silent (Configurable from prefs.) during the meetings.
This application has built in widget which helps you to switch between the  ringer mode Silent/Vibrate/Normal using single tap.


TO ENABLE Single tap widget to change ringer mode (Silent/Vibrate/Normal) - Long tap on home screen and select 'Phone Vibrator'.

Download : market://search?q=pname:com.jss.android.vibrator
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Saturday, July 17, 2010

Android Best RSS / Google News reader

There are many RSS / Google News reader application available on the Android market but I found 'Latest News - RSS Reader' one of the best.





Key Features :
- It let's you subscribe news feeds from 51 countries and 7 categories.
- Application automatically notifies user when new update is available.
- RSS reader
- Highly customizable 'Preferences' to configure application base on your need.

Download : market://search?q=pname:com.jss.android.latestnews

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Saturday, June 12, 2010

How to install Voice / Speech recognition / search on your Android mobile

Voice recognition has been introduced since Android 1.5 (Cupcake). It is one of the more impressive features compare to other devices with Android.
You can do...
- Speech to text
- Search by voice on web or Google Navigation

At times typing on the phone is troublesome and now you have an option to use the speech-to-text feature instead. And shockingly, it's quite accurate in most cases.




However for some reasons, Voice recognition / Search application is not available into the market for all the regions like in Europe it is not available in most of the countries.

So, here is the easy way to install voice search on your mobile. Download following app and install on your mobile and you are good to go...

Download : http://www.mediafire.com/file/hiyndzwwnwd/VoiceSearch.apk

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Youtube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OAZz4fHM38

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Free Download Youtube video/audio

DVDVideoSoft Free Studio combines more than 20 video and audio conversion utilities into a single interface. The program includes conversion tools to download and convert YouTube videos for portable devices (PSP, iPod, iPhone etc.), convert video soundtracks to MP3 format, video to Flash format, 3gp conversion and much more. It also includes several burning and ripping applications to create CDs and DVDs and extract music from AudioCDs as well as some simple video editing tools.


http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/




DVDVideoSoft is a developer of free multimedia software for video and audio processing, was founded at the end of 2006. Today DVDVideoSoft is more than just an Internet resource dedicated to multimedia software; it offers more then 20 free applications. It the most comprehensive source for safe, trusted, and spyware-free downloads on the Web.