One thing I’ve learned about the rooting and ROMs and hacking in general is that it can be a little intimidating for new people. There’s nothing quite like staring at your first command line interface and wondering what the living hell you’re supposed to do. Flashing ROMs and gaining root... (Continue reading)
With all the free and paid cloud storage choices, which are the most secure? Well, AVG is a pretty good company to trust with your files. After all, they do have a great anti-virus software. Not many people know they have a free 5 GB cloud storage option too called LiveKive.... (Continue reading)
When people talk about the advantages of Android, one of the first things mentioned is usually control. With Android, you can exert a level of control over your phone that would never be possible on iOS. Under or overclocking, flashing ROMs, wireless tethering, and backing up your entire phone are... (Continue reading)
Even though everyone knows they should back up their data, it is inevitable that you will forget to do it. You may go years without ever losing a file, but the first time you lose important files or irreplaceable photos, the importance of creating backups will hit home. You can... (Continue reading)
Have you ever found a web page that you found really useful, but the next time you tried to visit it was gone? One of the downsides of the Internet is that web pages come and go all the time. You probably had no clue that you could preserve pages... (Continue reading)
How hard is it to export your Google data? It’s not very hard, but it’s not a piece of cake either – mainly it’s just inconvenient and can be time-consuming (depending on which services you need to export). If you’re familiar with the Google Data Liberation Front, then you know... (Continue reading)
It can be hard to keep your Address Book clean, especially if you have a fairly large amount of contacts in it. No one has time to take a few hours out of their day to manually check each contact and see if there are any duplicates. Why should you... (Continue reading)
Recently an increasing number of applications and services are moving from the desktop to the cloud. Subscribing to cloud-based applications takes the burden of application updates, security, and support from the business or individual user, and leaves it to the experts. Google, Zoho, and Microsoft have all created highly usable... (Continue reading)
In recent years, the quantity of digital content generated has gone up at an exponential rate. Its seems we run out of storage space on our computers faster than ever before. Also, the need to share files with others is increasing everyday. The ever-increasing size of the files also makes... (Continue reading)
Amazon Web Service (AWS) has a huge presence on the internet and they have just taken a step to spread their influence even further. To help new AWS customers get started in the cloud, AWS is introducing a new free usage tier. Beginning November 1, new AWS customers will be... (Continue reading)