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Papercut: Set Bing Background As Wallpaper On Windows Phone

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Are you fan of Bing.com’s backgrounds? If yes, then you might be using them as your desktop background on your PC with ‘Best of Bing’ themes. This theme is made with and uses RSS feeds. Whenever a new wallpaper is published as Bing background on Bing.com, your PC will fetch it, store it and will display it as your desktop background image. Now what to do to get all those classic, beautiful, awesome and high definition backgrounds on your powerful, awesome Windows Phone’s screen? Answer is Papercut. Papercut will allow you to use all those Bing backgrounds as Wallpaper on your Windows Phone.


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Control Your Facebook Timeline

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Are you frustrated due to some non useful, unknown, unwanted posts, pictures coming up your Timeline? Your friends are tagging you in unwanted photos? Is your reputation is getting decreased due to such things? Then here is how you can control your Facebook Timeline.

Controlling Facebook timeline is very simple and it is getting simpler day by day. Facebook is periodically introducing various new privacy settings but fact is that many of Facebook users are unaware of such things.

How to control your timeline?

To do this you have to navigate to your ‘Privacy Settings’. Select ‘Privacy Settings’ from drop down menu next to your profile link.

Facebook Menu

Scroll down the page and you will find links such as

  • Timeline and tagging
  • Ads, Apps and websites
  • Limit the Audience for past posts

Let’s see them one by one.
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Avoid Facebook Account Hijacking In 4 Steps

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Facebook is a well known social networking site used by you, me and millions of other people in world to remain connected with friends and family. Most of you use Facebook regularly. Some of you might got addicted to Facebook. But ask yourself, Is your Facebook account is really safe from hijacking? What all methods you have implemented to make it secure?

If you are not having answer for any of above question then you should must follow following steps to prevent your Facebook account from getting hijacked.

Step 1: Change Your Password

Change Password

This is most important. If you are using current password from a long time then you should change it as early as possible. You can navigate to Account Settings > General to change your password. Try to update your password monthly, it is a good habit. This will prevent most of unauthorized access to your account.

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HTML5 Prefetching Api

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One common effort done by browser as well as developer is making the browsing experience faster by any means. To achieve this there are several known techniques such as Using CDN (Content Delivery Network), using minified Java Scripts and CSS, using image sprites and even by setting file header for longer caching in .htaccess and so on. There are still thousands of ways, in fact many of them are still unknown. One of all those unknown way is ‘Link Prefetching’.

What is link prefetching?

According to MDN:

Link prefetching is a browser mechanism, which utilizes browser idle time to download or prefetch documents that the user might visit in the near future. A web page provides a set of prefetching hints to the browser, and after the browser is finished loading the page, it begins silently prefetching specified documents and stores them in its cache. When the user visits one of the prefetched documents, it can be served up quickly out of the browser’s cache.

That simply means, ask user browser to download next page which user will visit likely after the current page. With this prefetching API you can prefetch content to <link> tag which may be a document, image etc.

How to implement it?

Implementing prefetching API is simple. Just you have to mention rel=”prefetch” or rel=”next” in <link> tag as follow

<!-- full page -->
<link rel="prefetch" href="https://ankurm.com/lab/blog/api/using-localhost-for-facebook-app-development/1091/" />

<!-- An image -->
<link rel="prefetch" href="https://ankurm.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/logo.png" />

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How To Completely Uninstall Any Antivirus

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Uninstalling any program from computer is quite simple task. Go to control panel, select add or remove program (or program and features), scroll the list, select desired program and click on uninstall. Sounds simple? Yup. But in case of antivirus, it is not. Sometimes antivirus software blocks itself from removal. On other hand even if you remove antivirus with help of uninstall option from control panel, still some traces are left behind in your PC.  These small traces of previous un-installed antivirus software may create some problems. It may happen that you are installing a brand new antivirus program on your PC and you may run into an error, “You are already having antivirus software installed on your PC”. Sometimes your brand new antivirus may fail during its installation resulting into insecurity of your system. Sometimes your brand new antivirus may get installed successfully but it may throw several error while its operations. To avoid such issues you have to manually clean up your old antivirus software from your machine. So here is how to do that.

As you know there are several companies like Microsoft, Avast, Bitdefender, McAfee, F-Secure offer antivirus software. But the thing is that un-installation procedure is not same for any of them. Each company provides a separate un-installation tool for completely removing their antivirus software from your PC. Here we have listed some of them with their procedures and tool.

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How to add Gmail and Yahoo accounts in Windows 8 Mail

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Windows 8 mail app has new sleek, modern look. It includes a nice, clean, eye catchy design and functionality. If you are Windows live user then your mail will be shown up in your mail app as soon as you sign in to Windows 8 with your Microsoft account. This mail app also works with Gmail and Yahoo accounts. Here is how you can set up Gmail and Yahoo account in Windows 8 mail app.

Step 1: Log in to your Windows 8 mail app with Microsoft account. If you are not having Microsoft account then sign up for it. No need to get a new email ID, you can use your existing one.

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Using Office Web Apps Viewer To View Documents

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Microsoft Office is a best and world known software suit. It is used by millions of people and organizations all over the world. It provides ability to create everything ranging from document, spreadsheets to very complex databases. Hence in most of cases the information in any organization is stored in office documents. If you requested any information say a letter or a balance sheet or purchase history, in most of the cases, the representative from that organization will mail you an office file which is of type document (doc or docx) or a spreadsheet (xls or xlsx).

Now if you are Windows Live (hotmail) user then you will not face any problem with those office file. Windows live comes with built in functionality to open and edit office docs online. If you are Gmail user, then also you will not face much problems, you can open it with Google Docs Viewer but sometime it may happen that the office document may lose is formatting in Google Docs. Anyways there is a desktop application from Microsoft named as Office Viewer. This is a free application to open office files in read only mode and can be downloaded from Microsoft’s Site. There is a web version of this office viewer dubbed as Office web app viewer. This office web app viewer is part of Skydrive and hence it is accessible to all of Windows live users.

Office Word Web App
Office Word Web App

If you are a windows live user then you can sign in to your live account and can open any document from your mail directly in office web app viewer. Additionally you can create, edit any office document with your Skydrive and office web apps.

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