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We have seen some apps for iPhones in the past which turn your device into a wireless mouse and keyboard. The trick can be pretty useful when you have a dedicated PC as a media center or you simply want to control the music at the party right from the dance floor. However, you always have to be in the line of sight of your PC in order to control cursor them from the iOS device. But what if I told you that there’s a way you can view and control your Windows PC using your iOS device and that too completely free without any limits? Really useful, I must say. Here’s how it can be done. Setting up the Connection Step 1: Download and install Ultra VNC on your computer. The installation is fairly simple, however, while installing the app, make sure that you check the option to install the Ultra VNC Server. Once the installation is completed, I would advise you to save all the work you are working on and reboot your computer. Step 2: Search for Ultra VNC server in t...

How Android went from being a flailing startup to world's biggest computing platform Must read story An illustration of Andy Rubin In 2004, Andy Rubin made an urgent call to his friend, Steve Perlman. Rubin's startup, Android, was in trouble, he explained. Rubin didn't like asking for money again, but the situation was dire. Android, which was creating mobile software for phones, was out of cash, and other investors weren't biting. Perlman agreed to wire some funds as soon as possible. "Maybe a little sooner would be better," Rubin said nervously. Rubin had already missed payments on Android's office space, and the landlord was threatening to evict him. Perlman went to the bank and withdrew $10,000 in $100 bills and handed them to Rubin. The next day, he wired over an undisclosed amount of money to provide the seed funding for Android. "I did it because I believed in the thing, and I wanted to help Andy," Perlman told Bu...

How to Upload All Your Photos from Everywhere to Google Photos Ads by Google Google Photos is free and awesome. As we’ve decided before, it’s not going to hurt you to try it out. But trying it out means uploading hundreds or thousands of your pictures to Google Photos. And because Google Photos didn’t exist till now, your photo collection is messed up. Your iPhone photos might be in iCloud Photo Library/Dropbox, DSLR photos might be in the iPhoto/Lightroom library and years old photos might be stashed in a folder somewhere. Sadly, there’s no 1-click way to automatically upload all photos from Dropbox to Google Photos (there’s no API yet). So we’ll need to do this manually. But once it’s done, you can start to reap the many, many benefits of Google Photos. Step Zero: Install Google Photos Backup First thing you need to do, even before we start gathering photos from the 63 different services you’ve signed up for, is to install Google Photos Backup . It’s just ...

How to Mirror a Windows Phone Screen on a Windows Computer Ads by Google One of the new features in Windows Phones in the Windows 8.1 update is the Project My Screen option in the settings menu. Using this option, you can easily project your phone to a Windows computer using a USB cable and see everything that happens on the screen directly on the computer. Projecting the screen.  Let’s see how to get that done easily. The tip can be useful for users who need to show the operations of their Windows smartphones on big screens and projectors. Also, users who just wish to play their games on a 15″ or a 21″ monitor can connect and enjoy the thrill. Just to be clear, the tip will only mirror the phone’s display to a desktop and you will not be able to interact with the phone using the computer and a mouse. The connection is unidirectional and only the commands given on the phone are mirrored to the screen. Cool Tip: Find out how you can project an And...

How to Create a System Restore Point on Windows 8 Have you messed up your computer by installing drivers which aren't compatible with your hardware? Or have you been attacked with some computer virus and can't recover? A Restore point is the best way to restore you computer to a previous state (when your computer worked properly). If some recently installed program is causing problem and your computer isn't behaving normal or isn't booting, then you can solve it by restoring to the latest Restore Point. This will remove the problem causing programs and will restore your computer to the state when it worked properly. System Restore is a default system protection feature by Microsoft, you can find it in control panel. By default, Windows automatically creates a Restore Point every week, but for safety purposes, you can create one yourself. Today I will teach you How to create a System Restore Point on Windows 8 / 8.1 manually. How ...

How to Share Files Instantly between Windows Phone and Android or iOS Ads by Google Sharing files using Bluetooth looks so old school nowadays, especially when the files that are shared are no longer just a few MBs. Thanks to decreasing space complexity, even an HD music video is about a quarter of a GB. And you don’t need an expert to tell you that Bluetooth is not an ideal mode of communication in such a scenario. In that case, it can take ages to transfer files between devices. The best mode of transfer here would be to use Wi-Fi and we have already covered how to transfer big files between devices when it comes to iPhone and Android. But a Windows phone was always left out of the discussion, as it lacked the necessary features to join the party. Now, things have changed and thanks to an app called Feem, Windows Phone users can share media to other devices on the same Wi-Fi network seamlessly. Let’s have a look at how to use the app to transfer files to ...