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Google Calendar for Android Adds a 7-Day View, Pinch to Zoom, and More Ask and ye shall receive, Google says. Based on feedback from users, Google Calendar now has several improvements, including a new 7-day week view, Google Drive files integration, and more. The 7-day view and pinch to zoom should come in very handy when you want to get an overview of the week ahead (instead of just 5 days at a time). You can now also add Google Drive files to events, control whether Google+ contacts' birthdays show up in your calendar (at last!), see week numbers if you like, and import ICS files from other apps and from Gmail messages. The update is rolling out over the next few days and the Gmail team says they're still working on the iPhone updates.

Better Window Manager for OS X Saves Window States However You Want Mac: We've seen a lot of apps that mimic Windows' snapping feature where open windows are automatically opened in different positions, but Better Window Manager manages to combine a lot of features into a small package. It allows you to save window states, manage shortcuts, and more. With Better Manager, you can create application specific window states, assign shortcuts to different states, save various custom sizes, and it works on multiple desktops. More importantly though, it works great on Yosemite, which some of the other options seem to have struggled with. It's cheap at just $3, but there's a free trial on the developers site as well.

Bundled Crapware Has Come to Macs, So Hone Your BS Detectors There's an old belief that Macs don't have the same crapware/malware problem that Windows does. However, with the rise of Macs over the past few years, that's no longer true. Our friends at the How-To Geek explain how OS X crapware works, and how to avoid it. Much like on Windows, Mac adware typically comes from fake links in search engines and "bundle download" sites like Download.com. One of the worst offenders? Fake versions of VLC. Make a quick search on Bing or Yahoo (Google blocks crapware results) for VLC and you'll find a ton of fake installers (like the one pictured above) that put adware on your system. If you do end up with any of this adware, it tends to hijack your browser's new tab search and home pages to bring up obnoxious support warnings trying to trick you into installing even more adware. Most of these stick to your browser as obnoxious old adware, but How-T...

How to Find a Lost Silent Android Device at Home or Anywhere Sometimes we forget to remember where we kept our android devices when we are home and then we go through unnecessary trouble of finding them. Well, a simple call can easily help you to locate your Android phone, but what if your phone is in a silent mode or if it’s a tablet device without any cellular connection? It will be a big task to find out your Android device Fortunately, with the help of Google’s Android device manager you can easily locate your phone if it is connected to your home WiFi network or even a data connection. So today in this Howto Tech guide we’ll tell you how you can easily locate your lost Android devices at home or anywhere with the help og Android Device Manager. Locating a Silent Android device using Android Device Manager Step 1:  Visit  www.google.c...

Google Expands Its Safe Browsing Service To Warn More Users And Webmasters Of Malware Earlier this week, Google announced that it has expanded its Safe Browsing service , which prevents users from going to known malware sites. Chrome, for example, now shows you a warning before you visit a site that harbors known malware (instead of just popping up a warning when you are about to download it). Similarly, Google Search will now pop up a warning when you’re about to go to a known malware site, no matter what browser you use. Before this, Google Ads already started automatically disabling ads that lead to malicious sites. Those updates solely focused on users, but the company also released an update for website owners today that makes it more likely for website owners to see when their own sites have been (potentially) compromised. Typically, website owners would only see those alerts when they visited Google’s Webmaster Tools site. While th...

Apple Brings Web-Based Pages, Numbers And Keynote Beyond The iCloud Beta Apple has added the web-based iWork, which works for anyone with an Apple ID for free on most modern browsers, to the main iCloud.com website. The previously beta-only iCloud offering makes Apple’s productivity suite accessible to anyone who either has, or signs up for a free Apple account, with full-featured office apps that allow for the creation and editing of text documents, slideshow presentations and spreadsheets. Offering up the productivity suite to all users, regardless of platform choice, is a fairly unusual move for Apple, but it’s also a smart one – providing free cloud-based productivity software is a pretty low-stakes additional incentive for attracting new iCloud users, especially those who aren’t currently in possession of any actual Apple hardware. Apple has a complete FAQ for those interested in getting started with the web-based version of iCloud. It includes 1...

Howto install XCache Debian GNU / Linux to accelerate Apache Webserver – XCache Best alternative to outdated PHP cacher EAccelerator I was using Eaccelerator until recently on all Apache / PHP / MySQL  (LAMP) web-servers as a caching engine (Webserver accelerator)  across all Debian GNU / Linux Lenny / Squeeze / Etch servers . However recently, I've noticed in phpinfo output on some of the Debian hosts, that eaccelerator was loaded but showed:  Caching Enabled false   Our servers are quite busy serving about 50 000 to 100 000 requests  and thus not having enabled caching puts a lot of extra load on the CPU and eats a lot of memory which were usually saved by eAccelerator. Logically I tried fixing the issues following some Stackoverflow threads recommendations such as this one  but didn't work I tried playing manually spending hours trying to make eaccelerator run again and as a final mean, I even tried to upgrade eaccelerator to...