Earn through Bing Rewards

At last Microsoft has expanded its Bing Rewards app for Windows phone users same as that on Android and iOS. This could be used for both Windows phone 8/8.1 OS.

With Windows phone 8.1, Bing Rewards can be integrated with the built-in search app. This app will earn Bing Rewards for all the searches which you do in your Windows phone using Bing search engine.

In order to get the advantage of Bing Rewards you have to first sign up at the Bings Rewards website using your Microsoft account. Then to earn the Bing Rewards start searching with Bing. There are also other methods to increase your credits by exploring Bing tips and tricks, trying new Bing features, etc.

You can also pin the Bing Rewards app to your start screen to track your available credits and could easily complete daily offers. After you have earned enough credits then, you can redeem them for rewards to purchase apps and games from the Windows and Windows phone stores. It can be also used to purchase online products from Amazon.com and much more.

• Earn credits: Find out new methods to earn more credits.

• Account: To manage your Bing Reward account app.

• Track credits and offers from live tile: Keeps the Bing Rewards app to your start screen to view available credits and complete daily offers.

Bing Rewards is currently available for United States only. Others have to keep on waiting because Microsoft always comes with a surprise for the users who sticks to it.

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• Official Twitter App with new update 

• View all files in Phone/SD card

• World's first movie using Red Dragon camera technology

• One Drive increased its free space

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Yelove Malayalam album of Sherya Ghoshal

Yelove is a Malayalam language melodic album performed by famous Indian singer Sherya Ghoshal and Siddharth Menon of Thaikkudam Bridge fame. This is his debut acting video album. It was composed by Ajith Mathew. Yelove tells a story about of two best friends, who one day find their love between each other. The album has a huge hit on the YouTube with 100, 000 views within 3 days of its release from June 7 now it’s view is moving very near to 300, 000.

This video has become one of the most trending videos from India. The album consists of only one song called “Moovanthi Chayum Neram” which is a truly melodic song. It will be very nice to watch an album in which the singer gets performed. Let’s hope in coming future same type of album will hit in Malayalam like other languages.

മൂവന്തി ചായും തീരം തേടി ദൂരേ
മണലോരം പാദം തൊട്ടു മെല്ലെ നീയും
അതിലേതോ മൌനം തേടുന്ന പോലെ
തിര മെല്ലെ പുൽകി നിൻ വിരളിൽ
അറിയാതെന്നുള്ളി ൽ സുഖമുള്ളൊരു നോവായ്‌
അന്നേതോ വിങ്ങൽ വേരോടി

പതിയെ പതിയെ ചെല്ലക്കാറ്റിൻ തേരിൽ
ഒഴുകും തുവൽ പോലെ നീ
തിരയെ പോലെ മണ്‍ കരതൻ മേലെ
ഒന്നാകാനോ തോന്നുന്നോ
പുൽ പായിൽ മീതെ ചായും മാനസമേ നീ
മഴയായ് വാങ്ങുനെന്നുടെ ശൃoഗാരം
പറയു നീ സൌഹൃദമൊരു പ്രണയകാറ്റായോ
അറിയില്ല എന്നാണിത് തോന്നിയതറിയില്ല

പകലും ഇരവും തെളി നിഴലായ് കൂടെ
തോളിലുരുംമ്മും നീളെ നീ
പിരിയാൻ ഇന്നോ വയ്യാതെ ഏതോ
പ്രണയം വന്നോ നിൻ നെഞ്ചിൽ
എൻ മനസ്സിൻ കോണിൽ ഒരു മായാവർണ്ണം തീർക്കും
തെളിയും മിന്നൽ പോലെ നിന്റെ മുഖം
പറയു നീ സൌഹൃദമൊരു പ്രണയകാറ്റായോ
അറിയില്ല എന്നാണിത് തോന്നിയതറിയില്ല

Falling in Love with your best friend is really an Awesome feeling . . . !So enjoy at its maximum

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Free up memory for Windows phone

    Some of the Windows 8 phone users will be facing a problem that a large amount of space will be used by a non-specific category “other” in the Storage sense of your phone. So that the users can’t install many app or update because of low space. It will always show a low storage message.

      But in Windows 8.1 non-specific category “other” will be changed to many number of named storage categories. So the users may not affect any type of low storage issues.

      Go to settings -> phone -> storage -> storage sense to see the “other” non-specific category. This includes all the files which doesn’t belong to known categories like the temporary files of your social network news feeds. Follow the various methods or apps to free up your phone memory.

1. Free up phone memory in Windows 8 (Lumia)

Remove unwanted stuff

• Use Storage Check application to remove the unwanted applications or stuffs from your phone. For that go to settings -> storage check, swipe left to see amount of storage used by Apps, Temporary files and Downloaded Maps.

• Select apps then click uninstall option from the details of each unwanted apps. So that it will get removed an increases your phone memory.

• Click on Temporary files then select option clear the files to remove all files.

• By selecting maps will show all the maps which you are downloaded. Long press on each map will give an option remove it or delete all maps.

Clear browsing history

• Go to settings -> applications -> Internet Explorer -> delete history. This will delete browsing history, cookies, saved passwords and temporary files.

• Go to settings -> applications -> search -> delete history. This will delete all Bing search histories like Bing music, Bing Vision.

• Go to settings -> applications -> Maps -> delete history. This will delete all map searches.

• If you would like to remove any of your old Office documents then, press start to select Office-> locations (places) -> phone. Long press on individual documents then select delete.

• To remove offline mixes from MixRadio, press start to select NokiaRadio -> Offline mixes. Long press on any mix to remove it.

If you’re having a computer then, connect your phone with a compatible USB cable. So that you can view all your stuffs. Right click on it then select cut option if you want to move this to your PC. Go to a location right click to select paste option.

2. Using apps for Windows 8/8.1

By using application it will remove the storage space occupied by a non-specific category “other” and all temporary files in your phone memory. There are various apps which can be used for this purpose such as

• Storage Cleaner

• Shrink Storage

I prefer Storage Cleaner is because Shrink Storage will sometimes get crashed. More over using this try to remove your files manually (Step 1).

3. Reset your Windows phone (Low space for new update)

• Before resetting your Windows phone make sure that you’re having the Backup.

• During resetting process don’t sign in with your Microsoft account.

• Update your phone when process gets completed.

• After update is completed, if you want to restore a backup then reset your phone again.

• During the second time reset sign in with your Windows account and restore it.

Enjoy using Windows Phone and don't forget to share if you like this.

Remove Picasa album/Google+ Photos from Gallery

As a beginner who uses an Android phone will always notice the Google+ Photos in your gallery even after removing it. Sometimes it makes us feel very irritated. This could be removed by doing some changes in your phone settings. Follow the steps below to remove/disable this problem.

• At first go to the Settings from the accounts sub header select Google.

• Then uncheck the box Sync Google Photos or Sync Picasa Web Albums.

• After that you have to clear all application data for that click on Applications in the settings.

• Click on Manage  Applications or Application settings

• Scroll down to Gallery then, click on clear data.

Now go and check your Gallery. If you have already set any type of Google+ Auto backup of your photos it will not be showed. But can be accessed by using Google+ account. 

Backup & Restore Apps in Windows Phone

The Windows Phone OS is now come up with a new attractive utility of Backup for App other than SMS, settings of your phone etc. Instead of rolling up the device restore, the new inbuilt utility will helps the user to backup the personal stuffs during migration from current phone to another. So that the user could easily restore that stuff very easily. It will also eliminates the inconvenience of the user and a loss of hours of valuable engagement with the app used in old phone. The different types of backup features are.

App Backup:

This feature mainly saves the backup copy of apps which you are using it currently. There is also an option to save this to cloud.

Text Messages:

This allows to save the backup copy of your valuable text messages (SMS).

Phone Settings:

Used to save a copy of Start Screen Layout, Browder Favorites and Theme Color.

Backup

Steps to Backup files in your Phone

1. At first go to Apps -> Settings -> Backup -> App list + Settings.
2. Then turn on the backup which you need.

• App Backup ON/OFF
• Settings Backup ON/OFF
• Text Messages and Photo
• Device name with last backup time shows when the last backup was done

Manage Backup will be used to delete previously stored backup data by marking up the check boxes given along with it.

• Once you delete the backup data then it cannot be restored.
• When you select the option for Text messages and Photo. Keep it in mind that Photo cannot be restored. But it can be uploaded to OneDrive and get access it at any time which we need.

To find Backup data

• Go to Apps -> Settings -> Backup -> App list + Settings -> Manage Backups.

Restore:

Restore will be mainly done after a reset. Before doing a reset make sure that you have done the backup by following the above mentioned step, because backup is a periodic process. During reset process you will be prompted to sign-in-or skip. Select skip if you don’t like to restore. After skipping this you can’t restore the backup of app, accounts, app installation, start screen layout etc. So don’t click on skip if you need to restore the backup other than text messages and phone settings.

Then select the option sign in and make sure that you have selected all the required backup. Wait until the restore get completed.

Increased OneDrive space to 15GB/1TB

Microsoft is going to increase the OneDrive storage space, which is more than double from the earlier. Currently it is 7GB, free OneDrive storage will be raised to 15GB. By utilizing this we could store videos, photos, documents and all other stuffs in one place itself.

OneDrive

Anyone who uses Office 365 Personal or Home now gets 1 TB of additional OneDrive storage, up from 20 GB previously. This isn't a slight change and it seems to be a surprise. Nobody could be of having personal data of about 1 TB. So that OneDrive could be the right place to store all our personal stuff and it could be accessed by a single click. The company has a new offer for all Office 365 customers. If you want more storage capacity, then you can now pay $ 1.99 monthly for 100GB, or $ 3.99 each month for 200GB. With this increased amount of storage is giving away for free then, you could store your data easily.

An Office 365 Personal subscription costs $6.99 per month or $ 69.99 per year. It provides a full-featured copy of Office 2013 Professional Plus that the individual subscriber can install on a single PC, plus one install of it in the iPad and an unlimited number of Office mobile installs in Windows phone, Android tablets, iPhones and Android phones.

All these updates will come from next month only. Current subscribers will be automatically moved to lower prices. Enjoy using OneDrive.

Source:[OneDrive blog]

Free YouTube in Windows phone

YouTube is one of those indispensable services on mobile these days, especially if you want to watch anything. When internet connection becomes an essential for every mobile phones nobody likes to watch streaming videos. But there isn't an official app yet for watching YouTube videos in Windows phone. Earlier there was an official YouTube app but it creates a lot of problems. An upgradation was given to this app by including many features to it, later it was removed for the time being it didn't come back. We can hope that one day this could be changed because Windows has already given a free update from Windows 8 to 8.1. Now there are different apps which helps us to view YouTube videos.

• TubePro

It is a freeware app (Pro is only its name) helps to watch YouTube videos. It can be also saved for viewing it later without connecting it to the internet. Those downloads can be resumed and stopped. The videos can be downloaded according to the option such as LQ (Low quality), HQ (High quality) or HD (High definition which is 720p). We can view and post comments by using Tube Pro.

Tube Pro

• MyTube

MyTube is also a good app for watching YouTube videos. It has a transparent tile option which can be selected from the ‘pin static tile’ in the settings and then select transparent. It will be for Windows phone 8.1. The comments has been changed slightly in order to load faster and more reliable. It works in background even if the video is playing.

MyTube

If you would like to buy the apps by spending some money then select MetroTube or Toib while both of them will be having a trial period.

• MetroTube

A clear cut app which enables you to easily watch videos on YouTube, manage your account and add comments from your Windows phone. Videos can be viewed using different presets, while you can control the volume with the help of a slider bar, add them to favorites as well as to watch later list. Description can be also viewed by a single click.

MetroTube

• Toib

Video playback is great with Toib. Once you start playing a video in Toib you can rotate your phone to make it full screen. Then you can toggle between HD or change your location in video playbacks.

Toib

As the above mentioned apps are third-party apps, they are not sanctioned by Google or YouTube, visiting YouTube’s mobile website is the safest long-term solution to watching YouTube videos on Windows Phone. Any of the apps mentioned here could stop working, whether users paid the developer money or not. If that makes you nervous, stick to the free YouTube app alternatives.

Enjoy watching YouTube videos

Facebook Android app consume less data

    Facebook's new Android app consumes 50 percent less data and 65 percent lighter than before. The social networking giant mainly aims to improve the quality of service for its users. Data efficiency get increased by using the WebP for transmitting Facebook images results in data savings when compared with JPG and PNG format. This all happened without perceived impact on quality.

    In past, images were loaded at maximum resolution to allow zoom-in feature. Now the process of loading images has been changed to the requested resolution equivalent to the size of view port in which image get appeared. Instead of loading a full image, the device only loads the image it needs to show such as a thumbnail. If someone wants to zoom-in an image then, the image will be changed to higher resolution. Otherwise images will be loaded at a resolution that devices had the ability to handle.

    In combination with better data usage for images, reports of slow or failed image loads dropped by almost 90 percent than earlier. This will boost up the speed of the application by a great extent and helps to use the Facebook in a much fast manner. The new app has various different facilities on liking and tagging post than before.

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Windows phone file manager

  Windows has now introduced an official file manager app which manages files and folders in your Windows phone. Users can tap through files and folders in their phone’s internal storage or memory card and could move or copy there files to different location. You seems it is a nightmare but it is real because windows always give surprise to the users who sticks to them.

File manager

    File manager is a free application for windows 8.1 users but it will be chargeable for windows 8 users. Don’t get worry there is a solution for making it free just upgrade your phone from windows 8 platform to 8.1.

Main features:

• View files stored on your phone and SD card
• Browse, search and launch files
• Compressing files into .zip format
• Share one or multiple files
• Cut, copy, rename, move and delete files
• Run under lock screen
• Send files by Bluetooth/Email

Download link from Windows file manager:
File manager for Windows 8.1
File manager for Windows 8/8.1

Read all languages in mobile browser

     Sometimes we see square markings instead of Malayalam, Tamil and other regional languages in mobile browser. We might think that it will be any problem for our mobile. Actually it is not a problem for our mobile. I will tell how to solve it easily.

• First of all download an opera mini browser which suits your mobile from m.opera.com for more information visit www.opera.com/mobile

• After installing it type config: in the address bar given above the browser and press OK.

• From the coming window go to its bottom part and change YES to the option Use bitmap fonts for complex scripts.

• Press Save button now your problem is solved.

Recover hidden files from shortcut affected Pen Drive/Memory Card without using Antivirus

        Nowadays it has become a common problem that sometimes when we open our Pen drives/ Memory card it shows all our folders and data in it converted into shortcut icons shown below.

      I will tell a few methods to remove this type of virus without using any antivirus. If you have not formatted your flash drive then you could solve it very easily.

1. Using File explorer

• Install any of the file explorer. I prefer Turbo Navigator which is a freeware.
• Now open your flash drive through file explorer.
• Then delete all the files with extension .lnk and other Suspicious files.
• After that select all the remaining files in it by pressing CTRL +A.
• From the Command tab given at the top select Change Attribute.
• Remove the tick mark given in Hidden (shown below) by double clicking on it.

• Then press OK to all the pop-up windows.

2. Using RUN command

• Insert your flash drive to your system and assume your drive letter as G: (note it from My computer window).
• Click on Start -> Run and type cmd then click ok. The RUN command window can be also opened using the shortcut method by pressing WINDOWS KEY + R.
• Type the command

           attrib -h -r -s/ s/ d g:\*.*

• You can also copy and paste the command using the right mouse button.

           Don't forget to change the drive letter g with your flash drive letter.

• Then press Enter key. Now it will be solved.

Protect Computers from Viruses, Malwares and Shortcuts coming with USB without using Antivirus

                 Most of the active viruses get infect your system as you open the Pen Drive icon. As virus always creates an autorun.inf file which makes your data hidden and read only format. It points to the main virus file which is also located on the pen drive. When user double clicks on the pen drive files pointed by the autorun.inf got executed and copies the virus files on your system.

To protect from this type of shortcut virus follow the below steps:

1. Disable Autorun of your Pen Drive:

• Open the Control Panel from My computer then click on AutoPlay (for windows 7, 8, 8.1).
• Change the tick mark from the check box given before the Use AutoPlay for all media and devices.
• Click on Save button given below the window.
  
  
  

2. Using USB Disk Security

         Download the USB Disk Security software from www.zbshareware.com and install it. Now insert your pen drive in the USB port of your system.

• Open it and click on the USB Scan tab then click on USB Vaccine tab given at the bottom of the window.
• From the coming window click on Vaccinate USB.

                          Now your Computer/USB drive is prevented from inadvertently malwares.