Windows 10 - Another Finest Desktop OS or a Complete PC Revolution?

On the initial announcement of Windows 10, everyone was quite shocked from the numerical error that the company is making to its upcoming Windows update. Ideally, the edition should have been named as Windows 9 as it is a successor of Window 8, the revolutionary touch OS. Undoubtedly, the company becomes highly successful in creating the hype in the global OS market about Microsoft operating systems by adopting this numerical jump, but does the OS deliver what it promises? No one can exactly describe or rate the OS experience presently as the one available for download is an early build of the final product and has lots of rough edges. The company has placed a strict warning on its Microsoft store that no one should install the technical preview on their primary PC as it might contain some performance flaws. So what is next from the company to its loyal customers?

 It is true that the company has always been a preferred choice of users while selecting a solid desktop OS for the world’s finest PCs. Some tech experts also believe that the upcoming Windows version will be the ideal replacement of Windows 7 update or Window 8. But is the company working on improving the speed and performance of the system software? It becomes important because the earlier Microsoft operating systems versions are quite slow, when compared with others in the market. There’s always a chance that Windows 10 should show some magic and incorporate every possible feature that will result in blazing fast speed and excellent performance on the desktop PC.

What Does the History Say?

Go back to 1995 and recall the release of Windows 95, when every user was earnestly excited by the thought of using a new, colorful, plug-and-play desktop OS. Since then, the company hasn’t made any major changes in its on-going OS series. Windows XP surprised with the PC industry and allowed the company to experience boom years in the mid-2000s, but it ended with the release of the cheap smartphones and tablets.

The downfall of the company’s market share during Window 8 works as a scary factor for the company as building the entire consumer response once again can be a challenging task. Some tech experts also believe that most of the users have already started avoiding Windows PC to buy a Mac or join the smartphone/tablet revolution. After the major changes that Microsoft adopted in Window 8, the company experienced huge downfall in its OS market share. The downfall in Windows PC sales also benefitted Apple’s Mac division to enjoy a strong growth in the last few years.

What Statistical Reports Portray and How Far is It Correct?

According to a 2013’s IDC report on global smartphone shipments, the total shipments exceeded 1 billion units. On a contrast, the global PC shipments maxed out at around 350 million per year and are declining quite rapidly, every year. In this situation, it will be the biggest challenge for Microsoft to launch its upcoming OS series and prove its excellence in every domain. The company’s spokesperson clearly said that Windows 10 will strongly aim at joining different computing platforms at one place, and that is why its developers calls it ‘One Product Family.'

In short, the Windows desktop PC is in trouble and the company now only has hopes with the release of Windows 10, which might become the best mouse-and-keyboard OS ever made. For tech giants like Apple and Google, which earns revenue from sales of hardware and advertising, the downfall of the OS can be just fine. But for Microsoft, whose entire empire exists on sales of Windows licenses, the downfall can result as a huge challenge for sustaining its business and surviving in the IT industry.

According to the market researchers, Microsoft should make some strong attempts to bring people back into the PC fold. The company can save its existence either by coming up with something exciting or by joining hands with smartphone and tablet support. Microsoft operating systems and the company’s business model is so strongly tied to the PC operating systems that it could realize the storm of disinterest and apathy of its users.

 Conclusion

Window 8’s full-screen Metro user interface makes difficult for the company to sell the OS to conventional mouse-and-keyboard desktop users. The decrease in the sale of Microsoft OSes led to the downfall in the global OS market share, and this is the high time that the company should do something to get those lost market back. Believe it or not, Microsoft should make people excited about its products again if it wants to enjoy the same market position and monopoly in the global OS market. The customers nowadays are smart enough, and they always try to avoid a product that has nothing new and follows the same traditional approaches. Expectedly, Windows 10 will incorporate some amazingly powerful features that every potential user will love and think of trying!

Do You Know How an Email Spammer Reaches Your Email Address?

Email security is emerging as one of the greatest security challenges before Internet users. Innocent users assume that the information they exchange through emails is secure but, in fact, a password hacker or email spammer is observing the entire process closely to hack their email account. You would be surprised to know that every single email account is targeted by spammers irrespective of the precautions of security we take during the process. The most important question here is how these spammers or hackers get our email addresses and what we can do to hide email addresses. This blog discussed this problem in detail and give some insight to help you in protecting your email privacy. 

How do hackers get your email addresses?

 Leaked databases of email accounts

The biggest source for spammers to get the list of active email addresses is the leaked accounts databases. The incidents of password leaks happen quite frequently thus opening ways for password hacker to send spam to the addresses. Password hacker sends infections in the form of junk e-mail to the account and thus compromise the security of the user. 

Leak of email addresses is getting so common that even companies like Adobe, LinkedIn, Gawker, Yahoo!, and Snapchapt have become the victim of it in the last few years. The leaked databases are considered huge security threat because they usually reflect account names and passwords. Once they get information they download the database and, then add millions of email addresses to it. They consider these databases very useful as they know that majority of these emails are active.  

Most of the hackers use this method to find email addresses to act as a potential email spammer. Unfortunately, the victim doesn’t have much to protect themselves from an email hacker or password hacker. 

Through clicks or image loading in spam emails 

You become a victim of spamming by clicking on spam mails or images therefore you should avoid clicking on such links in the email. It is rather safe to click on the ‘Unsubscribe’ link provided in the email. Mails from reputed companies carry "Unsubscribe" link as they don’t want to spam their potential readers and thus prevent the complications of anti-spam laws. 

On the contrary, if you see an ‘Unsubscribe’ link or a ‘Buy Now’ link in the unprofessional looking emails then probably they will not remove you from the list. To your worse experience, you will start receiving more spams after you click the link because the spammers get to know that your account is active, and you are checking your e-mails.

The same rule applies for loading of images in case of spam email. For this reason, you are advised not to click the “Load Images” button otherwise the spammers will get an acknowledgement that you have opened the mail. In some emails, however, there is no image but there may be one-pixel tracking bug that helps the spammer to know that the user has loaded the image. Therefore, most of the email clients don’t allow for automatic loading of images. 

Web filtering to search plain-text addresses

Web filtering for plain-text addresses is another means employed by spammers for getting active email addresses. It is a kind of activity that is performed by search engines like Google, in a bid to find email addresses available on websites in plain-text. For example, a spammer may pick the email ID from a comment “Email me at Richards@abc.com.” After picking the address, the spammers would add it to their spam list. 

Buying list of email IDs

Buying list of email IDs is another tactic adopted by spammers for getting bulk addresses. So today for spammers there is no need to get the addresses themselves as it is already provided by unscrupulous people who provide the details in lieu of few dollars. Previously, these addresses were obtained in the form of CDs, and they are still available. The only thing is that such CDs are nowadays less sought because of the leaked databases of accounts. 

Apart from the above-mentioned spammers can get email addresses through some other ways as well. Malware and viruses can also harvest data related to addressbook for spammers. But the ways mentioned above are the most common. 

How to prevent email spamming

Now the question arises that how we can prevent a password hacker or an email spammer from stealing your IDs. As discussed above, you can’t do much about preventing spamming but by using certain precautions, you can mitigate the frequency of such incidents. 

The first thing that you should do is to avoid placing your email address on the web in plain-text format and develop a habit of not clicking on a link or attachment. Next, you should never go for loading an image in a junk e-mail.

A Complete Guide to Help You With Computer Drivers

For a basic user, drivers are computer software that allows Windows and other computer applications that interact with the hardware devices present in your PC. In simple parlance, your PC doesn’t know about using the various features of your video card or any other significant hardware component, it is the driver that helps it perform the entire things. Just like you update other computer software, you also need to update drivers to let it function properly.

When should you go for a driver update? 

In the majority of the cases, drivers give potential indications when they require an update. It is not very difficult to update computer drivers as mostly they exist online as free downloads. The process is also very similar to a software update. But the question here is regarding when you should go for an update. You should think about updating drivers if you face a problem with a device. Driver update is also helpful if you are looking for a speed boost to your PC. You shouldn’t be surprised to know that updating your driver to the latest version increases the speed of a slow running PC. So, if you are planning to remove a PC because of slow speed, then you are recommended to first update its drivers. Probably you may gain a substantial boost in the PC performance. 

When you upgrade your drivers, it first targets at troubleshooting bug issues, and it will not be very helpful in PC performance improvement. Therefore, if everything is working fine on your PC, then it is a good choice to skip the driver update. 

But if you want to use every bit of performance from your PC, then you must ensure that drivers of video cards have been updated using the drivers from original manufacturers. Apart from video card, you should also upgrade drivers for the chipset, networking and sound card for the best PC performance. Here you must acknowledge the fact that replacing the built-in Windows drivers with the official NVidia or ATI/AMD drivers will bring a huge difference to the performance. Thus, you can experience significant speed boost by swapping drivers. 

So if you are using the built-in Windows drivers and facing speed or performance related issues then it is the high time to go for a driver update especially if you are using a video card from n AMD/ATI or NVidia. It is likely that you will experience a positive surge in the performance of your PC. 

How to check your driver versions?

The first thing that you should do is to check the version of a driver when you start facing problem with a particular device. It would be very helpful in determining the problem with the device. It would be helpful especially if you are trying to get a solution through a post on a forum, or you want to follow the thread of any problem that was fixed through a driver update.

It is very easy to check the driver version as you simply need to open the Device Manager through the Start Menu search box. In the Device Manager, you can search the driver in the list and then right click it to choose Properties. Here, you will get the version details and date on the Driver tab. By using this option, you can also update, uninstall, or disable a particular driver. It is helpful if you have recently upgraded drivers and facing a new problem with your device as a result of the upgrade. 

How to update Drivers Safe Way of Driver Update

There are mainly two ways of updating computer drivers. The first is called the Microsoft way or safe way, and the second way is through the manufacturer’s drivers. In the former case, if you are facing issues with a particular device then you can promptly go for the update to a newer or the latest version through Device Manager. In the Device Manager, you have to right-click on the particular device and then choose the option ‘Update Driver Software.’

A popup wizard will result that will either let you search for Windows Updates or your PC for the newer drivers. By using the Browse option, you can also update the drivers manually. Once you allow the Windows to update automatically, and then it will install the required drivers and prompt you for a system reboot. It the update fixes the issue then it is fine then the last resort would be to replace with the driver. 

Update through the manufacturer drivers

When you download drivers from sources like NVidia or AMD/ATI, you get an installation wizard for the particular computer software that comes along with the download. So you simply require running that upgrade and the drivers get upgraded.  If you get a driver on the manufacturer website for your device in a zip file format then you can use the wizard screen as mentioned above to choose the Browse button. This will shows you a window as mentioned blow in which you can name the folder where you want to unzip the drivers.

The above-mentioned tips and tricks are tested and apply in standard conditions nevertheless you can’t rule out issues that might crop up. If you find something critical which you are not able to comprehend then the best resort would be a professional online technical support service provider.

A Guide for Syncing of Ringtones in Your iPhone Without Using Mac OS X

Many of you face difficulties or technical stalemate when you buy a new iPhone and look forward to transferring all your ringtones to your new device. We cherish our exclusive ringtones and remain firm on syncing of ringtones on the new device. However, many iPhone users also look for online ringtone maker for this purpose but those who don’t want to lose their existing ringtones can get technical help from this blog post. It helps you in synching of your ringtones in your iPhone without the help of Mac OS X or iTunes.

Why do we require syncing of ringtones or ringtone maker?

 

It is self-explanatory that we require the ringtone syncing for preserving our favorite ringtones even on our new devices. In the usual course of action, when we buy a new device we lose our old ringtones because of the device change. In a bid to prevent that mishap with iPhone users, the tips mentioned below will help to retain their favorite tunes. In this way, you don’t require to resort to any online maker of ringtones because you get all your favorite tunes. 

You require syncing because once you create a ringtone for your iPhone (iPhone 4, 4S, iPhone 5, or any other version of iPhone) you require transferring those to your new device. While transferring tunes to the new device users often face various issues.

Issues faced while transferring ringtones

Users report various issues like ringtones appear in iTunes but not getting transferred to iPhone 5, not able to sync with iPhone 5 ringtones, or not able to transfer ringtones for any other reason. You may come across any of the issues you go crazy and look for help desperately. This blog offers you some useful tips for resolving such issues without going into complicated or complex technical steps.

Apply the below mentioned simple steps and troubleshoot your syncing issues on your iPhone without resorting to any third party technical support. 

Before you begin the process of transferring ringtones, you must ensure the following few things. 

Things to ensure:

•    The duration of the ringtone is less than 30 seconds. It is a mandate because iPhone doesn’t support ringtones longer than 30 seconds. 

•    You should have a PC, which is duly authorized to play the ringtones. 

•    Ensure that there is no special character in the song fields such as song name, composer, artist, etc. 

•    The device you are using is visible in the iTunes library.

Once you ensure the above steps, now move up to the next step.

Transfer ringtone and Sync it to your iPhone

The users who are not able to transfer their particular ringtone to their device should not worry at all. For syncing, they can use any good ringtone maker. Using such apps they can easily transfer iPhone ringtones without using iTunes or Mac. You can also delete or edit ringtones easily with the help of this app. You get it with two tabs out of which the left tab offers you a list of iTunes ringtones and the right tab offers you iPhone ringtone. Not only this, you can also sync iPhone ringtones while using this app and thus make or manage ringtones without using iTunes. You also get similar apps if you want to transfer playlist existing on your old device. 

Useful features for ringtone making and transfer

•    Using the app you can refresh ringtone tab that contains name and time of your iPhone ringtone

•    It becomes easy to preview the ringtones available both in iTunes and iPhone list

•    You can delete ringtones directly from your device by using the Ringtone Manager

•    It facilitates ringtone syncing, and transfer of iTunes library ringtones to your iPhone without using iTunes.

That is it and now you should stay tension free when you change your device and simply use the steps mentioned above. Although, these are tested under standard environment nevertheless you may come across stalemates. For any such issues, you should contact a reputed online technical support helpdesk.