How to back up and sync your phone contacts and data

You shouldn't have to lose data just because you lost your phone. And switching to a new device should be a lot easier than it is now. ET highlights the tools you need to keep all your data safe.

FOR CLOUD

OneMediaHub: With 500MB of cloud storage, this free service offers cross platform mobile and desktop apps. You can back up all the information you want, including your address book, multimedia and other supported files on to the cloud and sync it back across all your devices. You can also set the mobile app to automatically sync data to the cloud over a Wi-Fi connection.

PhoneCopy: Another cross platform service, PhoneCopy allows you to back up phone contacts, messages & calendar entries and then sync them across devices. They offer apps for all smartphones but it also works with feature phones that support synchronization over a data connection. Synced contacts can be accessed and edited on the PhoneCopy website (www.phonecopy.com)

SanDisk Memory Zone: This multi-faceted free app (Android only) lets you back up any file to your phone's memory card, move files from phone memory to memory card, sync data with your cloud service of choice (just sign in to Dropbox, Box, Google Docs, SugarSync or SkyDrive from within the app). You can also use the password protection feature to keep your data safe.

inDefend Mobile Backup: inDefend (Android only) works even if you have an older device (it works with Android 2.0.1 and up). It can quickly back up your text messages, phonebook, call logs, calendar entries, internet history & settings to their online servers. Download the desktop agent from http://indefend. appspot.com to access all the data backed up by your phone.

FOR PC/MAC

Desktop Software: Most phone manufacturers offer their own software to sync their phone to a computer. Usually, this software includes an option to sync phone contacts with Microsoft Outlook or Windows Contacts/Address book. Synced contacts can then easily be exported to various formats such as CSV (comma separated values) or vCards and saved as back up.

MobileGo: This one offers an easy, one-click, data backup solution for Android phones (with merge duplicates feature). However, the contact manager also lets you transfer contacts between Symbian, iOS and Android phones. You can also import or export contacts from Outlook, Windows Address Book or Windows Mail. Get it fromwww.wondershare.com

CopyTrans Contacts: Available only for Windows computers, this free software allows you to quickly backup contacts from your iPhone/iPod Touch or iPad. You can then export the backed up contacts to Gmail, Outlook or iCloud. The desktop client lets you easily view and organise your contacts (remove duplicates) on the computer. Get it fromwww.copytrans.net

Xilisoft Mobile Phone Manager: For Windows Phone only, Xilisoft offers easy contacts backup and restoration over a data cable or Bluetooth. It can back up your text messages, email, calendar entries, favourites and exchange data. You can even view/edit and organise your contacts, call logs and text messages on the PC. Get it from www.xilisoft.com

DEVICE SPECIFIC SERVICES

Apple iCloud: If you have an existing ecosystem of Apple devices (both iOS and MACs),iCloud is the easiest way to keep your content synced between them. You can also access all your data from any device by just signing in with your ID on www.icloud.com.

BlackBerry Protect: Available free from www.blackberry. com/protect, this free app keeps a backup of all your data, helps you locate a lost device, remotely wipe it and effortlessly transfers all your data (including email settings) when you switch devices.

Source | Economic Times | 17 October 2012

 

સોફ્ટવેર વગર તમારા કમ્પ્યુટરની સ્પીડ વધારો

Oct 05, 2012

કમ્પ્યુટર નોલેજ

સામાન્ય રીતે બહુ વધારે ફાઇલ તેમજ સોફ્ટવેરના કારણોસર અથવા વાયરસના કારણે કમ્પ્યુટર સ્લો પડી જાય છે. કોઈ ફાઇલ પર ડબલ ક્લિક કર્યા પછી પણ જો ફાઇલ ખૂલવામાં સમય લાગે તો સમજવું કે તમારા કમ્પ્યુટરની ગતિ ધીમી પડી ગઈ છે.

આમ તો ઘણાં એવાં સોફ્ટવેર છે, જેની મદદ વડે કમ્પ્યુટરની સ્પીડમાં વધારો કરી શકાય છે, પરંતુ મિત્રો એક એવી તરકીબ છે જેમાં વગર સોફ્ટવેરે પણ તમે તમારા કમ્પ્યુટરની સ્પીડ વધારી શકો છો. તમારા કમ્પ્યુટરમાં બે પ્રોગ્રામ્સ એવા હોય છે જેની મદદથી કમ્પ્યુટર સ્પીડ વધારી શકાય છે.

સૌ પ્રથમ તમારે Start પર ક્લિક કરવાનું રહેશે. તેમાં All Programs પરથી Accessories પર જશો એટલે System tools દેખાશે અને તેના પર ક્લિક કરતાં જ તમને Disk cleanup લખેલું નજરે પડશે. તેના પર ક્લિક કરો. ક્લિક કરતાં જ તમને એક આઇકોન દેખાશે. જેમાં તમારે ડ્રાઇવ સિલેક્ટ કરવાની રહેશે. જેમાં તમને પૂછવામાં આવશે કે, Are you sure you want to perform these actions? હવે તમારે yesઉપર ક્લિક કરવાનું રહેશે. આવી રીતે તમારી સ્ક્રિન ઉપર એક બોક્ષ ખૂલશે જેમાં તમારેok કરવાનું રહેશે. ત્યારબાદ તે કામ શરૂ કરી દેશે. હવે તમારી સામે એક આઇકોન આવશે એટલે કે તમને ટૂલ કામ કરતું નજરે પડશે. જ્યારે તેનું કાર્ય પૂર્ણ થઈ જશે ત્યારે તે આપોઆપ બંધ થઈ જશે.

બાળમિત્રો, હવે તમારા કમ્પ્યુટરની સ્પીડ ચેક કરી લો, પહેલાં કરતાં સ્પીડ વધી ગઈ હશે.

ડિસ્ક ક્લીનઅપ

આ ડિસ્ક ક્લીનઅપની મદદથી કમ્પ્યુટરમાં રહેલી ફાઇલ કમ્પ્રેસ થાય છે અને ટેમ્પરરી ફાઇલ્સને આપોઆપ ડીલિટ કરી નાખે છે તેમજ કમ્પ્યુટરની સફાઈ કરી દે છે, જેના કારણે કમ્પ્યુટરની સ્પીડમાં વધારો થાય છે.

12 Ways To Extend Laptop Battery Life !!

12 Ways To Extend Laptop Battery Life !!

We all know that, Our Laptops are invaluable for getting our many important work done but they are also only as good as their battery life.

Battery Life Cycle

The lifespan of a battery depends upon its life cycle,usually 350 - 500 times,the number of complete charges-discharge cycles,a battery can perform during its life span.So avoiding needless cycle of charging-discharging is the key method to expand battery life.

You can also extend life of your laptops battery with this steps......

1. One of the factors that affect life of battery is the fan.If there is dust on the fan,Laptops get heated and easily consuming more power.Based on experiences when the fan is cleaned,it start performing well and the speed too is boosted.

2. Avoid exposing your battery to heat.This includes your laptops on a pillow or blanket,which block air flow and make fan to work more.So use laptops at hard work stations.The less the cooling fan has to run,the less battery power is taken.

3. Do not obstruct ventilator of fan.

4. Set Your laptops to automatically hibernate mode after a few minutes of in-activity.

5. Avoid using screen saver it consumes more power.

6. Turn off auto save function like MS Word,Excel etc.because they keep saving at regular intervals,they work your hard drive harder than it may have to.

7. Close non-operative windows on laptops as they also consumes power.

8. Do not increase screen brightness.

9. If adapter is always available,it is recommended to take off battery with full power under this case,AC adapter is enough and the battery should be taken out and stored with 50% - 75% capacity and also fully discharging - charging every 3 months.Those who do not like to take out battery please keep AC plug in as much as possible.

10. If you are the user who have to frequently use the battery,it is strongly recommended to select power saving mode and keep AC adapter connected all the time.In this mode;the battery will be fully charged to 80% of its capacity,while before the AC adapter is unavailable;it is recommended to fully charge to 100%.In this mode battery run-time will last longer.

11. USB devices like mouse,data card,pendrive drain out power from battery,close or remove them when not in use.

12. Defrag frequently(in a week).The faster your hard drive - the lesser demand for power,you are going to put less load on hard drive.By regular defragmentaion of hard drives the efficiency of laptops is also increases

BIRTHDAY of E-MAIL 10.10.1971

BIRTHDAY

of

E-MAIL 10.10.1971

On this day in 1971, Ray Tomlinson had sent the first EMAIL on network.

Here is the little history of EMAIL :

In 1971, the ARPANET ("Advanced Research Projects Agency Network") had just begun to emerge as the first larger network of computers. It was sponsored and created by the U.S. Department of Defense and would later lead to the development of the internet. But in 1971, the ARPANET was little more than connected computers, and those who knew about it searched for possible uses of this invention.

Richard W. Watson, for example, thought of a way to deliver messages and files to printers at remote sites. He filed his "Mail Box Protocol" as a draft standard under RFC 196, but the protocol was never implemented. In hindsight and given today's problems with junk email (and junk faxes before that), that's probably not all that bad.

Another person interested in sending messages between computers was Ray Tomlinson. SNDMSG, a program that can deliver messages to another person on the same computer had been around for about ten years already. It delivered these messages by appending to a file owned by the user you wanted to reach. To read the message, they would simply read the file.