.:[ Tek Squad ]:.: April 2013

Friday, April 19, 2013

Outrageous Tech Torture

1. Cooking and Skating on Windows Tablet

2. Grilling Smartphones

3. Domino with Iphones

4. Blending an Ipad

5. Nailing a Smartphone

6. Drowning Iphone in Liquid Nitrogen

7. Huge Spark with hundred of batteries.

Do not do this at home

Monday, April 15, 2013

Windows + Up Arrow
It is used to maximize the current window which is in focus, whether it is a windows explorer, a web browser, or any other application.

Windows + Left Arrow
Adjusts the current window to the left side and hence the window will cover almost half of the desktop space.

Windows + Right Arrow
It will adjust the current window to the right and thus it will cover half of the desktop space on the right.

Windows + Down Arrow
Minimizes the windows to the Task bar.

Windows + Space
All windows become transparent so you are able to see your desktop.

Windows + T
Shows the thumbnail preview of the running applications.

Windows + P
It is used to adjust the presentation options of the display on your computer or projector.

Windows + (+ / -) (Add/Minus)
It launches the Magnifier which can be used to zoom in/zoom out.

Shift + Click A Taskbar Item
It opens a new instance of the particular application on which you clicked.

Windows + F
Windows + F is used to start the Windows Search.

Windows + X
It is used to run the Windows Mobility Center.

Windows + E
It is used to open the Windows Explorer.

Windows + [Number]
It is used to run the pinned applications on the taskbar, Windows + 1 will run the first pinned application on the task bar, similarly Windows + 2 will run the second pinned application and so on.

Windows + Tab
It will launch the Windows Aero task switcher.

Windows + Pause
It is used to load the system properties window.

Ctrl + Windows + F
Search for computers if you are on a network.

Ctrl + Shift + Click On Icon [Task Bar]
It is used to open a new instance of the particular application from the taskbar with administrator privileges.

Alt + D
It is used to select the address bar.

Alt + Win + [number]

Opens the jumplist for the applications which are pinned to the task bar.

Windows + B
It is used to shift the control to the System Tray icons one by one.

Shift + Right-click on a taskbar button
It is used to display the window menu for the specific taskbar application.

Ctrl + Shift + N
It is used to create a new folder in the windows explorer.

Alt + Up

Takes you up a folder level in the Windows Explorer.

Shift + Right-click on a file
It is used to add the Copy As Path option in the right click-menu of the file. This option copies the path of a file to the clipboard.

Shift + Right-click on a folder
It is used to add the command prompt option to the Folder, so you can easily open the command prompt in that particular folder.

Shift + Right-click on a grouped taskbar button
It is used to launch the windows menu for the group.

Ctrl + Click on a grouped taskbar button

It is used to cycle between the windows of the group.

Win + G

It is used to cycle between the Gadgets on the screen.

Ctrl + Esc

This hotkey is used to open the Start Menu.

Ctrl + Shift+Esc
It is used to directly open the Windows Task Manager.

Google Translate,now available offline

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(Camera input and offline translation are available for Android 2.3 and above.)

Translations between the following languages are supported:
Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish

Smartphone Then Now and Future

A look at the history for Smartphone.

source

Friday, April 12, 2013

Gmail Turns 9.

Gmail was launched as an invitation-only beta release on April 1, 2004 and introduced one of the biggest Inbox in all of the free email world.

Infographics on the Evolution of Gmail

Thursday, April 11, 2013

EA Makes Worst Company In America History, Wins Title For Second Year In A Row!

EA Makes Worst Company In America History Twice.

Last week, EA COO Peter Moore commented on the poll, asking “Are we really the ‘Worst Company in America?’ I’ll be the first to admit that we’ve made plenty of mistakes. These include server shut downs too early, games that didn’t meet expectations, missteps on new pricing models and most recently, severely fumbling the launch of SimCity. We owe gamers better performance than this.” Despite that, he noted that other complaints about the company “just don’t hold water.”