Tricks and Hacks

Consider these situations — You want to signup for a temporary service. You want to contact people on a shady online forum. You have to share your Email address with people you don’t trust. In all the above cases, it makes no sense to use original Email Address. Anyone can do a reverse Google search of your email address and find out who you are. Off course, you can use online services like  Fake Mail Generator   to get disposable Emails, but they are just a temporary inbox. They will delete all your messages after few hours or days. And not to forget, most temporary emails are caught by spam filters. We are interested in a long term solution. The masked email should be linked to my original Email address, such that every email response I get on my masked email, should auto-forward to my original Email address.  And guess what, there are a handful of online services that mask your Email for free. The one that I use and also recommend is  ...

We all like the  shallow depth of field  effect that we get in photos taken by DSLR. It brings the subject in focus, while the background gets a subtle blur effect. Now, not everyone has the luxury to afford a DSLR. But thankfully everyone has a smartphone with a decent mobile camera. Now although, you can not take a DSLR-Style blurred background right out of your smartphone camera, there are apps to take care of it. The results won’t be as refined as DSLR, but it’s still good enough. Why don’t we get desired blur effect from SmartPhone cameras? Shallow depth of field depends on these four parameters. Bigger the aperture of the lens, greater is the blur. Longer the focal length of the lens better is the blur. More the distance of background from the subject, more the blur. Less is the distance of the lens from the subject, more will be the blur. Now, since we can change the aperture or focal length of Smartphone camera, the only way to get blur effe...

Every device that connects to the Internet; whether it’s a Computer, Smartphone, Chromecast, or even a Smart TV; they all have unique identifier hardwired in their Network card. This unique ID is a 12 digit alphanumeric key called — MAC (Media Access Control) address. A typical MAC address looks something like this —  EB-52-02-F0-2E-06  and since it’s unique for each device, it’s often used to identify different devices on the network. Now, even though the MAC addresses are hardwired in your network card, You can still change it with the help the help of special tools or commands. But Why Change MAC Address? Well, there are several reasons to change MAC address. Some popular ones are — Privacy  — When you connects to the internet, the web server can not see your MAC address. But other devices on your Local Area Network can. So, if you want to be anonymous on a public WiFi then change your MAC address make sense. MAC filtering  — Most Airli...

The internet is filled with all kind of distractions – Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, 9GAG, StumbleUpon, just to name a few. It can be extremely hard to focus on your work when you frequently get the itch to check what’s new in your Facebook News Feed or check the latest videos uploaded by your subscriptions on YouTube. If you are having trouble focusing on your work, then you can temporarily block distracting websites to focus on your work. If you are a Chrome user, then you can use many  websites blocking extensions  to block distracting websites. Below we have listed 5 Chrome extensions that will temporarily block websites on Google Chrome to help you focus on your work. Block Websites on Google Chrome 1.  Strict Workflow My personal favorite – Strict Workflow is a fantastic Chrome extension to keep a balance between work and break timings. By default, Strict Workflow forcefully blocks all the distracting websites for 25 min to let you work and then ...

If you are reading this then you might have lost your android or just want to prepare yourself for the disaster. If you happens to be from the first group then you have my condolence. And if you belong to second group who are just anxious, then I will really like to congratulate you for taking this wise decision. It’s good to be prepared. Now moving on, there is no better way to find out what can be done after you lose your smartphone other than taking advice from the loser (one who has lost his android) itself. Yes it might sound little weird to you, but trust me one who lost his/her smartphone has more experience of what can be done than others. And I consider myself as a winner of losing smartphones as this is second time in the year I lost my Android. Today I have lost my second android and I will be sharing tips on what can be done after losing your phone. Here are few things that I learned from this experienced. Key to get you phone back is to act immediate...