Cool tips n tricks related to smartphones, tablets and computer

It was expected to cause the “destruction of community because [it encourages] far-flung operations and far-flung relationships.” At the same time, it was called the “antidote to provincialism.” It’s not Facebook. It’s not google. It’s not even a technology invented in this century – or the last.

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If you are oblivious of the term Steganography, you might be missing on one of the most widely used methods of securing important data. It is a technique that allows you to embed one file into another. The purpose is to hide the original file, make it devious to an unintended recipient by concealing it within a fake one. Back in 2010, Aatif reviewed SilentEye, which uses the steganography technique to hide confidential data. Deegger embeddeR offers the same facility, but with support for additional media formats. The free steganography software is designed to merge two or more files together, supports a wide range of file extensions you can hide and lets you create the bogus file in AVI, JPEG, MP3, MP4, PDF, PNG and other formats.

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Many social media sites offer options to help protect your privacy on the Web. You can make your profile private, which won’t allow anyone you haven’t approved to see your information, or you can remove your name from the account and use a different nickname that only friends would look for.

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Out friends at Plex have shuttled out a new Local Media Agent that’ll enable you to make your TV shows look great. The updated software lets you add show and season posters, banners, background art, theme music and individual episode thumbnails to your recorded shows to make each one really, really good-looking. It’ll happily handle PNG and FLAC files for those lossless enthusiasts and it’ll even overlook a messy file structure to get everything looking great. Now, if you’ll excuse us, we’re going to catalog our Community episodes with thumbnails of Dean Pelton’s outfits.

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Clickfree is a trusted data backup/restore solution provider for windows and Mac devices. Not only is the company known for its user-friendly applications, but also features several rugged, plug-and-play USB drives that come with the capability of automatically backing up their entire data or just specified content stored on your computer’s hard drive. In an attempt to target the fast-flourishing mobile market, the company has decided to provide android users with a nifty local and online data backup solution in the form of Clickfree Backup. This neatly-built app presents you with arguably one of the best methods to instantly backup your crucial android data – photos, music, videos, documents, apps, bookmarks, contacts and calendar events – to your device’s local storage (SD card), as well as Dropbox. In addition, the app sports a built-in content viewer that lets you natively preview photos, music, documents, bookmarks and videos from your backup instances. That’s not all; it also lets you reinstall your favorite apps on your android device right from within the local backup, or from the cloud. Details to follow.

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Are we or aren’t we? When it comes to social media bubbles and whether or not we’re in one, there is no shortage of people willing to argue on each side of the debate. 

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If the Facebook IPO and Pinterest’s $1.5 billion valuation mean anything, it’s that social media have become business as usual. Everybody’s full of social media advice and best practices these days. For today’s Big Question, we asked the savvy RWW readers to share their tips.

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While it might just be a matter of aesthetics, thumbnails are simply an amazing way of browsing through files without even opening them. windows displays thumbnail previews for video files, but for some file formats, this option isn’t natively supported. If you consider this a problem, worry no more, as Media Preview has a solution for you. This small tool supports a large number of formats and lets you force thumbnail previews over video file extensions of your choice. The supported formats library includes 3GP, 3G2, AVI, AMV, DIVX, FLV, F4V, MKV, WEBM, MPG, MPEG, M1V, M2V, OGM, OGV, MP4, M4V, MPV4, TS, TP, MTS, MOV, RM, VOB, EVO & WMV. Instead of extracting the first few frames of the preview, the application seeks out relevant frames, which is quite helpful in instances where you have placed different episodes of the same TV show in a single folder.

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Among all the genres of apps that we have covered, a large chunk probably consists of video converters. Being as abundant as they are, most of the free offerings are fairly functional and feature-rich. Easy Video Converter, as the name implies, is a free Mac app that converts video formats. What the name doesn’t imply is that it’s a media file converter that can convert files into 80 different formats. The app was previously worth $9.99 in the Mac App Store, and has now gone free. In addition to the large number of output formats that it supports, the app also lets you resize videos, and change frame and bit rates. You may manage these variables for audio and video files separately.

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We all appreciate fascinating storylines in movies, videogames, television shows and theatres – and sometimes most of us dream of creating our own. If you were looking for a simple tool that could help you in script writing for various media projects, you should consider giving Interactive Theater a shot. As every great story is backed by a powerful script, this software is developed to make script writing a lot easier. It lets you play script-related media files from within the application, while allowing you to write script in a separate rich text editor. It can be quite handy for those writers who often work on parody projects and theater shows etc. Moreover, all this comes with an extra topping of ergonomically friendly interface design. Read past the break for more details.

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