Make Your Home Screen Look Beautiful

Make your home screen feel like home

Android’s home screen is where most interaction occurs. Your favorite apps and widgets always appear here for easy use and quick access to information. You’ll spend a lot of time with your home screen, so settle in and don't be afraid to get cozy. Choose a new wallpaper. Then prepare to unlock the path to serious customization.

A home screen customized with a replacement launcher.

The key to getting Android to be just the way you want it is to download an app known as a launcher replacement. As the name suggests, this kind of app replaces the operating system’s default launcher process and lets you change the look, size, and position of icons; add or remove home screens; change how scrolling works; add or remove columns or rows of icons; and much more. The exact options depend on the launcher, and many different launchers are available for download from the Google Play Store.
In fact, the plethora of options can feel overwhelming. We recommend starting with Apex Launcher or Nova Launcher. Both come in free and paid variants, with the paid version offering additional features and options. These launchers are relatively intuitive and receive regular updates that add new features. After you’re familiar with them, you can try unusual options such as Launcher 7.
Once you’ve downloaded a launcher, play! Experiment like a mad scientist. Don’t worry about messing up your device. If you’re unhappy with the result, you can always uninstall the launcher to revert your device to its default look.

Make Your Laptop Welcome You

Make your Computer Welcome You

Do you watch movies? Have you always loved the way how Computers in movies welcome their users by calling out their names? I bet that you too would want to know how you can achieve similar results on your PC and have a computer said welcome.

Then you are at the right place, this article describes exactly how you can make your computer welcome you like this.

With this trick, you can make your Computer welcome you in its computerized voice. You can make your Windows based computer say "Welcome to your PC, Username."

Make Windows Greet you with a Custom Voice Message at Startup

To use this trick, follow the instructions given below:-

1. Click on Start. Navigate to All Programs, Accessories and Notepad.
2. Copy and paste the exact code given below.

Dim speaks, speech
speaks="Welcome to your PC, Username"
Set speech=CreateObject("sapi.spvoice")
speech.Speak speaks

     3.  Replace Username with your own name.
     4.  Click on File Menu, Save As, select All Types in Save as Type option, and save the file as Welcome.vbs or "*.vbs".
     5.  Copy the saved file.
     6.  Navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup (in Windows XP) and to C:\Users\ {User-Name}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup (in Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Vista) if C: is your System drive. AppData is a hidden folder. So, you will need to select showing hidden folders in Folder options to locate it.
     7.  Paste the file.

 

Now when the next time you start your computer, Windows will welcome you in its own computerized voice.

Note: For best results, it is recommended to change sound scheme to No Sounds.
You can change the sound scheme to No Sounds by following the steps given below:-

1. Go to Control Panel.
2. Then click on Switch to Classic View.
3. Then Click on Sounds and Audio Devices.
4. Then Click on the Sounds Tab.
5. Select No Sounds from the Sound Scheme option.
6. If you wish to save your Previous Sound Scheme, you can save it by clicking Yes in the popup menu.
7. Click on OK.

Try it yourself to see how it works. In my personal opinion, this is an excellent trick. Whenever I start my PC in front of anybody and the PC welcomes me, the fellow is left wondering how brilliant a computer do I have.

Related: Make your Computer Talk

Virus that will make your keyboard type Automatically (Educational purpose Only)

Make Your Keyboard Type (Any) Message Continuously-VBS Trick

This VBS trick can make any of your friend's keyboard type any message continuously. Open Notepad, copy the code given below and save the file as Tricks.vbs or *.vbs. You will need to restart your computer to stop this. Try this after closing all important programs.

Set wshShell = wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
do
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys "This is a Virus. You have been infected."
loop

Send this file to your friends as an email attachment to see the fun.

Create a Harmless Funny Virus with Notepad-Continuously eject CD/DVD drives

This VBS trick will create a code which will continuously eject all your connected Optical drives. If you put them back in, it will pop them out again. Copy this code and paste it in Notepad as Virus.vbs or *.vbs.

Set oWMP = CreateObject("WMPlayer.OCX.7")
Set colCDROMs = oWMP.cdromCollection
do
if colCDROMs.Count >= 1 then
For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count - 1
colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject
Next
For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count - 1
colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject
Next
End If
wscript.sleep 5000
loop

Double click to open this file and you will be impressed by this awesome trick.

Make a Personal Diary(Log) with Notepad (Easter Eggs)

Notepad Diary

You can use this trick to create a personal log with Notepad which will automatically include the current date and time before your note. To do so, open Notepad and type .LOG in capital letters and press Enter. Save the file. Now, every time you open this file, notepad will automatically insert the current time and date before the note. Just enter your note and save the file each time after making an entry.

All these Notepad tricks are totally harmless and would not harm your PC in any way.  To close any of the VBS trick given, open task manager and close the wscript.exe process. These tricks work on Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP.

Creating A common Virus (for educational purpose only)

Matrix Falling Code Effect - Notepad CMD (.BAT) Tricks

Inspired by the movie Matrix, this falling code trick is extremely popular on social networking websites. Copy and paste the code given below in Notepad and save the file as "Matrix.bat" or *.bat.

@echo off
color 02
:tricks
echo %random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%
goto tricks

Matrix Falling Code Effect - Notepad Trick

Upon running the bat file, you will see the "Matrix falling code" effect.

Make Your Keyboard Type (Any) Message Continuously-VBS Trick

This VBS trick can make any of your friend's keyboard type any message continuously. Open Notepad, copy the code given below and save the file as Tricks.vbs or *.vbs. You will need to restart your computer to stop this. Try this after closing all important programs.

Set wshShell = wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
do
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys "This is a Virus. You have been infected."
loop

Send this file to your friends as an email attachment to see the fun.

Increse internet speed by 20%

Speed up your internet by 20%

Microsoft reserves 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes like Windows Updates and interrogating your PC etc You can get it back: Click Start then Run and type "gpedit.msc" without quotes. This opens the group policy editor. Then go to: --> Local Computer Policy --> Computer Configuration --> Administrative Templates --> Network --> QOS Packet Scheduler --> Limit Reservable Bandwidth.   Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth.  It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the 'Explain' tab i.e." By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default." So the trick is to ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO. This will allow the system to reserve nothing, rather than the default 20%.It works on Win 2000 as well.

China phones secret Codes

  The following Mobile Phones codes works with various China mobile Phones such as Alkatel, Sigmatel, Carboonn, GFive, and more such China Mobile phones.

 

–Default user code : 1122, 3344, 1234, 5678
–Engineer mode : *#110*01#
–Factory mode : *#987#
–Enable COM port : *#110*01# -> Device -> Set UART -> PS Config -> UART1/115200
–Restore factory settings : *#987*99#
–LCD contrast : *#369#
–Software version : *#800#
–Software version : *#900#
–Set default language : *#0000# Send
–Set English language : *#0044# Send
–Set English language (new firmware) : *#001# Send

Delete Autorun With a Winrar

Shutdown Computer With Command Prompt or shortcut for shutdown

Here is a trick to shutdown your computer  at a specific time. You might be thinking what great about it, well you can shutdown your computer without the use of any software. Just shutdown your computer at specific time from RUN Command. For example if you wish to shutdown at 09:45 am. Type this in
Start=>Run
Type Code:        at 11:35 shutdown -s
To cancel or Abort the shutdown:
Type Code:                   shutdown -a
Type  Code:  “shutdown –s –m\\computername –t60”. This command will shutdown the computer on network if you have administrative access.  Here computername needs to be replaced by the exact computer name of the computer on the network to work.

Alternative method to create a shutdown timer or simply computer shutdown shortcut
Step 1: Right click on your desktop and choose “New=>shortcuts”.
Step 2: In the box that says “Type the location of the shortcut”,
type in “shutdown -s -t 3600” without the quotation marks and click next.
Note: 3600 are the amount of seconds before your computer shuts down. So , this means 3600 seconds = 60 mints (1 hour). You can change the value in the above code. You can even create multiple shutdown shortcuts. For example a computer shutdown shortcut for 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, 5 hours etc.,
Step 3: Make up a name for the shortcut and you’re done.
Optional Step 4 : You can change the icon by right clicking=>properities=>change icon=>browse
To abort or cancel the shutdown:
To make an abort key to stop the shutdown timer just create another shortcut and make
the “location of the shortcut” to ” shutdown -a” without the quotes.

How to change Windows XP start with your name

I’ve read a number of articles on the internet about changing the text on the Start button in XP. On more than one occasion I’ve seen references to a five (5) letter limitation when the button is renamed. I always wondered if this was true or just an assumption someone made because the default ‘start’ just happened to fit the button size. So, I decided to run a test and see if there really was a five character limit.
First of all just u need to do is download Resource hacker.

Resource HackerTM is a freeware utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables and resource files (*.res). It incorporates an internal resource script compiler and decompiler and works on Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, Win2000 and WinXP operating systems.

ll its just 541Kb in the size.. Click here to go to the Download Page

 

Download Resource Hacker

First Step The first step is to make a backup copy of the file explorer.exe located at C:\Windows\explorer. Place it in a folder somewhere on your hard drive where it will be safe. Start Resource Hacker and open explorer.exe located at C:\Windows\explorer.exe
The category we are going to be using is String Table In Resource Hacker. Expand it by clicking the plus sign then navigate down to and expand string 37 followed by highlighting 1033. If you are using the Classic Layout rather than the XP Layout, use number 38. The right hand pane will display the stringtable as shown in Fig. 02. We’re going to modify item 578, currently showing the word “start” just as it displays on the current Start button.

There is no magic here. Just double click on the word “start” so that it’s highlighted, making sure the quotation marks are not part of the highlight. They need to remain in place, surrounding the new text that you’ll type. Go ahead and type your new entry

Second Step – Modify the Registry Now that the modified explorer.exe has been created it’s necessary to modify the registry so the file will be recognized when the user logs on to the system. If you don’t know how to access the registry I’m not sure this article is for you, but just in case it’s a temporary memory lapse, go to Start (soon to be something else) Run and type regedit in the Open: field. Navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows NT\ CurrentVersion\ Winlogon

the Right pane (Fig. 05), double click the Shell entry to open the Edit String dialog box as shown in Fig. 06. In Value data: line, enter the name that was used to save the modified explorer.exe file. Click OK.

Close Registry Editor and either log off the system and log back in, or reboot the entire system if that’s your preference. If all went as planned you should see your new Start button with the revised text.

ADB + Fastboot

I am opening this thread to help most Nigerians who don't know how to use adb and fastboot commands. I have lot of serious experience with all these stuffs and I have decided to share.

What us adb? Adb simply means Android debug Bridge.

To use adb correctly u have to ensure ur Android phone drivers are correctly installed. Adb isn't specific to just htc or Samsung devices. Adb applies to all Android phones, be it techno or whatever.

How to use adb. Win7. If u have windows 7,using adb is much more easier, download the adb+FASTBOOT zip achieve, unzip it in a folder, open the folder, press shift down, right click inside of empty space on folder and select open command prompt from the options and the cmd screen will open to start accepting commands.

Windows xp. It is quite complex cos u will have to cd to the adb +FASTBOOT folder u have extracted. How is this done? Click on start button, put ur mouse on all programs, take ur mouse to accessories, and select cmd.. And the cmd window will open. Now
Type in
Cd c:\win

Then press enter
Then u can start entering commands.

From the code I have written above i am assuming I extracted adb+FASTBOOT zip to drive c, so that's y I have c there and I am also assuming the name of the adb+FASTBOOT folder is win, that's y I have win there.

Hide Whatsapp Last seen

One of the things most folks don’t like about WhatsApp is that it lets everyone know your online status even when you don’t want to be bothered with messages. Well, WhatsApp has listened and if you download the latest update for WhatsApp For Android via http: //www.whatsapp.com/android/, you can now hide your online status, profile photo and status.

Simply go Settings >> Account >> Privacy to modify who can see your personal

http://www.patchworkoftips.com/hide-whatsapp-last-seen-notification/3312/

Android Data Recovery (Pictures)

World of Android

What is the most popular and widely-used operating system for mobile devices now? The answer is obvious. Android, which can be regard as the King of mobile device OS.And it is reported that the shipment amount of products with Android OS has jumped to 70.1% in Q4 2012.You can see so many people in the street dial, take photos, enjoy music, play games, surf the Internet with a smartphone that run on Android os. It proves that Androud is one of the most popular Smart mobile phone system, which have the big market share.



Situations of Android Phone Photos Recovery

However, you can see the following similar questions in the Internet:
Is there any way to recover my Samsung Galaxy S3 recent downloads or deleted pictures ?
Can I get deleted photos and videos back from my HTC Butterfly？
I deleted by mistake a important photo I had taken on my Samsung i9100.How can I recover Android phone photos?

Can we recover photos from Android phone? How can we do it?


What Should We Prepare to Recover Android Phone Photos
Firstly, Stop using the Android phones. Don’t take more picture by Android phone and save any new data to the phone, because the original data will be overwritten,and the photos you want to recover will disappear forever.

Secondly, Find a good recovery software. It Is better to use a recovery software to restore Android phone photos. And there are so many recovery software that we may be hard to choose, Now I recommand two of them:

Choice one:Recuva

Recuva is a data recovery program without paying, however, there is no free lunch in this world. I tried to use this program to recover photos from my Samsung Galaxy Note 2, It just recvoered about 60% photos. If you don’t wanna spend to it, you can choose it, but I can’t guarantee all the photos will be restored.

Choice Two:Card Data Recovery

Card Data Recovery is an easy-to-use but effective data recovery, which can help you to recover photos,images,document,etc have beebformatted, deleted from Android phone. you can learn more here:http://www.card-data-recovery.com/android-data-recovery.html. Even if it cost me some, it is worthy. With the help of the Tenorshare Data Recovery, I retrieved all the photos from my Sony Xperia T.



Steps to Restore Android Phone Photos[/center]

Step1. Download the Card data recovery and install it on your computer.

Step2. Connect your Android phone to computer via USB cable or connect the SD card in the phone with card reader, and launch the Tenorshare data recovery application.

Step3. Click to choose the drive that means your Android phone and Select the option “Photo Recovery”.

Step4. After scaning, you can preview the files and Choose the ones you want to get back and click “Recover”.

Step5. “Save” all your recovered photos in the android phone and you have finished Andoid phone photos recovery.

Card Data Recovery can recover data from all brand of Android phone such as Sony, Samsung, Motorola, HTC, LG, etc.

How to bypass Samsung Sim Locks

MIND YOU THIS SOLUTION WILL WORK ON ALL SAMSUNG PHONES BUT ANYTIME YOU SWTICH OGG YOU MUST DO IT AGAIN


PUT YOUR SIM CARD BUT NOT COMPLETE, PUT IT ABNORMAL, LEAVE SMALL SPACE DONT LET THE SIM ENTER FINISH

THEN PUT BATTERY BUT NOT COMPLETLY, LEAVE A SMALL SPACE THAT YOU CAN BE ABLE TO PUSH THE SIM IN WIHOUT SHAKING THE PHONE OFF

THEN POWER ON PHONE, BECAUSE SIM IS NOT INSERTED WELL, PHONE WILL SHOW INSERT SIM

THE SNEAK SOMETHING LIKE STICK IN AND PUT THE SIM TO ENTER PROPERLY WHITOUT OFFING THE PHONE

THEN PUT THIS CODE


INPUT *2767*3855#

WHEN PHONE REBOOT, IT WILL BE OPEN

How to install custom Theme without rooting

How To Install Custom Themes on Android With Themer
,Many android users would prefer not to root their phone and yet they want to install new themes on their smartphones. Presently you can install thousand of custom themes on your android phone without the need to root your android phone. The procedure is quite easy and shouldn’t take more than 10 to 15 minutes to install new themes on your device. All you need is a free android app called Themer, Created by Mycolorscreeen. In this post today, i will demonstrate to you how you can easily use custom themes on your cell phone and change them the way you like on your android. With the assistance of the Themer app you can easily alter your smartphone looks and enjoy thousand of themes on your Android phone. So lets takes a shot on how Themer works on your android cell phone.

How To Install Custom Themes on Android With Themer
1. Head over to Google play store app on your device, and search for the Themer app, then install it or [url]http://9jaextra.com/install-custom-themes-android-without-rooting/click here.[/url]
2. Once you have the app installed on your android phone. Now open the app. there you will see some welcome displays that will shows you some intro about the app
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE :http://9jaextra.com/install-custom-themes-android-without-rooting/

How to get better battery life with Android

Android gets a bad rap for short battery life, but that's only if you stick with its default settings. Make these simple adjustments to give your phone or tablet a battery boost.

Disable location reporting and history
GPS is a huge battery hog, as it harnesses data from the phone's GPS chip, cell phone towers, and Wi-Fi hotspots to find your location. The more a phone surveys your location, the more battery it uses. And that goes beyond just Google Maps.

Location reporting and location history are two GPS-based services with somewhat unclear motives. According to a Google Help page, the services can be used in conjunction with any other Google Apps, and may be used to improve your experience.

Chances are you can probably live without them, so disable these two features by going to Settings > Location > Google Location Reporting.

Disable Google Now cards
Now is an unmatched personal assistant, but some of its services -- which come in the form of informational "cards" -- are tireless battery drains.

For example, a card titled "Nearby places" shows you nearby attractions when you travel to a place that Google recognizes is out of your usual routine. Cool? Yes. Necessary? No.

To disable cards, go to Google Now, then scroll down to the very bottom, and tap the magic wand. Here, you can pick the cards you actually need. As a general guide, the GPS-reliant cards will demand the most battery, so disable cards like "Travel time" and "Nearby places" to see a battery boost.

Wi-Fi scanning
It's well-known that when Wi-Fi is left enabled, more energy is used. However, on Android, even when Wi-Fi is disabled, a phone could still be searching for networks.

To make sure this isn't happening, head to Wi-Fi settings > Advanced. Here, uncheck the option for Wi-Fi scanning.

Going forward, you'll have to connect to Wi-Fi manually, but you'll get a longer battery life in return.

Use the battery tool
If you're unsure how energy-demanding an app is, or you're wondering why your battery is draining so quickly, use the Battery tool. The feature shows you which apps use the most battery, with the top two items almost always being Screen and Wi-Fi.

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