Sometimes I find hard to type messages or emails on my smartphone’s virtual keyboard, and I’m sure you would much prefer to use a full computer keyboard instead. The first solution popping in anybody’s mind is pairing a Bluetooth keyboard with your Android phone. But, fortunately for those who don’t own this kind of device, there’s a second possibility : using a free Android application called Remote Keyboard, you can easily connect your Android device to your desktop keyboard.  You won’t be having any heartache installing this; you can take my word for it. 

Or...wait, you actualy don't have to take my word for it, you'll discover it for yourself reading this detailed, step-by-step tutorial. 

Most people find themselves inside the following scenario: for a reason or another, they press the delete button way too early and afterwards they just cannot recuperate it, as long as it’s not in the Recycle Bin. That’s where our story begins and where we begin to ask everybody for Windows recovery and backup tricks. 

Have you ever tried to use the time lapse technique, in order words to group a series of photos taken with the same subject and to playback them, fooling the eye into believe it’s a single video sequence? You just need to playback them at around 24-30 frames per second to create that effect. You must have seen that classic sequence of images that show a plant growing, cities in the daily motion, various buildings ascending to the sky, blah, blah, blah. 

There are some moments in which you want your PC running Windows 7 or Windows 8 to automatically wake up in the morning or at some other time. You may want to trigger an alarm ( when you’re doing something extremely important, like going to the airport in the morning, at a meeting you don’t want to miss for anything in the world, or just launching a video reminding you at an important task, etc). Either way, you need to set up the automatic wake up from sleep task on Windows 7 or 8. Piece of cake. 

Disclaimer: The following tutorial assumes you know next to nothing about how your PC works, so don't feel offended if it's too explicit for your tastes. Expecially the pictures, depicting the crude reality of all the steps. 

Disclamer 2: If you woke up in the morning at the right hour, don't blame us. Your boss should assume all the responsibility for that despicable act. 

Is there anybody there frustrated for not living in US? Now, our frustration has just met a new reason: people outside this beautiful country won’t enjoy full access to Google Play, at least not for now. At least, not officially. So, what’s the purpose of owning a high-specs, full-featured, rooted Android phone, if you can’t spend your money on all the useful and, why not, the not-so-useful stuff from Google Play: Google  Music, Books, Magazines, Movies, TV Shows, etc? For now, only the games and apps can be downloaded from us, the unlucky mortals across the ocean. 

Fortunately, there are some developers who encountered the same problems and decided to come with an ingenious solution. You must have guessed: an XDA Forums member was the one to enable access to all Google Play services outside United States. Below it’s an easy to follow, succinct tutorial for you to follow. 

Wouldn’t it be cool to talk to Siri “in flesh and blood”, not a sophisticated application? Or simply learn all these things, without having to interrupt whatever you were doing before asking Siri something? This would be entirely possible if you could “hide” the app, run Siri in the background. 

Sim-locked phones are certainly not my cup of tea. But if there’s a will, there’s a way. You can always buy an unlock key ( for some, quite expensive) or search for free solutions. The Android community, in its infinite creativity and wisdom, provides a solution to almost each problem you can think of. 

I must confess: I’m a software addict; I like to experiment a lot, especially with free software.  Unfortunately, installing and uninstalling too many programs on the same computer affects the computer performance. Some of the applications, if you don’t pay too much attention, run in the background and consume system memory, making your PC sluggish. Fortunately, there are some answers to this problem: application virtualization software.

Spoon provides an easy way to run your applications without actually installing them on the computer, the advantages being worthy of consideration: keeps your PC performance at high quotas, runs the applications in an isolated environment, prevents viruses, data thefts and other problems.  It uses the web browser to launch programs into a virtualized environment. You can install this way Games, Media Apps, Browsers, Productivity Apps, Social Apps, etc. 

If you’ve already updated your phone to Jelly Bean, congratulations, you do have a potent phone with a smoother operating system then ever. The only problem you might confront it is the lack of flash, because, as you’ve already heard for months, Adobe Flash and Google are not bed fellows anymore (only if you see it as an issue, because some users are still content with HTML5).  For the nostalgic users can’t live without Flash on their Jelly Bean flavoured phones there’s always a solution, at least as long as XDA members and forums exist.

Don’t worry, if you follow the exact instructions on the links I’m going to provide for you the whole operation will be an easy and safe one. Especially if you happen to own a device running Android Jelly Bean 4.1 with Android’s native browser app (Galaxy Nexus or Nexus S, for example).

So, as I’ve said before, in order to prolong the goodies the Flash Player has to offer for your device, all you need is a smartphone running Android’s native browser, because Flash can’t possibly work with the Chrome browser, as it doesn’t support plugins. So, you have to own either a Nexus, or a smartphone running custom ROMS based on Jelly Bean and run Android’s native browser.