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. 

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. 

Overall Impressions

Now, when Internet connections are becoming more and more stable and the bandwidth is not a problem anymore, a lot of other devices which in the past seemed to be irreplaceable, like the TV and radio, can be successfully substituted by the almighty Internet. For those who don’t want to pay the cable altogether with the Internet bill, programs like Sopcast 3.4.0 offer them the possibility to watch free TV channels online. Due to its P2P technology, you may also broadcast yourself with Sopcast without needing a large bandwidth.

Time is precious for every one of us, and modern technology sometimes takes away our precious time and sometimes gives it to us: “technology giveth, technology taketh away.” Optical characters recognition software converts a scanned image (or a picture taken with a digital camera or phone camera) into readable and editable text format.

OCR tools analyze an image, recognizes features typical to characters or compares it to the fonts from its database (the more fonts it has, the more probable is to recognize it right). Most OCR software use dictionaries, changing the approach of recognizing individual words to detect whole words. Some OCR tools are unable to detect fonts and formats, just knowing the feature of some characters. Others are perfectly able to recognize paragraph formatting, multiple columns, tables and images inside the text.

There are some OCR tools that allow you to do a spell checker for you to infer the unrecognized words. With this approximate approach, the text cannot be 100% accurate, but all these tools tend to offer you a good recognition quality. 

Those who tested Samsung’s Galaxy S3 video camera weren’t so happy seeing the 1080p recorded videos. An expert would say they record approximately 19 megabits per second, while the naked eye says that just 'isn’t enough'.

But there one software tweak that improves the camera quality (at least on paper). HyperX, a reputable custom ROM developer with quite a history in Android hacks, decided it was time you took the full advantage of the 8-megapixel video recording creating a Samsung S3 exclusive mod. The video quality is taken to new heights: when it comes to 1080p video capabilities, the Fine Mode is enhanced 19 Megabits per second to 24 Mbps, while the 'Superfine mode' boast an impressive 30 Mbps. 

I really hope I’ll see the day in which storage space will be so large and the connection speeds so fast that we won’t need an archiving tool anymore. Until that time, size on disks matters a lot and we’re searching for the best and cheapest archiving solution. Will a free archiver be able to offer the features a commercial compression software has the offer, without wasting of lot of user’s time? The review below will throw a light on this freeware archiving software.

Installation and Support

Due to the fact that the Z-Zip installation kit is as light as 1Mb, the installation process is a very short and straightforward one. No other software must be installed in order to benefit from 7Zip archiver, which makes it a true freeware. It supports all versions of Windows Operating systems, beginning with Windows 98 onwards to Windows 7.

Overall Impressions

After buying a new computer and carefully reading the documentation about each and every component, the next thought of advanced users and especially gamers is to get a trusted benchmarking software to test it properly. Not only the advanced users think high about CPU and graphic tests, but also the average PC user who want to test their computer capabilities to assure themselves of the value of their choices. 3DMark Vantage is probably the leader in PC benchmark software due to their accurate testing results and the wide array of features they offer. It comes in three editions: the Basic free edition, which makes available only the essential features and it can only display results online, the Advanced one, with most of the features present at a cost of $19.99 and the Professional Edition, licensed for commercial use, offers command line automation and a priority support at a cost of $995. 00.