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  • 5 things you should do to improve your iOS7’s battery life

    5 things you should do to improve your iOS7’s battery life

    Apple’s new iOS 7 was released publicly few weeks ago, but it has been a tremendous pain if we count it in the discussion of battery performance.

    There’s no doubt iOS 7 is an amazing improvement over its predecessors by offering fabulous features and crazy new options to interact with the device. New gesture based techniques and wireless data transfer mechanism keep us stunned every time we use them.

    No matter how much if hate it for few things that went wrong, you still don’t want to go back to the same old chunky, fat and boring OS that has been exactly the same since the beginning.

    See Also: 5 things about iOS7 that you’ll hate and how to fix them

    So, what actually making the iOS 7 ‘wanna’ go back to the iOS 6.1? You guessed it! As discovered by Ars Technica, iOS 7 kills battery life faster than iOS 6.1 on every device you can use it on. Here are some tips to keep you happy.

     

    1. Turn Off Parallax and motion

    Do you love your new iOS 7 right? It got all those funky moves and 3D user interface that gives you a new feel and for the first time a new environment to work upon. But, these effects and animations sucks juice from your battery. We don’t actually need to turn it off completely, but you can reduce the effects to minimize the parallax usage.

    Go To Settings > General > Accessibility > Toggle Reduce Motion.

    It will stop the parallax effect, and you will notice some minor battery improvements.

    If you have noticed, the new moving backgrounds that iOS 7 offers are super cool, but they will totally kill your battery. To change your iPhone’s wallpaper, just

    Go to Settings > then Wallpapers & Brightness. Try out one of the beautiful new static wallpapers or use a photo of your own.

     

    2. Tell iOS 7 exactly what to index for spotlight

    ios7 spotlightiOS 7 enables users to search for anything from the home screen of your phone, with the new gesture-enabled “spotlight” feature. As the name suggests, the spotlight can help you search pretty much every part of your phone, from notes to music, to mail by simply activating it from the pull-down gesture on your home screen. Convenient right? but, it sucks battery because searching and indexing data requires high processing power, and thus reducing the battery juice.

    So, what really you can do to minimize this? Fortunately, you can change exactly what Spotlight looks in when you use it for search.

    Go to Settings > General > Spotlight Search

    You can specify what you want to index and search for.

     

    3.Turn Off Bluetooth, Airdrop and WiFi whenever not in use

    iphone 5 ios7 control centerIt is a general suggestion to turn off your Bluetooth, WiFi, and other non-frequent mobile modules to save some battery juice. You can keep these features turned off when not in use – and yes, you can live with it.

    iOS 7 also introduced a new Airdrop feature that allows you to quickly and easily share files with your friends’ iPhone. This is only available for iPhone 5 and newer. It is a great feature, but you don’t need to keep it on when you’re not using it. It’s not like the girl sitting beside you in a public transport is going to share some awesome shots with you. Just, minimize the chances of sharing unwanted stuff and still keeping your phone battery up to the par by simply turning it off when not in use.

    If you are a lazy one, Apple has introduced a new Control Center that you can activate by simply applying the “pull up” gesture from the bottom of your screen. It has most basic functions listed to be toggled, with ease.

     

    4.Turn you brightness down and disable Auto Downloads

    This is a classic way to save battery life, and it’s been made even easier with iOS 7. Instead of going through Settings to get to your brightness, you can change your screen’s brightness from the Control Center. Just pull up from the bottom of any screen.

    Your iPhone now downloads app updates from the App Store automatically, draining your battery. This feature also automatically downloads purchases from iTunes and the App Store you’ve made on different devices to your iPhone, which you may not want. To stop this and just update your apps and music manually:

    Go to Settings > iTunes & App Store > and scroll to Automatic Downloads. There you can turn Automatic Downloads off for music, apps and books.

     

    5. Turn Off Frequent Locations

    ios7 location servicesYour iOS 7 powered device now tracks your every move to “provide locations related information.” It might be useful for some, but I always prefer to minimize the tracking events by my digital devices. I am sure most of the DigitFreak followers believes the same.

    Tracking your device and location, drains the battery and yet it is not very much beneficial for you unless you are a sole traveler and are really keen to know your history of daily activities.

    Go to Settings > Privacy > then Location Services. There, scroll all the way to the bottom and hit System Services.

    There you can also turn off Location Based iAds (ads from Apple based on your frequent locations). Then go to Frequent Locations and turn that off, too.

  • [How To] Schedule downloads using Internet Download manager

    [How To] Schedule downloads using Internet Download manager

    If you rely on traditional download managers to achieve the scheduling tasks, you might be out of luck. There are many download managers available on the internet, but “Internet Download Manager” is something that we freaks use for download purpose at regular basis. It is not only capable of scheduling the downloads, but you can also maintain the order in which you want the downloads to be initiated.

    So, How you are going to schedule your files on IDM? Don’t worry we are here to help.

    [Download Latest version of Internet Download Manager]

     

    Instructions:

    7013000641. Adding Files to the Queue

    When you click on any link to download files, IDM automatically detects the file type and offers the confirmation window to select from various options. You can change category, provide download destination to save your file along with three actions — “Download Later”, “start Download” and “Cancel” along with details about the file size which appears on the right side of the confirmation window.

    If you want to schedule your file to be downloaded later, Just click on “Download Later” button. Upon clicking, it will offer you to choose from the pre-defined scheduling queue.

    701300063By default “Main download queue” will be selected, and you can start processing the queue right away if you check the “start queue processing” right before clicking on “OK” button. You can also check “Don’t ask me again” to remember your preferred setting.

    We just want to add our file to the list of queue. So, just click on “OK”.

     

    2. Tweaking Settings

    Go to internet download manager and double click on “Main Download Queue” at the bottom left corner of the window. You’ll be greeted with the default scheduling settings.

    701300069 copyThere are two types of scheduling options – “One time download” and “periodic Synchronization.” — As the name suggests “One Time Download,” processes download queue and deletes files from download queue when their download is complete and “periodic synchronization,” IDM checks if the files in the queue have been changed on the server, and if changed, it will download new files and replace old on new ones. All files will stay in the queue after synchronization.

    Then comes the real powerful tools and options. The IDM offers a wide flexibility, that can dynamically schedule your file for any practical requirements. You can specify the start and stop time/date/periodicity, Number of retries for each file if downloading failed, open any specific file when download is completed, disconnect internet, exit download manager and turn off your computer automatically.

    The powerful tools offered by IDM are very useful for maintaining the download queue and your scheduling needs.

     

    3. Scheduling and downloading Files

    Adding Files to the download queue is very easy. You can go with the option mentioned in step 1 above or you can manually add the files to the download queue. Right click on the file > Hover to “Move to queue > select the queue you want to move the files to.

    701300070To manage the queue and files, click on “Files in the queue” tab. You can change the order of downloads for one or several selected files by using arrow buttons or by using drag & drop. You can also delete download tasks from the queue with Delete button.

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    After starting a queue processing IDM starts downloading one file or several files at the same time from the queue. You can set the number of downloaded files at the same time for each queue individually in the corresponding list box.

    There are sites that don’t allow opening more than one connection from one computer. If you want to download several files from such site, you should create a separate queue for this site and set “Download” 1 “file at the same time” on this tab. Also you should add such sites to the list of exceptions in IDM “Options->Connection” tab with 1 connection to always download one file using only one connection.
     
    4. Your download will start at the time you scheduled the downloads in settings. If you want to start your schedule right away, just click on “start now” button.

  • Tell your parents, playing games sharpens your brain’s abilities!

    Another recent study in the field of the human brain has been conducted and guess what do we have to learn from that? Well, this one was bound to go in the favour of us kids and not the sticky parents. Scientists say that they are sure playing video games improves a person’s brain and his cognitive abilities.

    Isn’t that something worth looking out for? But there is also a single glitch in the whole system. The games can’t be anything normal that we play, they must be specifically designed for this purpose. Now you can always tell your parents an incomplete truth, believe us it’s better than a lie.

    The team conducting researches is present at the University of California and led by a Dr. Adam Gazzaley. They believe that this could be used to develop brains that could solve major issues with neurological disorders like ADHD, dementia etc. What makes them say this is due to the fact that all of these diseases have the same effects including loss of cognitive control and concentration problems. They are unable to take simple decisions or multitask. For them, the research is actually at a very beginning stages but it has a whole lot of potential buried underneath that.

    For a sample research the team designed a game called neuron racer, in which the player has to drive a car on a track and also he has to press a button whenever he sees a particular sign on the road. The thing is that the player has to concentrate only on one type of signs and also completely ignore all the others. Also, the research team added that the game is made to get harder as the player gets better at playing it.

    There were many test subjects who were all given a one-month training and then they were all allowed to play the games. All of the participants were of the age group 60-65 but at the end of the program they were all performing like a 20-year-old who is playing the game for the first time in his life. Now, what do we learn from here? We should always keep on shooting. If you are gunshot then your mind is also packing heat.

    When the EEg scans of the old player’s brains were taken it was observed that the brain waves are undergoing manipulation when they were playing. Some low-frequency waves called theta bursts in prefrontal cortex when under boost, making the brain function just like a 20-year-old.

    What’s good to know is that the scientists know how much important this discovery is and they know that no games like this could ever become a hit, but certainly it will save many lives. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here and learn to let go.!!!

  • [How To] delete yourself from internet? Here’s a tool for you!

    If you are looking for the method to track down all the accounts and links representing you on the internet, then you are in luck. JustDelete.me is the website that lists all the links that highlights the urls to the page you may want to remove yourself from.

    It just makes the tracking process so much easier, and lets you delete the instances of you from the internet effectively. It has a huge database that crawls the number of domain and services to list down the websites you might wanna consider to remove your accounts from.

    Some companies use “dark pattern” techniques, which makes it difficult and tenuous to delete accounts. This is meant to sway users from successfully completing the removal process.

    JustDelete.me ranks each site’s process from “easy” to “impossible,” so you know what to expect ahead of time. For example, Amazon.com and the NewYorkTimes.com are rated “hard” to delete, while movie directory IMDB.com and PayPal are listed as “easy.” Sites such as Pinterest and Netflix are “impossible.”

  • Best of Breaking Bad parodies – A Collection

    Remember the great tv show named breaking bad. If you don’t then just get lost because you must have been on another planet. It must be one the most respected tv shows of all the time, but does that make it prone from parodies? No!

    So the show is just going to end in about 6 episodes or more with a breathstopping finale and here we are discussing about the parodies. There are plenty of given reasons to laugh or make jokes upon in this show but you will have to play along with us and be observant. To start we will discuss the funniest scenarios and then we will take you to the best parodies you can find on the internet.

    1. Taylor Swift + Breaking Bad Parody – ‘We Are Never Ever Gonna Cook Together’

    Imagine this, walt and jesse having troubles in their relationship (a cooking one) and so the words come out like we are never ever gonna cook toegther. How does that sound? Boring but you might not find the same after watching this video. let me warn you before hand that this video actually makes fun of taylor swift and breaking bad at the same time. This is supposed to be hillarious! and don’t blame us if you find the song too catchy.

     

    2. Breaking Bad as a Sitcom

    What you never imagine while watching the show is, what if the show had laugh tracks in between like in big bang theory or two and a half men??, well you are in for a surprise because this parody video makes the whole difference. How a very serious scene can be made funny is shown in this parody along with the cheesy music that frames the intro of the show, instead of the serious regular soundtrack. You must watch it.

     

    3. “Home Game” (Breaking Bad Parody)

    What is someone made a game called Breaking bad, you know the family type games that the whole family plays together. You are only as eager as we are here, so lets watch the video to know how much fun that game could be. There is no direct pun unless you have to think about all the facts and points and then compare them with the real show.

     

    4. LEGO Breaking Bad The Video Game parody

    Parodies are not only the ones that are made on the tv show, it could be anything. we found something which could not be actually called a parody, since it makes no fun. Imagine the scenario where you are a player who controls the character of Walter and you are left to play the game Breaking bad. How would you like it? This video is a parody of the show in the form of lego game and guess what its awesome! We vote for the game to be released, because it is so awesome. Our best moment was when walter hits things with his head to get points..haha

     

    5. Breakbad mountain

    The parody starts just like the real tv show and for sometime you will feel just like this is a trailer, but soon you will start noticing small changes and dialogues like “If it feels right, it feels right” and many scenes look like they have lots of pun intended in them. You just need the right set of eyes to know what we are trying to relay.basically this parody is concentrated on the bromance between walter and jesse. In short, a must watch.

     

    Now these were the few most hillarious and awesome ones that we have linked you to, but there are many more out there like breaking bad msuical parody, and even a porn parody. Amazing! right? This means that this show has become so famous that almsot everyone is trying to give something to it.

    Hope you like this collection and if you want to share something which clearly means anything from curse words to appreciations for us then please comment below. we hope from the true depth of our hearts that the show ends successfully!