Kiran Upadhyay

Windows 8.1 devices are all full PCs — yes, even the tablets — and often support SD cards. This allows you to easily expand your PC’s storage. Just insert an SD card and you can treat it as a “permanent” part of your device. The SD card will likely be slower than your device’s built-in storage, but it’s a great way to store music, videos, pictures, and other files. The original release of Windows 8 didn’t have very good support for SD cards. You couldn’t easily access them from Windows 8-style apps without going through some obscure tricks on the desktop. This has changed with the Windows 8.1 upgrade, which offers much improved support for SD and micro-SD cards. Insert an SD Card To get started, pick up an SD card or micro-SD card. Be sure to get one that your device supports, as some devices may only support smaller micro-SD cards and not the larger SD cards. After you insert the SD card, it will appear as another drive with its own drive letter. You can use it norm

Did you know that out of the 1.26 billion Facebook users worldwide, 128 million are American users — 11,000 of whom are being watched by the US government? Over 600,000 Facebook login credentials are compromised daily, and one in four of those credentials will later be used for identity fraud. Here’s a list of do’s and don’ts to keep yourself safe on Facebook.

Imagine you’ve attended two presentations. In the first, the presenter reads from his Powerpoint slides, barely looks at the audience, and ends the presentation without accepting questions. The second presenter opens with an entertaining story, walks through the presentation with energy and emotion, and closes with a meaningful Q&A session with the audience. Which presentation do you think you’d be more likely to remember? The same thing is true at a job interview. You may have all of the necessary technical skills (hard skills) required for the job, but it’s the person that can look the interviewer in the eyes, smile broadly and talk about past experiences with poise and enthusiasm who will get the job. Those skills — the ability to communicate well, to adapt to a challenging environment and to present complex information well – are called “soft skills”, and they are particularly lacking in the IT field, where there’s an abundance of technical knowledge but a shor

Approximately a year after Google released the Nexus 4, the company behind Android has come out with its successor — the Nexus 5 . The new iteration of the popular and (relatively) cheap Android smartphone brings about plenty of improvements to its older sibling, enough so that the device sold out within hours after its release. Is the new device really worth the upgrade from the Nexus 4, or could it be your next high-end smartphone? We’re giving away a white, 16 GB Nexus 5 at the end of this review. Stick around and join the competition to win it! Competitors The Nexus 5 faces a bevy of competitors. Essentially, all high-end smartphones are competitors, including the Samsung Galaxy S4 , the HTC One , the LG G2 , the iPhone 5s5c , and even the Nexus 4 . The Nexus 4 is still somewhat a competitor because it has good hardware at an even lower price point, the iPhone is the iOS product, and all of the others are running older versions of Android with extras (bloatware) from

Computer, find me the best route to Mars”. Sounds familiar? If you grew up in the 80s, 90s, or even the 00s, this was the symbol of the future. We saw our sci-fi heroes do it on screen, and we dreamed of being able to talk to our devices ourselves. Tell them what to do, ask them questions, and have them answer immediately. Well, it’s not science fiction anymore. Slowly, without us noticing, the future has arrived. Voice recognition is something we take for granted, and Siri, and all the awesome things it can do, is a household name. Google’s live-in phone intelligence goes by the less catchy moniker of Google Now, but many of us know it simply as “OK Google”. It can conduct Google searches for you and call people for you, but did you know it can do much more? Here are the best things you can say to your Android phone. Try them. If you don’t, you’re not really living in the future! Before We Start Google voice commands work via the Google Now app . The app generally wor

The music-on-the-go scene is a growing fast. In just a few years, we went from dedicated music players with no built-in speakers, to smartphones with ever-improving speakers, to smaller and smaller Bluetooth speakers with better and better sound. When we reviewed the Logitech UE Mobile Boombox only a few month ago, the Bluetooth speaker scene was quite a different one. Specifically, the Jawbone Mini Jambox did not exist in it. Now it does. The Mini Jambox is the latest and greatest in a line of Jawbone Bluetooth speakers, and as such, we had to take it for a spin and see what it’s all about. Can such a tiny speaker produce acceptable sound? How easy is it to carry around? What else can you use it for? We found out all these answers. And one of you will get to experience it first hand too, because we’re giving away this brand new Jawbone Mini Jambox worth $180 to one of you! Will you be the lucky one? Introduction The Mini Jambox is the the smallest and newest product

What’s the easiest way to take your entire music library with you, no matter where you go? Google Play Music, of course. But what if you don’t want to use the cloud? Well, you could also stream directly from your PC to your phone. It’s trickier to set up than Google Play Music and may involve tweaking your router’s settings, but it’s far from rocket science. Music streaming has been around for quite a while. You’ve got Pandora , Songza , and Jango , all of which can stream music for free in an Internet radio format. Or you can use Spotify or Rdio   to stream music on-demand to your Android. Then you’ve got Google Play Music and Amazon MP3 , which allow you to store music on the cloud and stream it from there. But what if you want a direct stream from your PC to your Android, no clouds involved? That’s when the following apps really shine. Note: If you’re behind a router and you want to stream music from your PC, you’ll need to know your external IP address and how to fo