10+ Most Brilliant Tech Hacks You Need To Know Right Now

Love them or hate them, life hacks have become so engrained in our online lives that there are sites and videos dedicated to sharing these hacks (or debunking them).

In this compilation, we want to share with you 40 of our favorite tech life hacks. You might have heard of some of them, but it doesn’t hurt to know more of them. Here we go :

Steganography : How to use it in Computers ?

The art and science of hiding information by embedding messages within other, seemingly harmless messages is known as steganography. Today, we will learn some basics of steganography and how to do it on computers.

{ Note : This post is only for educational purposes. Please don't use this technique for wrong purposes }

By the use of Steganography you can hide one type of file behind other keeping the format of
file same. 

What is CAPTCHA and How it Works ?

CAPTCHA which stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart” is a type of challenge-response test to ensure that the response is only generated by humans and not by a computer.

In simple words, CAPTCHA is the word verification test that you will come across the end of a sign-up form while signing up for Gmail or Yahoo account.

How Browser Cookies Work ?

Hello Folks, we are turning a little more technical today. We will be discussing something upon 'Cookies' and how they work. Most Internet users are familiar with the term “Cookie” but only a few know what exactly it is and the purpose it serves. This article will help you understand the working of different types of browser cookies in a simple and easy manner :

A cookie (also known as browser cookie, Internet cookie, web cookie or HTTP cookie) is a small piece of data that websites store on your hard disk in the form of a text file.

Interesting facts about Wikipedia

Wikipedia is incredible. It's free to use. It's one of most-popular site in the world. An energetic army of volunteers keeps it current. And it pays its bills with donations. Lets see some interesting facts about Wikipedia :

1. Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launched Wikipedia on January 15, 2001.

2. The site has an official theme song called "Hotel Wikipedia," a parody of The Eagles' "Hotel California."

3. At one point, Wikipedia instituted a week-long ban on IP addresses that belonged to Congress. It seems that Congresspeople were editing each other's articles a little too zealously.

Interesting Facts About Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Here is list of some facts about this Great Company :-

1. Bill Gates initially wrote the company name as Micro-soft, which made sense considering it’s a portmanteau of “microcomputer” and “software.”

2. “Microsoft” was officially registered as a company in November, 1976 in New Mexico where Bill Gates and Paul Allen were working with their first major customer.

Interesting facts about Google

Google is everyone's favorite search engine. We use it everyday to search many things and even to check our Internet Speed !! Every great company has a story behind its legend. Here are some interesting facts about Google, which you would love to know :

1. Google started in January, 1996 as a research project at Stanford University, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were 24 years old and 23 years old respectively.

2. The name Google was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for Googol.

Interesting Facts about Facebook

Google is looking over its shoulder as Facebook grows at over 10 million users a month and sits currently at number two on web traffic rankings according to Alexa.com. Last year Facebook surpassed Google for the top ranking for total time spent online. Facebook has also become the 3rd largest video website with 46.6 million viewers sitting behind number one ranked video content property provider Google with its YouTube site and Yahoo at second ranking. So let us look about Some amazing facts about Facebook :

1. Named after a Harvard student directory that included student photos and profiles, Facebook was originally called “thefacebook” and was limited to only Harvard students. In 2005, the site was renamed “Facebook.”

Interesting Facts about Apple Inc.

APPLE INC. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. Here are some of Interesting Facts about APPLE INC. :-

1. Apple was established on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. All the three founders used to work at Atari before forming Apple.

How Touchscreen Works ??

A touchscreen is an electronic visual display that the user can control through simple or multi-touch gestures by touching the screen with one or more fingers. Some touchscreens can also detect objects such as a stylus or ordinary or specially coated gloves.

Touchscreens are common in devices such as game consoles, all-in-one computers, tablet computers, and smartphones. They also play a prominent role in the design of digital appliances such as personal digital assistants (PDAs), satellite navigation devices, mobile phones, and video games.

Working of Touch Screen Are very Interesting. Here's How they Work:

Future Of Computers

In the revolution of miniature of computers, the scientists are ahead with Bluetooth technology. We will soon see the forthcoming computers within our pockets. You will be able to access your important data from anywhere,anytime with these wonderful technologies.

In this topic we will show three designs for future computers. They have wonderful design and be seeing them you cant even predict that they will be computers !!! We are sure that you will be amazed after seeing that technology has advanced so much !!!

Interesting Facts about Computers

Today, almost all of our work is done by some or the other computing machine. Computers are enhancing the technological growth with a rapid speed. The more we know about this super machine, is less. Knowing about few of the interesting computer facts can be fun. Mentioned below are few of the little known computer facts :-

1. There are approx. 6,000 new computer viruses released every month.

2. Doug Engelbart, invented the first computer mouse in the year 1964 and it was made up of wood!

3. It is believed that the first computer virus released in the world was a boot sector virus, which was created in the year 1986 by Farooq Alvi brothers. It was designed by them to protect their research work.