Senior yoga teacher at Kaya Health Clubs Monica Aurora provides the following guidance for performing headstands/inversions, a popular yoga pose.
Inversions/headstand:
A headstand is an advanced inversion pose that should be learnt under the guidance of a teacher. However, the benefits of inversions can be obtained from simply lying on your back with your legs up the wall. “There are three main factors that will prevent you from doing a headstand: flexibility, strength and fear of standing on your head. Standing on our heads can be very frightening and also potentially harmful. Aurora suggests those who attempt headstand should take measures of caution and proceed slowly so they do not injure themselves.
Physical benefits:
Inversions help to improve balance and strengthen muscles around the core, shoulders and arms. Inverting the body with the head below the heart increases blood flow to the brain. Each inversion has a diagnosed energetic benefit; some are energising while others are relaxing. This increase in blood and therefore oxygen to the brain can bring about an increase in alertness.
Mental benefits:
Heating inversions (such as hand or headstands) tend to awaken and energise whereas cooling types (such as shoulder stands and legs up the wall) tend to activate the parasympathetic nervous system and can be used to induce a feeling of calm.
“Inversions tend to be quite fun. Children do them naturally and most adults enjoy the journey back to the fun activities of their childhood,” Dr Watkins says. At the same time, they’re often psychological challenging and in that sense can help to build confidence and sense of achievement.
Instructions:
Advanced yoga practitioners can follow Aurora’s guide to completing inversions.
1. Come into kneel close to a wall. To find the correct position for the elbows, grab hold of the opposite elbow with each hand.
2. Keep the elbows at this width (approximately shoulder distance apart) and interlace your hands into a loose, basket-like grip. Then place the back of the hands one foot away from the wall.
3. From a kneeling position, tuck the chin into the chest and place the back of your head into your hands.
4. Press into the feet and lift the hips up, as if to come into downward facing dog with the head on the floor.
5. Walk the feet into the elbows or as close as you can get. When you are ready, bend one knee and draw it into the chest.
6. To proceed, draw the second knee into the chest, then send both soles of the feet to the wall above the head. Continue lifting out of the forearms to float the shoulders away from the ears.
7. The legs can extend up the wall when you are confident with the strength in your shoulders and hip strength.
This yoga pose (also known as Supta Baddha Konasana) is beneficial for women in all cycle changes, from relieving menstrual pain to improving circulation in the ovarian region, and can be helpful during pregnancy and menopause.
What it does:
Regulates blood pressure as it encourages the relaxation response. It can also help with indigestion, flatulence and sciatic pain. It is beneficial for women in all cycle changes, from relieving menstrual pain to improving circulation in the ovarian region, and can be helpful during pregnancy and menopause.
It also opens across the front of the chest, opening the heart and energising the body.
What you’ll do:
Lying with your ribs and torso supported by a stack of books, a pillow or anything around the house you feel comfortable on, either rest your hands above your head or beside your torso. Placing them above your head adds a stretch into the front of the shoulders.
You can place as much support under your back as you need, but allow your hips to be a few inches away from pillows to allow the lumbar spine to realise and the stomach to relax.
Place your feet together, your knees out wide and then simply close your eyes, breathe and let go.
If pregnant, additional blankets may be placed like stairs in a graduated support for the spine, placing the mum in a less horizontal position and ensuring the baby is not putting too much pressure on the vena cava.
You can add as many props as you need depending on the flexibility of the spine. If the groin is tight, place pillows under your knees.
Certain yoga postures (asanas) and breathing techniques have been shown to interrupt the stress response.
Albert Einstein said problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them, yet the contemporary cult of cognition, in which the rational mind is tipped as a kind of Swiss army knife, has fostered a belief that we – beings distinguished from animals by our ability to reason – should be able to reckon our way out of mental distress.
Increasingly, however, science is recognising that the best way to fight physiological responses, such as the symptoms of stress, is via the bodymind.
What is stress?
While stress starts out as a thought in response to an event or circumstance, it swiftly dominoes into an involuntary physiological response. What you feel when your jaw aches from grinding your teeth on deadline or when the relos invite themselves for Christmas lunch indicates that you’re operating in danger mode.
“When we are in a stressed state, the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) is in control,” says Melbourne-based yoga teacher Phoebe Waters (pictured). “This is known as the fight or flight response; the pace of our breath becomes short and fast and the body becomes prepared for intense physical activity, increasing our heart rate and blood pressure.”
How to de-stress with yoga
The way to restore calm, then, is coaxing the body to drop the stress response. Certain yoga postures (asanas) and breathing techniques have been shown to interrupt the stress response.
When the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS), known as the rest and digest state, is in control, heart rate and blood pressure is lowered and breathing slows down. It’s a bit like putting the car in reverse.
“During yoga you can consciously stimulate your PNS by practising basic breath awareness with slow, even inhalations and exhalations in and out of the nose.”
Practising yoga could also guard against stress-related nervous system imbalances according to a research review published in journal Medical Hypotheses. Patients with stress-related psychological and medical conditions such as depression, anxiety, high blood pressure and cardiac disease could benefit from yoga in conjunction with standard treatments, psychiatry researchers reported.
Case study
An earlier study found that subjects who practised yoga for 12 weeks logged increased levels in gamma amino butyric acid (GABA), which is often low in patients with anxiety disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder, while a walking group had no GABA spike.
Whether you’re a yoga novice or Ashram regular, combining these postures with slow, conscious breathing will lower the body’s stress response. Remember to adjust and support your pose in response to how your body feels. You should never feel pain.
Browse our collection of yoga poses to get started!
As you undoubtedly know, Google decided to remove silent mode in Android 5.0 Lollipop and replace it with a concept called interruptions. The idea is that you set priority interruptions for certain times of day and so on, which sounds nice, but sometimes you really just want the simplicity of good old fashioned silence. The Galaxy S5 has had mute mode returned to it, but the Galaxy Note 4 and Note 3 are still waiting. Here’s how to get silent mode on Android Lollipop for Galaxy devices.
Even without a patch from Samsung you can enable mute mode on Galaxy devices with Lollipop.
Previously when you kept dropping the volume down it would eventually go to vibrate only and then silent mode. Not anymore with Lollipop. But it is still possible to silence your Galaxy device with Lollipop, it’s just a little less intuitive. I’ve tested this on the Galaxy Note 4 and Galaxy Note 3, but it should also work on the Galaxy S4. I’ll assume Sasung will eventually patch these devices like they did the Galaxy S5 and bring mute mode back as a simple toggle action.
Note: This trick disables all sounds and vibrations, including incoming calls and alarms, so if you make use of it, be sure you’re happy to potentially sleep in and miss work because you didn’t hear your alarm or the boss man calling you.
If you volume down all the way you’re still stuck with vibrations (left), but with this simple trick you’ll have blessed silence again (right).
How to get silent mode on Galaxy devices with Lollipop
You want to bring up your full Quick Settings menu for this. So either swipe down on the home screen with two fingers, or once to get to your notifications and then tap the ”list” button on the top right hand corner to bring up all your Quick Settings toggles.
At the top you’ll see the icon for sound or vibrate. At the bottom you’ll see a star icon – this is the interruptions icon. If it isn’t a star, it might be a circle with a horizontal dash in it and ”All” written underneath it. Tapping this cycles through your interruption settings.
See what happens when you toggle the interruptions to None? The Sound toggle grays out. That means silent.
If you tap the star icon until it has the circle and line with ”None” written underneath it, you’ll notice that the sound/vibrate icon at the top has now lost it’s color. This means that you will now have silent mode with no vibrations either.
If you now go to Settings > Sounds and Interruptions you’ll see that the symbol on the left of the Ringtone and System sliders are crossed out. Previously, these would have been crossed out but with zigzag lines on either side, which means that sounds are off but vibration is active. Now you have no sounds an d no vibration.
The Samsung Galaxy S6 has to be one the most leaked devices in smartphone history and, with just two days left to wait until the official unveiling… we have yet another leak.
This time though, it’s nothing to do with the phone itself, but the bundled earphones buyers can expect to receive.
The images were picked up by Vietnamese mobile site Tinhte, and depict earbuds expected to come free with both the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge. And for those who think they look like Apple’s Earpods, look again. Samsung’s have a flat ribbon cable, Apple’s feature a more rounded affair. Huge difference.
In the image below, Samsung’s are on the left, and Apple’s are on the right.
It’s also been rumoured that Samsung has collaborated with Sennheiser to produce the bundled buds, but the images in question show no signs of Sennheiser branding, so we’re taking that one with a pinch of salt for now.
We’ll know everything there is to know about the Galaxy S6, and its earphones come Sunday. ‘Til then.
We heard rumblings last year that the Google-branded Nexus smartphone line had seen its last days, but the Nexus 6 (pictured) proved that false. And now there’s word on what to expect from the next entry.
A report from Weibo (spotted by TechRadar) suggests that Google will offer two different models of the next Nexus phone: a high-end version made by LG, much like the Nexus 4 and Nexus 5, but also a less capable and surely cheaper edition from a Chinese manufacturer.
That report suggests that the unnamed maker of the low-end phone may opt to use its own system-on-a-chip to power the device, and TechRadar figures that Huawei is the only company that currently meets those distinguishers.
It may be some time before we know anything: the Motorola-made Nexus 6 just released in October, and it seems unlikely that we’ll see another model before autumn. And whatever comes of this, it’s unlikely to be called the “Nexus 7,” seeing as Google and Asus already released a pair of tablets under that name. It’ll be time to finally shake up the naming scheme, it seems.
Splitting the annual Nexus release between two different handsets would be new, but there’s sense to be made here. After all, the Nexus 6 opted to be big and expensive, while previous Nexus phones aimed to deliver flagship quality at more approachable prices. Having a pricey flagship and a less-equipped contemporary would potentially appease more consumers.
It seems that Apple and Google may have a bit of a fight on their hands for smartwatch supremacy.
MMT (Manufacture Modules Technologies), creator of the MotionX Horological Smartwatch Open Platform, has announced it’s signed three new Swiss watchmaking partners.
The brands: Mondaine, Frederique Constant and Alpina, will offer ten different models, for both men and women. They’ll all use the MotionX platform, which records activity and monitors sleep 24/7. Recorded activity information is displayed on the watch face via dials, rather than digital screens on Google’s Android Wear watches or the Apple Watch, placing them firmly in the same camp as the Withings Activité Pop.
Users of the Swiss watches will be able to sync information with an iOS or Android app, which shows off how much they’ve moved or slept during the day, week or month.
So the question you’ll now need to ask yourself, is whether you go with classic, more simplistic horological watches like these, or side with Apple and Google and strap on what is essentially a shrunken smartphone to your wrist.
It’s not the first time we’ve seen a Swiss watch manufacturer enter the smartwatch market. The Montblanc e-Strap has a module that attaches to your current watch, and displays notifications, as well as activity information, on an OLED display.
As for us? We’re sticking to our plain old non-smart £1,000,000 Patek Philippe timepieces, thank you very much.
Want to see some more images of the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge? No? What do you mean, you’ve already seen 300 blurry-ass photos of this unreleased phone before breakfast
It’s time to look at another one, I’m afraid – but at least this one is definitely the real deal.
Yes, it’s an official promotional shot of Samsung’s upcoming flagship range, the curved-screen Galaxy S6 Edge and the, er, not-curved-screen Galaxy S6. It was posted to the Sprint subreddit by someone who apparently works for the US mobile network (but maybe not for much longer!), and it shows off the phones – or at least the top two-thirds of them – in a dark (possibly black, possibly charcoal grey) finish with metal edging.
They look exactly like the rest of the leaked images of the Samsung Galaxy S6 you’ve seen. Presumably there’s a home button down at the bottom.
We don’t think this phone, possibly the most leaked handset in history, can have all that many surprises left to show us, but if it does we’ll find out on Sunday, when Samsung is all set to give both S6 models their official unveiling at its pre-MWC 2015 press conference. Join us there, won’t you?
Android is by far the best mobile operating system as it comes with a lot of amazing games and applications. Sometimes, we want to play that games on our PC but some of these apps and games which are available at Google Play Market are not available for Windows and Mac operating systems. So, what should one do??
Today, in this tutorial we are going to tell you how you can Run Android games and applications on PC. All you will need is a software which is known as Bluestacks.
Bluestacks in an Android emulator which will help us to Run Android games and applications on PC. You can have the perfect Android experience on your Windows and Mac Operating system using Bluestacks.
How to Install Bluestacks
Step 1: First of all you need to download Bluestacks. Click here to download Bluestacks for your Windows or Mac Operating systems.
Step 2: Once downloaded, install it using the executable file. You will see a couple of steps in the installation wizard. Follow these steps and installation will be continued.
Once the installation is done, Bluestacks icon will be available on your desktop.
Run Android games and applications on PC
Once you have downloaded and installed Bluestacks, the next thing you need to do is open Bluestacks and follow the steps mentioned below:-
Step 1: When you will run the Bluestacks for the first time you will be asked to insert your Google Account details. Insert the Google Account details so that, that account can be synced with Google Play market.
Step 2: Once your account is synced you are ready to go. Open the home of Bluestacks by clicking on Bluestacks icon and you will see a search field there. Type and name of app or game there.
Let me explain you this with the help of an example:- In the Search field enter “Whats App” (without quotes).
You will see What’s App on the homepage and will also see an Install Button present there. Click on Install button and the app will start downloading. The download time will take depending on your internet’s speed.
Step 3: Now open the app. When you will open the app for the first time you will be asked to enter your mobile number. Provide correct mobile number as this number will get a verification code which will be used to authenticate your What’s app account. Now you have verified the account you can easily use What’s app from your computer.
If you want to see which applications are installed on your system, you can open the “My Apps” area and see all the apps which are present on your system. Open the “Top Charts” section to see the apps which are being most downloaded by people on the Google Play market. You can even sync apps from your PC to your Android smartphone or from your Android smartphone to your PC using Cloud Connect.
There are many softwares available today over the internet which can Customize your Computer in an efficient manner that it looks so attractive as well as it becomes very easy to use. We always want our computer to be clean and well organized so that whenever we need to access something or need to search a particular file/folder in our computer we could find it easily.
As similar to that, here I am going to share a software through which you can easily assign your favorite colors to your desired folders in order to differentiate them easily and to ease of access.
How do i Customize folders with different colors ?
Just follow the two simple steps given below to customize your folder :
Step 1 :
First of all Download and install the software FolderColorizer. It is tested and 100% virus free. You can download it from here : DOWNLOAD FOLDERCOLORIZER
Step 2 :
Now after installing the software, simply right click on any folder which you wish to customize. Here when you right click on folder, you will see a new option in the context menu i.e. Colorize !. Now simply go to that option and one submenu will appear. Now choose any color you want to assign to this folder.
Although it is a free software for everyone to use it but while you will use this software for the very first time , it will just ask your email id for activation of this software. But no need to worry because you wont need to confirm the activation by logging in to your e mail account. Even if you don’t wish to share your e mail id with developers of this software you can do it because product will be activated automatically once you enter any email id. So you can also enter any fake id if you want.
For your convenience I am providing you a screenshot of above mentioned procedure for changing folder color :
In this way you will be able to easily organize folders in any of your drive weather C: , D: or any other drive. You can also assign different colors to several folders in the same drive to give it more attractive and cool looks.
Aston Martin announced that the luxurious new Lagonda super saloon will be made available, in strictly limited numbers, to more customers around the world.
Aston Martin will now accept orders for the Lagonda Taraf – the latest in a proud line of saloons revered worldwide as ‘the finest of fast cars’ – from prospective owners in more major markets. It is now available to clients in EU legislation-compliant Continental Europe, the United Kingdom and South Africa, with the Lagonda Taraf now re-engineered to be available in either left or right-hand drive.
CEO, Dr Andy Palmer said: “Opening up the Lagonda Taraf to an increased number of customers around the world was a high priority for me as soon as I joined Aston Martin late last year. I wanted to be able to offer this exceptional saloon to the potential owners from around the globe who have been enquiring about it, and I’m very happy that we have been able to expand the Lagonda proposition.”
Initially available only to buyers in the Middle East, where it was launched in Dubai in late 2014, the Lagonda Taraf is being built in a strictly limited small series of no more than 200 cars.
The return of Lagonda follows in the wake of other bespoke special projects by Aston Martin such as the creation of the extreme Aston Martin Vulcan supercar, Vantage GT3 special edition, One-77, V12 Zagato and the CC100 Speedster Concept.
Based on the brand’s almost infinitely flexible VH architecture, the saloon draws inspiration from the highly sought-after William Towns-designed Lagonda of 1976 and features many of the same cutting edge engineering techniques seen in modern Aston Martin sports cars, such as the extensive use of carbon fibre body panels.
The car is hand-built by the finest craftsmen and women at Aston Martin’s state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Gaydon, Warwickshire, in a dedicated building previously given over to the creation of the One-77 supercar.
The 6.0-litre V12-engined super saloon is being offered to clients through Aston Martin’s VIP sales programme with precise pricing details remaining confidential, and likely to be significantly different in each case due to very high levels of bespoke content. Naturally, each Lagonda customer will have the option of ensuring their car is truly unique by personalising it via the popular Q by Aston Martin bespoke service.
Dr Palmer said: “As a result of today’s announcement we anticipate very quick expressions of interest from customers around the world, many of whom will want to add Lagonda to their luxury and sports car collections. Aside from its confident style, many buyers will also recognise this Lagonda Taraf as a piece of automotive history, following in the tracks of its distinguished predecessor the William Towns Lagonda. I’m also particularly pleased that we have been able to engineer Lagonda for right-hand drive markets meaning, of course, that I’m sure we will see the car in use on Aston Martin’s ‘home ground’ of the UK in due course.”
There are number of ways for installing an operating system to your computer. Most of the people do it by using bootable CD/DVD of windows. But we really don’t need to install windows very frequently and because of this , it is so difficult to put this bootable disc on safe place and remember where you have kept it when needed. Here are steps to make Windows 8 Bootable USB.
Also , number of times when you are installing window you see some error saying that some of the necessary installation file is missing from the disc and setup can not be continued. All this happens because of scratches present on disc surface since disc is too old to use.
Apart from all these , Not all Computers have working CD or DVD Drives. This creates a big issue for those who want to install operating system via Disc method,So today here i bring a easy tutorial to Create Windows 8 Bootable USB .
How to Create Windows 8 Bootable USB
I here Assume that you already have ISO image of Windows 8 or 7 of which you want to Create Bootable Pendrive.
This tool is available for free from Microsoft Corporation as well so you can get it from there too. Despite its name, this tool works with Windows 8 ISOs as well. You can use this tool for any version of Windows.
Step 2:After downloading and installing the tool, Run it , now you need to Browse and give the path where the ISO file is located in your computer.
Step 3:Now select whether you want to create a bootable DVD for windows or you want it to be a bootable pendrive. Here you need to select USB device because you want to make bootable pendrive.
Step 4: Browse and select the pendrive which you want to make bootable. Make sure that the pendrive has atleast 4 gb free . Now click on Begin Copying.
Step 5:Once you begin copying , the tool will start creating bootable Windows 8 USB installer flash drive using the Windows 8 ISO. Let this process complete , lastly when you see the message “Bootable USB Device created successfully”, you can restart your PC and boot from the USB drive.
Hey guys , Today I am going to share with you a Short but Cool Notepad Trick. People Use notepad to type and save some important or regular information, But very less people know that there is much more that we can do with Notepad.
What if i say that we can make Notepad to type automatically what ever we wish to…. Unreal ? Yes it is possible and you will be doing it by yourself in just a few moments.You can show it to your friends and surprise them. Basically it is a prank that you can do with anyone just for fun.
This Process is Also known as ” Ghost Keyboard Typing ” Because you dont even touch your keyboard and words starts displaying in your notepad automatically, When you show this to your friend or anyone else, they will be excited to learn this from you as well.
Notepad trick to Type Automatically
Step 1: Right click on your desktop and select create new text document or simply Open Notepad.
Step 2: Exactly Copy the code given below and Paste it in notepad document that you have just created.
set wshshell = wscript.CreateObject(“wScript.Shell”)
wshshell.run “Notepad”
wscript.sleep 400
wshshell.sendkeys “S”
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys “M”
wscript.sleep 120
wshshell.sendkeys “A”
wscript.sleep 200
wshshell.sendkeys “R”
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys “T”
wscript.sleep 140
wshshell.sendkeys “T”
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys “R”
wscript.sleep 50
wshshell.sendkeys “I”
wscript.sleep 120
wshshell.sendkeys “C”
wscript.sleep 170
wshshell.sendkeys “K”
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys “S”
wscript.sleep 50
wshshell.sendkeys “.”
wscript.sleep 120
wshshell.sendkeys “N”
wscript.sleep 160
wshshell.sendkeys “E”
wscript.sleep 200
wshshell.sendkeys “T”
wscript.sleep 100
Step 3: Save the above code in Notepad file As ” smarttricks.vbs ” (Without Quotes ) but make sure While saving this file select Save as type “All files” and extension must be .vbs
Step 4: Now double click on The saved File, You will see “SMARTTRICKS.NET ” will be typed Automatically, This is one of the Most awesome Notepad Trick that You learned today. Moreover you can edit the Words In the above given Code with any desired words you want Notepad to type for you. e.g. : MY FRIEND READING THIS IS FOOL..vb
IMPORTANT !!!
While Double Clicking on the saved file if you see an error box like ” line 1 ” and “Char 37” Then dont worry, Right click on smarttricks.vbs and click on edit,
Now delete all Double quotations ie : ” and Type them all manually from your keyboard, save it and now you will have no errors.
Enjoyed this Notepad trick ? Share with your friends on Social media.!!
Pen drives or USB are quite popular in the digital world for instant transfer of data. Using USB flash drives, one can easily transfer large files from one PC to another, from PC to laptop, from laptop to TV, and vice versa. This latest technology has made our work easier than before. In current times, you can move Gigabytes of information into just a tiny pen drive within few seconds.
In recent years, a lot of changes has been made in storage devices. When you compare new pen drives with the older ones, you will notice a considerable high transfer rate in the latest ones. However, there are times when you can get irritated with slow transfer speed of pen drives while copying data in pen drives. Well, this article shall provide you with some tricks using which you can Speedup Pendrive Data Transfer Rate
Factors responsible for data transfer rate:
Before knowing the tricks, we shall have a look at some factors responsible for data transfer rate , and they are as follows.
1.Pen drive ageing: Well, this is common for any device that when it becomes old, the rates gets slower.
2.Type of files: The transfer rate of data also depends on the file type; you might have noticed that songs, videos and documents take very less time in transfer while application files need more time.
3.USB port version: The most popular version of USB is 2.0, and it will give you 35mbps speed. So, if you want fast speed then buy 2.0 version pen drives.
Few tricks to Speedup Pendrive Data Transfer Rate:
1.File system should be NTFS: If you want to Speedup Pendrive , then make sure you have NTFS as file system. You can do so by Right clicking on your pendrive and selecting Format,Select NTFS File system, Uncheck Quick Format And Click On Start.
2.Disk errors: To check disk errors go to the properties tab of your pen drive, then select ‘tools’ tab. You will find a ‘check now’ button, click it and then hit ‘start’ to fix the errors. The time taken for scan depends on the size of the pen drive.
3.Device policy: Under properties of your pen drive, select ‘hardware’ tab. Then select USB device from there that will lead you to a pop up window where you need to change settings. You can even have better performance of pen drive by clicking the option under ‘hardware’ tab.
4.Format: This is one of the effective options that many users have tried. When you have used your pen drive for quite a long time, you can speed it up by formatting the device.
Carefully test your pen drive with the factors given above to Speedup Pendrive. In addition to this, you should keep checking for these aspects regularly, say twice or thrice in a month.
There is no doubt that Microsoft Windows is the most widely used operating system in all parts of the world. Apart from being simple to use, it is quite rich in features as well, which makes our lives quite easy.
The Run command available on Windows operating system is one such power packed feature that lets you to open a document or an application instantly with the help of just 1 command. So, rather than clicking several icons or using multiple commands, you can use the Run command to open any program or document instantly. For that you will need to Create Run Commands for any software of your Choice which you use Frequently.
But, do you know how to Create Run Commands of your Own? Well, it is really easy, which involves just few steps. Through this article, I will help you understand how to access your favorite applications by creating custom Run commands.
Before I show you how to create your own Run commands, let’s take a quick look on how to open Run Command. First of all, you need to open the Run window by just pressing the Windows Key along with the R key, i.e. Windows + R. Now, you have to type the name of the program that you desire to open up or execute. Unfortunately, not all programs can be accessed through this method. So, let me show you how to create Run commands that do not come as inbuilt commands.
Steps to Create run commands of your own
Step 1. The first step is to select the software or application for which you want to make custom Run command. For example, let us consider Google Chrome as the example here. Remember, you can choose any application other than which is already there in the Run command.
Step 2. In the second step, right click on the desktop of your computer system and make a new shortcut.
Right click > New > Shortcut
Step 3. As you select the Shortcut option in the 2nd Step, it will open up a dialog box. And, the dialog box will ask you path of the application or software for which you want to create the Run command.
Step 4. Now, you need to browse through the files and choose the one that shows “chrome.exe”. Well, it is quite obvious that all the executable files can be found in the C drive (or wherever the Operating System has been installed), inside the folder “Program Files”. For example, “C:\Program Files\Google Chrome\chrome.exe”
Step 5. Once you are done with Step number 4, just click on “Next” button and simply provide a relative name to that shortcut. Remember, the same name will be used later in the Run command.
For example, “GC” for Google Chrome
Step 6. Now, click on the “Finish” button. Once it is done, an icon related to that application or software will show up on your computer’s screen. It means that the process of creating shortcut has been done successfully.
Step 7. In this step, just cut and paste that recently made shortcut icon into your computer’s root drive, in its Windows folder.
For example, C:\ Windows , Make sure you are the administrator of the computer or have its password.
Step 8. Now, you are done with the set up and can run the application through Run Command. Just go to Run and enter the keyword “GC”, and Google Chrome will begin executing.
So this was a Short but Usefull Tutorial to Create Run Commands for any software in windows,I Hope this Post will Easeup your Work, Stay Tuned and Subscribe to this Blog to Recieve Updates Everytime a New article is posted. Subscribe Box.
It’s hard to imagine a city not rolling out the red carpet for Google Fiber, the broadband service that boasts Internet speeds of up to 1000Mbps. But that’s exactly what’s happening, a Google executive said at a conference this week. Suggesting that Google is fed up with the resistance, VP of Access Services Milo Medin gave cities an ultimatum: warm up to Google Fiber, or we’ll leave you out in the cold.
What’s frosting Google Fiber is that even the cities that are glad to receive Google Fiber are making the process slow by being inflexible when it comes to red tape. In particular, Google Fiber feels that it’s too cool for fax machines, which are a staple of city bureaucracies. Given Google’s role in shaping technology, it’s not surprising that it would balk at the idea of faxing documents, but the “take it or leave it” attitude is bad news for citizens who want the high speed broadband.
Google is moving into cities across the U.S. Image credit (all images): Google
Medin is showing no mercy, though. “If you make it easy, we will come,” he said at the conference in Washington, D.C., according to Gigaom. “If you make hard, enjoy your Time Warner Cable.” Pow! You know your customer satisfaction record could use some improvement when others companies are using you as a threat.
At the moment, Google Fiber is in (or coming to) Atlanta, GA, Austin, TX, Charlotte, NC, Kansas City, KS, Nashville, TN, Provo, UT and Raleigh-Durham, NC. It has plans to move into several more cities in the near future, including Phoenix, AZ, Portland, OR, and San Antonio, TX, among others – assuming they’re willing to cut some of the red tape.
Salutations, travelers, and welcome to a new iteration of Gadget Dreams and Nightmares, the column that hoists up quality new gadgets for the world to see and condemns those that don’t cut the mustard.
Among the items on our sandwich board this week are a suitcase with extra zip, the new Pebble smartwatch, a groovier turntable, and a smartlock with a twist.
As ever, the ratings on each item mean nothing — other than to denote how interested I am in using the product — because these are not reviews.
Scooting Away
Even for someone endlessly in awe of our ability to traverse continents in just a few hours, traveling is increasingly a chore. Anything I can add to trips to make them even a touch more enjoyable is nothing to sniff at.
Coolpeds’ briefcase e-scooter (pictured above) — a suitcase with a built-in, motorized scooter — may be just what I need to freshen up journeys.
It’s just as well there’s a built-in transport system on this, given the suitcase alone weighs a whopping 17.4 pounds. It might be carry-on size, but that’s certainly far beyond your typical carry-on luggage weight.
On the positive side, the scooter can transport you up to six miles on one charge at speeds of up to 12.4 mph. There’s a solar-powered model as well, presumably to encourage those who live in locales that are frigid this time of year to take a vacation.
I look forward to the day when I can zoom around airports. I can’t wait for the day I crash into knees as I careen along train aisles.
Until then, you’ll find me carting my boring old case around the terminal, feverishly anticipating the days of lazier international transit.
Rating: 4 out of 5 Quick Trips
Smooth Pebble
I’ve mentioned before my ambivalence towards smartwatches, but my cynicism is taking a dent thanks to the new Pebble Time.
With a color e-paper screen taking over from the e-ink original, it’s got a little more visual verve. Add to that a microphone for voice replies to notifications and the hardware’s had a serious improvement.
What’s most interesting is the timeline interface, which arranges nuggets of information from your apps into a cohesive, single view. It’s a compelling way of presenting disparate data from across a multitude of sources in a way that makes sense on a small display.
I like Pebble a bunch. Among other things, the understated design and week-long battery life make me far more amenable to it than many other smartwatches. Based on what I know of each, I’m more inclined to pick up a Pebble Time than an Apple Watch.
Rating: 5 out of 5 Skipped Stones
Groovy Turntable
As if a turntable weren’t enough to denote someone as a bit of a hipster in 2015, here’s a version that adds an artisanal spin.
Audiophiles with an affinity for the outdoors may enjoy the Silvan Audio Workshop’s range of wood turntables. They’re all handcrafted, with the electronics provided by high-end audio manufacturer Rega, so the sound quality should be good.
There’s actually a purpose to the wood body of these turntables that goes beyond the aesthetic: They apparently help stabilize records so they don’t skip while you’re dancing around your living room.
I can’t say I’m desperate to rush out and contribute to the Silvan Audio Workshop’s crowdfunding campaign to make sure I get one of these. The wood finish rankles me a little.
I enjoy the woodsy aesthetic for the most part, and my mind frequently wanders back to Bang and Olufsen’s gorgeous BeoSound Moment tablet-esque music controller, which has a pristine wooden finish.
Silvan’s products aren’t quite what I’d want to have taking up prime home real estate, even if there is vast potential for great puns when playing records from Wye Oak, Screaming Trees or Woody Guthrie.
Rating: 3 out of 5 Deep Cuts
Open Sesame
Smartlocks nestle just below smartwatches on the list of gadgets that don’t inherently interest me. However, Sesame is trying an approach that differs from the typical Bluetooth door keys.
Owners instead will use a specific knock on either their door or smartphone. A WiFi model enables remote access and a way to determine which friends are allowed inside. The knock-and-enter feature is enough of a quirk to set Sesame apart from the pack.
What happens when a nosy neighbor figures out how to open the door by listening in on your special knock? You’d best hope that person has poor rhythm or an inability to recreate your unique series of door taps, else your lock might not be so smart after all.
The Galaxy Note 3 has now been running Android 5.0 Lollipop long enough for the first problems and bugs to start making their presence known. Here are the solutions, fixes and improvements for the most common Galaxy Note 3 Lollipop problems.
Lollipop on the Galaxy Note 3 has brought some problems with it.
Bad battery life
Updates quite often bring about massive battery drain. The good news is this is almost always just temporary and can be easily fixed with a factory reset. First of all though, make sure you have a full backup of your apps and data (we recommend Helium because it doesn’t require root access).
If you’ve accidentally deleted text messages by mistake, fret not! You can get lost SMS back with a 99% chance of success, but there’s one ingredient that is most important: time! If you’ve deleted your SMS inbox you have to act quick, because the messages are only recoverable until the portion of memory on which they are saved is rewritten. So the longer you wait the higher the likelihood of getting new text messages, app updates or who-knows-what saved to the same location, obliterating them forever. Here’s how to recover lost text messages on Android. If you’ve lost text messages or deleted your SMS, here’s how to recover them.
Tools to recover deleted SMS
There are a couple of different PC-based tools to help you through this part of the process, and of course, also for Mac users. Generally speaking they are free (or have a free trial) and do the job equally as well as one another.
If you’ve got an Android phone, be it a Nexus 5 or a Galaxy Note 3, there are all kinds of cool things you can do with it: from custom ROMs, alternative launchers, apps of all shapes and sizes, LED notifications, gesture controls, icon packs and tweaks, hacks and secrets from here until the cows home. But there are only five things that every single Android owner simply must do. Here they are.
No matter which Android you own, you simply must do these five things.
When you first get it, the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is a lean, mean, rather big Android machine. But over time and endless app installs and updates, it’s likely to develop a few hiccups. Apps may crash or the system may start to feel sluggish. Who you gonna call? No, not Ghostbusters. You need… cachebusters! As we’ll discover, knowing how to clear the cache on the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 can solve shenanigans and terminate tomfoolery.
Any Queen fans in tonight? All together now: Cache! Aa-aaaah! It’s a miracle!
The Samsung Galaxy S4 has been around for a while now, but it’s still a great phone. However, if you put it up against its successor or the latest flagships from other firms it may seem a little sluggish. That’s partly because its internals aren’t as quick, but it’s mainly because a few little things could be slowing it down. Here’s how to make your Samsung Galaxy S4 faster for better performance.
Simple tricks can make a big difference to your S4’s performance.
Some of our tips – such as the TouchWiz-related ones – only apply to Samsung devices, but many of them will work on any Android device.
If you’ve ever picked up your phone to see that Google Play is going crazy downloading updates of app after app after app, you might feel your stomach tightening up you see your data allowance drying up like a glass of water in the Sahara. Don’t be too alarmed though because this is something ridiculously easy to solve. We’ll show you how to tell Google Play when and how to update your apps. so auto-updating apps are no longer a problem.
Stop that app from updating automatically.
As a general rule, the apps from the Google Play store will download updates automatically in order to improve their performance on
The LG G3 is a great smartphone that’s very powerful, but as Spider-Man’s uncle might have put it, with great power comes not so great battery life. That combination of a big high-res display, a fast processor and an excellent camera makes it a joy to use, but they also place huge demands on its battery. If the 3000 mAh of power isn’t going the distance, here’s how you can improve your device’s longevity with some simple LG G3 battery tips.
LG’s G3 is a great phone with a huge display. How do you make the battery last longer? With some LG G3 tips that’s how.
Chrome is one of the best Android browsers out there, largely because there are so many tips and tricks you can do to make it even better. Did you know that you can access browser-boosting features similar to those in Google Labs, or that you can bring back the tabs box that disappeared with the Lollipop update? Find out how to do these, and more in our Chrome for Android tips and tricks.
These are our best Chrome for Android tips and tricks.
The much-anticipated Lollipop update promises to make Android even more awesome – but for some Samsung owners it’s been a big disappointment. Forums are packed with reports of Samsung Galaxy S5 Lollipop problems. Here’s what they are along with the top fixes and improvements.
Here’s what to do if Lollipop isn’t lickable on your Galaxy S5.
First things first
Before you install any major Android update it’s a very good idea to take a few sensible precautions. Dig out t
Where would we be without Google Maps? Well, we’d probably be here, but it might have taken us a bit longer to find it. Google’s mapping service is just ten years old, but it’s transformed the way we travel – and with a few top tips, you can get even more from your maps. Here are our favorite Google Maps tips and tricks.
Most of the time, the APN (Access Point Name) settings on your Android device are one of those extremely important things to the daily use of your phone (specifically, connecting to the internet) that you’ll never need to think about – let alone mess around with. In this article, we show you how to reset your Android APN settings or, if that fails, manually enter APN settings using our lists of APN settings for every major phone carrier in the US and UK. Your APN settings need to be in order if you want to get this little guy online
Your APN is the means by which your phone’s data connection communicates with internet-based services such as such as 3G, 4G, MMS, and so on. Your APN settings are usually automatically provided by your mobile operator and set by your phone, but sometimes this doesn’t work, in which case you’ll have to take matters into your own hands if you want to carry on sending MMS messages and using the internet.
Reset your APN settings to default
If your mobile internet or MMS messaging services cut out, you may need to fix your APN settings.
First, go to Settings on your Nexus device, then tap More, Mobile Networks, Access Point Names. If you have a Samsung device, tap Settings, ‘More networks’, ‘Mobile networks’, then Access Point Names. Reaching your APN settings will be similar on other Android devices.
You should now see a list of the APN settings on your phone. Tap the Settings button, then ‘Reset to default’. Next, go back into Access Point Names, and your network’s APN settings should soon reappear and work properly. If it doesn’t, restart your device and you should receive Service Update settings from your network provider.
Going to Mobile Network Settings, Access Point Names, the ‘Reset to default’ might fix your MMS and internet connectivity issues
Manually enter your network’s APN settings
If that trick fails to jumpstart your internet and MMS services, then you may need to manually enter your network’s APN settings into your phone. These vary from network to network, so take a look at our list showing the APN settings of all the major carriers in the US and UK:
Creating a new APN
If you’re using a Nexus device, go to Settings, then tap More, Mobile Networks, Access Point Names, and press the ‘+’ icon to add a new APN.
If you’re using a Samsung device, tap Settings, ‘More networks’, ‘Mobile networks’, then Access Point Names. Next, press the Settings button on your phone, then tap New APN.
Reaching the ‘New APN’ creator should be similar on most Android devices.
Go to your APN settings, tap New APN, then use our list to add the Access Point Settings for your cellular provider
Once you’re on the screen where you can add a new APN, you’ll need to enter the APN settings for your cellular provider. Thankfully, you don’t need to go scouring the internet looking for them, as we’ve listed the APN settings for every major network right here at AndroidPIT.
Just find your network provider in the list, add all the settings that need to be added (ignoring the ones that say <Not Set>), then tap the Settings button and Save.
AT&T APN settings
Name: ATT Phone, (ATT Broadband for tablets) APN: phone (broadband for tablets) Proxy: <Not Set> Port: <Not Set> Username: <Not Set> Password: <Not Set> Server: <Not Set> MMSC:http://mmsc.mobile.att.net (Not Set for tablets) MMS proxy:proxy.mobile.att.net (Not Set for tablets) MMS port: 80 MCC: 310 MNC: 410 Authentication type: <Not Set> APN type: default,supl,mms,hipri (Also ‘fota’ for tablets) APN Protocol: IPv4 (Enabled for tablets) Bearer: <Default>
The Galaxy S5 might not have sold like Samsung wanted it to, but it’s still a smashing device with a strong following. It has been out for a while now, and you might find that you’re constantly running out of storage space and don’t know what to do. Follow our guide on how to free up storage space on the Galaxy S5.
Learn how to free up storage space on the Galaxy S5!
Delete unwanted pictures, music and videos
Okay. It’s an obvious solution but you might not be aware of just how much space all of this stuff takes up. For example, where do you think all of those WhatsApp pictures you are sent get saved? No, not the magic WhatsApp filing cabinet, they’re all saved in your internal storage.
You can assign WhatsApp to automatically remove media after 30 days, but other media you will have to hunt down yourself. Go to apps > my files > and tap images, audio, videos, whatever you want to remove. After this, tap and hold on an item – it will become highlighted. Highlight as many as you want and hit the “trash” symbol to delete them.
Go to apps > my files > and delete items from whatever folder you want. This is also the place to check out what type of files are taking up the most space.
Get a cloud storage app
This solution will also help you free up space used by your media. We’ve already provided a list of the best cloud storage apps for Android and it’s something you should really think about. In most cases, you can set these apps to automatically backup any photos you take: this means that you’re safe to delete photos from your device storage at any point, and they will still remain backed up in the cloud if you wish to view them again later. An elegant and hassle-free solution.
The methods will differ depending on the backup method you use, but in Dropbox’s case, go to the Dropbox settings in the app and switch “camera upload” on. Any pictures you take in future, and all of your previous pictures, will get backed up, meaning you can delete them from your device once they’ve been uploaded, saving you more precious space.
Once you have downloaded a cloud storage app, you can move files there by highlighting them (tapping and holding on them) then hitting the options button, then “move” – your cloud app will show up as one of the destinations.
Remove unused apps
If you don’t want to install yet another app as recommended above, you might consider uninstalling some apps. Apps come in various sizes, with big-budget games usually taking up the most space. If you aren’t making use of an app any longer, why have it installed? Removing apps is a simple procedure and a quick-and-easy way to free up space. You can always grab them again later if you want to.
Tap apps > then the options (3 dots) button > then tap the apps you wish to uninstall. The ones without a minus sign can’t be removed, sadly.
Make use of an external SD card
One of the beauties of Samsung’s Galaxy series is that it traditionally means devices comes with a space for a microSD card. This can essentially act as another hard drive for your smartphone, meaning you can move pictures, videos, and even app data to be housed there instead of in the internal storage. You will need to buy an SD card, but you can pick them up in various sizes from Amazon.
You can move apps to your microSD card by going to settings > application manager > tapping on an app and hitting “move to SD card” on the following page.
For media files, go to apps > my files > tap options (3 dots button at the top right) and select “move” to put them on your SD card (if you have one). Nice.
Clear app data
Clearing app data can save you some precious megabytes, but it comes at a price. When you “do stuff” in apps, Android saves data – this can be your preferences, habits, anything you have done in that app since it was freshly installed.
Think of it as all of your “personalizations”, so that you can re-enter the app and pick up where you left off. While this data is good for apps which you often use, if there are apps filled with data which you haven’t touched for a month, it’s not so useful.
Go to settings > application manager > tap an app and on the following page hit “clear data”.
The Nexus 5 has never been known for the quality of its battery, and it’s seen its fair share of problems in the past. As the device is well over a year old now, a few battery life issues may have started creeping up on it. If you’ve ever asked yourself “why does my Nexus 5 run out of battery so quickly?” then you have come to the right place. Here you’ll find our top Nexus 5 battery tips to keep your device performing at its best.
Check out our Nexus 5 battery tips to help you get the most out of your handset.
1. Turn off “adaptive brightness”
It should come as no surprise that the display is the biggest source of battery drain on the Nexus 5 – a quick look in Settings > Battery should tell you this. You might think that a solution is to have your battery constantly adjust for optimal brightness, but the reality is that the Nexus 5’s light sensor is nowhere near sophisticated enough to adapt effectively. Instead, it is far better to use the lowest brightness setting that is comfortable for you. This will often be lower than what the Nexus 5 adjusts to automatically.
Go to settings > display > untick “adaptive brightness” and set the brightness level yourself.
2. Set “sleep” to the lowest number possible
As your phone display is often the biggest battery drainer, switching your screen off will certainly improve battery life. Ideally your phone display would turn off whenever you aren’t looking at it, but this is yet to be a properly functioning reality. Instead of leaving your screen on for 5 minutes after you stop playing with your handset, make sure it’s awake for the shortest amount of time possible. Try setting it to 15 seconds for maximum benefit – your battery will thank you for it later.
Go to settings > display > tap “sleep” and then set it to the lowest number you are comfortable with.
3. Turn on Battery Saver
The Nexus 5 Battery Saver function is a one-stop-shop for saving juice. Unlike the battery-saving features on Samsung’s TouchWiz or Sony’s Xperia UI – the stock Android one-tap solution provides an instant improvement to battery life. The cost of this, however, is that a number of functions are limited, such as the ability for the Nexus 5 to vibrate, or sync your accounts effectively. Having to open your email manually to check your email might be a small price to pay for a longer-lasting handset.
Go to settings > battery > tap the 3 dots (options) button at the top right of the page > battery saver > tap “on”.
4. Keep your Nexus up to date
With the exception of the odd battery-nerfing bug, Android updates usually mean better battery life. By just having Android 5.0 Lollipop on your device, Google says that you extend your device’s battery life by an additional 10 percent, so it’s worth checking regularly for the big L update if you haven’t got it yet. Go to Settings, ‘About phone’, and finally to ‘System updates'; if there’s an update available, your Nexus 5 will let you know.
Go to settings > about phone > system updates > tap “check of update”.
5. Turn off Bluetooth, NFC and Location
All of the above features can have an adverse effect on your overall battery life. Bluetooth and NFC especially should never be kept running when you’re not directly using them. Location is a little trickier because it is used for a number of apps and services. Turn it off, and if you are rarely/never asked to switch it back on, you will know you have made the right choice.
Go to settings > more > tap NFC to switch it off. Go to your quick settings and tap Bluetooth and Location so that they are no longer highlighted.
6. Choose a static wallpaper, and limit your number of widgets
Animated wallpapers may look sexy, but they’re not energy-efficient. Choose a dark static wallpaper for best results. While you’re at it, make sure the number widgets in operation is as low as possible. Each widget you use will be updated in the background and this is something that will silently take the life out of your handset. Limit your widgets, people.
