The lockscreen is one of the most left out item in Android phone. When you turn on your phone, you will usually swipe the slider across (or down) the lockscreen and go directly to your Home screen, often not giving the lockscreen a second look. However, do you know that by adding some modification to the lockscreen, it can turn itself into something useful and saves you the effort of searching deep into your apps to look for information.
Here are several ways that you can use to customize your Android lockscreen for maximum productivity.
Note: Some of the custom ROMs (such as Cyanogenmod 7 and MIUI) come with the ability to modify your lockscreen. We will not be covering those ROMs in this article.
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When Apple releases Mac OSX Lion, one of the changes is the switching of the trackpad/mouse scrolling direction. Instead of scrolling the mouse wheel down to move down the page, you have to scroll up to move down. Apple imported this feature from iOS and call this feature “natural scrolling”. Not everyone love this feature, but if you are one of those who love it, and wish to implement this feature in Ubuntu, here’s how you do it:
If you are one of the early users who have already upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric, you will discover that the startup login sound is activated by default. Worst still, there is no way that you can turn it off. 
We all know what premium apps mean – They are not free and we have to pay for it.
The PDF format is a great file format for reading. Its portability and cross-platforms compatibility also make it one of the most popular format for sharing read-only files. However, being a read-only format, it also created much inconvenience for those who need to edit its content. if you are one of those who need to extract the content of a PDF file regularly, the following software PDF to Text converter and PDF to JPG converter will be of interest to you. 
I know, ‘Indestructible’ is a big word and it is more suitable for those X-MEN characters in the movie than it is used for a SD card. However, this SD card presented to me was labelled as “indestructible”, at least that is what the developer told me.
Being a developer, one of the tool that I use on a day-to-day basis is a text editor (or you can call it IDE). I used to love 
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There are many ways to uninstall an application in Windows, and the easiest of them all is via the default Add/Remove Program option. However, that is also the most ineffective way since it will leave bits and traces of the software in the folder and the registry. One great alternative is 
The KDE team has released the latest version of KDE 4.7 late last month. This latest version brings many new features and improved stability and performance, particularly in the Plasma workspaces and the various KDE applications.