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It seems like these days you can learn just about anything online for free, but of course some of that information is better than others. The good news is there are plenty of reputable places to educate yourself online for free, and here’s a TechProceed.com's compiled list of 20 of them to get you started. 1. Coursera The coolest thing about Internet learning is that you can take college courses which in the past were only available to people who forked over immense sums of money to attend elite colleges.  Coursera  brings a bunch of those classes together into one site, offering nearly 400 courses ranging from Introduction to Guitar from Berklee College of Music to Constitutional Law from Yale. Courses typically include videos and certain coursework (such as online quizzes) that must be completed in a certain amount of time, as these courses are monitored by a professor. Stop by regularly to see what’s new, or search for topics that interest you can put them on a watc...

Ever try to delete, move, or rename a file only to get a Windows system warning with something like one of these messages? "Cannot delete file: Access is denied" "There has been a sharing violation" "The source or destination file may be in use" "The file is in use by another program or user". "Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use" One of the best ways to handle locked files or folders is to use the free Microsoft program Process Explorer. Here is how to use it to find out what program, DLL, or handle is using a file or folder. You will need to run as administrator. How to find out what program is using a file In Windows 7 or 8, the system message may tell you what program is using the file. If it doesn’t or if you are using Windows XP, there is a simple way to find the program: Open Process Explorer, running as administrator. On the toolbar, find the g...

Do you use Gmail, the Chrome browser, or other Google service? Then Google may be keeping a record of every search query you make. That’s right; if you have a Google account, Google may know everything you ever looked for on the web. That is, unless you turn off Google’s collecting of all your searches and clean out the web history they’ve kept. Here’s how. Turn off Google Web History Go to the web page https://history.google.com Sign in to your Google account if you aren’t already signed in. Click the gear icon in the upper right corner (example shown in figure on the right). Choose “Settings”’ The page that opens contains the section shown in the figure below. Click the button “Turn off” to stop Google collecting the data. If you change your mind, you can always turn Web History back on. Delete items in Google Web History Previously collected data will still be there. To remove it, click the link contained in the word “delete” in the sentence, “You can...

Sure, it’s handy that your smartphone can remember and fill in usernames and passwords for your various web accounts. But it also means anyone else with access to your handset can log in to your most sensitive accounts, too. Indeed, the more often you tap “yes” when your iPhone or Android phone asks “Would you like to save this password?”, the more saved passwords you have sitting in your pocket—and that could lead to big trouble if your precious smartphone ever lands in the wrong hands. A good rule of thumb is to select “Never for this site” or “Not now” when your phone offers to save passwords for your most important accounts, such as your online banking site. But what if you’ve already saved passwords for more sites than you can count? In that case, you might consider starting fresh by wiping all the web passwords from your iPhone or Android phone’s memory. You might want to think twice before saving passwords for sensitive online accounts on your iPhone. Fo...

Sooner or later it happens to all of us – a Windows program gets hung up and just sits there frozen. You can open Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc) and try to close the hung program or use the command line to kill it. But sometimes you might want to see if you can find out why the program got hung up in the first place or you may want to try to unfreeze it. In that case, Windows 7 has just the system tool you need. It’s called Resource Monitor and has many features. One of them is a way to troubleshoot programs that don’t respond. Here is how it works: Open Resource Monitor by entering “resmon” in the Start-Search bar. Alternatively, open Task Manager( keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+Esc), and click on the "Performance" tab and then the button "Resource Monitor".  An example of the window that opens is shown in this figure. In the CPU section of the "Overview" tab, right-click the executable file of the hung application. The listing of the hung appl...

1. For clumsy fingered folks, if you accidentally close a tab on Google Chrome, press Control+Shift+T and it’ll come back from the dead. 2. If you’re in a particular country that can’t access important content on US websites like Hulu or Netflix, Firefox and Google Chrome offer a free extension called  Media Hint  that can have you watching   Orange is the New Black  and other American exclusives in no time. 3. Control+F or Command+F will allow you to find specific terms on a page. If only life had a version of this for when we lose our keys, phone, dignity, etc. 4. Want to surf the web in private with no recording of your web habits? For Firefox users, press control+shift+p, or for Chrome it’s control+shift+N, and you’ll be browsing off the record. This isn’t just for porn watching purposes as one might think, but for several other benefits such as websites that track your cookies and use ‘em to their advantage (I’m looking at you, hotel & airline compan...

How to use Whatsapp on Computer? Are you the one who don't have a Smart phone? and still want to use whatsapp? Want to run android apps and play android games on pc? We have Solution for all your Questions:- Then you are at the right place now you can use whats app on your PC for free.whats app helps you to connect with friends family. Yes its simple you need to install bluestacks offline installer to run whats app on PC. Install Whatsapp on your PC: Go here : http://www.bluestacks.com/ and Download bluestacks Now run the downloaded application.(click here for how to install bluestacks) Now you have installed Bluestacks Successully.You can skip the below step. If you are Getting Some Error as below while installing Error: "The application failed to initialized properly (0xc0000135) . Click on ok tp terminate the application",then .NET framework is missing on your PC. Go to End of article to get .NET framework Note: Get .NET Fram...

I finally moved it from blogspot subdomain to a custom domain. I have been wanting to do this since a long time (ever since this blog started getting some attention) , I somehow couldn't manage to do so because of the fear of losing search traffic. Google's recent move to redirect blogspot.com to country specific sub domains helped me solidify my decision to the extent of finally moving. I made a lot of other changes as well and have listed as much of them as possible as they might help some of you who are also planning to make the move. I have listed them in the order in which I made them. 1) Registered  TechProceed.com . 2) Changed my domain's settings to hide personal information from being displayed in the who is database. 3) Modified my domain's  CNAME and A records  to correctly point to Google's servers.  4) Generally, it takes some time for your domain registrar to completely update the settings mentioned above. So, if you immediately po...

  Internal memory storage, it's the spot on your Android device that is reserved for data. Once you install an application, take a picture or download something, some of this space gets used up. This week in Android for beginners, we will show you how to manage your applications and your memory. First off, when the manufacturer announces that you have 16 GB of available memory, you actually only have 12 or 13 at your disposal. Why? Simply because your Android also needs space to operate with too. To check what's taking up room on your smartphone, take a look at the storage tab in your settings. The important information to take a look at is here: Device Memory. On the right side, you can see how much space where all of your space is going. There's still time to do some spring cleaning.  How to recover memory Everything takes place in the settings. More specifically, the action happens under the applications tab. Depending on your device, its either ca...

 OS 7 has revealed a completely redesigned version of Apple's mobile operating system. Redesigned from the ground-up, iOS 7 boasts some pretty big changes for the way iOS devices will look, including both iPhones and iPads. A new UI design is at the forefront of the new iOS 7.  iOS 7 boasts some major changes to the operating system all the way from the ground up. Including a complete redesign of the UI, Apple has announced that they've concentrated on ten core points in the latest update.  Control Center: Apple has enabled an option for users to swipe up and access a bunch of quick settings. This will allow users to quickly turn on and off some popular settings without having to navigate around the device. Airplane mode, Wi-Fi, Brightness, and more are all available from the redesigned control center and will also be available from the lock screen. Multitasking: All apps will now have access to multitasking controls. Multitasking will now support intellig...

  More often than not, our smartphone batteries die long before our devices do. As more and more smart phones are moving away from having a removable and replaceable battery, I’ve found myself more concerned with how the usage of my phone and my charging habits will affect it in the long term. With my older laptop and cameras, it was never an issue. Battery no longer holding a charge? Buy a replacement and slap it in.  All I need to do is plug it in, right? Unfortunately, I was never well versed in proper maintenance and care of battery life until I started noticing a decline in my overall life of my cellphone. From being able to hold a charge for an entire day to having to plug in the phone halfway through the day even with minimal usage, it got me wondering if my charging habits had anything to do with it.  As with most of my older devices, I was under the assumption that I should always drain the battery, keep the device plugged in to charge, a...

Your digital data – like files, photos, documents, music, ebooks and videos – is spread across a range of devices including your mobile phone, the tablet and your computer(s). How do you easily transfer a file from the Android phone to your iPad? Or how do you copy-paste that long snippet of text from the computer to your iPhone? The following guide discusses apps, both web-based and mobile apps, that will help you exchanges files and everything else between your desktop computer and mobile devices easily and quickly. The popular and most obvious solution for sharing files across devices is email. Send a file to yourself from one device and then download that email attachment on the other device. Alternatively, you may use file storage services like Dropbox, Google Drive or SkyDrive (readcomparison) to transfer files from one device to another via the cloud. Then there are web-based apps to help you move files between your computers and phones without any software. There’...

Online shopping can be convenient and you often get better discounts than what the local shops in your area have to offer but if you do a little more research, you may end up saving even more. Here are some tips and websites that may help you get the best deals while shopping online in India. 1. Use Comparison Shopping There are dozens of credible shopping sites in India and it may therefore take time and effort to determine which of them offers the best deal on a particular product. Comparison shopping sites like MySmartPrice.com , ShoppingWish.in and Junglee.com aggregate prices from multiple online retailers (through XML feeds and web scraping) making it easier for you to compare prices. The big downside is that these shopping engines do not have price data from all the popular retailers (like Flipkart) so the lowest listed price may not always be the lowest one on the Internet. 2. The Hunt for Coupon Codes Some shopping sites accept coupon...

Perhaps while you’ve been outraged at the Xbox One’s newly revealed always-on and used games policies, you missed out on the news that the National Security Agency has been spying on everyone and everything since 2007. Surprise! Dubbed PRISM, the spy-on-everything program is a collaboration between the NSA, FBI, and just about every major tech company you love, hate, or love to hate. The original program’s ambition was to monitor and collect data from foreign sources that might pass through United States networks for one reason or another — not the worst-sounding goal. However, as leaked reports regarding the program revealed, the agency had access to just about any service the consumer public would use in these modern times. The program has access to a wide array of information from Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, YouTube, Skype, AOL, and PalTalk (which is a video chat room service). The information includes everything you do on a daily basis, from sending emails and ...

While many PC users stick with the operating system that comes with their PC, others enjoy dabbling in other operating systems. If you want to use two operating systems on the same computer, you have a couple of options. The first is to simply create another partition on the hard drive, while the other is to use an external hard drive. The latter is the easier option and requires only that you change the correct settings to install the second operating system on your external hard drive.  Things you will need Blank CD-R or DVD-R Program to burn the .iso file Instructions 1. Check to make sure that your particular operating system can be run on an external hard drive and supports dual-booting so you can safely run two operating systems on your computer. Certain operating systems, such as Windows, cannot be easily installed on external hard drives. However, you can easily install operating systems such as Ubuntu and various other derivatives of Linux on an ext...

“There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those that know binary & those that don’t” * * *  Two bytes meet. The first byte asks, “Are you ill?” The second byte replies, “No, just feeling a bit off.” * * *  Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free. * * *  Q: how many programmers does it take to change a light bulb? A: none, that’s a hardware problem * * *  “Knock, knock.” “Who’s there?” very long pause…. “Java.” * * *  A physicist, an engineer and a programmer were in a car driving over a steep alpine pass when the brakes failed. The car was getting faster and faster, they were struggling to get round the corners and once or twice only the feeble crash barrier saved them from crashing down the side of the mountain. They were sure they were all going to die, when suddenly they spotted an escape lane. They pulled into the escape lane, and came safely to a halt. The physicist said “We need to mode...

Following are few very useful Java code snippets for Java developers. Few of them are written by me and few are taken from other code reference. Feel free to comment about the code and also add your code snippet.     1. Converting Strings to int and int to String String a = String.valueOf( 2 );   //integer to numeric string int i = Integer.parseInt(a); //numeric string to an int 2. Append text to file in Java Updated: Thanks Simone for pointing to exception. I have changed the code. BufferedWriter out = null ; try {      out = new BufferedWriter( new FileWriter(”filename”, true ));      out.write(”aString”); } catch (IOException e) {      // error processing code } finally {      if (out != null ) {          out.close();      } } 3. Get name of current method i...