How To Recover Google Drive Storage By Converting Original Quality Photos To High Quality

Google Photos has an unlimited storage limit. The only condition is, you should select the 'High Quality' setting for backing up your photos.

If you select original quality, the photos uploaded will be counted against your Google Drive space. The free Google Drive has only 15 GB which is not sufficient. If you want unlimited photo storage for free, you should choose 'High quality' instead of 'Original quality' in Google Photos.

How to Auto Change Gmail Background Every Time You Log In

Gmail themes allow you to change Gmail background wallpaper. You can either choose from featured photos suggested by Google or set your personal photos from Google Drive, Google Photos or any other online photo that has a public URL.
You can also upload any image from your local drive to set it as Gmail background.
Also, the solid color background allows you to choose solid colors for single-colored theme or dark theme.

Google Drive For Desktop Is Available For Download

If you use Google Drive known as Google Backup and Sync client for desktop, you might have come across a frequent notification like this. Though the notification about future changes, you can't get any idea to how to update the cloud storage client from Backup and Sync to Drive for Desktop.

How To Hide Google Plus Circles From Android Contacts & Google Contacts

We follow many interesting peoples on Google plus but don't want every one of them in an Android contact list or phone book. If you are saving your contact to your Google account, Google automatically adds contact information from your Google Plus circles to your Android phone book. Same is the case with Google Contacts.

5 Ways To Download / Backup Your Instagram Photos & Videos

Instagram do not provide any way to download or backup your Instagram images. There are may third party web applications as well as software to do download individual or complete backup of Instagram updates. I have tried many of them and here are the best, easiest and free ways to get your photos into your control.

Instagram Downloader

Instarchive
If you want to download photos from your own profile that you have uploaded, this is the best way. Just validate access of the Instarchive to your Instagram account and it's just a matter of few clicks.
You will get the ZIP file for downloading packed with all the images of your own.


Instaport
Instaport is also a simple online service, but with many features. You can download all the images of your own as well as the photos of others that you have liked. You can define the period of the photo upload, like from and to date, last 10 photos, photos with specific tags, or all the photos.
The extra feature is Instaport also allows you to download Videos, though it is still in beta.


Milligram
If you are using Windows 8 computer or tablet, this is a good Instagram client that can along with basic features save the photos. This is not a dedicated photo downloading the application, but you can save the photos individually one by one to local memory. Just select any image in your photostream and tap on the 'save' button.


Pictarine
If you want the Android application to download all your Instagram photos, Pirctarine can do it for you. Pictarine also has a web-based service that you can use on your computer. The Pictarine Android application allows you to view all the photos from various social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, Flickr, Google Plus, Photobucket, Dropbox, and many other services at one place. You can view, comment, like the photos. It's actually a client for multiple social networks specially designed for photos in mind.

Instagram Downloader

This is a free software for Windows PC. You have to enter the username of the Instagram profile and select the photos that you want to download. You can download photos from any other username also, there is no need to validate the account.

Conclusion: Instaport is the best and easiest way to download your Instagram photos with more options.

Must Have Free Apps For Android [Update 2020]

Google Play Store is now crowded with apps. You get a new app and update to the installed app every day. Still then, there is the limited list of apps every smart android user must have on their phone.
Here is the list of apps that you must install for productive use of the mobile. 

I have not included the obvious apps like Gmail or social media apps like Twitter and Facebook. Also Google App and similar apps are excluded from the list to keep the list tidy. 

Still at first part, there are some apps that are not so common as Gmail so jump to the next section if you already have them.

Cloud Storage Management : Super Comprehensive Guide

We have unknowingly shifted to cloud services and now we have OneDrive, Google Drive, Box, Sugar Sync, Amazon Drive and many other.

All these cloud storage services offer more or less the same features and storage plans. Here are the many ways so that managing multiple cloud storage accounts very easy and more productive.

Asus Eee 1225C Review : A Better Netbook

A week back, I bought a new netbook, Asus Eee 1225C. Now I have tried it much, so that I can review here in depth.
Most of the traditional netbooks powered by the Intel Atom processors are primarily used for basic computing like web browsing, word processing and other light work which is justified by long battery life and ultra portability provided by the common 10.1 inch netbooks.
Asus 1225C is an Intel Atom processor based, ultra portable, extra sized netbook. The Eee brand is already a flagship of Asus when it comes to netbooks and the 1225C have much more than you can expect from any netbook.

So here is my experience of Asus 1225C

Minimize Facebook Data Collection

Facebook keeps track of everything you do. From the basic things like age, gender, location, relationships, your political views, and every other activity and things you do to the very complex behavioral analytics.

The easiest way to completely avoid Facebook from collecting your personal data is to stop using it and deleting your account. (Not sure that the old data is trashed from the Facebook server).

Facebook knows more about you than what you think. Conclude things about, how you will behave in specific circumstances.

This data is used to target ads and make money. If you can't avoid Facebook, there are few ways you can keep using Facebook and still minimize the data collection.

Guide To Maintain Online Security & Privacy With Freewares [ Update 3 ]

Online security and privacy are dream these days. It's too difficult to maintain your anonymity or privacy on the internet, if not impossible. Security is also in the same way. It's also a common thinking that you must have to go with professional paid software and support to maintain your online as well as offline security and privacy. Though, you need professional support team, if you have an enterprise setup, you can still rely on completely free software for every need.