DETAILED STEP BY STEP APPROACH TO PARTITION YOUR HARD DRIVE WITHOUT ANY THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE

JUST FOLLOW THE STEPS AND YOU WILL NEVER MISS.

 1. Click on the start menu and type in the search box “DISK PARTITION”

 2. A window will appear with title “disk management”.

3. Locate which drive you wish to partition

4. Right click on the selected drive you wish to partition and select “SHRINK VOLUME”

5. A menu will pop up showing: “total size before shrink”, size of available shrink”, “enter the amount of space to shrink” and “total size after shrink”

6. Select the “amount of space to shrink” and enter the desired size but it cannot exceed the total size of the disk

7. After entering the desired size, clink on the “SHRINK” tab/button to begin the process

8. You will see among the partitioned drives “UNALLOCATED”. That is the newly created partition

9 Right click on it and select “NEW SIMPLE VOLUME”

10. A “welcome to the new simple volume wizard” will appear. Click on the “NEXT” button

11. A “specify volume size” wizard will follow. Just click on the “NEXT” button

12. A “assign drive letter or path” wizard will follow and still click on the “NEXT” button. Don’t change the letter already assigned.

13. In the “format partition” wizard click on the “NEXT” button again to format the newly partitioned drive. In the “volume label” you can choose to change the name or maintain it. Please don’t uncheck anything in this window. 

14.  A “completing the new simple volume wizard” will appear. Click finish to complete the procedure.


THIS IS TO GIVE YOU A DETAILED STEP BY STEP APPROACH WITHOUT ANY HELP FROM ELSEWHERE.

Apple's copycats are turning into true iPhone competitors

From the very beginning of Android, Apple has been complaining that its Android competitors are ripping off its iPhone designs.

 Whether the culprit is the Samsung Galaxy S, the HTC One A9, or the ZTE Whatever, Apple is all too happy to remind the world that it's the leader and Android device makers are its followers.

Well, things have been changing lately, and today's debut of the Huawei P9 adds momentum to a growing tide of distinctive new phones coming out of China — ones that aren't defined by a religious adherence to photocopying the iPhone. 

The Huawei P9 and the Xiaomi Mi 5 before it are the harbingers of a much more dangerous rival to Apple, a set of Chinese manufacturers capable of crafting their own, attractive, even premium designs.

Read more at MSN

Toyota and Microsoft team up to connect drivers to the future

Toyota announced on Monday that it’s creating a new company called Toyota Connected to serve as the carmaker’s data science hub as it seeks to connect cars to people’s daily lives. Microsoft Azure will be the cloud computing platform, providing a hybrid solution for everything Toyota Connected creates as it works to make driving more personal, more intuitive and safer.

“We’ve all been talking about big data for a long time, but we are at a unique point in history where the technology is catching up with what we hope to achieve by delivering new services and capabilities into the vehicle,” said Zack Hicks, president and chief executive officer of Toyota Connected.

With the new venture, Toyota and Microsoft envision a world where cars are giant smartphones you ride in, with a virtual assistant that knows the best routes, whom to notify if traffic will make you late for a meeting, what your blood pressure is doing during stop-and-go, and which restaurants at the next exit might be most to your liking.

Read more at Transform

What WhatsApps End-to-end encryption means to you

WhatsApp yesterday announced it has finally rolled out end-to-end encryption to all users globally, making the IM safer to third party access.

The move means a user’s WhatsApp message will not be read by any other person but only be read by the intended recipient. With end-to-end encryption, eavesdroppers, hackers, cyber-criminals and ISPs and government agencies cannot access or read people’s communication.

Jan Koum, in Facebook Post said, “WhatsApp has always prioritized making your data and communication as secure as possible. And today, we’re proud to announce that we’ve completed a technological development that makes WhatsApp a leader in protecting your private communication: full end-to-end encryption. From now on when you and your contacts use the latest version of the app, every call you make, and every message, photo, video, file, and voice message you send, is end-to-end encrypted by default, including group chats.”

Koum added: “when you send a message, the only person who can read it is the person or group chat that you send that message to. No one can see inside that message. Not cybercriminals. Not hackers. Not oppressive regimes. Not even us. End-to-end encryption helps make communication via WhatsApp private – sort of like a face-to-face conversation.”

WhatsApp’s end-to-end encription comes weeks after Apple rejected FBI’s plea to Apple to access one of its customer’s iPhone. Apple rejected the request but FBI said it went further on its own to acess the phone. WhatsApp supported Apple’s move.

WhatsApp has been working on end-to-end encryption for nearly two years and the roll out brings a new era in user data safety which is likely to be taken up by more tech giants against repressive regimes. Encryption will promote safety and security as the world goes digital.

“While we recognize the important work of law enforcement in keeping people safe, efforts to weaken encryption risk exposing people’s information to abuse from cybercriminals, hackers, and rogue states,” Koum said. “While WhatsApp is among the few communication platforms to build full end-to-end encryption that is on by default for everything you do, we expect that it will ultimately represent the future of personal communication.”

Source: TechMoran

Rocket Internet’s Africa Internet Group Sells an $85 Million Equity Stake to Orange

Rocket Internet is steadily exiting its ventures in Africa, Asia and Middle East by selling out equity to new investors in venture groups it help start in partnerhip with Millicom and MTN.

Today, the firm sold an $85m (75 million-euro) just a few weeks after it signed up AXA and Goldman Sachs. The latest raise from Orange will help validate Rocket Internet as well as give the cash it needs to stay afloat.

This investment underscores Orange’s commitment to Africa, a high-growth territory where nearly one in ten inhabitants is an Orange customer, and confirms the Group’s determination to provide the best digital services to its customers.

Stéphane Richard, Chairman and CEO of Orange, stated: “We are particularly pleased to announce our entry into the capital of Africa Internet Group. With this strategic investment, Orange now has the capacity to play a leading role in the fast-growing e-commerce market in Africa. This acquisition is combined with the signature of several important partnership agreements that will create value for all parties.”

The firm said that the investment will enable it to significantly develop our ability to market products and services developed by Orange Middle East & Africa over the Internet.

Source: Rocket Internet

Google sidelined 780 million suspect ads in 2015

Google revealed on Thursday that it sidelined more than 780 million ads deemed rude, dishonest or dangerous in 2015 in a leap from the 524 million targeted a year earlier.

“Some ads are just plain bad — like ads that carry malware, cover up content you’re trying to see, or promote fake goods,” Google senior vice president of ads and commerce Sridhar Ramaswamy said in a blog post.

“Bad ads can ruin your entire online experience, a problem we take very seriously.”

Google has a team of more than 1,000 people around the world devoted to fighting “bad ads,” and has armed them with sophisticated technology, according to Ramaswamy.

Google disables ads for violating the California-based Internet giant’s policies.

More than 10,000 websites and 18,000 accounts were suspended for hawking counterfeit goods such as designer watch knock-offs, and Google blocked more than 12.5 million healthcare-related ads that included offering drugs that were approved for use or made claims that weren’t properly supported.

Weight-loss scams were among top complaints by Google users last year, and the company responded by suspending more than 30,000 websites for making misleading claims, Ramaswamy said.

Google also blocked nearly 7,000 “phishing” websites crafted to looked like online pages of legitimate businesses such as banks but intended to trick people into entering passwords or other personal information.

“We got even tougher on ads that mislead or trick people into interacting with them — like ads designed to look like system warnings from your computer,” Ramaswamy said.

“In 2015 alone we rejected more than 17 million.”

Google vowed to ramp the war on bad online ads this year. It also said it will increase defenses against malicious software and computer networks known as “bots” programmed to automatically click online ads to drive up revenue from pay-per-click marketing messages.

Via Starrfm

Audi A8 5.5 launched with built-in rice cooker

Audi has introduced today in Japan the A8 5.5 which comes with a built-in rice cooker.

Specially developed for Japan, the Audi A8 5.5 gets its name from 5(five) Go and 0.5(half) Han, coming from the term "gohan", which means rice in Japanese. It comes equipped with a rear console-mounted rice cooker designed specifically for the full-size luxury sedan that can cook the "perfect rice ever" thanks to its intense heat convection inside the Japanese rice cooking pot called Hagama.

The owner can use an on-board touchscreen menu panel to select from various cooking options while an Audi-branded rice paddle will come bundled but only for a limited amount of time. Pricing hasn't been disclosed but Audi says the A8 5.5 will be commercialized only in Japan.


Via Starrfm