The Tech Diary of an IT support geek

How to Play Chess on Facebook with Friends

I don't know how well you enjoy playing chess with your friends but just in case you find chess to be fun, then Facebook feels you deserve to have it online so you can prove to your challengers how good you are on the chess board. With the way Facebook has evolved over the years, Facebook is no longer a platform for just meeting friends but you can do more for fun. Months ago,  … [Read more...]

How to Extract Audio from Any Video File Using VLC Player

VLC Player is a very versatile media player and blasts loud by using special techniques to amplify sound for better entertain experience on the PC, woofer  system and other multi-media audio output systems. The possibilities with this piece of utility is so enormous than you can easily ignore, one of such is the ability to extract audio format from video files without paying for another … [Read more...]

How to Create a Guest Account that Works in Windows 10

Hello guys, today and as always we are going to solve a problem with the latest Microsoft Windows 10 which seem to be a pain in the neck for many users. First, it may interest you to know that the new Microsoft Windows 10 operating system has no option to create guest accounts from the control panel as we have it in earlier versions of Windows. Well this is a problem considering the fact … [Read more...]

How to Clear Skype History on Android phones and devices

If you are reading this it means you own an android smartphone and you are possibly using Skype on your phone. Skype is part of Microsoft services. You can make video and audio calls, exchange chat messages and do much more. Recently, one major challenge people have been having with the Skype app on their phone is that they seem not to know how to delete chat history. If you have plans of … [Read more...]

New IOS 9.3 Will Tell Employers If There Devices Are Being Tracked

Recently, Apple seem to be shrouded in a series of controversies with the US government (the FBI to be specific) on issues bothering on security and particularly the encryption of the iPhone. It all started when Apple chief, Tim Cook refused a court order that wants the company to break into the iPhone owned by San Bernardino shooter, Syed Farook. Farook, along with his wife Tashfeen Malik … [Read more...]

WhatsApp Gets New Update, Users Can Now Share Documents

It’s no news that world’s most popular instant messaging app was recently acquired by Facebook in a deal that seem more like a collaboration aimed aimed at taking communication among humans via the internet to the next level giving that Facebook is also one of world’s most popular social networking website with up to a billion users around the world. Since the acquisition of WhatsApp by … [Read more...]

Top 3 Reasons to Learn How to Convert Videos

Although videos are so widely used nowadays, most people tend to only have a basic understanding of video formats and settings. It goes without saying that much of the specifics tend to be technical, and to add to that the only real time when you probably really ‘need’ to worry about the video format is when you encounter a video that you’re unable to play. Needless to say, converting videos is … [Read more...]

Introducing Investintech online PDF OCR: Helps Convert Scanned PDF to MS Word

One of the most obvious examples of technological evolution is, undoubtedly, our office. The office space has seen a dramatic change in the last two decades. What was once a paper stacked desk is now a file stacked hard drive, allowing us to neatly manage all of our documents from the same place. The tech evolution was quick and it happened in just a couple of decades. We suddenly woke up in … [Read more...]