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Intel Pair & Share: Share Images From Android to PC Remotely

Kannan — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:03:51 +0000

Looking for a simple way to send a picture that you just taken by your Android phone to a remote computer to share them on the computer screen or TV? You can simply do all that with a free android app called Intel Pair & Share. The app developed by Intel Corporation lets you simply and securely send pictures from your Android phone or tablet to your PC remotely over a wireless network.

Intel Pair & Share is very easy to setup and use. Furthermore, your friends can also connect to the same computer with their phone, so you can all share at the same time with a tap of a finger.

Intel Pair & Share has two parts and must be installed on both your mobile device as well as your Windows 7 PC (download link given below this post). After installation, run the app on your PC and your Android phone.

The phone will automatically detect your computer and shows your PC’s name. Tap your PC’s name and enter the PIN shown on your desktop application to authenticate the connection between your PC and Phone.

After authentication, the app will display all images stored on your Phone. Just tap the one that you like to display on your computer screen.

Note: Host PC and your device must be connected to the same wireless network (Wi-Fi) and to share picture on a TV, Intel Wireless Display technology required.

My experience: I had tried few similar apps before, but Intel Pair & Share is really fast and easy to use. However, you cannot save your image on the host PC. If Intel included that feature, it would be an even better app.

Download Intel Pair & Share Android app from Market and desktop version from Intel download center.

Angry Birds for Windows Free Giveaway (limited time)

Kannan — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 11:28:54 +0000

Probably you might have heard about the widely popular iPhone game Angry Birds, which is now available for Android, Symbian, and desktops PCs for a small fee. This wildly popular trajectory game features hours of gameplay with lots of replay value. The Windows version of Angry Birds is available through Intel AppUp store for a small fee. However, here is a is a good news for all those who are waiting for a free edition of the game.
PC World and Currys are offering Angry Birds for Windows as a free download for a limited time. You can download the game via Intel AppUp store until March 2011and is available still stock lasts.

To download Free Angry Birds for Windows visit www.currys.co.uk/appstore or www.pcworld.co.uk/appstore and click ‘Download for Free now’ button. It’ll download the Intel AppUp center (27Mb).

Install the Intel AppUp Center and create a free account. Then open Intel AppUp Center and sign in. You’ll get your free copy of Angry Birds. Click download and install it.

Reduce electricity bill and CPU overheating issue with Granola

Kannan — Wed, 12 May 2010 03:36:41 +0000

By reducing the power consumption of a desktop PC, Laptop or Server you are not only saving electricity bill but it could also reduces the CPU overheating issue in the summer season. But how?

The freeware utility Granola is an intelligent power management solution for Windows and Linux systems (Desktops, Laptops , x86 servers) that automatically optimizes a system to use energy more efficiently without compromising performance.

It uses Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) which is available on most modern Intel and AMD processors for saving energy. And it claims that it can lower total system energy use by 10-35% even when a system is 100% utilized.

Key Features of Granola:

Energy savings without compromising performance and availability
Supports x86 platforms running Linux and Microsoft Windows on physical/virtual servers
Immediate energy saving for most deployments <5 years old
User-level max, min, and auto energy and performance policy management
User-level reporting of energy savings without additional hardware required
No measurable overhead (<1%).
Energy savings and software complimentary to consolidation techniques such as virtualization

You can download this free energy saving utility at source.

Effortlessly adjust brightness, contrast, color or geometry of monitor with Display Tuner

Kannan — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 02:45:25 +0000

Display Tuner is a simple and convenient way for adjusting brightness, contrast, color settings, geometry and even monitor’s speakers or microphone volume settings.

If you have installed this application, there is no need to use the inconvenient (sometimes) Monitor’s OSD menu anymore; Display Tuner is a much more convenient than that.

Moreover you can make different profiles for color settings like Films, Text, and Games. Display Tuner will allow you to easily change the color settings, with a hotkey.

The freeware program supports all monitors whose settings can be changed from Windows. The supporting video cards include nVidia, ATI, Intel, S3, SiS, Matrox, etc.

It works in Windows 7, Vista and XP. You can download (712 Kb) it at source.