Top Five Iphone Apps for the College Students

Today the method of education has been completely changed to what it was a decade ago. The development of latest handheld gadgets accompanied by different useful apps has increased the productivity of the college students enormously. Now students can achieve greater results with few efforts just by

utilizing the different the technology intelligently. However there are some iPhone apps specially designed to facilitate the students to increase their productivity. Let’s check out Top 5 iPhone Apps for the College Students.

iTunes U

You can consider iTunes U app as an online digital library where you can get your course materials, lectures, presentations and other related content. It is very amazing to see the wide variety topics & volume of material available on the single platform. The inbuilt web based course management tool enables you to gather all material for a particular course in different formats (Documents, presentations, PDFs etc).

iStudiez Pro

iStudiez pro work as a planning & scheduling app for the students. This tool allows you to include your class schedule with room and teacher. You can also add your upcoming assignments in order to ensure the timely submission. Istudiez pro also enables you to track your grades of each and every module. This app has a built-in ability to remind you about you about your exams or assignments few days before (as per your setting).

Study Buddy

It is very hard for the students to keep their focuses stick to the books in this technology overwhelmed era. There are so many things from YouTube to facebook and from reply text messages to watching tv that distract your mind during studies. So here comes the Study buddy app. This is the best app to overcome your distractions at most affordable price (only $0.99). This app records your distractions on a “Graph of Study efficiency” whenever you answer the call or diverts to something else, hence making it possible for you to increase your efficiency.

Dunno

You will be well aware of Google, Bing and Yahoo search engines where you can search anything. However it is the fact that searching a specific topic on these search engines usually takes a lot of time. For students time is money and therefore you need a search engine which gives you accurate result quickly. Dunno is an app used as a search engine. When you will search for any topic on Dunno; so you will find related pictures, best related articles and related discussions. This means dunno can be very productive for the students.

Mint

Student life is tough part of your life from the finance view point. You have small amount of money in your pocket but numerous avenues to spend. Here you require an app that works as you finance assistant. Mint app is personal finance app that offers you an easy way to create budgets. You can easily track of your transactions to ensure strict control over expenditures.

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Khawaja M.Adil is a writer and blogger by profession. Currently he is working as a content manager for Onlineschoolsnetwork.com- A website dedicated to provide information about online business degrees, colleges and education articles in America. For more information checkout the website.

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How to Convert and Save the WebPages into Audio Format

After along time I had come with a wonderful tool to convert the Whole page post into an Audio (MP3) Format. This service lets you to listen to your favorite post on any blog and save them to your computer locally for listing at later time in MP3 format




This is a wonderful service is provided by SoundGecko in two plans (Free and Paid). To listen the webpages in your music palylist.

Lets get started to see here how to convert the webpage into audio format by using the SoundGecko

As soon as you launch on SoundGecko.com you will be presented with a simple and user friendly Interference where you will be allowed to convert any webpage into Audio (MP3) Format.

First create a account in SoundGecko (You can choose the free account or Paid account)
First get the url of your favorite post which you want to listen later.After getting the url paste the url in the first box and then email ID in the second box.

After filling these two simple boxes hit on the listen button. As soon as you hit on the this simple listen button you will be redirected to the webpage with SoundGecko's audio playing floating bar on that webpage. You can listen to that website by staying on the same webpage and you can also download the audio format to your device.

SoundGecko offer many other features to convert your favorite pages into audio format automatically by adding the Custom RSS feed in the Account settings-> Website feed tab
You can also set a custom voice to your webpage in audio format. SoundGecko lets you to link your online storage, So that the converted webpages can be automatically uploaded to your online storage. SoundGecko Supports the Three popular online storages 1. Google Drive 2.Sky Drive and 3. DropBox

You can also get the plugin to your Google Chrome Browser to convert the webpages into Audio for free.

SoundGecko is also available for different popular mobile platforms like Android, Windows Phone, iPhone.

You can access the pro feature for just 2.50$/month
If you wanna make your blog readers to listen your blog post you can add this small script to your blog. And make them to listen!

<a href="http://soundgecko.com/#listen"
class="soundgecko-listen-button">Listen</a>
<script>
!function(d,s,id){
var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],
g=(typeof window.SoundGecko != 'object')?window.SoundGecko:null;
if (g != null){
g.Widgets.bindings();
} else {
js=d.createElement(s);
js.id=id;
js.src="//az412101.vo.msecnd.net/platform/widgets.js";
fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);
}}(document,"script","soundgecko-widgets");
</script>

If your on Wordpress you can get the plugin from Here

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How to Backup the Drivers Before formating the Windows Operating Systems

I got a small habit of frequently formatting my windows operating system. Before formatting my windows operating system I take a backup copy of all the files and some important programs .
But after completing installation of operating system and other essential programs on my computer then it is comes to the turn to install all the drivers
on my computer, which I hate to do, as some of the drivers are not that easy to find them.
And finally one day one of my friends had got a solution for this with simple softwares.
And here are the softwares which helps me while reinstalling my windows operating systems by taking a complete backup of the drivers and the even restoring them.
Here we shall go with this simple software i.e Double Driver.

Double Driver

I love to use this software due to it's simple user interference. And this can work with any Version of Windows even with the latest Windows 8.
As Soon as you run the Double Driver you will be presented with a simple dashboard where you will be able to scan your system for taking backup of the drivers.

Before scanning the system you will see two options for scanning the system i.e you can scan the current operating system( which you are using right now) and other option for scanning is for scanning the other operating system(i.e on the other partition on your computer) After scanning your system you will be also allowed to select the drivers individually for backup.

Note that you must have Administrator rights for taking backup and resorting the drivers.
After selecting the drivers for backup hit on the left side button "Backup Now" As soon as you hit on backup now button you will be presented with a popup window with three different options for taking backup of your essential drivers they are

Structured folder which is default option
Compressed folder
Single Executable file

If you don't want to experiment with your computer then choose the default option.
And now store the backup copy of the drivers by selecting the location for storage.
After successful completion of taking the backup of your driver. Start formatting your computer asusal.
And it is so easy when it comes to the turn for restoring the drivers in your newly installed computer.
You can restore the drivers by selecting the "Restore" option and locating the backup file.

You can download the Double Driver from the official website


And here are three more simple softwares similar to the Double Driver
1. Semper Driver Backup
2. Driver Backup 2!
3. DriverMax