Given the touch interface of iPhone it’s quite possible that you might accidentally tap into making phone calls. Sometimes that could lead to unpleasant experience.

One way of making sure you don’t accidentally tap into the phone soft keypad is to lock the iPhone. Surely that can prevent accidental phone calls. But what if you are giving the phone to your little daughter and she knows how to unlock the iPhone? She can then accidentally make phone calls.

So the other way to prevent accidental phone calls from your iPhone is to enable Airplane mode. Learn from this article on how to prevent accidental phone calls on your iPhone.

With the hot property the iPhone is it’s quite possible that your iPhone could get stolen. You could even misplace it or even lose it. When any of these discomforting scenarios happen, on top of the frustration of losing such a valuable device the most daunting thought would be that what would happen to all the data that’s on the iPhone.

Will it end up on the wrong hands and could wreck a havoc on your privacy and identity? Take precautionary steps to make sure your iPhone is secured and can kind of destroy itself if it ends up on the wrong hands.

Learn from this article on how to secure your iPhone with Passcode protection and to erase its data when multiple failed attempts are made to unlock the passcode.

Usually we can boot up something like : Widows , BartPe… by using the CD/DVD, But you can use this program to make or Convert it to boot from the Flash Drive.

FlashBoot is a tool that makes USB disks bootable. It was specially designed to work with USB Flash devices.

It is used to reformat flash disk (that’s optional) and transfer system files to it. You have many options for your choice:

* convert BartPE bootable CD-ROM to bootable USB disk
* transfer DOS kernel only (you may get the files from installed Windows 9x, from Windows 9x setup folder, or use built-in FreeDOS)
* convert floppy disk to USB Flash disk (a diskette or an image file may be used)
* convert a bootable CD-ROM to USB Flash disk (again images are supported). There are some technical difficulties with supporting any type of CD-ROM here, see details below. But there should be no troubles with the most real cases. You may convert Knoppix and EBCD, for instance.
* create Windows NT/2000/XP password recovery disk
* create disk with NT/2000/XP bootloader. It would be useful when you have mistakenly configured it, and boot.ini file was left on unreachable disk (NTFS).
* duplicate USB flash disk. Just creates a copy of existing disk USB flash disk, different sizes of source and destination medias are OK.

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If you don’t have an optical drive, like a CD or DVD Drive, on your laptop and you want to install software that typically comes with a CD or DVD then you might be inclined to buy an external CD or DVD drive to get the job done.

Well, not really, if you already have an USB Flash Drive. These days flash drives are cheaper per gig and the prices keep going down. If you already have or if you can get a hold of an USB Flash drive then you can use that to install software on your computer. It might require an extra step to prepare the Flash Drive to be used as an installable media but once that’s done you can pretty much make use of it to install software.

Read from this detailed article at DemoGeek.com to learn how to prepare a USB Thumb Drive to install Windows 7 Beta from an USB Flash Drive. It’s a 10 step process but the steps are pretty simple and well explained.

      

Windows Vista has implemented the Parental Controls the right way and it makes it so easy to configure parental controls to keep an eye on your kids’ computer activities. The list of things that you can keep track of ranges from the type of programs that your kids are allowed to run on a computer, the websites that your kids are allowed to visit and time limits so that your kid can only use the computer on certain times.

Read from this article at DemoGeek.com on how to make use of Windows Vista’s Parental Controls to keep track of your kids’ computer activities.

      

If you think you are wasting quite a lot of paper printing the whole webpage along with all its advertisements and things that you really don’t need to print then you should read this article at DemoGeek.com to know about a fantastic tool that helps you save the environment by reducing the paper usage by printing only what you want on a webpage. HP Smart Web Printing tool is a simple tool that plugs into Internet Explorer or Firefox and helps you print what you want on a webpage rather than the whole web page itself.