How to Use Your Android Phone as Keyboard and Mouse for PC

When the world is moving towards its advancement along with the technology, each and every human runs behind it too. If we don’t get updated to the new world of technology, we would be stuck back in the past without the knowledge of anything that takes place in this universe. We get along with all the improvements with the technology and there by chose our path accordingly. Every work we do has a link to any type of a technology in this era. Machines, vehicles, computers, smartphones and so much more are always getting updated with a new feature added into it. The past era was amazed with the introduction of vehicles and other small equipment in the field of technology, but today’s kids are all used to new innovations that they warmly welcome each and every new technology introduced.

When the world is so ahead, we should also learn to get updated. Sticking back to the same old methods should be erased off. We all know, how much have a smartphone taken over. Clocks, cameras, calculators, music player and so many small tools got into one flat device. So when all these have taken an easy way to accomplish different tasks, why not the computers? We know that there are so many features and models in a computer. But that’s all common. What’s different that you can bring out in this PC? We are all used to using a mouse and a keyboard that’s either connected to the PC through wires or some keyboards and mouse are even wireless. But for both this option, we need a keyboard and a mouse. What if you can click and type anything you want and access your PC using your android?

Wondering what I am talking about? Okay, let me clear it up for you. Now you can turn your android smartphone into a keyboard and a mouse to use it in your computer or your laptop and control it. We know Android provides us with the most customizing features in it. It supports all the apps in the playstore and gives our phone a better quality to use. Now android smartphones can be functioned as a wireless keyboard and a mouse. All that you need is the app that will help us get this feature updated in our android. So let’s take a look at how to get the app done.

Use Android Phone as Keyboard and Mouse

First of all, get the Remote mouse client app to your windows computer.

Then you have to get the app named Remote mouse directly from google playstore to your android smartphone or tablet.
Connect your smartphone and your PC to the same WiFi network to start up the process. Then click open the app in your android and you will see your computer visible, press it.

Next, you will see a screen like shown below, it is the mouse track pad that you are going to use as the mouse for your PC. Move your finger on the screen and you will see the movements in your PC.

To open the keyboard, press on the keyboard icon which is available in the bottom of the page. It will release you the keyboard and there you can start typing.

That’s it. So you can download Remote mouse application for your windows PC and android smartphone directly from following links.

Remote mouse client - PC

Remote mouse - android

Now using this method you can easily access your PC and start typing anything using your most comfortable smartphone keyboard. The process is very simple and is a user friendly tool.

How to Recover Unallocated Space in a USB/ Pen Drive

The advancement of the technology has made huge things smaller with variety of features stored in. One such thing is the USB drive. We can store in big files and folders and carry them where ever we want without any difficulty. It’s light in weight, quick transferable solution, stores in big files and folders and at the same time, the data that’s stored in can be easily removed, deleted or transferred at any time without any cost.

There is one negative thing about the USB drives is that, it never stores in data to the space it actually claims to have. For example: if the pen drive claims to have 32 GB, it doesn’t actually allow 32 GB files to store in. no matter how much you try you will be able to store lesser than that, around 30 or even low. USB drives literally provide only a proportional amount of storage to the users. Along with this, there is also another issue where even when you have enough free space, the drive will tend to show low space, even if you try deleting data, the space remains the same. Sometimes these kinds of issues stay constant and cannot be fixed.

Today lets me help solve you this problem. Because USB drives are not just used to transfer movies and stuffs but majority use it for work purpose, educational need and more personal purposes. To transfer and carry files we need more space in our drives. So check out the whole article explained below in a step by step procedure, to find out how to regain the lost space in your USB drive.

Recover Unallocated Space in USB

Why we lose the storage space in a USB drive is mostly due to the partition table. This partition table which is inside the data storage gets damaged or gets misplaced. The drive skips the misplaced or the damaged storage as it reads the structure in a flow. To regain this storage follow the steps given below.

Plug in the USB drive to the PC and then press Windows + R on your PC. Then a dialogue box will appear, type in diskmgmt.msc and press enter. Now disk management panel of your PC will open up. Using this you will be able to troubleshoot the USB that’s connected to the PC.

Then open up the USB drive on the screen, when you click that, the management panel will show the different partitions. Here you must manage the partitions or combine all so that the USB drive will show us the exact space that’s available. Most of the time, there are some software which creates different partition, where this tends to show low space in the drive.

There are many methods available to manage the USB partitions. You can use the third party software or any other software but all what it does is remove, clean or rejoin the partitions, which can be easily done by yourself.

Remove Unallocated Partition Using Third-Party Tool

There are many third party tools available in the internet to recover lost or unallocated storage. The best third part tool I would recommend is the AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition.

This works with the windows operating system and helps recover lost storage. This is a completely free tool that can be used.

First of all you have to get the AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition and install it in your windows PC and launch it.

Next in the main interface of the tool, you will see your USB partition. Right click on the USB partition and select format partition. Then a window will pop up , where you have to select ‘NTFS’ or ‘FAT32’ and click OK to continue.

Now, you have to select the existing partition and right click on it and then choose the ‘resize partition’. In the next window, you have to now drag the slider to the end of the disk.

Finally, you will be able to see your partition status, where you can also undo your operations. If there was no problem found, then click ‘apply’ to make changes.

That’s it. Now you can recover lost or unallocated USB storage by trying any one of the method that’s given above. Both the methods are easy to proceed with. Hope you gained advantage from this app.

How to Make/ Receive Your Android Phone Calls on Computer

We all wish to makes things easier and simpler. This world has got so many facilities to make way for what we want. In this particular section, let’s have a look at how to make a Call less complicated to talk. We sometimes face a situation, where we will want do multi tasking. We work in our PC and at the same time will have to attend a phone call, but this might get a little difficult when we have to hang on for hours. Carrying the phone for too long will actually make us tired very soon. Using something like a hands-free can mess up things pretty fast. At a moment like this, we always wish if we could make android calls connect directly from the PC. Why not possible? There is always a way for everything.

Today I am going to introduce you to an app that can actually let you make and receive android calls remotely from your Windows PC. This will not only help you do multi tasking but also bring a lively conversation with your loved ones. You can use your PC speaker to talk to anyone with friends around and have a great time talking. Doesn’t this sound great? It is one fantastic way that makes your Windows PC a remote dialer to manage phone calls of your Android device. All you got to do is, follow some simple methods and get the ability to connect your PC with your Android to make and receive calls. Come on let me show you how.

Make/ Receive Your Android Phone Calls on PC

Firstly, you have to get the app named Pushbullet directly from google playstore to your android smart phone.
Next, you also have to get the Pushbullet extension for your google chrome web browser.

Now, open the app and sign in with your Google account in your android.

Then press ‘allow’ to grant all the needed permissions to the app.

Next, sign in with the same Google account in your PC browser and grant the permissions to continue.

And then, you will see a screen with a list of options the app offers.

Now, when you get a call, you will get a notification in your PC too. You can directly attend calls and also make calls from the PC itself.

That’s it. So you can download Pushbullet application for your PC and android phone from links given below.

Pushbullet for android

Pushbullet for google chrome

You are done with installing a most wanted app in both your windows PC and android device. This makes your works easy and is helpful in all the ways.

Lock PC Temporarily if Someone Tries to Guess Your Password

Protection! One basic concept in life. We not only tend to protect ourselves but also all our properties and belongings. In this row, computer, phones and all other devices come in. We protect our device not just from others stealing it but also from letting other unlock it and browse it. Because, we will have so many important files, data and personal folders saved in it. In this case we secure it by setting a password that we never want others to know. But as the world is advanced with so many illegal activities, hacking the computer and accounts has become one simple factor around. By using this point, there can be many people who try to guess your password and try to login to your PC when you are not around. This can actually cause you problems. To overcome this problem, we have a solution.

The best way is to set a temporary lock to your PC when someone else tries to guess your password or when they try to login without you liking it. No idea how to get it done? No problem, I am here to help because I know the value of files and folders one can save in their PC and how much it would affect them when someone else tries to take those files illegally. So let me introduce to you an easy method that will help you lock your PC in emergency purposes temporarily.

Lock PC Temporarily Using Local Security Policy

The first thing to do is, open your start menu and type ‘local security’ and open the ‘local security policy’.

Next in the ‘local security menu’ you can to locate the Security Settings\Account Policies\Account Lockout Policy.

When you have located it. Double click the ‘Account Lockout threshold’.

Then it will open up to another dialog box. There you have to enter the number of the invalid login attempts that your PC should have. Then click ‘OK’ to make changes.

There after another dialog box will pop up, again press ‘Ok’.

That is all. Now you are done with setting the program of your PC to temporarily lock the PC when someone tries to guess the password and enter in. When they try more than the number of attempts you have set, then the PC will automatically lock itself for 30 minutes. Until then no one can attempt to use the PC. Great isn’t it? Make a move and protect your PC.

How to Capture Android Phone Screenshot Directly in PC

This world of technology is so based onto the easy process of screenshots. People less believe what you say and easily trust screenshots. I am not being harsh but that’s the modern world all about. We find it really easy to store the gallery with screenshots of all the little nice things we come across, from quotes to messages. Imagine you browsing something interesting in your phone and wants to get a screenshot of it but you want it saved in your PC. That’s a messed up process to take screenshots from your android phones and then send it via Bluetooth or by inserting an USB cable to the PC. This is complicated. But how can we take screenshots directly on our PC?

So, here we are happy to introduce you to an application which will help you take phone’s screenshots directly on your PC and save it right there. It’s just a click away. Not time consuming, no need of any USB cables or Bluetooth. All that you want is to take the mobile’s screenshot from your PC itself and you are into it now. Let’s take a look on how to do this.

It’s just a simple method to go with, where the app will let you control your device on your PC and with that you can simply take screenshots directly from your PC and save them right in any folder that you want. To get started, follow the simple steps given below.

Capture Android Screenshots Directly in PC

First of all, you have to get Airdroid application directly from google playstore to your android smart device.
The next step is to connect your android phone/ tab and your PC with a common WiFi network to access the device through it.

Now launch the Airdriod app in your mobile device and you will come across an IP address and a port number in the app, note it down or you can also simply proceed with clicking the QR code scanner beside it.

The next step is to open the web.airdroid.com in your PC and there you will find the “scan QR code” option.

Then all you got to do is, open the Airdroid app in your android app and scan the QR code in your computer screen. Then accept the connection in your android device and here you are, you will be successfully connected to the windows PC now.

And the final step is to use the screenshot option of the web version in Airdroid to take screenshots from your PC. 

So you can download this Airdroid app directly from google play store to your android smart device by Clicking here.

And that’s all. Just spend 5 minutes to install the app in your android phone and windows PC to take as many as screenshots you want and save them directly in your PC. Simple as that. So this app will help you to take screenshots directly from PC in less time with no complications.