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2013 Top 10 Scariest Halloween Songs

October 30, 2024 Uncategorized
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Here comes the scariest time of the year! Everybody is now busy preparing for the coming 2013 Halloween which is all about “tricks and treats”. Giving your friends and families a scaring trick will make this festival more exciting and memorable. There are many different types of tricks you can make, for example, wear some scary costume or put on an ugly mask, splatter fake blood on your door and you could scream from inside the house like your being murdered, etc.

What about having a Halloween party, something like “spooky night”? Sounds great, huh? At the party, you can do any horrible things that you can think of. When the night is waning away, you can lock the door of the room, turn off all lights and then play the creepy Halloween slideshow you made.

Notes: You can use the professional Mac slideshow fairy to create Halloween Flash photo slideshow on Mac effortlessly. You are allowed to add many horrible pictures, texts, apply cool transitions as well as embedding some spooky songs in the slideshow, making it to be as gruesome as possible.

Last but definitely not least, in order to help you create the most thrilling Halloween slideshow, we have specially sorted out top 10 spooky Halloween songs which are truly scary but no ha-ha scary for your reference. Please note that the list is arranged in a random order.

1.“Halloween” by the Misfits.

The horror-punk band sings of “dead cats hanging from poles,” which sounds bad enough, until Glenn Danzigs start singing about “burning bodies hanging from poles.”

2.“Thriller” by Michael Jackson

The song is strongly recommended since it hit No. 4 on the Hot 100 in 1984. And it is considered to be the most-downloaded Halloween-themed hit of all-time.

3.“Season Of the Witch” by Donovan

It has been widely used in movies and TV to illustrate the violent unrest of the late 1960s or as an accompaniment to the topics of horror and witchcraft.

4.“Somebody’s Watching Me” by Rockwell

The creepy Halloween song went to #2 on the pop singles chart in the US and was certified gold.

5.“A Nightmare On My Street” by DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince

D.J. Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince (aka, Will Smith) would always add good humor to any Halloween gathering. They brought hip-hop into the Halloween game in 1988 when they took their tune about “Nightmare on Elm Street” villain Freddy Krueger all the way to No. 15 on the Hot 100.

6.“Pet Sematary” by Ramones

This song was recorded for the movie of the same name based on a novel by Stephen King. Many fans consider it to be one of the scariest of all time.

7.“Tubular Bells” by Mike Oldfield

Can you say creepy? The producers of The Exorcist knew what they were doing when they chose this song for a theme.

8.“Highway to Hell” by AC/DC

Pitch-black metal from down under, AC/DC drove “Highway” to No. 47 on the Hot 100 in 1979.

9.Red Right Hand” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

The spooky baritone sings about a man encountering the devil (with a red right hand) somewhere in the darkness on the edge of town.

10.“Every Breath You Take” by The Police

“Every bond you break … Every game you play … Every vow you break … Every smile you fake … I’ll be watching you.”

Nokia Lumia 2520: Nokia’s First Windows Tablet

October 29, 2024 Tech News
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In this insanely developed digital world, nothing can be kept as a secret for long. About a year ago, Nokia was reported to work on a BIG project—its first Windows 8.1 RT tablet. And now, the secret project was unveiled, which was refined as the Lumia 2520 and supposed to launch before the end of the year for $499. It is well noted that, this newest model Lumia 2520 is the Finnish smartphone-maker’s take on a Lumia-style tablet.

The Nokia Lumia 2520 looks like a bigger version of a Lumia Windows Phone with an incredibly large 10.1-inch display screen but it just feels extremely solid. Available in four colors: red, white, cyan, and black, it looks pretty in any one of them. Compared with the Surface 2, it feels more compact, thinner, and lighter, however, holding it one hand isn’t the most pleasant experience around when compared to the likes of the Sony Xperia Tablet Z. The 1920 x 1080 display is surely one of the more stunning features of Nokia 2520- great viewing angles, impressive brightness and accurate color reproduction, all of which show that Nokia has really aimed high with the display on its first tablet. However, Nokia’s selling point on this new device, is its five percent reflectance — in English, this means the 2520 should be clearly visible both indoors and out thanks to its ClearBlack Display filter, which promises to cut down on glare when users are outside. This is undoubtedly exciting news for most people, allowing them to check e-mails, take photos, reading E-books or watching a video even in sunlight.

The Nokia 2520 is said to be the only RT tablet with LTE (so far). It adapts an Snapdragon 800 processor with a 8974 chipset for LTE. The reason why used RT was that, according to Nokia, it provides a better battery life, quickly wakes the device up from sleep, helps to keep the tablet thinner, since an x86 processor needed to run Windows 8.1 is thicker than an ARM processor. It is well mentioning that, the 2520 comes with the full suite of Microsoft Office for free, besides, there are some preinstalled Microsoft apps including Mail, Xbox Music, and SkyDrive, etc. Of course, Nokia also added its own apps which include Nokia Camera combining Smart Cam and Pro Cam and a video-editing app called Video Director, which allows users to edit individual clips and stitch them together into a longer video. Title screens, sound effects, music, and various design elements are available for customizations freely. Last but not least, the Nokia 2520 has an 8,000mAh battery, which Nokia says will last for 10 hours with normal use.

How to Listen to Music with Friends on Facebook

October 24, 2024 Tech Tips
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Are you a Facebook fan? What do you usually do in Facebook? “Chat with friends online, promote my blogs, play games and whatsoever,” well, it is pretty the same things most people do. As for me, I would check out what my friends have posted. If there’s someone I haven’t heard from in awhile, I might go to their page and make a comment or send a private message. But what I like the best is to listen to favorite music and sing along together with my best friends. It is such a wonderful and memorable experience, I think. You can try this by following the simple steps as below.

1.Log in Fackbook and Head to Facebook Music

First, you should log in Fackbook and then go to Facebook Music page (http://www.facebook.com/music). In there, you will find a playlist of various types of popular music which’s provided by MySpace and Saavn. You can open the music page from your Facebook wall by accessing it from the left menu under the “Apps” category.

2. Add Application to the Facebook

Now you are in the Music Page of Facebook, you can select any music that you like for playback. Soon afterwards, a small window will show up, asking you to add the service to Facebook. Please simply press the “Add to Facebook” icon at the bottom of the window. Notes: The pop-up window above is to add the MySpace application only. You will be asked again to add new apps if you want to play music from Spotify, Rdio or Saavn.

3. Enjoy the Freely Playback

After adding application to your Facebook successfully, a new tab will be opened automatically and you will be redirected to the MySpace or the Saavn player page. Once the page has been loaded, you can click the “playlist” and pick your favorite song for enjoying freely. Notes: the next time you want to start playing a song from Facebook, you will see a pop-up window asking if you would like to open a new tab/window to start playing the song.

4. Listen to music with friends

OK, it’s cool to enjoy Facebook music on your own. But sometimes, it will be of great fun to listen the same song with friends as well as chatting in real time such as discussing about the song or the singer. Would you like to do that? It’s so easy. But first and the most important, you need to check this feature if Spotify and Rdio are available in your area. After confirming, you can hover over your friend’s name (one with a music symbol next to it), then, you can get the details of the music (i.e, the name of the song) from a pop-up tab. Click the “Listen with **” button, the program will play the song automatically for you. At the same time, you can start chatting with your friend as well. Please note that you can carry out a group chat with more friends listening to the same music together. Have fun!

4 Best RSS Reader for Your iPad

October 17, 2024 Tech Review
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Before starting our topic, let me ask you a question: What is RSS feeds? You know, in the past years when mobile technology was backward, we mainly got news from newspapers, magazines, and television. Obviously, there was inadequacy: limited sources, a delay between the event and coverage, for example, you could not read the firsthand news but had to wait one day after in the case of newspapers. But now, the story has a happy ending thanks to the RSS Feeds which brings various updated news, information or data straightly to your desktop or portable smart phone devices like iPad. With an RSS account, you can enjoy your own real-time, personalized news feed. In order to properly read the feed, an RSS reader is needed. Again, here comes another question: what are the good RSS readers for iPad?

Here, we are specially listing 4 best iPad RSS reader apps for your easy reference. Each of them has got distinct functionalities. Kindly read the below details.

1.The Feed.

The Feed is loved by lots of iPad users thanks to its stunning features—simple UI with basic and high end options, making it extremely easy for you to start the feeds, tailor news on your iPad or share with friends. Besides, you can also see the contents that your friends shared with you. However, there is sap: no social network integration is available. To sum up, The Feed is an good choice for the users who just want to keep up with their feeds on the go.

1.Feeddler RSS Reader for iPad

If you are a Google Reader fan, I think this app will be your best choice. Why? It syncs with your Google account, so that you can get the feeds from there easily. It also contains some Google Reader extras, for example, sharing and adding stars. Remarkably, you are able to share the feeds on Facebook directly, but unluckily, you cannot share them on Twitter, if you really need to, you can share your article via emails.

3.Flipboard.

Flipboard is a pure eye-candy app which is best suitable for those who emphases on the user interface a lot. It allows you to follow the blogs and websites that you love. You can pull stories from those sites as well as the accounts you follow on Twitter for sure. Besides, you can share articles with friends/followers on SNS circles (Facebook and Twitter only) or by emails. As great as it is, this app also has got the drawbacks. For example, the syncing is not available, that means, you have to add the feeds manually. Besides, on the Facebook/Twitter, you will not get the whole post but the excerpt or first few paragraphs of an article on the app. If you want to get the whole story, you need to open it on the Safari web browser.

4.Read Square.

Like Flipboard, the Read Square allows you to read the automatically updated RSS feeds from your Google Reader account. You can also add your Twitter and Facebook accounts to follow articles shared by people you follow and by friends. The social integration is available, enabling you to share stories on Twitter and via email. The only fly in the omit of this app is that, it takes you quite a while to fully load the articles and various sources. So, you need to be more patient. Regardless its weakness, the Read Square is somehow worth trying and you will get a different experience using it.

So, which app do you think suits you the best? Get your favorite iPad RSS reader from the App Store and start your RSS feeds reading journey freely.

5 Steps to Delete the Undeletable File in Windows

October 12, 2024 Tech Tips
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Have you ever come across such circumstance? Would like to delete the unwanted or useless files but fails to make it by using the normal way? No matter how many times you tried, an error message just keeps showing up, indicating that you cannot delete the file. By and large, it is caused by the several reasons: 1. Access is denied. 2. The file is used by other program or users. 3. There is a sharing violation. 4. The disk is not full or write-protected. 5. Explorer.exe somehow locks files into place and won’t allow them to be deleted. Regardless of the real cause, it is an annoyance facing such situation. So, is there any possibility to deleted the file?

In this highly developed digital world, almost everything is possible. Now, I will show you how to delete the undeletable file step by step as below. Important: Please be careful to choose the file/folder needs to be deleted, making sure that you don’t delete the wrong one accidentally.

Step 1. Run the Command Prompt. Click the “Start” button in the lower left corner of your computer, type “cmd” in the searching column, then right click the “cmd.exe” and choose “Run as Administrator”.

Step 2. Now you will see the Administrator Command Prompt window, leave it open. Then, use your mouse right click the tool bar at the button of your computer and choose “Start Task Manager”, or you can use the “CTRL+SHIFT+ESC” Key combination to open it.

Step 3. In the task manager window, click “Processes” to select “explorer.exe” and hit “End Process”. Soon afterwards, a small window will pop up saying “Do you want to end ‘explorer.exe’? Please go on to hit the “End Process”.

Step 4. Now, leave Task Manager open and go back to the Command Prompt Window. Now, you need to type the line-cd “PATH OF YOUR FILE” in the window. For example, you can enter “cd “%USERPROFILE%”\Downloads” and then hit “Enter”. After that, run this line: del filename. extension. For instance: del filename.mkv. Don’t forget to hit “Enter”. Afterwards, the specified file will be deleted by the system.

Step 5. Restart the Explorer. You can make it like this: open “Task Manager”, hit the “File” button and choose “New Task (Run…)”, soon afterwards, a “Create New Task” window will appear, then you can enter “EXPLORER.EXE” in the “Open” column and hit “OK” button. The process will be restarted once again. Finally, close Task Manager. You will find that the undeletable file has been deleted successfully.