Fix Android's "insufficient storage available" error message

If you're getting the error message “insufficient storage available” when trying to update or install a downloaded app on your Android smartphone or tablet, don't panic. Providing you've got space on your Android device, then you can fix this in just a few minutes. Here's how to fix Android's "insufficient storage available" error message.

Insufficient storage available: Step one

The first thing you are going to need to do is download an app that is about 2MB in size – but can take up more space, depending on your device. So if you are having problems installing apps you're going to need to delete something off your device's internal storage (not the microSD card), other apps or media such as videos or photos are perfect – even if you have tons of space available.

Step two

Now that you have freed up some space, you need to go to the Google Play Store, search and download the free app called App Cache Cleaner – 1Tap Clean.

Step three

 Well done. That's the hard bit over and done with. All you need to do now is open the app and let it scan your Android device for your app's stored cache. Once that is done you can either clear the caches indivually by clicking on the rubbish bin icon next to each, or delete all of the app's caches by selected the Clear button at the bottom of the screen.

 

Step four

Once you have done this – and providing you actually have space on your Android smartphone or tablet -  you simply need to download your desired app or update and install it.

You will then have fixed Android "insufficient storage available" error message.

 

Qualcomm buys Palm, iPaq patents from HP

Qualcomm has acquired a large patent portfolio related to Palm, iPaq and the Bitfone device management platform from Hewlett-Packard for an undisclosed sum.

The portfolio is made up of about 1,400 patents and pending patent applications in the U.S. and about 1,000 patents and applications in other countries, Qualcomm said. The innovations include "fundamental mobile operating system techniques," the company said.
With intellectual property linked to two iconic brands, Qualcomm has acquired a piece of mobile history. Palm evolved its 1990s personal digital assistants into early data-enabled phones, and Compaq introduced the popular Microsoft-based iPaq handheld around the turn of the century. Both companies were later acquired by HP, which eventually shut down the two mobile device lines. Its 2011 decision to discontinue Palm's webOS phones and tablets was widely criticized as a fumble by short-time CEO Leo Apotheker.
HP acquired Bitfone, a vendor of mobile device management software, in 2006 as part of its effort to build up the iPaq platform.
The patent portfolio will let Qualcomm "offer even more value to current and future licensees," the company said. In addition to being a dominant vendor of mobile chips, Qualcomm developed many of the technologies used in mobile devices and networks and makes much of its revenue from licensing that intellectual property.

Convert Physical Machines to Virtual Ones Using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.0

The latest version of the VMware vCenter Converter Windows installer, which is free to use, can be downloaded from www.vmware.com. The download size download is about 126 MB and is simple to install. Once installed this wizard driven application can be used to perform multiple IP-based conversions from a central location leading to better management. Also this utility supports almost every known virtualization platform and is not limited to VMware. Using this application one can convert formats such as Microsoft Hyper-V, Virtual PC and Virtual Server, and backup images of physical machines such as Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery or Norton Ghost to VMware virtual machines. One can also convert Windows and Linux-based physical machines and third-party image formats to VMware virtual machines.

In our test setup we took one target computer with Windows XP (machine 1) running the relevant application, and then used a second computer (machine 2) as a central conversion server and installed VMware's converter application on it. We used a shared folder on machine 2 to store the VM of machine 1. To start conversion we need to start the converter application and click on 'Convert machine' tab on top. This would start the wizard prompting you to select which machine you want to convert---the host machine or any other machine on the network. In our test we took one of the machines in our network. Once credentials of the target machine are populated, the next step is to put the converter agent on the machine. The application should do it automatically, however, the internal firewall and administrative rights might prevent you from putting the agent application at a remote location. To overcome this issue, you can directly install the agent on a target machine. For this, go to 'C:\\Program Files\\VMware\\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone' and find the 'VMware-Converter-Agent' application. Copy and install it on the target machine.

Once a connection has been established between the agent and the central converter, you need to specify the storage path, destination type, and the type of VM you want to convert. In this setup we created VM for VMware player which was stored in a shared folder on the network. Before conversion begins, you can edit the configuration of the created VM by clicking on 'Edit' link under 'Options'.


The conversion process takes some time depending on the target machine. You get a step-by-step update under 'Log Highlight' window.


After completion of the conversion, we found two new files on the storage drive (.vmx and .vmdk). We used the VMware player to run the freshly converted machine.

K9 Web Protection

K9 Web Protection is a comprehensive parental controls and web filtering package that will keep the whole family safe online.

The program is able to block access to many web sites, according to their category: pornography, drugs, hacking, gambling, hate sites and more. Some pre-defined profiles speed up this process. Selecting "High", for instance, blocks almost everything and is suitable for very young children, while the "Minimal" profile is more relaxed, a better option for teenagers.

You can also make your own custom selection of site types to block, or just choose the Monitor option, which lets people go to whatever sites they like, but logs them for review later.

A Time Restrictions option then lets you define exactly what your kids can go online. Choose the NightGuard option, for example, and internet access will automatically be blocked between 10pm and 7am (although you can then change these times to whatever you like).

K9 Web Protection isn't just about adding web restrictions, though. You also get access to data from the WebPulse cloud service, a growing community who provide more than 6 billion web content ratings per day. And as soon as just one other user rates a site for phishing, spyware or malware, K9 Web Protection will immediately block it for everyone else, so helping you avoid even the very latest scams and threats.

SpeedFan 4.49

If you need a tool that can change your computer's fan speeds, read the temperatures of your motherboard and your hard disk, read voltages and fan speeds and check the status of your hard disk using S.M.A.R.T. or SCSI attributes, then you came to the right place. SpeedFan is the software to go. It is fully configurable and you can create custom events to handle every situation automatically. SpeedFan works under Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. SpeedFan works under Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012 too. SpeedFan works fine on 64 bit too. The relevant driver is now signed with my digital certificate. And this all costs you absolutely nothing! 

What is Speed Fan

SpeedFan lets you take a deeper view at the status of your computer. Almost every computer includes support for hardware monitoring. Accessing digital temperature sensors is really useful. If you are trying to figure out why your PC hangs when under heavy load or after some hours of usage, SpeedFan might help you find the real cause. Very often it is a poor power supply, or an improperly installed heatsink that lead to behaviours that we tend to associate (incorrectly) with errors from the operating system. SpeedFan automatically searches your computer for informative chips: the hardware monitor chips.

SpeedFan can display voltages,fan speeds and temperatures. On rare occasions, the BIOS doesn't activate such features. SpeedFan tries to enable them as long as this is a safe thing to do. Not only the motherboard is searched, but also some video cards and almost every currently sold hard disk. SpeedFan can access status info from EIDE, SATA and even SCSI drives, consistently showing internal data that can be used to diagnose current and future hard disk failures. This is known as S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology). At the lowest level, the SpeedFan hardware monitor software can access digital temperature sensors, but its main feature is its ability to control fan speeds according to the temperatures inside your PC, thus reducing noise.

Auslogics BoostSpeed 5

Slow Computer? Speed It Up Now!

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Thunderbird

Want a great e-mail program, but don't want to pay a penny? Then you won't do any better than Thunderbird, e-mail software from Mozilla, the same folks who bring you Firefox. It combines ease of use with high-end features such as message encryption, digitally signing messages, filters for automated e-mail handling, and very good threaded messaging. This version adds interface improvements, such as tabs, that make it faster to navigate your inbox.

Thunderbird setup has always been easy, and in this version, it's easier still. Enter your e-mail address and password, and Thunderbird will try to get all the necessary information about server names and locations by checking a database of such information maintained by Thunderbird. It was able to automatically to set itself up for use with Gmail using IMAP, which is impressive, considering that doing it manually can be confusing. As with the previous version, if you already have e-mail software, it will import those settings.

There's a lot more to like in this new version of Thunderbird. Most obvious are the tabs, so that you can have different e-mails in separate tabs, and quickly jump back and forth among them. When you search e-mail, that also opens in a new tab.

Also notable is that actions you take such as replying to mail and forwarding mail are now right in Thunderbird's message header itself, rather than in the toolbar. This makes them easier to find--and also gives the toolbar more space for other things, such as message search and add-ons.

Thunderbird still isn't an all-around personal information manager like Outlook--there's no calendar, for example, and you can't create to-do lists. It also doesn't integrate with social networking sites such as Facebook, which the new Outlook Social Connector lets you do.