Most of you would have probably heard of Macgyver, if you follow the movie. But for those who don't Macgyver is a superbly smart scientist lover, who uses all that he was reads in real life situations. He could use just a few mixed up chemicals to make a bomb and an ordinary magnet to cause interference to radios. Well this blog post isn't about him but to show us how to use computers much more uniquely. So Heres 18 ways you can become the Macgyver of computers

The Internet becomes a great tool to knowledge and its a huge repository of information, questions from virtually anything you want to know can be gotten from the Internet. I could remember a few months ago, there was a funny looking scar on my dog, and I haven't seen such before, I simply took the picture and used the Google image search, and voilà! , it was an infection and it was immediately resolved , thanks to the Internet. Theres a lot of things the Internet has to offer when It comes to knowledge and information and also a lot of tools such as search engines like Google , Bing , Yahoo , Question forums like Quora, wiki-how , information base like Wikipedia .

GPS(Global Positioning System) is best described as a system that enables a mobile receiver to determine its precise location based on signals received from satelites. GPS Coordinates are mostly precise, and has a lots of uses and applications .

Whenever you get a new phone the first security measure to take is to enable a gps tracking service. For iphone users you could use find my iphone to get accurate location of the lost phone and you could also control your phone, and format its data, for android users you should setup the android device manageras an administrator. So if the phone is missing you could simply go to the android device manager on-line , login with your Google account then you could track your phone in the lost phone session and you could also clear its data

if you are the type with several valuables , and to make sure they are safe and well kept , then GPS could definitely help with that, using tiny gps devices such as TrackR and others .

READ: Best Tracking Devices of 2017

placing a gps on your keys would ensure you always know where they were and the same for other items.

Have you ever visited a site, probably for watching a TV show or downloading a video and it says this “website is banned for your country” or “your country's banned from using this website” this is just a simple IP address banning trick to kick out other countries from getting access. So if you wan to get in , all you need to do is to trick the trickster, by making it seem like you are actually browsing from that country with the help of “proxy tunneling” there are lots of free proxy tunneling sites such as webtunnel, zerotunnel freeproxy etc.. I would suggest you use the webtunnel . There are also vpn softwares that could work that out as opera Vpn was launche this year, it has helped greatly allowing you to do this directly from your opera browser. You can download opera browser here.

The internet can be a great tool for research. You could find out about the best company to apply for by analysing income generation rate , successes and strength of the company , probably while trying to relocate to a new neighbourhood, you could find out about the crime rate there and analyse data from your locality compareing them with others. This will definitly help in making good decisions.

Receiving unknown or Spam emails could be very annoying or rather uninteresting. But you could trace the location(IP Address) of these mails and know who sent the mail and where it was sent from, so you could set up a flag or report the mail. Whatsmyipaddress has specific tools for achieving this check here (trace-email) for details

 Have you ever forgotten the password to an old windows machine account but still need its contents windows password, well don't worry anymore because a machine can be persuaded to divulge its secrets. It happens most of the time. If you can log into the PC’s guest account , then you can use a software called cain & abel. An extremely powerful password cracking software that also happens to be free. Cain is the user interface to the application, while abel is the system service(back-end)

download the program from here. After installing the executable, which includes the Pcap library to allow your network card to sniff your LAN for passwords, open the cain directory under program Files and copy the ‘abel.dll’ and ‘abel.exe’ files to C:\Windows.

Next, double click Abel.exe to install the service.Now, from the Start menu select ‘Run’ and enter services.msc. This will display a list of services. Find Abel and right-click on it to start it (this saves having to reboot).

To test the software, set up a dummy Windows account and give it a password, then run Cain from the Start menu. Next, click on the Cracker tab. The list of current password crackers is displayed in the left-hand pane. Click on 'LM & NTLM Hashes' and press the large black cross button at the top of the interface. Click 'Next' on the pop-up window to continue.

The spreadsheet in the main pane will now fill with the details of your Windows log-in accounts. Right-click the dummy account and move the mouse over 'Brute-Force Attack'. Under the sub-menu that appears, click on 'LM Hashes'. A window will appear. Abel will try all possible combinations of symbols selected in the Char-set drop-down menu. Click 'Start' and, if the password is a dictionary word, the program should crack it with alarming speed.

There was a time, when I needed to use an old scanner whose latest driver was for windows xp which wasn't actually available. After much thinking I remembered I could simply emulate windows xp on my windows 10 as a virtual operating system and use the scanner. If you are thinking of the same then Vmware is for you. It is a software that allows you power numerous virtual operating systems on your computer. Get it from here , then download the OS you want to emulate( it is usually in ISO format), install the Vmware software and create a new virtual OS and loath the ISO file … And Voilà! You made it!

I have seen a lot of people, who have been so comfortable with their computers that they don't even know that there are other Operating systems out there , yes Cool ones as a matter of fact, it is my practice to explore other environments , as many as I could find and see what makes them unique, their strengths and weaknesses. There are multiple Linux variants including centOs, solaris, Ubuntu, Zorin, Debian and so on.

It is sometimes necessary to upgrade your computers hardware capabilities when you need increases , to ensure smooth operation of your daily tasks. More HDD memory , more RAM , increased graphics cards, added capabilities etc.. you could also try using your laptop with multiple screens, doing different things. Always looks cool and its more efficient

Learning to protect files and data is very important, you should know how to hide files you don't want people to see, password and encrypt folders with important confidential data , setup a secure firewall against attacks and a very good anti-virus software

Making your tasks faster and more efficient with shortcuts, learn shortcuts for everything . Every software does have their own shortcuts but are pretty basic . So learn your basic OS shortcuts and that of your most used application program.

Aside from shortcuts the operating system command line interface is also a great way to be more efficient and cool too! Learn how to perform basic tasks such as copying and moving files , opening programs creating and deleting directories etc. then you can then get more advanced stuff done , like manipulating registries , working with environment variables, etc.

Everyone should definitely know how to write at least one programming language , because it allow solving problems we all face day to day, in our respective discipline. For starters , java , c#, python is recommended , and there are tons of free learning sites that teaches programming. Programming tutorials will soon be available in sci-verse

76% of Windows users suppose that to allow a remote computer access a webcam, one needs to spend a lot of time adjusting Windows settings. But if you were wondering if there is a software that can share webcam with remote locations easily - there is one! Get FlexiHub here. Install it on both of your computers. Anyway, you shouldn’t worry about your OS - the app supports Windows, OS X and Linux. more info here

You could acess your home computer from any where see details here

Long ago i always thought that remote control software was for higher devices , but Vectir was impressive in that regard. It allows remote controlling your computer using *ANY* phone that has Bluetooth and support for Java . It also has a Wi-Fi client for those among us lucky enough to own a smartphone with Wi-Fi.

Vectir is extremely flexible and you can control almost any desktop application using it. It can execute macros assigned to key-press events on your phone and can even execute system commands like shutdown, restart, control media player presentation slides and even make your phone a mouse. you can download the mobile and desktop app to get started