How To Create a Friend List In Facebook Chat
by Himanshu on March 10, 2010
in How-to/Guides
Since the launch of chat in Facebook, it’s been quite popular among Facebook users. A direct chat tool within Facebook was needed it seems. But managing that isn’t easy, especially if you have a huge number of Facebook friends.
Imagine you log in to Facebook, and you’ve got 50 friends online. Before you can think about anything, you’ve got chat windows popping up. While some of them may be important, you certainly would want to quickly get rid of the others. But without being impolite to or unfriending those folks.
A nice way to get it done is by creating friend lists. It helps you organize your huge list of friends, categorize them and selectively appear online/offline to them. This tutorial tells you how you can do that. Read more..
Paper Rater Proofreads Your Writing For Grammar, Plagiarism & More
Do you face problems in writing and make a lot of grammar, spelling and other errors? Writing is a skill and improving it needs time, but you can reduce lots of errors by proofreading your articles. But if you don’t have the proper understanding of the language then you may not be able to proofread your writings.
Paper Rater is a nice tool that can automatically proofread stuff you’ve written. It analyzes your writing style, word choice and tells about most of the grammar and spelling mistakes (it isn’t 100% accurate). Read more..
How To Easily Record a Skype Call With CallGraph
by Himanshu on March 10, 2010
in How-to/Guides
Skype, as we know, is great for making calls, video conferencing and saving money on long distance telephone bills.
While Skype is a feature-rich tool, it doesn’t the ability to record voice calls. But that doesn’t mean you can’t do it. There are third-party tools, add-ons and plenty of other methods to record a Skype conversation.
Today we’ll talk about one of the best free tools to record a Skype conversation . Known as CallGraph, it is a conversation recording plugin for Skype. You can use this tool to record calls of any duration. Read more..
UltraSearch is a Nice Windows Search Tool
The default Windows search tool has come a long way since the early versions of the OS. The latest version, called the Windows Search 4.0 is pretty good and provides an easy and powerful solution for finding any file on the PC through system level indexing.
However, nothing is perfect and neither is Windows Search. And that’s the reason we have tools like UltraSearch. It doesn’t look for Windows system level index or background processes. It directly searches on the Master File Table (MFT) of the NTFS partitions and delivers better results. Read more..
How To Clean Up your New Computer With PC Decrapifier
by Himanshu on March 8, 2010
in How-to/Guides
Most of the PC manufacturers offer plenty of extra software with new PC to attract the users. Usually those are trial versions of paid tools and you don’t need most of them.
Not all the PC buyers are tech-savvy enough to know that. They buy the PC, are happy to get those tools, don’t know that the junk is slowing their system down, and finally once the trial period of the tools ends, all kinds of silly warnings start showing up now and then. And without a doubt, it’s frustrating.
The best way to deal with this issue is, well, to get rid of them. Duh, right ? Only if that was effortless. Isolating them and uninstalling them through the native add/remove programs, heck, even through a kick-ass like Revo Uninstaller is time-consuming.
This is where PC Decrapifier comes into the picture. Read more..
Join Guiding Tech On Facebook and Twitter
by Abhijeet on March 8, 2010
in Announcements
We are only two months old but have been getting an encouraging response from our readers and the tech blogging community since the day we started.
While we’d love to have you read our blog, comment on the articles Read more..
How To Remove Desktop Clutter With FSL Launcher
by Himanshu on March 7, 2010
in How-to/Guides
People use icons and shortcuts on desktop to launch applications and important files quickly. It saves time. But unfortunately, sometimes (in fact most of the times) it results in clutter. See the example of my own desktop (screenshot given below).
You can see the pathetic condition of my desktop. My sheer laziness has caused it to become a disorganized abode of useless icons and slowly, it has started affecting my daily productivity. Read more..
[Quick Tip] Reduce Chrome Browser Tab Size Using Pin Tab
by Abhijeet on March 7, 2010
in Tips & Tricks
If you are someone who usually has a large number of tabs open in Google Chrome then you would find the ‘ Pin Tab ‘ technique useful.
Pin Tab is a feature in Chrome that helps you reduce the tab size to just a favicon. Right click on a tab and click on Pin Tab to get it done. Simple. Read more..
