Many of you people must be using MS Outlook as a email client. Also, chances are that you have integrated multiple email accounts to deliver mails to your desktop client. In such a scenario, when you receive a lot of mails then it becomes important to know how to segregate them and check the important [...]

We use link shorteners everywhere – from Twitter to even bunching up multiple links in one. A long URL (and they seem to be getting longer everyday) are unwieldy and too much of a bother to even copy and paste. They also tend to break into multiple lines in emails, text messages and status updates. [...]

How to Enable or Disable Sticky Keys, Filter Keys and Toggle Keys in Windows 7

May 16, 2012

While discussing about Windows Ease of Access Center and how you can use these features to increase accessibility on Windows 7, we talked about features like Narrator, On-screen Keyboard etc. and how they can help you in your day to day computing tasks. One feature that we missed talking about was making the keyboard easier [...]

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How to Schedule Google+ (or Google Plus) Posts With Do Share

May 16, 2012

Putting up status updates and sharing content has become a common social activity in everyone’s daily life. We are so cautious at times that we spend time editing our posts and make them go live at specific timings. Say, for example, wishing birthday to friends at midnight. Now, do you really have to stay awake [...]

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How to Manage Windows Partitions Using Free Easeus Partition Master

May 15, 2012

While talking about the top 10 applications to install on a new computer, the application that topped our list was Easeus Partition Master. And rightfully so. Whenever we purchase a new Windows desktop or a laptop, most of the time it comes with two default hard disk partitions. The first partition takes up pretty much [...]

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How to Change Default Save Settings on MS Office

May 15, 2012

Every application has certain things or operations set by default. Some allow you to customize them, some don’t. MS Office suite too has lot of things set to perform standard actions and thankfully, we can vary them as per our needs. You must have noticed that when you write or create a new document, it [...]

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How to Transfer Files Between Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive Online

May 15, 2012

With so many cloud storage solutions (Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive), I am sure, most of us maintain accounts on multiple services to take advantage of the additional free storage. Now, there are times when one may need to transfer some files from one service to another. Of course, one can download files from one service [...]

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How to Transfer Contacts from Android to Blackberry Using Outlook

May 14, 2012

Though Android and iOS have now captured a significant share of the smartphone market and RIM (makers of Blackberry phones) and Nokia, the leaders of yesteryears are now on the downfall, BlackBerry still remains a signature phone for office executives in many parts of the world. Few days back, my brother-in-law’s employer gifted him a [...]

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How to Share Music From iTunes on One Computer to Another With Home Sharing

May 14, 2012

These days people have multiple computers and devices like iPad at their homes. All members, however, may not share the same taste in music. But at times one may be interested in looking at or listening to other’s collection. What do you do then? Physically transfer the file? Share them online? You obviously want something [...]

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How to Remove Clutter From Gmail Design (& Enhance Interface) With Gmelius

May 14, 2012

Gmail, no doubt, is a top notch email service. However, there’s a good bit of clutter that’s there on its interface if you compare it with desktop email clients. While Gmail offers customization options through Gmail Labs, for the minimalists among us who want to see nothing other than emails when they open Gmail in [...]

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Reviewing Sumatra PDF, a Small PDF Reader That You Can Carry in a Thumb Drive

May 12, 2012

It took me five seconds to download the zipped file of Sumatra PDF, a free portable PDF and eBook reader. Compare that with the thirty minutes it takes for downloading the Adobe Reader installer. I just checked…Sumatra PDF is taking up around 4 MB of my HDD space. Adobe as planted itself on 152 MB. [...]

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See the Lyrics While Listening to Songs on Android With TTPod

May 12, 2012

I love to sing along when I’m listening to my favorite tracks. Though I usually remember most of the lyrics by heart, I sometimes miss bits and pieces here and there and thus I prefer to have a look at the lyrics while listening to the song (and when am in the humming mood). It [...]

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How to Give Google Chrome’s History Page a Better Look With Enhanced History Options

May 12, 2012

Browsers store all your activities and they do so mostly in the form of history. Though sometimes risky, it mostly helps us get back to certain websites or track our activities on a certain day. However, the interfaces that show history are usually cluttered and that’s on almost all the browsers. That means the history [...]

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2 Android Apps to Access Your SkyDrive Account

May 11, 2012

While reviewing the all-new SkyDrive after they redesigned themselves and launched a dedicated desktop application, I mentioned that the mobile application support was currently available only for Windows and iOS devices. Even after around two weeks, Microsoft has not yet released any application for Android users (well, I am an Android aficionado as most of [...]

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How to Split Bills With Friends or Groups Easily Using Settle Up App

May 11, 2012

I love to hang out with friends for movies and dinners, and most of the time we go Dutch just to keep things less complicated. We have been using a shared online Google Docs spreadsheet ever since to keep track of all the money flow and settlement issues. Though using a worksheet is a lot [...]

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How to Easily Fetch Lyrics of a Song in Multiple Media Players Using LyricsSeeker

May 11, 2012

I remember the hard time I had figuring out what Guns N’ Roses were belting when they sang November Rain. That was before the time of lyrics search engines and other MP3 tools that we take for granted today. It’s strangely surprising that multimedia players by default do not come with an automatic lyrics tool [...]

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5 Awesome & Little Known Things You Can Do on Android ICS Browser

May 10, 2012

Android Ice Cream Sandwich widely knows as ICS released somewhere around last October/November, and is undoubtedly the most amazing Android version ever. ICS was basically designed to draw a bridge between Android 2.3.x (Gingerbread) designed for smartphones and Android 3.x (Honeycomb) designed for tablets. Most of the new smartphones now are coming preloaded with the [...]

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How to Block or Allow a Program in Windows 7 Firewall

May 10, 2012

We have talked about many Windows applications which require network access to work smoothly. Whenever we talked about them, we mentioned a note that you must allow the program through a Firewall if at all you have one installed on your system. I personally feel that Windows’ inbuilt firewall provides enough security to a regular [...]

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How to Use the Filter Data Tool in MS Excel

May 10, 2012

I stay with friends of mine and for the same reason we maintain an excel sheet for our household expenses. At the end of each month we sit and analyze our expenses across various categories to separate the due and already paid amount. Since there is lot of data we have a tough time in [...]

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