Following are our posts from last month that our readers appreciated the most. We’ve also got some nice links from our friends that you’ll find use for. Best of Guiding Tech in Jan, 2012 1. 5 Very Neat Uses of Wolfram Alpha Search Engine Some really cool ways to use this unique search engine. 2. [...]
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Here’s a brief tutorial to help you enable scan options in the HP Officejet 6500A Plus All-in-one printer. The steps should work for most of the latest HP web-enabled printers. Note: HP sent me a review unit of the above printer, and the steps are Windows-only. If you need help setting up the printer, refer [...]
You’ve received a PDF as an email attachment and as soon as the notification popped up on your phone you knew that you had to get a printout of that quickly. The old and conventional way: connect the phone to your computer, transfer the file (or download it from your email) and then click Print. [...]
The thing about starting your blog on 1st of January is that you never forget its birthday. Guiding Tech, or GT as I like to call it, started exactly two years ago on this date when I figured that troubleshooting stuff & writing about them, and managing (plus growing) a blog, is what I am [...]
It’s Christmas eve and we wish all GT readers around the world a happy and enjoyable Christmas, and some wonderful holidays ahead. Be happy, stay happy. Cheers! Abhijeet Mukherjee, Editor, GT Network Image courtesy – Randy
It’s the last month of this eventful year and hence this is likely to be our last roundup of 2011 in 2011 (we’ll do the Dec roundup in the first week of Jan next year). November saw some great articles from GT authors, featuring a lot of cool guides, lists and how-to stuff. The following [...]
It’s sweet November (yeah, ok, the movie sucked!) and time to do a roundup of our best articles from last month. The following list includes our most popular posts from last month, news roundup from our mobile section GT Mobiles and some cool links from around the web. Enjoy! Best of GT in Oct 2011 [...]
Few days ago, I talked setting up and installing the HP Officejet 6500A Plus All-in-one Printer. If you haven’t read that post yet, I recommend you take a look at it first. This is the next post in the series of printer related posts that I intend to put up while testing the review unit [...]
Nothing makes my day better than an encouraging comment from a reader who liked a post on Guiding Tech, mentioning how it helped him solve his pressing problems in day-to-day life. Your comments motivate us to produce more content, and produce better content. They tell us things you like and things you hate, things you [...]
It is Diwali today, the festival of lights that’s celebrated across the world (primarily in the Indian sub-continent) every year around this time. From the entire Guiding Tech Team, we wish you all a very happy and prosperous Diwali. Hope you enjoy the festivities and keep low on the cracker-bursting spree! Image courtesy – bubzillion
A few weeks ago HP invited me to an event in Delhi where they showcased their upcoming printers and technology like ePrint that makes anywhere printing possible. I was quite impressed by the presentations and talks by various HP executives, and hence when they proposed that they’d like to send me a review unit of [...]
Here at Guiding Tech, we write about stuff that can help you change the way you use computers, help you understand them better and change the way you interact with them. It’s about knowing and making things better. And nobody knew more about that than Steve Jobs. I never thought it’d be this soon that [...]
As the owner of a high end laptop that has a powerful processor, a lot of RAM and hard disk space, I have no dearth of options when it comes to software, apps and other such utilities that I could install on my computer. However, if I were to use a Netbook, I couldn’t have [...]
Following is a list of some of the useful sites and resources we featured on GT Resources recently. Some of these might be free to use, while some might be paid. Some you might find use for, some might not be relevant to your area of work. Overall, this is a list of diverse tools [...]
Microsoft PowerPoint is undoubtedly the most feature-rich presentation tool and of course the most widely used too. But it comes with a hefty price tag. If you are looking for a free/affordable alternative to PowerPoint that’s completely online and gets the job done then there are some nice options available. While you can’t expect them [...]
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Jared. If you’re like most people, you’ve never heard of Usenet. You’d probably be surprised to learn that Usenet was the Internet 10 years before the web as we know it even existed. Usenet is the original social network. The place where the World Wide Web, Mosaic [...]
If you’ve got members in the family or colleagues in the office who have a habit of taking a peek into your files and folders whenever they are using your computer, then you should consider hiding the files that are meant only for your eyes. We’ve written about a method for hiding files in plain [...]
If you travel often with your laptop, it’s important that you have an anti-theft or tracking software in place in case your laptop goes missing. We covered a number of such tools, including both software and devices like Bluetooth alarm, in our popular laptop security software post. One of the tools mentioned was Prey, a [...]
There aren’t a huge number of tools (desktop or web based) that enable quick and hassle-free creation of a digital or electronic signature for signing documents. Most of the good tools available come at a good price too. I have faced a number of occasions in the past where I had to digitally sign a [...]
