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The live tiles on Windows 8 start screen are meant to serve a purpose. They are meant to give you some basic pieces of information like calendar events, latest IM messages, etc, in real time of course. However, these tiles can be customized and personalized for specific and required information. We’ve demonstrated that before in [...]
Copying files and folders from one location to another is a common activity for pretty much every computer user. Sometimes, while doing that we hardly realize that we may have a folder of the same name in the destination as that of the one we are trying to move. However, Windows always took care of [...]
Are you are regular player in the stock market? Do you keep a constant watch on the ups and downs of certain stocks? If that’s the case then I am sure you rely on a stock sticker or a watchlist to stay up to date. There’s a way for Windows user to create a stock [...]
Recently Microsoft updated the Bing apps for Windows 8. One of them to receive the change was the News app. And, if you have been using it right from start, you would surely appreciate the ease of use the new update has brought. The app is now simpler to navigate and makes it easier to [...]
A Windows update, power failure or any other sudden hiccup causing a system restart is one of the most annoying things. I hate that not just because it takes another few minutes to put me back to work. But, the fact that I have to rebuild my work session and flow is what’s depressing. I [...]
Evernote does not need any introduction, does it? Most of you are probably using it already to organize your notes. The flexibility with which it allows you to clip notes, sync and share them is incomparable. While the notes help you stay up to date with the tasks in hand, Evernote didn’t have one important [...]
We have witnessed the gradual change from storing all things local to using backup devices in the form of pen drives and hard disks, and from there the shift to using online storage and syncing data with our devices. Definitely, online storage services have made it very easy for us to share things. They help [...]
You cannot deny the fact that your internet browser is almost always open when your computer is switched on. Now, consider an example that you need to launch a program quickly, let’s say Calculator, MS Paint or Notepad in the midst of your browsing activity. Ideally, you would navigate the start menu (or search in [...]
In my opinion, Windows 8 was mainly build for tablet users. And, that is why I believe a routine task like shutdown took the backstage. We generally do not shut down our tablets, right? However, if you are using Windows 8 on a desktop or a laptop, you understand the pain of shutting it down [...]
When you maintain an Excel sheet, I am sure you do not feed in data just for the sake of storage. Most of the times you intend to analyze and organize that data, right? Now, MS Excel has got a beautiful feature called Pivot Table that lets you summarize large tables in the form of [...]
If you are a parent, let us begin by mentioning that we’ve already covered the steps to enable parental controls on Windows 7 and Windows 8. It’s easy to set it up, and change the settings whenever you need to. But the latter requires you to do it on the same computer. What if you [...]
We have already seen how Google integrated Google Drive with Gmail and Microsoft integrated SkyDrive with Outlook Mail to help you send out attachments that have sizes beyond what email services can send by default (usually 25 MB). Yahoo Mail, though continues to be the biggest free email service, has always been somewhat of a [...]
When we introduced you to Windows 8 task manager we showed how it is more than just a task manager and is more powerful than the ones we have used on previous versions of Windows. It was then that we also mentioned you could manage Services using the same. The task manager in Windows 7 [...]
MS Excel isn’t just about maintaining data in an organized row and column fashion. It’s real power lies in data manipulation. Let me share an example. I stay in a rented apartment with 4 other friends. We maintain certain monthly expenses on an Excel sheet so that we can divide an equal share at the [...]
