It’s time for snow, lights, bells, gifts and Santa. It’s time for Christmas! You must have started decorating the Christmas tree, lighting up the house and hanging the bells to cherish the festive mood. With so many preparations around to welcome Santa, why leave your good old computer behind? Here are 15 high quality, handpicked [...]
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A browser remembers every move you make on the web. The idea is benign – to improve your browsing by way of faster loading times or easily retrievable URLs. But the footprints left behind also open up a gaping hole in our privacy. On one front, someone else using the same computer can easily track [...]
Way back, when I was new on Facebook, I tried a hell lot of apps and games everyday. Though each of them comes with a necessary set of permissions telling us how the application will integrate with your profile, I never paid attention to them. Soon when I started getting spams of horoscopes, daily fortune [...]
With the advent of larger displays and powerful graphic cards, Media Center PCs are nowadays very popular among the masses. It not only provides a user the power of a computer but also promises an advanced (and enriching) entertainment experience. Of course there are software like Windows Media Center and Apple Front Row to handle [...]
Ability to create good music requires great talent and at the same time, these days it’s an expensive process too. When I was a kid, I had a friend who had a great hold over music and composed many amazing tunes just using his synthesizer. As he was not able to afford all the equipments [...]
Knowledge never dies. I guess it gets passed on in the form of books. In India, we have had a long tradition of giving away our old books or selling them off at basement prices. What passed from one hand to another in my country has gone the virtual way in countries like the U.S. [...]
Whenever your computer starts acting weird and makes it difficult for you to work on, the first thing that comes to you mind is whether a virus has affected your computer. Some of those times, your fears might turn out to be true. Hence it helps to know about these enemies of your computer and [...]
Twitter Lists was one of the more important updates to the micro-blogging site. It multiplied the reach of every Twitter user who cared to mine it for contact and information. But how do you create and use Twitter Lists? It’s what this basic little guide is all about. A Twitter List Is a Group of [...]
TED, the abbreviation that stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design is a non-profit organization that works on a single primary goal of aggregating and sharing “Ideas Worth Spreading”. These ideas are shared via their global conferences called TED Talks which gives a platform to visionaries in diverse fields to spread their creative ideas to the [...]
Learning is the key to fixing a lot of problems. I’m a pretty inquisitive guy naturally, and I love finding out about things — how they work, people’s opinions of them, and the such. Throughout my pursuit of knowledge and answers, I’ve stumbled upon some great sites to answer some of my questions, and give [...]
Online office suites are growing ever-so-popular. With the development of Zoho and Microsoft Office Web Apps, cloud applications are becoming more and more advanced. While they’re not exactly full replacements for their desktop counterparts yet, they’re pretty darn powerful. Google Docs has been around for a while, slowly transforming and evolving. The latest variant of [...]
Ever wanted to keep your finger on the pulse on the other side of the world? Whether it’s staying in touch with the latest trends, just wanting to discover what people read about in other part of the world, or even just deciphering an assignment in a foreign language, translation software has always been in [...]
Our world is full of so much information — in fact, a lot of us may suffer from information overload. As a result, note taking has gotten more and more important, both to serve as reminders and to serve as an extension of our minds. I know it really helps my mind to know that [...]
There’s this little piece of Windows that everyone has run into. Yet not very many people know exactly what it’s about, and why it’s there. It’s called Windows Safe Mode, and you might have had to boot into it. I remember my first encounter with Safe Mode when I was a kid, running on Windows [...]
Can’t decide what next step to take on your design? Stuck at the introduction to your article? Artists always run into roadblocks on occasion. Not to worry, here at Guiding Tech we are a creative bunch of folks who are always in search of stuff that can keep fueling our creativity. And we have just [...]
Some of life’s more frustrating moments involve the times when you have something on the tip of your tongue and can’t say it out aloud. Or in the case of a forgotten song, let’s say that it’s on the edge of the ears. Hair wrenching time or not, it helps to know that the web [...]
The World Wide Web has always been about sharing. Creative Commons has come along and given sharing a framework which has traditionally been missing from copyright acts. Image courtesy: cambodia4kidsorg Think of Creative Commons as an alternative to copyright licenses. Whereas copyright laws adopt an all or nothing approach – either your work is in [...]
