Considering the way globalization has connected people around the world in the past few years, it won’t be an exaggeration if I say that most of you reading this make international calls now and then to friends, relatives or business associates. And that isn’t usually cheap unless you use some creative methods to make those [...]
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The thing about touch typing is that as a skill it is ignored and underrated. Granted you’ll learn it automatically if you use the computer for 14 hours a day for a few months (or may be a year) but if you invest some time in learning it consciously, you’ll find that it goes a [...]
The rise of YouTube and other popular video sharing sites have ensured that video editing doesn’t remain a super-geeky thing. Don’t be surprised if you catch your 9 year old sprucing up the video of her puppy using a video editing tool before uploading it to YouTube. With the kind of free video editing software [...]
I’m sure a huge number of you reading this post own a Kindle. It has been Amazon’s bestselling product for I don’t how long..probably since it was introduced a few years ago. It’s a revolutionary device without a doubt. Who knows, may be that’s how all books will be read in the future. If you [...]
If you are planning to organize a party at home and your plans do not include hiring a DJ, then you need to do some pre-party work to make sure that the music doesn’t disappoint. A rocking party music playlist is what you are going to need. Now, you might have such a playlist already [...]
Blogs are exploding in popularity. With blogging now mainstream, services are starting to streamline the process to make it easier and funnier for aspiring bloggers. Tumblr is such a service, and aims to not only simplify the experience, but to make the end result appear as beautiful as any other blog. Signing up for Tumblr [...]
The arrival of Intel-based Macs ushered in a new era: one where running Windows on Mac OS was made possible, which solved a ton of compatibility complaints. My only beef was that rebooting seemed to take ages, and was often too great an obstacle to run something like Windows Live Writer. If you feel the [...]
Google’s Chrome web browser has been featured on Guiding Tech a number of times, either highlighting a stellar feature (or 15 of them), or explaining an invaluable extension. The impressive functionality that Google brings to web browsing keeps us, and the public, coming back for more. But, alas, Chrome is not for everyone, and it’s [...]
Recently, we talked about using keywords to quickly visit sites in Firefox and Chrome (and then, further customizing Firefox to make the process of adding bookmark keywords simpler). It’s a real time-saving tip that can help you be more productive in your day-to-day browsing. Now, what if you wanted to launch your Windows programs using [...]
The original iTunes App Store was open on July 10, 2008 to cater to iPhone and iPod Touch users. The app store brought synchronization and an easy way to acquire software to these devices, and was very popular amongst users. Apple announced that they would be opening a Mac App Store for OS X users, [...]
A new Windows computer needs good software if the user wants to make the most out of his machine. Windows 7 does come bundled with useful tools, but that isn’t enough. The millions of consumer software vendors around the world would have gone out of business if that were the case. This post will talk [...]
It’s that time of the year when we start talking about some of our best stuff in 2010. This was the year when the site began its journey (we started on Jan 1, the first day of the year!), and it’s been one hell of a ride so far! So, let us begin the yearly [...]
Tweaking a desktop is a beautiful thing. Whether it’s constantly changing the visual elements to suit your ever-changing tastes, or giving your desktop an overhaul for the new year, there are a huge variety of free tools for you to explore. These tools can help improve the computing experience and perhaps even your efficiency. I’ll [...]
Have you got the new Facebook? You know, where the profile looks a bit different, with the wall, info tabs on the left, and brief profile info at the top…have that? Well, if you do, then you’d know that just about everyone’s trying to hack their profile pictures so that it stretches into those grids [...]
Has it ever happened that you come across a music video video on YouTube and just feel like downloading the audio track, not the entire video? or may be you want to extract the amazing songs from that boring movie DVD? You’d need an audio ripper, a software that can extract audio from video, to [...]
Have you been itching to finally move your computing to the cloud (i.e mostly online) after Google officially announced Chrome OS recently? Then fasten your seat-belts because I’ve got something you’d love to give a shot before you can lay your hands on a netbook with Chrome OS. Called Jolicloud, this is an operating system [...]
Buying a new computer and migrating data and programs from your old PC to the new one isn’t always that straight forward. Migrating data, usually, is easy because we can just copy it from our old machine to the new one. Applications, however, cannot be copied in the same way. You need to install them [...]
The Window Live Essentials 2011 suite by Microsoft includes free products for mail, photos, instant messaging, movies, writing and more. It was in beta for the last few months but now it has been released officially, and Microsoft started pushing it through Windows update recently. This article will give an overview of what’s there to [...]
