We have already published the process of uploading photos to Flickr from Picasa using the Picasa2flickr plugin. Similarly, you can directly upload photos from Picasa to Facebook too. Picasa uploader is a nifty tool that adds a Facebook button to the Picasa desktop app so that you can directly upload all your Picasa pictures to [...]
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Did you know that SMS alerts is an option in Google Calendar to set up reminders? It would be nice if you can get an SMS notification few hours before your friend’s birthday, isn’t it? This guide will show you how to enable that option in Google calendar. How To Setup Your Mobile In Google [...]
Sometime ago, we wrote about CloseAll, a freeware app to close all the applications in a single click. The tool was good but the problem with it was, when you close all the apps, you can’t restore them back. You have to start them one by one. SmartClose is a nifty tool that closes all [...]
Like you need a tool or a software to extract text from images, you need one for extracting text from PDF files too. That’s because no PDF reader has an in-built option for that. Suppose for reference you need to copy the text from a PDF file, then, obviously, you can’t just copy paste. The [...]
Windows 7 explorer comes with a nice pane based view feature. You can view file details in details pane, preview files in the preview pane and navigate to other files or folders with the help of navigation pane. However, sometimes, you’ll find that you don’t need these panes and they are causing clutter, nothing else. [...]
System restore is a nice tool in Windows computer to undo any system changes made during installation of a new application. This option can can be used to restore your computer back to the previous state, if you face a problem during installation of a new (and, may be, crappy) tool. Windows 7 provides an [...]
Sometime back, we discussed Dropbox, an ultimate tool for backing up files and keeping data in sync. After installing this application on your PC, you get “My Dropbox” folder in which you can put any files or folders, and it will get backed up and synchronized automatically. Suppose you want to backup different folders at [...]
We’ve previously covered Jumplist Launcher, a tool to launch applications quickly via Windows 7 taskbar, and FSL Launcher to remove desktop clutter by arranging all the desktop shortcuts in an organized manner and then launch them. Although Windows 7 introduced the “pin to taskbar” feature to put frequently used program shortcuts permanently on the taskbar, [...]
Let’s say a program (for example Firefox) is open on your computer and you are doing some important (or private) activities. Now, suppose someone, like a friend or colleague, suddenly comes up at your desk and needs to borrow your PC to get something done. If you don’t want that person to see what you [...]
World cup football is on and the web is abuzz with all sorts of world cup related stuff. Google isn’t behind either and has added features specific to world cup soccer on many of its tools. Recently, it introduced Picnik soccer fever, a feature which lets you add soccer effects in your photos through Picnik, [...]
If you used previous versions of Windows, i.e. XP and Vista, then you might know that preparing system repair disc is not a straight-forward task on those versions. On the contrary, Windows 7 provides an easy, quick and hassle-free way to create a system recovery disc. This disc will contain Windows system recovery tools and [...]
Converting a PowerPoint presentation, especially in situations when you don’t have Microsoft office installed on the laptop you’d use for delivering your presentation, and when you can’t use the internet either ( if you thought you would get it from your office web apps account ). Hence the presentation video in such situations is a [...]
If you have two or more PCs at your home then you can easily create a HomeGroup in Windows 7, and share files and media between them using the networking feature. You can share images, videos and other documents very easily using this feature. To use this feature, you have to create a homegroup on [...]
Windows offers a smart way to launch any application via keyboard shortcuts. You can assign keyboard shortcuts to launch any application by changing the property of application shortcut. Let’s take the example of Google Chrome here. You could use the same steps for other applications too. Here are the steps you have to perform. 1. [...]
If your computer has various user accounts and you no longer need them then you can either delete or disable them. Advantage of disabling user accounts is all of its settings, files and folders remain intact and you can access it anytime by re-enabling the account. This article shows you how to disable and enable [...]
FIFA Football World cup, one of the biggest sporting events in the world is starting today (June 11) in South Africa. In this event 32 countries will fight for the cup till 11th of July. If you want to watch the matches then there are various websites to watch the FIFA World Cup event live [...]
Let’s say you transfer a photograph from your Sony digital camera to the computer. By default it’ll give a name like “DSC001” and so on to each photograph. To identify the pictures, you generally rename them. Renaming hundreds of photographs is obviously not an easy task. Personal Renamer is an awesome tool which can be [...]
You are a concerned parent who doesn’t want his child to visit any unsafe website. Sometime back, we mentioned about Windows parental control feature of Windows Vista and Windows 7. Probably, this is the best way in Windows to restrict internet access. But if you don’t feel like going through all the options in parental [...]
Microsoft finally launched the awaited Office web application officially after it tested it through the technical preview it offered to a large group of users over the past few months. It means if you have a Windows live account then you can access Microsoft Office web version on your browser now. It lets you create [...]
