As a tech blogger you can often find me working with a full screen browser window. It’s either because it gives me a more complete view, or because I need to take better screenshots. But I also have more than a handful of tabs open, and quite often need to jump between URLs. For a [...]
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Almost all the friends in my social circle own an Android phone and those who don’t have it yet are planning to get one shortly. So with so many Androids around, we frequently talk about new apps and how they are helping each of us in our daily life, and thus we have situations where [...]
If you want to install an application on Windows, we have an .exe file for that. For Mac OS X, we have .dmg files. Those of you who come from Symbian and Java phones background must be knowing about the .sis, .sisx and .jar files. In the same way way, have a specific file format [...]
Sticky notes as a reminder work when they are visible. For example, you jotted down some notes related to a webpage you came across and put the sticky somewhere which you can’t seem to locate later on, or maybe you completely forgot about it. That doesn’t help, does it? Today we will talk about pinning [...]
All the main web email services I know of let you set up a vacation auto-responder when you plan to not use your email for a while. However, if you are using a desktop email client, Outlook for example, not all editions of it have a direct way to set it up. If you are [...]
Yesterday we discussed two new features of Windows 8 – Refresh and Reset, and how they may come in handy whenever your Windows system goes haywire. While talking about the Refresh Windows option, I mentioned that it would bring back your Windows settings to factory default but will not affect any of your personal files [...]
No one’s ever been killed in a Windows crash, so the Microsoft jokes don’t die down. But here’s a little program that won’t shut up the Apple fanboys, but will get rid of one of our pet annoyances (apart from the Apple fanboys themselves). ReStartMe is a tiny application that automatically restarts any programs or [...]
It’s not every day we get some serious problems in Windows (not since Windows 7 at least) but when the day strikes, and we get weird errors, it could become difficult to solve them. Thankfully, we have a search engine like Google and technology blogs like ours that helps to find solutions to most of [...]
Windows comes with a decent set of tools which indeed help you optimize the performance and efficiency of your machine. Few that I can count are Disk Cleanup, Disk Defragmenter and System Restore. A big list resides as part of Accessories->System Tools and if you know how to use them all, you would probably don’t [...]
When I bought my Samsung Galaxy S, I was highly impressed with the level of customization it offered. After all, it was my first Android! One thing, however, that I didn’t like was the lock screen. By default Samsung provides swipe glass lock screen. Although it solved the purpose of a lock screen, it was [...]
Printing a webpage is one thing that usually eats up a lot of paper and printer ink. And the very reason for this is the clutter that resides on most of the sites out there. One definitely does not want to see useless advertisements all over the printout. However, the complaint can be battled with [...]
For those of you who love Internet Explorer and prefer it as your default browser, I have a great news for you guys. Windows 8 will be shipping with not just one but two versions of Internet Explorer 10. One of the versions will be the default desktop version we have been working on for [...]
Windows 8 comes with an built-in antivirus called the Windows Defender. Windows Defender is nothing but the free antivirus of Microsoft called the Microsoft Security Essentials clubbed with the Defender of Windows 7. Microsoft claims that Windows defender is sufficient for a home computer where mere basic protection is required, but I personally don’t like [...]
Windows 8 will not be an operating system just for your desktops and laptops alone. With the introduction of various touch enabled features (like swipe to unlock, Metro Interface, etc.) in the Windows 8 Consumer Preview it’s confirmed that Microsoft is targeting tablets too with the final release. Now the thing is, while you are [...]
The predecessors of Windows 8 – XP, Vista and Windows 7 – made us accustomed to two things: The Start Menu and My Computer (Well, it came to be called as just ‘Computer’ in versions after XP but I am still kinda used to the older term). They were like the signature of Microsoft Windows [...]
The chances are slim that you don’t have MS Office installed on your PC. Heck, it’s one of things that the guys from Redmond got right and even Mac fanboys will acknowledge it. But what if that probability gets skewed and you don’t have the trusty MS Office to open your DOC and XLS files [...]
There is so much of information on the internet that converging down to the one that matters can get difficult at times. And for this reason we must be very specific and focused with our search. Choosing the right search engine, typing proper query strings and filtering results are some of the ways to search [...]
