Sometime back we started publishing posts on VLC Media Player to educate our readers on its advanced features. Though most people use VLC for playing videos, they are unaware of its real anchor and cross-platform capabilities. We have already covered on how to cut videos using VLC and how to use it as a converter [...]
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Recently I purchased a 42” LED TV and a gaming laptop for a more powerful video gaming and a more elegant movie watching experience. Both look (and work) like a made-for-each-other couple but what’s lacking is a wireless keyboard and mouse. I realized that later because it was becoming difficult to work on the huge [...]
It is one of the oldest “annoyances” that has existed ever since we started copy-pasting text from one place to another on the computer – for instance, from a web page into an email window. The Windows Clipboard takes care to preserve all the original formatting of all that you copy to it with a [...]
I love watching movies and love to explore different genres and kinds of movies from every part of the world. Now, in order to watch movies in different languages I always have to import the associated subtitle, for obvious reasons. Even if I am watching movies in languages I understand, I prefer having the subtitle [...]
It’s your friend’s birthday today. What do you think he would love the most from you? Well, if you ask me, I do not have a craving for gifts. For me, just a warm “happy birthday” from my friend makes my day. With the advent of Facebook, it has become very easy to monitor a [...]
Creating beautiful panoramic pictures by stitching two or more photos into one isn’t an easy task. It takes practice to first take those pictures, then choose the right combination of photos, and finally stitching them in a way that the person looking at the photo has a hard time making out if it was a [...]
In the past we have seen how we can securely encrypt the data on our hard disk using TrueCrypt. Without doubt, the program is one of the best when it comes to protection of data on the local drive but there’s no provision to hide data in a portable USB flash drive in the tool. [...]
You probably don’t know that when Google chrome automatically updates itself (or you do that manually), it does not overwrite itself over the older version. Instead it makes a fresh installation. Now that’s all fine. The problem is that even after the new version is installed on the system, the older versions are never deleted [...]
If your geek quotient is anywhere on the higher side, it’s safe to assume that you install (and uninstall) quite a few programs. You also must have configured your computer to run like a silky smooth machine. These two states are often at conflict with each other when you install software that wreaks havoc on [...]
I love to play games on my Android smartphone and I use my 3G connection to download them. But some games require you to connect using Wi-Fi before you can download them. Previously, I didn’t have a Wi-Fi router in my house, and neither did my smartphone support Ad-Hoc network (until you root it and [...]
You want to keep an eye on who’s on your home Wi-Fi. This is for a variety of reasons: people could be stealing your bandwidth, resulting in you having trouble stay within your download limits. People on your network could also potentially take note of your personal information or company information. This means you should [...]
In the past, we have covered many cool tools and techniques to control your startup process. I personally use Soluto to manage mine. While these programs are excellent for a basic home user, advanced users who love to keep everything under their control are not always satisfied. Take Soluto for an example. The program lets [...]
Being a technology blogger, I have to install a countless number of applications on my system for reviewing, but I don’t uninstall them right away. What I do is I take some time out every weekend and uninstall these applications all at once to clean up my system. Surely, Windows provides a decent built-in tool [...]
Few days back Wikipedia blacked out for 24 hours in order to protest (and raise awareness) against SOPA and PIPA. During the blackout period, anyone who tried to read an article on Wikipedia’s English version was greeted with a SOPA awareness screen. The one-day blackout of Wikipedia didn’t bother me, and since we at Guiding [...]
Till date, we have discussed many cool tools to access services like Dropbox, SugarSync and Google Docs right from your Windows explorer. All the services use different tools and thus one needs to switch from one tool to another if he uses these services simultaneously. Otixo however, is one amazing web service that lets you [...]
Few days ago, while searching for some cool new tools for Windows, I stumbled upon an application called Listary. After working for few hours on Listary, if I had to describe as to what it is, in a nutshell, I would simply put it as a tool for Windows that enhances your file browsing experience [...]
Few days back, my brother mailed me asking a solution to one of his problems. He wanted to know it there’s any way he can work on the documents and files in his Google Docs accounts – meaning spreadsheets, presentations etc – offline on different computers and have them synced with Google Docs, just like [...]
Being a programmer and a self-proclaimed geek, I have to work with Windows services now and then. Whether it’s the SQL server, the Windows theme or the firewall, I always prefer to use the Windows services panel to turn them on or off. It’s a lot easy to open the Services window using the run [...]
