Here’s a brief tutorial to help you enable scan options in the HP Officejet 6500A Plus All-in-one printer. The steps should work for most of the latest HP web-enabled printers. Note: HP sent me a review unit of the above printer, and the steps are Windows-only. If you need help setting up the printer, refer [...]
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Would you be surprised if I say I have never created a playlist in my life till date? Well, I just hate the idea of categorizing about 13 GB of my music collection manually. I just play all of ‘em in shuffle mode and skip the one I don’t want to hear for the time [...]
I was using the very handy doPDF, the free PDF converter in Firefox to print out online receipts and sundry other things. Then a development on Chrome made me ditch that and come over to Google’s browser for the same jobs. Google Chrome’s Print to PDF option is a basic built in functionality. But it [...]
A few days ago, I came across the chat acronym – P911. That’s one for dealing with parents who suddenly come into your room while you are doing ‘something’ on your computer. The definition says – My parents are in the room. P=Parents, and 911=emergency, in other words either drop the subject, or watch the [...]
We’ve previously featured how to create a slideshow of desktop wallpapers in Windows 7. However, I’m pretty lazy when it comes to changing my wallpaper and will often have the same set of wallpapers set for months on end. Now, you probably already knew that you could set a wallpaper by right clicking on an [...]
If you are bored of seeing the pictures of flowers or animals on your Windows 7 logon screen and want to see your own sweet face there when you log on then check this quick tutorial which will help you do exactly that. Before I proceed, just wanted to mention that in case you are [...]
In all probability you are someone who uses Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Reader, Picasa and many more of the myriad other online services that are owned by Google and hence require a Google account to use. If you are looking for a single interface that lets you take a quick look at the important data [...]
What if you find that there’s an update available to your favorite app on iPhone and you readily upgrade it just to find that the new version sucks? You want to desperately go back to the previous version, don’t you? Well, as you would have expected, the process isn’t that straight-forward. Over at our mobile [...]
If you use Google Reader as your primary RSS reader, and like discovering new sites, then you might want to make use of this neat option in Reader that lets you discover similar blogs and websites. The tip is simple - click on that small, dropdown arrow that’s beside each feed title in the left [...]
Putting an iOS device into recovery mode could be a pain if the Home button or the Power button on your iPhone or iPod doesn’t work (not that uncommon). Our mobile channel, GT Mobiles, talks about a nifty utility called RecBoot that can help you quickly enter or exit recovery mode on your iOS device [...]
It is common knowledge that Windows PC’s boot times are substantially higher than their OS X-based counterparts. There have even been entire programs created to speed up the boot process. But programs are not what I am writing about today. Today, I only wish to share a wonderful tweak that can shave a handful of [...]
Anyone will attest to the fact that there is a list of simple features missing from the formidable iTunes. Its inability to automatically upload new music to your library has been at the top of my personal list. It wasn’t until recently that I became aware that this feature has been available since iTunes 9! [...]
Here’s a neat trick that can come in handy when a particular website doesn’t seem to load correctly or doesn’t display the latest content. Now, we have talked about what is a browser cache and how to clear it before. Browser cache is basically the information like stylesheets, scripts etc, stored by sites in your [...]
