Whenever I get some free time online, I resort to 2 of my favorite pastimes: scouring through Wikipedia or devouring videos on YouTube. I have already talked about two extensions I use in Chrome to enhance my Wikipedia browsing, and today I will reveal the extensions that help me manage YouTube videos in Chrome. If [...]
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Most of us, when asked about the default music manager and player we use on our computers, are likely to mention iTunes or Windows Media Player. Both of these, and the other popular desktop media players like Winamp and VLC are useful in their own right but they can only reign over your music as [...]
What do you stare at for obscene amounts of hours every single day? Let’s face it, your computer has become an invaluable tool and asset. You’ve grown accustomed to staring at your desktop and the icons on it, thinking about what you need to get done or finding a tool you need to use. Your [...]
One of the best things about Firefox is that it lets you create multiple user profiles on it. This feature might come in handy when you have siblings around working on the same computer. Firefox comes with an excellent profile manager of its own where you can create and manage profiles. The sad part is [...]
The problem with taking photos with your digital camera is that they end up being huge in size and thus you need to reduce the JPEG sizes before you could share on services like Flickr or Picasa. Reducing the sizes is also recommended because it’d help your friends easily download them or view them online.. [...]
Sometimes little things make a big difference. Let’s take the example of the warning dialog which pops up in Firefox when we try to close multiple tabs. The warning tab is actually a safeguard against losing work when you accidently close the browser. I have often made the mistake when I absentmindedly closed a tab [...]
Social networking has come to mean sharing interesting events around your life. Facebook has come to epitomize that like nothing else; and to be frank, ‘interesting’ has taken a backseat as we share the humdrum along with the eventful. Facebook is building interactions, and to add more bricks to that they recently announced a slew [...]
“Today, I want to tell you three stories from my life.” With that, Steve Jobs launched into his Stanford commencement speech. Stories are a great medium to convey points that would otherwise have sounded very boring and clichéd on their own. Why not make your work experience stand out by telling a story with it? [...]
Suppose you are browsing through some restricted websites in your workplace or let’s say you’re in your college dorm and someone to whom you are answerable for your behavior comes looking for you. Of course, you can close your browser with a simple click to save yourself from embarrassment, but it will leave that person [...]
How simple can a file sharing application get? Probably, not simpler than Castle.so. We have checked out sites like Minus and WeTransfer which are all neat and simple file sharing solutions in their own right, and the biggie of the cloud itself – Dropbox. So, do we really need another file upload and sharing tool? [...]
I love YouTube. I’m certain I’m not alone. I was curious about finding new videos to watch on YouTube, and while there are a ton circulating on Facebook and Twitter, they’re often recycled and stuff that I’ve seen before. Luckily, I stumbled upon these two methods of discovering new videos. Here they are: 1. Show [...]
To me there is nothing in this world that can be compared to the relaxed feeling I get when I can just sit back and listen to some good music. Music doesn’t need a specific time or place. It can be heard anytime, anywhere but sometimes you want to transcend he stuff you have in [...]
If you are a web or a mobile application developer then you might have come across situations where you land on an interesting font online which you want to use in your tool, but the only thing that’s coming between you and the font is its format. Most of the free fonts available online are [...]
