Online shopping is in vogue (has been for quite sometime actually). In the west, especially in the United States, online shopping has matured to such an extent that you see a bevy of shopping apps around the industry. If you are a couch consumer, you will appreciate the need to manage your shopping across the [...]
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The two dimensional bar codes called QR (Quick Response) Codes are finding new uses. Thanks to the omnipresence of smartphones and QR apps in them, you don’t have to look far for novel uses of these alpha-numeric codes. Tag My Doc (Beta) is a time-saving web service that uses QR Codes to share documents. Tag [...]
Way back, when I was new on Facebook, I tried a hell lot of apps and games everyday. Though each of them comes with a necessary set of permissions telling us how the application will integrate with your profile, I never paid attention to them. Soon when I started getting spams of horoscopes, daily fortune [...]
The world revolves around movies. Hollywood rules; and a few language barriers aside, it cuts its way across borders. The web has become the go-to medium if you want to keep yourself updated about what’s going to play next…and where. It’s just not enough to get this information – you need to share it too. [...]
Snipreel (alpha) is a very simple tool that helps you ‘snip’ a part (or parts) from a YouTube video and then share it with your friends using the generated Snipreel URL. I went in search of this utility when I wanted to highlight something from a cookery video I was watching on YouTube. The entire [...]
It’s probably a sign of our busy times that thinking up new gift ideas has been ‘outsourced’ to the web. Of course, the social web has brought a few enhancements to this joyous activity. After organizing a gift together with friends with the help of Simple Present, I am sure you will agree that thinking [...]
Text to speech is evolving. The implications of text to speech technology are really broad, especially for the specially challenged. Even for most of us, who love to tap away on our keyboards, giving our ears a chance over our eyes has some interesting benefits. For instance, we can absorb information when we are busy [...]
If you love epicurean delights, then you would want a food and recipe website to reflect those sensory pleasures. Foodily is a beautifully designed website that does not disappoint. If you have gone through a few recipe websites like me, then you would know that we tend to like those websites that are just like [...]
Can’t decide what next step to take on your design? Stuck at the introduction to your article? Artists always run into roadblocks on occasion. Not to worry, here at Guiding Tech we are a creative bunch of folks who are always in search of stuff that can keep fueling our creativity. And we have just [...]
YouTube has its place; maybe on the throne of all video hosting websites. But then many ‘pretenders’ have come along. What they have given us are myriad ways of watching an online video. Throw VHX.tv into the mix. VHX.tv says that they have combined the best parts of TV with the best of the web. [...]
If you are even bit of a geek, you will have your friends clamoring all over your Facebook Wall and Twitter timeline asking for the best software or app for a particular job. It’s a great ego boost to get all that attention, but as I know from my own bittersweet experience, being treated like [...]
Think about these two scenarios: 1. You are on a computer where you do not have administrative rights to install antivirus software. But you need to scan for malware, and 2. You want to double-check your system (or just a single downloaded file) for potential security threats by running it through a spyware scan. I [...]
Few weeks ago, we discussed how we can create a new user profile in Firefox using the inbuilt profile manager. Profile manager really makes it easy to create separate profiles but it doesn’t make managing or switching between them convenient. You need to close Firefox, go back to the profile manager, select the other profile [...]
We know that with Google’s motley of cloud services, our data is just a click away (bandwidth connectivity permitting). But there may also come a time when you may need to (or want to) look beyond Google services. As you crossover to the other side to a new service, you would like to take along [...]
Steve Jobs strictly believed that great design had everything to do with user experience. Perhaps, that explains why it’s difficult to combine simplicity with effectiveness. A Web Whiteboard (AWN) manages to meet that yardstick. But I will leave the measure of the app to your own judgment while I try to describe its merits. A [...]
Google takes privacy seriously. How to ensure that you stay safe online is also like a perplexing riddle with myriad security settings and confusing security tools. To an old hand it’s just another day in office, but think of someone like your mom or your dear Uncle Joe who is not so adept with computers [...]
The one thing that comes to our mind when we utter the word office is piles of documents lying here and there. Well, the obvious solution is digitizing them and that can prevent the paper from flying around in the office, but don’t get fooled, because while digitization of paper docs gives us cleaner and [...]
Most of us are usually quite protective about our browsing history and frown upon add-ons that record it without us knowing. But then, there are others who’d like to have their browsing history at their tips all the time so that they could search through it and dig up useful information. Infoaxe is an alternative [...]
