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Secure Your Social Accounts By Cleaning Up Your Apps Permissions Using MyPermissions

January 5, 2012

Apps are little applications that extend the functionality of any service, whether it be a browser, a social network like Facebook, or it may be a standalone program that just makes life a bit easier for us. If you have used a few, you know apps are the easiest things to install, and also the [...]

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A Useful Guide to Using Online Tools and Apps For Staying Fit

January 4, 2012

The beginning of the year is a great time for people to start taking their health seriously. Unfortunately, that’s often very short-lived and motivation dies soon enough as the year progresses. This year is different though, right? You’re going to work out 3x a week, right? Let’s make sure you get off to the best [...]

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Understanding Opera Turbo, a Nice Workaround For Slow Internet Connection

January 4, 2012

Nothing else annoys me more than a slow Internet connection. Sitting in front of your browser while it’s loading your graphics packed webpage and all you can do is sit and stare at the progress bar can be a real pain. Sometimes, you can change your connection provider but let’s just say you are stuck [...]

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5 Very Neat Uses of Wolfram Alpha Search Engine

January 3, 2012

Wolfram Alpha is a mathematical computational engine. Now, if it sounds something that just goes with CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, then you should just hold that thought there for a while. Wolfram Alpha sounds terribly complicated, but scratch beneath the surface and you get to see a cool tool that combines knowledge with mathematical computation [...]

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How to Directly Upload Your Dropbox Photos to Facebook

January 3, 2012

I am a Dropbox fan. It’s like an extension of my hard disk on the clouds. One of the most important uses I put my Dropbox account to is, of course, the backup, and my top priority is all my precious photos. As soon as I transfer images from my digital camera to my computer, [...]

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How to Block Access to a Particular Folder For a Guest User in Windows 7

January 3, 2012

Last week, few of my cousins came over for Christmas and New Year celebrations, none of them carrying their laptops though. While most were busy shopping, some of them asked me for my laptop to check their inbox or Facebook updates. Before handing over my laptop, I had to ensure that they don’t accidentally (or [...]

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2 Great Services to Discover and Watch New Videos

January 2, 2012

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 [...]

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It’s Our 2nd Birthday!

January 1, 2012

The thing about starting your blog on 1st of January is that you never forget its birthday. Guiding Tech, or GT as I like to call it, started exactly two years ago on this date when I figured that troubleshooting stuff & writing about them, and managing (plus growing) a blog, is what I am [...]

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Listen to Music Online With Earbits, a Cool, Free Web Based Radio

December 31, 2011

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 [...]

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How to Easily Convert Fonts From One Format to Another With Online Font Converter

December 31, 2011

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 [...]

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How to Bulk Resize Images, Change their Resolutions At One Go With Lightning Image Resizer

December 30, 2011

Modern day digital cameras are quite powerful and each photograph we click using them are usually high resolution. Though these high resolution photos can be effectively used to create collages and wall hangings but as far as their digital use is concerned (like sharing them online) it’s always better to resize them. Resizing and changing [...]

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GT Explains: What is the Svchost.exe Process and Why Are So Many of it Running?

December 30, 2011

When you open up Windows Task Manager, there are some processes which you will instantly recognize. Then there will be some of which you will have no clue. The Svchost.exe process is perhaps the most common in the list and perhaps the one that’s difficult to track down. Let’s look into the cause and effect [...]

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Reviewing Toolwiz Care, a Multi-Purpose Software to Maintain and Optimize Windows Computers

December 29, 2011

The one true yardstick of a geek is the degree to which he maintains his computer. A geek likes to break apart an intact thing and poke into its innards, but I am guessing from my own experience, the hassle of reinstalling an operating system isn’t a favored hobby of many. So, why not put [...]

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Reviewing the New Photo Sharing, Tagging, Editing Features in Picasa 3.9

December 29, 2011

Lately, if you noticed, Google is linking almost all its products and services to Google+. Sorting of email in Gmail according to Google Circles is an example. Seeing so many efforts to popularize Google+, I was wondering when they are going to integrate it with Picasa. Well, Picasa is already integrated in a way because [...]

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How to Calibrate Display Color, Gamma, Contrast etc in Windows 7

December 28, 2011

Whenever you bring a new monitor for your computer or if your old one is having some color disturbance the first thing you do is hunt for the monitor’s hardware color controls to toggle the display settings to get things right. Most of us do the color calibration inadvertently through trial and error. They set [...]

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How to Use the Google Plus Creative Kit to Edit and Spice Up Your Photos

December 28, 2011

Could it be the Instagram effect…or more aptly, the Picnik effect which is Google’s own online photo-editing app? One click photo editing apps are all the rage these days. More for fun and less for serious image stylists, spicing up your photos has almost become a social show-off activity in itself. So, it’s no surprise [...]

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