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In the world of megapixel photos and Retina displays, tiny clipart images could easily feel left out. But these tiny images have their uses which cross over from education to business. So much so that Microsoft is among the few giants who offer an online clipart image gallery that’s integrated with their Office suite. You [...]
We have seen many tricks using which we can backup and restore text messages on an Android phone. However, many people use WhatsApp as their default messaging client as it’s cheap when compared to normal text messaging and supports multimedia files. On a rooted device, we can take the application data backup along with the [...]
There are dime a dozen ways to consume news on the web. But if you are a news junkie like me, you will try out every news aggregator that comes your way. NextStories is the only one I know so far which gives you a one-click way to all the news that’s happening around us. [...]
Managing emails and email accounts using desktop email clients like Windows Live Mail or MS Outlook is one of the best ways to bring all your mail services together. Now, there is every chance that you have your Outlook.com account connected to one such tool and that you are using POP to download Outlook messages [...]
Hardware keys or the buttons on your Android phone giving you trouble? Maybe they’ve given up already. No worries, today I am going to show you how you can control your Android phone even without the phone hardware buttons as long as your device is rooted. However if you need help in installing apps on [...]
When we talked about Cintanotes we also saw how we could synchronize the notes created on Cintanotes via Dropbox. It was then that this thought struck me about synchronizing Windows’ default Sticky Notes using Dropbox. With a little research and hit and trials, I found out that it is indeed possible to do so. The [...]
The literal meaning of the word ‘ditto’ fits just perfectly with this tool that manages all our copy-cut-paste operations. It is used to indicate that something already said is applicable a second time. That’s the usual function of a clipboard manager, and Ditto is what it says it is. Ditto extends the standard windows clipboard. [...]
Windows 8 Modern apps (formerly known as Metro apps) don’t have the conventional close button like the ones you find in the desktop apps, and that’s because Microsoft doesn’t want you to kill them without a reason. However you can close an app using the task manager or by simply clicking on the top edge [...]
Nowadays, I browse Windows 8 App Store whenever I get time and look for new apps for my personal use. While searching for a dedicated app to manage Twitter, I found quite a few good apps but there was not a single app dedicated to Facebook (for the time being) which is what I prefer [...]
You might be wondering why on earth would someone want to control his Android phone using the ADB commands. Well, as long as all your device hardware keys are working fine and the touch screen panel works flawlessly, you won’t find the article of any use.. until the day arrives when one of the back [...]
Controlling Windows remotely using an Android is nothing new and we have already seen how to do it in the past. Today however I am going to tell you an amazing new trick using which you can play games on your computer using the accelerometer sensors of your Android. Sounds cool, right? Trust me, it [...]
Recently we learnt a few things about Firefox about:config preferences and tried to take note of the basic ones. We also looked at the extension Tab Mix Plus, which provides an easy way to do so. Now, if you are somebody who plays a lot with such settings it would be a good idea to [...]
A lot of people like to use the default Windows 7 Sticky Notes but most of us think that they cannot be formatted. I am talking about things like bold, italics, bullets, font size, etc. Well, the fact behind this is that we do not see any formatting options on the interface. However, there are [...]
Do you create your presentations directly on PowerPoint from scratch? There’s more than a likely possibility that the data your boss has told you to include in the presentation resides in a neighboring Microsoft Word file. Now, there are two ways to bring this data into a PowerPoint presentation. The first is the often followed [...]
