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Previously we have seen two great tricks using which you could import caller image for a contact from the user’s Facebook profile. One of the tricks embedded the profile picture to phone’s memory while the other one overlapped the default caller screen and started a slide show of user’s photo on Facebook. Now the problem [...]
After the release of Windows 8 RTM, we have covered many useful articles on basic Windows 8 apps and how you can use them in your everyday life. To ease things out, we have already discussed how to add videos and songs in Windows 8 Music and Video app and also how you can configure [...]
Whenever you launch the MS Outlook desktop application, it opens at a specific folder. The default behavior is to show up the Mail interface and open at the Inbox location. While this works best for me, there could be folks with different requirements. I mean when you open the application you may want to land [...]
Previously I was always concerned about the security of my files on Dropbox, but after the two-step authentication process was launched, I thought to try it out for my important files on Android. It is more secure now and keeping a copy on the clouds always have its advantages. However, when I tried the official [...]
When you start out with a PowerPoint slide, you have specific design goals in mind. At least I hope you do, because without that your presentation would be wasted effort. One of the basic design goals is to use shapes in a slide – they come in various forms – and their proper positioning on [...]
Recently we had a look at Office 2013 and understood that it has been built with a whole new set of features. One such thing is insertion of images and videos into a Word document directly from the web. This means that a user does not have to leave the document to perform internet search [...]
A new password reveal button (looks like a small eye) has been introduced in Windows 8 using which you can reveal your typed password before you press the enter button. I believe this feature was introduced keeping in mind the tablet users having muscular fingers who have a tendency to mistype characters. Using this feature, [...]
You don’t have that fancy mega-pixel DSLR yet with an USM lens that needs breaking into a bank. Well, if there is any truth in the old maxim that the best camera is your eye, then you can avoid the police rap sheet and instead pick up that smartphone lying around and see if you [...]
The advent of advanced smartphones has resulted in our expectations with a cellular phone increasing manifold. Users who were happy to have a simple caller image now want a full screen high-definition contact image. Polyphonic ringtones and sing-tones can now be replaced with video tones. With all these amazing things you can now do on [...]
While I was trying out all the modern Windows 8 apps after installing the Windows 8 RTM on my computer, I noticed that whenever I was sending an email from Windows 8 Mail app, a text “Sent from Windows Mail” was always inserted at the end of all the outgoing emails as an email signature. [...]
It’s been over a month now since HTC announced that it will be rolling out Jelly Bean ROMs for HTC One series, but since then there has been no update on the news. Not even an official date has been announced. Some of the developers though had already started rolling out custom Jelly Bean ROMs [...]
Effective presentations start with doing the simple things well. And nothing can be simpler than or as basic as learning how to make those images fit onto your slides just perfectly. It is a common problem – you get just the right image, but the image size is a bit too small or too big [...]
People with bigger fingers usually find it difficult to work on touch enabled devices, be it smartphones or tablets. However, the modern UI launched by Microsoft in Windows 8 seems to have some answers. With spaced controls and bigger buttons, people should find it very easy to interact with the Windows 8 based touch inputs, [...]
If you are a Skype user and have been using it often for chatting or calling (or may be screen sharing), you’d know that distinct sound it produces when you sign in. And that’s not the only time it does that. It also notifies you when a contact becomes available through a sound and visually [...]
