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 [...]
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Creating desktop shortcuts, adding files to start menu and pinning of applications to the taskbar.. why do we do apply these tweaks? Indeed you are right - it’s our attempt to launch our favorite programs in the easiest and quickest away possible. These tricks are good, but if you want to try something new, something [...]
Do you to change your desktop wallpaper every now and then but doing so manually all the time makes you a little cranky? Well, there are tools and ways to change wallpapers automatically, and today we’ll take up one of them. We have already discussed about DesktopSlides, a nifty tool that changes desktop wallpapers automatically. [...]
There was a time when I didn’t know about scheduled tweets, keyword tracking on Twitter (useful for market research or just to learn more about topics), and tweeting on a desktop. When I look back to it, I can hardly imagine why I didn’t explore the realm of desktop Twitter apps much sooner! One of [...]
Ever heard of Mac OS X‘s Spaces? It’s a great utility that allows you to create new desktops on your Mac computer. For example, you can leave iTunes on one desktop, Facebook in another, and your Word document in a third desktop. That means you won’t be distracted by Facebook Chat when you’re working on [...]
Windows 7 is an awesome operating system. Coming from an old Mac user, I can definitely say it has been easy to adapt to and it’s a pleasure to use. That said, I found the Windows interface to get a bit stale after a while, so I decided to find some ways to make it [...]
Yesterday I talked about the basics of a Windows Theme and how to change it if you are working on Windows 7. You might know that by default Windows come with 6 pre-installed themes along with some hidden ones we can unlock, the variety is not enough to suit everyone’s taste. To expand our choices, [...]
One of the best things about Windows from an end-user point of view is the ease of customization. One can quickly change wallpapers, screen savers etc to get an all new appearance everyday. Though you can change these things individually but how about changing them all at once with some specific theme in mind? A [...]
The best way to beat screen fatigue is to just get up and walk away from your computer. But in the middle of a busy day, the next best thing you can do is change your wallpaper every now and then. No, you don’t have to do it manually. Download Flickr Wallpaper Rotator for your [...]
How do you go about sharing online a screenshot or a video file or an mp3..any file from your desktop? Yeah, I know, there are tons of ways for sure. You could use Opera Unite for instance to share big files, CloudApp on Mac is an option, for private peer-to-peer sharing we’ve got iSender (or [...]
Macs have a lot of unique applications out of the box. One of these is called Dashboard, which is an application that basically goes over your desktop and displays widgets. These widgets can serve all kinds of purposes, from being a useful and convenient, quick calculator to a widget that displays The Simpsons quotes (known [...]
Divvy is a program used to manage your workspace. It is used to divide (or divvy up) your workspace into a grid. You can then use to scale your windows’ sizes according to the grid. Don’t really get the jist yet? Let’s dig further into it. This is the basic premise of how Divvy works [...]
Once a business-oriented feature, the release of Windows XP introduced two new technologies to the public – Remote Desktop and Remote Assistance. Remote Desktop kept its focus on business use, providing users with access to their home computers while you are on the go. You can run your computer as if you were there, but [...]
Tweaking a desktop is a beautiful thing. Whether it’s constantly changing the visual elements to suit your ever-changing tastes, or giving your desktop an overhaul for the new year, there are a huge variety of free tools for you to explore. These tools can help improve the computing experience and perhaps even your efficiency. I’ll [...]
So, your Windows desktop is a complete mess – all kinds of files, icons and what not, arranged in the most disorganized way. You know how to declutter your desktop but just haven’t been able to find the time and the patience to do it ( don’t worry, it’s not just you ). The only [...]
