You’ve received a PDF as an email attachment and as soon as the notification popped up on your phone you knew that you had to get a printout of that quickly. The old and conventional way: connect the phone to your computer, transfer the file (or download it from your email) and then click Print. [...]
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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 [...]
A common phrase we use when it comes to praising something is “ short and sweet ”. Have you ever heard anyone saying “It was long but sweet”? I suppose no. Same is the case with videos. People usually prefer short and interesting video clips rather than long videos that beat around the bush. Of [...]
Learning is the key to fixing a lot of problems. I’m a pretty inquisitive guy naturally, and I love finding out about things — how they work, people’s opinions of them, and the such. Throughout my pursuit of knowledge and answers, I’ve stumbled upon some great sites to answer some of my questions, and give [...]
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 [...]
Do you have any idea how many files did you download on you system when you opened this particular webpage? The exact amount of bandwidth you consumed? No, I guess. Well, while going about with our daily lives we don’t usually care about these things but there might be situation when you need to keep [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
So your mom just came up to you and asked you how she could set up her email account. A tear of joy comes to your eyes, followed by many tears of anticipated frustration and impatience. No worries! Here are five resources that can help your mom (or dad) get familiar with the world of [...]
I am always on the lookout for tools which can help me deal with the overload of information we have to handle each day. Visualization aids really help. On the face of it, Wordle is a pretty neat way of generating “word clouds” from any text that you provide. It might not strike you that [...]
HTML5 looks like the next big trend or the next big mystery, depending on how you look at it. But it is just a far reaching change from the traditional way we build web pages. HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the building block of the web. Everything from simple email to Facebook is built around [...]
Web 2.0 has drastically improved the style of webpages. It has made webpages more colorful, more interactive, and very difficult to print. The web survives on advertisements, but it is something that disrupts the way we would like to print webpages. And I haven’t even started with the eco-unfriendliness of printing reams of pages with [...]
You probably don’t give a minimalist webpage a second glance. But you should, because in the age of Web 2.0, even a plain Jane interface could hide something very useful. That’s why Citebite deserves a second glance from you. Citebite addresses a very basic need of ours. It has all the appearances of a webpage [...]
If you are a regular reader of Guiding tech then you would know that we here are ardent Gmail fans. We just can’t stop talking about its features and awesomeness. Though Gmail already has an overwhelming number of features, you can make it even better by giving Gmail Labs a try. Google calls Gmail Labs [...]
The web these days is all about sharing. From social bookmarking to URL shortening, there are umpteen ways to share a liked webpage. But none of it is really personal with a capital ‘P’. The most you can do is add a message with the link. Enter Bo.lt. Bo.lt is a new kind of page [...]
