I love to play games on my Android smartphone and I use my 3G connection to download them. But some games require you to connect using Wi-Fi before you can download them. Previously, I didn’t have a Wi-Fi router in my house, and neither did my smartphone support Ad-Hoc network (until you root it and [...]
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There could be a ton of reasons why you want to keep up with the news. In any case, lets say you’ve been trying for a long time, and it simply hasn’t worked. Perhaps you don’t like newspapers and you don’t have cable television, or you don’t like going through 500 different industry websites to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Windows 7 explorer is very powerful when compared to its previous versions. However, if you are looking for some cool tricks to integrate few more useful features to the explorer, here are 7 utilitarian features you can enable on your default Windows 7 explorer to become more productive and increase accessibility at the same time. [...]
I hardly use the Windows 7 library and hence I find it a bit irritating sometimes that the Windows explorer folder icon on my taskbar opens the Library by default. I mean, I should be able to quickly set it to open my favorite/most frequently used folder, right? Turns out, this isn’t that straight-forward. If [...]
Our world is full of so much information — in fact, a lot of us may suffer from information overload. As a result, note taking has gotten more and more important, both to serve as reminders and to serve as an extension of our minds. I know it really helps my mind to know that [...]
There’s this little piece of Windows that everyone has run into. Yet not very many people know exactly what it’s about, and why it’s there. It’s called Windows Safe Mode, and you might have had to boot into it. I remember my first encounter with Safe Mode when I was a kid, running on Windows [...]
So you are a new user of Windows 7, and you are facing a bit of a problem with the settings of your computer or may be you just want to uninstall a program and cannot figure out the right way. How do you make the changes according to your own needs ? A simple [...]
Windows Vista was just a bad blip on Microsoft’s radar. Windows 7 has gathered momentum and has been regarded as the best Microsoft upgrade to date. People have been switching over to Microsoft’s latest OS in hordes. If you still haven’t switched over (like me), now it’s high time because you just might get to [...]
One thing that the Mac has way over Windows: fonts. Whether it be beautiful default system fonts or font management, there’s no doubt that OS X has the edge over Windows in this aspect. As I was collecting my fonts again and re-downloading them onto my Windows PC, I couldn’t help but wonder if there [...]
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, [...]
It won’t be an exaggeration to say that Facebook has become an integral part of most of our lives and our day might feel incomplete without a dose of Facebook session. If you think the same and want to make your Facebook experience a bit easier you can try the FB Explorer, a Facebook gadget [...]
I am a chronic downloader. I usually stay up with my computer, but then I do need to shut my eye. The computer chugs on and on. Sometimes, you need to find out how long your computer has been running just so you can give it a bit of a rest. Nope, you don’t need [...]
