Let me start with a quick question today. What feature do you think a mobile user would always look for in a smartphone, tablets, laptops or netbooks? Yes! It’s long battery life. These users are very particular about the battery life as everything will fail to work without the juice to power them. Windows provides [...]
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At one end you have repetitive stress injury as an occupational hazard for computer workers. On the other you have the sheer boredom of typing out the same blocks of text in document after document. PhraseExpress is the complete auto-complete solution. But PhraseExpress is not just a text replacement tool.. in fact, with a powerful [...]
Losing a laptop isn’t as uncommon as you might think. It’s an unsafe world out there and you need to ensure that you do everything possible to keep your gadgets (and the data within them) safe, and set up measures to track and recover them when calamity strikes. There are many paid and free services [...]
The first rule of time management says – prioritize. The second asks you to plug time leaks. But plugging time leaks involves knowing where and how you spend your time. That’s productivity, but if you are a freelancer, knowing how much time you spend on multiple tasks or projects is essential for calculating billable hours. [...]
Mind mapping is a relatively new method of thought organization — although I’m quite sure it was used informally before word of it spread as a creative and thought organizing tool. I was first introduced to mind mapping in middle school. Back then, we were taught how to use it very carefully: use colors for [...]
Before I begin, let me ask a few questions related to your PC: What is your monitor’s display frequency? Who’s your hard disk manufacturer? Does your system support hyper threading? Some of you might be able to answer these in the blink of an eye but believe me, for an average computer user, these could [...]
Be it a home screen of a smartphone, a tablet or an iPod touch music player, if I were to say that almost all of us like to sport a cool and elegant clock widget on it, I would not be exaggerating. If we do so on our handhelds then why deprive our desktop of [...]
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 [...]
Product keys are like bank accounts. They should be kept somewhere safe. A Windows crash is misery enough without the hair-splitting if you happen to lose your product keys. Product keys are imprinted on the package your installation disks came in. Keep them safe and backed up is the first advice. Know how to retrieve [...]
Till date, we have talked about quite a few file recovery tools that help us to restore files that are deleted accidentally from our computer. You must be thinking as to what’s the need of another one? Well no doubt the previously mentioned tools did what they claimed to do but you know, there’s always [...]
Windows 7 is a powerful operating system with almost all the necessary features one needs for everyday computing. However, not all of these features are available at our fingertips. Most of the settings are scattered across the operating system and often one has to undergo many steps to access them if he is not acquainted [...]
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 [...]
As the owner of a high end laptop that has a powerful processor, a lot of RAM and hard disk space, I have no dearth of options when it comes to software, apps and other such utilities that I could install on my computer. However, if I were to use a Netbook, I couldn’t have [...]
I am sure almost everyone has used an archive manager to pack files and folders together but today I would like to share with you a very nifty tool, Folder2Iso using which you can create an ISO from any kind of a folder, along with its subfolders. Some of you must be thinking, “What is [...]
Your friend wants to borrow one of your prized DVDs. You loathe to lend it to him because you have a hunch you might not get it back. The easy solution would be to copy or clone the original DVD and give him the copy. The problem – nearly every commercial DVD in the market [...]
It’s said about life and sports that if you do the basics right, everything will fall into place. The same think can be said about the simple job of backing up your files, folders, and vital data. The simplest jobs should be done with the simplest of tools. Bvckup – a free, real time Windows [...]
Usually, the only thing that you are able to access when Windows freezes is the Task Manager. As program crashes are not that uncommon on Windows, almost every one of us uses it once a day to force close an application or end a background process. Though this solves the purpose for a basic user, [...]
Files on Windows are, sometimes, tough to keep intact in their original form and people use many tools like file optimizers, antivirus applications and disk repair tools to safeguard them. No matter how cautious one is, accidents happen. A virus outbreak on your system can ruin your computer in ways you can’t even imagine, one [...]
In a previous post, I discussed with you about changing your default email client in Firefox and Internet Explorer. While changing the default email client for Firefox one can choose Gmail and Yahoo Mail as its preferred default service apart from other Windows based clients, but no such provisions are available in Internet Explorer or [...]
