Tips, Tricks and Hacks

Many of the well known email services have email autoforwarding feature. In Gmail, you can simply set an address for forwarding and the emails that land on your Gmail Inbox will automatically be forwarded to an address of your choice. However, you might have noticed that some emails fail to get forwarded. The reason behind this is that Gmail doesn’t auto forward emails that land in the Spam folder. If you have auto forwarding set up for your Gmail account, you had better check to see if there are any important emails in the spam folder. Well there’s a little workaround that will ensure that you won’t miss any auto forwarded emails in the future.

It is extremely easy to speed up your computer by tweaking only a handful of default system setting in Windows 7 OS. To make windows more appealing to our eyes, by default a number of unnecessary settings are pre-programmed in Windows 7 which can be tweaked or disabled only in a few mouse clicks in regedit.

Once you brought an external Mac OS X hard drive to back up your important data you must partition it before usage. In order to use the external hard disk drive one must partition it to support HFS file systems.

Without encryption many of today’s websites couldn’t exist. From email accounts to bank websites, encryption plays a vital role in many people’s everyday lives. Many forms of encryption exist from VPNs to file encryption or even commonly used but less commonly thought about methods such as SSL.

Twitter is a great way to gain followers and, for businesses, customers. Unfortunately, many people don’t know how to use Twitter to their best advantage. Most people might tweet about their new blog post, or an interesting article they just read, and that’s about it. But, if you really want to get noticed on Twitter, you have to make the messages you post really stand out.

When it comes to textual content or any other writeup, most of the people prefer Microsoft Word as the main platform for creating such documents. Many people just work on the textual content without adding any media files or images to their documents.

If you have ever experienced the frustration of copying something into word – only to see your formatting go crazy – then this post is for you. However, what most people don’t realise is that Microsoft Word actually has a whole bunch of pasting options which makes any job simple.

Have you ever set a password for an excel spreadsheet and forgotten it? Well I know I have! To unlock a password protected Excel file is simple. You will need to play around with some VB codes.

Windows Phone 7 is increasingly gaining market share. Although WIndows Phone boasts of a lot of cool features, there are still rooms for improvements. For instance, If you want to look for a song in your zune library, you will have to manually browser by artist, album or song as there is no search functionality built in. If you are a windows phone user are looking for an easy way to search songs on your phone, here’s an easy way to do it.

Thunderbird is one of the widely used email clients and is next only to Outlook in popularity. Most of the popular email services run smoothly in Thunderbird. But many a times, we come across errors and issues in software we use and Thunderbird isn’t any different. Well, have you come across times when  you wake [...]