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Gadgets / Tips, Tricks and Hacks
by Crystal Sanders · Published September 26, 2012 · Last modified September 27, 2012
One of the new offerings of the sixth generation Apple iPhone presented this September 12 is the Panorama feature for the iSight camera. And while it is true that nothing much has changed in terms of the camera (it still is only 8 megapixels for the rear though the front camera was changed from VGA to 1.2 megapixels cam), the special feature of panoramic photos on iPhone 5 made people want to sell used iPhone all the more.
Today, where there is cyber crime reached at its peak, protecting data became the major concern for all computer users. Keeping this fact in mind, various computer applications provide the option to password protect their files. One of which, is Adobe PDF or Portable Document Format file. PDF is global format for virtual sharing of rich data from any application on any system (computer), anywhere. The PDF files can be protected with passwords at two levels, which are user password and owner password.
In the case of reverse scrolling, or natural scrolling as Apple named it, you can simply move your finger up when you move a document down. But, the feature can also be disabled on a Mac by users who do not like the change. Google has also introduced the reverse scrolling feature to its Chrome OS.
With more than 3 billion global monthly searches, ‘Facebook’ has become the most searched keyword on Google. This social networking website has pioneered and revolutionized the domain of communication, sharing, and socializing. With roots originating from a university dorm, Facebook has grown in leaps and bounds over the past five years to become a billion-dollar public company.
There are times when you need to add a reference to a certain tweet by yourself or by some other twitterer. In that case, you can either capture a screenshot of the tweet or simply embed it using Twitter’s native code for embedding the tweet. There are also various other options available for embedding a tweet on a website such as embedding a tweet as an image with custom colors. But do you know what the easiest way is to embed tweets in a wordpress blog? Well its simple as copy pasting.
Most Operating Systems are designed in such a way that it allows you to continuously download additional features that may not have been on the original installation files. These updates can either have a positive or negative impact on how your computer functions and sometimes it is better off without having updates. Most persons are not aware of what goes on in the background of their computers when it is being updated. This article will show persons how they can navigate through their computer systems and disable their automatic updates.
As e-commerce and m-commerce (stands for mobile commerce not buying pictures of “M” from James Bond) become increasingly popular sales channels, one of the major focus areas for web designers is how to reduce shopping cart abandonment rates. Having people put your precious cargo into their shopping cart leave stinks. In the real world, it would be like going to Best Buy, putting tons of really great electronics in your shopping cart, then leaving the cart next to the cashier and just walking out. Studies have shown that average shopping card abandonment rates are as high as 70%. We need to do something about that!
Traffic strength is one of the most crucial factors that determine the success of your website. The more the traffic inflow the more it makes your site a hit. It depends on the amount...
With people using their smartphones for all kinds of purposes, ranging from business to social, entertainment to administration, it helps to find out how we can make the purpose for use simpler. After all, not everyone likes the built-in applications that come with smartphones, whether it’s the iPhone, the Blackberry, Android phones or Windows phones. Everyone has their own opinion – a bit like who is going to win tournaments or MVP awards.
Starting a weight loss blog is just like starting any offline business. Don’t be deceived into thinking that there is less risk of failure because you’re operating online and have invested less in tangible assets. Many have become bloggers in this field after being swayed by popular opinion and the fact that a good number of urban dwellers are overweight. But numbers can be deceptive; much as demand for mobile devices is growing, not every brand is making profits. However, if you have discovered an untapped niche in the weight loss industry and have an idea of how you can exploit it through your blog, it could be worth taking the risk and getting started.
Shopping is something you either love or hate doing. For many it’s a form of relaxation, quoting “retail therapy” to their partners who are being dragged around the high streets for the umpteenth time that month spending money that they don’t really have. For others, it is a way of treating themselves after a long month at work when pay day finally arrives.
Blogging / Tips, Tricks and Hacks
by admin · Published June 2, 2012 · Last modified September 23, 2013
To use blogger on a custom domain, you need to modify the CNAME records of the domain with the ones provided by blogger. But many domain sellers don’t allow you to modify the CNAME records. This is especially the case with domain resellers. They provide you with an account that only lets you modify the nameservers but don’t offer option to modify the CNAME records. If you have come across such a situation here’s how you can use custom domain on blogger blog even if your domain provider doesn’t allow modifying CNAME records.
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.
Tips, Tricks and Hacks / Windows Tips and Tricks
by Siwalik · Published April 21, 2012 · Last modified February 23, 2025
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.