A blog on Tech Tips, Online Tools and Software, Blogging, Mobile World, Tech News and Social Media
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...
Ever wanted to know the number of Facebook users living in any country? You can find an estimated number of Facebook users from a country from the Facebook’s advertiser section.
For the iPhone users, creating a custom ringtone is both 100% free and easy; so you can change ringtones as much as you want or set a special ringtone for the people you really don’t want to answer.
Seesmic is among the most popular desktop clients for Twitter. If you are a voracious Twitter user, a good desktop client is a must for your daily use to keep up with the most important updates. Seesmic is a very powerful Twitter application and it lets you see your updates, direct messages and mentions on separate columns. But as nothing is perfect, the Seesmic’s desktop client for Windows is also no different. One thing that I miss on Seesmic Desktop is its inability to open conversations view. But if you want to have this functionality, there’s a cool plugin for it.
You must be familiar with beautiful landing pages on Facebook. A lot of companies these days have set a default landing page for their Facebook like page that looks beautiful and in most of...
Memes can also be inserted in Facebook chat. But inserting memes as such isn’t very easy. Facebook chat emoticons Bar is a greasemonkey script that adds the functionality to easily insert memes on Facebook chat.
Computer viruses or spam ware can steal your personal information, cause destruction with normal computer operations and attract new spam ware. Even, they can shut down your computer’s hard drive. Protecting your computer from viruses is critical for browsing success and safe computing. There are some virus protection tips for you. Millions of computer programmers are developing virus programs for your computer.
Have you ever thought about creating your own website? If so, Go Daddy can help. Since it offers web-hosting, domain name registration, and website building tools, Go Daddy is basically a one-stop shop for building your own website. They even offer a “WebSite Tonight” program that allows you to get your website up and running in a matter of hours. If you would like to know how to build a website with Go Daddy, the following pointers should help.
Its been long since Facebook let users tag their friends or like pages in status updates or comments. The feature first came to status updates and later on to comments as well. You can simply type the @ symbol and start typing the name of your friend and select one from the autocomplete. But this feature won’t work if you are using Facebook from a mobile browser that doesn’t support Javascript or if Javascript is turned off on your browser. But still, you can tag your friends using an alternate method.
You can find lots of transparent wallpapers for your smartphone running Windows phone. A member on xda-forums by the name of RKlenka has devised a cool way to use transparent wallpapers on Windows Phone.
The uses of Wolfram Alpha are countless. From performing complex mathematical operations to getting various high level statistical data, Wolfram Alpha does it all and using it is as simple as a pie. Give the name of any two cities and Wolfram Alpha will return results with relative data from both cities. Give it a problem of calculus and it will solve it for you within seconds. Added to the list is a feature that will leave you spellbound. Wolfram Alpha can now tell what planes are flying overhead while you have sipping your warm coffee.
Computers and Internet / Tips, Tricks and Hacks / Windows Tips and Tricks
by John Thoma · Published September 25, 2011 · Last modified September 23, 2013
Computer is a device that is prone to any form of danger attacks from any angles. In fact, computer can get infected with viruses and Trojans horse from any area which is unknown to its owner at many times.
The internet has become the backbone of every transaction that human beings engage in daily. From entertainment to making business deals and providing valuable information to people, many transactions go on through the internet. Life is also easier with the internet. Letters have been eradicated, you just have to send emails!
Have you ever noticed how the printer-ink relationship has reversed in terms of cost? It used to be that printers cost much more than the ribbon doing the printing, but now ink printers are normally priced lower than an ink cartridge it uses. Computer printer ink today is said to cost more than the best wine, even the best champagne or perfume, ounce for ounce. It follows therefore that if you can save money on printer ink, you can save a substantial amount.
With each new version, Microsoft keeps adding new features to its ever popular Microsoft Office suite and its component software like Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel etc. But minor errors and issues pop up from time to time. Word has a useful feature that lets you troubleshoot and find where a problem persists. Using the ‘a’ switch, you can troubleshoot the issues in Microsoft Word. Here is how you use the ‘a’ switch with Microsoft Office. The ‘a’ switch disables the add-ins in Microsoft Word and also disables the global templates.
Facebook chat sidebar now covers full length of the screen and spans vertically to take up all the height. This surely makes it easier to have a glance at more number of friends as compared to the earlier one. But many of you may not be very fond of this longer sidebar(including me) and would want to revert back to the older Facebook chat sidebar. Wouldn’t you wan’t to have the older sidebar for Facebook chat? If yes, the Facebook Sidebar Chat reversion script for Greasemonkey can be of great help.
Gmail gives a lot of formatting options for formatting emails. If you prefer a certain formatting style and want it to use the same style for every email you compose, changing the formatting style every time can be a bit nagging. But with Gmail, you can easily set a default formatting style using a Labs feature.
Google Spreadsheets and Google Documents have become essential tools for those who regularly need to deal with documents and spreadsheets. But sometimes, you need to insert a table created in Google Spreadsheets into a Google Document. Google Docs doesn’t let you insert a Google Spreadsheets directly into a Google Document. This feature on the other hand is easily available in Microsoft Office. Don’t worry, here is a workaround for inserting a Google Spreadsheets into a Google Document.
Blogs are mushrooming all over the internet like weeds in a garden. Some blogs have been outstanding successes, while some have earned mediocre success. Some others have died virtually unknown deaths. To which of these categories do you want your blog to belong? How do you ensure that you learn from your mistakes and get your blogging basics right? Here are ten tips, ten things that you can do to succeed at blogging.