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Gmail is by far one of the most widely used web based email heavily loaded with very beneficial features. Since its inception, Gmail has managed to sweep such a large chunk of clientele thus rising compete with the industry’s major players. If new to Gmail, you might need some information to help you maximize the benefits that Gmail offers. So, if interested read on.
Ever since I was a wee little child, I remember the pull-the-plug moments that every Windows operating system (OS) we ever had. At a certain point, the system slows down to a halt, perhaps has trouble starting up, or repetitively gives you that ominous blue screen of death.
So you’ve come out with a great mobile app, but for some reason there are not as many takers as you anticipated! Chances are you’ve not packaged it attractively enough. Whatever are your views, presentation matters. Therefore, based on our understanding of what works, here’s a ready reckoner of the leading traits of a successful landing page for your mobile app.
What if you just want the audio for the song of your favorite artist to play on your MP3 player? You might say that you’d download the video and then convert them to MP3 using MP3 converters. But there’s an even easier way to download MP3s from Youtube videos. You can extract MP3s from Youtube videos using a new tool by Keepvid.com.
If you currently have a wireless network set up in your home, you are most likely enjoying the benefits of fast internet searches and downloads, wireless connections, and more. Hopefully you have taken the time to secure your wireless network, and if you haven’t, you should.
iPhone4 has amazing camera and you can shoot 720p video @30fps with it. A Youtube user captured the vibrations of his guitar strings using his iPhone4’s video camera. He placed his iPhone4 in the camera mode inside his guitar and played a tune. Amazingly enough, he could capture the oscillations of the strings very impressively.
If you have become an ardent Google+ user, you might want to post your Google+ updates to Facebook and Twitter. This can be done with a combination of a couple of applications.
Instagram is getting largely popular among iPhone users as a Photo sharing application. Instgram offers lots of photo filters that give a stunning effect to your pictures. Have you ever wondered if you could add Instagram like photo filters to your photos using Photoshop? Well, Daniel Box has created Photoshop actions similar to Instagram filters that you can apply to any photo instantly.
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by jsmi200695 · Published July 8, 2011 · Last modified July 2, 2013
Have you ever wanted to know how much traffic your favorite website was getting? Or how many RSS subscribers a site had? SiteTrail is a website analysis tool that provides you with data consisting of over 100 different metrics for any given website. All you need to do is simply enter the domain name of the website you want to analyze into a text box and viola!
It’s important to regularly invest time and attention in backing up any essential data stored on your computer. Because all hard drives end up failing at one point or another, creating a backup of your information as often as possible is crucial.
If you have already activated the Preview or Dense Preview versions in Gmail, you must have noticed that there are some extra whitespaces as compared to the earlier themes. Well, many of you may like it but having extra whitespaces along the top and side may not appeal some of you. If you want to have a more compact look with lesser whitespace for Gmail’s Dense Preview theme, you can have it using Stylish or Greasemonkey.
You can know if an email was sent to you only or a bunch of other people by looking at the source of the email. Wouldn’t it be great if you could quickly know if an email was sent to a group or was sent exclusively to you? Well with Gmail you can have that feature.
Evernote makes note taking a breeze. You can also send notes to evernote using email by sending an email to a private account given provided by Evernote. You can use this handy feature to backup all your emails to Evernote. Here is how you do it.
Mac users are not plagued by computer slowdowns to the same degree as Windows users are, who, Over time, may be troubled by computer performance that declines markedly. This is not to say, however, that Mac users are immune to the problems of computer slowdowns and other glitches. They may also put up with machines that run slower than they need to. Here are some tips for improving your Mac’s performance.
Setting up a server room is something that can easily be done by the small business owner. It does not necessarily require an IT professional to get this accomplished. By doing the work in-house, a good deal of savings can be had. There are a number of considerations that should be kept in mind when planning and setting up the server room.
While using Excel, you frequently need to move data from one sheet to another or one file to another. You might need to move or copy a portion of data in a sheet to another sheet or copy all cells in a sheet to another. But there is a difference between copying all cells from a sheet to another and copying the sheet itself.
Wikipedia gives a good insight into all sorts of topics with the most upto date information. But there are times when you don’t need to dig deep into the details and just want to skim read. If you want quick and short overview of a topic, you can use Wikipedia’s Simple English version for the original page where to have brief information on the topic.
Google wants to make the Google +1 ubiquitous on the web and thus lets webmasters to embed the button on pages throughout their website. You can easily add the plus one button to any page on your website by simply using the code snippet provided by Google for various sizes. There is also a Wordpress plugin for the same. But what if you want to add Google +1 button to Wordpress homepage? Well, its easy and you just need to modify the standard code a bit.
Facebook allows tagging friends on status updates and comments as well. You can even tag Facebook pages on Status updates. To tag friends in status updates or comments, you simply start typing a friend’s...
With Disqus, you can allow your visitors to easily post comments through their Facebook or Twitter accounts. Disqus perfectly syncs with Wordpress comment system and the comment on your database is also synced with Disqus’ server. But with the latest version of Wordpress, Disqus has some issues showing the comment counts for the post. Here is how you can fix comment count error in Wordpress 3.1 when Disqus plugin is used.