After Google and Facebook, Twitter joins the hue of two factor authentication for secured logins. With the increasing number of unauthorized logins and hack attempts on Twitter accounts these days, it was about time Twitter introduced a safe way to login to a Twitter account which requires an extra level of security code and is [...]
In our post sometime back, we mentioned the various ways you power your search in Bing. But how about powering your search through something as ubiquitous yet powerful as Google Search? From the time of its inception, Google has been known to employ a variety of tricks to help users get the relevant search results. [...]
I find it extremely annoying when friends, colleagues or family members ask me if they can use my phone for sometime. Sometimes, friends want to make a call, or check email or browse websites, but I really do find it very uncomfortable handing out my phone to even close friends. Unlike a regular desktop computer, [...]
Passwords are something we tend to forget, once we start using password managers, save password in browsers and use other ways to secure our online properties. Truth is, I never remember any of my passwords because of the simple reason is that if I remember my password, I will be tempted to type it and [...]
So you own the latest iteration of Microsoft’s greatest Operating System. Windows 8 has come in with the new ability to install or upgrade your machine to the same completely online. But that leaves some of you in a spot of bother. What if you did not have an internet connection stable enough to download [...]
Almost every other person on the internet will have posted an article online, either in their personal blogs or professional websites, even in Facebook and Tumblr! Some of you will often face the fact that the writing isn’t the best, often ending up using long and wordy sentences to describe somethings. I face this a [...]
Google just took the wraps of the most awaited conference of the year – Google I/O 2013. This year is a lot different from the blockbuster of the yester year, where Google Glass was launched with much fanfare and excitement. This year it was more on the software front. Though no new upgrades to either [...]
So I was doing some spring cleaning in my Facebook profile, removing people I am no longer friends with and unfriending profiles which are no longer active and I don’t want to be friends with. Once in a while, I do this exercise to ensure that my news feed is not cluttered with unwanted updates [...]
How many Gmail accounts do you have to check everyday? I guess it is certainly more than 2 (if not less). I have almost 5 Gmail accounts which I need to check every day. I have my company email address at Gmail, my personal Gmail account, my website’s Gmail account, my Google Adsense account and [...]
If you tweet regularly, I am sure you would agree to the fact that some of them are time critical in nature. Maybe you’re watching a soccer match and tweeting like crazy, but you don’t want these tweets to be stuck into your profile forever. Later, when you visit your Twitter profile page, you see [...]
I like to keep things simple. I am a big fan of minimalism and I believe in the core philosophy that the more you add something to a system, the worse it gets. I have been using Twitter for 3 years now and sometimes, I wish I could switch back to the old Twitter interface [...]
Hacked Facebook accounts is not a new story these days. Once in a while, I get those emails where panicked users are worried regarding the security of their Facebook accounts. “I think my Facebook account has been hacked, I can’t login to my account”. “How do I login to my Facebook account? it won’t let [...]
So you have a Mac computer and you want to remotely access files on your MAC hard drive from another computer (possibly a Windows machine, iPad or an Android device)? One good way to make sure all your important files are accessible from just about anywhere is to use a file sync service e.g Dropbox, [...]
If you want to transfer all your Facebook photos and photo albums to your Google Drive or Dropbox accounts, this article is for you. The other day I was trying to download and backup all my Facebook photos, videos, tagged photos and albums and found that I have a lot of files to download. These [...]
I am a big fan of Pingdom tools, it provides detailed insights on how fast or slow your websites loads. I have used different tools to monitor and measure the loading time of websites but off late, I have sticked with Pingdom. I was using Google webmaster tools and Google Analytics to have detailed data [...]
