Google Street view is a brilliant technology powered by Google Maps, which allows you to explore three dimensional street level imagery of popular locations and places. Using street view, you can have a clear idea how a street looks to human eyes; as the photos are stitched into a complete 3D panoramic view. A few [...]
When Google launched Google Plus on a field trial basis, I was lucky to be one of the early adopters of Google’s latest social venture, as I managed to grab an invite through the help of an online friend. As usual, the craze was at its peak for the first few weeks and I proudly [...]
Evernote Clearly is a new Google Chrome extension which removes clutter from webpages to provide an easy and distraction free reading experience. You can clip articles to your Evernote account, so this is indeed a better alternative for Readability and Safari Reader or any other Ad block extensions.
Friend requests in Facebook can be really annoying for unmarried females, especially if the privacy setting of their photo albums is set to “public”. You want to avoid friend requests from unknown people on Facebook, but wouldn’t it be wise to prevent them from sending these friend requests in the first place? Consider this. On [...]
Want to use Dropbox for business, company or within your organization? Switch to the teams plan of Dropbox which offers 1000GB of storage space for 5 users, at the cost of $795 annual fees. You get administrative controls, tech support via phone and unlimited revision histories for all our files.
Do you iss shared items and people you follow feature in the new Google Reader design? Here is how you can bring back or restore previously shared Google reader shared items and continue to share articles and links with Google Reader friends.
Reading lengthy blog posts or webpages having lots of content can be really boring at times. You have to scroll through the mousewheel over and over again, just to read the underlying portion of text placed beneath the above the fold section. Sometimes, you have to scroll back to catch up on information you missed [...]
Duplicate content is nothing but shadow copies of the same written piece accessible through multiple URL’s. In general, duplicate content issues can be divided into two broad groups: The webmaster himself copies content from different sources and uses the duplicate content on his website. This is called content scraping or online plagiarism, which is completely [...]
After Google Plus, the Facebook team introduced quite a few healthy changes, thereby encouraging the sharing of videos and media content. From the past couple of months, you might have observed that users are sharing images, videos and funny clips more, rather than posting links or custom status updates. This trend has followed from Google [...]
Diwali or Deepavli, is the most popular festival among Indians. Diwali signifies the triumph of good over evil and people celebrate this day by lighting diyas, firing crackers and sending gifts to near and dear ones. While staying with your family during the Diwali season is a usual practice, not all souls are lucky and as blessed. [...]
When it comes to a proper tabbed browser for Android, nothing beats Dolphin. It is undoubtedly the best tabbed browser for Android with an exact look and feel of Google Chrome for desktop, which unfortunately in not available for the Android operating system yet. I have used Opera mobile, Opera Mini, Mozilla Firefox and the default Android [...]
Some websites are not opening on your computer? Are you facing problems accessing specific websites and it takes forever to load them in your browser? Here is a troubleshooting guide which will help you diagnose and fix the problem in 6 easy steps.
Having used an extended monitor with my laptop for quite some time, I feel a little annoyed over certain things. First, the Windows taskbar and Windows start menu are not present in the secondary monitor. There is no way I can launch programs directly from the secondary monitor itself, as I have to drag the [...]
Google Docs and Dropbox are two of the best online cloud storage accounts that does not come with a price tag. Dropbox provides 2GB of free online space, which is more than enough to backup important documents, files and work folders so that you can easily access them from multiple computers and mobile devices. And [...]
The problem with most computers and operating systems is their slow response time, when it gets a little old and weared out. You install a lot of programs, games, software applications and eventually, your computer is filled up with unnecessary files, registry entries, start up services and so on. Uninstalling and removing unused applications from your [...]