Check pc compatibility for games, within a minute!

Check pc compatibility for games in next to no time Games! We love playing games. Don’t we? However, the purpose of playing games is contrasting for everyone. Some play it to kill the boredom. Some play it for the sake of saving their names against their strongest competitors in the gaming arena. For some, playing

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Fighting Blogging Procrastination – Some Tips that work

Procrastination is an inherent part of our lives. No matter who you are and what you do, you can’t escape Procrastination. Its a state of mind and you have to learn how to manage that state and be productive. Back in 2010, when I was a full time blogger and web worker, I was extremely

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Three Web Browser Tricks You Are Probably Unfamiliar With

If you are reading this article, chances are you are using a web browser. If so and if you are on a non-mobile platform, then you are most likely using Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome to browse the web. These are the two most acclaimed browsers available at the moment, having a merged usage share

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Fix CD or DVD Drive Problems In No Time!

USB devices have slowly and gradually been killing the long established CD/DVD drives of our machines. However, many of us (that counts in millions) still employ the DVD drive to read and write our data/music/video’s etc. It still proves handy when the data needs to be shared or read on the spot and you are

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Control uTorrent Downloads From Another Computer

I have recently inculcated this habit of “remote control”. Control a computer and applications from another computer which are geographically separated from each other and not connected in the same network or internet connection. It works like this. Whenever I have a long queue of downloads that needs attention, I don’t download them right away.

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Design Social Media Sharing Buttons With Just CSS (And Nothing Else)

I am a big fan of minimalism. By minimalism, I don’t mean cutting down on features that are necessary. By minimalism, what I mean is keeping the bare minimum of bells and whistles so that the accessories don’t get in the way of the core of a product. You might have noticed that this website

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Getting Too Many Emails? Here is How I Clean My Inbox Every Morning

Email is a real productivity killer. If you work on the web and have multiple email accounts that are registered across every other website on the world wide web, you know what it means. You inbox flows with tons of emails every single day and there seems to be no way to cut through the

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Dealing With Bad Links Pointing To Your Website – Tips From Matt Cutts

Ever since Google launched their infamous Panda and Penguin algorithmic updates, the search playground has been pretty shaky. We have seen much turbulence in these two years, big websites, small websites, blogs, forums and anyone depending on content is not “safe” anymore (traffic wise). Its synonymous to a mob war where noone knows whats happening

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Smartwatches: What (and When) to Expect

After the exploration and development of computers, mobile phones and portable music and video players, companies are now turning to new market niches. One of the most famous projects developed by Google, the “smart glasses” named Glass, or the growing pursuit for “home automation“, are two examples of these new markets. Another example, which is

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Privacy Matters in Twitter and Facebook Accounts and How You Can Control It

One of the most popular social networking sites, Twitter, has announced recently that they are going to make money through this site in the form of targeted ads. In their blog post, Twitter adds that number of ads will not increase, instead users will be server with better ads. This of course means that Twitter

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Create OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Recovery Disk on DVD or USB Drive

Previously we talked about how one can create a Windows 8 recovery disk on a DVD or USB drive. Here I will address the Apple users – how one can create a bootable recovery disk of the latest version of OS X – 10.8 Mountain Lion, on a USB drive or DVD.   Creating a recovery disk

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Delete All Spam Pingbacks And Trackbacks From WordPress Database – The Hard Way

WordPress has a feature which lets you notify other blogs when you link to their content. This is called Trackback and it allows you to “Ping” other blogs and proactively tell them that you’ve linked to their page(s). This is useful in specific scenarios. For example, when you “ping” a website and they have chosen

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Skimr is a Lightweight Google Reader Alternative for RSS Feeds

With the death of Google Reader just around the corner (it will be unavailable after July 1st), it is time to choose another service in order to keep up with our RSS feeds. After Google announcing the end of its feed reading service, many services and apps started to arise, with many different features and

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3 Free and Beautiful Alternatives for WordPress Default Comment Platform

Comments are a great deal regarding WordPress based blogs since, through them, people can interact with the author and discuss the subject matter, thus providing an invaluable addition to the original post itself. What you are probably not aware of is that there are several alternatives for the default comment platform provided by WordPress. In

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Print Your LinkedIn Profile As A One Page Resume

LinkedIn is undoubtedly the go to place for professionals, employers and job seekers who want to grow their professional network on the web. LinkedIn has grown into a professional platform where professionals can connect with like minded people and grow their professional network by connecting with companies, recruiters and other people who have similar professional

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