When it comes to sharing files with a group of  friends, I have always missed simplicity and ease of use. This is primarily for three reasons. First, everyone is not used to the same file sharing service. I prefer Dropbox for sharing files, Windows Live Skydrive for photos and Google Drive for office documents. But problem

One of the problems of having multiple computers and different operating systems is that you have no easy way to copy paste text between computers. For example, I have a desktop running Windows 8, a laptop which runs Windows 7 and linux (ubuntu). I also use a macbook air; you can imagine the frustration when

Google introduced a brilliant speech recognition engine in Chrome 11, which uses Chrome’s speech API to translate spoken words to text. All you have to do is click the small microphone icon on a webpage and you can type in words with your voice. This can be really useful when you are dealing with form

In my previous post, I told you how to install Android apps remotely from Android market (now Google Play Store) and how you can perform a compatibility check of the application before you actually install it on your device. One of the problems with uninstalling Android apps in bulk is that there is no way

I have been using Windows 8 since Microsoft released their Consumer Preview and lately, switched to Release Preview of this new operating system with its signature and the most debatable Metro Start Screen. Common concept is that Windows 8 Metro Start Screen is ideally suited for touch screen devices and not so enjoyable with keyboard and

By default, every Facebook user has a facebook.com email address, whether he likes using it or not. Any email sent to the facebook.com email address of a user lands up in the messages folder and can be found from the search box by typing “is:email”. The problem with a Facebook.com email address is that the

Unlike Windows 7, Windows 8 takes more time to log you in and if your Windows 8 user account is protected by a local password or through your Windows live password, the procedure is 3 step. First, you are shown the Windows 8 lock screen, then the Windows 8 login screen and after you have keyed in

Creating PowerPoint presentations is so 2003, gone are the days when you would pop up Microsoft office on your Windows computer, pull down a whole bunch of photos and create a photo presentation – just to share it with friends, family members or colleagues. Your photos are stored in Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and you want

Hit the Shutdown button couple of minutes back and still waiting for your laptop to go dead completely? Nagged watching a rotating cursor? This is more acute when you are about to close a hectic business day to your bed and Windows shutdown is taking extra bit of space of your life, every single day. Thankfully, there are ways

My Dropbox folders are not very organized, given the fact that I use Dropbox as my primary cloud storage service and have a good amount of free space to play with. Be it backups, music, videos, documents, photos or my website – Dropbox has all the files which I might need to access from any

Mind mapping is a method of organizing your thoughts and ideas in a visual chart. Since mind mapping simultaneously stimulates visual and analytical parts of the brain, it is recognized as an excellent tool for both creativity and organization. Most mind maps are structured in a similar way. The user begins by creating a central

There are different ways to find large files and folders on your system . The easiest way to do is install a file scanning application on your system and scan all the hard drives for large files and folders. Once you have scanned the entire hard drive and system partitions for unnecessary files or duplicate

Are you tired of having to deal with cumbersome software when it comes to office project management? If you’re using email for managing projects, you are wasting a lot of time, which eventually leads to miscommunication, stress and frustration among your employees, collaborators and team members. Project management, in itself, is a hugely complicated affair

Whenever you connect a USB drive, a camera, an external SD card reader, a monitor or any other external hardware device, Windows scans the device and the information of the device is stored in the system registry. This is mainly because of two reasons. First, Windows keeps a record of earlier devices that was connected

Managing a website or a blog is not so easy, as it may seem from the surface. There are a lot of background work which every webmaster has to worry about, in order to provide a good user experience and make sure the search bots can “find” and chew the content of the site. One