Google Plus Gets A Fresh Coat Of Paint, Adds Cover Photos And More Enhancements

Google Plus has received its most significant redesign since it was launched on July 2011 on a field trial basis. Now you can add cover photos on your Google Plus (Just like Facebook timelines), and this guide gives you a walkthrough of the changes in the new Google Plus.

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Google Chrome Now Syncs Browser Tabs Across Multiple Devices Including Android

Thankfully, Google Chrome team has finally announced tab sync for multiple devices, which means, now you can access open chrome tabs on just about any computer where you have Google Chrome installed and you are signed into the same Google account. If your Android phone or tablet is running on the latest Ice Cream Sandwich, you can access Chrome tabs on Android within a few mouse clicks.

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Create, Organize and Label Groups of App Tiles in Windows 8 Metro Start Screen

What is the first thought that comes to you when you see Windows 8 Metro Start screen? Just a cool user interface, loaded with tiles of apps and programs you use frequently? There’s a little more to it. Personally, Windows 8 metro start screen is really amazing with its graphical intelligence. Still there are some

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Declutter Your Facebook News Feed Without Unfriending Or Blocking Friends Permanently

Your Facebook news feed can become really unmanageable, if you have anything more than 400-500 friends. It is a well known fact that everyone on your Facebook friend list is not friends with you in real life. There are people whom you have met online, there are strangers, stalkers, subscribers and people whom you don’t know, neither

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Turn Off Windows 8 App Notifications To Avoid Distractions

Toaster Notifications in Windows 8 are cool, you get app updates live on your Metro start screen, desktop and elsewhere but at the same time, these notifications can be really distracting. Consider a scenario when you are watching a YouTube video or composing a blog post and the Windows 8 messaging app pops up an

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Use File History In Windows 8 To Backup And Restore Files And Folders On A Routine Basis

Not many users know that both Windows Vista and Windows 7 has a very useful “Previous versions” feature, which can be used to automatically backup files or folders on a scheduled interval and it is also possible to restore the backed up files to an earlier version using Windows built in backup/restore wizard. These earlier

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Transfer Open Browser Tabs From One Browser To Another On Any Device

Moving open tabs from one browser to another is not so easy, and the situation gets more complex when you are considering multiple devices. Bookmarking is one easy way out, services like Google Bookmarks and X marks lets you quickly bookmark open tabs into a new folder which can then be opened from any browser

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TweetDeck Finally Gets Lists Management And A Bunch Of Interesting Features

TweetDeck has been my favorite desktop client for Twitter and it continues to be so. For the past couple of years, I have used Seesmic, Destroy Twitter, Yoono, Echofon and the official Twitter app on Android but honestly, TweetDeck rules them all. This is mainly because of four reasons: TweetDeck has a very friendly UI

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Google Docs Gets An Advanced Contextual Spell Checker

For the past two years or so, Google Docs has been my favorite word processing tool and I love using it every single day. Google Docs has all the things I need in a minimal yet advanced word processor program; the biggest advantage is that it is not as noisy as Microsoft office is. Sure,

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Top 5 Reasons to Store Your Music in the Cloud, And Which Storage Provider You Should Choose?

Do you want to store music in the cloud and have access to your songs, videos and entire media library from any computer, any phone or any tablet? Check out this guide which compares the features and cons of different cloud storage providers and choose the one which meets your requirements.

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Sending Webpages From Google Chrome to Android Is Coming Soon [Chrome To Mobile]

There are situations when you may want to quickly send a webpage from your desktop computer to your Android browser. There are a couple of different ways to handle this situation, I will share the three ways I often use myself: Generate a short URL of the long link on your desktop browser and then

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Bring Back The Classic Windows 7 Start Menu in Windows 8 Consumer Preview

If there is one thing which has been consistent in all versions of Windows, it is definitely the start button and start menu. From Windows 95 to Windows 7, Microsoft has improvised the start menu in great detail but the innocent start menu was never removed, until Windows 8 was born. In reality, the classic

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Add Shutdown and Restart Buttons On Windows 8 Metro Start Screen

Windows 8 has no classic start menu and thus, there is no easy way to shutdown or restart your computer the classical way. Of course there is a keyboard shortcut for that but novice users often do not remember these shortcuts and want easy ways to turn off the computer or restart it, using only their

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Install Windows 8 Consumer Preview Along Side An Existing Windows Installation

Do you want to install Windows 8 consumer preview, without disturbing your existing Windows 7 installation? here is a step by step guide which will let you run Windows 7 side by side an existing Windows 7 installation (dual boot setup for Windows 7 and Windows 8).

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Minimum System Requirements Required To Run Windows 8 Consumer Preview

It has been more than a week since Microsoft released a consumer preview of the latest version of its Windows operating system, codenamed Windows 8. As of the time of writing this article, more than 1 Million people have downloaded the public beta of Windows 8, which kinds of proves how popular Windows continues to

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