Onlive, a service to play games over the cloud, now brings the Windows platform on your Android or iOS tablets. If you are on a vacation or just out of the office and need to send your boss a quick sales report for the last quarter, what would you do? True, there are lots of Android and iOS apps you can do that. However, you are going to miss the nice multi-functional Windows desktop at your office. Well no more. Here is a quick review of what and what not you can do with the new Onlive Desktop for tablets.

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

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

Pinterest is the word of the day. No matter what you like, and whatever of it is available on the web can be “Pin”-ned. That is how the name was put to use, Pin your Interests. The fact that Pinterest generates more referral traffic than Twitter now is quite captivating publishers to adopt this mode of promoting their content. Considering the success, It’s a no-brainer that this model will soon be adopted by developers to create mashups. Developers are now banking on the overwhelming success of the new breed of social engagement and creating services employing the Pinterest socializing model.

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

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

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

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,

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.

Twitter, a leading service for information sharing, has its limitations. Though there are no limit on how much you can share, your tweets are only searchable for barely one and a half weeks after it is posted. Now this being the bad news there is a good one too. You have a large number of tools that can archive your tweets and you also have the option to search for any specific tweet anytime in future. Following is a list of 7 tools that are best in the trade.

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

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

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

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).

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