Tuesday, 31 July 2012

Clear view : an office in the cloud

A MOBILE WORKSTATION : an office suit in the internet can increase your efficiency and let you collaborate in ways you had not thought of earlier.

A Hidden Feature of Google Handwriting

Google Handwriting recognition lets you write search queries on your mobile phone or tablet without using the keyboard. It can recognize shapes as well.

A Google Search Operator That You May Not Know About!

Learn more about AROUND, an undocumented Google Search operator that will help you find web pages where the distance between two search terms is n.

Search operators in Google (see Google cheat sheet) help you refine and improve search results.

Measuring your Blog’s Social Performance

The Social Media Analytics tool will tell exactly how many times your blog posts has been shared on Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus.

Download Printable Facebook Posters for your Business

Download these Facebook Like posters, customize with your Page’s unique web address and put them in your physical store.

Now You Can Change your Facebook Page URL

You can change your Facebook Page URL (or username) but before you do that, here are few things you need to know.

SlideShare 3D

The SlideShare 3D tool will transform your presentations into beautiful 3D slideshows with cinema mode. The presentations are touch-enabled and understand pinch and swipe gestures.

How the Internet Works in Simple English

If you were to explain to someone how the web browser and the Internet works, this wonderful comic strip from Vlad Gerasimov should come handy.

How to Share your Printer on the Internet [Video]

Learn how to your share your printer on the Internet so that people outside the home network can send print jobs to your printer from anywhere in the world.

Launch Chrome Apps Without Opening a New Tab

The latest version of Google Chrome browser lets you install web apps from the Chrome Web Store, some of which will even work in offline mode.

This is creative. If you have a video conference call in the next few minutes and don’t have the time to rush to the washroom to comb your hair, you can use the webcam attached to your laptop computer along with your video chat program as a mirror.

What Programs are Accessing the Internet?

You only have a couple of websites open on your screen and yet the data activity light of the modem / router is constantly flashing indicating that one or more programs are actively uploading or downloading data from the Internet.

How can you easily find out which programs on your computer are accessing the Internet and what websites are they connecting to?

If you're using MS Office, it's definitely worth a visit from time to time.

There's both good news and bad news for Office 2007 users who are waiting to have PDF print features in Office 2007 programs with having to invest in Adobe Acrobat like software.

Microsoft Office 2007 programs sport a blue color scheme by default but you may be surprised to learn that there are two additional color schemes - silver and black - more trendy than the default blue theme.

The HP corporate website has an unexplored Small & Medium Business section that's loaded with Office goodies, stock photographs, online software classes and some very informative How-To guides - they are all available without charge.

Most popular search engines including Google and Yahoo! index and cache certain non-HTML files like PDF, Word Documents, Excel Spreadsheets and Powerpoint presentations.

Let's say you are searching Google for Word documents related to SEO. Your query would be something like filetype:doc SEO OR "Search Engine Optimization"

Zoho has just released a Microsoft Office Add-on that will probably tilt the war with Google Office more in Zoho's favor.

Edit your documents and spreadsheets both online and offline using Zoho Plug-in for Microsoft Office.

The ever expanding universe of Microsoft Office workers may be heading towards utter chaos as organizations migrate to Microsoft Office 2007 programs sometime next year - the reason being the new and efficient but equally confusing Office 2007 file formats.

To open a Word 2007 document without installing Office 2007, you either had to download the Office 12 Compatibility Pack or manually convert .docx to .doc format using any of the online conversion services.

The limitation with Office Compatibility Pack is that it still requires a previous version of Microsoft Office on your computer.

Here are answers to some of your common queries related to Microsoft Office 2007 system:

Singapore Blogger Wendy Cheng of Xiaxue vs free-techno

If Free - Techno in India is a one-man publishing company, Xiaxue in Singapore is a one-woman entertainment company.

Embedding Web Content

1: Embed Really Large Photos and Screen Captures In Web Pages – If you were to insert big images in you web pages, consider Zoomify.

2: Embed Flickr Photostreams in Web Pages as a Flash Slideshow – Display Flicks photos in web pages as a Flash slideshow.

3: Embed Interactive Excel Spreadsheets in Your HTML Website

We frequently come across situations in our RSS readers where the post title says "iPhone Demo" but the area where you expect to see that embedded video is blank.

The Best Tool for Embedding Spreadsheet Data in Webpages

Gone are the days when you had to buy expensive Excel add-ons to embed spreadsheet data into HTML web pages. Now one can use free online spreadsheet programs like Zoho Sheet, Google Docs & Spreadsheet or EditGrid to post live spreadsheet data on blogs.

How to Embed Microsoft Office or PDF Documents in Web Pages

How do you share and embed a Adobe PDF file, Microsoft Word document, Excel Spreadsheet or a Powerpoint Presentation in your blog website ? Let's first look at the workaround tricks:

YouTube for Dummies - Part Two

It is fairly simple to insert a YouTube Video in a blog but when you are designing a website inside WYSIWYG HTML editors like Adobe Golive CS2, Frontpage or Macromedia Dreamweaver, embedding that Flash Movie might involve some effort.

Amrita Douglas writes from New York:

I'm going a bit nuts from trying to embed YouTube video in a site I'm preparing as a demo for something larger. I'm a newbie, using Adobe GoLive, which seems easiest and most familiar in many ways.

Where to Upload PowerPoint Presentations On the Web and Why ?

Comparing The Tools for Getting your PowerPoint Presentation Online

How to Embed FLV Flash Videos in your Blog ?

Video Sharing Sites like Youtube or Google video provide simple HTML code for embedding their video clips in your web pages. But sometimes we want to add raw Flash Video files like SWF animations or FLV [streaming or progressive] which are frequently used by News or media websites.

Embed Interactive Excel Spreadsheets in Your HTML Website

How do you share spreadsheet data in your blog or webpages ? An immediate response would be to save the Microsoft Excel file in webpage format and then copy-paste that HTML snippet in your blog template.

Embed Flickr Photostreams in Web Pages as a Flash Slideshow

Want to display Flicks photos in web pages as a Flash slideshow? Look no further thanPictoBrowser.

Embed Really Large Photos and Screen Captures In Web Pages

Say you have an extremely long screenshot image or a high resolution photograph that you want to share in your blog / web pages.

The standard IMG tag may not be the best approach when inserting really big photos because

Let non-English Visitors Read Your Website

Imagine someone coming to your site and leaving it the very next moment, not because the content was bad but because the site content was not written in his native language. It is a perfect case of a missed opportunity.

Open Web Pages in Google Chrome for iOS [Bookmarklet]

Use the Open in Chrome bookmarklet to quickly send web pages from Safari to the Chrome browser on your iPad or iPhone.

Make your own Proxy Site using WordPress

Learn how to create your own proxy site using the free WordPress website and easily access any website that is either blocked by your IT administrator or censored by the government.

Open Links on a Webpage by Typing – No Mouse Required

While you are inside Google Chrome, type the text of any link and hit the Enter key to open that link without ever using the mouse again.

Use Regular Expressions to Find Anything in your Gmail Mailbox

Gmail search doesn’t support regular expressions or wildcard character searches by default but you can perform such complex searches in Gmail with the help of Google Docs.

Write the Indian Rupee Symbol using Windows Fonts

Download the updated Windows fonts as these include support for the new Indian Rupee symbol. You can then type the Rupee sign in Word using common fonts like Arial, Times New Roman or Tahoma.

You can download the audio pronunciation files of English dictionary words in MP3 format and practice pronunciation on the go.

How to Create Custom Facebook Pages [Video]

This video tutorial describes how you can create custom apps for your Facebook Fan pages in minutes. Your Pages can have maps, tweets, slideshows, music and more inside Tabs

This PDF guide explains how you can create PDF files, merge multiple PDF files, save web pages as PDFs, file forms online, add e-signatures and more.

How to Hide the Data on your Computer

You may want to hide some files and folders on your computer for various reasons. Maybe you don’t want mom to accidentally stumble upon all the stuff that you have downloaded from the Internet. Or you share the home computer with an inquisitive brother and would not like him to view your private files. Or maybe it’s your work computer and you are worried that the system administrator may remotely access your files.Here are some ways to hide your data on the computer from other people:

Would you like to know if there are any videos on YouTube that were taken near your current location? Try the new Videos Near Me web app.

Compare the storage costs of various online file synchronization services including Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive, SugarSync and Box.

Your Facebook Account has Three Passwords

Do you know that you can log into your Facebook account using three different passwords? Just change the case of your main password to get the new one!

How to Add a Google Sitemap to your Blogger Blog

Learn how to generate a complete sitemap of your Blogger blog using an online sitemap generator and submit the XML sitemap to Google via robots.txt.

Meet the best online tools that will help you test the responsive design of your website across popular devices including the iPad, iPhone, Android, Kindle and more.

Responsive Web Design – A Dummies Guide

This guide answers common questions around Responsive Web Design, a technique for building mobile and tablet websites that is also recommended by Google.

Find Who is Linking to your Website with Google Analytics

Find out which other websites are linking to your web pages with the help of Google Analytics. These are also known as incoming links or backlinks

How to create good and effective web content that your online audience is more likely to read and share on social sites.

Improve your Chances of Getting a Train Ticket on the IRCTC Website

The IRCTC website offers train tickets on a first-come first-served basis. You can autofill the form and and improve your chances of getting a Tatkal ticket.

How to find out where a picture was taken?

This quick tip explains how you can find out the location where a picture was possibly taken with the help of Google Images.

Learn how you can create unique and strong passwords for every website that you use without storing the passwords anywhere.

Keep your Online Accounts Safe and Secure

You probably use strong and unique passwords do protect your accounts safe but is that enough? This page provides a security checklist and tips to keep your online accounts safe and secure

Calling All Indian Bloggers

The new Indian Bloggers directory wonâ€™t just showcase the best blogs from India but also the people (or bloggers) who are writing these blogs

Using simple SMS commands, you can turn on the ringer of your mobile phone from another phone, retrieve the call logs, read the incoming text messages and more.

How to Remote Control your Windows PC with Email or SMS

Learn how to shutdown or lock your computer via email, Internet or SMS text messages from the mobile phone. You can take screenshots, terminate process or even download files via simple twitter commands.

Windows Explorer can display image thumbnails for Windows Media and Quicktime video formats but support can be added for DVD, MKV, Flash and other formats as well.

Windows 8 is available as a free download but should download the Windows 8 setup program or the ISO image?

The 101 Most Useful Websites

The 101 Most Useful Websites on the Internet is a frequently updated list of lesser-known but wonderful websites and web apps.

Know When Your Friends or Family Members are in News

Want to know when any of your friends, family members and business contacts are quoted in newspapers or get mentioned on one of the popular blogs?

Responsive Web Design – A Dummies Guide

Google has officially recommended Responsive Web Design as their preferred method for building mobile websites. If you have a website or a blog, it is time that you seriously consider switching to a responsive design instead of maintaining a separate mobile-friendly (or tablet-friendly) website.

The Hidden Start Menu Button in Windows 8

Microsoft has removed the Start Menu in Windows 8 but there’s a quick way to get that Start button back in Windows 8 without needing any software utilities.

Now You Can Change your Facebook Page URL

When you create a Facebook Page, the system assigns a random URL to your page that looks something like this:

Online Tool Crops your Images “Intelligently”

The interesting parts of an image are preserved in the cropped version

The Official Prices of New MacBooks in India

Apple has upgraded their existing MacBook Air and MacBook Pro line of notebooks and also introduced a new 15″ MacBook Pro notebook with Retina Display.

Desktop Wallpaper Website Syncs with Dropbox

Bored of your desktop wallpaper? Check out Desktoppr, an online gallery of high quality backgrounds for your widescreen desktop.

Hundred Zeroes for Free eBooks

Looking for free ebooks? Check the all new Hundred Zeros that went live few hours ago. It’s better and much bigger than the previous version.

How to Create a Wireless Network without a Router

Let’s say you have one internet connection at home that you want to share across all your desktop and laptop computers, your Wi-Fi enabled mobile phones, media players (like the iPod Touch), video game consoles (like the Xbox), digital photo frames and any other wireless devices that you may have at home.

How do you do this?

The easiest way to setup a wireless network, as we all know, is .....

Bring the Web to your Living Room

When you have nothing interesting to watch on TV, you can always switch to the Internet for an unlimited supply of videos ranging from television shows, podcasts, music, full-length movies, news and even live concerts.

How To Record Movies of Video Games on the Computer

Jesse is looking for a game recorder software to help him capture movies of PC games (with sound) that he can upload to YouTube Videos. The software should also save still screenshots of gaming scenes.

While you can record online Flash games or DOS games using any screencasting software, the situation gets a bit tricky when playing computer games that use DirectX 3D or OpenGL because they render only a blank footage with regular screen capture programs.

Access Files on your Computer from Anywhere

The problem: You have documents, photos, music and other important files on the home computer. How can you “remotely access” these files from your office computer or, when you are travelling, from your mobile phone?

The solution: The simplest solution would be that you copy all your data from the home computer on to a portable hard drive and carry it around but this is obviously a bit cumbersome approach as it requires you to manually sync the home computer and your portable disk.

How to Share Large Files over the Internet

If you are to share a large file with someone over the Internet, there are generally two options – you can either attach the files to an email message or, if the files are too big to fit in an email program, you can upload them to an online storage service and then share the download links with the recipient.

How to Choose an Online Backup Service

This week I have been testing the various online backup services, both paid and free, and here’s a summary of how these service compare against each other.

Use Google Contacts as a Unified Address Book

Your contacts are often scattered across multiple email accounts and social sites. For instance, you may have switched to Gmail but some of your contacts may still be stored in the old address books of Hotmail or Yahoo! Mail. Then there are places like Facebook and LinkedIn that store personal and professional details of your contacts (including profile pictures) but fetching this information into your main address book is often a tricky thing.

How to Translate PDF & Word Documents

Say dad bought you a digital camera from Japan but the problem is that the PDF manual that came with the camera is also written in Japanese. How do you quickly translate that PDF document into English?

Transfer Contacts from one Cell Phone to another

Did you just buy a new mobile phone? The first thing that you’ll probably is copy all the phone numbers and other contact information from the old phone to your new cell.

How Parents Can Block Certain Websites from Children at Home

[For non-techie parents who have a computer at home and are worried about their kids safety online.]

A mother recently wrote saying she is very concerned that her young children are spending too much time on websites like Orkut, MySpace and Facebook.

Find the Person Behind an Email Address

You get an email from a person with whom you have never interacted before and therefore, before you reply to that message, you would like to know something more about him or her. How do you do this without directly asking the other person?

How to Use Windows 7 Themes on XP or Vista

Microsoft paid close attention to personalization in Windows 7, and shipped it with a gorgeous collection of desktop backgrounds and themes. Windows 7 also makes it easy for users to create their own personalized themes and then share it with other Windows 7 users.

If you are still using an older version of Windows (like Windows XP or Vista), you don’t have to feel left behind because, with some simple tricks, you can enjoy all or part of what these Windows 7 themes have to offer.

Download Free Books for your Amazon Kindle

Amazon’s Kindle store has more than a million books that you can download and read on your Kindle e-book reader.

Read Kindle Books without the Kindle Reader

If you don’t have the Kindle device (i.e., the hardware), you can still download any of these Kindle books and read them in your web browser (read.amazon.com) without having to install any software. Amazon also offers reading apps for your Windows PC, Mac, Android, iOS, etc. so you can enjoy your favorite books on your desktop computer, tablet or mobile phone without having to buy the Kindle Reader.

Capture Screenshots of your iPhone or iPad Screen

How do you save a screenshot image of your iPhone, iPad or the iPod Touch screen?

Unlike your Windows or Mac computer, there are no screen capture apps available for your iOS device and you actually don’t need one because the screen capture functionality in built right into your device.

Print Screen for your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch

To save a screenshot image of your mobile screen, press and hold the Home button that is located at the bottom center of the device (you often use this button to exit the app and return to the home screen).

Find the Song Name Without Knowing the Lyrics

It happens all the time. You are sitting in a restaurant with friends or driving to work and there’s some beautiful music playing on the FM radio station. You would love to buy a copy of that music album for yourself but the problem is that you didn’t get the lyrics so how do you find out the name of that song.

“What’s the name of that song ? I don’t remember the lyrics”

Export Phone Numbers of your Facebook Friends

While there are workarounds that let you easily download all your Facebook data, includingemail addresses of your Facebook friends, one of the important pieces that you still can’t move out of Facebook is the phone book.

Most of your Facebook friends have put their phone numbers on their profile pages and you’ll love to import them to your mobile phone’s address book but unfortunately Facebook doesn’t offer an option to let you do so.

How to Connect your Laptop to a Television Screen

Sesh wants to watch YouTube videos and Flickr photos on his large TV screen with the entire family and is wondering if there’s an easy way to connect a laptop to the TV.

Well there are several ways to connect your computer to a Television depending on what ports are available on your PC and your TV (we used an HP Windows computer and a Sony Bravia HDTV for this example).

How to Connect Laptop to TV – Step by Step

How to Insert YouTube Videos in PowerPoint

You can insert YouTube videos in your PowerPoint presentations in two ways. You can either “embed” the Flash video in the slide itself or you can link to the YouTube video from the slide that will auto-play when the presenter clicks on the video link.

Which approach should you follow? It depends on the venue of the conference. If they will have high-speed Internet (or Wi-Fi) at the venue, you can stream the YouTube video live from the Internet else you may download the YouTube video on to your computer and embed it as a local file into the relevant slide of your presentation.

How to Secure Your Wireless (Wi-Fi) Home Network

This article describes how you can secure your Wireless Network from hackers and you’ll also learn about free tools that people generally use to intercept your Wi-Fi signals.

Wireless Networking (Wi-Fi) has made it so easy for you to use the computer, portable media player, mobile phones, video game consoles, and other wireless devices anywhere in the house without the clutter of cables.

How to Edit PDF Files without Adobe Acrobat

The PDF file format was originally created by Adobe in the early ’90s and there are now over 700+ million PDF documents on the Internet according to Google (search for filetype:pdf). There are several reasons why the PDF file format is still so popular for exchanging all sorts of documents including presentations, portfolios, CAD Drawings, invoices and even legal forms.

PDF files are generally more compact (smaller in size) than the source document and they preserve the original formatting.

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