How-To Archive
21 May 2013
Working with Google Fonts on your Computer
Google has a great collection of web-fonts that can be used by webmasters on their websites, ranging from scribbled fonts to professional fonts. Google lets you download the source fonts (TTF) from their code repository, but here are a rather couple of simple steps to get started with Google Fonts in less than 5 minutes.
19 Mar 2013
[How-To] Disable Guest Session Account in Ubuntu 12.x
Your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS or 12.x has a new 'Guest Session' feature. While it does not pose a security threat, this could let anyone use your computer. If you prefer not to allow guest users, these quick steps will be of help.
02 Nov 2012
[How-To] Fix Blurry Contact Pictures on Android
Your ROM may support full-screen contact pictures, but due to the limitation of Google, your contact pictures are synced at a ridiculously lower resolution. As a result, your phone ends up displaying a pixelated/blurry/smudged contact image. Here's how you can solve it.
28 Nov 2011
WolframAlpha can help you solve Boolean Algebra
Logic Gates, Truth Table, Boolean Algebra – If you’re a student doing Engineering, Computer Science or Mathematics, you’re sure to have known about these, and the terms used in it – viz. AND, OR, NOT, NOR, etc. Well..WolframAlpha knows it too. If you’re looking to solve a Boolean Algebra problem, you can take the help
26 Oct 2011
Backup/Sync your Office Documents with Google Docs
Have you ever felt the need to have your local Word/Spreadsheet/Presentation files (in your computer) synchronized to your Google Docs account? Or the vice versa? If you prefer to have a backup on your computer or you’d prefer to edit your local copy instead of visiting the Google Docs page, you might find this article
08 Aug 2011
Create a bootable USB Installer for Windows 7
When you’re left out with no optical drive, or you’re on a netbook and are looking to do a fresh installation of Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008, a USB Installer might come handy. This quick article will help you create a self-bootable USB drive installer for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows Server
28 Feb 2010
Lengthen Shortened URLs with LongURLPlease
Shortened URLs are not uncommon these days. With services like Twitter where you have text limitations, you have no other choice than shortening the URLs just to save some space. But, not everyone is ready to click on shortened URLs, thinking that it would lead to objectionable or phishing sites as they won’t know the
15 Jan 2010
Get Notified when you’re Unfollowed on Twitter
Though Twitter notifies you when someone follows you, it’s pretty lazy to send out notifications when you are unfollowed. And if you are a Twitter freak, you will never expect your followers to unfollow you. Here’s a simple solution to find out who unfollows you, that takes no more than a minute and a couple
28 Dec 2009
Tracking your Blog Visitors
So you have a blog with great content, optimized for search engines and ready to get exploding traffic? But how do you know which of your articles are most liked by your visitors, and how many unique visitors and impressions your blog gets daily? To track these, you’ll have to feed your blog with few
07 Dec 2009
Update your Twitter via SMS at No Extra Cost
A month back, Twitter and AirTel joined hands to offer Twitter via SMS, and the service was available exclusively to Bharti AirTel customers. Moreover, customers were charged premium rates for every SMS. SMSTweet, available at smstweet.in, is a free service, where you’ll send your tweets to a 10-digit Tata Indicom number, so you end up
25 Nov 2009
Deleting a Virtual Hard Disk [Windows 7]
My previous post should have helped you learn to create Virtual Hard Disk Drives. Now if you don’t find the use of a Virtual Drive you created, you can easily remove it. Here’s how. Before you proceed, be sure to take a backup of files you have in your virtual HDD. (if needed) Open Disk
24 Nov 2009
Create Virtual Hard Disks [Windows 7]
Have you ever wished you had an extra Disk Drive to set aside your documents, files, etc.? This is one of the new features of Windows 7, that helps you create Virtual Disk Drives, similar to your Hard Disk drives. If you are not a Windows 7 user, you can always use TrueCrypt, a freeware
18 Nov 2009
Create Shortcut to ‘All Users’ view in Task Manager [Windows 7]
When you open the Task Manager in Windows 7, you’ll only be presented with processes that run under your user account, even if you are an administrator. The process list includes few System processes. And you’ll have to click the ‘Show processes from all users’ button every time to view all running processes and that’s
18 Nov 2009
Make System Restore use Less Drive Space [Windows 7]
System Restore is a part of your Windows Operating System that was debuted in Windows Millenium and helps recovering your files and settings from previous copies. But this can eat up your drive space, similar to Dr.Watson. If it eats up way too much of your hard disk space, here’s the solution for it. Tweaking
17 Nov 2009
Add ‘Open with Notepad’ to Context Menu
When I come across files with unknown extension, I prefer to open it with Notepad. The same when it comes to files like PHP, HTML, CSS and the likes. Adding a context menu option, to open with notepad, helps you quickly open up files without having to go through the long ‘Open with’ way, obviously
13 Nov 2009
Lock your Google Search to SafeSearch with a Password
Google, to give you more safe browsing experience, is now up with an enhanced version of Google SafeSearch, which allows you to have your search locked to SafeSearch with password-protection, and this is linked to your Google Account