How often it happens to you after sending a email to office colleagues you realize that you forgot to enclose attachment with mail? Probably many number of times. If you use Microsoft Outlook as the email client at your office, then this tip should be a huge relief. (more…)

Gmail now supports rich text signatures, including customizing font size and color, insert images or links, and format text. Here is how you can add an image or formatted text as a signature in Gmail. In order to add an image, you need to upload it to an image hosting service that lets you hotlink the image such as Image Shack, Photo Bucket, Imgur, etc. (more…)

Modern DVD Players (Eg. Philips DVD Player) come with USB 2.0 Port for playing movies directly from flash drive or external hard drive. But some times you may have trouble in which the DVD Player doesn’t recognize the data in the Pen drive and shows message as “Empty Card” even though there are compatible videos (AVI, WMV, DIVX,VOB)  in it. 90% of such problems are due to wrong file system of the Flash drive or external hard drive. (more…)

The newly released Windows Live Essentials Beta adds a Bing Bar to your Firefox or Internet Explorer browser. Bing Bar lets you search Bing for web content, images, videos, browse and view weather forecast, news, stocks, and even videos. It adds a Private button, allowing you to switch to private browsing with a single click. (more…)

If you want to test your new WordPress theme before you go live, then one way to do it is to install WordPress locally on your PC. WordPress requires a web server such as Apache or IIS with support for PHP and MySQL running locally on your Computer. This is where XAMPP (Cross Platform web server package containing Apache, MySQL and PHP) comes to rescue. (more…)

Now that Safari 5 supports extensions, and also brings some new features such as the Safari Reader for reading articles distraction free, opening links in new tabs many would be interested in switching to it. Though the official Safari extensions gallery is not yet live, there are many extensions available via developer sites, and also other private galleries. (more…)

Google Chrome is fast becoming a browser of choice, albeit only as secondary to Firefox. Many users who complain of Firefox crashes as well as slow Firefox load time find Google Chrome more stable and fast. For those of you who want to switch from Firefox to Chrome, here is how you can take all your favorites/bookmarks, saved passwords, search engines, and even browser history to the new browser. (more…)

Say you want to carry your bookmarks to another PC or switch to a new browser, you may want to first take a backup or export Firefox bookmarks. While there are add-ons that let you easily backup and restore Firefox bookmarks here are the steps to do it manually. (more…)

If you have bought a laptop recently that came equipped with Windows Live Messenger and are wondering how to remove or stop it from starting with Windows then this article is for you. Windows Live Essentials is a package given free by Microsoft which includes Windows Live Messenger, Live Writer, and Movie Maker, Photo Gallery and so on. (more…)

Recently Safari 5, the latest browser from Apple go released bringing a host of new enhancements including the Safari reader that lets you read online articles hassle free and the option to open links in new tabs instead of windows. Apart from these minor features, Safari 5 adds support for extensions, adding immense number of possibilities for developers to customize the browser similar to Firefox or Google Chrome. (more…)