Posted on 30 July 2008
If you use your notebook computer as your main computer and if you have a spare monitor, then you can put your monitor to good use by making it your Laptop’s secondary monitor. It doesn’t really matter if the second monitor is a CRT or TFT, both work fine.
If you’re new here, you may want [...]
Tags: dual monitor, laptop, notebook, secondary monitor
Posted on 29 July 2008
Cuil, a brand new search engine, launched recently, is pitched as the world’s latest, largest and fastest search engine. At the time of launch itself, Cuil claims to have 120 billion pages or three times the volume of Google Index.
Cuil has been founded by the husband-wife duo of Stanford professor Tom Costello and former Google [...]
Tags: cuil, Google, search engine
Posted on 27 July 2008
In spite of the heavy restrictions and frequent censorship by the government, China has managed to surpass the United States for the most online users in the world. The China Internet Network Information Center has compiled the numbers which indicate that China now has 253 million total Web surfers, with the United States coming in [...]
Tags: china, Internet, online, web
Posted on 27 July 2008
The best way to learn something is by doing it. But when you don’t know how to do it at all, then next best way is watching how it is done.
There are several websites on the web that host video contents. But when it comes to video tutorials I would recommend 5min.com. All the [...]
Tags: 5min, video tutorials, Videos
Posted on 27 July 2008
When you send someone an email attaching document files like Microsoft Word, Excel etc or a Pdf file, unless your recipient has the particular application installed, he/she may not be able to view the file.
While there are several alternatives that your recipients can adopt to view the file, here is a simple solution that you [...]
Tags: attachment, email, Scribd iPaper
Posted on 26 July 2008
Text files are probably the simplest types of files to handle text content. The problem is that while they are simple to handle, there are not very many options to handle the text inside.
Say you have a list of items in a plain text file and you wanted to sort them alphabetically. There is no [...]
Tags: sort, sortmylist, text files
Posted on 25 July 2008
Here is a little trick that you can do to change the screen orientation in Windows XP.
Hold down the Ctrl + Alt keys and press any of the arrow keys. The screen will re-orient to match the arrow key that you pressed as shown in the image below.
Tags: screen orientation, windows xp