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Teach your parents how to use the computer

January 21, 2011 0 comments

If your parents would like to learn to use the computer but if you are too busy to take time to teach them or are not near them, here is a perfect tool for that. Some of the folks at Google have been thoughtful enough to create teachparentstech.org. It provides you with a template for [...]

The official HTML5 logo unveiled

January 20, 2011 0 comments

W3C, the World Wide Web Consortium has announced a logo for HTML5. HTML5 is the next major revision of HTML and is currently under development. If you are one of the early adopters of HTML5 and have used HTML5 in your site or have to do anything with HTML5 you might want to use the [...]

Google Goggles can now solve Sudoku puzzles

January 12, 2011 0 comments

Google Goggles is a tool for Android mobile phones, which lets you use pictures taken with your mobile phone to search the web. It’s ideal for things that aren’t easy to describe by words. Just open the app and snap a picture, and Goggles will display the result. You can use it to recognize pictures [...]

Chrome – Move tabs to the side on your widescreen monitor

January 7, 2011 0 comments

If you have a widescreen monitor and are using Google Chrome browser, you can move the tabs from the top to the left-hand side. This is an experimental feature and works on the Canary or Dev version of Chrome. In the address bar, enter ‘about:flags’ (without the quotes) and hit Enter. Chrome warns you about [...]

Sign into multiple Google accounts in the same browser

January 2, 2011 0 comments

If you use multiple Google accounts – say one for gmail another for adsense and yet another for Reader, you would know that you can sign into only one account at a time in a browser. Of course you could use separate browsers for each of the account, but it is hassle to do so. [...]

Control Google Instant with your keyboard

January 1, 2011 0 comments

Google Instant is a remarkably faster way of searching as it displays the search results as you type and also suggests the search term for you. But you can make it work even faster by using the keyboard instead of your mouse. To enter the search term, type in part or all of a word [...]

Leanback – Play a continuous stream of YouTube videos

December 31, 2010 0 comments

Leanback (http://www.youtube.com/leanback) is a service from YouTube that lets you watch a continuous stream of videos without you having to play them individually. Leanback is perfectly suited for watching youtube videos on televisions that are internet enabled. When the HD version of a video is available leanback will play that. The controls are very easy [...]

Find changes on a web page easily with Diff-IE

December 21, 2010 0 comments

Diff-IE is a Internet Explorer Add-on that highlights the changes to a page since the last time you visited it. It allows you to view and also compare previously cached versions of a page. This seems like a good idea because sometimes there could be small but important changes made to a web page. Diff-IE [...]

Eight ways to conceal your identity online

December 8, 2009 2 comments

Whenever you go online, you unwittingly reveal information about yourself. Here are a few ways you can conceal your identity when you are online. 1. Use your browser’s privacy mode Ever since Apple incorporated private browsing into Safari in 2005, other web browsers have taken note and developed their own systems of letting you surf [...]

Tab Sidebar: Make better use of your widescreen monitor

December 6, 2009 2 comments

Tabs have become a ubiquitous part of the web browser and it is hard to imagine using a browser without tabs anymore. However, if you are using a widescreen monitor, then you might have noticed that most of the time when you browsing web sites, a lot of screen estate on the sides is being [...]

How to run Firefox inside Firefox inside Firefox…

November 23, 2009 1 comment

If you are not already aware of this trick, I am sure the title of this post would confuse you but that is exactly what this trick is all about – running Firefox inside Firefox Well, I am not sure if this trick has any practical usage other than that you can show it off [...]

New scam email sent in the name of FedEx

November 23, 2009 0 comments

Most of us are aware of the Nigerian scam and the different variations of emails that are floating around. But recently I recently an email that is obviously a scam but the story is not the usual ‘my father was a rich man who died ….’ This email pretends to have been sent by FedEx. [...]

Track the spread of the Flu at Google.org

October 30, 2009 0 comments

We are all familiar with Google.com. But did you know about Google.org? Google.org is Google’s charity branch working towards all sorts of good causes including renewable energy, improving public services and using technology to predict and prevent possible threats like climate change and pandemics. It is part of their efforts to track the spread of [...]

Firefox – Keep your favorite Google doodle all year round

October 29, 2009 0 comments

Google loves to get creative with its logo on holidays and special occasions by customizing their logo for a day. But what if you love one of those logos so much that you want to keep it all through the year. Favorite doodle is a Greasemonkey script, which though developed by a Google employee, is [...]

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