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Instant WordPress on your Windows Computer

August 15, 2012 0 comments

If you are into blogging and use WordPress, then you might have installed themes and plugins several times. And it is likely that you found it difficult or uncomfortable testing them on your live blog. The obvious alternative is to install WordPress on your local computer and do your testing. While there are several ways [...]

Keep any window on top with ‘Window On Top’

January 4, 2012 0 comments

When you are working with multiple windows open in Windows, sometimes you may want to keep one window on top of the rest. Some applications have this option built in and let you keep the application on top. But wouldn’t it be better if you could add this feature to any window and have the [...]

How to block people on facebook

May 9, 2011 1 comment

Facebook is a great online social networking tool and a great place to interact with people. But sometimes you would come across people whom you would rather not connect with. So how do you keep these people from writing on your wall and pestering you on chat? Fortunately, Facebook has an option that lets you [...]

How to watch YouTube videos in slow motion

March 21, 2011 0 comments

Several times many of my friends and blog readers have asked – Is there a way to watch YouTube videos in slow motion? And my answer has been – No, unless you download the video and play it with a video player that offers playing in slow motion. But with YouTube adding support for HTML5 [...]

How to quickly view all unread messages in Gmail

March 19, 2011 2 comments

If you receive a lot of messages in your Gmail, oftentimes you would find that you have mails in your archive that you have not read and have also not labeled. Your inbox link would indicate count of the unread messages inbox but they may not be visible in the front page. Unfortunately, Google does [...]

How to link to a particular page within a PDF document

January 13, 2011 0 comments

If you have a PDF document on the web and you want to draw the attention of your friend to a particular page in the document, you can send him a link to the page and also tell him the page number to look at. But there is a more convenient alternative. You can actually [...]

How to enable Save All button in Word 2007/2010

January 5, 2011 0 comments

If you work with several Microsoft Word documents simultaneously, switching to each one of them to save them could be both a pain as well as time consuming. However, there is an alternative. You can enable a Save All button which when clicked will save all the open documents. Here are the steps: Click on [...]

How to stop YouTube videos from downloading in the background

January 4, 2011 0 comments

When you are playing a YouTube video and want to stop it what do you do? You click on the pause button. Well, there really is no Stop button in the YouTube player. But the problem is that when you pause the video, the video keeps downloading in the background. This is fine and quite [...]

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. [...]

Gumnotes – Attach Notes To Any File or Website in Windows

January 1, 2011 0 comments

If you use sticky notes (either physical or digital) to remind yourself of things to do, then you might want to try out Gumnotes. Gumnotes is a free tool that lets you attach notes to any file or website. If you are working on a file and want to be reminded of something, you could [...]

Automatically paste text with no formatting in Word 2007/2010

December 12, 2010 0 comments

Typically when you copy some text from a webpage or any other application and paste it in a Word document, the formatting is retained. This might be ok in some cases. But more often than not, it would be preferable to lose the formatting as you would not want the pasted text to disrupt the [...]

How to install an Addin in Excel 2007 and Excel 2010

April 24, 2010 5 comments

In response to my earlier post on Suresh Addin, I have received several emails and comments asking for how to install the addin in Excel 2007/2010. The original post only had instructions on how to install the addin in earlier versions of Excel. So here I describe how to add the Suresh Addin, or for [...]

How and where to find Windows 7 ‘hidden’ themes

March 15, 2010 0 comments

Windows 7 includes a number of pre-configured themes that lets you easily personalize your desktop. Besides the default themes, Microsoft makes available a variety of additional themes online. But did you know that apart from the installed themes that appear in the Personalisation window, there are a few more themes that aren’t visible by default. [...]

How to pin a folder to the task bar in Windows 7

February 25, 2010 2 comments

One of the cool features in Windows 7 is that you can pin your favorite applications to the taskbar so that you can easily launch them when needed. What if you want to pin a folder that you frequently use? Wouldn’t it be great if you could access your favorite folders quickly from the taskbar? [...]

Troubleshooting ‘No Audio’ from the front panel of a desktop computer

February 6, 2010 5 comments

Recently I purchased an assembled desktop pc from a known vendor. On testing, everything worked fine, except that when I connected a headphone to the audio output panel on the front of the cabinet, I did not receive the audio. After the basic checks I concluded that there indeed was a problem. So I called [...]

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