Test your knowledge of world geography with Google maps game

March 22, 2011 0 comments

Google maps offers a fun feature called “Where in the world” game which lets you test your knowledge of world geography by challenging you to identify a random set of countries using the mapping service’s satellite imagery. It is a labs feature and so you need to enable the feature in the settings. First go [...]

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 [...]

Smart Defrag 2–A fast and efficient free disk defragmenter

March 17, 2011 0 comments

IObit, one of the biggest software vendors for system utilities and security software, has recently released a new version of the free disk defragment software called Smart Defrag 2. Sporting a brand new interface, the latest version is equipped with the unique “boot-time defrag” feature and an improved defrag engine. Smart Defrag 2 is one [...]

Get a detailed information of your system properties & settings with SIW

March 17, 2011 0 comments

There are several paid and free tools that help you view your system’s properties and most of them do a good job of what they are expected to do. However, there is this free tool called SIW or System Information for Windows (http://www.gtopala.com/) that really stands out for the sheer amount of information that it [...]

Automatically install must-have apps and keep them updated

March 16, 2011 0 comments

There are a handful of must-have programs that we tend to have in our computer. Typically when you get a new computer or you reinstall Windows in your existing system, you have to install each of these applications one by one which can be quite time-consuming and also frustrating as you have to find, download [...]

What Firefox 4 has in store for you

March 16, 2011 3 comments

Firefox 4 is expected to be released later this year. Mozilla had hoped to release Firefox 4 in 2010 but a longer-than-expected testing process discovered hundreds of bugs forcing the date back. If you want a sneak peek of Firefox , you can download the Release Candidate (Firefox 4 RC) here. Here are some of [...]

Can Google search webpages from the future?

February 9, 2011 0 comments

I know Google can do a lot of things and that it can do them wonderfully well. But I never knew that Google can index posts from the future!! Well not really. Today, the 9th day of February 2011, I was searching for “total number of countries in the world” on Google and here is [...]

Make your Facebook information secure with https

February 3, 2011 0 comments

By default Facebook does not use a secure connection and uses an http connection rather than the secure https connection. An http connection sends your information in plain text. This means that the information that you send over the Internet through Facebook can be intercepted by packet sniffer tools. But when you send information using [...]

Hoax message about Facebook becoming overpopulated

January 21, 2011 0 comments

Today morning while checking my emails I found that I had received about 5 to 6 messages from my facebook friends. It was the same message from everybody and reads as follows. Facebook is recently becoming very overpopulated. There have been many members complaining that Facebook is becoming very slow. Records show that the reason [...]

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 [...]

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