Multiple desktops is one many new features introduced in Windows 10. Although it’s only at the preview stage, there are great functions provided. For example, you can create lots of desktops to manage your windows. There is a keyb...
The more music files you add to your collection, the more time will be required to clean out any duplicates that might sneak in. As such, check out the Similarity software package. With that you can quickly scan for and delete a v...
In the Twitter community, tweets with images have a higher chance of getting clicked and viewed than the tweets with plain text. So if your goal in Twitter is to promote your presence, it would be best to start tweeting content wi...
In the world of social media, users are used to sharing content through their friends and followers. If you’re lucky, your content could become viral. Speaking of which, there’s one app that takes viral content to a whole new leve...
What’s the use of having a calendar when you can’t even follow and keep track of important events and dates? If you’re using Google Calendar, then there’s no need for you to fret. In Google Calendar, you can directly keep track of...
There are different apps and software that you can use to create presentations. Now, what about sharing presentations? If your objective is to conduct a real-time online presentation, you can “slidecast”. It’s a great alternative ...
Not all shortened links are safe to click. Some of them contain malicious content and other potential threats. If you are not extra careful, you could end up clicking a malicious link. Malicious links usually contain adware, virus...
The battery icon at the bottom right is tiny. It would be better to have a larger battery bar that makes the battery status clear. You can add exactly that to Windows Vista/7 with the freeware BattCursor software. Add the software...
Into the second public beta, Windows 10 has brought so many brand new features. It’s interesting that some of them were originally introduced in Windows Phone. This happened because Microsoft’s trying to create one Windows that ru...
This article covered how you extract a color palette from an image with Pictures to Color. However, additional software is not essential. You can instead extract color codes from images from the Colors Palette Generator website. O...
Creating a narrated presentation isn’t as difficult as what you think. It’s basically adding a narration or voice-over to your slides. You can do it in PowerPoint. If you don’t have PowerPoint, you can choose to create a narrated ...
By default, the swipe up gesture is reserved for Google Now. If you swipe up from the home button, your Android device will immediately take you to Now. It’s a handy option but what if you’re not an avid Now user? Is it possible t...
At last, Facebook users can now add stickers to their photos. So if you’re wondering if it’s possible to make your photos look more interesting by adding various stickers, well now you can. Thanks to Facebook’s new “Stickered for ...
A conundrum faced by many website owners is how to increase user / reader engagement; how can we provide quality content while getting our readers to interact with us. One way many (most) websites use is the comments or reviews se...
If you often set up new folders and subfolders, New Folder Wizard might be a handy software package for you. New Folder Wizard is a program with which you can set up a batch of new folders. With it you can set up thousands of fold...
A mosaic is an art of creating images with an assemblage of colored stone or glass. You can add mosaic effects to your own images with Paint.NET. That includes a Mosaic plug-in which generates mosaic effects. You can add Mosaic to...
OpenOffice is a freeware office software suite. Among its software packages are a word processor, spreadsheet, database and presentation application. The suite’s presentation application is Presentation, and that’s the...
In MS Word 2007, you can find a list of your recently edited documents. It’s located on the menu that appears right after you click the Microsoft Office icon. With it, you can easily open or switch the documents that you’re workin...
In Chrome, you can easily bookmark posts and pages. However, you cannot quickly identify the pages that you’ve already read. You cannot also mark pages as “read later”. Unfortunately, such feature isn’t available in Chrome. If you...
In Windows, you can use the default recorder tool to record audio or voice. You can also opt to download a third-party audio recorder. In Chrome, you can also do the same. One of the advantages of using Chrome to record music or a...
Global hotkeys are very useful especially if you like listening to music through various online music players. With global hotkeys, you can use the same hotkeys for various playback commands regardless if you’re listening to music...
In a previous post, you’ve been told about the Hover Zoom extension that you can use to zoom image thumbnails on website pages. However, that extension is not available for Firefox. To zoom image thumbnails on mouse over in ...
Apps like SnapChat are a hit. Unlike other instant messaging services, they provide an option that would allow users to “auto-destroy” or “auto-delete” their photos. The thing is once the photo has been deleted, you can no longer ...
Another article covered how you can search website text from the Firefox context menu. You can also search Google Images by right-clicking images with a couple of add-ons. Those add-ons are Google Image Search and Search by Image....
There aren’t many image viewers that have full keyboard functionality. Sure, most might include a few hotkeys; but they get cluttered up with other options. For a full keyboard image viewer check out Keyboard Image Viewer. K...
The ability to pin something to Windows’ Taskbar was first introduced in Windows 7. However, it feels limited since you can only pin programs, shortcuts, and webpages. In Windows 8.1, you can pin Store apps. Pinning things l...
In a previous post, you’ve learned how to add a narrative or voice-over to a presentation online. This time, you’re going to learn how to do it in MS PowerPoint 2007. It’s very easy to do. So if you’re all set, just read and follo...
This holiday season, many of you will surely decorate your homes and offices with all kinds of Christmas decors. Not only that, some would even go as far as changing their browser themes and wallpapers. Speaking of which, did you ...
Just like other email services, Gmail lets you forward emails to other recipients. It’s a convenient option especially for sharing the emails you’ve received. Now, what if you want to share your emails to certain users yet, you do...
In Android, there are so many ways to customize your device settings and actions. For example, you can use swipe gestures to launch apps. You can also use voice commands to enable certain actions. Speaking of which, there’s anothe...
Blogger is one of the foremost blog providers. With them you can customize blogs with a number of options. These are a few ways that you can customize blogs with Blogger. The first way to customize a blog is by selecting a templat...
Google Calendar is a Web calendar that includes a few customization options. However, with extensions we can select many more customization options for Google Calendar. Perhaps the best extension to customize Google Calendar with ...
There are various file archive formats such as TAR, BZA, ARJ and GZA. Although Zip is probably the most standard archive format for compressed files. You can convert Zips, and other archive files, to alternative formats with the A...
Windows Powershell is comparable to the MS Command Prompt. It consists of a command-line shell based on the .NET Framework. In addition, you can also customize the Powershell window with a few options. How to customize Windows Pow...
Finally, Windows supports touchpad gestures universally. By saying “universally,” it means every device with multi-touch trackpad is able to recognize touch gestures in Windows 10. Previously, PC makers get this feature with their...
