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Tips and Tricks

Quick weather report in Opera Speed Dial

August 22, 2010

Opera was probably the first to embrace (and innovate) the ‘speed dial’ feature that we now see in Google Chrome and Safari, giving you 1-click access to your favorite/most-visited sites. Now there are plenty of ways in which your can spice up Opera ‘Speed Dial’. One such is to add a quick local weather report [...]

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Google Alarm – A Firefox / Chrome add-on that notifies you when Google’s watching you

July 31, 2010

Google and privacy issues go hand in hand. Even Google admits it. And people like you and me are getting increasingly cautious about our privacies online. And we should be. Internet privacy tools have become the talk of the day and if you are using Firefox or Google Chrome, here’s something new to keep you [...]

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How to: Install Android on a PC

July 26, 2010

Please note: The method shown involves making small changes to the BIOS. If you don’t know what BIOS is or not comfortable changing its settings, you should not perform this trick. How about running the immensely popular mobile OS, Android on a larger screen, on your PC or a laptop? Sounds cool, isn’t it? Well, [...]

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How to: Remove title bar and trim down Firefox 4 even more

July 8, 2010

Mozilla has done a brilliant job with Firefox 4, removing all the clutter and making the UI sleek and trendy. You notice that the UI designers have thoughtfully utilized the screen real estate by providing more space for the actual web content. But there’s always a scope for improvement, or so they say. With a [...]

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How to: Enable ‘All Tabs Preview’ in Firefox 4

July 8, 2010

Mozilla has implemented a very nice, useful and pleasant looking feature in Firefox 4 called the ‘All tabs preview’. Although it looks more like the task-bar preview, albeit on top, it’s slightly more handy and according to what I feel, ergonomically better. In order, to enable the ‘All tabs preview’ in Firefox 4, this is [...]

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3 great web-based Notepads

June 21, 2010

This probably shouldn’t need an intro paragraph. What else can be more straightforward than 3 beautifully minimalistic, web-based notepad applications that lets you write (and sync and save) random pieces of text on the go? Today we feature 3 web-based notepad applications that’ll prove to be very useful. SimpleText.ws I just fell in love with [...]

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Gmail Tip: Move attachments column to far left

May 26, 2010

Today Google Labs came up with pretty decent feature for Gmail that lets you move the attachments column showing the different icons for each attachment to far left. This makes more sense because now its much more visible and easy to identify emails with attachments. Such small enhancements from time to time make Gmail [...]

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How to: Enable Google’s SSL secured search to Firefox’s search bar

May 25, 2010

It’s been a couple of days since Google started SSL secured search. You can notice it on Google’s homepage (https://www.google.com) where the Google logo has a small ‘SSL’ text written in the top-right. But most of us never go to Google’s homepage every time we want to perform a search. We use the ‘Search bar’ [...]

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Google Font API: Add beautiful web fonts on your web page [Web-design]

May 21, 2010

Web designers surely know the pain not to be able to use wide variety of fonts on their web-pages. There are these web-safe fonts that you need to remain stuck to because you don’t want your web-page to appear differently on different browsers. Of course there’s @font-face to help you out but it also has [...]

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