When you receive a common mail, which has other known/unknown respondents, it becomes difficult to know who is who and does what. Specially, in organisations and institutes this becomes a serious problem, as we may not know everyone. Gmail’s people widget provides quick relief at such point. It tells us about the associated people and [...]

Google Desktop is text search software, which allows you to easily search files, emails, pictures and MP3′s on your computer. This is pretty useful tool which indexes files by their name or content and lets you launch them with few keystrokes. In addition, it provides other handy gadgets such us weather information, calendar, Gmail, news, [...]

Switching internet connections is always a big pain. Fortunately, we have proxy managers that take care of this complicated job. More thankfully, we have browser proxy add-ons and extensions, which makes this job easier than it sounds. When do you need a proxy manager? If you are the type of user that work on different [...]

Is there a way to remind myself of some specific task with advance emails? or there is an email that I didn’t want to receive now but after 4 hours. What should I do? Should I leave it unread? Or should I keep it as a reminder note in diary/mobile alarm/Google Calendar? There is a [...]

Google India has come up with a new shopping tool, which finds the best deals and latest prices for Indian consumer products. This can be looked and Indian version of unpopular Google Product Search Engine. This tool will search 30,000+ Indian internet sites before presenting you the required information. Typically, it will show price, images [...]

Sachio Search is the Firefox add-on that lets you search for the selected word from the context menu of Firefox. Handy add-on to save time as you need not to copy text and paste it into Firefox toolbar search engine.

Every time you want to access orkut then you have to logon or submit your id and paasword to login it goes very tedious for frequent users of orkut so here is the way to read your scraps without loggin in to orkut: These days orkut popularity is on its peak with its wide usage. [...]

If you want to write the text in reverse order here are the steps for it: Type your text in the scrapbook. Type & # 8 2 3 8 without spaces before the message.Click Submit or Post scrap.

Are you sure your friend is offline? Well, he can be invisible and cheating on you. DetectInvisible is a service that detects whether Yahoo user is offline or online. You need to enter Yahoo ID of your friend and the service will check for his status.Though the page is filled with ads, but I particularly [...]

Are you disappointed by Google image search results? Were you were looking for images with particular criteria but ended up with mess. One of the most unwanted feature of Google image search that it shows thumbnails preview and we need to click on that thumbnails to get the actual image. More ever there are very [...]

Have you ever wanted to surprise your friends with some crazy text? Previously I have wrote similar post for using Stylish fonts in Orkut. Here is another text trick that will flip your message. Your text will be displayed upside down to your friend. Readable but enough to shock him! You can use this trick [...]

Java Scripts are used widely on Orkut for variety of purposes. This new script claims to be fastest and ad free of all the script. Its speed secret lies in the internal coding which can send scraps to all your friends within seconds. Follow these steps for fastest scraping to all your friends : Step [...]

I am tired of having multiple applications (Yahoo Messenger, Gtalk, MSN Messenger) just to talk with friends from different networks. Then I remembered that old copy of GAIM I used to have on some dusty CD and installed it. The Latest version of GAIM has been renamed to Pidgin. Pidgin is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging [...]

Free shell extension utility Shell Tools adds a few good abilities to your right-click menu, including a means of toggling hidden file showing that’s a lot more convenient than digging through each folder’s toolbar menus to find the switch. In addition, the configurable extension tool lets you copy file names instead of files, create (hidden) [...]

I am sure all of us will be aware of the Windows shortcut Alt+Tab. It is an application switching shortcut that means every window of opened applications can be switched easily by pressing the combination of buttons Alt+Tab. What about if this feature is also accessible through your Mouse? I am sure it will be [...]

I often find people unsure of the speed of their connection. This is something that we should not ignore as this knowledge helps us compare between plans. Rather than going by what our ISP says it is better if we double-check the speed ourselves. I use the BSNL Dataone broadband which claim to provide a [...]

For those of you who constantly work on mails, its hard to imagine what eyes feel. The stress in eyes by small fonts in mails or big articles in webpages , its really a boring job. I figured out a easy way which I use regularly. Why read the mail. Just listen it online. Sit [...]

Have you ever encountered such problem where you would like to hide some secret material or some really confidential material from your friends , family or Lab. assistant. Most of us either use “make hidden” attribute of Windows XP,but its a old trick and everyone knows how to see hidden files and folders.The other trick [...]


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