Archive for February, 2009
Create your own GMail themes.
First we had GMail themes. Now Google allows you to make Gmail as ugly or pretty as you want – by choosing your own colors.
Go to Gmail -> Settings -> Themes, and click “Choose your own colors”. This opens a window where you can configure a template with instant preview. Hit Save & Close, [...]
Tackle slowdown with a killer resume and a sure plan
Whether you’re suddenly unemployed or just looking to change up, starting out in a new career is daunting. Take a look at this advice on how to write—and plan—your way into a new field.
10 Easy Steps To Advanced Photography Skills
If you love photography, tinkering with your camera or just love watching great photographs – you must read this fascinating article from Smashing Magazine.
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How to download Videos from IMEEM
IMEEM has a collection of great videos. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to download them because IMEEM has incorporated an Anti-Leech technology which makes conventional downloads difficult. But there are ways to download videos using the following hack.
Step 1 : Download VideoCacheView – If the video file is stored in your browser’s cache, this [...]
Repair your computer from the USB.
Technibble, the Australian site for aspiring computer techies, recently released the second version of its popular Computer Repair Utility Kit, a collection of 57 hand picked tools to help you diagnose and repair your Windows machine.
While all of the utilities are freely available online, this all-in-one kit saves you the trouble of searching for and [...]
Yahoo to Enable Custom Semantic Search Engines
Yahoo is bringing together two of its most interesting projects today, Yahoo BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service) and SearchMonkey, its semantic indexing and search result enhancement service. There were a number of different parts of the announcement – but the core of the story is simple. Developers will now be able to build their [...]
Bespin – coding in the cloud.
The Cloud. We save our data to it, create documents in it, collaborate in it. But coding in the cloud? That has remained a decidedly desktop-centric pursuit. Now, even that may be changing thanks toBespin, a new prototype from Mozilla Labs. Flaunting thoughtful functionality and bearing an appropriately geeky name, Bespin aims to become your [...]
Yahoo Go – Why nobody knows about it ?
I have always wondered why Yahoo products don’t get the response and appreciation they deserve while Google always steal the show with their relatively mediocre (feature restricted) products.
Look at the number of Yahoo services. Most of them have very less visibility as compared to their Google counterpart. ReadWriteWeb posted an interesting article about what [...]
5 Ways To Bypass Torrent Connection Blocking
Must Read – 5 Ways To Bypass Torrent Connection Blocking [MakeUseOf]
This is an excellent article talking about how to bypass the bandwidth throttling on torrent downloads.
Supercharge your IM.
IM is thought of as a chatting medium. But there are several services to super-charge your plain vanilla IM to a great productivity tool.
Setup an answering machine
An answering machine for your IM network will automatically respond to messages when you are offline. You can hack out a bot and have it running, monitoring the [...]