If you are a techie, you probably get cornered for some computer help by your friends and relatives. Especially when you are making the rounds during this holiday season. A relative nicely shows this nice blue screen of death in his/her latop and asks if you can quickly take a look at it. [image by [...]
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What Free Apps Are You Thankful For?
Lifehacker had an interesting post yesterday that prompted me to post this article In fact, I have used the same title here. What Free Apps Are You Thankful for? I love finding free and quality applications that we can use everyday and share it here for anyone looking for one. In light of Thanksgiving, I [...]
How to Setup Google Analytics Intelligence Alerts?
Google does a lot of things right and Google Analytics that help monitor your website traffic is definitely one among them. Google Analytics is a free and powerful website statistics gathering application. If you run a website(s), you are probably using Google Analytics to measure your site traffic. Google Analytics just added a cool new [...]
How You Too Can Try Google Chrome OS
Google Chrome OS made the splash on Friday with it’s announcement that it’s been open sourced. So, what if you wanted to try Google Chrome OS to get a hands on feel for its awesome features like the 7-second boot time? TechCrunch has posted a nice tutorial on how to run Google Chrome OS yourself [...]
Nintendo Wii System + Wii Fit Plus w/ Balance Board + $50 Amazon GC $290
Amazon has been having some excellent deals lately. I bought the Canon Rebel T1i from Amazon at an awesome price and loving every minute with it. I just came across another nice deal for Nintendo Wii. Although I am a PlayStation 3 fan and owner, Nintendo Wii stands its own ground when it comes to [...]
Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Now Available for Download
I guess it’s free beta week this time. We just saw that we can download and try Adobe Lightroom 3 beta for free. If you have uploaded to Windows 7 recently, you might be looking to re-install your Office software or the free Open Office software. Microsoft recently announced Office 2010 with a ton of [...]
Beware: Facebook Phishing Scam in the Wild
I woke up this morning to see 45 emails via Facebook. Looks like I started spamming my friends’ walls with messages like ‘How to make $6000 with hot colon?’. Luckily, I have friends who know me better than to post such nonsense in their walls and they said so. Finally, the Facebook team had sensed [...]
WordPress Wins Best Overall Open Source CMS Award
PacktPub awards Open Source CMS Awards every year. To my delight, WordPress has won the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award for the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. In the last 4 years, this is the first time WordPress has won this award. Plus, it was named first runner-up in the Best Open Source PHP [...]
Access Blocked Websites By Email
For some reason, my getting around blocked websites has received a tremendous response here. So, I figured I’d share another way you can get to blocked websites just by using your email. MailMyWeb.com is a beta web service that lets you send an email with the url of the site you want as the subject. [...]
Stop Magicjack From Popping Up In Your Screen
I love Magicjack. Where else can you get unlimited long distance for $20/year? If you haven’t tried it yet, check out my Magicjack review. If you used Magicjack, you know you get a dialer in your desktop or laptop where you have the Magicjack software installed. One annoying thing about it is that, even when [...]
Google Spreading Some Free WiFi Holiday Cheer
Google was in the news recently for announcing free Wi-Fi to all passengers on Virgin America flights this holiday season. Now, they have extended the free wi-fi offer to passengers traveling via these 47 airports in the US. So, if you one of the millions who will be spending time at airports around the US [...]
Was My Gmail Hacked This Morning?
I really thought that was the case when I saw a bunch of emails marked as read when I know for sure I hadn’t opened them. I was in a 3 hour meeting. My first thought was to check to see if anyone else is logged into my Gmail account elsewhere right now. You can [...]
Sync Folders Outside of My DropBox to Dropbox
Dropbox is an excellent file sync software that offers upto 2GB free storage. However, Dropbox limits you to sync files only in My Dropbox folder. However, you cannot beat Dropbox for the fast superior seamless syncing it offers. I use Windows Live Writer extensively for my blogging and I wanted my drafts folder to be in [...]
Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 Available For Download
Firefox 3.6 with Gecko 1.9.2 is here as beta 1 now. Here are the new features in Firefox 3.6 Users can now change their browser’s appearance with a single click, with built in support for Personas. Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe. Open, native video can now [...]
How to Add Facebook Events to Google Calendar?
I use Google Calendar all the time now that I can sync Google Calendar with my iPhone. Go to Events page in Facebook (see the bar in the bottom of the page) Look for Export Events link in the Events page Copy the url in the popup window Go to Google Calendar – Look for [...]
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