OS X comes with some amazingly cool and useful features built right in to the OS. One of the coolest, and the one I get asked about most often, is the Active Screen Corners feature. Not only can using Active Screen Corners make using your Mac quicker and easier, but it can also be a great substitute in older Mac laptops for the multi-touch gestures that new Mac laptops come built with. Active Screen Corners will allow you to take many actions that you otherwise couldn’t, or would have to do on your keyboard, with the swipe of a finger.
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How to Work Efficiently on Your Mac Using Active Screen Corners
By | September 6, 2010 |
Weekly Wrap-up: Apple iOS Overtakes Linux and Android, And Many More…
By | September 5, 2010 |
In this week wrap-up, Tavis come up with the user guide to use KDE plasma activities. If you are not aware, plasma activities is a great tool for for managing multiple workspace and desktops and the update in KDE 4.5 is really awesome. In addition, we also covered the ways to rip audio in Ubuntu, so don’t miss it.
Other useful stuff including style up your quotes in Blogger, backup your Ubuntu applications with a single command, jailbreak iPhone 3G in Mac and many more.
Enjoy!
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Rapportive Lets You Know Everything About Your Gmail Contacts
By | September 5, 2010 |
When you sign up for a social network, I am sure that it will ask you to provide your email address and password so as to find out who in your contact list is also available in the network. I’m not sure about you, but I am always a little nervous when I let an app dig through my contacts and personal information.
Let’s turn the situation around. What if you can find out which social networks your friends are involved in when you received emails from him/her? Rapportive does just that. Rapportive is a browser extension (available for Firefox, Chrome, Safari and MailPlane) and it works with your Gmail or Google Apps account. When you are reading your email, Rapportive will scan the sender’s address for the social networks he/she is in and present all the info on the side pane, right where the Google ads are.
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How to Edit the Context Menu in Firefox
By | September 4, 2010 |
Have you ever wanted to change the item listed in the context menu in Firefox and find that there are no ways for you to change it in the Preferences section? The Firefox browser comes with a list of preset items for your context menu and is supposed to be the most useful options during browsing. Since we all have different browsing habit, won’t it be great if we can rearrange the items in the context menu and add/remove items to enhance our efficiency?
Firefox does not comes with such option for you to change the context menu, so we have to rely on the menu editor extension to get the thing. With this extension, you can now edit your context menu (and any other menus), rearrange the options, hide the unnecessary and even add entry from other menus.
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Quanp Adds Microsoft Office Addin, Allowing You to Manage Your Online Files
By | September 4, 2010 |
Quanp, the online storage service that gives you a whopping 10GB of free storage space has now come up with another way for you to utilize your account – Microsoft Office Addin. If you are not aware, quanp has been pretty active in developing interactive widgets recently to get people to use their storage services. Widgets like quanp send, quanp.drop and quanp.on are useful stuff that you can make use of.
With this latest quanp Office addin, you will be able to download, edit, upload and share your document directly from your Office.
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How to Manage Your Touchpad and Avoid Unnecessary Typing Errors
By | September 3, 2010 |
A touchpad is a common feature found in most laptops or notebooks which allows a better substitute of the normal computer mouse. If you have very less desk space and want to avoid wire clutters, you should know how to master the operation of a touchpad.
Anyone, who has used a touchpad as well as an external USB mouse would definitely prefer the latter one because a normal computer mouse is easy to grip and recommended for quick operation. If you work for long hours with your laptop, it’s certainly not recommended to work with the touchpad because this may induce finger strain.
Touchpads are great when you are away from your desk but can come in the way of efficiency if not managed well.
One of the problems with laptop touchpads is the frequent typing errors encountered when your fingers accidentally slip in the touchpad area. Suddenly, the cursor is misplaced to some other place and you find that the paragraph written a few minutes ago is disturbed by misspelled words or characters.
This is very annoying and in this article I am going to describe how writers can manage their laptop’s touchpad for better productivity.
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What’s The Difference Between Facebook “Share” and “Like” Button?
By | September 3, 2010 |
Before the “Like” button even exists, the only way to get your post shared across the Facebook network is via the “Share” button. With the new “Like” button, many webmasters rush to implement it on their sites, with some even replaced the “Share” with the “Like” button, without understand the differences. Some even think that the “Like” button is just a newer version of the “Share” button.
In this article, we will show you the differences between the Facebook Share and Like button and how you can utilize them effectively.
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How to Style Up Your Quotes in Blogger
By | September 3, 2010 |
Virtually all blogging platforms, including Blogger, have the “quote text” function. This is useful when you want to highlight sections from other texts or where you need to highlight information from within your own article. Quoted text can be customised to look different from the main body of your article and these differences make it stand out.
In this article I will describe how to use the “quote text” function in Blogger blogs as well as how to customise its look.
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How to Rip Audio CD in Linux
By | September 2, 2010 |
As MP3 players and mobile devices become very common, more and more people are beginning to convert their audio CD collection to music files so they will listen to them while on the move. In Windows and Mac, the conversion can be done automatically with Windows Media Player or iTunes. What about Linux? Let’s take a look.
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Snippet: How to Disable Firefox 4 Tab Preview in Windows 7
By | September 2, 2010 |
We all know that Firefox 4 comes with plenty of interesting and useful features. However, there is one feature that really annoy me out of hell – the tab preview feature (only available for Windows 7).
Here’s what happen: Let’s assume that your Firefox browser is opened with plenty of tabs, but it is not currently your active application (you might be doing some work in Ms. Office). When you hover your mouse above the Firefox icon in the taskbar, it will show a preview of all the opened tabs. This is good and fine as I can now pick the tab that I want to go to. The bad part is, I don’t want to manually select the tab everytime. When I click on the Firefox icon, I would expect it to switch to the browser immediately and load my last active tab, not to make me select the tab.
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