I turn to Notepad++ for all my text editing needs. It is free, open source and extensible with functions. Like Firefox, it is the swiss-army knife of code editors. You can get any feature on it with the right plugins. However, it lacks sorely in visual interface and it looks so drab and it can […]
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How to Enable Multiple Gmail Account Support?
Have I mentioned I love Gmail? Gmail makes up for its dull look and feel with powerful functionality to handle the email volumes of this day. But, as most Gmail users I have multiple Gmail accounts and it is a pain to switch between them. I hate to have to logout of one account and […]
WordPress 3.0 Can’t Edit Posts Issue
I had a weird WordPress 3.0 issue in one of our sites after doing an auto-upgrade. I couldn’t create a new post edit an existing post open up the collapsible menu in the side in admin quick edit posts Pretty much, it looked as if javascript had been disabled. I tried deactivating all the plugins […]
Find the Best Seats For Your Flight with SeatGuru
We are looking to traveling on a long haul flight this winter. When I mean long haul I mean a 14 hour non-stop flight. Obviously, we are not rich enough to buy Business Class so we wanted to find some good seats for our travel. Enter SeatGuru.com! You don’t have to be a frequent flyer […]
Gmail Gets Rich Text Signatures. Finally!
Finally, we can let out a huge sigh of relief. I love Gmail a lot and can’t even consider any other email service for all the features it has. For years, Gmail users have been resorting to various workarounds to get HTML signatures in Gmail. I have regularly covered different ways to achieve this in […]
Top 10 WordPress Security Tweaks
WordPress 3.0 has been out for over a week now. If you have upgraded to it, you have already applied a huge number of security updates through this upgrade. But, there is still a lot more you can do to secure your WordPress blog. As the WordPress platform gains popularity, so does the hackers trying […]
Top 10 Google Voice Tips and Tricks
Google Voice recently went public. If you have signed up for one and haven’t started to realize it’s potential, do not worry. I am guilty of that as well. But, a lot of folks who have embraced Google Voice as their main phone number swear by it. So, how do we go about making the […]
YouTube Offers Online Video Editor
With the multitude of smartphones having the ability to upload your videos to YouTube without syncing to your computer, this is a welcome move. We shoot videos with our cell phones and just press upload. They don’t get any kind of editing and a lot of videos in YouTube have those crappy few seconds here […]
Evernote Gets File Drag & Drop in Chrome & Safari
Evernote is an amazing web app for storing notes and is one of those services I highly recommend to everyone I know and don’t know besides Dropbox. I use Evernote Web and Evernote iPhone app regularly. Evernote Web for Google Chrome and Safari browsers has gotten a wicked cool feature. We can now gran a […]
Facebook Privacy Scanner & How to Quit Facebook?
Facebook has been receiving a lot of flak lately and for good reason. It is a great social networking platform that is being used by millions around the world. But, with time Facebook’s privacy settings have become downright a nightmare to manage. That is for those who are worried about their privacy and actually go […]
Easiest Way to Create Gmail HTML Signatures
One thing that surprises me a lot is that Gmail still hasn’t added support for HTML signatures. With everyone in a social network like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and may be even run a host of blogs, it would be very helpful to just add social icons and link to them in the email signature. For […]
Dropbox Hack: Dropbox Folder Sync
I love Dropbox hacks and promote the Dropbox free account with all my heart to my readers. As a Dropbox user you might know that Dropbox syncs everything under the main ‘My Dropbox’ folder in your computer. If you wanted to sync a folder outside of Dropbox folder, you had to jump through hoops to […]
WordPress: Could Not Create Temporary File Error
Here is a quick tip if you encounter this error while installing WordPress plugin on upgrading plugins from WordPress admin interface. We across this nasty error while working on a Windows hosting with Plesk interface. Error: Download failed. Could not create Temporary file I had given recursive 777 permissions to wp-content before this and still […]
Forget Screenshots. Quote Smarter with Kwout!
if you like taking screenshots of parts of websites for your blog or just to post everywhere in the Internet and share it with your friends, this going to thrill you. I use my favorite screenshot capture tool FastStone Capture a lot for my blogging as I go about gathering screenshots to illustrate a point […]
Dropbox Delivers Android app, iPad app and Mpbile API
Dropbox is an amazing little file sync/backup solution that just works. I highly recommend it to all my users to give it a try. You get a free 2GB account when you sign up. If you already use Dropbox, you are in for a little treat. Dropbox is now available as an Android app for […]
