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Create HTML Signatures Right Inside Gmail
Gmail does support email signatures but the problem is that it limits you to plain text – you can’t add graphics (like your company’s logo) to the signature and there’s absolutely no support for HTML...
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Simple Solutions to Common Windows Problems
Learn about some free software utilities that will help you fix the most common Windows problems. They are all compatible with Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. Fix Windows Problems with Free Tools Q1....
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Windows Live Photo Gallery vs Picasa
A new version of Windows Live Photo Gallery, a free program that lets you manage your collection of photos and videos, will be available for download later today on live.com. The new Photo Gallery...
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Easily Share Large Files over the Internet
If you are to share a large file with someone over the Internet, there are generally two options – you can either attach the files to an email message or, if the files are too big to fit in an email...
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The Market Share of Google in Various Countries
This world-map image from SE Feng Shui illustrates the market share of Google in different countries across the world. The color red indicates that the market share is higher than 90% while Google has...
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Got Kids? A Simple Way to Block Adult Sites on your Computer
If your tech-savvy kids are spending a fair amount of their computer time surfing the Internet, there’s a chance that they may sometimes accidentally stumble upon adult sites that you would definitely...
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Mark Zuckerberg Drawn Using Facebook Icons
Charis Tsevis, whom we know for his Apple related posters, has now created a beautiful portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg using nothing but those tiny 16×16 icons that are used in the design...
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The Best Tools for Annotating Web Pages
You are reading a web page, say a news story on the CNN website, and would like to share it with your friend. The article is interesting but a bit long and therefore there’s a possibility that your...
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Find the Person Behind an Email Address
You get an email from a person with whom you have never interacted before and therefore, before you reply to that message, you would like to know something more about him or her. How do you do this...
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Now Add Images to your Gmail Signatures
You can now add a more elegant and professional looking signature to your outgoing email messages in Gmail (and Google Apps) directly without requiring any complicated hacks. Gmail Signatures The...
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Unfollow Some People on Twitter for a Reason
Sometimes there are genuine reasons why you may want to clean-up your Twitter friends list and unfollow some people. For instance, some of them may be writing tweets at the speed of light thus...
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How to Capture Videos of Google Earth
This is a short video animation captured using the free version of Google Earth. The video in high-resolution (720p HD) and the animation plays very smoothly but before I share the actual software that...
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The Growth and Impact of Social Media
This presentation looks at the growth of social media in the last few year and it also shares some important episodes from the social world that made an impact whether it’s Nestle caving to pressure on...
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How to Setup Google DFP on your Site – A Tutorial
You rely on an ad network like Google AdSense for serving ads but do you also accept direct advertising on your website? Or have you signed up with multiple ad-networks but, due to limited ad space on...
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Traffic to Nokia and BlackBerry Sites is Down
A recent story published in the NYT painted a bleak picture of the future for smartphone makers Nokia and RIM, the developers of BlackBerry. R.I.M.’s share of the American smartphone market fell to 41...
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Transfer Contacts from one Cell Phone to another
Did you just buy a new cell phone? The first thing that you’re probably looking to do is copy all the phone numbers and other contact information from the old phone to your new one. How to Transfer...
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A Beautiful Replacement for your Notepad
Notepad, a light-weight text editor that is included with every copy of Microsoft Windows, is also the most basic program on your computer with an extremely simple UI and limited functionality. This...
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Create a Gmail Filter to Focus on your Most Important Emails
Your Gmail Inbox is overflowing with email messages. Some are newsletters that you are subscribed to, some are messages from friends and colleagues that you would like to read as soon as they arrive...
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Give your Eyes a Break with the 20-20-20 Rule
If you spend a good part of your day using the computer, the 20-20-20 rule, that I recently learned recently from my doctor, might also help you relax your tired eyes. Relax Eyes The rule goes...
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Make your old add-ons work with Firefox 4
Option #1. Mozilla earlier created the Compatibility Reporter add-on for its users to test and report the compatibility of add-ons with various Firefox releases. The interesting part about this add-on...
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Which Online Backup Service Should You Use?
This week I have been testing the various online backup services, both paid and free, and here’s a summary of how these service compare against each other. Why use an online backup service? While it is...
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When You Need to Send Someone an Important File Really Fast..
When you need to send an important file to a contact, you can either send it as an email attachment or, if the file size is too big for an email message, you can upload it to any of the file hosting...
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The Different Ways to Backup your Home Computer
There are a couple of ways by which you can backup your documents, photos, emails and other important files that on your home computer. For instance, you may: external hard disk1. Use an external drive...
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How to Password Protect your Files and Folders
Do you have files and folders on your computer that you absolutely don’t want anyone else to see? Or do you even carry important documents on those easy-to-misplace USB drives? If the answer is yes,...
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Keyboard Shortcuts to Speed Up Typing on an iPhone or the iPad
The current breed of iDevices (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad) share an almost similar on-screen virtual keyboard and therefore, you just have to master a common set of keyboard shortcuts to type a little...
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A Sticker Set for Highlighting Poor Journalism
Tom Scott has created warning labels that you can print on your own and use them to highlight PR-driven and other poorly researched stories that are published in newspapers (and even online blogs). The...
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A Free Utility to Backup all your Windows Drivers
When you buy a new PC, the vendor will almost always provide you with a “driver CD” that has the device drivers for all the hardware that’s inside your new machine. The CD comes handy when you are...
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A Less Confusing View of World Time Zones
If you ever need to schedule an online meeting or a conference call with multiple people who work in different time zones, a web app called Every Time Zone should come handy.
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The Best OCR Tools for Converting Images to Text
OCR software let you easily convert images, such as digital photographs, scanned documents, printed books, etc. into text. Once you perform OCR on an image, you’ll be able to copy-paste or edit the...
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Cite Other Websites to Receive More Citations
A study by Nature.com has found that research papers that have a long reference list at the end are well cited. The research suggests that scientists who reference the work of their peers are more...
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How to Check the Health of your Hard Drive
To get started, you need to download the ISO image of SeaTools for DOS and create a bootable CD. Now boot the computer with the CD in the drive, accept the license agreement and run a long test (the...
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A Periodic Table of Google Elements
A bunch of creative Google employees, working in the Mountain View office, have created a beautiful and informative periodic table on one of their office walls where individual elements represent stats...
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Get Extra Email Addresses for your Gmail Account [Google Apps]
There are quite a few ways by which you can create multiple email addresses inside Gmail. For instance, if your email address is hello@gmail.com , any email that’s addressed to either he.ll.o@gmail.com...
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How to Make your Windows Start-up Faster
Does your Windows computer take really long to start-up? Well, you are not alone with this problem but fortunately, with some minor tweaks, you can get your sluggish Windows to start much faster...
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A Guide to Choosing an Internet Based Fax Service [shortlisted the top 5...
Although most people have switched to email, there are those rare occasions when you have to send signed documents with your written signature and a fax just seems like an appropriate solution then....
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How to Find Almost Anything on your Computer with Windows Search
The built-in desktop search tool is one of my favorite features of Windows. Unlike Google Instant, Windows Desktop Search cannot predict queries in advance but it can find you relevant documents,...
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How to Research Domain Names on the Web
Researching domain names on the web is often frustrating because all the good names that are in your mind have already been taken. There are however tools that you help you brainstorm new ideas for...
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Locate all the Big Emails in your Gmail Account
Gmail doesn’t offer a way to search and sort email messages by size but you can use a tool like Microsoft Outlook or IMAP Size to sort your mails by the size criteria on the desktop. They connect to...
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Easily Capture Screenshots in Google Earth for Android | labnol.org
Technology Blog The Google Earth app for Android includes a handy screen capture feature that allows you to capture and share screenshot images of the current view inside Earth with a click. You may...
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Introducing Video Slides – thnxz @labnol
With Video Slides, you can quickly create a beautiful slideshow from one or more videos pulled from Youtube and Vimeo. Just past the raw video URLs in any format and the tool will bundle them into a...
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