Archive : Tips and tricks

It is not unusual for me to get calls at odd hours from my friends or any of my close relatives. No, it’s not that they are concerned about me, rather they want me to find a solution to some error on their computer that they can’t figure out. Yes, being the resident IT geek of the family is a...

Bing, the search engine from Microsoft created a lot of buzz when it was launched because of its neat interface and relevant search results. But, arguably, the most striking feature of the search engine is the beautiful featured wallpapers/background images. In fact the background images are so beautiful...

Most Linux/Unix veterans use cron to schedule tasks on their machines and it is a very powerful utility for what it does. The problem with cron is the cryptic syntax which tends to scare away most new users and the fact that a user has to use the terminal to create a new job. In this tutorial we will...

If you’re writing an article or a thesis where you need to keep track of the number of words written, you basically have two options to count the number of words, either count the number of lines and multiply that by the average number of words / line or use something other than Microsoft Word for...

Who knew the humble Windows Notepad was capable of anything other than, well, taking text only notes. If you’re searching for a simple application to write a diary or take daily notes, look no further than Notepad. So, what’s new you ask ? Well, with this tip you can make notepad automatically add...

According to wikipedia, deep linking is defined as: Deep linking, on the World Wide Web, is making a hyperlink that points to a specific page or image on another website, instead of that website’s main or home page. Such links are called deep links. Yahoo search recently turned on deep linking...