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Windows 101: Add a New User Account in Windows 7

By Sharninder | Published: November 25, 2009
If you’re one of those who recently switched to Windows 7 from Windows XP, and are still learning the ropes of Microsoft’s new operating system, you’d have noticed how Windows 7 likes to do things a little differently especially when it comes to administrative tasks such as creating accounts for new users. Even if you’re a [...]
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E.ggTimer – Your very own online countdown clock

By Sharninder | Published: March 2, 2009
If you’re looking for a simple way to start a countdown to remind you of something, it can’t get simpler than E.gg Timer. To set a timer, all you need to do is append the time that you want the countdown to last, to the URL of the website. For example, to set a 2 minute countdown, [...]
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How to display word count in Microsoft Word 2007

By Sharninder | Published: February 24, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Tips and tricks, Windows | Also tagged Microsoft Office, Windows | 1 Comment

Use Windows Notepad as your electronic diary

By Sharninder | Published: February 23, 2009
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 the current day and [...]
Posted in Tips and tricks, Windows | Also tagged easter egg, Notepad, Windows | 21 Comments

Disable spatial mode in GNOME’s Nautilus file browser

By Sharninder | Published: February 8, 2009
I’m a big GNOME fan and have been using it ever since it was first released. Ofcourse, like all software, not all is good with the GNOME project also and some of the decisions made by the developers are just plain absurd to me. One such decision was making the Spatial mode on Nautilus as the [...]
Posted in Linux | Also tagged gnome, Linux, useful tricks | 5 Comments

Clone an Ubuntu system using Synaptic Markings

By Sharninder | Published: February 5, 2009
How many times have you had to reinstall the OS on your computer and then had to install all your favorite pieces of software by hand. I’m sure it’s quite painful. And even more so when you forget to install a couple of software and then have to install them in a crunch when you [...]
Posted in Linux | Also tagged Linux, ubuntu, useful tools, Useful Utilities | 2 Comments

Search Wikipedia and Google from the Start menu in Vista

By Sharninder | Published: January 23, 2009
The search function integrated in the Start menu is probably one of the best features in Windows Vista. I use it all the time to search for files on my computer and even as a launcher to launch applications. It also gives an option to search the Internet from the same search box, but the [...]
Posted in Windows | Also tagged Google, useful tricks, vista, Wikipedia, Windows | 1 Comment

Move your feedburner feeds to Google

By Sharninder | Published: January 23, 2009
Google acquired feedburner somewhere in 2007 and since then has been running the service almost unchanged. But, that is going to change soon. The feedburner service (which is also used to manage the feed of this blog) is going to go away sometime over the course of next week and Google is migrating all users from [...]
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Configure Remote Access to your Ubuntu Desktop

By Sharninder | Published: January 22, 2009
Ever tried helping your non-technical friends with their computer problems over phone. If yes, you know how irritating that can be. To solve the problem, Microsoft added an option to one of the Win XP service packs to let remote users take control of your system and made troubleshooting Windows systems much easier. Microsoft on [...]
Posted in Linux | Also tagged Linux, remote access, ubuntu | 1 Comment

Turn off deep linking in yahoo search results

By Sharninder | Published: January 16, 2009
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 and images from wikipedia for any [...]
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