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Disinfecting the computer keyboards is required to keep you and your computer healthy.Keyboards generally get dust from air,hands,surroundings( if something spills off ).
To disinfect your keyboard, first turn off the computer. Later spray disinfectant on a cloth. Make sure that you use only disinfectant and not just any type of cleaner because not all cleaners can act as disinfectants. Also do not spray the disinfectant directly on the keys of your keyboard. Spray it on a plain cloth. then wipe down the top and sides of the keys. Wait …
Google, How to, Internet, Tech News »
Google finally made easy to keep images while sending an email.Till now a HTML work-around was used to do the job. Google today rolled out a new feature called inserting images.The new feature called ‘Inserting Images’ in Gmail labs that lets you add images in message body. However, this is still in labs only.To enable this feature go to Settings > Gmail Labs and enable it from there. Once enabled, you will find an Insert Image option while composing a message as shown in the screenshot below.(Make …
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Gmail has rolled out a new feature that will please many Indian Gmail users. Now Gmail supports five Indian languages – Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.
What it means ?
Well,you can send email in these 5 Indic languages from Gmail account. All Gmail account holders from India will have this feature turned ON by default. Other users can manually turn this feature ON from settings > Language.
This is not traditional machine language translation. Where you can translate into Hindi after writing in English.If you want to write something in …
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FacePAD is a Facebook Photo Album Downloader extension for Firefox that makes the process of downloading Facebook album easy with a single right click.
First, Install the FacePAD Facebook Photo Album Downloader to download photos from Facebook.
After installation of this Firefox extension, just right ‘ View Album link’ and click option ‘Download Album With FacePAD’. Full album will be downloaded in Firefox downloads folder. If there is more than one page of photos, then you will be get prompt for successive pages with photo download like:
Alert 1: Downloading 20 Photos from …
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Windows Live Writer is best the best know desktop blogging editor.Many people use it for blogging.Did you even think of having a backup of it ? Here is the solution
WLW Backup is a backup application for Windows Live Writer.It will backup all Windows Live Writer’s posts, settings and plugins with a single click.This is a very simple utility to backup and restore Windows Live Writer.
How to Backup WLW Backup:
Open Windows Live Writer Backup Program.Choose what you want to backup (like posts, settings, plugins, etc), and then click the Backup button
After …
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Gif(Graphics Interchange Format) images are widely used due to their support and portability.This format support animation.Many of you might have seen few popular scenes in movies as GIF images.Here is an easy way to design them.All you need is the movie containing the scene and and movie to gif converter.
Download Movie to gif converter from Evan’s website,
http://www.evanolds.com/movtogifsimple.html
Extract the file, No installation required, Now Run it
Now open the video file in which you want to create a GIF file, here i am creating a GIF from the trailer of Movie “The …
How to, Micro blogging »
The best way to socialize and stay connected with everyone is to use Twitter and Facebook.Twitter is the most popular micro blogging tool and Facebook is the best social networking site.If you are using both services, you must be knowing how pain it is to update your status on both web services manually.But everyone always love to update what they are doing.If you find it difficult updating the status message, then this one is for you. Twitter Facebook application makes your job easier.
You need to enter your Twitter login details, …
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Sometimes adding watermark in Microsoft word document is necessary, If you are sending a confidential report, or a Draft etc. This will stress the purpose of the document.This watermarking process is simple but varies based on which version of Microsoft Word you use.While Microsoft Word 2007 is the easiest to use for this task.
See here is an example of image watermarking,
Adding Picture Watermark in Microsoft word 2007
See “Confidential” in the image.This tells the reader to keep the report confidential(more effective).Let us see how to do this.
Creating a watermark using …
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Some times we want to convert a Word file into a PDF document. There might be many reasons But how to convert a word document into a PDF? There are many softwares over internet but most of them are paid version. Let us see few different ways of converting a Word file into a PDF.
Convert From Microsoft Word to PDF Document
Using Open Office to Convert Word Document to PDF
Install OpenOffice on your computer.Open the Word document you want to convert.Select File > Export as PDF from …
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Ubuntu/Kubuntu Tutorial.
Some times we require to change MAC address (Physical Address of network card).This can be temporarily or permanently. Here is a tutorial which illustrates changing of MAC address in linux/ubuntu/kubuntu
To change the MAC address temporarily
Open terminal and type
ifconfig eth0 down
This command brings the network down
Later type the following command.
ifconfig eth0 hw ether Your Mac Address
For example, it will be like
ifconfig eth0 hw ether 001B2F1359C3
Later bring the network up by the following command.
ifconfig eth0 up
Now type
dhclient
This DHCP protocol allows your computer to contact a central server …
