How to Customize the Display of Date, Time, Currency and Measurement in Windows 7
In: Tech Tips
7 Jun 2010In Windows, the date, time, numbers as well as currency are displayed in an International format. However, you can customize it according to the format used in your country. Here’s a small tutorial that can help you achieve just that.
Locating the Date, Time and Currency Settings
Basically, the date, time and currency format settings are located in the Control Panel. There are 2 ways to go about this.
Open Control Panel from the Start Menu and goto ‘Clock, Language and Region’. There click on ‘Region and Language’.
OR
In the Start Menu search box, search for the ‘region’ and click on ‘Region and Language’ in the search results.
The Region and Language window, similar to the one in the picture, will open. Read the rest of this entry »
Google Reader is a web based feed reader that enables you to read Atom or RSS feeds of your favorite websites. Not only does it enable you to read feeds, but also allows you to share those feeds to different social media sites. This can be done easily by modifying the reader settings.
Google Reader provides you a list of social media sites to select from. But, if the site you want is not listed, it enables you to create a custom link. This method can be used to directly download articles from Google Reader to your computer in PDF format. It is done by sending the URL of that article to a webpage to PDF conversion service like Web2PDF Online. Here’s how you can do it. Read the rest of this entry »
How to Add Google Gadgets in Ubuntu
In: linux
31 May 2010
Google gadgets can be handy on your desktop. For instance, to automatically get notifications about new emails in your Gmail inbox, to quickly add events to your Google calender and to mange your documents on Google Docs.
You might have to navigate through multiple tabs in your browser to keep track of your unread emails and manage your schedule, to-dos and more. Google gadgets make it easy for you to manage your email, calender, weather updates etc., with a nice and elegant dockable sidebar on your desktop.
With a keyboard shortcut, you can auto-hide the sidebar to focus on your active windows. For Ubuntu, you can quickly install Google gadgets by running the command below in your terminal:
sudo apt-get install google-gadgets
With the fabulous look and feel of the latest version of Ubuntu, Google gadgets will serve as a perfect on your desktop to keep track of status updates, email and a lot more. It’s very easy to install and use, makes your digital life productive. Read the rest of this entry »
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Best Online To-Do List Managers
In: Tech Tips
31 May 2010
Did you forget some important thing to do today or have you forgot to replay to an important email? Sometimes we even tend to forget our daily routine because of the busy life. To help you remember things and get things done on time it is better to have a to-do list manager. There are several desktop and online to-do list managers available.
Online applications hold an upper hand over desktop applications, you can access them from anywhere. Some of these web application offer you free SMS or email alerts to remind you things on time.
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- Tags: tasks, to-do
5 Web Tools to Get the Most Out of Google Buzz
In: Mobile Phones| Tech Tips
4 May 2010Google Buzz is a trendy way to share updates, photos, videos, and more. You can easily start conversations about interesting things. Google Buzz enables you to connect to other sites like Twitter, Flickr etc., and import your stuff. Buzz also recommends you interesting posts and enables you to skip other non-interesting stuff. Right from your mobile, you can go through buzz and tag posts with your location.
Tweet your Buzz
Tweet your Buzz enables you to link Google Buzz to your Twitter account. It allows you to make your buzz automatically be sent to Twitter and will include a link back to your buzz. Messages sent can be more than 140 characters in length as your Twitter followers can just hit the link to read the rest of the post. Read the rest of this entry »
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- Tags: gmail, google buzz, statistics, trends, twitter, web service
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