The Google Drive team has officially introduced the all new Save To Drive extension and added zooming and commenting capabilities to images. You can install the browser extension from the Chrome Web Store while you can try the image zooming and commenting features directly on your Google Drive account.
I found this question on many Android forums, regarding screen rotation not working suddenly, in devices like Samsung Galaxy S2, Samsung Galaxy Note and Samsung Galaxy S3. I searched for it because I had the same issue. Yes, even my device had the same problem, (I can proudly say had because now it is solved!). After searching for around 15 forums, and 40+ posts, I was able to find a solution for the screen rotation issue. Pheww! Feels good!
Anyone who is to buy a Smartphone these days, is bewildered with this question. And this they have long discussions with them who have good knowledge about gadgets and stay updated or those who are currently using it.
It's always advisable to do a little research before going to buy a new gadget or a new electronic device like TV, Refrigerator, etc. About a month ago, I did a little research on a difference between LCD and LED TV. As a result, I found some good technical details and here below is the best explanation that I come across over the CNET.com's comment section!
Google Chrome, the most versatile and advanced browser comes with tons of features that makes your life more easy. Following are most useful and tested features that will help you to get most out of Google Chrome.
1. Open Multiple Pages On Startup
Rather just open a single default home page every time you can set multiple pages to open on startup in Chrome. You just need to follow few simple steps to set the multiple startup pages.
Open Settings from wrench menu, locate On Startup section there under or just open this url chrome://chrome/settings/startup from Chrome address bar. Add the multiple urls that you wanted to open at startup.
Caution: Tech Beats never promotes and supports cracking, hacking or piracy activity by any means. We are publishing this article in full trust that readers will use tips presented here for non-copyrighted materials only. Sometimes we found some useful torrents while surfing the internet from some where-else instead home where you've installed the Torrent client. There may also be a case that your company where you are working doesn't allow to install/use torrent downloads. Still, there is a smart way to start torrent downloading on your home computer remotely! All you need is installed Torrent Client and Google Drive (As far as I know Dropbox and SkyDrive will also work for the same but I have not tried them) on your home computer.
Once you are ready with installing Google Drive on your home computer then create a separate folder for placing torrents within the Google Drive folder. Now, when you add any torrent file to that folder either from web account or from desktop software it will get synchronized vice-versa. So, if you add torrent from your office by accessing Google Drive web interface then it will automatically sync it on your home computer's Google Drive folder.
Are you running low on space in your Gmail account? If so, calm down then. Lately Gmail has introduced much helpful search operator called Size that will enable you to search all those hefty mails that are occupying sizable space of your gmail account. Once you are done with searching the space hogging mails then you can decide the next action (keep, delete, forward or save in Google Drive and delete).
A little accelerometer in your Android device can do some amazing jobs. Sleep Time Alarm Clock Android app replaces the Traditional Alarm with the Smart Alarm that tracks your sleep cycles whole night and wakes you up gently in the morning when you are not in deep sleep! The app uses your smartphone's/tablet's sensors to track your movements during the sleep. Sleep Time Alarm Clock is a free download, and it's compatible with just about everything out there.
We all know that Wikipedia is the knowledge treasure. Almost all things/topics have been covered in a great informative way. Till the date there was not a way to save those Wikipedia articles for offline read in a optimized way. Lately Wikipedia introduced a tool to create formatted ebooks using content from one or more than one article. The book can be a simple PDF or in a epub format to read on popular tablets. This new feature will be of real help in many ways.
Let's say, you are traveling to some famous cities of other state/country. It will be a good idea to collect and create an epub formatted book of wikipedia articles for the cities you are going to visit during your tour. Once you are done with selection and book creation you can store it in laptop/tablet for offline read. Isn't it cool?
You can send email right from your inbox directly to your Evernote account and also assign it to any of your existing Notebooks in Evernote. For example, you've few important emails that you need to refer frequently. There are 2 ways available to easily access the most required mails. The first is tocreate quick links to all those mails and the other way is to forward all those mails to your Evernote account.
The first approach is easy to use but there are some limitations with it like you repeatedly need to login into your email account to access those mails, you have to be online, too! The later approach resolves all these issues! Once you sync your Evernote App (Desktop/iOS/Android) afterwards it's also available while you are offline.
Picasa desktop is the best tool to view, organize, edit and upload photos to Picasa-Web albums. The latest version of Picasa desktop also allows to share albums directly on the Google+. But, quite often one wants to upload photos over the Facebook, too.
There are few available ways to upload photos on Facebook. But if you are using Picasa desktop as your primary photo viewer and manager then Picasa Uploader for facebook is the right tool for you. It will add a button to your Picasa software enabling you to upload directly to your existing Facebook albums or create a new Facebook photo album directly from Picasa.
This simple tool sends your photos directly from Picasa, saving you time and effort.
Google Chrome allows to create separate user profiles. Creating multiple user profiles will enable you to separate your chrome preferences like themes, bookmarks, settings, etc from others' on the same computer. You can keep your favorite themes, apps and extensions intact by enabling this feature. Chrome creates a separate copy of itself for the multiple users you create.
For example, If you're 4 members in your family say You, Your wife, Mom and Dad. You can create a 4 separate profiles, one for each of you. As a result, now each of you will have a separate copy of Chrome browser itself. Each user's history, bookmarks, themes, apps and extensions will be treated as per respective users settings. If you've, for example, installed a Readability Extension then it will be available in your profile only. Other members will need to install the same if they want.
The other big advantage is that you can login and access to your multiple web accounts for the same website. If you've 2 facebook account then you can access both simultaneously using 2 different Chrome user profiles! Doesn't this super cool?
One of the best troubleshooting option till the date is to rebooting the device. iPad is no different. It could be possible that your iPad stops to responding your taps and touch gestures. You won't be able to exit from the app by pressing the Home Button. At such times, you are left with only one option, Reboot! And, that's why one should know how to reboot the iPad, incase it freezes up.
Upon restarting the iPad, it will close all the applications that were running in the background state. It will free up the memory hog caused by the buggy app.
VLC Media Player is one of the best free media player. A very lightweight player that seamlessly support wide array of media formats and discs. It is available for almost all major operating systems like Windows, Mac OS X or Linux. VLC is not confined to play just multimedia files like audio or video.
It has tons of features that can ease up your life for performing any sort of multimedia operations like streaming video over the interent, ripping your DVDs, play subtitles, add logo to your video, and last but not least convert your video among various formats without installing any specialized video/audio editing tools.
Let's see how we can utilize the VLC as a free video converter tool.
Sometimes expressive text with some special characters is a good way to show your emotions, feelings, likes or dislikes instead full length wordings. Also When you are creating documents, you may need to use a special character in your text, such as a trademark (™) or degree (°) symbol.
:) vs. ☺
I love music vs.I ♥♫
According to you, from the above 2 lines which side conveys the message more expressively? Hopefully you also go with the right hand side, right? That's why, still today the special characters are not obsolete.
There are times, when you need to share your document that has used some fancy fonts or web fonts which are generally not installed on every computers. Sharing such documents can distort the whole layout at the other end, where fonts you used is not installed. However, you can fix this problem by embedding the fonts within your Microsoft Word Document.
Follow these steps to embed fonts in a Word Document.
Open your document in which you want to embed the fonts.
Click on the Office Button from the extreme top-left corner.
Imagine, you've received 10000 records of Name and Email address in a spreadsheet from online survey of your new product. There is likelihood of getting duplicate records. One should remove such redundant records to get accurate results. Lets see the possible ways to remove duplicates either from Google Docs' Spreadsheet or from Microsoft Excel's Spreadsheet.
To be on safe side I highly recommend to make a copy of your dataset before you experiment any of the following features.
1)Use "Remove Duplicates" feature - New in Excel 2007
This is the simplest way to remove the duplicate records if you are using Excel 2007 or later. Following are the steps.
Select the range of cells from which you want to find the duplicates.
There are ample number of PDF Tools and Services are available on internet that can perform PDF conversions and creations. However, they are of no help when you wish to create PDF from some session based webpages like online shopping receipts or transaction pages on banking websites. Indeed, you don't need any PDF services or extensions as long as you've installed Google Chrome browser! Open the web page you want to save as PDF in Chrome and press Ctrl + P (Cmd + P on Mac). It will open up the Print Dialog. Change the print destination to "Save as PDF" and press "Save".
Want to conduct a survey on your new product? Need to collect feedback from your training session? Any of such activity requires us to create some kind of template or forms where users can provide their feedback or give answers of the questions you asked. Use Forms in Google Docs for such surveys/questionnaires. Google Docs is a free service, that's not confined to just creating documents and spreadsheets only. It's a complete infrastructure to support the collaborative works.
Forms in Google docs are easy to create and use. You can embed forms on your blogs, websites or even you can send the form as an HTML email to your friends to collect responses via Emails. The responses are stored in a Google spreadsheet that can be exported in various formats.
A year ago, I was asked to start a technology blog to spread the knowledge to utilize the features available in softwares and in internet services - which would be of ease so that any layman can understand the process to utilize softwares as well as online services to make things more simpler.
I started Tech Beats on 10th September, 2011 with a mission to spread knowledge about Tools and Technologies available to all of us. During the year, I published almost 51 posts (40+ posts in draft!) ranging from How-Tos posts to Tips and tricks.
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Calorie is a measurement of the energy content of food. The body needs calories as "fuel" to perform all of its functions, such as breathing, circulating the blood, and physical activity.
Here is a Calorie Burn Calculator for the cyclists to check how much fuel (calories) of their body exerts in the cycling activity. You have to burn 7716 calories to lose one kilogram of weight. The results are approximate.
"Your body's carbohydrate reserves amount to two or three thousand calories, and your fat reserves are more like 70,000 calories. For a typical rider, about 21% of your energy comes from fat, on average, and the rest from carbohydrates; with more carbohydrates being burned at higher levels of exertion. caffeine will increase the percentage of fat consumed for energy to 40% for the same exertion. When you run out of carbohydrates as an energy source, you "bonk" and have to slow right down unless you replace the energy as you use it." - BicycleSource.com
Nokia joined the battle with Apple & Samsung by launching its new smartphone, the Nokia Lumia 920. The new Nokia Lumia 920 has included some attractive specifications like 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 dual core processor, a 4.5 inch dispaly with a 768 x 1280 resolution. This new Lumia 920 runs on a latest Windows Phone 8 operating system, upon which Microsoft hopes to compete with its rivals Google's Android and Apple's iOS.
Continuous advancements in internet technologies have blessed us with numerous internet services to ease up our life. Internet banking, online shopping, online entertainment and communication services are widely used nowadays. Having account with such services require us to create a username and password to access the specific service anytime, across the globe.
Password is crucial element to play securely over the internet. Today hackers and malwares have highly upgraded their skills to crack your personal identity to do the malicious activity from/with your account. So it's always advisable to have good password that could not be break easily. If you have ever thought, to know the strength of your password then "HowSecureIsMyPassword" is a sure shot for you.
There are times when you need to access some specific emails frequently. For example, one of your friend sent you an important mail a year ago and you frequently need to access the same mail. One thing you can do is search every time from search box to access it. Don't you think it's cumbersome? Yes, it is.
The quicker solution is to use "Quick Links" gadget from Gamil's Labs Tab. It allows you to create a shortcut to any bookmarkable URL in Gmail. Once you enable the "Quick Links" gadget and then return to your inbox, a "Quick Links" box will appear on the left-hand column.
Google web fonts is a repository of hundreds of awesome fonts that are specifically designed for web. These fonts are hosted on google.com and can be easily used in your website by adding few lines of CSS or JavaScript in your webpage. All these fonts are offered under Open Fonts License so you can use it even in your commercial projects without any licensing.
Install Google fonts on your computer
You can download all these fonts to your system and use them in your Office documents or anywhere else as these fonts are offered under Open Fonts License. All you just need to do is to select your favorite fonts and download the collection of selected fonts to your system. Once you are done with downloading and installing fonts, you can use them.
Facebook lately introduced a notable feature "Schedule Posts" for Facebook Page Admins. If you are among the people who are using some third party apps like HootSuite, Post Planner to schedule the posts, then I think they are of little use now. There are also some downsides for using third party apps. Your page get penalized for using third party apps that publish content on your page on behalf of you automatically, which may lead to a sizable drop in traffic to your page. Considering, these facts it is advisable to use features provided by Facebook itself.
Apple may soon join to the mini tablets war with iPad Mini
The war of mini tablet could get tougher upon releasing of iPad mini. According to bloomberg, the rumored iPad mini will be launched in this October with a 7.85 inch display. The new smaller displays will be manufactured by both LG Display Co. and AU Optronics Corp.
TPK Holding Co. and Yeh Cheng Technology, a subsidiary of Foxconn group, will supply the lamination coating for the device.
Samsung announced a new version of Galaxy Note as well as the Android Powered Digital Point-and-Shoot Camera at an electronic trade show - IFA, Berlin. The new Galaxy Note II gives unique user experience in content creation.
Samsung Announced Galaxy Note II - The most powerful smartphone sparks everyone’s creative inspirations
It has AMOLED touchscreen with 5.5 inch display and 1280 x 720 pixels density. It comes with a high performance 1.6 GHz quad-core processor with 2 GB RAM! This new version will be available in three different versions by its capacity - 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB with 4G enabled. The cool feature about this version it its stylus which is designed to ease up drawing and writing for those who are not too much used to of touchscreens.
With the ongoing war between Apple and Samsung, to ban the Samsung Galaxy SII and some similar products, Samsung has come out with a launch of a smart Android powered digital camera today.
Samsung announces Android Powered Camera - The new device combines leading-edge camera capabilities with Android™ 4.1 Jelly Bean and wireless network connectivity, letting users shoot, edit and share images easily anywhere, at any time
The Andorid powered smart camera launched during an electronic trade show - IFA, Berlin. The cool feature about this smart camera is, an integrated connection to share pictures on social networks like Facebook, Instagram, etc. But it will be limited to the internet connection, it won't support calls (After all, it's a camera!).
To keep up with the technology pace, Nikon has also launched its own Android Powered camera - Coolpix S800c. It will be available from this September.
Labeling and Staring mails are
ways to organize your inbox in Gmail. However, when it comes to sent mails –
one has to compose and send the mail before applying a label to it. Lately,
Gmail introduced the Label as you send feature that overcomes the problem
aforementioned. It makes your tracking for your sent mails much easy.
The new feature by Gmail allows
you to apply a label using label drop-down menu, while you are writing a mail.
You should note that it is for the manageability purpose only; receiver at the
other end won’t see such labeling.
Label your mail before sending - Gmail
Follow these steps to apply a label(s) to the mail you are composing:
Open Labels drop-down menu
Select appropriate label(s) and then click Apply button located at the end of drop-down. You can create a new label if the desired label is not there in your labels list, by clicking Create new button from the Labels drop-down menu itself.
That’s all. Now, you can keep track on sent mails through these lovely labels!
Lately Google+ introduced a feature called Events. The coolest feature ever seen in social networks, that isn't only a calendar or invitation service. Instead, it allows all the people invited to the event can contribute to a photo pool based around it. While Facebook events are aimed towards getting people together. Google+ helps people to plan beforehand as well as share experiences during and after event. Follow these steps to create events:
log in into your Google plus account and click Events in the left hand menu.
Click on the Create Event button on the top-right corner. Then you will see a Create Event dialog as following image. Fill the details of your event like Event title, date, location, etc. In the Invite Names box enter individuals or circle(s) to whom you wish to invite.
Create Event dialog
Click Event Options to set other options for your event.
Basic Options
You can set if the guests can invite other people.
You can set if the guests can upload photos to the event.
Create an online-only hangout - Google plus allows to create Google+ hangouts as events - so it's an online only gathering with your friends.
Make the event public - By default, Google plus event are only visible to the invited people. But, you can make the public events from the Advanced options.
Add additional fields to your event - If you'd like to add a YouTube link, transit/parking information, or other details to your event information, check the Show additional fields option.
Select the appropriate theme that best represents the event you are planning for. Click Change theme at the top to choose the theme.
Click Invite button. You will be directed to the new event's page.
That's all! Your event should have been created now. Now, you and other invited people can RSVP to your event with Yes, May be or No from Are you going? options list. You can track total number of people attending your party.
You can add photos by clicking Add Photos button on the top of event page from your computer, tablet or mobile devices. Uploaded photo will appear in the event wall.
Event wall - where you can add photos and give comments on the right had side pane
Google automatically creates a new album for all of the images you uploaded to an event. So, that way you can access these photos from albums page and from event page.
Once you add more than one photo to the event, the Slideshow option will be enabled to allow you to play slideshow of all pics.
Android users can share
pictures and videos in real time with Party Mode on the Android app.
Turn on party mode when you are in event, and any photos and videos you take
there can instantly be shared with everyone at the event.
You can share events by clicking the Share button in events page. It will make the event visible to people outside the guest list.
Many
finished documents, books and magazines are examples of team efforts where
people work together to create some polished product. There are times when you
involved with a single document that was created and modified by some others
from your group. Such team work can be easily handled by using comparison tools
available in Microsoft Word 2007.
Compare and Combine
documents
Compare
and Combine options provides you a way to differentiate two documents to review
changes such as formatting and white spacing along with word level or character
level changes. This option can be useful situations where you need to expedite
a review process by giving separate copies of original document to reviewers.
Upon return of documents by reviewers, you can combine the changes into a new
document or just compare two versions of a document to look at the differences.
Tip-
If you’ve document with tracked changes but not the original document, then
make a copy of document with tracked changes and reject all changes. It will
create an original copy of document that you can use either compare or
combine features.
Although Compare and Combine
look similar features, there is a difference between them. Compare is generally
used to comparing the differences between two documents, and Combine is used to
compare two or more documents as well as to identify who changed what in the
document.
You can specify the types of
changes you want to compare like formatting, white spaces, and word or
character level changes. The Compare and Combine features can be found under Review
tab in the Compare group.
Compare two versions of
document
Compare
simply compares two documents. Additionally, all revisions in document are
attributed to a single author. Follow these steps, to compare two versions of one
document:
Open Review tab, click Compare, and then from list, click Compare. It will open Compare Documents dialog box.
In the Original document area select/browse the original document.
In the Revised document area select/browse the original document.
Click More to show the advanced options for Compare Documents.
Compare Documents in Words 2007
Click OK. The original and revised documents will remain unaltered and a new Compared Document is created.
To view all three versions of the document at once, click Show Source Documents on the Review tab, and then click Show Both. This will enable you to view tri-pane review panel containing original, revised and compared document.
Resulting window with Compared Document
The new Compared document displays the changed text in
an unnamed document file. You need to save and name the file if you want to
store it for future use.
Combine documents from
multiple authors
Using
this feature you can combine or merge two or more documents. Word will keep all
modifications as tracked changes, made to original and revised documents. All
authors are identified and their revisions are combined into one document.
Follow these steps to use Combine features:
Open Review tab, click Compare, and then from list, click Combine. It will open Combine Documents dialog box.
In the Original document area select/browse the original document.
In the Revised document area select/browse the original document. The following image shows the combination of two sample documents as a Combined Document.
Resulting window of Combined Document
To combine the additional documents, combine the resulting Combined Document with another revised document.
Like Google as default home page, Google Chrome is default browser for most of users. There are lots of features like Speed, Security, Extensions, Clutter free design, and more that attracts us to use Chrome.
Cookie and Site data management is one of the advance features in Chrome. You have complete control over cookie permissions and site data in Chrome. All cookies are allowed by default but you can change this setting anytime. You will see a special icon at the end of address-bar when cookies have been set or blocked on the page.
Cookies are files created by websites you've visited that store browsing information, such as your site preference or profile information. There are two types of cookies :
First Party Cookies: Set by the site listed in the address bar.
Third Party Cookies: Cookies that belongs to other domain that have items like images or ads, embedded on the page.
You should be aware enough about the cookie settings because cookies can allow websites to track your every move on internet during visits to those sites. One should only allow the trusted sites to keep their cookies to be stored permanently on browser. Cookies and Site Data Management in Chrome You can delete all cookies or selected one from Cookies and site data window. Open Cookies and site data window by entering chrome://chrome/settings/cookies in address bar. Chrome will open the following window from where you can delete the selected cookies or all cookies.
Delete all cookies
To remove all cookies in a single go, click Remove All button. It will remove all the cookies from your Chrome.
Delete selected cookies
You can delete specific cookie by selecting or searching the site that issued the cookie and then click the “X” button on the extreme right of the cookie row.
Delete cookies created during specific time period
You can also choose to remove cookies that have been created during specific time period like, cookies created from the past hour, the past day, the past week, the last 4 weeks or the beginning of time. You can find this option by entering chrome://chrome/settings/ClearBrowserData in address bar.
Clear all cookies automatically
If you want Google Chrome to automatically delete cookies when you close all your browser windows, select the “Keep local data only until I quit my browser” checkbox in the Content Settings window. You can find this option by entering chrome://chrome/settings/content in address bar.
Cookie and site data exceptions
You can
also make exceptions so that specific sites’ cookies are deleted whenever you
close your browser. To control how cookies should be handled for a few specific
sites or domains, open the Cookie and Site Data Exceptions window by
entering chrome://chrome/settings/contentExceptions#cookies in address
bar.
An example of managing exceptions in chrome
To add a
rule in the Cookie and Site Data Exceptions window, follow these steps:
Click
the Add a new exception pattern field and enter the domain name for
which you want to create an exception.
To
create exceptions for an entire domain, insert [*.] before the
domain name (e.g.[*.]google.com. This will match account.google.com and
drive.google.com or anything else that is followed by google.com).
You
can also specify an IP address, an IPv6 address, or a non-http URL.
Use
the menu to choose whether the site can set cookies. If you select Clear
on exit, its cookies are deleted every time you close your browser.
You can also edit or remove exceptions using this window. Private Browsing (Browsing Incognito mode) is still smart way to browse the internet if you don’t wish to store browsing history, cache and cookies once you are done with browsing. All latest browsers support the private browsing mode, to know more visit Enable Private Browsing in browser.
A simple image can turn into a funny image, if one can add some words/text on image before sharing with your Google plus circles. Of-course you can use some image processing software to do the same, but it is tedious and time consuming.
Google+ continuously adding new features to give better social network experience. Lately, Google+ introduced a feature to add big, bold text on your photos before sharing with your circles.
You can try it out, by adding a photo to your sharebox in Google+, then click Add Text button underneath the photo. You will be presented with a picture on right side and 3 textbox on left side to add text on picture.
The 3 textbox allows you to add text at top, middle and bottom of the image. After adding text click Save button. That's all, enjoy.
A template is a kind of document which creates a copy of itself when you open it. So, if you are using some word documents frequently then it makes sense to create a template. Microsoft Office 2007 allows you to create a template by saving a document as a .dotx file, .dot file or .dotm file (.dotm file type enables to use macros in the file). For example, a letterhead is a frequently used document in any organization/firm. Letterhead usually consists name, address and logo of an organization and sometimes a background pattern. Instead of creating a document having such fixed info. from scratch, you can use a template with a predefined page layout, fonts and margins. All you have to do is open a template document fill in some text and info. that is specific to your document. Upon saving a document as a .doc(x) or .docm file, you save your document separately from the template on which it is based.
Save as a template
You can start with a blank document and save it as a template, or you can create a template that is based on an existing document. For the sake of simplicity, we will see how to create a template from a blank document.
Save As - Word Template
Click the Microsoft Office Button on extreme top-left corner, and then click New.
Click Blank document, and then click Create.
Make the necessary changes that you want to the page layouts, margin settings, font styles, Headers & footers, etc. You can also add instructional text and content controls such as date pickers, and image that you want to appear in all new documents that you base on the template.
Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click Save As.
In the Save As dialog box, do one of the following:
On a computer that is running Windows Vista, under Favorite Links, click Templates.
On a computer that is running Windows XP, under Save in, click Trusted Templates.
Give the new template an appropriate file name, Select Word Template in the Save as type list, and then click Save.
Close the template.
By default, user template files are stored in following locations:
In Windows XP
C:\Documents and Settings\<your_account_name>\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates
To create documents based on this template, click the Microsoft Office Button and select New. Click My Templates in the left pane. In the box that opens, select your template and click Ok. The opened file will function like a template but it's just a copy of template as a standard document type.
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