12 posts tagged with "category: tips & tricks"

It's always been tough to find the files that is not being backed up on your hard disk. That files which you though will copy/back up next time you connect your hard disk and forgot the files. It may be a bit easier when you have very small no files, but with hundreds and thousands of files with multiple directories, it becomes very difficult to find that missing files. To this problem, we have a solution called PathSync.

Its not just your smartphone who gives you errors about your disk space. You may have came across memory issues on your laptop or desktop running Windows operating system. Its been always hard to find which files are using your disk space. Here comes SpaceSniffer. A freeware disk analyzer, which shows you what's eating your space how much.

Ghost, by default opens every link in the same window, even external. Like links from your blog posts pointing to some other websites are also opened in the same window. This takes your users away as they navigate away to a different website and might never come back. So, I found a workaround for this and here is the solution.

Searching a file on your Windows PC is sometimes very frustrating. It takes a good amount of time to search a file because of its indexing process. It makes a bit more frustrating when you a need a file buried deep down in your hard-disk or the file you saved 5 years ago and don't have a clue where it can be. Here, comes my favorite Windows search engine, Everything.

How many times you have faced a situation like this, webpage is loading images and you are waiting for them. Today media rich websites are increasing at rapid pace. And tons of images increases the loading time and bandwidth for users. There are many compression tools available for you to compress images.

Whenever you want to run any command on command prompt window and you are not a regular all day cmd user, it makes you frustrated to open the command prompt from Win --- R , type cmd, Enter, Copy path from explorer, cd copied-path boom!

Not anymore.

Playing is fun. Small game or big one. It’s always fun. Google Chrome thinks that, too. On your laptop, PC or mobile, Google Chrome has a nice way to keep you entertained with a small little game when you are offline. You have seen below page many times. And you hate it, right? Not anymore.

How often you come in a state where you don’t know the meaning of a word in a article you are reading. What you now do is, copy that word, open a new tab and search meaning <<word>> * or define <<word>>*and your favorite search engine gives you the meaning right away on that page.

You might have seen Chrome reloading tabs when you visit a tab which was in background. This is not a bug, actually. This is Chrome’s new memory management system.

Here are some most useful shortcuts for chrome to get things done faster.

If you are a heavy user and like to keep installed too many apps, it sometime gets difficult to find that app you want to launch in app drawer. Google Now recently introduced search for apps. But if you want that even faster you can do this with the below trick. This feature is built-in in Google Now itself but less popular and chances are high that you might not know.

We use Google a lot. Sometimes to open a known website we don’t type its full address in the address bar. We just type the name, hit enter. So google search will return it as the first page and we will click the search result to open that page. Yes even though it is fast, it takes some time. We can do that directly. But, how?