Category: Computer tips

  • Gmail Labs : Inbuilt tools in gmail

    Those gmail users among you probably didn’t knew that gmail offers a short but useful list of tools and patches that can change your whole experience with gmail.
    To access these handy lab products, you needn’t go to any other website. It is right there as the last tab in settings page.
    And to go directly to it from this blog, Click here.

    Enable the tools that you may need ny clicking enable and don’t forget to save. Gmail will automatically restart with your new tools ready

  • The 11 Gmail keyboard shortcuts

    The 11 easy to use keyboard shortcuts in gmail are as follows (these are the defaul keys, they can be changed at any time).

    1. k – newer mail,
    2. j – older mail (both works both in inbox and in mails)
    3. x – select mail
    4. y and e – archive
    5. enter – enter the mail
    6. r – reply
    7. a – reply to all
    8. f – forward
    9. Tab + enter – Send
    10. g + i – goto inbox
    11. s – star

    ? – show the shortcuts

    Now you are really going to throw that mouse away.

    Here is the real and more interesting article at gmailblog

  • Want to learn C or C++ Programming?

    “C is a common computer programming language. C++ is the newer version of it.”

    This was the only thing that I knew about C and C++ before I visited this site.

    http://www.iu.hio.no/~mark/CTutorial/CTutorial.html

    It is a nice website that teaches you the basic of the programming language.

    Now those of you who are about to enter 11th Standard, will be knowing what they are going to learn in Computer Science.

  • For bloggers who are MS Office 2007 users

    Those of you who maintain a blog of your own will do be facing the difficulty of soaring to your blogger dashboard and then typing in the post very inconveniently to add a new post to your blog. Especially when you have too many small posts to make on many of your blogs, you will start hating blogs. But here is the ultimate solution (works only if MS Office 2007 is installed).

    Run MS Office Word 2007

    Select new from the office button

    From installed templates, choose New Blog Post (Hope it is there)

    If you are using the first time, it asks your blog server, username (use google username if you joined your blog server by google), password, blog name, etc.

    Now you can start blogging without a browser.

  • Create a shortcut to Shutdown, Restart, Hibernate, Standby, and even logoff on your desktop.

    This can be very very useful when you really get tired by the number of clicks you need to make to shutdown, or pressing the shift key to enter hibernation. Just make some shortcuts to these tasks on your desktop, and you can double click to access them.

    Steps:
    1: Right click on your desktop (or inside any folder where you want this to be) and select New –> Shortcut.

    2: The new shortcut wizard appears. Add the following link in the quotes without the quotes, in the box according to what you need.
    For Shutdown : “shutdown.exe -s -t 0” (The 0 means the computer will wait zero seconds before shutting down)
    For Restart : “shutdown.exe -r -t 0”
    For Logoff : “shutdown.exe -l -t 0”
    For Standby : “rundll32.exe PowrProf.dll, SetSuspendState Standby” (This one is not working when hibernation is enabled)
    For Hibernation : “rundll32.exe PowrProf.dll, SetSuspendState Hibernate”
    (You are making a shortcut to the windows file that does these. But when you make normal shortcuts it doesn’t work.)

    3: Give names that you like

    4: Done. If you want to change the icon, right click, select Properties –>Shortcut –> Change Icon

  • Auto Login into Windows

    Have you ever felt that your computer automatically logged into your user account, without you having to type your password? An obvious option would have been to have only a single user account so that windows would automatically log in to it. But what if you are at your house and all of your family members have their own user accounts? There are many softwares that helps you to do this automatically. But there is an alternate option by which you need not download anything of that kind. Here is how to do it.
    1: Go to ‘Run’ in the start menu
    2: In the Run dialogue box enter “control userpasswords2” (without the quotes )
    3: A new window opens up. In it click on the user account you have to automatically log on to.
    4: Uncheck the users must type a user name and password check box.
    5: Click OK or Apply
    6: In the new dialogue box, enter the password of the user account you selected. (Leave them blank if you don’t have a password)
    7: You’re done. Restart to see the change