Saikat Basu

There are lots of ways to emphasize a piece of text in MS Word. And they have their shortcut keys too…all adding up to seconds of productivity on a busy day. If you have used Word for even a little while you will know that pressing CTRL+B display

Checklists have more uses than you can imagine. I use the one right in front of me to check off items that I should go over while editing a blog post before I hit the publish button. To-do tasks and getting things done find their deliverance on a che

There’s a lot that goes behind Twitter’s tweets. We have shown you the how’s and why’s right from the complete guide to Twitter lists to ways to improve your Twitter experience . One other way (that is often ignored) to improve your Twitte

Long URL’s that go on and on like a comet’s trail are an annoyance, and also difficult to use in blogs and chat programs. That’s why short URLs have their uses. Bitly is one of the better known ones. There are quite a few others in the crowd

In the world of megapixel photos and Retina displays, tiny clipart images could easily feel left out. But these tiny images have their uses which cross over from education to business. So much so that Microsoft is among the few giants who offer an o

The literal meaning of the word ‘ditto’ fits just perfectly with this tool that manages all our copy-cut-paste operations. It is used to indicate that something already said is applicable a second time.

Do you create your presentations directly on PowerPoint from scratch? There’s more than a likely possibility that the data your boss has told you to include in the presentation resides in a neighboring Microsoft Word file. Now, there are two ways

If I asked you about your most important resource in your digital life, I am sure you would probably answer – my Gmail account. Your music stock in the cloud could come a close second.

Geotagging Instagram photos (or anything else for that matter) is almost like giving away your address. It immediately raises privacy concerns and those are very legitimate concerns too.

Extensions are what give browsers their usability, and turn them into single-window “clearing houses” for all that we do on the web. But browser add-ons and extensions come with baggage.

Most of us aren’t celebrities like Justin Bieber and Barrack Obama with millions of followers waiting for the next Twitter byte. We are normal folks with follower counts in maybe double or triple digits.

Tabbed browsing has been a great evolution for browsers. But tab clutter is a term that speaks for itself. Too many open tabs are not only difficult to manage but they are liable to crash too. That’s why ways to reduce tab clutter and prevent th

You don’t have that fancy mega-pixel DSLR yet with an USM lens that needs breaking into a bank. Well, if there is any truth in the old maxim that the best camera is your eye, then you can avoid the police rap sheet and instead pick up that smartpho

Effective presentations start with doing the simple things well. And nothing can be simpler than or as basic as learning how to make those images fit onto your slides just perfectly.

Anything that has to do with passwords and password management requires as many layers of security as you can wrap around it. Especially, if it is a cloud based password manager like LastPass.

Svchost.exe is one of those little understood, and more often misunderstood things on our computers. I think we did a fairly good job of explaining what is the Svchost.exe process and why are so many of it running? For those who have come in late, l

While power usage still might be Microsoft Excel’s strongpoint, Google Docs and its spreadsheet offers you an alternative especially when you are on the go. It is good enough for 20K rows, and also helps you with web based dashboards. The real-time

There are two ways to manage your passwords. Either you create your own system of storing them and retrieving them when needed, or you take advantage of a good password manager. LastPass is the solution you can try out if you opt for the latter. Last

LastPass, as we have seen with our previous articles, is a password manager that makes managing passwords and using them a breeze. But as with everything, as the old adage goes, the chain is only as strong as its weakest link. The password manager i

Outlook.com is the new destination in town. Even if you are wedded to Gmail, you should be interested in at least taking a small peek inside the new and free email service that isn’t just a rebranded Hotmail.