Saikat Basu

I recently disposed of my old collection of cassette tapes. It was nostalgically gut-wrenching, but I consoled myself with the realization that streaming music is the in-thing now. Streaming music comes in many forms, from online music sites like Pan

The TED Talks video website has always been a must visit for anyone to understand what’s happening in the world of ours. A few months back TED added another leaf to their widely popular service. Ted-Ed is specifically for educational videos and ric

Personally speaking, I never had much use for history in school. But strangely, now that information is so easily available on the web, I find myself going back in time and searching for information that can be classified as ‘history’. Could it b

You can bet that Dennis Hooper never used this road trip planning website when he set out with his pal Peter Fonda across America in Easy Rider. They would have planned it out better.

Firefox always had good bookmark management features. The Bookmark Manager (Library) had features like Export Bookmarks to HTML. You could easily create periodic copies of your bookmarks and keep them as backups. Syncing them to online bookmark tools

At first glance, Facebook seems kind of antiseptic with its hospital blue colors and whites. The only color on the pages comes from all the postings we make and get in our feeds.

As a blogger, I know how important grammar is for any language. It is the fabric of a language, and when that language is English it becomes especially important because English is the lingua franca – the “mother tongue” – of the world.

Do you think that screen sharing is only for designers and programmers; or for that matter, any one working in virtual teams? Maybe yesterday. Today, you couldn’t be more wrong. Screen sharing has many day to day uses. For instance, let’s suppose

If necessity is the mother of invention, then a service like Unroll.me fits that bill to the ‘T’. Email overload is an epidemic in itself and a virtual industry for the many apps that have come about because of it. Email management tips are good

Browser customizations take various forms – from themes to using different startpages. When it comes to Google Chrome , there is another small tweak you can apply to make it more personal. You can customize Google Chrome with a user defined font th

Firefox shows you the previous addresses you have been to as soon as you start typing in the address bar. While this auto-complete feature is a tremendous time-saver, there may be instances when you want to keep certain URLs…ummm, private.

You might think that Firefox is updating way too often (then you haven’t been on Chrome yet!). That’s a part of its rapid release cycle strategy, that is – 6 weeks between each new release. It might be good news for you if you were peeved wi

If you listen to any sort of music, an audio editor is a must install for your computer; even though it may be for the mundane task of making ringtones. Take a look at the free (but well worth every unspent penny) MP3 Toolkit. It’s a bundle of lit

Most of us have heard of Lorem ipsum, which is frequently used as dummy text. Dummy text has lots of uses in any document. In Microsoft Word for example, you can use it to demonstrate formatting. Dummy text is also used as a placeholder to be filled

There are some unheralded little extensions in the Chrome Web Store that sometimes boost your productivity tenfold. Just one such is a tiny Chrome extension called Facebook Fast Delete Messages. When it comes to Facebook, we (or at least I) access th

Black text on white background is the usual way to go with MS Word documents. Sometimes though you have to spice it up and give it a different look just to draw attention. An easy way is to go retro and give your Word document that parchment look. It

Mapping a drive simply means to connect a local drive with a specially allocated shared directory or folder on another computer. After a drive has been mapped, you can access the shared resource and treat it as if it’s located locally on your own c

Software to compare two documents alongside each other to note their dissimilarities find lots of applications. Let’s take the example of PDF documents. PDF documents with the same content might have been formatted on different platforms and thus m

When you have to watch music videos where do you go to? Chances are that you are going to type in YouTube. But YouTube gives you a disorganized way of watching music videos, and by the same token, some of the enjoyment is left behind. The next time y

Private browsing has its uses – from public computers to even the ones in your house if you have more than one person sharing a computer.