Sandeep Agarwal

Windows Phone 8 is good. It is clean and simple, and has most of what a smartphone user wants. Of course, there are few things that need to improve and we are sure Microsoft will only make it better with time.

Till date I have always relied on my desktop email client, MS Outlook, to manage my contact information on my computer. But with Windows 8 I got a chance to switch to the People app. Besides being able to manage contacts, I found few more advantage

The progress of internet and related technologies has brought along one awesome thing: easy and effortless data backup. Well, you could still lose all your data on a bad day but that would have caused partly by your carelessness. I mean, there are s

Speech recognition engines (or voice command enabled services) , I believe, are still in the process of evolving and being fine-tuned. They have complex algorithms and learning theories associated with them. However, their growth has been tremendous

Internet Explorer 10 for mobile isn’t just another browser that can open web pages. It is better, simpler, cleaner and has many new interesting features when compared to the previous versions. Most importantly, it shares the core engine with its d

We have talked about adding contacts from an email account to Windows Phone 8 . If you have already tried that then you must have understood that the process actually includes setting up of an email account on your phone . That by default makes you

I think one of the prominent features that distinguishes a mobile operating system like iOS from its desktop counterpart is multiple user accounts.. or more importantly a guest account.

Keeping the various devices you own and services you are registered with in sync is one of the best ways to stay abreast with all information you need. I am talking about data like documents, contacts, pictures, videos and music.

There was a time when we had to rely on asking people around to locate restaurants, shopping centers etc when we were out . Then came the era of GPS-assisted map apps and that is now pretty much the de facto way of locating anything, especially in

What do you do when you purchase a new phone? Well, yeah, a lot of things but one of the first tasks that you are likely to take up is importing your contacts from another phone or service. That joke about whether that smartphone can make calls is

With the latest release of Office 2013 and 365 Microsoft has made one thing crystal clear, and that is its emphasis on cloud storage and connectivity. And, to do that they are using the Microsoft accounts aka Outlook/Live id’s owned by users. Wi

Nokia Lumia 920 has attracted mixed reviews on its battery life. Some say that it is performing good while others are of the view that it drains out quicker than expected and promised. Well, I have been using the device for some days now and haven’

I really love the lock screen concept that was introduced with Windows 8. It looks beautiful as it stands there when you open your computer. Besides, it lets you grab some information on it. We have already discussed how to customize it or get rid

Windows 8 Photos app is no doubt a good take from the list of default applications . It is so well connected that you can view your photos from most places effortlessly. It is not just about your local photos but also about the seamless connectivity

Windows 8 Mail is the new native email desktop client of Windows. And, looking at the interface and features I would say that it isn’t a bad choice if you are not looking at doing complicated things.

Excel sheets can get really huge. They could extend to hundreds and thousands of data rows. And when that happens it becomes really difficult to manage the document . The greatest problem that I frequently come across in such cases is repetition and

Microsoft has released Office 2013 and Office 365 Home Premium officially, meaning it is now available to everyone around the world who wants to buy them.

These days when you are presenting something to an audience you are expected to demonstrate and not just speak. You should at least make the slides interactive with real-time data and processes. And when you are doing that you have to be very conde

We all have our own default choice of programs to open or view different types of files . For example, I use Adobe to open PDF files, KM Player for audio and video and MS Outlook as my desktop email client. Since I have a default choice of email c

Backing up apps and files in Windows 8 isn’t rocket science and there is more than one way to do it. But can that backup be real-time is the question. Why would you need it you might ask? File versions come to mind. There could be times when you l