Today I was searching for a new phone for my friend. We discussed about his requirement and one of his main requirement was contacts backup. He said he is using Sony Ericsson and it’s contact backup format is not supported in other phones. So he needs some method to synchronize data with other models. Many of us have faced the same situation or you will face this when we change our phone or want to [...]

When you install a software, it may set startup services(service which starts when you start your operating system) or the application itself starts during system startup. All these startup services and startup programs decrease the system performance. Some programs/service like antivirus, firewall etc. are essential but other services/programs like messengers, tray icons etc. can be disabled. The system startup time can be increased by disabling the unwanted services and startup programs. Many software are available [...]

Why you need a tool to backup your files? We can copy files by copying and pasting, but how difficult it is when you have to synchronize many folders/files. For example:- I have to backup my photos. softwares and documents from my laptop to my external hard disk regularly. I download updated softwares from many sources, photos from my camera and also many files and documents from mobile and mails to my laptop’s backup and [...]

Which is your primary email account? gmail or yahoo or hotmail or rediffmail? Ok, leave it. Most of my friends are using yahoo and they hate gmail. I asked why, gmail got lots of features and why you hate it? It got free pop3, imap, labs etc. My friend replied “WTF dude, what is pop3 imap and all those stuffs? Why should we care about it? You know, the basic feature – folder wise arrangement [...]

Yesterday I tried Google Maps India to get the directions from one place to another. I tried few routes. It is not very accurate but very helpful to get an idea about the route. Not accurate means, the route is correct but there may be other short routes. 1st I tried to get directions from my home to my office at Technopark, Trivandrum. We have 3 main routes to reach there. Thiruvalla -> Kottarakkara -> [...]

You can disable Adobe CS4 Activation Check by editing your windows “hosts” file.

For that- open C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts with notepad and paste the following at the end:

127.0.0.1 activate.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 practivate.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 ereg.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate.wip3.adobe.com
….

As of March 12, 2009, POP3 access is now available to Hotmail users worldwide. So now it is easy to get hotmail mails using POP3.
I have successfully added my Hotmail account into my Gmail account, so now I will get my Hotmails in my Gmail

You can import your hotmail messages to your gmail account. Go to the Accounts tab from Gmail’s settings page and click on “Add a mail account you own”. Check the the screen shots for the details.

Google IM (GTlk) hangs/crashes if you use it with Winamp 5.5. To solve this problem: Create a new file winamp.m3u under your Winamp directory (By default it is C:\Program Files\Winamp\). It worked

Create a portable slideshow for your website, blog, Myspace, etc from your picasa web album.. Using Picasa Web Albums you can create a Flash slideshow to embed in your blog or webpage. Each slideshow features built-in playback controls, size options, and the ability to display captions. To create and embed a slideshow: Sign in to your Google Account for Picasa Web Albums at http://picasaweb.google.com using your Google Account username and password. Click the My Photos [...]

This office add-in allows you to export and save to the PDF and XPS formats in eight 2007 Microsoft Office programs. It also allows you to send as e-mail attachment in the PDF and XPS formats in a subset of these programs. This add-in is available to customers running genuine Microsoft Office. Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003; Windows Vista; Windows XP Service Pack 2 This download works with the following Office programs: Microsoft Office [...]