Tagging friends name in Facebook

Dear Readers,

Facebook has updated it's site with tagging friends from our list in simplest way.

By giving your friends name starting with Captial letter you can tag your post with your corresponding friends. How easy it's :)... Try it out...

Another Advantage is i can shorten my friends name as i wish. See the above screen it says "Sudhakar Pasupuleti" but i have edited him as sudhakar. In the post it will be shown as "Sudhakar" (See below). When you click on "Sudhakar" it will take to his profile.

Camera Roll unable to select in iPhone

How often do you see your iPhone Albums like this?

I use to see at-least 3 days in a week like this. This happens because of only one reason ie., you open your albums for editing existing photo's / using the camera roll in different application for taking photo's.

A simple solution is Press your Home button twice to bring the application which is running in the background (multi-tasking) and close those app's. Now go back to albums, that's it. You are good!

How to block a Facebook user in Chat alone

Dear Readers,

Today let's see on how to block a particular friend in Facebook chat alone. We may need the users feed but to stay away from chat. This post will give you the solution for this.

1. Login to Facebook and on your left side click on "Friends" then click on "Edit Friends" button on the screen.

2. Click on "Create List" button and in the next pop-up window enter the name of the list as "Blocked Users in Chat" (You can define your own name) then select the users to block. Finally click on Create List after selecting the user.

3. Now you would be seeing your friends in the below list (Blocked Users in Chat).

4. Move your mouse to the status (arrow pointer) and click on "Go Offline". Doing this would appear you as offline for blocked users.

Note: If the user whom you are trying to block is added into multiple list then it may not work as you expected.

Solution for any Virus

Dear Readers,

Virus, Virus Virus it's annoying. Everyday new virus not a single antivirus tool stops all virus that comes in to our PC. Why? What to do? Which is the best antivirus software to buy?

Ops! series of questions when we open our mouth by spelling the word Virus. I am very sure no one will agree that virus can be stopped by a single antivirus program. Each program operates in different way and not all virus is updated, resolved thru a single tool.

I am very happy to introduce this site to my readers, Yes, I got a chance to walk thru on this site allows us to browse thru the virus which anoys us and build our own removal tool. Great! interested? Please don't stop reading this.

SocialAV is the worlds fast running online antivirus building community. Users can either search for the removal tool for the virus that anoys them, if not then they could add the name of the virus to this community. Members in this social site gives the possible way to resolve it. SocialAV will build an antivirus tool with those removal instruction which any user can download it and remove the virus. Wow!!! Give a try. You would like it.

Please remember this blog is to inspire others to learn and share. Please feel free to query me or give some tips to our readers.

iOS 4.3 Sync Issue

Dear Readers,

I just got a chance to look into the bug in iOS4.3 and found the solution too. When you sync your device with iTunes it gives error message as "the required file cannot be found".

This was a small bug with photo library sync in iTunes with iOS 4.3. To avoid this you have only 3 steps.

Step1: Uncheck the Photo library Synchronization and connect your iPhone to sync.
Step2: The auto sync will start syncronizing your device. Let it get synchronized without your photo library.
Step3: Upon successful sync click on the photo library to sync. This will sync your photo library again. This way you no need to worry about this bug.

I wish apple to fix this ASAP.

Blocking specific friends from reading your facebook status

Dear Readers,

I am back with more words this week. It's going to be a facebook week this time, i went thru many parameters and research in facebook settings and thought of sharing some tips for you all.

facebook has many options to secure and have control over our posts not everyone would have used this option. This could be the main key for success towards facebook. As we have many family and office friends added to our facebook list we may feel like sharing our status to everyone but not to couple of family/office friends. Today let's see how to block specific friends from reading our status.

Step1: Once you login to the facebook account while updating your status you would see a padblock icon as shown below. Click on "Customize" option.

Step2: On Customize option you can select the particular list and in the below option you have to enter your friends name whom we should hide this post from and Click on "Save Settings".

Incase if you want this to have it by default then check the appropriate option shown below.

Google 2 point verification

Dear Readers,

As i said you all early in my wall that Google has just announced the next level of security measure to our accounts by introducing 2 point verification.

2 Point verification is nothing but once you enter your password for any Google account , you would be prompted to enter the verification code which will be generated on your smartphones. Once you enter the verification code if it matches then you would be allowed to access your account else you will not be able to access your account.

This two point verification is divided into two different parts 

1. Via smartphone

2. Via application specific password.

Via Smartphone:

This method is nothing but your verification code will be generated via your smartphone thru Google Authenticator application and you can use this to login to your Google account using that verification code.

Via application specific password:

Once smartphone verification is enabled for example if you have configured your gmail account with outlook or with your iphone mail application then it will not fetch any emails. It will say authentication failed. Because these applications will not be prompting for verification code so you would need to enter your application specific password.

Don't worry Google has many recovery option in-case if your phone is missed or stolen.

It's very simple to activate 2 point verification code.

1. Login to your Google account

2. Click on settings

3. Click on Accounts and import tab

4. Click on "Other Google account Settings"

5. Now click on "using 2 step verification" rest is very simple. Follow as said on screen.

Outlook items read when selection changes

Dear Readers,

I have seen many of my co-workers suffering with this problem. They open outlook and start reading emails. When they move to next, next emails the previous emails goes read. In this way they miss out some important emails or they again mark that as unread to read it later.

This happens daily but no one is fixing this though they understood it's an extra effort for them daily. It's very simple to fix. Please follow the below steps.

Step1: Goto Tools --> Options
Step2: Click on "Other" tab and select "Reading Pane" under Outlook Panes.
Step3: Now un-check "Mark items as read when selection changes".

Microsoft Office 2003 to 2007 usage

Dear Readers,

One of our reader has queried to us like they were using office 2003 for long and now they have upgraded to 2007 version. The interaction and the usage is very different in 2007 compared with 2003.

This becomes difficult to everyone hence microsoft has given an online interactive guide thru which we can click on the options as like 2003 version and it will show how we should work in 2007 version.

Try this and let me know if you specifically looks for something.

Click here to navigate to interactive guide.

Extracting cells with specific Character

Dear Readers,

I got a scenario last week like in our shop we have 1000+ jobs which runs everyday. We have got the entire list of jobs that runs in our server and the requirement is to differentiate Daily/Weekly/Monthly jobs in different colums. The only identity is the 4th character of the job name gives either it's weekly / monthly / daily.

4th character = D is daily W is weekly M is monthly.

So if it's daily i need to put  Y it in column "Daily" , Weekly in Column "Weekly" , Monthly in Column "Monthly" (See below)

Job Name Daily Weekly Monthly

ABCD120N Y N N

BCED125N Y N N

ERED124N Y N N

WERW130N N Y N

TERM140N N N Y

The formula that i used is  =IF(MID(A2,4,1)="d","Y","N"). It's nothing but i am taking the 4th character of the job name and if it's "D" then i place Y in that column else N. Same in monthly just replace "D" with "W" and for monthly "D" with "M".

Today's iPhone/iPod touch Deal

Dear Readers,

Mad Chad is a game which has scored good ratings in it's shortest release period. It;s a crazy game that many loves to play. Please try it out.

Cloud Printing thru Gmail

Dear Readers,

I am extreamly sorry that i am late to inform on this, but the delay was to make sure if it works good for me, so that i can explain you better.

Yes, a week before Google has kicked out it's next feature to us with Cloud printing. When apple folks raise their voice stating iPhone 4 has a great feature to do wifi printing thru air print which is compatible only with iPhone4 or above. Google was quite for some time until clound print was announced and now the voice of google on this cloud printing is unreachable / unbeatable by apple.

Cloud printing is nothing but you configure your home printer thru your google account and you will be able to print from any part of the world to your printer. All you need to do is activate your google account with this clound print that's it. You are done, you can now print from your gmail account thru any computer or mobile app to your configured printer.

Simple Requirement:

1. Should have printer configured to your computer.

2. Install Google Chrome Browser Ver 9.0 or higher. Click here to download and install.

Steps to activate your clound printing.

1. Once chrome new version is installed, open "Options"  from tools menu.

2. Click on "Under the Hood" tab, scroll down till end you would be seeing "Google Cloud Print" option.

3. Click on "Sign in to Google Cloud Print" and enter your google credential.  Your account will be enabled in no time. That's it. You can click on "Print Test Page" if required to make sure everyting is fine.

4. From now you can print documents from your google account to your printer irrespective to your location. Wow!!! We love you Google!!!!



Unread message in gmail

Dear Readers,

There are couple of changes in gmail Labs recently that i have noticed.

1. Search option for gmail labs has been introduced. Ie., you can give a search of any lab features instead of scrolling down.

2. New lab feature "Unread Message Icon". Actually either you can turn on "Title Tweak" lab feature or Unread Message icon feature. Both does the same job but display is different.

Stop Ads in your Gmail

Dear Readers,

An another good day with resolution to couple of queries from our readers. 

Ads are good occationally not every day, every minute. This really anoys to everyone. Most of you should be aware of Google Ads. They try to put ads on all possible applicaitons that google have and earn $$$'s by themself.

They put the ads on our gmail mailbox. Our readers has sated that they click on the ads accidently many times and it pops up many windows. Though not all ads will popup multiple windows but if we don't want obvisouly we should stop it. Lets see how.

1. Login to your Gmail account

2. At the top right corner click on "Settings"

3. Click on "Web Clibs" tab on the listing

4. Uncheck "Show my web clips above the Inbox" option. This will stop your ads in your gmail inbox.

Dear All, This blog is to inspire others to share and learn hence please share your learnings with us.

Today's iPhone / iPad touch delas

It's been long time that we posted free app deal... It's time now though there are many apps comes with different deals we look for some good app for our readers.

If you are interested in a puzzle kinda game then go for "KUVIO" . it's a pattern matching game. It's free for couple of days only.

Online Photo Editing Free

Dear Readers,

I feel you would be very happy to play in this website that i am gonna introduce to you all today. As i am very much interested in photo/music/video editing i love this website very much.

http://www.befunky.com is the name of the website and it allows us to do online photo editing and adding effects to our photo's. All you need to do is just upload your photo and add some basic effects then download your colorful photo to your PC.

Features:

• Free to use with many features
• Add graphics, text, frames etc.,
• No Registration required
• Many photo effects with no ad disturbances.

Abbu's Rating: 3.5 / 5

ISO Burner

Dear Readers,

Last week one of my friend Mr.Iqbal has requested to share some freeware thru which he can burn ISO files in USB drive. This is bit tricky requirement.

Yes, we might have seen some of the burning tools which will allow us to burn the ISO files in CD/DVD but not with USB drive.

After a good search i found a tool named Passcape ISO Burner.

This tool is a freeware and simple to use it. It creates a bootable disc with the ISO image on CD/DVD/USB drive. 

Features:

• Burn ISO image to CD/DVD/ USB drive
• Create Bootable CD/DVD/USB disk
• Unpack ISO image to your Desktop
• No Additional softwares required
• Easy to use and no installation required.
• User Friendly

Dear All, Please share your learnings in this blog. This blog is to inspire others to learn and share their knowledge.

YouTube video Download, Upload and Comments

Dear Readers,

One of our blog reader Mr.Thomas has queried about a tool which is good to download , upload any YouTube videos to our desktop and stay signed in to comment on other videos as well. Thanks for your query Mr.Thomas.

I found a tool named "DeskTube" which fits for your requirement. This tool should be installed in your PC and it will allow you to download, upload and comment on any YouTube video. It's a freeware and you can use it for this requirement.

You can also give a search on any YouTube video. One quick observation on this tool is the download of video is of only one format which is .MOV. May be you can use converters if you are looking for some specific format. 

Dear all, this blog is entirely to inspire others to learn and share your knowledge. So please share your learnings.

Readers Queries

Dear Readers,

We have received around 40+ emails in this month with various queries on computers. Thanks for all the users who has sent an email with queries.

For your better convenient i have added a new form in the left side of the window thru which you can directly post us with your queries.

We shall try to resolve your queries it as much as we can. Please bear with us on any delays. Once again thanks to everyone's support. This entire blog is to learn and share what we have in our memory. In case if you would like to share any of your learnings you are always welcome. We shall publish with your names.

In addition, some of our reader have requested to write reviews on some movies that i have watched recently :).... Thanks for accepting my earlier reviews. Actually i don't have time now a days to watch more movies. I shall try to write reviews in case if i see some movies. :) Thanks for asking.

Notification of video uploads in YouTube

Dear Readers,

One of our friend have queried to us on the issue about not receiving notification on new video uploads on subscribed YouTube user.

In general, once you subscribe to a particular user you should be able to view their new changes and uploads to their videos in YouTube. In case if you have subscribed but didn't get any notification if they upload any new video's then it sounds like you didn't check the notification option when you subscribe.

Let's see how :

1. If you know your friends user name then type the URL as shown here in your browser address bar. 

Eg: http://www.youtube.com/user/abbu4fun. Here abbu4fun is the YouTube user name.

2. Click on the "Subscribe"  button which will be near to user's name as shown below and make sure you check the box "Also email me for each new upload" and click on "Update" button.

That's it. You will get the notification of each new uploads of the user that you have subscribed.

How to send friend request in YouTube

Dear Readers,

The more you have friends the more you will be happy. Starting from the birth itself every living things started creating their friends. 

YouTube is one of the good video uploading site which offers to tag friends with different groups with your ID. Incase if your friends also have a YouTube account then with no time we can add them in to our friends list by sending a request.

Let's see how.

1. If you know your friends user name then type the URL as shown here in your browser address bar. 

Eg: http://www.youtube.com/user/abbu4fun. Here abbu4fun is the user name.

2. Once you get into your friends channel then you can see his/her customized screen and video's on the webpage. This is the channel that he/she has created for them. Just keep scrolling down where you can see him/her username as shown in the below figure.

3. Now click on the "Add as Friend" link to add him/her as your friend. That's it. Your friend request will be sent to your friend.

Your friend will be notified and he/she may add/reject your request upon their review.

Recover Stored Password from Browser

Dear Readers,

Today i am going to introduce an ultimate tool which you would like for various reasons. Yes, the tool name is "Browser Password Decryptor".

The job of this tool is to recover all your stored passwords from Opera, IE, Mozilla and Chrome. Incase if you have stored your password in your browser and unfortunately if you forget and your browser didn't bring up then you can use this password.

This tool has the best part like executing with GUI & command prompt. It supports both windows and linux platforms. It's the best tool that i have seen on recovering the browser passwords.

Don't forget to read the disclaimer of this tool, it's really nice to see such disclaimer.

Click here to download the tool.

Click here to read the details of this tool

Today's iPhone/iPod Touch Free Deal

Dear Readers,

"Cover Orange" is a puzzle game which gives correct tuning to your brain with 100+ levels is free today. It's usually $1 and free for a day. Pull it immediately.

Geared 2 is an another physic game which really tunes your brain very badly to get the rat out with different wheels triggering.

Duplicate file Finder

Dear Readers,

Knowingly or unknowingly it's a common mistake that happens in everyone's PC. Not every personal PC users are experts in organizing folder/drive structures. We just put the same documents/files in different location and we forget to delete those documents. When you audit your PC then you will be confused with the same document as well as the space is also the major constraint.

How do we find those files? How do we know how many duplicate photo's or files in your PC? Don't think too much on this we do have some good tool which will extract the details for you.

Duplicate Cleaner is the tool which will do a deep scan on the files which has same name in different location. It will provide you the details of the duplicate file which will help you to delete the files from your PC.

The best part of this tool is it will help us to extract the file details in to a csv file which we can review it or take a backup for our reference. Incase if we delete the currently used file then we can use that path to recover using some good recovery tools.

This tool uses MD5 Hash algorithm which will return the result fast. It can search in multiple location simulatenously.

The file size is just 1.25 MB click here to download and clean up your hard drive by removing duplicate files.

Funny English

Dear Readers,

Watch out this clip till end, i am sure you can't stop laughing at all. An English coach speaks to his student with all tense. Man!!! You should watch it out. Movie name is :Phas Gaya re Obama.

Adding time in Excel

Dear Readers,

Last week i came across a scenario where i have 4000+ rows which has time on it and i need to add 2 hrs to the each rows. I was wondering if i could do it thru some formula. With no time i got the solution.

The formula i used is  " = A1+ time(hr,min,sec)". 

(Eg: =03:00:00 AM + time(2,0,0) will give us 05:00:00 AM.) 

That's it now you can duplicate the formula to 4000 rows and you get your result. Make sure you copy the formulated column and paste with special values in different column so that it can be used for further reference else you can't refer this column for other manipulations.

Today's iPhone app deal

Geared 2 - it's a physics based games which gears your brain to various levels. It's free for limited time please grab it.

Removing email id from outlook auto filling

Dear readers,

Today I got a question from my friend stating he had added a wrong email I'd in outlook and he want's to remove it from auto filling.

One of the beat feature in outlook is the auto filling feature of our recipients. We don't want to remember and we get the id's as we start typing it.

Now in this scenario we have sent an email to wrong folk and it will start displaying in auto filling option. So how do we remove it? Mmmm it's very simple.

Just follow these steps.

1. Open outlook and new message.
2. Type the starting letter of the wrong id and you will get many correct id's with that letter.
3. Scroll down to get the wrong I'd that you wanted to remove and hit the DELETE key. That's it you are done.

You will no more see the wrong address in you outlook auto filling.

Disposable Email account

Dear Readers,

Today i am gonna to introduce a website which gives temporary email address for a day. Yes, we can create one email address which will be valid for one day and it will automatically be deleted from the server after that.

You can use the email address to send/receive emails for the given time frame of a day. The website will automatically refresh itself and notify you if any new emails arrives @ your account. The best part is we do have RSS feed for this and it's not a mandatory thing that we need this website to kept open.

Site name : http://www.webemail.me/

Arrow near iPhone Battery icon

Dear Readers,

I have questioned myself often that why all sudden there was an arrow near to my iPhone battery icon. After a long research i found out the reason.

The meaning of the icon is pointing to your location information. Yes, Now a days most of the apps in app store asks for your location information. We mostly click on "Don't Allow" button but unknowingly/knowingly we might have clicked on "OK". That particular application is using the GPS function for your location information at background. This issue happens for iOS4 users only.

Go to Settings --> General --> Location Services then see if you have turned on any location services, tap it to switch it off. The arrow will disappear. If your are not worried about capturing your location information then no worries, just skip it and use this article as an information.

Transferring photos from iPhone to Computer

Dear Readers,

One of our reader has emailed to us stating is there any software available to download the photo's from iPhone to Computer. I would like to thank for your query.

I thought of telling a tool but i found an app which would do this job very easily. Yes, the app name is "WiFi Photo Transfer" This app transfers the photo from your iPhone to your web browser from which you can easily download either the entire album or the individual photo's with various sized like actual/full/med/small.

Once you downloaded the app to your iPhone just open it then it will give you the IP address, just type the IP address in your computer web browser that's it everything is easy from that. Also this app is FREE.

Note:  Make sure you allow this app to collect your location information. If you don't allow this app doesn't allow the transfer. This app doesn't collect any of your personal data.

Interview Tips

Dear Readers,

I am getting emails from my juniors requesting to share some interview tips. Let me put this word first i am not an human resource expert as such, but with my professional experience and the things that i have learnt will be more enough to this post i hope. In-case if i am wrong somewhere please correct me.

Attending an interview is not a big task unless until if you have few stuffs in your brain and clear vision in your life. Following points will help you to get prepared for a interview.

1. Plan Ahead : Little homework is required. Check the companies official webpage and read who are they and what are they doing? Try to get details of who is CEO and regional heads.
2. Be on Time: Avoid driving yourself in bikes, go for public transit or car should be fine. The reason is bikes will make your dress dusty and in case of more heat / rain it will mess your dress more easily. Reach 30 mins before your interview time, as many of the companies have some formalities of filling forms and other registrations @ receptions.
3. Switch off your Cell phone: A Mandatory task for everyone. Remember getting this job is gonna change your life talking over cell phone can be done at any time. Don't mute it switch it off nothing is gonna happen in 1hr call break. 4/5 people don't turn off their cell phones during interview which will annoy the interviewer. It may result to loose your interview.
4. Bring Resume : Bring 2/3 copies of your resume that you have sent to that company. Make sure you don't lie on your resume.
5. Dress professionally: Make sure you have dressed very neat. I am sure you are good in that.
6. Avoid Badmouth: If you are a fresher don't give any negative feedback about your college and if you are a job holder please don't tell bad about your previous manager.
7. Self Discipline: Behave yourself once you enter into the company for interview. Every single moment is screened from you enter until you exit. Don't talk stories with your co-friends who came for interview. 
8. Eye Contact: It's must and known thing. It will express your truthfulness and your boldness. So keep your eye contact with all your interviewers.
9. Ask Questions: Once your interview is over it's a common thing that your interviewer will ask you "Do you have anything to ask us?" Don't simply say NO. You should make sure you have some questions to ask him/her other than asking to them like "Am i selected?". If he didn't give this chance you can put your question yourself. This will reinforces your interest towards this job.
10. Give a Thank Note: Make sure you thank him before you leave the room.

Use your common sense everywhere that's more enough.

Wireless Password Recovery

Dear Readers,

The main aim of this blog is to learn and share of our practical difficulties that we faced in our day to day professional life. I kindly request you to comment either with your positive/negative opinion on the article whichever i am writing it. Once again thanks for your constant support. In case if you had faced any technical difficulty and if you feel like sharing please let me know thru the contact me form. We shall post it in this blog with your name.

Okay, Last week one of my friend called me and the problem he had was he forgot his router password. He was staying in a shared accommodation  house and unfortunately his friends were unreachable. He asked what to do as he is not the owner of the network. All i know was this software which will recover all the stored wireless network password for us. I shared the same with him and in no time he was able to get into his network.

This doesn't happen to him alone, Once we give the password and store it in our computer it stores for ever. Whenever we get into that network it detects automatically with the help of Zero Configuration service offered by windows. So when your system asks you to re-enter your password there are chances that you may not remember it exactly after months/years. This tool would be helpful in this case.

WirelessKeyView software recovers all wireless network security keys that is stored in your computer. The best part of this software is it doesn't require any installation or dll files. Just run the exe file which will give you the desired result.

Click here to download. For 64 bit click here

New Year iPhone/iPod Touch Free App's

Dear Readers,

I could see today the following games are free which is usually $0.99.

1. I Must Run - A skill based running game from prison and much exiting breaks and levels. You would love it.

2. Last Line of Defense - An action based dual shooter game. 

Download Youtube Video's online

Dear Readers,

I have already discussed about downloading YouTube video's into various format with the help of softwares in your PC in this blog. Today i am gonna show you a website which will help you to download YouTube video's  In .mpg, .flv, .mov, .mp3, .3gp, .mp4 Format. This way you can put it in your smart phones too.

It's an online service which is good to use it in case if you don't want any softwares to be downloaded or installed in your PC.

Click here to start i know you would love this.

Abbu's Rating: 3/5

Free Text to Speech Service

Dear Readers,

Today i got  introduced to a web page where it gives a free service to convert any text / text document into male /female voice.

I hope this would be loved by frequent travelers. Yes, instead of reading a big document when you travel you can just convert that big document and it would read it for u. Just listen and keep going. This way i found it's really helpful website.

You can convert word, power point, pdf any thing as you wish and one more advantage is it has various language support too.

Click here to start converting.

Abbu's Rating : 2.75/5

Free Photoshop Brushes

Dear Readers,

I am a very big lover of photoshop. I can say it's my hobby to do some editing in photo's and make some fun. I am not an expert as such but i love it. There are few fans for my workouts :)

Coming to our point, Often it's hard when editing a photo and place some trees, leafs etc., so there are brushes that we can use which will resemble like a leaf/tree/ anything else. Adobe doesn't give the brushes like this with it's software all we need to do is to get the brushes from third parties and install it in your tool. That's it with the sizes you will get the object.

To get the free brushes click here.

Abbu's Rating would be : 3/5. 

Testing your webpage in different browser

Dear Readers,

Happy new year to everyone! This is my first post this new year. I am very proud of my readers who gives constant support and hits to my blog and i hope it will continue this year too.

Today's post is something which would be interested for web designers. It's not an easy task to test your webpages in different browsers on how it looks and loads. There are many web browsers introduced every year and the top hit competitors are opera,chrome,mozilla,safari and IE. So any web designer who designs a webpage will test on these top browsers to ensure it works good.

How do we test it?Click here, this site offers us to test it for free. You can see how long it takes to load your webpage.

One minute and thirty seconds time duration is given to us for testing our webpages without any registration. Once you register the time line increases. You also can use this by paying for unlimited access.

Check out the video to know how it works. Happy hosting.