Hard disk failure is possibly the worst thing that can happen to your computer and it often occurs without giving any warning signs. Test Your Hard Drive for Impending Problems You may however run certain tests on your computer beforehand to get an idea about the current condition of your hard disk. This should in turn [...]

Facebook is rolling out a feature that lets you “like” comments on posts just as you can the post itself. It’s a simple feature that has surprisingly been absent until now, but now it’s here. “Since first launching the ‘Like’ feature in 2009 and the ability to comment on News Feed stories in 2008, we’ve [...]

The problem: You have documents, photos, music and other important files on the home computer. How can you “remotely access” these files from your office computer or, when you are travelling, from your mobile phone? The solution: The simplest solution would be that you copy all your data from the home computer on to a [...]

You’ll need a pair of 3D glasses with red and blue (to be more precise, cyan) lenses to watch any of the 3D videos that are available on YouTube or this pool of 3D images (anaglyphs) that’s on Flickr. For instance, here’s a 3D clip from the popular Avatar movie that you’ll only enjoy if [...]

Learn about some free software utilities that will help you fix the most common Windows problems. They are all compatible with Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. Fix Windows Problems with Free Tools Q1. I am trying to delete a file from my desktop but the computer won’t let me do that. Instead, it throws [...]

There’s a nice “photo memories” feature in Facebook now that highlights old photographs from your friend’s photo albums in case you missed seeing any of them previously. Facebook has around 500+ million users who spend over 500 billion minutes per month on the site and little changes like this one will obviously push that number [...]

If you enable location in Twitter, your current geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) are added to your tweets. You may not want to share the exact location of your house in a public tweet for obvious reasons but if you are visiting a new place or attending a local event, these “geo-tagged” tweets can help [...]

If you are curious to know the exact electricity cost of running your laptop or desktop computer all day long, here’s a quick guide. Step 1: You first need to calculate the total power (in kilowatt) that’s consumed by your monitor, CPU, graphic card and other components of the computer. Don’t worry – you don’t [...]

Imagine this. Your parents, your cousins and everyone else in the family is active on Facebook but for your grandparents who either don’t use a computer yet or find Facebook too confusing and therefore stay away from it. You don’t want your sweet grandma to miss all the family updates because she is not on [...]

This tip describes how you can create sleek and professional looking HTML signatures for your outgoing Gmail messages right inside Gmail itself without requiring any extensions or add-ons. HTML Signatures for your Google Email Gmail does support email signatures but the problem is that it limits you to plain text – you can’t add graphics [...]