Your email signature is perhaps the one component that adds the most to the personal touch in your email messages. You could write a formal letter or have a chit chat, its the signature which closes off the conversation and adds that little bit extra. You can be conveying your status, position or rank in [...]

The web is huge and there is a lot of content for everyone. Sadly, it is not always formatted or presented appropriately for everyone. Some might need reading glasses to read a news site, others might not be able to read at all. Some might hope for a better more readable style, others might want [...]

With Windows getting real good and Linux trying to cater to needs of every user, it is not unusual to have a dual boot configuration on your computer. Dual boot means you have two operating systems (most likely Windows and a Linux distro) on your computer. You get some kind of menu to choose which [...]

These days computers are interconnected to such a degree that a firewall is an essential component of any operating system. You don’t want anyone accessing your computer without your knowledge and using services that you don’t intend to provide. However, having a firewall on your computer is one thing, using it to its fullest is [...]

Working on the computer, you have to deal with text all day long. Be it programming, typing an email, updating your social networks, taking notes and countless other things, you are more often than not working with text. You might want to summon a tool to auto-correct all your spelling mistakes as you type, or [...]

You may often need an easy way to share your files and folders with other users or computers on the same network.  This may not be so much of a task on your home network where you have only a few computers and you might only need to share a folder or two every once [...]

Yesterday, I wrote about what JavaScript is and how it works. Building on the immense popularity of JavaScript these days on the web, a number of libraries have come up to the forefront. So what exactly is a library and why would you want to use one for JavaScript when you can do just about [...]

JavaScript has an interesting bit of history. Originally developed at Netscape as Mocha, it came to the forefront with official announcement in 1995. It was then developed independently by different parties, most notable of which was JScript by Microsoft. Obviously a standardized implementation was needed, which led to its submission to ECMA international. Thus ECMAScript [...]

Bing as you probably already know is a search engine offering from Microsoft. While people believed and still believe that it is difficult to topple Google as the dominant search engine, the Bing search engine has been gaining ground and offering on the edge functionality. So much so that many believe that the recent sidebar [...]

Most of an average user’s time on the computer is spent browsing the web. Next in line perhaps, is file management (if you do not do other specialized work on the computer). Naturally, having the right tools for the job can make it much easier and faster. The default Windows file manager – Windows Explorer [...]