Tech tips, tutorials, and reviews.https://techtites.com/https://techtites.com/webp-avif-converters/https://techtites.com/webp-avif-converters/Sun, 04 May 2025 21:51:55 GMThttps://techtites.com/7-free-applications-to-prevent-your-mac-from-sleeping/https://techtites.com/7-free-applications-to-prevent-your-mac-from-sleeping/When it comes to power management, the Mac far excels any of the PCs. I have my Mac configured such that it goes to sleep within 30 minutes of it being idle. unfortunately this tends to disrupt my downloads and also prevents me from remote logging in whenever I want to.Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:21:23 GMThttps://techtites.com/two-variable-data-tables-in-microsoft-excel-tutorial-thursday/https://techtites.com/two-variable-data-tables-in-microsoft-excel-tutorial-thursday/Three weeks back I covered creating Single Variable Data Tables in Excel. As promised, in this tutorial I will cover creating a two variable data table. This tutorial assumes that you have read the earlier one and are comfortable with creating a single variable data table.Fri, 22 Jan 2021 18:00:00 GMThttps://techtites.com/data-tables-in-excel-tutorial-thursday/https://techtites.com/data-tables-in-excel-tutorial-thursday/In my last Excel Tutorial, I covered using SUMIFS and SUMPRODUCT. Data Tables is also an advanced topic in Microsoft Excel that falls under the category of What-If Analysis. What-If or Sensitivity Analysis is carried out to study the variation of the output to changes in the input variable.Wed, 20 Jan 2021 01:00:00 GMThttps://techtites.com/how-to-use-signal-on-your-desktop/https://techtites.com/how-to-use-signal-on-your-desktop/Tue, 19 Jan 2021 19:30:00 GMThttps://techtites.com/calculate-npv-in-excel-functions/https://techtites.com/calculate-npv-in-excel-functions/Sun, 16 Jun 2019 20:11:06 GMThttps://techtites.com/calculate-npv-in-excel/https://techtites.com/calculate-npv-in-excel/Fri, 14 Jun 2019 17:09:28 GMThttps://techtites.com/what-is-npv/https://techtites.com/what-is-npv/Wed, 28 Oct 2015 23:17:51 GMThttps://techtites.com/goal-seek-in-microsoft-excel-2007-tutorial-thursday/https://techtites.com/goal-seek-in-microsoft-excel-2007-tutorial-thursday/Continuing with our Excel Tutorials, in this article, I'll take you through using Goal Seek in Microsoft Excel 2007. The function is same as that of earlier versions of Excel as well as Excel 2010. The screenshots below are taken in 2007.Tue, 21 Apr 2015 17:45:29 GMThttps://techtites.com/export-projects-from-google-code-to-github/https://techtites.com/export-projects-from-google-code-to-github/Thu, 12 Mar 2015 20:30:49 GMThttps://techtites.com/amazing-excel-shortcut-save-hours/https://techtites.com/amazing-excel-shortcut-save-hours/Thu, 30 Oct 2014 15:28:00 GMThttps://techtites.com/5-essential-free-wordpress-plugins-handling-thumbnails/https://techtites.com/5-essential-free-wordpress-plugins-handling-thumbnails/Thu, 27 Mar 2014 19:40:22 GMThttps://techtites.com/free-icon-kit-arctic-sunset/https://techtites.com/free-icon-kit-arctic-sunset/If you're a designer, finding good quality icons does require a good amount of searching. So, here is a free icon set in PSD format courtesy the great folks at PixelKit. A clean interface offers quite a few benefits.Mon, 10 Feb 2014 15:00:58 GMThttps://techtites.com/speed-copying-files-windows-teracopy/https://techtites.com/speed-copying-files-windows-teracopy/If you're using any version of Windows, one of the biggest problems, even today is the slow speed of copying files. I experience this just a few days back when trying to clean up my external hard disk on Windows 8.1.Mon, 09 Dec 2013 17:29:49 GMThttps://techtites.com/hide-folders-windows-secretfolder/https://techtites.com/hide-folders-windows-secretfolder/Windows doesn't come inbuilt with the ability to hide and password protect folders. If you need to do so, you'll want to check out SecretFolder. SecretFolder lets you quickly add and password protect one or more folders just by dragging them onto the software.Wed, 23 Oct 2013 11:58:41 GMThttps://techtites.com/fastest-find-datasheets/https://techtites.com/fastest-find-datasheets/Some of you might be aware that I started my career as an engineer working for one of the largest engineering companies. Although the details of what I did there are far in the past, I still remember hunting for datasheets for chips and other components. The hunt wasn't easy as you need to Google ouMon, 07 Oct 2013 10:42:31 GMThttps://techtites.com/facebook-privacy-search-engines/https://techtites.com/facebook-privacy-search-engines/By default, Facebook allows search engines like Google or Bing to index your public timeline. This allows people to search you out even if they are not on Facebook. While they won't be able to access your profile, you might not want to let your timeline be viewed on search engines.Sat, 05 Oct 2013 15:30:44 GMThttps://techtites.com/34-ways-youre-wordpress-addict/https://techtites.com/34-ways-youre-wordpress-addict/It is said that the first step to tackling addiction is to first admit that you are addicted. ManageWP has an amazing post on WordPress addiction. Here are 34 tell tale signs that you are addicted to WordPress.Thu, 05 Sep 2013 15:11:02 GMThttps://techtites.com/game-weekend-asphalt-8/https://techtites.com/game-weekend-asphalt-8/Gameloft has released their latest offering in the Asphalt Series. Titled Airborne, the game hopes to give you the best racing experience you would want. LUXURY DREAM CARS • 47 high-performance cars (80% of them NEW!Fri, 23 Aug 2013 14:30:28 GMThttps://techtites.com/stop-firefox-blocking-mixed-content/https://techtites.com/stop-firefox-blocking-mixed-content/Firefox 23 added a new feature that automatically blocks mixed content. Mixed content comes into play when browsing secure websites. (i.Sat, 17 Aug 2013 12:30:10 GMThttps://techtites.com/featured-gaming-addon-google-play-games/https://techtites.com/featured-gaming-addon-google-play-games/This app isn't a game, but a very important gaming addon that can definitely change the way you play! Google Play Games app is the easiest way for you to discover new games, track achievements and scores, and play with friends around the world. It brings all your gaming on Google Play together in a Fri, 09 Aug 2013 16:24:48 GMThttps://techtites.com/game-for-the-weekend-fast-racing-3d/https://techtites.com/game-for-the-weekend-fast-racing-3d/Have I mentioned that I love racing games? If you do too and are using an Android device, then check out Fast Racing 3D. Fast Racing combines stunning, high fidelity graphics with addictive gameplay that will have you swerving through oncoming traffic, collecting power-ups, and knocking other racersFri, 19 Jul 2013 18:00:53 GMThttps://techtites.com/hangouts-google-chat/https://techtites.com/hangouts-google-chat/Google introduced Hangouts to replace the old Google Chat interface and most likely you'll be using this interface in your Gmail interface as well as on your mobile devices. Hangouts added a several features missing from traditional chat including the Group conversations. However, I, for one, preferFri, 19 Jul 2013 12:12:12 GMThttps://techtites.com/game-for-the-weekend-redline-rush/https://techtites.com/game-for-the-weekend-redline-rush/If you have been regularly following my Game posts, you'll know I love the racing games. Redline Rush is a racing game with a slight difference. Test your driving skills in this high speed driving game where you have to weave through traffic to escape the police.Fri, 05 Jul 2013 22:30:28 GMThttps://techtites.com/nova-launcher-is-a-super-fast-launcher-for-android/https://techtites.com/nova-launcher-is-a-super-fast-launcher-for-android/Based on my blog posts over the last several month, you'll be well aware that I own a Nexus 7. The stock Android launcher is good and clean, but it tends to be a bit slow at times. I decided to find another and came across Nova Launcher.Mon, 01 Jul 2013 17:00:32 GMThttps://techtites.com/median-if-in-excel/https://techtites.com/median-if-in-excel/Excel 2007 brought a host of new functions to Excel that were missing in Excel 2003. One of these functions was AVERAGEIF which returns the average (arithmetic mean) of all the cells in a range that meet a given criteria. One essential function that is still missing is MEDIANIF or MEDIAN IF which shTue, 11 Jun 2013 18:30:31 GMThttps://techtites.com/update-your-facebook-status/https://techtites.com/update-your-facebook-status/Facebook without doubt is the largest social network. Now you can update your Facebook status by selecting from a range of options to tell your friends what you are up to. Tell your friends how you are feeling or what music you're listening to or which movie you're watching.Sun, 02 Jun 2013 08:00:35 GMThttps://techtites.com/the-new-gmail-inbox/https://techtites.com/the-new-gmail-inbox/Gmail today unveiled a new inbox view that brings back control to email. The new Gmail inbox will automatically sort your emails based on who you receive them from and all are easily accessible by a familiar tabbed interface. Your key emails will automatically show up in Primary and serves as the deWed, 29 May 2013 18:20:52 GMThttps://techtites.com/responsive-adsense-code/https://techtites.com/responsive-adsense-code/Google's program policies do not allow you to modify your Adsense code which artificially inflates ad performance or harms advertiser conversions. In most cases, you'll want to copy paste the code exactly as you get from the generator. However, most sites today are going responsive and you'll want tTue, 28 May 2013 14:05:12 GMThttps://techtites.com/add-text-before-post-content-in-wordpress/https://techtites.com/add-text-before-post-content-in-wordpress/The benefit of using WordPress to power your blog is that you don't need to edit any PHP files and use thousands of ready themes available for free. If you're like me, you'd prefer to keep away from major editing of the theme files and prefer to use the right assortment of plugins to get the job donWed, 22 May 2013 22:19:39 GMThttps://techtites.com/chatwing-chat/https://techtites.com/chatwing-chat/Installing a dynamic and efficient chatbox on your blog is a great way to increase visitor interaction. Chatwing chat box has undergone many developments and it’s been known online for four years now. Chatwing developers have always been open to suggestions and keen with the latest online trends.Mon, 20 May 2013 22:45:20 GMThttps://techtites.com/giveaway-results-free-wordpress-themes-provided-by-themefuse/https://techtites.com/giveaway-results-free-wordpress-themes-provided-by-themefuse/Thank you for everyone who participated in the ThemeFuse WordPress theme giveaway. Below are the three winners of the same. Aakarshan Theme: NEWSSETTER devnullius Theme: Envision Gio Theme: Envison ThemeFuse will be contacting you shortly with the details on how to receive your theme.Mon, 20 May 2013 10:39:45 GMThttps://techtites.com/game-for-the-weekend-bejeweled-blitz/https://techtites.com/game-for-the-weekend-bejeweled-blitz/The highly popular and addictive Bejeweled Blitz has been released for Android devices. Bejeweled Blitz was originally a Facebook application which is developed and published by PopCap Games, a subsidiary of Electronic Arts. It soon expanded into a downloadable game, based on the then-in-developmentFri, 17 May 2013 20:00:27 GMThttps://techtites.com/wordpress-introduction-to-screen-options/https://techtites.com/wordpress-introduction-to-screen-options/Two days back I took the decision to move from All in One SEO to Yoast's WordPress SEO plugin. WordPress SEO automatically adds several new columns to the posts admin screen. Coupled with the columns that Jetpack adds, along with those added by my Top 10 and Where did you go from here plugins, I endWed, 15 May 2013 20:00:55 GMThttps://techtites.com/test-leawo-blu-ray-player-and-get-it-for-free/https://techtites.com/test-leawo-blu-ray-player-and-get-it-for-free/The team at Leawo are inviting users to give their Blu-ray Player software a test run and in return you can get the software for free. Leawo Blu-ray Player is all-inclusive media player software to play back Blu-ray/DVD disc, common videos and up to 1080P HD videos smoothly on Windows 8. The softwarWed, 08 May 2013 10:58:29 GMThttps://techtites.com/5-steps-to-setup-your-google-inactive-account-manager/https://techtites.com/5-steps-to-setup-your-google-inactive-account-manager/In today's day and age where most of our information is online, including banking information and more importantly emails, it is essential to think about what happens to this data in case of an untimely passing. Similar to making a will to bequeath your belongings to your near and dear ones, planninFri, 12 Apr 2013 13:42:34 GMThttps://techtites.com/how-to-delete-unused-or-less-used-post-tags-in-wordpress/https://techtites.com/how-to-delete-unused-or-less-used-post-tags-in-wordpress/If you've been running a multi-author blog like us, over a period of time, you'll see your list of tags growing exponentially. When I reviewed the number of tags on Techtites today, I noticed that this was well over 1,100 tags! So, I went into the Tags interface and immediately realised that I'm goiThu, 11 Apr 2013 11:44:47 GMThttps://techtites.com/total-network-inventory-is-your-complete-network-audit-solution/https://techtites.com/total-network-inventory-is-your-complete-network-audit-solution/The following is a sponsored post on Total Network Inventory. If you're running a small office with a network of computers in a tiny room, it is very likely that you know each computer properly, including what software is running on each. However, as you expand this is going to get more unmanageableSun, 07 Apr 2013 12:30:07 GMThttps://techtites.com/calculating-payback-period-in-excel/https://techtites.com/calculating-payback-period-in-excel/Payback period in capital budgeting refers to the period of time required for the return on an investment to "repay" the sum of the original investment. For example, a $1000 investment which returned $500 per year would have a two year payback period. The time value of money is not taken into accounThu, 04 Apr 2013 17:30:31 GMThttps://techtites.com/how-to-protect-your-privacy-on-linkedin-by-hiding-your-public-profile/https://techtites.com/how-to-protect-your-privacy-on-linkedin-by-hiding-your-public-profile/I love LinkedIn. At the time of this post, I am nearing 1,000 connections there. Unlike generic social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn has managed to maintain its niche of being a business connections site.Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:00:46 GMThttps://techtites.com/5-text-messaging-habits-we-all-love-to-hate/https://techtites.com/5-text-messaging-habits-we-all-love-to-hate/We've seen them at different points of time and experienced the more than we want to. Text Messaging Infographic is developed by: MobiStealthSun, 24 Mar 2013 13:45:23 GMThttps://techtites.com/how-to-restart-your-amazon-kindle/https://techtites.com/how-to-restart-your-amazon-kindle/Just yesterday my wife told me that for some weird reason her Kindle wasn't responding. We had it fully charged, but all that we could see was a blank screen... almost blank cause I could make out some light shade of the e-Ink.Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:18:38 GMThttps://techtites.com/google-adds-google-keep/https://techtites.com/google-adds-google-keep/After axing Reader a few days back, Google unveiled Google Keep. Integrated with Google Drive, Google Keep aims to help you keep track of your notes. The interface is very basic on the browser and straightforward on your phone.Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:50:49 GMThttps://techtites.com/how-to-export-your-rss-subscriptions-from-google-reader/https://techtites.com/how-to-export-your-rss-subscriptions-from-google-reader/By now, most of the web is abuzz with news of Google axing its Google Reader, which is a platform that most bloggers, including me, identify with. I've lived with Google Reader open while I worked for several years, either via FeedDemon and also directly. With the demise of Google Reader, Nick has aThu, 14 Mar 2013 21:52:32 GMThttps://techtites.com/review-of-avast-mobile-security-posted-at-blogsolute/https://techtites.com/review-of-avast-mobile-security-posted-at-blogsolute/When I checked out avast! Mobile Security, I was impressed by what the free mobile app had to offer and wrote to Rohit of Blogsolute to write a guest post on Blogsolute. Rohit was kind enough to oblige and you can read the article that was posted early this week.Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:55:23 GMThttps://techtites.com/opera-switches-to-webkit-from-presto/https://techtites.com/opera-switches-to-webkit-from-presto/Opera announced today that they have crossed the 300m users mark. The browser has seen an increasing adoption amongst users across all its platforms. I've been using Opera for several years now at a time when it was ad-supported.Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:55:09 GMThttps://techtites.com/how-to-quickly-kill-a-program-in-windows/https://techtites.com/how-to-quickly-kill-a-program-in-windows/During my regular work, I tend to face repeated issues of Excel hanging. This can be really frustrating because a stuck Excel means a painful wait for Windows to figure out what it wants to do with the process. Unfortunately, there isn't much I can do about this because it is mainly due to addons thThu, 17 Jan 2013 11:30:16 GMThttps://techtites.com/wondershare-mobiletrans-new-year-giveaway/https://techtites.com/wondershare-mobiletrans-new-year-giveaway/The good folks at Wondershare are currently running a giveaway for New Year. You can get their mobile transfer software worth $39.95 for free.Mon, 31 Dec 2012 13:00:53 GMThttps://techtites.com/3-giveaways-this-christmas/https://techtites.com/3-giveaways-this-christmas/It's the season for giving and in the spirit of giving, we bring you some giveaways where you can get loads of software for free or at great discounts. WinX iPhone iPad Video Pack This is a multi-software giveaway worth $89.95 and you can get this for free before Jan 2, 2013 iPad DVD Ripper: Rip andTue, 25 Dec 2012 18:01:03 GMThttps://techtites.com/facebook-introduces-new-privacy-shortcuts/https://techtites.com/facebook-introduces-new-privacy-shortcuts/A few weeks back, we posted about the reawakening of an age old chain message that concerned Facebook users posted in an attempt to protect their privacy. I don't think it is in response to this, but Facebook released a new feature that aims to put privacy controls more into the hands of the users iFri, 21 Dec 2012 22:25:41 GMThttps://techtites.com/wordpress-plugins-to-backup-your-site-to-google-drive/https://techtites.com/wordpress-plugins-to-backup-your-site-to-google-drive/Google Drive offers you up to 5Gb free space for storage. I currently have most of that vacant since I have my important files backed up on Dropbox and Mozy. Hence have been considering of using this free space to save remote backups of my sites.Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:43:32 GMThttps://techtites.com/stop-posting-the-berner-convention-message-on-facebook/https://techtites.com/stop-posting-the-berner-convention-message-on-facebook/It is a hoax! Over the past 24 or so hours, I've seen quite a few people posting this message: In response to the new Facebook guidelines I hereby declare that my copyright is attached to all of my personal details, illustrations, comics, paintings, professional photos and videos, etc. (as a result Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:34:08 GMThttps://techtites.com/find-people-online-with-zopeo/https://techtites.com/find-people-online-with-zopeo/In today's digital world, almost all of us have traces online. e.g.Sat, 24 Nov 2012 09:18:25 GMThttps://techtites.com/super-charge-your-wordpress-pages-with-advanced-page-manager/https://techtites.com/super-charge-your-wordpress-pages-with-advanced-page-manager/WordPress' support for posts is phenomenal. However, when it comes to managing pages, this is very limited. This is possibly because pages are relatively static and are more to add on permanent sections to your site like Contact forms or download areas like we do here at Techtites.Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:34:35 GMThttps://techtites.com/megaupload-founder-launches-new-file-sharing-site/https://techtites.com/megaupload-founder-launches-new-file-sharing-site/If you think that a few authorities can keep Kim Dotcom down, then think again. The founder of the now shutdown MegaUpload has announced the launch of a new file sharing site. Titled Mega, and soon to be available at www.Thu, 01 Nov 2012 20:12:18 GMThttps://techtites.com/improve-your-productivity-with-gmails-new-compose-experience/https://techtites.com/improve-your-productivity-with-gmails-new-compose-experience/Composing emails in a desktop client like Thunderbird or Postbox allows you switch back and forth between windows easily. Look up your other emails for reference or just let the Compose window sit in the background while you check new mail. By contrast most web-based clients don't give you this flexTue, 30 Oct 2012 21:07:42 GMThttps://techtites.com/division-with-sumproduct/https://techtites.com/division-with-sumproduct/Way back in 2008, I wrote about using SUMPRODUCT to duplicate the functionality of SUMIFS which was introduced in Microsoft Excel 2007. SUMPRODUCT is a powerful excel function and is more commonly used to multiply two arrays. Let's first understand the syntax of SUMPRODUCT.Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:22:14 GMThttps://techtites.com/fun-app-for-android-and-ios-talking-ginger/https://techtites.com/fun-app-for-android-and-ios-talking-ginger/If you haven't checked it out yet, Talking Ginger is one of the most popular apps on iTunes currently. It’s late and little Ginger is getting ready for bed. He needs to shower and dry, brush his teeth and go potty.Fri, 05 Oct 2012 06:31:03 GMThttps://techtites.com/opera-releases-12-10-beta-adds-windows-8-support/https://techtites.com/opera-releases-12-10-beta-adds-windows-8-support/Opera has always been one of my favourite browers. It's fast and they have steady update to valuations. It still needs to go a long way to get close to Chrome or Firefox in terms of add-on support, but it's a good alternate browser, if you need one.Tue, 02 Oct 2012 10:13:58 GMThttps://techtites.com/how-to-fix-contact-form-7-errors/https://techtites.com/how-to-fix-contact-form-7-errors/I've been using Contact Form 7 on all my WordPress blogs for a long time. Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:55:46 GMThttps://techtites.com/how-to-enable-2-step-verification-on-dropbox/https://techtites.com/how-to-enable-2-step-verification-on-dropbox/There have been concerns about the security of your files in Dropbox. Recently Dropbox added another layer of security similar to Google's two step verification. When you enable two-step verification, whenever you want to login to Dropbox, you will need to use your password, and a security code thatMon, 10 Sep 2012 09:27:22 GMThttps://techtites.com/dexpot-releases-new-version-with-windows-8-support/https://techtites.com/dexpot-releases-new-version-with-windows-8-support/One feature that has remained lacking in Windows is multiple virtual desktops which are easy to use and customisable. Dexpot brings this much needed feature to all Windows machine with the latest version including support for Windows 8. Dexpot brings to you several features that truly enhance your WFri, 07 Sep 2012 10:19:39 GMThttps://techtites.com/linkedin-adds-notifications-next-step-towards-a-better-social-networking-experience/https://techtites.com/linkedin-adds-notifications-next-step-towards-a-better-social-networking-experience/Over the past few months LinkedIn has been undergoing major changes in its design. The site has a cleaner interface. Adding people is also easier and you only need to scroll down to load more potential contacts.Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:45:32 GMThttps://techtites.com/stop-your-mac-from-sleeping-without-an-application/https://techtites.com/stop-your-mac-from-sleeping-without-an-application/A few months back, we blogged about 7 applications for your Mac to prevent it from sleeping. While these programs make the process extremely simple, OSX Mountain Lion comes inbuilt with a ready command line tool that makes this process extremely easy. Fire up Terminal and run the following command: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:05:25 GMThttps://techtites.com/migrate-to-outlook-com-for-free-with-trueswitch/https://techtites.com/migrate-to-outlook-com-for-free-with-trueswitch/Barely two weeks since its preview launch and Outlook.com already has 10 million users. I migrated to Outlook.Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:20:13 GMThttps://techtites.com/excel-tutorial-index-match-primer/https://techtites.com/excel-tutorial-index-match-primer/Two weeks, we looked at the syntax of VLOOKUP, INDEX and MATCH. Last weeks tutorial should have walked you through the basics of VLOOKUP. In this post, we'll use a similar file from the VLOOKUP tutorial to find a value from the table using INDEX and MATCH.Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:10:20 GMThttps://techtites.com/excel-tutorial-vlookup-primer/https://techtites.com/excel-tutorial-vlookup-primer/Last week, I introduced you to VLOOKUP, INDEX and MATCH. In this post, we'll use VLOOKUP to find a value from the table. Firstly, let's create the above table in Excel.Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:16:27 GMThttps://techtites.com/so-you-want-to-start-a-hedge-fund/https://techtites.com/so-you-want-to-start-a-hedge-fund/Have you ever realised that many hedge fund (and private equity) firms have chosen a name following a common "color"+"element" pattern? By sticking to this schema, The Hedge Fund name generator can be use to find the name of your next Hedge Fund or just for fun. Hit the Generate a new name button anFri, 03 Aug 2012 15:41:03 GMThttps://techtites.com/wordpress-com-is-retina-ready/https://techtites.com/wordpress-com-is-retina-ready/Users of WordPress.com can rejoice especially for those who have the new retina screens. WordPress.Fri, 03 Aug 2012 08:55:03 GMThttps://techtites.com/how-to-recover-deleted-messages-in-outlook-com/https://techtites.com/how-to-recover-deleted-messages-in-outlook-com/Yesterday, we told you how to get your Outlook.com email. Outlook.Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:35:55 GMThttps://techtites.com/excel-tutorial-introduction-to-vlookup-index-and-match-functions/https://techtites.com/excel-tutorial-introduction-to-vlookup-index-and-match-functions/Excel has several  lookup and reference functions. The main purposes of most of the plugins is to lookup some cell or cells from a set of data (usually presented in a table). Of these, the most popular ones are VLOOKUP, INDEX and MATCH.Wed, 01 Aug 2012 11:20:28 GMThttps://techtites.com/new-mice-and-keyboard-for-your-windows-8-pc/https://techtites.com/new-mice-and-keyboard-for-your-windows-8-pc/Windows 8 Release preview is already available and if you've decided to give it a shot, you'll notice the big changes to Windows 8 over Windows 7. In line with the Windows 8 release, Microsoft, yesterday, unveiled a range of new mice and keyboards that are ready to work with Windows 8. It doesn't meTue, 31 Jul 2012 15:00:43 GMThttps://techtites.com/upgrade-to-windows-8-pro-for-only-39-99/https://techtites.com/upgrade-to-windows-8-pro-for-only-39-99/If you're already running Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7, then this one is for you! Microsoft is offering all existing users to upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for just $39.99.Wed, 04 Jul 2012 16:02:19 GMThttps://techtites.com/have-you-changed-your-linkedin-password-yet/https://techtites.com/have-you-changed-your-linkedin-password-yet/By now, most the WWW is abuzz with the security compromise at Linkedin. It is good to note that the team at Linkedin have been quick to respond and have blocked all the compromised accounts requiring you to reset your Linkedin password. Affected users have also been informed by email.Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:51:59 GMThttps://techtites.com/troubles-continue-for-facebook-as-site-goes-down/https://techtites.com/troubles-continue-for-facebook-as-site-goes-down/Ever since it's IPO last month, troubles haven't been far away for Facebook. Bloomberg declared it to be the worst IPO in a decade and today the stock price is currently trading well below its listing price of $38. And, yesterday Facebook was inaccessible for many users.Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:46:58 GMThttps://techtites.com/wordpress-admin-icons-template/https://techtites.com/wordpress-admin-icons-template/Matthias Kretschmann has developed a template for designing your own icons for the admin area of WordPress. This is very useful for plugin and theme developers looking to add new icons to their new menus. Icons are also used when you have custom post types on your blog.Wed, 30 May 2012 09:24:07 GMThttps://techtites.com/facebook-ads-vs-google-adwords/https://techtites.com/facebook-ads-vs-google-adwords/WordStream has an infographic that takes a detailed look at Facebook Ads network and Google Adwords and Adsense as it stands today. Google is a clear winner currently. But, does Facebook stand a chance?Wed, 23 May 2012 15:52:35 GMThttps://techtites.com/troubleshooting-get-better-in-windows-8/https://techtites.com/troubleshooting-get-better-in-windows-8/Windows 8 has been designed to boot so quickly that you have almost zero reaction time to get to the famous boot screens that allow you to choose a different boot device or enter into the troubleshooting utilities. If you want to enter the boot screens when booting up your PC, you need to hit the F8Wed, 23 May 2012 15:36:07 GMThttps://techtites.com/wordpress-plugin-directory-gets-revamped/https://techtites.com/wordpress-plugin-directory-gets-revamped/As a plugin developer, the WordPress plugin directory is extremely critical to me. While the back end works fine, it is extremely critical that the front end part of the site works perfectly, especially to enhance usability for both users and developers. The plugin directory received a much necessarTue, 22 May 2012 14:00:40 GMThttps://techtites.com/get-dvd-slideshow-builder-standard-free-this-mothers-day/https://techtites.com/get-dvd-slideshow-builder-standard-free-this-mothers-day/Looking for an easy yet impressive way to burn your photos to DVD or share photos online? With Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder Standard, literally drop-in your favorite photos and music, add built-in cinematic effects with a click and instantly create a compelling photo slideshow complete with titTue, 08 May 2012 11:12:00 GMThttps://techtites.com/pearlmountain-image-converter-giveaway/https://techtites.com/pearlmountain-image-converter-giveaway/PearlMountain Image Converter is a photo converter as well as batch image converter, which helps you convert images to other formats, resize,rotate, crop, add watermark, apply effects and add border to thousands of images at a time. Key features: Convert thousands of files at once in batch mode BatcMon, 07 May 2012 07:15:27 GMThttps://techtites.com/iskysoft-dvd-creator-for-mac/https://techtites.com/iskysoft-dvd-creator-for-mac/Want to burn videos to DVD for play with Mac’s DVD player? The hard drive disk is stacked with tons of video files? A DVD creator would be a great help.Sat, 28 Apr 2012 15:46:59 GMThttps://techtites.com/chat-with-your-facebook-friends-with-facebook-messenger/https://techtites.com/chat-with-your-facebook-friends-with-facebook-messenger/Messenger is a new app that brings Facebook to your desktop. While you surf the web or use other applications on your computer, you can: Chat and message with your friends on Facebook See the latest updates from your friends in ticker Get quick notifications about what’s going on Messenger lets you Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:32:32 GMThttps://techtites.com/wondershare-pdf-editor-beta-for-free-in-100-days/https://techtites.com/wondershare-pdf-editor-beta-for-free-in-100-days/I recently wrote about Wondershare PDF to Word online, which is a good route to edit PDF files. However, it does require the intermediate step of converting to Word. Wondershare PDF Editor includes all the features people need to manage and edit PDF files: view PDF file; edit text, object, images; aSat, 14 Apr 2012 11:07:26 GMThttps://techtites.com/create-picture-collages-easily-with-picture-collage-maker-pro/https://techtites.com/create-picture-collages-easily-with-picture-collage-maker-pro/Picture Collage Maker Pro is a powerful and easy-to-use program for creating photo collages and digital scrapbooks from your digital photos to share with friends and family. This Easter Edition contains 16 brand new stunning Easter templates. It allows people to make delightful Easter cards that theThu, 05 Apr 2012 22:10:46 GMThttps://techtites.com/how-to-create-a-playlist-from-a-folder-in-itunes/https://techtites.com/how-to-create-a-playlist-from-a-folder-in-itunes/iTunes allows you to quickly create a playlist which you can create either manually by selecting files from your library or alternatively a smart playlist based on certain criteria. However, one lesser known feature is creating playlists from a folder on your hard drive. Creating a playlist from a fMon, 02 Apr 2012 10:00:00 GMThttps://techtites.com/read-over-2100-newspapers-on-your-ipad-3-with-pressreader/https://techtites.com/read-over-2100-newspapers-on-your-ipad-3-with-pressreader/And not just on your iPad, but also your Blackberry Tablet, Windows and Android devices! If you love to read and you can't keep away from your newspapers, then PressReader is one the best apps that you can download for this purpose. PressReader is the only application that lets you read a growing liFri, 23 Mar 2012 22:11:00 GMThttps://techtites.com/apple-unveils-ipad-3/https://techtites.com/apple-unveils-ipad-3/Rumours of the new iPad have been raging for a long time. Yesterday, Apple officially launched the iPad 3. And, I didn't hesitate in pre-ordering the same!Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:30:06 GMThttps://techtites.com/create-invoices-and-bill-your-customers-with-invoicera/https://techtites.com/create-invoices-and-bill-your-customers-with-invoicera/if you are running a full fledged business, especially if it is online, you will realise the importance of good customer management. Besides providing support to your customers, it is also extremely essential for good business sense to create an automated solution to invoice and bill them. InvoiceraWed, 15 Feb 2012 12:15:00 GMThttps://techtites.com/abbyy-finereader-11/https://techtites.com/abbyy-finereader-11/Normally, if you scan a document, you will not be able to copy text or search for text within the files. The professional edition for Acrobat (which would set your wallet back a bit) allows you to run an OCR (optical character recognition) scan to "convert" this to text you can copy or search. An alFri, 23 Dec 2011 18:27:54 GMThttps://techtites.com/make-custom-beer-labels-with-labeley-com/https://techtites.com/make-custom-beer-labels-with-labeley-com/Are you a regular beer drinker? Or, do you just love those labels on the bottle. Now, you can create your very own labels using Labeley.Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:48:56 GMThttps://techtites.com/winx-hd-video-converter-deluxe-giveaway/https://techtites.com/winx-hd-video-converter-deluxe-giveaway/If you think Halloween is over, you're right. However, the folks behind WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe don't! WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe (for Windows) works as all-in-one HD video converter, DVD burner and YouTube online video downloader.Sat, 05 Nov 2011 01:29:51 GMThttps://techtites.com/win-a-license-for-winx-blu-ray-decrpter/https://techtites.com/win-a-license-for-winx-blu-ray-decrpter/We blogged about WinX Blu-Ray Decrypter last month. This time we are back and have 10 licenses for Techtites readers and winning a license is very easy! Step 1: Either tweet this post, or post it on Facebook.Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:49:30 GMThttps://techtites.com/3-disadvantages-to-using-a-broadband-dongle/https://techtites.com/3-disadvantages-to-using-a-broadband-dongle/The broadband internet market has grown significantly over the years, leading to a lot of new innovation and the ability to access the internet using a modem of your choice. One great device that was introduced over the years is the mobile broadband dongle, and it is currently one of the most populaMon, 31 Oct 2011 09:00:00 GMThttps://techtites.com/halloween-giveaway-iskysoft-dvd-creator/https://techtites.com/halloween-giveaway-iskysoft-dvd-creator/It's that time of the year again and come the trick or treats. and iSkysoft software has a treat for you. They are giving away DVD Creator for Windows (worth $25) and DVD Creator for Mac (worth $49).Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:14:40 GMThttps://techtites.com/panasonic-toughbook-cf-53-bringing-desktop-power-to-tough-mobile-conditions/https://techtites.com/panasonic-toughbook-cf-53-bringing-desktop-power-to-tough-mobile-conditions/Panasonic introduces its latest entrant in the Toughbook family, semi–rugged Toughbook CF-53. This new device has a 14" High Definition LED display and is powered by a second generation Intel® i5 or i3 processor. The next generation Toughbook 53 offers its users features such as: Long battery life (Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:23:17 GMThttps://techtites.com/4g-mobile-broadband-providers-how-they-stack-up/https://techtites.com/4g-mobile-broadband-providers-how-they-stack-up/With all the recent talk about 4G service and its blazing speeds, there is much debate as to which service will provide the best download and uploads transfers. There are basically three networks that are dominating the internet landscape and include LTE, WIMAX, and HSPA+. There are differences betwThu, 13 Oct 2011 23:22:40 GMThttps://techtites.com/air-playit-free-video-streaming-app-for-your-iphone-and-ipad/https://techtites.com/air-playit-free-video-streaming-app-for-your-iphone-and-ipad/We all know that Apple reveals its front and center streaming technology through AirPlay. It works brilliantly. You can stream practically anything from computer to your iOS devices.Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:46:33 GMThttps://techtites.com/google-acquires-motorola-for-12-5bn/https://techtites.com/google-acquires-motorola-for-12-5bn/Google is known for its acquisitions, including the $1.65bn acquisition of Youtube in 2006. However, this time they have completely outdone themselves with their acquisition of Motorola Mobility.Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:56:08 GMThttps://techtites.com/7-steps-to-gift-your-mom-the-best-on-mothers-day/https://techtites.com/7-steps-to-gift-your-mom-the-best-on-mothers-day/Wondering what to gift your mother this Mother’s Day? Greeting cards, flowers, jewellery and chocolates are all passé; it’s the new age mom we are talking about so the gift should also match her persona. This Mother’s Day make your mom feel special by gifting her a fabulous holiday for her to unwindWed, 04 May 2011 23:01:44 GMThttps://techtites.com/is-the-internet-hurting-our-environment/https://techtites.com/is-the-internet-hurting-our-environment/Infographic by WordStream Internet MarketingThu, 23 Dec 2010 20:01:46 GMThttps://techtites.com/organise-your-movie-collection-with-movienizer/https://techtites.com/organise-your-movie-collection-with-movienizer/For all your movie lovers out there, this one is a treat for you. Have your CDs and DVDs started piling up. Do you lend your these to friends regularly.Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:38:13 GMThttps://techtites.com/wordpress-picks-for-the-week-0324/https://techtites.com/wordpress-picks-for-the-week-0324/Shortlink trick Simple piece of code to utilise any shortlink plugin that implements the “get_shortlink” function properly. Minimum WordPress Theme Requirements This one is for all you theme authors who end up missing some rather important elements in your themes. Declare Multiple Widgetized Areas TWed, 24 Mar 2010 20:55:00 GMThttps://techtites.com/wordpress-picks-for-the-week-0217/https://techtites.com/wordpress-picks-for-the-week-0217/How to get your plugin removed from the directory Mark Jaquith tells plugin authors exactly what to do get your plugin banned. Showing custom post types on your home/blog page Show several post types in addition to posts on your home page. These could be page, album, movie or quote!Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:04:00 GMThttps://techtites.com/valentines-day-giveaway-winners-announced/https://techtites.com/valentines-day-giveaway-winners-announced/I'm pleased to announce that we have two winners of our first contest. The two winners are: Rafael_C Jenny The winners have been contacted via email. Congratulations!!!Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:07:59 GMThttps://techtites.com/valentines-day-giveaway-two-licenses-of-audialsone/https://techtites.com/valentines-day-giveaway-two-licenses-of-audialsone/Update: This contest is now closed. Congrats to all the winners Way back in November, I reviewed a paid software called AudialsOne. AudialsOne is powerful radio software, media recorder and audio converter.Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:00:57 GMThttps://techtites.com/wordpress-picks-for-the-week-0203/https://techtites.com/wordpress-picks-for-the-week-0203/Following this week, I will be publishing the WordPress Picks series every Wednesday, instead of Sunday. 55+ Most Wanted WordPress Tips, Tricks, and Hacks I'm not a big fan of super long posts, but this is a comprehensive list of articles and tutorials regarding WordPress Load A Stylesheet Only If UWed, 03 Feb 2010 14:45:00 GMThttps://techtites.com/easily-hunt-for-available-domains-from-makewords-com/https://techtites.com/easily-hunt-for-available-domains-from-makewords-com/Ever try to hunt for a domain name but are clueless as to which one to purchase. Or maybe you're just hunting for some random suggestions. If you're stuck, MakeWords.Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:09:19 GMThttps://techtites.com/give-your-digital-photos-a-classic-look-with-rollip/https://techtites.com/give-your-digital-photos-a-classic-look-with-rollip/Do you have a digital photo and are looking to give it a "classic Polaroid" truth? Rollip will give you 40 different filter effects while retaining the original sizes of your photos. Take a look at three effects that I processed on my engagement photo.Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:37:00 GMThttps://techtites.com/happy-new-year-2010-and-our-goals-for-2010/https://techtites.com/happy-new-year-2010-and-our-goals-for-2010/Just a small post to wish all my loyal readers a Happy New Year 2010! 2009 has been a good year for this blog. While, I may not have succeeded in making any of the targets that I set for 2009, I'm happy that given the limited time that I was able to give to the development of this blog, it has definFri, 01 Jan 2010 00:01:00 GMThttps://techtites.com/create-a-collage-of-your-photos-with-photovisi/https://techtites.com/create-a-collage-of-your-photos-with-photovisi/So, you've collected a whole bunch of photos. And, if you're keen on viewing these photos regularly, you can set them as wallpapers and cycle them regularly. Or you can make a collage and view them all together.Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:17:00 GMThttps://techtites.com/10-years-10-dollars-10-days-of-ashampoo/https://techtites.com/10-years-10-dollars-10-days-of-ashampoo/Ashampoo has finished 10 years of providing really good quality software at really affordable rates, not the mention the regular promos and deals. To celebrate their ten years, Ashampoo has a great promo deal going on that is will end on 10/10 ... way too many tens I tell you!Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:03:36 GMThttps://techtites.com/dry-clean-your-usb-drives-with-usb-drive-fresher/https://techtites.com/dry-clean-your-usb-drives-with-usb-drive-fresher/If you have been using your USB drive for a while, you'll soon notice that there are quite a few "junk" folders and files created. In fact this is true for most of the folders on your system. One solution is to manually sit and clean all the files.Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:53:08 GMThttps://techtites.com/how-to-add-your-google-apps-mail-account-to-thunderbird/https://techtites.com/how-to-add-your-google-apps-mail-account-to-thunderbird/One thing that I love about Postbox is it's complete support for tonnes of email services. However, sadly, Postbox has turned paid. As a result, I decided to give Thunderbird 3 beta a shot.Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:18:00 GMThttps://techtites.com/grab-your-facebook-username-now/https://techtites.com/grab-your-facebook-username-now/If you haven't heard it yet, Facebook has finally started dishing out usernames and your times running out for you to get one. Are you eligible? Eligibility is limited to anyone who joined Facebook before usernames were publicly announced at 3 p.Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:46:13 GMThttps://techtites.com/protect-your-email-from-spam-with-scrim/https://techtites.com/protect-your-email-from-spam-with-scrim/Fed up of spam in your Inbox, especially from forums, social networking sites, websites etc. where you shared your email at one point of time? scr.Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:02:00 GMThttps://techtites.com/undo-sending-email-in-gmail/https://techtites.com/undo-sending-email-in-gmail/Ever send an email out only to realize you've forgotten an attachment or even worse, it's gone to the wrong person! Now, in Gmail Labs, you'll find a new feature that will delay the sent email for five seconds before it is sent. During this time you will be hit the Undo button and stop the email froFri, 20 Mar 2009 18:51:00 GMThttps://techtites.com/gmail-finally-fixes-mark-as-unread/https://techtites.com/gmail-finally-fixes-mark-as-unread/One thing ever Gmail user loves is the conversation view. However, one painful experience with the conversation view is the "Mark as Unread" feature which used to mark the entire conversation as unread, which means that you had to figure out exactly which was the first unread post, the nexWed, 18 Mar 2009 09:33:37 GMThttps://techtites.com/silently-install-firefox-with-firefoxs/https://techtites.com/silently-install-firefox-with-firefoxs/If you're looking to install Firefox, you can either go about downloading the installer off the internet and then running the setup and clicking through a series of screens before you have the browser installed. Alternatively, you can try out Utilu Silent Setup for Mozilla Firefox. Utilu Silent SetuThu, 05 Mar 2009 13:10:43 GMThttps://techtites.com/windows-vista-sp2-rc-now-available/https://techtites.com/windows-vista-sp2-rc-now-available/Service Pack 2 Release Candidate for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 are now available for download to TechNet and MSDN subscribers to test prior to final release. SP2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 include updates that have been delivered since the release of SP1, as well as supporFri, 27 Feb 2009 06:43:00 GMThttps://techtites.com/gmail-better-uploads-titlebar-tweaks-your-own-theme/https://techtites.com/gmail-better-uploads-titlebar-tweaks-your-own-theme/Gmail is in super duper update mode! Over the last week we've seen some awesome updates to the interface. Multi-select Uploads with Progress Bar You can now select more than one file in the same folder by hitting Ctrl key in Windows or Cmd in Mac OS X.Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:42:03 GMThttps://techtites.com/update-your-nokia-phone-with-nokia-software-updater/https://techtites.com/update-your-nokia-phone-with-nokia-software-updater/Last week, I guided you through Backing up your Nokia phone. This week, as promised, I'll teach you how to update your Nokia Symbian phone via Nokia Software Updater. Let me remind you yet again that you should backup your phone settings before proceeding with the update as it will completely restorMon, 23 Feb 2009 11:33:00 GMThttps://techtites.com/wordpressorg-plugin-directory-search-improved/https://techtites.com/wordpressorg-plugin-directory-search-improved/You're search for plugins on WordPress.org has just gotten better. The Plugin Directory now uses Sphinx to power search on the Plugins Directory both from the website and from within WP-Admin.Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:42:41 GMThttps://techtites.com/host-your-rar-files-for-free-with-rarhost/https://techtites.com/host-your-rar-files-for-free-with-rarhost/Do you want to share videos or photos with your friend? One option is send all your files via email. The result is clogged inboxes and a good likelihood that emails may bounce or land in spam.Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:38:45 GMThttps://techtites.com/recover-files-from-damaged-disks-with-unstoppable-copier/https://techtites.com/recover-files-from-damaged-disks-with-unstoppable-copier/The problem with CDs and DVDs is that over a period of time they get scratched or just deteriorate and you end up with lost data. Sadly, hard disks also have this amazing ability of developing bad sectors and before you know it you can't get back data. So, what can Unstoppable Copier do?Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:29:08 GMThttps://techtites.com/when-mobile-phones-meet/https://techtites.com/when-mobile-phones-meet/Do you have an iPhone? Well think again before you go around showing it off to all your friends! Via: John ChowFri, 13 Feb 2009 03:19:33 GMThttps://techtites.com/google-improves-contact-search-in-gmail/https://techtites.com/google-improves-contact-search-in-gmail/We reported earlier this week that you can now merge your contacts in Gmail. The same has been announced officially on the Gmail blog. Besides merging contacts, Suggested Contacts has been removed and this has been replaced by All Contacts.Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:33:35 GMThttps://techtites.com/download-all-versions-of-internet-explorer/https://techtites.com/download-all-versions-of-internet-explorer/If you're an Internet Explorer fan or just a collector of software, then this one is for you. The Internet Explorer Collection contains multiple IE versions, which are standalone so they can be used at the same time. Conditional Comments work exactly the same as in the native versions.Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:43:00 GMThttps://techtites.com/merge-your-gmail-contacts/https://techtites.com/merge-your-gmail-contacts/The Gmail team has been very very busy this last month or so. First we had the Send and Archive button. Next came the ability to store email offline.Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:25:38 GMThttps://techtites.com/more-than-one-inbox-in-gmail/https://techtites.com/more-than-one-inbox-in-gmail/After Gmail Offline and the new Google Menu, Gmail is back with a new feature, viz. Multiple Inboxes. The multiple inboxes feature allows you to display more than one set of emails in your inbox.Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:10:10 GMThttps://techtites.com/mashables-20-great-free-wordpress-27-themes/https://techtites.com/mashables-20-great-free-wordpress-27-themes/Mashable came out with a list today of 20 Great Free WordPress 2.7 Themes. And, I'm glad that my theme Connections Reloaded has been featured in this list.Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:34:07 GMThttps://techtites.com/now-send-and-archive-with-one-click-in-gmail/https://techtites.com/now-send-and-archive-with-one-click-in-gmail/The voluminous storage that Gmail offers you ensures that you never need to delete any email. Instead you can archive it and save it for your records. The usual process would be to reply to your email and then hit the archive button.Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:50:19 GMThttps://techtites.com/google-analytics-tracking-code-updated/https://techtites.com/google-analytics-tracking-code-updated/And you don't need to make the change. Christina explains the change: So why the change? Adding the try and catch to the snippet removes the possibility that your visitor sees a JavaScript message that doesn't apply to her.Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:33:18 GMThttps://techtites.com/3-free-ftp-clients-that-make-managing-websites-a-breeze/https://techtites.com/3-free-ftp-clients-that-make-managing-websites-a-breeze/So you're a web developer. Your job requires you to constantly upload and download files to and from your server. You can easily use the file manager that comes inbuilt with your control panel, but over time you realize it is a painful experience.Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:12:38 GMThttps://techtites.com/have-you-checked-out-googles-new-favicon/https://techtites.com/have-you-checked-out-googles-new-favicon/Back in June '08 Google changed their favicon from the infamous capital G to the small g. And, seven months later it’s time for another change. The new favicon is the small g but with the four colors of Google.Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:05:03 GMThttps://techtites.com/label-merge-with-microsoft-word-2007/https://techtites.com/label-merge-with-microsoft-word-2007/A long time ago, I wrote a tutorial on creating custom labels in Microsoft Word. Creating a custom label is necessary only if you don't plan to use the many inbuilt label templates. The next step after creating a custom label is the actual label merge process.Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:11:10 GMThttps://techtites.com/three-pieces-of-code-to-replace-wordpress-plugins/https://techtites.com/three-pieces-of-code-to-replace-wordpress-plugins/While WordPress plugins are really useful, you don't need plugins always to add certain features to your themes. Here are a few code snippets you can add to your theme files to display recent posts, random posts and recent comments. Recent Posts The following code will enclose the latest 10 posts inWed, 07 Jan 2009 12:33:22 GMThttps://techtites.com/three-tools-to-recover-your-deleted-items/https://techtites.com/three-tools-to-recover-your-deleted-items/Hit that delete button, only to find out that you needed that important file? Stop! don't panic.Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:09:07 GMThttps://techtites.com/70-bloggers-make-less-than-500-how-much-do-you/https://techtites.com/70-bloggers-make-less-than-500-how-much-do-you/Darren Rowse over at ProBlogger conducts a poll every year on how much bloggers make. This year as usual they conducted the poll. Though this year, the sample size has been much larger, the findings are pretty much similar to last year.Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:35:51 GMThttps://techtites.com/three-themes-to-make-your-firefox-christmassy/https://techtites.com/three-themes-to-make-your-firefox-christmassy/A Firefox user? Are you still running the default theme or have you decked your browser this season? Here are a three themes to make your Firefox browser all ready for the Christmas season.Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:41:07 GMThttps://techtites.com/speed-up-your-wordpress-admin/https://techtites.com/speed-up-your-wordpress-admin/How fast is your internet connection? If it is as slow as mine and you blog regularly, then you will understand the necessity of doing something to speed up the loading of pages of your WordPress Administration area. Fortunately, WordPress comes inbuilt with this support.Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:08:27 GMThttps://techtites.com/stop-google-from-tracking-your-chrome-usage/https://techtites.com/stop-google-from-tracking-your-chrome-usage/When Google Chrome launched, everyone jumped to embrace the new browser. Unfortunately, each Google Chrome installation contains a unique ID that allowing identifying its user. I don't know about you, but I don't like anyone or anything tracking my usage, especially not a company as powerful as GoogSat, 20 Dec 2008 00:27:27 GMThttps://techtites.com/how-to-change-the-default-color-scheme-of-word/https://techtites.com/how-to-change-the-default-color-scheme-of-word/By default Microsoft Word 2007 comes with a blue color scheme. However, Word 2007 also comes inbuilt with two separate themes, viz. Silver and Black.Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:51:32 GMThttps://techtites.com/wordpress-yesterday-today-forever/https://techtites.com/wordpress-yesterday-today-forever/I've been using WordPress for more than five years now and have seen it through all its revisions. For those of you who came online recently, take a look at a picture journey through the several years of WordPress. Looking at 2.Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:12:05 GMThttps://techtites.com/scan-for-windows-vulnerability-scanner/https://techtites.com/scan-for-windows-vulnerability-scanner/Protector Plus - Windows Vulnerability Scanner checks your system for Windows Vulnerabilities. It guides you to update with the right patch to make your system secure. This program is updated once a month to detect all the vulnerabilities discovered.Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:51:52 GMThttps://techtites.com/backup-your-files-with-syncback-tool-tuesday/https://techtites.com/backup-your-files-with-syncback-tool-tuesday/Keeping your files safe is one worrisome issue. I have multiple backups of my files, both on an external hard disk as well as on two online file backup services. When you have a few hundred megabytes to backup, you can just replace the folder time and time again.Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:35:20 GMThttps://techtites.com/listen-to-books-for-free/https://techtites.com/listen-to-books-for-free/Free Classic Audio Books is a huge collection of human narrated and advanced text to speech audio books of classic stories. The following are the human narrated audio books: The King James Bible Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Treasure Island by R. L.Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:14:43 GMThttps://techtites.com/opera-10-alpha-is-out-and-its-a-perfect-acid3/https://techtites.com/opera-10-alpha-is-out-and-its-a-perfect-acid3/Opera 10 Alpha has been released with brand new features that's made is faster, better and well as usual ready to capture its share back! Presto 2.2 Engine Performance boost 100/100 and pixel-perfect on the Acid3 test Auto-update Inline spelling checker Opera Mail improvements, including rich text cFri, 05 Dec 2008 20:44:12 GMThttps://techtites.com/how-fashionable-is-your-firefox/https://techtites.com/how-fashionable-is-your-firefox/A few weeks back, the Firefox team released Fashion Your Firefox. Firefox addons are a spectacular way of improving your Firefox usage. Most addons really make life simple by enhancing your browsing experience.Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:26:59 GMThttps://techtites.com/convert-your-folder-to-a-virtual-drive/https://techtites.com/convert-your-folder-to-a-virtual-drive/Frequently accessing the same folders? Or maybe you have a game or software copied to a folder that needs to be installed. Visual Subst is a small tool that allows you to associate the most accessed directories with virtual drives.Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:30:51 GMThttps://techtites.com/learn-how-to-play-the-piano-with-synthesia/https://techtites.com/learn-how-to-play-the-piano-with-synthesia/I learnt to play the piano when I was eight and the journey continued until the age of 13, when other priorities took over. Since then I've dabbled my way around a keyboard never really taking it up seriously. Hmmm...Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:30:53 GMThttps://techtites.com/five-tips-to-secure-your-gmail-usage/https://techtites.com/five-tips-to-secure-your-gmail-usage/Last week, MakeUseOf reported more domains being stolen, all owned by Gmail users. Brandon from GeekCondition reported a proof of concept. However, Google has replied stating that Gmail has no vulnerabilities.Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:00:01 GMThttps://techtites.com/shellexview/https://techtites.com/shellexview/A shell extension is an in-process COM object which extends the Windows' abilities. Most shell extensions are automatically installed by the operating system, but there are also many other applications that install additional shell extension components. E.Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:33:18 GMThttps://techtites.com/themes-for-your-gmail/https://techtites.com/themes-for-your-gmail/If you're bored of the plain old white Gmail background, then one option is to use the Better Gmail Firefox extension which added a few themes. Gmail now comes with several different skins that you can use to beautify your inbox. In a quote from their blog post: We wanted to go beyond simple color cThu, 20 Nov 2008 02:35:57 GMThttps://techtites.com/quickly-rename-files-with-pfrank-tool-tuesday/https://techtites.com/quickly-rename-files-with-pfrank-tool-tuesday/Renaming a file is as simple as hitting F2 on your keyboard. Well it is all good unless you have ten or twenty or more files to rename. Short for Peter's Flexible RenAmiNg Kit, PFrank is a bulk file/folder renaming program that lets you can easily organize your music, picture, video, or any other tyTue, 18 Nov 2008 12:26:59 GMThttps://techtites.com/google-10th-anniversary-spam-email/https://techtites.com/google-10th-anniversary-spam-email/Received an interesting email today. Interesting because without doubt it has all the signs of a big scam. Firstly, I received it at my Yahoo!Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:01:25 GMThttps://techtites.com/faststone-maxview-tool-tuesday/https://techtites.com/faststone-maxview-tool-tuesday/So you have this whole stack of images and you want to quickly go through them, without needing to add it as an album in Picasa or a similar photo organizer? FastStone MaxView is a tiny, very fast and innovative image viewer that supports all major graphic formats. Its intuitive layout and commands Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:32:01 GMThttps://techtites.com/mediamonkey-multimedia-monday/https://techtites.com/mediamonkey-multimedia-monday/Your music collection is growing and growing fast and after sometime you realize it is totally unmanageable. If you're as particular at me, you'd like your music neatly tagged the files properly named and arranged, then this is one tool worth using. MediaMonkey is a music manager and jukebox for serMon, 27 Oct 2008 12:52:05 GMThttps://techtites.com/google-updates-this-week-20th-to-25th-october-2008/https://techtites.com/google-updates-this-week-20th-to-25th-october-2008/This week has been a rather active week for the folks at Google. You can now publish to your Blogger blog directly from iGoogle. Additionally, you can now choose to embed comments below your post inself instead of having them on a new page.Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:45:18 GMThttps://techtites.com/netsetman-software-saturday/https://techtites.com/netsetman-software-saturday/If you're located in a place like me where I have a host of wifi and LAN connections to choose from. In such a situation, I'm constantly required to change my IP settings and other settings whenever I jump networks. I normally don't need to use to a tool for this, as practice does speeds up this proSat, 25 Oct 2008 22:32:09 GMThttps://techtites.com/adsense-now-in-your-game/https://techtites.com/adsense-now-in-your-game/Inside Adsense reports that Adsense is now available for web-based games. As a beta user of AdSense for Games, you can display video ads, image ads, or text ads within your online games to earn revenue. You'll be able to show these ads in placements you define, such as interstitial frames before a gThu, 09 Oct 2008 19:10:38 GMThttps://techtites.com/ten-must-use-windows-shortcuts/https://techtites.com/ten-must-use-windows-shortcuts/If you are using Windows, the number of shortcuts that Windows presents you is phenomenal. You even have the option to create your own shortcuts to launch applications. Here are ten shortcuts that can improve productivity: Windows Key + R Open the Run window Windows Key + F Open the search window WiWed, 08 Oct 2008 08:56:04 GMThttps://techtites.com/creating-custom-labels-in-microsoft-word-2007-tutorial-thursday/https://techtites.com/creating-custom-labels-in-microsoft-word-2007-tutorial-thursday/Last year, as part of our admissions team duties, we were required to send out prospectus to students all over India. These ranged from a minimum of fifty envelopes to over 150 at a time. During a promotion campaign we printed around 90,000 labels!Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:20:59 GMThttps://techtites.com/google-advertises-chrome-in-orkut/https://techtites.com/google-advertises-chrome-in-orkut/Logged into Orkut today and found this beautiful message on my homepage. Seems like Google is going all out in making Chrome a maximum used browser. We've really seen the way Google promotes its products, especially on the homepage itself.Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:12:09 GMThttps://techtites.com/vlc-media-player-multimedia-monday/https://techtites.com/vlc-media-player-multimedia-monday/VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. VLC media player comes with tonnes of features.Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:31:12 GMThttps://techtites.com/purchase-a-wordpresscom-ad-free-update/https://techtites.com/purchase-a-wordpresscom-ad-free-update/Two weeks back, Matt announced that Automattic is testing WordPress.com ads on post and tag pages. I don't spend much time on any WordPress.Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:38:18 GMThttps://techtites.com/disable-windows-vista-startup-sound-tutorial-thursday/https://techtites.com/disable-windows-vista-startup-sound-tutorial-thursday/If there is one thing I really don't like to hear is any sound when I am starting up the computer. Windows Vista doesn't allow you to customize the startup sound and you are stuck with the same version. Well, I chose to disable it.Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:34:54 GMThttps://techtites.com/disable-annoying-vista-uac-popups-windows-wednesday/https://techtites.com/disable-annoying-vista-uac-popups-windows-wednesday/Long back, I covered a quick method of disabling User Access Control in Windows Vista via editing the registry. Registry editing is something for advanced users only. TweakUAC is a simple tool dedicated for this purpose.Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:52:22 GMThttps://techtites.com/now-share-videos-on-google-apps/https://techtites.com/now-share-videos-on-google-apps/If you are using a Premier Edition of Google Apps for your organization, then you have good news. You can now share videos via Google Video for Google Apps. The main features of Google Video: Share rich video information – Video sharing makes important communications like internal trainings and coTue, 02 Sep 2008 22:05:27 GMThttps://techtites.com/forumwarz-fun-friday/https://techtites.com/forumwarz-fun-friday/While, I'd love to write an entire article for this, it would simply spoil the fun. From the site: Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the Internet. In fact, Forumwarz is the Internet...Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:03:32 GMThttps://techtites.com/movable-type-pro-for-bloggers-weblog-wednesday/https://techtites.com/movable-type-pro-for-bloggers-weblog-wednesday/In an amazing attempt to fight the competition, which I believe is primarily WordPress, Movable Type is now allowing bloggers and K-12 Educational Institutions to download Movable Type Pro. The Movable Type Pro Blogger License comes with Unlimited blogs, authors and community profiles. However, suppWed, 20 Aug 2008 03:57:18 GMThttps://techtites.com/gmail-now-offers-you-more-than-7gb/https://techtites.com/gmail-now-offers-you-more-than-7gb/It's crossed the limit finally. You have now more than 7GB storage space with Gmail. Storage space crossed the storage limit a few days before.Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:44:27 GMThttps://techtites.com/aim-chat-now-in-gmail/https://techtites.com/aim-chat-now-in-gmail/In a spectacular new development, you can now sign in to your AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) account to chat with your AIM buddies from Gmail. Your AIM buddies will populate your Contacts list, and are searchable just like your Google Talk contacts.Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:25:44 GMThttps://techtites.com/firefox-fixes-three-security-issues/https://techtites.com/firefox-fixes-three-security-issues/Mozilla Firefox today released 2.0.0.Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:39:15 GMThttps://techtites.com/secure-wordpress-with-askapache-password-protect-plugin/https://techtites.com/secure-wordpress-with-askapache-password-protect-plugin/If you're looking to secure your WordPress wp-admin folder, then adding an additional layer of password protection goes a long way in helping this. You can either manually code the .htaccess file or get hold of the AskApache Password Protect Plugin to automate the process.Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:20:21 GMThttps://techtites.com/google-acquires-feedburner/https://techtites.com/google-acquires-feedburner/TechCrunch reports that Google has acquired Feedburner for $100 million dollars. This is indeed a great achievement for Feedburner. For us publishers, I see a lot of good things in store...Thu, 24 May 2007 10:33:29 GMThttps://techtites.com/tip-thursday-personalize-google/https://techtites.com/tip-thursday-personalize-google/People using Google Personalized Homepage would be well aware that you can add pages, read feeds and lots of other stuff. Recently the folks at Google introduced a brand new feature to make your homepage look even better, viz. Themes.Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:59:12 GMThttps://techtites.com/tool-tuesday-lorem-ipsum-generator/https://techtites.com/tool-tuesday-lorem-ipsum-generator/If you're familiar with free templates, or have been working in the printing industry you would have come across this text often: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitTue, 10 Apr 2007 14:11:03 GMThttps://techtites.com/multimedia-monday-prism-video-converter/https://techtites.com/multimedia-monday-prism-video-converter/Prism Video Converter is a free video file format converter for Windows. It can convert video files from avi, mpg, vob, wmv (Windows Media Video formats) and more into avi, asf or wmv files. You will need to have the appropriate codecs installed in order to run the conversion.Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:32:48 GMThttps://techtites.com/wordpress-bug-fix-release/https://techtites.com/wordpress-bug-fix-release/The WordPress team has released WordPress 2.1.3 and 2.Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:33:42 GMThttps://techtites.com/software-saturday-portaputty/https://techtites.com/software-saturday-portaputty/Almost everyone who has SSH access to their accounts will be well aware of PuTTY which is a free Telnet and SSH Client. PuTTY has saved tonnes of time because using shell is a definite time saver over most other methods. If you have just one site to manage, then it isn't a problem.Sat, 10 Mar 2007 11:51:59 GMThttps://techtites.com/multimedia-monday-mega-mp3-splitter/https://techtites.com/multimedia-monday-mega-mp3-splitter/Have ever converted an audio-tape to digital format? If you are doing so, the normal way is recording via the Line-In. The recorded audio is a single long file.Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:44:28 GMThttps://techtites.com/should-be-working-in-ie6-now/https://techtites.com/should-be-working-in-ie6-now/I complained about a major bug with this design in Internet Explorer 6. The sidebar kept scrolling to the bottom. I didn't have IE6 with me and hence was stuck.Tue, 14 Nov 2006 23:18:27 GMThttps://techtites.com/come-january-green-means-clean-atleast-for-ie7/https://techtites.com/come-january-green-means-clean-atleast-for-ie7/Phishing Scams have been a major problem for large corporations. As of today there aren't any sure fire solutions. IE, Firefox and Opera as well today implement a check to see if the site is fraudulent or not.Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:56:32 GMThttps://techtites.com/windows-live-search-for-messenger/https://techtites.com/windows-live-search-for-messenger/New on the Windows Live Messenger activities list is integration with Window Live Search. All you have to do is open a messenger window and select Search from the Activities list. A side window is opened where you can perform your search.Mon, 06 Nov 2006 18:25:48 GMThttps://techtites.com/security-patch-released-for-simple-machines/https://techtites.com/security-patch-released-for-simple-machines/Simple Machines has just released a security patch for SMF. This release addresses a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the search function. The fix for the 1.Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:38:31 GMThttps://techtites.com/hello-world/https://techtites.com/hello-world/So this is the beginning. Welcome to Techtites. Techtites is a blog aimed at gathering the best technology, computers and internet related news from all over the web.Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:48:32 GMThttps://techtites.com/wordpresscom-launches-domain-registration-and-mapping/https://techtites.com/wordpresscom-launches-domain-registration-and-mapping/WordPress.com today released Domain Registration and Mapping for your WordPress.com blog.Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:24:12 GMThttps://techtites.com/wordpresscom-please-give-me-more/https://techtites.com/wordpresscom-please-give-me-more/Update I missed this, but Donncha has already taken care of this request :) For those new to WordPress, in versions 1.5.x and below a nice feature for creating teasers was available while posting.Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:17:32 GMThttps://techtites.com/images-in-your-sidebar-at-wordpresscom/https://techtites.com/images-in-your-sidebar-at-wordpresscom/While you still can't edit your templates here at WordPress.com the WP.com FAQ suggests a good method to add images to the sidebar using the Link Manager.Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:13:48 GMThttps://techtites.com/web-20-cracks-showing/https://techtites.com/web-20-cracks-showing/I had written a while back about Web 2.0. As with anything new a debate rages on as to how good or bad or effective is the term Web 2.Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:03:10 GMThttps://techtites.com/your-own-domain-with-wordpresscom/https://techtites.com/your-own-domain-with-wordpresscom/This FAQ states that in the near future you may use your very own domain with your WordPress.com blog. This will come as a nominal yearly cost.Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:16:11 GMThttps://techtites.com/is-blogging-private/https://techtites.com/is-blogging-private/Lately I've come across a lot of persons asking me about the privacy of blogging. Others tell me that they seem to know a lot about me by reading my personal blog even without meeting me. This led me to actually evaluate the privacy of having your own blog.Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:21:39 GMThttps://techtites.com/guestbook-in-wordpress-15/https://techtites.com/guestbook-in-wordpress-15/Came across a nice article on geeksmakemehot on making your own guestbook in WordPress 1.5. This would be better than having an external guestbook because: 1.Tue, 11 Oct 2005 05:11:50 GMThttps://techtites.com/wordpresscom-back-on-track/https://techtites.com/wordpresscom-back-on-track/The last two days have seen long page loads along with temporary downtime at WordPress.com Well things seem to be back on track now. Though I do have a feeling that an older backup was used, because I seem to have lost a comment on my post below.Sun, 09 Oct 2005 09:27:30 GMT