Thursday 11 July 2013

Add custom photo in Gmail contact

Sometimes we get tedious by watching that boring default contact icon. Also we feel awkward by searching our friend with his/her name or number. Why not to put his/her picture in the contact. It will be easy for navigation and also easier. Lets have a look at video.




Fun with caret browsing - Mozilla Firefox Tips

Many times we need to copy paste text form the web page. It annoying sometimes that we need to take off our hand from keyboard and have to pick up and drag mouse to copy text.

We can do our task without having our hand off from keyboard. Check this video. It is called caret browsing.


Quick Handy Windows Tips

  • Open start menu by pressing Ctrl+Esc. Its handy if your windows key is missing or not functioning.

  • Open task manager by pressing just Ctrl+Esc+Shift. Sometimes its handy if you want to get rid of using Ctrl+Alt+Del in order to open task manager.

  • If you want to see more information in the explorer then you can do it by  right clicking on column names.

  • If you want to change the blink rate of your cursor then you can do that simply by changing following registry entry: 


        HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Desktop > CursorBlinkRate

        By default it will be set to 530 you can change it according to your        
        requirement.
  •  Block pop up windows of annying advertise with mozilla. Follow simple steps : Go to Tools > Options > Content Tab >
    • Check the box named Block pop-up windows and you are done.