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Sunday, September 12, 2010

How to post short URLs in Twitter? Learn to shorten links

In this tutorial, I’m going to talk about shortening the URLs. Sometimes, URLs can be too long to fit into your twitter updates. In that case, you will need to shorten them so that you can associate more text with it. There are few services which will allow you to shorten your link/URL. In my view, among all, 4 are best. They are:

Monday, September 6, 2010

Two best websites for iPhone users

If you are an iPhone user, then there are two premium quality websites that you must visit.
Zedge:
ZedgeScreenshotThis is my personal favorite and I would recommend it to not only iPhone users but to everybody who uses cell phone. I've never seen such a great website before. The site is built especially for mobile phones and is accessible at m.zedge.com (in mobile) and www.zedge.com (computer). The website has elegant design with easy to use navigation. Zedge practically supports all mobile phones. You can download ringtones, wallpapers, themes, videos, games and text messages. However, I did not find any applications available for mobile users. The website supports iPhone but does not provide games for iPhone users and I know that's pretty embarrassing. However, you can find wallpapers  and themes formatted especially for iPhone. I did find many iPhone formatted videos but most of them were forcefully converted without taking care of the aspect ratio. So, the videos looked too broad or too narrow.

Android stealing Apples? are they losing it?

From my point of view, iPhone is a revolutionary product. Apple designed this product keeping in mind the touch screen market. When iPhone was released, entire mindset that people had for touch screen phones was changed by the company. People then started looking Windows CE phones as slow operating systems with no real compatibility for touch screens because they all needed a stylus. Then HTC came up with custom UIs but still the inner core of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating systems had to be changed.
Android is operating system for touch screen mobile phones made to compete with iPhone market. It had all the features that other touch screen OSes did not had. However, Google managed to keep the prices for Android OSes low so as to target average customer.
Today, Android’s HTC EVO is capable of competing with iPhone 4.
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Sunday, September 5, 2010

How to enhance the glassy effect in Adobe Photoshop?

If you haven’t read my tutorial about making glassy buttons, please refer to:
  1. How to make rounded glass button in Adobe Photoshop?
  2. How to make rounded rectangle/square glass button in Adobe Photoshop CS4?
Making these buttons is really easy and giving simple glassy effects is also easy. In this article, I’m going to show you how you can enhance the glassy effect given in the above tutorials.

In the tutorial ‘How to make rounded glass button in Adobe Photoshop?’ refer to step 15 and 16. These steps are meant for those who want to show as if the light is flowing from bottom to top. However, you can change this by drawing the gradient from top to bottom. This affects the lighting conditions and thus, you will have to make sure that your shadow is lying at the bottom of button.

Saturday, September 4, 2010

How to add a page to a PDF?

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This post will teach you to insert a page to a PDF.
If you wish to see the video instead, then click here.
To see the video in HD, visit my YouTube channel by clicking here.


  1. For this to work, you will need to have Nitro PDF Professional available on:
    NitroPDFProfessional
    http://www.nitropdf.com/index.asp
    This software is available for $99.99. However, the website does offer a free 14-day trial which you can use.

Friday, September 3, 2010

How to convert any document to PDF? (Without using Adobe Acrobat)

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See video of this tutorial here.
For this tutorial, you will need to download a software called Primo PDF. This software is available at following website:
  1. Install Primo PDF to your computer as usual. To verify the installation, go to Start>Control Panel>Printers. If Primo PDF is installed correctly, you should see it as a printer.

Video - Convert any document to PDF

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How do I start Windows if it does not boot normally? - (Part 2)

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In this post, I’m going to show you ways to start your computer in case the safe mode does not work. This can only happen if there’s a virus problem or serious driver problem. So, lets get started!
First of all, start your computer. If it does not boot, then it should display some kind of warning message or something. In most of the cases, it says that some abc.sys driver is missing or corrupted. This might be a virus problem. If your system is Windows XP, then use your XP installation disk. Shut down your computer. If it does not shut down normally, simply pull the power cord or press and hold the button which starts your computer. Pop in the Windows XP installation disk and start your computer. Windows XP setup should start automatically. As soon as it loads the setup files, press ‘R’ on your keyboard. This should take you to Windows Recovery Console. Get the command prompt. Now, get the file that is missing on your computer from your friend’s computer or from the internet, put it on a pen drive and now, at this point, connect the pen drive to your computer. Type the volume name of your pendrive followed by ‘:’. For example, if your pen drive was named F: prior to this problem, then type F:. This  should change the prompt from C:> to F:>. If it does not, try other combinations like G:, H:, D:, E: etc. Now assuming you kept the file on your pen drive directly (without making any folder) type the following command:

Thursday, September 2, 2010

How do I start Windows if it does not boot normally? - (Part 1)

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This post is for those whose computer is not able to boot safe mode.
In most of the cases, when Windows refuse to boot, the reason is driver conflicts. This can happen if you have installed a new driver, altered an existing driver or incorrectly configured a device. A virus may also cause a driver conflict by corrupting driver files.
First of all, disconnect all non-default peripherals connected to your computer. I highly recommend that you only keep monitor/LCD, mouse and keyboard connected to your computer. You can connect speakers as well.
Now start your computer and when the BIOS screen passes, press F8 repeatedly till Windows Startup options appear. Select ‘safe mode’ to boot into ‘safe mode’.

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Sony Playstation Move–What is it and how does it work?

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When computer games were introduced, people used keyboard and mouse to play games on it. Then, somebody thought about the idea of using joystick and so, people started messing with joysticks to enjoy their favorite game. Later, light gun, game pad, throttle quadrant, pedals and steering wheels were invented to immerse the player in the game. In past few years, touch screen has taken over the market and so, there are tonnes of games available on iStore that people really love to play. And today, Sony has introduced PlayStation Move – A revolutionary game controller that would completely immerse the player into the game.
Currently, this awesome device is being made available only to PlayStation 3 but however, in future, a PC version might be introduced.

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