Google Added Research Tool To Google Docs
Recently Google has added the research tool to Google Docs allowing writers to quickly search about a term or a word and paste it’s link, cite it or view the preview of the webpage. You can also search for images and paste them into your Google document with just drag-and-drop facility. Research tool also allows you to search for quotes. Now writing to documents is much more easier.
Here is a screenshot of the Research tools introductory screen.
While researching you can also change the option either to search for all types of content or only for free to use, share or modify and commercial content. Image inserting option is really very cool and it will surely kill the hectic process of opening another tab, searching for the image, downloading it to PC and then uploading it to Google Docs. With Google Docs research tool the writing processes has been set on fire and people can write much more and much authentic in very less time. It is also capable of displaying Google Maps for the places. You can insert the Google map with just one click. Search for a place and click Insert and Google map widget will be there on your document.
Stay tuned for more usages of this research tool. See you around!
How To Change Windows 7 Logon Screen
Love Windows 7? Good. Great. Well being Ubuntu user I really love open source for their ability to get customized in the way we (developers) want. Well if you are on Windows you have advantage over Ubuntu by having a wide range of applications.
Many of these applications help you tweak your system to a certain level. Tweaking Windows 7 logon screen is no more a difficult task. Lots of applications are present but very some of them are easier and handy. One of them is Windows 7 Logon Screen Tweaker. Its a portable app that allows you to completely change the look of your Windows 7 logon.
You can change the background color, background sound and the button right after the text field. It also allows you to remove some button like Easy of Access button, thus providing you the ability to have a complete new look on boot up.
How to download it? You can download it by visiting this page. Scroll down unless screenshot ends and you see the word Download. Right below it are two links that you can copy and paste in web browser’s address bar to start the downloading process. Enjoy tweaking Windows 7 logon screen.
How To Stop YouTube Videos From Playing Automatically
This article will teach you how you can stop YouTube videos from starting automatically. This thing happens when we open a YouTube video in a new tab to play it later in the near future but it starts buffering and playing automatically. Quit annoying when you are already listening to a song and a new song starts playing in the background.
Well here is a solution for Firefox and Chrome users. There is an add-on and an extension available which can stop this automated start. For Mozilla Firefox the add-on name is YouTube AutoPlay Stopper. Add-on installs without any problem and after its installation you can open as much YouTube tabs as possible without worrying about their auto buffering and playing.
Same in the case with Chrome. Chrome users can use the extension YouTube Autoplay disabled (better search on Chrome Web Store if link doesn’t work). This extension smoothly handles autoplaying of YouTube videos. Once installed feel free to open YouTube videos in the new tab. They won’t start without your permission.
This default playing of videos automatically is good but it is sometimes annoying and very harmful for Internet users with limited downloading or small bandwidth. I hope these two techniques will be enough for YouTubers get rid of this feature.
Schedule Emails In Gmail With Boomerang For Gmail
You must be wondering how Gmail can not have such a basic functionality in his architecture? Well Gmail really doesn’t posses anything like schedule. However there exist ways to schedule emails in Gmail. One of the obvious ways is to use a desktop email client like Mozilla Thunderbird but more convenient option is to add boomerang in your web browser. Boomerang is available for Chrome, Firefox and Safari and it works fine with Gmail and Google Apps.
With Boomerang installed in your web browser you can schedule emails, return messages to inbox, have a message back into your inbox, send recurring messages, add notes to your boomeranged messages, schedule messages using any smartphone or tablet.
After installing extension or add-on in the browser open Gmail. If you have already opened it then reload the page. After few seconds Boomerang for Gmail will start its starting wizard telling you about how cool Boomerang is. Now when it is finished click on compose and you will see an additional icon in your Gmail interface with a colorful boomerang. Clicking on this icon will drop down a menu giving you many easy-to-choose options to schedule your emails. You can also choose recurring message at the bottom of the menu.
Once you have scheduled emails you can manage them by clicking Boomerang, at top right corner of the Gmail near your name, and then scheduled messages.
Boomerang is an easy to use extension that brings most basic and fundamental feature to Gmail. Its a dream come true and a must-have extension if you deal with emails a lot.
Quickly Find Out The Font Name Of A Text In Google Chrome
This article will help out web developers and web designers in quickly finding the font name of a highlighted text on any web page while using Google Chrome. Now the font name is only two clicks away.
There exists an extension named What’s the font? in Google Chrome Web App Store that lets you know the font name of a text. Once you have installed this extension you will see an additional option in the right click context menu. After installing, select a text on any web page and then right-click on it. You will see the option What’s the font?. Click on it and a pop up menu will appear telling you only the name of the font. It only tells the name of the font, no size, no family.
This tool can come in handy for web designers community. Before this the only way I knew was to use firebug Lite Chrome extension. That method was also not so long but this extension do the job insanely fast!
See The Batman Logo On Google Maps
Love Batman? Love Google Maps too. There is a huge Batman sign somewhere on a planet called Earth. Using Google Maps you can search this planet and find out how it looks like when seen from a satellite. 24 hours will be enough for this. See you tomorrow. Good Night.
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Earth is too big? Well if you are lazy enough then open Google Maps, switch to satellite mode and try this in search box:
26.357865, 127.783782
Zoom in. Zoom in. Zoom in.
Now you are actually looking at the rooftop of an office building at Kadena Air Base. This actually marks the home of the Air Force’s 44th Fighter Squadron named Vampire Bats. Exact date of painting of this Bat is unknown however it is believed that it would have been around 1980s. Pilots where able to see this mark from the top however after Google Maps now everyone can enjoy it while sitting in home.
Fix Google Chrome Slow Scrolling On Ubuntu
Recently I got a slow scrolling problem in my Google Chrome 16.0.912.77 on my Ubuntu 11.10 machine. Chrome lagged badly in scrolling web pages and the scroll quite did not follow my mouse wheel nor my cursor drag (when used). It was working fine before I installed Ubuntu updates.
After Googling I found a way to fix this. However it does not fixed the issue completely but now the life is somewhat easy. One thing to remember is that scrolling also depends on your processor’s speed. Faster your computer, less it will lag.
So here are three workarounds:
First solution. Open a long web page in incognito mode. If it solves the problem i.e. you can scroll smoothly then there is an errant extension. Find it by disabling extensions one by one while scrolling the page.
Second solution. In your address bar type about:flags and press enter. Press Ctrl+F5 and type smooth scrolling. Make sure this is enabled.
Third solution. Try opening Chrome with this command and feel the difference:
google-chrome –scroll-pixels=400
If this technique worked then open Google Chrome with this command from now own.
As I said earlier possibilities are that you wouldn’t be able to troubleshoot the problem completely or possibly your condition even doesn’t change. Well in the near future if you find a working solution then do share it with us by commenting below.
Find And Delete Your Personal Data On Windows PC
This post is related to finding, managing and deleting your personal data like saved passwords, credit card pins, secret documents etc on a PC for security purposes. For this we will be using a software named Identity Finder.
Your privacy and your confidential personal data like credit card pins, saved passwords etc are highly sensitive pieces of information and you, like all of us, don’t want anyone to access them without your permission. Data theft and privacy infringement are rising issues in the digital world therefore you should know how much of your personal information your PC have in it.
Obvious thing you may know that besides passwords stored in your brain they are also stored in your PC. So if a bad guy gains access to your PC, possibilities are he will not took pity on you. So if you have your highly secret credit card pin number saved on your PC then you’ll be all at ground in a matter of few minutes. Now you may know the importance of finding, managing and deleting personal data on your PC. Here I’m going to tell you about a software you can use to achieve the aforementioned tasks.
Identity Finder is a very powerful tool for finding your information. It searches PDFs, Excel files, Word files, simple text files, HTML files and many other types of files responsible for keeping your private data. It allows you to perform different operations on the files after searching the system thoroughly.
You can permanently delete files by shredding them. It also gives you the options like Password Vault, Add to File Vault and System Cleanup to manage these files. Identity theft is a must have option if you used your credit card to shop online. Visit Identity Finder.
Get Facebook, Twitter, YouTube At One Place With Yoono
Connecting with friends at different social networking websites can be a bit difficult. You have only one friend at a particular social networking website and you login to that website only to keep in contact with him. Or you want to search on Twitter while commenting on Facebook. You may want to reply to all the messages you received at different social networking sites at once. This problem is solved by many social networking clients however I’m going to discuss one of the best clients.
Yoono provides an all-in-one solution by bringing Facebook, Twitter, YouTube like famous social networking sites at one place. There are lots of clients that brings social networking at one place but Yoono takes the lead in providing intuitive interface by cleanly packing things together.
Yoono is available for desktops; Windows, Mac and Linux, browsers; Firefox and Chrome and for iPhone. Bad news for Android users Yoono is not available on Android. They should develop an app for Android to enjoy more users and supporters. Yoono supports Facebook, FriendsFeed, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Linkedin, AIM, gTalk, Yahoo Chat and Four Square.
Using Yoono you can cross post statuses, images and videos. Sharing things across networks made easy. A complete solution to your online world with all your online friends at one place.
Yoono has sophisticated settings panel for better customization and user experience. Get Yoono here and enjoy your social life.
Disable History For Certain Websites In Google Chrome
Surfing web for work, chatting with friends and writing amusing comments on Facebook, tweeting and searching on Twitter and visiting fun websites is a daily routine of most of the Internet users. While doing all such stuff you may add useless web pages to your Chrome’s history which you aren’t going to care about much in the future. These history files do eat up your hard disk and may irritate you while you are searching back some important web pages you visited for your work.
Especially in the case of Facebook. We visit Facebook for fun, not to increase our browsers history. Same is the case with Twitter and other entertainment related sites like 9gag.com. It would be better to turn off history for such websites to save space, increase Chrome’s speed and store only work-related web pages in your History.
So how to do this? Cheer up, you don’t have to follow a lengthy tutorial for this. A mere extension can handle it. Extension name is History Site Blocker and can be installed from Google Chrome web app store free of cost.
Once you have installed it you may not see any icon for it. You need to click the wrench then preferences then extensions then search for History Site Blocker and click on its options. You will see a page not so intuitive. It will contain a long field bar. Click on it and enter websites separated by commas. For example if I want to block Facebook’s and Twitter’s history then I’ll write this in the text field:
facebook.com, twitter.com
Enjoy this extension.
