Translate Google Docs documents into 42 languages
Last week, Google released a new feature for Google Docs – you can now automatically translate the Google Docs documents into 42 different languages. This is done using Google Translate’s technology. This will allow easy multi-lingual sharing of Google Docs from within the document itself.
Use MSCONFIG for faster start-up in Windows XP
Many programs have the bad habit of automatically adding options to your Windows to load them at Windows start-up even though such programs are rarely used and may not be necessary at startup. Of course, you want some essential Windows services to run at start-up, as also the drivers which run your hardware such [...]
Yahoo! Mail attachment limit up from 10MB to 25MB
It is a good news for about 300 million users of Yahoo! Mail. Last week, Yahoo! Mail increased the limit of attachment to an email for the free Yahoo! Mail users from 10MB to 25MB. It should now be possible for you to send bigger files with your Yahoo! Mail.
Protect Word document by password or digital certificate
A large number of people use their computers for preparing text documents in Microsoft Word. Many such documents may contain sensitive or confidential information or otherwise useful work of the users such as their research projects, letters, articles, legal cases, business details, etc. In fact, I have seen many people using Microsoft Word to [...]
How to find out IP address and location of email sender
There are occasions when you want to find out the IP address and location of the person who has sent an email to you. Internet offers anonymity. People use several email addresses. You may get email from a person who is known to you but from an email address which is not that familiar. You [...]
How safe are contents of your email?
Many people have the notion that when they send email, the contents of the email are encrypted and that nobody other than the intended recipient can read the email. Unfortunately, this is not true. When you send the email, it passes through several servers on the Internet including the mail server from which it [...]
How to rearrange menu or toolbar commands in Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word offers a large number of in-built commands for performing various actions on a Word document (for example, to open a file or save a file), but all these commands may not be visible in the menu system or the toolbars due to paucity of space. On the other hand, there may be [...]
Online speed test for your broadband connection
My ISP offers 3.1 Mbps broadband connection for Wireless Internet through USB data card / modem connectivity. This is what the ISP claims would be the broadband speed (though it cleverly uses the word “up to” 3.1 Mbps). But, the speed that I normally get is only in the range of about 400 Kbps [...]
Add Wiki support to your WordPress blog through WP Wiki plugin
Wiki is one of the most talked-about format for documentation on a subject that allows easy-editing of the documents by readers even though they may not be knowing much about XHTML and CSS. It also keeps tracks of editing done to a document in a transparent way. Thus, documentation becomes a collective effort and [...]
Jumping between visited web pages in Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome, all support the feature of jumping between the web pages visited by you in the current session of the browser. However, in Google Chrome, the navigation tool for jumping between these web pages is obscure and not very obvious; you have to search for the exact mechanism [...]