Tag: tools
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Ask Techerator: How Can I Search Gmail for Specific Attachments?
Techerator team, I love Gmail, but I’m tired of digging through my inbox to find important attachments from a long time ago. Is there an easier way to find them? Absolutely. Gmail has some fantastic search features (just like the search engine that powers it), and you can use those to make quick work of…
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Make Gmail into a Carnival with 0Boxer, Earn Rewards for Being Productive
Time to face hard facts: Checking your Gmail inbox is not the most enjoyable thing you do during the day. To be honest, it can be quite boring, really. Reading, replying, trashing, and repeat; it never ends. Even using Priority Inbox doesn’t solve the mediocrity email sorting creates. Wouldn’t it be great if you could actually get…
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Create Budgets, Visualize Expenses, and Reduce Debt for Free with Mint.com
When I got my first glimpse of a “big kid job” by taking an engineering internship in 2008, I quickly realized that my strategy of “save enough money for food” wasn’t going to cut it anymore. Since I was earning significantly more than I was at my previous part-time jobs, I needed a way to…
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How to Enable Windows 7′s “Aero Snap” Feature in Earlier Versions of Windows
One of my favorite features in Windows 7 is Aero Snap, which automatically resizes and snaps applications to the sides of your screen when you drag them near. If you’ve got several windows open on one screen, this is a great way to manage your space (and I’ve learned it’s even more useful when working…
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Windows XP Tip: How to Rearrange Applications in the Windows Taskbar
If you have several applications open simultaneously in Windows XP, you may find yourself wishing you could rearrange their order like tabs in your browser. This feature isn’t included in Windows XP by default, but you can easily add it with Taskbar Shuffle. Taskbar Shuffle is a tiny application that quietly sits in your system…
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Timerrific for Android: A Great Way to Forget Your Phone’s Settings
Let’s face it, the Locale app for Android was awesome. Being a product of MIT graduates, Locale is a simple and easy way to manage your Android phone’s settings through profiles triggered via either a GPS location or a specific time frame. And let me tell you, it was slick. When I was close to…
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YouTube Launches Online Video Editor, Lets You Quickly Edit Videos Without Installing Software
In the last several years we’ve seen a tremendous move in software development away from the desktop computer and into the internet’s “cloud”. Standard desktop applications like email and word processors have effortlessly made the jump to your browser instead of your desktop, freeing you from installing software and many of them are often available…
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How to Create Custom RSS Feeds for Specific Subjects or Authors with Yahoo Pipes
Now that I’m writing for both Techerator and MakeUseOf, I wanted an easy way to publish links to articles I’ve written on my personal website. In the past, I’ve also wanted to create custom RSS feeds for specific topics or authors I enjoy reading, instead of subscribing to the full “firehose” of a popular site’s…
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How To: Completely Remove Software with Revo Uninstaller
Windows only: After testing questionable software, I sometimes wish I could completely obliterate any trace of its existence from my hard drive. I don’t mean just removing the program files; I want to remove registry entries, temporary files, and anything it stored on my computer. The built in Add/Remove Programs tool in Windows only runs…