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How-To: Get Email Alerts When Any Google Document is Updated

1 November 2014

Consider you are a teacher working on assignment question paper which you have created in Google Docs and shared with your students. You want to automatically send out notification whenever you edit the document Or say you’re a Project manager working with your associates to prepare a presentation and wants to be informed when updates […]

How-To: Manually Force Google Drive To Sync Your Files

13 August 2014

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Cloud storage is the best way to backup your important data and files. Even if your system crashes your data is still safe allowing you to access and recover it at anytime. Along with Dropbox, Google Drive is one of the most widely used service. Consider a scenario: You are working in a group along […]

Skype 5.1 for iPhone: Get Back Missing Features from the Pre-5.0 Version

7 July 2014

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Recently Skype for iPhone got a huge revamp under version 5.0 release. It was remastered for iPhone to give a very slick, rich user experience. Yes, interface looks good and easy on eyes, with flat minimal design being used it was made to look similar to Windows phone counterparts. It was made to be faster […]

How To: Copy Folder Structure and Contents in Google Drive?

4 May 2014

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Consider John is a project manager of a company and has to create weekly reports covering various areas of the projects say revenue, resource etc., He uses Google Drive to manage the documents on the cloud so that he can jointly create reports along with his team mates. He uses a standard folder template/hierarchy for […]

Bookmarklet: Get Back Underlined Links & Smaller Font in Google Search

6 April 2014

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Google off-late has been experimenting with new user interfaces in many of its products to give better user experience. Some of them are well received by the audience but few has brought outrage. One such change was that of Google search result page redesign. If you are a regular user you would have noticed big […]

Tip: How To Get Free Scribd Trial Account and Extended Subscription?

14 January 2014

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Scribd is one of the biggest digital library featuring over 100,000 books from various publishers. As guest user you are allowed to view and read books online but with constraint of ability to see only limited pages. Previous we wrote an article on how to download files from Scribd for free without an account which […]

Indian Online Shopping Price Tracker: Get Email Alerts When Product Price Drops

14 January 2014

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E-commerce in India is booming like never before. Standing third in number of Internet users and with ~10 million online shoppers certainly there is a huge untapped potential to be made use of. Few main reasons for growing trend toward online shopping: Busy schedule and work timing makes it all that difficult to step out. […]

[Solved] Why Vimeo Videos are not Playing in Firefox?

13 October 2013

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Vimeo is one of the top video sharing websites after YouTube attracting millions of users worldwide. It’s a site I turn to when I wish to see some tutorials or a product demo. Many filmmakers, celebrities and lot of startups seem to prefer using Vimeo to promote their products. Lets get straight into the topic […]

How-To: Download Presenter Disabled Presentations from AuthorStream for Free

13 October 2013

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Disclaimer: This article is purely for educational purpose. I cannot be held responsible if you are violating the terms and conditions of AuthorStream. AuthorStream is web based PowerPoint sharing website where users can upload their files and share it with others. The uploaded files get converted into Flash format so that the content can easily […]

[Solved] How-To Get Back the Missing YouTube Stop Download Option?

21 July 2013

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Recently YouTube has been undergoing lot of changes in its user interface as well as in features. Some of them have been well received by users while some changes have literally infuriated many. The number of threads and discussions going on in various forums are a proof of it. One such recent change which many […]