Three Tips A Day

What is BRB?

Often in online conversations, your partner will make a quick exit or a timeout typing 'Brb" and leave you wondering what that mean? But we at Three Tips a Day understand how difficult is it to understand such acronyms. BRB stands for Be Right Back which means that the person is taking a break and will be right back. It means that the person is away on some errand and will be back as soon as it is over. Till then,  hang on! So now you know what 'Brb' means. Pass this knowledge(and our...

How to get back your lost USB Drive?

You were in a hurry, kept your USB drive somewhere and don't seem to find it? There is no way to recover it and ALL your data and work is gone and now, you go around the neighbourhood asking whether someone has seen your pendrive? Well, we just solved your problem! The USB Lost and Found Software keeps your USB Drive safe and secure. USB Lost and Found Features: The Free Trial Version Locks the USB Drive and makes it inaccessible to use Pops up a message containing the Contact...

Find out whom did you follow first on Twitter

We earlier told you about TweetStats which was a very powerful tool to display statistics about your twitter usage. From the creator of TweetStats, Damon Cortesi, here is another nice little tool which helps you discover whom did you follow first on Twitter. So if it was some old friend or even Britney Spears, this tool will find it for you. Before using this: Make sure you are logged in to Twitter This tool works only if you are still following that person Check out the My First...

What is IMAP?

IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol and is a standard protocol for accessing e-mail from a local server. IMAP is a protocol in which e-mail is received and held  on your Internet server. You can view this email using your email client before downloading it. You can create and manipulate multiple folders or mailboxes on the server, delete messages, or search for certain parts within mails. IMAP is one of the two most prevalent Internet standard protocols for e-mail retrieval,...

Convert Text to Speech online using iSpeech

A little while ago we wrote about a tool to convert text to speech for free online. Today we'll tell you about another such online tool which will let you convert text, documents and webpages to speech. iSpeech Beta lets you convert the following into speech: Specified text Webpages Blogs News Documents and more. In fact you can listen to some news on its website which gives some idea of its speech conversion prowess. However before you can use it, you need to signup. Its...

Create FREE personalized Twitter Backgrounds with Twitbacks

Twitter is cool and we just found a way to make it even cooler. Twitter backgrounds pep up your twitter profile and here is a service which lets you create personalized twitter backgrounds optimized for social networking, and lets you do all this for FREE. Benefits of Twitbacks: Twitback lets you create really nice personalized twitter backgrounds It lets you insert a company logo as well as another personal picture It also embeds a lot of personal and professional...

What is reCaptcha?

You've probably heard of a CAPTCHA. In case you haven't you can hear about it from us. Now here we have another form of a Captcha which apart from performing its deemed function of protecting a system from bots, also helps in digitizing books, newspapers and radio shows. reCAPTCHA was developed at Carnegie Mellon University and it uses CAPTCHA to help digitize the text of books while protecting websites from bots attempting to access restricted areas. reCAPTCHA is currently digitizing text...

How to find if Firefox is faster after optimization or not?

If you found the last post on FireTune useful, you might want to check whether there is any improvement in the browsing speed of Firefox after you've optimized it. Here are a few steps to check whether your Firefox is faster after optimizing it: Step1: Clear the Cache of Firefox - this is very important to get correct results Step2: Navigate to http://www.numion.com/stopwatch/ Step3: Type any URL for which you want to measure the speed(or select one from their list). Time needed to...

FireTune: Optimize Firefox easily and quickly

Everybody loves Firefox(well, almost everybody) and who wouldn't love to have a tweaks which could make Firefox even more efficient? But wait, you need not be a hacker or some big-shot programmer to be able to optimize your Firefox. You can optimize Firefox yourself quickly, easily and for FREE! FireTune is an answer to all your prayers! No need to fiddle with numerous entries in about:config, neither the need to alter any binary or executable file. FireTune is fast, easy, simple and...

Sunday Weekend Summary – 29th Dec 2008 to 3rd Jan 2009

In case you have missed any of our Daily Tips, here’s the list: December 29, 2008: What is RSS? Subscene: Download Free Divx TV Episodes and Movie Subtitles Manage multiple network settings easily with NetSetMan December 30, 2008: Check Disk Space Usage with TreeSize Free What is VoIP? Manage multiple Firefox tabs using Taboo December 31, 2008: FREE Firefox and Thunderbird Gift Certificates What is CAPTCHA? Download Free Earthquake Preparedness Handbook January 1,...