Three Tips A Day

Twitter Basics for beginners: Twitter Week Day 1

If you’ve never heard of Twitter before this, we’ll give you a quick guide on how to start. Go to Twitter.com and click on the ‘Get Started – Join!’ button: On the next screen, you’ll be required to fill in your account details. You must be at least 13 years of age to use Twitter. You can choose a Twitter display name (also called the Twitter Handle). You Twitter url will thus become http://www.twitter.com/your_handle: You can then check which of your friends are on...

Hot Lists: Top Google Chrome, Gmail and Gtalk Tips and Tricks

There is something about Google that everyone falls for. So if you are one of Google die-hards or use any of its services/tools, here are three mind-blowing posts from some of our favourite bloggers: 5 Tricks Every Google Talk User should know:This is a guest post by Shankar Ganesh for Quick Online Tips. Add truck loads of functionality to Gtalk using these 5 simple tricks. 22 Firefox Extensions to Turn Gmail into a Powerhouse of Productivity and Manageability: A super comprehensive...

Twitalyzer: The complete Twitter activity analyzer

Twitter is here and the quest for Twitterdom has begun. To measure your impact and success on Twitter there are a number of tools available on the internet but here we have one of the most detailed twitter activity analyzer. Twitalyzer will give you a detailed review of your Twitter influence in these parameters: You can then go in for detailed results about the above parameters. You can also: learn how to increase your influence by knowing areas where you can improve check...

Create FREE PDF files online using FreePDF

Reading PDF files is one thing - and creating them is another and while there are loads of online tools which let you do the former, the latter goes unnoticed. Well, that was till now. We just found a great tool to create Free PDF files on the internet using a simple online editor. FreePDF features: Free Online Editor Create PDFs on-the-fly Simple to use interface Pretty reliable and works in almost all major browsers A great set of document editing tools like fonts, styles,...

How To Remove The Ribbon In Office 2007

A friend recently was telling me that the ribbon which is a new feature with Office 2007 was taking a lot of screen space and that he wasn't comfortable with it. I was also surprised to note that he did not know how to remove it. I assume there are a lot more people around the world who may not know and hence this post. There are two ways of removing the ribbon in Office 2007 - Removing the ribbon in Office 2007 - Type 1 Click the Down Arrow (as shown in the screenshot below) which is...

Watch Youtube and Google Video Previews in Gmail Chat Window

Google sure knows how to keep its users happy and to go a step further in this mission, they've enabled YouTube and Google Video previews in Gmail chat. The Gmail chat window already sports many features like auto-shaping emoticons and so on. This feature eliminates the need to open YouTube and Google videos in new windows so you can watch them then and there. However do note that this feature is not there in Gtalk. All the more reasons to enjoy your videos! Try it for...

How to generate sample text in Microsoft Word

If you are working with a word template or a demonstration and want to generate some random text, then instead of typing some garbage you can use a nifty piece of code to generate random text. To generate lorem ipsum text(latin): Open a document in Microsoft Word Type  =lorem() and press enter You'll see some sample lorem ipsum text block in your document To generate english text: Open a document in Microsoft Word Type  = rand(num1,num2) : Here num1 is for the number of...

What is a ODP file?

ODP is the presentation format for presentation software that follow the Open Office Document Format. .ODP is the default presentation format for the OpenOffice.org Impress. These can be opened with any OpenOffice-compatible program, including NeoOffice (Mac), AbiWord (Mac & Windows), and KWord (Unix) and can also be imported into Google Docs. ODP files are based on the OpenDocument format (ODF), which became the native format for electronic office documents such as spreadsheets, charts,...

What is a ODS file?

ODS is the spreadsheet format for spreadsheet software that follow the Open Office Document Format. .ODS is the default spreadsheet format for the OpenOffice.org Calc. These can be opened with any OpenOffice-compatible program, including NeoOffice (Mac), AbiWord (Mac & Windows), and KWord (Unix) and can also be imported into Google Docs. ODS files are based on the OpenDocument format (ODF), which became the native format for electronic office documents such as spreadsheets, charts,...

What is a ODT file?

ODT is the word processing document format for text document created using word processors that follow the Open Office Document Format. .ODT is the default document format for the OpenOffice.org Writer. These can be opened with any OpenOffice-compatible program, including NeoOffice (Mac), AbiWord (Mac & Windows), and KWord (Unix) and can also be imported into Google Docs. ODT files are based on the OpenDocument format (ODF), which became the native format for electronic office documents...