Kiran Upadhyay

Using Google Tasks is like a love-hate relationship. Only an external Google Tasks client could possibly serve as a marriage counselor for such a relationship. The problem is that finding a desktop client that actually works apart from your active browser session isn’t that easy to do. Kannon recently covered five ways to make Google Tasks a little more useful, but most of those solutions either depend on the browser being open, or they are somewhat complicated to implement. The problem with using Google Tasks directly in say, Google Calendar or inside Google Mail is that the layout and the user interface is extremely simplified and not very flexible. In the normal view, it’s difficult to create subtasks, you can’t see all lists at once on one screen, and editing tasks or lists is cumbersome and not very intuitive. Unfortunately, many of the Google Task client solutions out there aren’t much better. GTasks is probably the best Google Tasks client out there, in my opini...

Need. Want. One is a four letter word and the other is a necessity. Listen up and heed this old man’s words as I get you set to go back to school, do some real learning, and save thousands of dollars by not buying into this computer fad. Look at me! I got an iPhone! Look at me! I can film my lectures! Look at me! I made a spreadsheet that does my arithmetic for me! Poppycock, I say. When I was your age, not only was I the same age as you, but the most advance technology we had in school was the ball-point pen! I did just fine. Teachers had to write words on a board and you had to copy them down and make notes before she wiped them off. That’s what learning is about. You don’t need no fiddly gadgets. Don’t believe me? Do some studying of Tina Sieber’s, Thou Shalt Consume: The Story of Consumer Electronics. You’re getting played, son! Alright, I got the grumpy old man bit out. I’m a better now and I’ll try to make legitimate arguments why you don’t need these five piece...

Linux’s capacity for configuration is exceptional — while it’s pretty known that you can configure it to however you like (such as with SUSE Studio ), that capacity isn’t limited to just the selection of used software (ranging everywhere from the graphics stack to the desktop environment to the office suite). In fact, one of the great benefits of Linux’s flexible nature is that you can put the software on any computer imaginable, from high-powered supercomputers to netbooks to embedded systems such as aircraft entertainment systems. In order to get Linux on such low-powered systems, the software needs to be as lean as possible. And if you’re looking for a lean distribution of your own, Tiny Core Linux may be a winner. About Tiny Core Linux Tiny Core Linux , is — well — tiny. When you land on their download page , you’ll be presented with three different download options. The biggest is just 64MB, and the smallest is a minuscule 8MB. How the developers can shrink a fun...

Viruses are everywhere! And although we’d like to think that the Internet is a safe place to spend our time (cough), we all know that there are risks around every corner. Email, social media, malicious websites that have worked their way into search engine results, and ad pop-ups all can pose a threat. Although there are precautions you can take to limit the risk of infecting your computer, sometimes you simply have bad luck and get infected anyway. But thankfully, you can do it for completely free, although removing malware can be a painful process. And because of that, I’ve laid out all the steps of exactly how to do it. It’s Not Just Viruses — Other Kinds Of Malware To Know About Because there are so many kinds, “virus” is typically the term used to describe all the nasty stuff that can infect your computer. But the correct term is actually malware, and there’s lots of it.  Chris Hoffman wrote an article differentiating between the three main types of malware: ...

Do you want to become an Omnibox power user and save plenty of time and keystrokes? All you need are a few good extensions and a little knowledge of how to tweak the search settings. The Omnibox in Google Chrome is useful for more than just searching with Google or visiting a link quickly. Omni literally means ‘universal’ and the Omnibox can be used for almost every task on the Web or otherwise, be it searching a site, setting a timer or sending a tweet. The latest version of Chrome, in fact, made it a point to improve the search suggestions in Omnibox . Tip: To become an Omnibox power user, there’s one keyboard shortcut you need to know: Ctrl+L. As we mentioned in our guide to becoming a Chrome power user , this takes your cursor directly to the Omnibox. Edit Omnibox Search If you weren’t already aware, Omnibox lets you set custom keywords to search within the sites you visit most often. Right-click in the Omnibox and select “Edit search engines” in the context me...