Kiran Upadhyay

Google Docs has long been my preferred collaboration and note taking tool. I did try some alternatives but I always came back to Google Docs. There are plenty of reasons to love Google Docs: the tool is quick and reliable. It has a set of features that allows you to play with it for multiple purposes: I for one found it great for collaboration. Its comparatively new and improved features (including real-time collaboration and chat) are awesome! Google Docs as a note taking tool works well as well. I found the tool really useful for easy organizing and accessing the information you come across online. What’s more, Google Docs can improve your browsing experience a lot by allowing you to preview and open documents without having to download anything locally. Here are my favorite tools that make it easier to open doc, docx, pdf, ppt, pps and xls files in Google docs in Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera 11.00. Firefox Firefox has quite a few addons that integrate with

We all long to be recognized as individuals. Consequently, we find ever more ways to express our uniqueness. As a result, fashion and design have extended their reach into all corners of our lives, making everyday items not only nice to look at, but also easier to use. Windows 7 provides plenty of internal options to change the look and feel of your computer. It’s easy to give the operating system a unique style and at the same time enhance your experience as a user. For most of the coolest ways to customize Windows 7, you don’t even have to mess with hacks or additional software. Let me show you how you can dress up your installation of Windows 7 and make using your computer a visual and functional joy. 1. Change The Welcome Screen There are two basic things you can change that will affect the welcome screen. First of all, you can change your profile picture. Secondly, you can apply a hack or software to change the background image. To change your profile picture, go t

As a computer geek who loves to feast his eyes with beautiful images, it’s only natural that I also love to customize my desktop background with stunning wallpapers. While I’m sure that there are many others who belong in this category, and while there are sources of free and beautiful desktop wallpapers in abundance in the virtual world, most people I know settle for the default collection that came along with their computer. During my personal quest for beautiful photos to adorn my desktop background, I came across these four great places. Even though one or two of them should be pretty obvious to some of our readers, I’m sure the list could be useful to many others. Let The Hunt Begin If you are willing to pay a little bit more attention to your surroundings, beauty is all around us. I guess we should learn how to see our world from a photographer’s eyes. They have the knack to see beautiful images within everyday scenes that we tend to ignore.  Here are some places

So you’ve given up on Facebook and you want to delete that account properly? Well, we’ll show you how to do it. There are a number of really good reasons a person may have to close their Facebook account. Maybe you have privacy concerns or maybe you just don’t like to think about who Facebook has given your information to. Whatever your reason for wanting to delete your account, you need to make sure you do it right – and there’s more than just one trick to it. Back Up Your Data Before you close your Facebook account, think about backing up your entire Facebook history . You never know what you might need in the future. Trial Deactivation If you’re not sure about deleting your Facebook account, you can deactivate your account instead ( Accounts > Settings > Deactivate Account ). Deactivation leaves everything intact: friends, photos, information, etc. In fact, while deactivated, your friends can still invite you to events and you can still receive notifications. In e

If you’ve ever experienced the blue screen error, affectionately called the “blue screen of death,” then you’ll know that it isn’t the greatest experience in the world. It usually means that there’s something somewhat seriously wrong with your system. The problem with trying to come up with a blue screen error fix is that so many things can cause it. For the average computer user, this can mark the end of the computer. Well, I’m here to walk you through a few steps you can take to troubleshoot your computer whenever you experience this blue screen error. Sometimes, the problem isn’t quite as serious or complicated as people think. It could be as simple as the fact that some hardware you installed created a conflict. Maybe a virus messed up the registry. Or maybe a driver file is corrupt. I’m going to show you how you can check for the most common issues that cause this error. Boot In Safe Mode The first thing to do when you get the blue screen is to power down the comp

Here are top 10 Apple iPhone Apps. So are you one of those guys who have been waiting for the White iPhone 4 by not going with the Black? And do you know what Steve is planning these days? ”White iPhone 4 Delayed Until Spring 2011″ Yeah! That’s right. Apple’s spokesman, Trudy Miller confirmed this news in a press release and apologized the customers for such a long, actually very long delay! :) I would definitely suggest you not waiting for the White, go and get the Black! And if you have got your hands-on it, so it’s time now to load your little master piece with some seriously cool apps! I am a big fan of Apple iPhone 4, I just love it! I have been experimenting paid and free apps with it for a couple of months. And finally I have made a Top List of Apps for the Apple iPhone 4. And I hope you guys are going to love them! So here we go! List of Top 10 iPhone Apps! 1-  Angry Birds: [Pricing: $0.99] : Developed by Chillingo, the company who sold 1 million copies of thei

Here at Google, we’re thrilled with the global adoption of Android and with the high quality of devices that are coming to market around the world. Since there are so many great phones, we wanted to make the selection process a little easier for people who are in the market for a new one. Today we’re rolling out the Google Phone Gallery -- a showcase of Android-powered devices that deliver the best Google experience today. Check it out at http://www.google.com/phone . All the phones in the gallery include Android Market, Google Search, and other Google Mobile services such as Gmail, Maps, and YouTube. There are tools that make it easy to compare phones side by side: you can filter phones by country, manufacturer, and carrier; view and compare technical specifications and features; and find where each phone is available for sale. We’ll continue adding phones and countries over time, both to round out the gallery and as new phones come to market. Reusable Screen Protecto