Author: San

Dropquest is back, but this time it is harder and epic-er than last year. The contest will start on May 12, 17:00 GMT. Winners will get 100GB / 20GB / 5GB extra storage for life, and some other goodies.

If you are using Windows 8 and ever need to reinstall the operating system without loosing your files and personalized settings, then this option can automate all your tasks.

Google Chrome Browser supports more than 130 national and regional languages in which it can be displayed. So, why should you use it in standard English, when your favorite language is available there.

Small text in menus and navigations may not be comfortable for senior citizens and people with retarded vision. In Windows 7, this default magnification percentage can be increased for a larger ‘fit to view’ of the screen.

Since Google’s search engine keep crawling the web all the time, it resolves and caches DNS information of reached websites. Here, we can take advantage of their servers for getting the cached data, instead of querying the ISP for fresh lookup every time.

Generally people search images by typing relevant text, but some of them don’t know that reverse is also possible. Google ‘Search by Image’ allows you to find matching images when you supply them one.

Windows 7 automatically sorts Start Menu entries in alphabetical order. To change the listing order manually, you need to first disable this feature from its properties.

Google web Fonts can be used in any Office application including Word and PowerPoint. You can also embed them with the file so that if you distribute the file, your friends can view and use those fonts, even if not installed on their computer.

Here is an video made by Google team suggesting blue print for better placement of AdSense ads on content-rich pages. This is useful for webmasters who are still not sure where to place ads to balance optimization and revenue.

Black & white QR codes are now matter of history. Now, not even colorful codes can be made, but they can be embedded with colorful background images, such as your own photograph.