Friday, May 15, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
How to add pictures in gmail
Now there is a Gmail Labs facility which lets you embed pictures while composing a mail. Follow the following steps to enable this feature:
1. In Gmail, click on the Labs icon 
to the top right of the page.
2. Scroll the page until you find the lab Inserting Images and enable the feature. Then click Save at the bottom of the page.
3. If you have already enabled Gmail Offline, a message will appear saying that it will take some time for the lab to be enabled. In my case it took several days. Don’t know what the reason is. Anyway, after it is enabled an insert picture icon comes to the toolbar when you are composing a message.
However, the recipient will not see the image until he clicks on the Show Images link that would appear.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
How to save Word documents in PDF
It is possible to publish Word documents in PDF format just in two clicks in Word 2007. All you have to do is to download and install "2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS" from www.microsoft.com. (Hint: search for the above phrase at that site). After installation, a menu item as in the screenshot to the right appears.
XPS also seems to be a filetype like PDF but it is open source or something, I'm not sure.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Docx to doc converter
Today I brought this certain DOCX file from home and at the internet cafe I'm horrified to find that Word 2007 is not available in the cafe's machines. Well, why worry, internet's got the answer to every problem. So I googled "Docx to doc converter" and followed the top link. And it was a pay-and-convert site!
So I added "free" to my keywords and searched again. Then results led me to several sites all of who requested my email so that they can send me the converted file. I followed their guidelines and waited for about 10 minutes only to find no reply in my inbox. Tried another site with the same result. Getting f
rustrated I finally tried www.convertfiles.com and in just a second I got the converted file as a link in my inbox! Thanks, ConvertFiles!
In the site you can, in fact, convert most file types, not only documents.
So I added "free" to my keywords and searched again. Then results led me to several sites all of who requested my email so that they can send me the converted file. I followed their guidelines and waited for about 10 minutes only to find no reply in my inbox. Tried another site with the same result. Getting f
rustrated I finally tried www.convertfiles.com and in just a second I got the converted file as a link in my inbox! Thanks, ConvertFiles!In the site you can, in fact, convert most file types, not only documents.
Vista Hidden Context Menu!!!
You can access the hidden context menu in Vista by holding down the shift key before right-clicking on a file or folder. One of the coolest features in the new menu is Copy As Path. By choosing this, the path of the selected object is automatically pasted in the clipboard so you can paste it elsewhere. Otherwise, we would have to open the properties dialog of the file to copy its path, but even then you would not be able to copy the full path.
When you shift-right-click a folder, the context menu gives you the option Open Command Window Here. This will open a command window (DOS prompt) with the selected directory as the current directory. Many of you will find this quite a handy feature.
The hidden menu also has some shortcuts to pin the selection to start menu, add to quick launch, etc.
When you shift-right-click a folder, the context menu gives you the option Open Command Window Here. This will open a command window (DOS prompt) with the selected directory as the current directory. Many of you will find this quite a handy feature.
The hidden menu also has some shortcuts to pin the selection to start menu, add to quick launch, etc.
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