How-To Guides

Two ways to search images from LIFE photo archive in google images.

The normal image search in Google returns all types of images. Here’s a trick using which you can restrict the image search to look for faces only…

At the top right hand corner of every window in windows, there are three buttons to minimize, maximize and close the window. These are called Caption Buttons. By default, the size of these buttons is very small, which sometimes is very irritating (remember the last time when you press close instead of maximize :) )

So here’s a step by step procedure to change the size of Caption Buttons in windows

Simple trick using which you can turn off the Facebook Chat. This setting will practically make you invisible for all your friends on facebook…

In windows XP or Vista, if a folder contains multiple video files, and you try to open that folder, it takes a lot of time to open it. This is because windows tries to find the bit rate and codecs for the video files so that it can display its preview while the folder is being explored. Here’s a quick fix to solve this issue.

How to use the open command prompt here option in folder’s context menu in windows vista without editing registry or modifying multiple options…

Two simple google queries to get the current local time of any place in the world.

One of my friend’s laptop recently got this strange problem of restarting at the windows loading screen. Now this was a unique problem since I couldn’t tweak any of the windows settings without first getting into it, and in this case this was impossible. After a few hours of research I concluded that the trouble is caused by damaged kernel32.dll file, so I simply extracted a new copy of kernel32.dll from the windows xp cd to my friend’s laptop and it started working fine again. Here’s a step by step procedure to do the same.

Learn how to stay always idle on GTalk. since there is no invisible feature in Google Talk client, being always idle is the only way to get rid of interruptions…