Tech Tips
By Amit Agarwal | Software tutorials, #tech, Google Apps and productivity tips curated by @labnol
How to Return Apps Purchased from the Mac App Store
If you have accidentally purchased an app from the Mac App Store, or if the app isn’t functioning as expected, or if you are experiencing technical …
Know What Facebook Can See Inside Your Photographs
When you upload any photograph to your Facebook account, they look at the actual content of the photograph and try to determine what objects and …
FacebookSee the Email Sender’s Company and Logo in your Gmail Inbox
The default layout of your Gmail inbox has the sender’s name listed in the left most column followed by the subject and the date of the message. The …
GoogleHow to Create your own Crossword Puzzles
A lot of us are crossword enthusiasts – a fact easily demonstrated by the inclusion of these puzzles in almost every newspaper across the globe. …
How to Write a Twitter Bot in 5 Minutes
Twitter Bots can do interesting things. You can tweet questions like “how many calories are in diet coke” to @DearAssistant and the Twitter bot, like</i> …
Social MediaThe Best Twitter Search Tricks
The Twitter Archiver and Twitter Bots app fire each time a new tweet is found that match your search query. You can write simple search queries (like</i> …
Barack ObamaHow to Attach a Random Location to your Tweets
On Twitter, if you do not wish to reveal your geographic location in your tweets, you can either completely disable the location feature from Twitter …
How to Secure your Wi-Fi Network (or Wireless Internet Connection)
Wireless Networking (Wi-Fi) has made it so easy for anyone to use Internet on your computer, mobile phones, tablets and other wireless devices …
An Undocumented Gmail Trick – Search Emails by Date and Time
Gmail supports a plethora of search operators to help you instantly find that elusive email message buried in your mailbox. You have size search – …
GoogleHow to Generate a Report of Bounced Email Addresses in Gmail
Some of the email messages you have sent through Gmail might not get delivered at all. There could be a problem with the recipient’s email address, …
GoogleHow to Embed a YouTube Video with Sound Muted
It is easy to embed YouTube videos in your website. You just have to copy the IFRAME embed code and paste it anywhere on your web page. YouTube does …
Web DevelopmentHow to Capture Screenshots in Google Chrome without using Extensions
There are umpteen ways to capture screenshots of web pages in your Google Chrome browser. You can use the good-old Print Screen key (or Cmd+Shift+4 …
GoogleHow to Embed Images from Google Photos into your Website
Google Photos is the best service for backing up your digital photos to the cloud. They have no storage restrictions, your can upload images as well …
GoogleMake a Bookmark to Quickly Restart Google Chrome
Google Chrome, most would agree, is a memory hog. Open a few website tabs in Chrome and your system slows down to a crawl. The most recommended …
GoogleHow to Make YouTube Playlists with a Google Spreadsheet
A couple of YouTube videos, some simple Google formulas and a Google Spreadsheet – that’s all you need to quickly create a YouTube playlist. It will …
New MediaUseful FFmpeg Commands
FFmpeg is an extremely powerful and versatile command line tool for converting audio and video files. It is free and available for Windows, Mac and …
VideographyHow to Build a Wireless Home Network without a Router
Let’s say you have one internet connection at home that you want to share across all your desktop and laptop computers, your Wi-Fi enabled mobile …
How to Install Apps from iTunes Store That Aren't Available in your Country
There are quite a few good apps in the iTunes Apps store that aren’t available to international users. For instance, if you are located outside the …
A Better Method for Embedding YouTube Videos on your Website
It is easy to embed a YouTube video but you’ll be surprised to know how much extra weight that embedded YouTube video can add to your web pages. The …
Web Development10 Things you can do with Documents App for iPhone & iPad
Readdle’s Documents 5 is one of my favorite iOS apps. It is completely free, without any ads or in-app purchases, and app is universal meaning it is …
How to Create Forms that allow File Uploads
Google Forms are probably the best service for creating online forms but they miss a few key features found in commercial web form builders. Google …
GoogleHow to Edit PDF Files - Free Tools for Modifying PDFs
The PDF file format was originally created by Adobe in the early ’90s and it now the most popular format for exchanging all sorts of documents …
Learning CSS with Cats and a Dinner Table
CSS, short for Cascading Style Sheets, are rules (or “styles”) that define how content should look on a web page. To give you an example, if your web …
Web DevelopmentThe Best Google Font Combinations That Look Good Together
Whether you are creating a website, writing your resume or designing a presentation, the fonts or typeface you choose can make a notable difference. …
TypographyHow to Set Expiration Dates for Shared Google Drive Files
When you share any file or folder in Google Drive with another user, the shared links will work forever unless you manually change the sharing …
GoogleAdd the Same File to Multiple Folders in Google Drive without Copying
Gmail works around the concept of tags (or labels) and any email message can belong to one or more tags. Google Drive has folders instead of tags and …
Google DriveHow to Remove Password from PDF Files with Google Chrome
The bank sends me monthly credit card statements as password-protected PDF files mostly because they contain personal information. I archive these …
SoftwareCreate an Apple ID without using a Credit Card
Some apps, Google Earth for example, are available as free downloads in the iTunes Apps store but you need a UK or US based Apple ID to install them …
iOSHow to Find the IP Address of your Router on Windows or Mac
Whether you are looking to upgrade the firmware of your existing router or need to secure your Wireless network with an even stronger password, you …