USEFUL TECHS - Collection of free and useful techs

usefultechs — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:30:52 +0000

THINKING OUT OF THE BOX

usefultechs — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:17:34 +0000

Sometime the solution to a problem that look very complicated is actually very simple. Try to take the test above and see how fast you can solve the problem.

HOW TO DIRECTLY EDIT A PDF FILE

usefultechs — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:42:17 +0000

In the course of my work, I often deal with documents in pdf format which, as most of you know, very difficult to edit. With the right software, you can convert the pdf file into Words format, edit it and re-convert it back to pdf. However, this may not always the best option as sometime, the re-converted copy may not look like the original copy.

With pdfescape, you can now directly edit a pdf file without converting it to any other format.The “edited” copy however, must be saved under different name. The thing that i like about pdfesacpe is that, the process of making the pdf “editable” is done online. There is no need for you to download and install any software in your computer.

HOW TO REMEMBER, OR BE REMINDED OF, IMPORTANT DATES

usefultechs — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:12:58 +0000

Over time, as we grow older and our circle of friends and relatives grow bigger, we have more dates to remember:birthdays, anniversaries, credit cards payment, etc. Fortunately this is 2009 and you can get a little help from Remindr. Remindr is a free reminding service that remind you of important dates. You can choose when you want to be reminded i.e a day or a week before the dates, and how you want to be reminded i.e.email, twitter, sms etc. However, the best thing about Remindr is that it is free and you don’t have to register to use the service. Try Remindr now.

MANAGE YOUR DAILY TASKS WITH GUBB

usefultechs — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:04:03 +0000

Over the years, I have tried quite a numbers of web-based tools to manage my “to-do” or task lists. Recently, a friend recommended to me www.gubb.net, and I have been using it ever since. Gubb has a very clean interface and very easy to use. The interface is arranged in such a way that you don’t have to spent hours learning it. You can write down all your tasks in Gubb and arrange them according to priority using background colours. You can put a deadline to all the tasks. Apart from the excellent functions, another thing that I like about Gubb is that it “turned” my Nokia N82 into a smart PDA. If you have a GPRS connection on your mobile phone, you can access your Gubb’s account. You can read, edit, add, delete or modify your tasks list.If you are on the move and away from your pc, you can program Gubb to email to you your task list, and with your GPRS or 3G mobile phone, you can read it. If you are a boss, you can list out the tasks that you want them to do and get Gubb to email it to them. I was made to understand that Gubb can even send your tasks list to you by sms, but I personally never tried this as I am not sure how the billing charges are done. Gubb may not turn you into a super efficient person overnight, but it will definitely keep you more aware of the tasks that you should be doing.

HOW TO MAKE WEBPAGE LOAD FASTER WITHOUT THE PHOTOS

usefultechs — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:31:36 +0000

With broadband connection, web pages load up with blazing speed. However, some web pages may take ages to load up when you are surfing on a dial-up connection or on a non-3G handphone. News websites such as CNN or BBC or Bernama or Utusan Malaysia would sometime take a long time to load because of the photos and other graphics on their website. If for some reason you want to access a website just to read the texts ONLY (and the photos are not important to you), you can use another unique function of Google to help you.

First, go to this website address: http://www.google.com/gwt/n (type the exact address). You will see a page with the image shown below. Secondly, write down the address of the website that you want to access. Check the “No images” button and then, press the “Go” button.

Google will display the requested page in plain TEXT with very few or no photographs or graphics. Great for saving time and money (for those surfing on a mobile phone on per data useage basis).

GOOGLE’S LITTLE KNOWN BUT USEFUL FUNCTIONS

usefultechs — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:41:36 +0000

GOOGLE’S LITTLE KNOWN BUT USEFUL FUNCTIONS

Do you know that, apart from being an excellent search engine, Google can also perform a few other useful functions to get instant information. If you want to know the definition of some word, say “elated”, just type “define:elated” in Google (make sure that you type it continuously i.e. no break in-between) and Google will immediately returns the definition of the word from a few sources. If for some reason you want to know what time is it in certain city around the world (say London), instead of performing mental calculation around the GMT time, just type the words “time London” in Google and press the search button and Google will tell you the current time in London. If you want to know 18 inches is equivalent to how many feet, just type “18 inches in feet” in Google and press the search button. Google will immediately give the result as 1.5 feet.

If you are a fan of Liverpool Football Club, you can easily find out the result of their last game, and the date of their next game, by simply typing “Liverpool FC” in Google and push the search button. If you do it now (today is 30th January 2009), Google would return the result below. Please take note this service is only available for the English Premier League.

HOW TO SNOOZE YOUR INCOMING EMAILS

usefultechs — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:45:05 +0000

SNOOZE YOUR INCOMING EMAILS.
Have you ever experienced a day when you were overwhelmed by important, but not quite urgent, emails? Different people have different way of handling this problem. Now there is a new service that enable you to “snooze” your incoming emails. When you’re too busy to respond to an email right away, just forward it to 24@hitmelater.com and the email will be resend to you 24 hours later.

The service is fully customizable. You can replace the “24″ with any number or day. For example, forward it to 3@hitmelater.com and you’ll get it back three hours later. Forward it to wednesday@hitmelater.com and you will get it back the first Wednesday morning after today. You can even put a very specific dates or time periods, for example:

* Day – wednesday@hitmelater.com or wed@hitmelater.com
* Date – january12@hitmelater.com or jan12@hitmelater.com

* Minutes – 5minutes@hitmelater.com or 5m@hitmelater.com
* Hours – 5@hitmelater.com or 5hours@hitmelater.com
* Days – 5days@hitmelater.com or 5d@hitmelater.com
* Weeks – 5weeks@hitmelater.com or 5w@hitmelater.com
* Months – 5months@hitmelater.com

The service are available both in basic (free) and paid versions. For the free version, you can snooze up to 5 emails per day for a period of up to 24 hours. For the paid versions, you can snooze unlimited numbers of email for up to one year. Further information at www.hitmelater.com

Try the service now by forwarding one of your email to 2m@hitmelater.com and wait for it to be resend to you in the next 2 minutes.

HOW TO QUICKLY SWITCH YOUR MOBILE PHONE TO SILENT MODE

usefultechs — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:27:27 +0000

Fastest and easiest way to switch your mobile phone to “silent” mode.
Switching your mobile phone to “silent mode” normally require you to press a few buttons on your mobile phone. If you have a mobile phone with Symbian S60 operating system (most Nokia N and E series phones run on Symbian S60), you can easily and quickly switch your mobile phone to “silent mode” by pressing just one button. Press the # button continuously for a few seconds until the words “Activated profile: Silent” appears. To switch back to “General” mode, just press the button again for a few second until the words “Activated profile: General” appears. Fast and simple.