Category: How To

  • How To Test a Website On Different Screen Sizes, Platforms and Browsers

    The first part of this tutorial explains how to test a website at the screen size of different devices like iPhone, iPad, Tablets, Android phones etc. Different mobile devices have different resolutions for their screen – for example, Apple iPad has 768 x 1024 or 1024 x 768px screen size in different mode and Google…

  • Say Bye-bye to Orkut

    Say cheerio to Orkut finally! You can now update your Orkut status directly from Facebook. Keep in touch and connect your friends on Orkut by updating them with your Facebook activity.     You might have got a message today in your Facebook – if you haven’t – don’t worry, you can go here to…

  • Bunch Several Links Into One Small Link

    Often you find several links on the web that you want to share on services like instant messengers (Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live Messenger..) or microblogging platforms such as Twitter (which has a 140-character limit),etc..     Using LinkBunch, you take all those links and put them into one "bunch", which is just one…

  • Facebook introduced new version of Groups and two more new features.

    Last night, I’ve covered live updates of Facebook event in cosmoGeek’s Facebook fan page and as well as on my Twitter account. To summarize, Facebook yesterday revealed 3 new features – a new version of Groups, an option to download your information locally, new dashboard for apps you use. 1.   New Facebook Groups Until now,…

  • Watch ‘Star Wars’ in Text via Telnet

    Watch ‘Star Wars Episode IV’ as an animated text right from your command line – yes, you didn’t read that wrong. Give it a try from any command line, type telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl  

  • Download ‘Anything’ from Google using “Google Hacks”

    Everything is available on the Internet. The only thing you need to know is ‘How to find it’ in a correct way. Google is the obvious answer to all questions – it can be exploited to find anything anywhere on the web using keywords intelligently. Google Hacks is a small tool which is useful to…

  • Control your Android phone just by speaking!

    Now you can control your Android phone just by speaking using ‘Voice Actions’. This feature is unveiled at a press event at its San Francisco office in spite of rumors on Video Calling. You require Android 2.2 (Froyo) and higher for these features – Send text messages Say "send text to [recipient] [message]*" e.g. "send…

  • Want to Send or Receive Emails in Gmail at your own time?

    Do you want to send or receive emails at your own convenient time? Boomerang is a new beta add-on for Google Chrome and Firefox and lets you schedule Gmail around your own time! Whether you want to move emails about next week’s meeting out of your inbox until next week or want to send your…

  • How to Turn Your Android Phone into a Fully-Automated Superphone

    What if your phone automatically went silent when you step into the movie theatre? Texted your significant other when you finished your long commute? Or automatically turned down the volume when a particularly loud friend called? It can; here’s how. Android application Tasker gives you total rules-based automation for your Android phone. It’s not free,…

  • How to hide status updates from certain people in Facebook

    The other night, when I started roaming in and around outskirts of the City of Pearls, I updated my status on Facebook – ‘At Shabad, Charminar…2.15 am…having dinner in ‘Chowki’ style! Jagne ki raat’ via text message. When we reached home in the early morning at around 4.30 am – one of my friends who…