Note: This post was written for an older version of Photoshop. The View > New Guide menu path still works in modern Photoshop, but the faster modern method is to drag from the ruler (Ctrl+R / Cmd+R to show rulers) directly onto the canvas. Screenshots here reflect an older Photoshop version.
Guides in Photoshop allows you to place images and elements precisely. Guides are nothing but non printable horizontal and vertical lines. Photoshop allows you to have as many as horizontal and vertical guides you want. Photoshop also allows you to move and remove guides. Here is how you can play with those guides! Continue reading Adding Guides In Photoshop: One Second Tip→
Note: I wrote this in 2013, when Dropbox had a dedicated Screenshots feature that auto-uploaded a Ctrl+PrtScn capture and copied a shareable link straight to your clipboard. Dropbox dropped that workflow years ago for a different sharing model, so the steps below no longer match the current app. Keeping this post up for the record.
Dropbox allows you to take screenshot and share it right from your Dropbox account easily. Just like print screen button that you have used in old days to take screenshot, Dropbox app has a special combination of buttons to take screenshot of your PC. Continue reading Capture & Share Screenshots Easily With Dropbox→
Note: I wrote this in 2013, when Facebook’s Chat sidebar let you render a friend’s profile picture as a tiny emoticon using the [[username]] trick below. That standalone Chat sidebar is long gone now that chat lives entirely in Messenger, so there’s no way to reproduce this on today’s Facebook. Keeping this post up for nostalgia.
Note: I wrote this in 2013 right when Gmail’s Inbox Tabs feature was brand new — it’s been a standard, default part of Gmail for well over a decade now, so the “here’s this cool new thing” framing below is pretty dated. The activation steps still broadly work, but expect today’s Settings UI to look different.
If you are having lots of mail in your mailbox then it is harder to find a particular mail. If you are receiving 20+ mails daily then you might need to spend huge time to check which messages are important and which are not. As the number of mails increases, complexity also increases. Of-course Gmail have tried each and every way to make your mailbox more and more manageable. Gmail introduced labels along with folders. You can use labels to categorize messages. But still working with label is not so simple and not that much complex. A few days ago Gmail developer found a new way to manage growing inbox and they named it as “Inbox Tabs“.
Gmail: Inbox Tabs
What are those tabs?
Gmail inbox tabs are somewhat similar to tabs in your browser. Gmail by default provides 5 tabs viz Primary, Social, Promotions, Updates and Forums. Since this is newest feature introduced by Google, still you cannot have custom tabs. Whenever a new email arrives to your inbox Gmail automatically detects the sender, classifies it and place it in appropriate tab. So you will find all your generic and primary communications in ‘Primary’ tab, social emails (which arrives from Google+ and Facebook) in ‘Social’ tab. Even there are dedicated tabs for promotions, updates and forum emails. Continue reading Switching On Inbox Tabs In Gmail→
Note: I wrote this in 2013, before Chrome locked extension installs down to the Web Store only. The direct .crx download/sideload approach described below — including my own custom theme file — won’t install on Chrome today. Keeping this post up as a historical snapshot.
Of-course for most of you Google Chrome is just like a friend on internet. As you know, you can customize Google Chrome by adding several addons and themes from Chrome Web Store or form internet. Ya! those addons and themes are not customizable. Somebody has built it and you are consuming it. It may happen that, you may fall in love with a theme, but sometimes since it is your bad luck, when you download that theme, you find that it not having proper resolution! So here is one best option for you, Create your own theme.
Each one thinks in different way. Hence choices are different. Accounting such requirements of Google Chrome users, Google have developed an extension to create your own themes. You can navigate to Chrome Web Store and look for “My Chrome Theme” or else you can simply click here. You might need to sign in to Chrome Web Store to add this extension to your browser.
Getting Started
Create Your Own Theme:Chrome (Introduction)
Creating themes with My Chrome Theme is quite easy. You just have to launch the app & click on “Start Making New Theme”.
Note: This post describes a batch-file Dropbox integration for Office 2013 that no longer works. In Microsoft 365, you can add Dropbox natively: open any Office app, go to File > Save As > Add a Place and select Dropbox, or save files directly to your Dropbox sync folder. The batch file linked below is outdated and should not be used.
Microsoft office 2013 comes with a lots of new features and a cool new look. Aside from that, the office 2013 comes integrated with the cloud storage services. With the default installation, only Skydrive is accessible form Microsoft office 2013. With help of this integration you can directly store your files on cloud storage and can access them from anywhere.
But what if Skydrive is not your primary storage?? No worries. Here is how you can integrate Dropbox cloud storage service in your Office 2013 installation.
Integrating Dropbox
If your primary cloud storage is Dropbox then proceed ahead. If not, then you can sign up for Dropbox by clicking here. Dropbox comes with 2 GB of free storage which can be increased by referring friends or can be purchased from Dropbox.com. The features provided by Dropbox are somewhat similar to all other cloud storage services. One best thing I liked about Dropbox is it’s delta sync feature. This feature allows us to update a small part of huge file without actually uploading the whole file. Anyways here are the steps to integrate Dropbox in Microsoft office 2013.
Step 1: Get Dropbox
Downloading Dropbox
Initially you have to download and install Dropbox client on your PC. Of course since many of you already a Dropbox users, you will have it on your PC. If not then you can download the  setup from Dropbox.com or by clicking here.
Note: This post covers ribbon customization in Office 2013. The core steps — right-click the ribbon, select Customize the Ribbon, and add commands to groups — still work in Microsoft 365. Screenshots here reflect the Office 2013 UI and may look slightly different in newer versions.
With release of Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft has introduced a new feature called as Ribbon. Ribbon is nothing but the replacement of old age office toolbars. Ribbon provide a lot of tools for editing your document, presentations and spreadsheets. Since ribbon has replaced toolbars and menus, many people do found it confusing. People who are familiar with older versions of office are too confused while searching for a tool in ribbon. So here are steps to customize ribbon in Office 2013 so you can group your tools according to your own requirements.
Step 1: Enter in Customize the Ribbon menu
This is the place from where you can customize your ribbon. To enter, you have to right click on ribbon and then you have to select Customize the Ribbon from options.
