The immensely popular pulse application is now available on android. Alphonso labs showcased its Android Tablet version of the news reader application Pulse at the Honeycomb launch event at Google Headquarters. In relation to this, Google launched the Android Market Webstore, for making the purchase of applications for their Android smartphones and tablets easier, i.e., through a Web browser. Earlier users had to purchase Android apps through the Android Market client from smartphones and tablets. [...]

There is a popular saying, “Think Big, Start small”. Comptalks started not exactly like the definition of small, it did taste success from its inception. However, no one would have ever imagined that Comptalks will someday become the brand which it is now. Its reader base spans from the “college-going-computer-science-geeks” to “top-executives-in-multinationals”. The website is equally frequented by school kids as well as housewives, retired professionals, etc. Everything has to scale so as to survive [...]

Excel Sheets and power point presentations needn’t be always boring. We have demonstrated through an earlier post giving a tutorial on how to insert live webpages in PowerPoint slides. After reading this “how-to?” post you’ll learn how to make your excel sheets and workbooks more informative and perhaps entertaining. Now, read. 1. Enable Developer Ribbon Toolbar If you are using an older version of Microsoft Excel, it won’t have the “Developer Ribbon” toolbar. Don’t worry! [...]

How many times have you tried to convey a message using “missed calls”? If you are an Indian (or any developing country), you might be quite familiar with the effectiveness of “missed calls”. ZipDial uses the same concept. ZipDial Mobile Solutions Pvt Ltd is a Bangalore-based company founded by Valerie Rozycki, Amiya Pathak and Sanjay Swamy for generating and keeping track of marketing campaigns. It relies on dialing numbers without actually calling.It logs votes by missed [...]

The browser war just got a new warrior, RockMelt; a fiery one. This browser is engineered and designed for the current social media savvy PC user generation. This browser lets you keep you track of your favourite websites. You can also know what your best people are upto, right from the browser without leaving it. RockMelt is developed by Tim Howes and Eric Vishria. It is backed by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen. It has tweaked [...]

The post is about usage of auto-correct feature of MS-Excel which allows auto-correcting of any instance of dollar text to dollar symbol-”$”. Follow these simple steps: 1. Type the Dollar Symbol in a cell and copy it to clipboard (Ctrl+C) (*You can skip this step*) 2. Click on the Office icon 3. Click on Excel Options 4. Click on Proofing 5. Click on Autocorrect Options… 6. Enter dollar on the left-side box and paste the [...]

When somebody uses Ubuntu 10.10 for the first time, he may feel uncomfortable as there are many features which are a bit different from Windows, though make a big difference in user experience. Ubuntu comes with Alacarte Menu Editor, so you can customize according to your choice. You might have noticed that Minimize/Maximize/Close button resides in the left hand side on all windows. Here is how to customize the “Minimize/Maximize/Close” Window Menu in Ubuntu : [...]

We are starting a new category for guys looking to learn about the basics of MS-Excel. We will post anything which a newbie user needs to know about Excel. In this post, I’ll give you the steps needed to type subscript in an excel cell. We need to use subscripts while writing chemical formulae, scientific notations, etc. 1. Type normally without caring about subscript in the Excel cell 2. Select the characters you want to [...]

Few hours ago, I noticed an unusual problem. All the Youtube (only for youtube, everything else was normal) were apparently without any audio. This was a small problem due to codec issues. I guess many of you could encounter the same in near future or you may be having trouble with “no audio” on Youtube videos now. Here is the solution. 1. Go to this site : www.Free-codecs.com 2. Download “K-Lite Codec Pack” [Download the [...]

There are many instances, when we want to include a webpage in our Powerpoint slide. We know screenshot is an option but doesn’t give you the updated website. Linking to a webpage is old school. LiveWeb, a free PowerPoint add-in adds web pages to a Powerpoint slide and updates it in real-time during a slide show. Another good thing about LiveWeb is that it supports all PowerPoint versions starting from PowerPoint 97 to the latest [...]