Another Google Easter Egg: Search "Tilt" on Smartphones

Can't get enough of Google's search pranks? Grab a smartphone and search for "tilt" or "askew" on Google's mobile website.Doing so knocks the search results off kilter, as you can see in the image above. If you're without a smartphone, you can check out the gag on the mobile-formatted version of Google's desktop site.Google already messed with us last week on April Fool's Day. Searching for "helvetica" returned all search results in comic sans. Searching for "comic sans" had the same effect. Those searches are back to normal now, but I guess Google wanted to get smartphone users in on the fun, albeit a bit late.I've already made the mistake of staring at the image for too long. Now everything on my computer monitor looks...

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How to embed Bing search results and content directly in your email

We live in times where we rely heavily on the search results shown by various search engines like Google, Bing or Yahoo. You may be, at times, required to use them to download content so that you can mail as an attachment. But you can if you wish, directly embed the results in your Hotmail. Let’s add the Bing search results directly into your email: Login to your Hotmail account and click on New. You will see an option From Bing. Then drag down the list.You will find variety of options like images, videos, maps etc. I am choosing Images just for the sake of  simplicity. Type “Windows 7” in the search box to get the results beneath the search box. Click on Insert which you find after every result. We just added the image in our email...

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Answers to 7 common Windows 7 Power issues – FAQ

If you have some questions pertaining to some Windows 7 power issues or problems then this FAQ will definitely be able to help you. Microsoft has compiled an excellent resource of answers to the common questions which a Windows 7 user may have while troubleshooting Power options or issues. Q1: Why does my computer wake every day at 12:48 and then run a diagnostic tool?A1: To determine why this occurs, use the -WAKETIMERS option to determine what is currently set. Scheduled tasks are one of the primary items that the -WAKETIMERS option will show. To use this option, run the following command: POWERCFG -WAKETIMERS Q2: How can I determine all the available sleep states?A2: Use the -AVAILABLESLEEPSTATES option. To do this, run the following command: POWERCFG –AVAILABLESLEEPSTATES Q3:...

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How to wake up your PC from Stand-by mode or Hibernation

Have you ever wondered if it’s possible to wake up your system from a Stand-by mode or Hibernation programmatically? The answer is yes, it’s possible. Wake-Up is a utility which will do it for you. Once activated it resides in the system and wakes it up at predefined time, runs a file and if necessary sends it into Stand-by mode, hibernates it or shuts it down. It can also be used to run scheduled operations every day, or on specific day(s). The features of this program are: * Can restore almost every Windows-based operating system from a Stand-by mode that support ACPI * Can run a file or open a web page at a predetermined time after a wake-up event * Can send system back to Stand-by mode (hibernate it, shut it down, or log off user)...

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How to turn off logon password protection in Windows 7

When you start Windows 7, by default, you are required to present your logon password credentials in order to proceed. However if you are the only user and if you do not wish to password protect your PC, you can turn it off and enable automatic LogOn to Windows 7. To do so, type control userpasswords2 in Start search and hit enter. This will open the User Accounts settings window. Under the Users tab, un-check Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer.Clip Apply > OK. Reboot. Source: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-turn-off-login-password-protection-in-windows-7#ixzz1IqDiS...

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How to create a custom Email ID for your domain in Hotmail

Hotmail is one of the most popular and most widely used email service in the world right now. If you own a domain name and want to create a custom email ID associated with your domain name, you can easily do that using the Windows Live Admin Center. You will be able to use this email ID as Windows Live IDs and can use them with Windows Live Messenger, etc, just as you do with a normal @hotmail ID. The first thing that you have to do before starting is to register a domain name (if you don’t already have one). After you have purchased a domain name, you can start the procedure. To set up you custom email ID, first go to domains.live.com. Click Get Started. In the next page enter your domain name. As we want to setup an email account,...

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Windows 8: Automatic Aero colorization based on wallpapers

Windows 8 Automatic Aero color Microsoft is planning to auto color the Aero UI inside Windows 8 to correspond to a users wallpaper choice. The latest in a series of leaks by Rafael Rivera and Paul Thurrott reveals the latest customisation feature for Windows 8. Microsoft has added an automatic color selection tool for the Aero border color. The control works by picking up colors from a users wallpaper. Rivera has posted several screenshots of the new feature in action which demonstrates the Aero border color switching based on several wallpapers. Microsoft is believed to be working on a Metro design user interface for Windows 8. Leaked screenshots, posted earlier this month, also show a flattened Metro UI interface...

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Display your User picture in Windows 7 taskbar

Taskbar UserTile is a small freeware which allows you to add your User picture tile in the Windows 7 taskbar. Simply click on the downloaded app and your user pic will get displayed in notification area between the clock and the Show desktop buttom.From this button you can change your settings, customize your look, log off, lock PC or switch user. To exit, simply right click and click Close. Download: DeviantArt. Source: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/display-your-user-pictures-in-windows-7-taskbar#ixzz1IpqpQx...

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Google’s Gmail Motion Prank Turned Into Reality [VIDEO]

Remember Gmail Motion, the new feature that lets you use body gestures to compose and send emails in Gmail? It was obviously an April Fools joke, but now it’s also real, courtesy of the folks from the Institute of Creative Technologies. The technology is jokingly dubbed SLOOW – Software Library Optimizing Obligatory Waving – and it uses a Microsoft Kinect camera to control Gmail. The same team used the technology, which is actually called Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit (FAAST), to play World of Warcraft using only body motions in December 2010. Amazingly enough, it works pretty much as Google had intended: you can type text into Gmail by using body gestures, and send an email by “licking” the stamp and slapping...

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HANDS ON: Chumby8, a Bigger, Better Networked App Player [PICS]

The third model of the Chumby line is about to hit the streets on April 5, and the bigger, better networked app player is called Chumby8. We got one of the first ones available for review. What the heck is a Chumby8, anyway? Depending on how you’d like to use it, at $199, it’s either the most sophisticated alarm clock in the world, or it’s a clunky, anachronistic distant relative of the iPad with a non-removable kickstand in the back. Like its older brethren, the Chumby Classic and Chumby One, Chumby8 wirelessly connects to your Wi-Fi network, and then lets you use one of its 1500+ apps such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and Pandora. By far, its strongest capabilities are its alarm clock features, able to launch apps or wake you up...

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HOW TO: Get the Most From YouTube Editor [VIDEOS]

YouTube‘s online Editor launched in June last year as a very basic video editing suite originally borne from one of Google‘s “20%” projects. Now it has seven full-time developers working on it and new features are gradually being introduced. Mashable spoke to Tom Bridgwater, a YouTube software engineer and one of the founding members of the team that developed Editor, about how to get the most from the free video editing software. If you’d like to know how to trim your videos, improve the image quality and add free music, then take a look through the gallery of short video demos below. Let us know your favorite YouTube Editor function — and what else you’d like to see in the future — in the comments below. 1. Intro to EditorThe YouTube Editor is comprised of three areas -- the media picker...

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HOW TO: Land a Job at Facebook

So you want to work at Facebook, one of the world’s hottest companies — what do you have to get your foot in the door and get noticed? It’s not going to be easy — you have competition. Facebook received 250,000 job applications last year and is consistently rated as one of the best places to work. And with Facebook’s IPO around the corner, the competition for jobs is only going to heat up. There are plenty of ways to get noticed and stand above the crowd, though. I chatted with Thomas Arnold, head of recruiting for the social network, on what the company looks for and what it takes to get a job at Facebook. What Jobs Are Available at Facebook? Photo: Facebook HQ in 2009 at the launch of Facebook Usernames Ever since Facebook announced...

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Spy Shots: Windows 8 With a Ribbon Interface? [GALLERY]

Microsoft is experimenting with a ribbon interface for parts of Windows 8, and we have a gallery of leaked screenshots showing examples of an early build. Microsoft Word users are already familiar with the idea of a ribbon interface, where a tabbed and extra-tall toolbar resides at the top of the page, offering dynamic groups of icons in an attempt to make the user interface more efficient. Microsoft also added the ribbon interface to a couple of applets within Windows 7, including Paint and WordPad. We’ve already shown you leaked pics of Windows 8′s taskbar, but what we see here are experiments with Windows Explorer (for you Mac users, that’s the Windows version of the Finder), adding various groups of tabbed ribbons at the top of...

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Sony CEO Accidentally Reveals Secret Details About iPhone 5

Sir Howard Stringer, CEO of Sony, accidentally told everyone in the world that his company will be supplying image sensors for Apple‘s iPhone 5. In an interview late Friday with the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg, the Sony chief was talking about earthquake damage to 15 of the Sony’s factories in Japan, and inadvertently mentioned that a camera sensor made in one of those plants is on its way to Apple, and that sensor would be delayed because of the quake and tsunami.Stringer didn’t specifically say that Sony is building an 8-megapixel image sensor that will go into the iPhone 5, but since Sony is currently not manufacturing any image sensors for Apple, this confirmed that Sony plans to supply components of the...

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iPhone 5 Rumor Roundup [INFOGRAPHIC]

Not since the first iPhone was rolled out in 2007 has there been so much chatter about one gadget. There have been so many rumors about the iPhone 5, it’s difficult to keep them all straight, but those talented French artists at Nowhere Else have laid them out for us here in beautiful style. Merci beaucoup, mes amis!Be sure to check the blue progress bars for the likelihood of each one of these rumors to actually occur. They look mostly accurate to us, with one exception: After last night’s revelations about Sony’s involvement with the next iPhone’s image sensor from Sony’s Sir Howard Stringer, that 50% chance of a better camera seems like it ought to be around 80 to 90%.Let us know in the comments if you think these predictions are accurate. [via...

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