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New WiFi Technology uses Routers for Wireless Charging

New WiFi Technology uses Routers for Wireless Charging

There are a variety of ways to charge an electronic device / smartphone. Electric power supply with an adapter: This is the traditional way. Connecting smartphone to a PC or a laptop via USB Connecting smartphone to a power bank. All above involve some kind of cable going from the […]

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Internet of Things from Xioami

3 Interesting ‘Internet of Things’ products from Xiaomi

After launching the under $25 Yi Camera with Night Vision Xiaomi is launched some very clever new products which can fall under the umbrella of “Smart” or “Internet of Things” or IoT for short, devices. Mi Wi-Fi router with 6TB built-in storage New Xiaomi Mi Wi-Fi router not only delivers […]

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Remove smiley emocon at WP bottom

How to hide smiley appearing at WP blog footer?

Recently I observed on my blog that there is a smiley face was showing at the bottom / footer. This is a newly started blog that runs on WordPress. My first thought was that someone has perhaps hacked into the database / WP and played with it. I had recently installed a […]

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IBM verse mail sign in process

Will you sign up to new email service from IBM?

The first email service I had signed up to in college, was Hotmail. After that I got accounts in other services as well including rediffmail, Yahoo, Gmail, Outlook and others. So why should I be signing up to new email service from IBM? Here are my reasons: IBM has revealed […]

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Comparison of 4k Video resolution (source: wikipedia)

What is a 4k Video resolution and where to see it?

What is 4k Video? 4K video resolution is not new. However, its not really catch up yet, as you would expect with some technologies which may not be game changers per se. 4k is a resolution standard for videos. The reason this video format is not very popular yet is […]

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Powerpoint presentation with dynamic values

Adding Dynamic Values, Graphs in PowerPoint from MS Excel

There are cases where you need to create dynamic ppt power point presentations to show up to the minute data. It could be text or even charts that need to be latest. In such case, your base data and charts can lie in a spreadsheet and there will be a […]

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Use Google Docs Viewer to convert files to PDF

Using this tip, you can convert web files of various formats like MS Word, XLS sheets, Photoshop, PowerPoint PPTs, etc. to PDF using Google Docs Viewer. The trick lies in the in-built ability of Google Docs’ PDF converter. It supports almost all popular file formats including Word documents, Power point […]

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How to convert Images to Text using OCR

There are many occasions when you have an scanned image of a book / some text and you want to convert it into a text either to edit some part or to do some formatting. This process is called Optical Character Recognition or OCR. Software can actually “read” the image […]

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How to Edit Adobe Acrobat PDF Files for Free

How to Edit Adobe Acrobat PDF Files for Free

There are occasions where there is a need to edit a PDF document and you do not have the full version of Adobe Acrobat. Don’t despair. There are free tools available that will help you edit and save PDF files. One of the key reasons why PDF is helpful is […]

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Online Photo Editing

Online Photo Editing PicMonkey, Picnik and Picozu Comparison

There are several online photo editing softwares in the market. Recently, I tried PicMonkey which is worth writing a note about for its good photo editing effects. Worth noting here that some of the image effects are only available to premium customers. Here are some pros and cons of 3 […]

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