Jan
31
Disable Outlook Today in 4 steps
Filed Under Internet, e-mail, xp | Leave a Comment
Do you find Outlook Today annoying? You know, the screen showing calendar, tasks, and folders? Me too! It’s quite easy to disable it. Here’s how…
Step 1: Go to Tools > Options
Step 2: Click on the Other tab, and then click Advanced Options
Step 3: In the Advanced Options dialogue box, click the Browse button for Startup in this folder
Step 4: In the Select Folder dialogue box, click to select Junk E-mail from the list. Just kidding! Select Inbox.
Now click OK on every dialogue box you opened. Now you can lead your life more peacefully.
Jan
28
As someone who uses Firefox heavily, you may occasionally come across strange websites that don’t work that well on Firefox. The blokes who designed them were either too embroiled in Micorosoft technology to be aware of FF, or simply wanted to contribute their little something to the Big Brother’s attempts to world domination.
Whatever is the case, IE Tab helps. IE Tab is a cool extension that lets you view those sites inside your favourite Web browser. When you want to view a webpage in IE, just click the IE Tab button in Firefox’ status bar to load the page in IE in a tab.
IE Tab also has additional options like automatically opening certain sites in IE tabs, open webpages in IE outside of Firefox, open IE in a new tab, etc.
Get more details here. Download IE Tab from here.
Jan
28
Download files while you sleep!
Filed Under Internet, download | Leave a Comment
Some Internet Service Providers offer unlimited download for free during wee hours. BSNL, for example, lets you download stuff for free from 2 AM to 8 AM, which means you need to stay awake till 2 AM to start a download. Instead, you can use a download manager to schedule downloads after you go to sleep.
You can use any download manager for this purpose. I’m using Free Download Manager in this example (I highly recommend it). Let’s see the steps to schedule a download… Read more
