July 21st, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
Windows 8 has some cool new tools for fixing your PC without having to go through all kinds of crazy boot screens and command prompts like in older versions of Windows. The two main features you may have heard of are Refresh PC and Reset PC. Refresh PC is kind of like doing a repair [...]
July 19th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
Recently a client asked me to help him find the biggest files on his computer because he wanted to clean up his hard disk and free up some space. There are a couple of ways to do this. In Windows 7, the new search functions allow you to find files of a particular size and [...]
July 18th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
A lot of people have asked me if they can sort their Google Mail by sender and I never really understood what they meant. Gmail is basically built on search, not sorting. It doesn’t have very many sorting features because it figures you can use their advanced search features to find any email you like. [...]
July 14th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
I love my iPhone and I also like iCloud, but what I hate is that I have a ton of duplicate contacts! Why is that? Well, it’s because I use the same iCloud account on multiple iPhones and iPads. All the contacts from my wife’s iPhone and my sister’s have been merged into on giant [...]
July 12th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
One of the best features of iOS is the ability to track your Apple devices automatically using the Find iPhone app from Apple. You can track as many devices as you want as long as they are all setup using the same iCloud account. In this article, I’ll show you how to setup tracking for [...]
July 9th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
For the past few months (ever since Google Music, now Google Play Music went out of beta and I received my invitation to the service), Google Play Music has been my go-to way to listen to music while on my laptop. It was, admittedly, a bit of a chore to get 15,000 or so songs [...]
July 7th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
For a lot of us, the rise in popularity (and availability) of eBooks has been a Very Good Thing. Now it’s possible to hold an entire library of books in a package the size of a paperback, which is especially great for vacations and other trips. No longer do you need to decide which books [...]
June 15th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
So you probably know by now that when you take a picture with your smartphone or with your digital camera, it stores a lot of extra information about the picture called metadata. This is called EXIF data and it can tell you what camera model took the picture, the date and time, the shutter and [...]
June 12th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
If you use Internet Explorer and you have trouble downloading more than 2 files from one website, this registry edit might solve your problem. To do this, open the Registry Editor by entering “regedit” (without the quotes) in the Search box on the Start menu. When regedit.exe displays in the results, click on it or [...]
June 9th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
Here’s a quick post for those looking to change the location of the downloads folder in Google Chrome. You may want to do this for many different reasons, but for most people, it’s probably because you are running out of space on your local hard drive. I moved my downloads folder to my NAS (Network [...]