Author Archives: Aun

Organize Your Presentation With Sections In PowerPoint 2010

By Aun | Published: January 21, 2010

Now its easier to manage and organize your PowerPoint 2010 presentations with the help of  Sections. Sections lets you organize your slides, much like you would use folders to organize your files. You can use named sections to keep track of groups of slides, or you can assign sections to co-workers to make ownership clear during collaboration.

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Change Email Desktop Alert Settings In Outlook 2010

By Aun | Published: January 21, 2010

Whenever you receive a new email, Outlook 2010 displays a desktop alert. If you wish then you can also disable this desktop alert. But it is useful in many cases, lets see how we can change the default settings of new email alert.

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Direct Reply To Different Email Address In Outlook 2010

By Aun | Published: January 20, 2010

It is often the case that you want to receive replies to your emails on a different email address than that from which you originally sent the email; in such a scenario we will just make the appropriate settings in Outlook.

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What’s My Computer Doing Provides An Insight Into Resource Consuming Processes

By Aun | Published: January 20, 2010

It is always desirable to keep a close eye on your computer’s activity and resources. What’s My Computer Doing lists the programs which are accessing the hard disk or using the CPU. Not only this, but you can also view the program’s details like its properties, working directory and other important information. It provides a real-time update of all information.

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Catfish – File Searching Tool For Ubuntu Linux

By Aun | Published: January 19, 2010

Searching any particular file could be a real hectic process if your hard disk is large and full of random data. Catfish for Ubuntu lets you perform versatile search operations throughout your file system.

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PowerPoint 2010: Compress Pictures To Reduce Size Of Presentation

By Aun | Published: January 19, 2010

You often need to compress PowerPoint presentations when sharing it via email. If your presentation is full of images, you can try compressing these images to reduce the overall size of the presentation.

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Outlook 2010: Automatically Add An Email To Safe Senders List

By Aun | Published: January 18, 2010

Sometimes Microsoft Outlook 2010 treats email from valid contacts as junk mail. You can configure Outlook 2010 to automatically add the people you send emails to, to the Safe Senders List.

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WinHotKey: Assign System Wide Hotkeys To Control Windows & Launch Applications

By Aun | Published: January 18, 2010

If you are a power user, then you should add WinHotkey in your arsenal. It is a great application which allows you to to assign a hotkey to control various Windows features, pre-installed and 3rd party applications, folders, and any sort of file.

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IP Tray: Display System Hostname And IP Address

By Aun | Published: January 18, 2010

If you are working in such type of network envoirnment where the IP assignment is set to dynamic then IP Tray can be useful for you. It sits in the system tray and upon mouse hover, it displays the current IP address of your system along with the hostname. You can also copy the IP address information to the clipboard.

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Easy Replace: Replace Specified Files In The Target Folder

By Aun | Published: January 16, 2010

Lets assume that you are developing an application and you have separated the testing and production code files into respective folders. Once you need to move a particular file from the testing folder to the Production, you can make use of the Easy Replace utility.  It can quickly replace all instances of the specified files in the target folder.

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GetFolder: Export File/Directory List Inside Active Directory

By Aun | Published: January 16, 2010

GetFolder is a freeware portable application which lets you create the list of files and folders within any particular directory. This list can then be exported to various different formats, like XML, HTML, CSV, TXT.

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Domain Whois Lookup [Desktop]

By Aun | Published: January 15, 2010

For the novice users let me first clarify what is Whois information, it is the information relevant to the domain which specifies the registration details of the particular domain,  like which registrar is holding that domain, which name servers and IP is assigned. It becomes useful for troubleshooting various issues regarding DNS and Domain propagation. Whois Lookup is a portable application for Windows which lets you get the Whois details of any site.

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Microsoft Outlook 2010: Change Default Folder To Calendar, Notes, Contacts, Tasks

By Aun | Published: January 15, 2010

Whenever Microsoft Outlook 2010 starts up, it takes you to the Inbox folder by default. You can easily change this setting and can let Outlook launch Calendar, Tasks, or whatever you want.

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Microsoft Word 2010: View Two Documents Side By Side

By Aun | Published: January 15, 2010

In many cases we have to compare two Word documents, having them side by side is vital for comparison. You could open both the documents in separate windows and snap them in Windows 7, but this is a time consuming task. You can place two documents side by side within a single window without the fuss using Word 2010′s build-in feature.

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WinFF – FFMPG GUI Based Video Converter For Ubuntu Linux

By Aun | Published: January 14, 2010

You might have heard about the well known command line utility called FFMPG which converts videos from one format to another. If you are a developer or system administrator and you develop or administer Linux based apps then you probably know how complex it is to work with the command line utility to convert videos.

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