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Feb

How to enable or disable two step verification in gmail ?

Categories: How-To's

by Pavan

If you are using gmail and If you want to improve security of your google account to ensure no one can hack into your account then 2-step verification is the solution that is provided by google for you, and I bet you that it would be twice harder for a hacker to hack your account than the normal process. The two steps in process 1. Entering the Password. 2. Entering the Code that you receive in your mobile. So, By Opting in to this 2-step verification you have to enter password as well as the code that is instantly received to your mobile when you are trying to login into your gmail account. There are also some other options like Remembering the browser in device for next 30 days so that you need not enter the code as part of 2-step as the device is registered for 30 days. You can set up a back up code so that you Read more

Feb

How to open and read docx, xlsx, pptx files in MS Office 2003 ?

Categories: Tips

Tags: ms office, windows

Comments: No

by Pavan

Hi , This post is about how to convert a docx or docm format file of Microsoft Office 2007 to a compatible format of windows 2003. The most preferred solution for this would be upgrading to MS Office 2007 but still if you aren’t able to do this then refer the following techniques. Method 1 : Microsoft Compatability Package Microsof released a support package for MS Word 2003 long back for supporting for all word, excel, power point in Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats ( 37 Mb ) . Download the above support package from the link mentioned above and install it , Now try opening a docx or other 2007 MS Office file formats It should work fine but there are some incidented reports saying that though after installing the support package when trying to open it throws an error saying “there was an error opening the file.” This is because of Read more

Feb

How to Change Login Screen background, Caption, Notification Text ?

Categories: Tips

Comments: 1

by Pavan

This article tells about how you can Customize your login Screen from Changing its background image to Notification Caption and Notification Text. Thanks that Customizing login screen background is an inbuilt functionality of windows 7 so that Original Equipment Manfacturer’s (OEM’s) can create their own custom brandings in the login screen. Let’s see how can we customize our login screen Procedure for Customizing Login Screen : 1. Create a folder called “info” in the directory %windir%\system32\oobe\ 2. Create a folder called “backgrounds” in the directory %windir%\system32\oobe\info\ 3. Chose any JPEG image of your choice that you want to use it as login screen and rename it to “backgroundDefault.jpg” and place it in the backgrounds folder that you have just created. backgroundDefault.jpg is the default login screen for any monitor resolution and If you wish to have a resolution specific image for login screen following are the naming conventions of the image file in the backgrounds folder. backgroundDefault.jpg background768x1280.jpg background900x1440.jpg Read more

Feb

Tips and Sources to Download / Watch a Movie Online

Categories: Tips

Tags: movies

Comments: 1

by Pavan

This is just a small info for all those who love to watch films and listen to the songs, Ofcourse who doesn’t ?. There are number of possible ways you could watch a single movie as I have already mentioned in one of my post which provides you with the links of youtube to watch bollywood and hollywood movies online. Today, I would like to share some methods and sites that I follow when I would like to watch a movie. As you might have already know, You can see a movie online or you can download it to your personal computer and watch it later. For countries like India you probably might have slow internet speed and buffering a movie online might be not possible. So, First decide whether you would like to see a movie online or watch it offline by downloading it to your personal computer. Before you can watch a movie online, If you want to Read more

Feb

How to set up Office Communicator / Lync using Pidgin ?

Categories: Application Softwares, How-To's

Comments: 1

by Pavan

You might probably have using Microsoft Office Communicator or Lync on your work station but there are some situations where you want to login into client communicator due to which you have to sign out of local office communicator. Here in this post let us see how can we use the pidgin to set up office communicator account and login using pidgin into the office communicator. As you might have already know pidgin is a free chat client used by millions to login into different chat clients. By default there is no option in pidgin to set up an office communicator account but we have solution for this problem in the name of third party plugin called SIPE. SIPE project implements the extended version of SIP/SIMPLE used by various products like Microsoft Office Communications Server Microsoft Live Communications Server Reuters Messaging Let us see how you can set up with the pidgin. Step1 : Download and install the latest version Read more

Feb

Facebook Account Temporarily unavailable problem and solution

Categories: Tips

Tags: internet

Comments: 21

by Pavan

Account temporarily unavailable Your account is currently unavailable due to a site issue. We expect this to be resolved shortly. Please try again in a few minutes. Facebook Account Temporarily Unavailable Your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance. It should be available again within a few hours. We apologize for the inconvenience. Sorry, this profile is not available at the moment. Please try again shortly. If you are opening facebook account and getting messages like the following then there is nothing to worry , it indeed means that facebook is planning some maintenance and it should be back in hour or two and if you still face the same problem after sometime or later try contacting facebook. you can drop an email to facebook at [email protected] and before trying to contact facebook make sure that you have waited for 1 day and tried all different things that you can do like clearing browser cache and tried opening the Read more

Feb

How to download and install google fonts ?

Categories: How-To's

Comments: 2

by Pavan

There are different fonts available in web , probably you might want to use different styles of fonts for preparing a document. As you know there are different available fonts installed in your PC but still you might want to use some font that you find when browsing through different available fonts. For such things google web fonts is one good source to browse through and there are already many different websites offering fonts. Now lets try downloading and installing one google font. Step 1 : Go to Google Webfonts website and go through the search criteria of fonts to chose from different fonts available . Step 2 : You have option to download only when you add them to your collection , so chose the font you want to download and add them to your collection Step 3 : Now click on download your collection to your computer this shows up a popup window to download . Read more