Technology

Creating an Effective PowerPoint Presentation

Posted by on August 30, 2007 at 8:49 pm

Hints for a successful presentation: Plan carefully Do your research Know your audience Time your presentation Practice your presentation Speak comfortably and clearly Effective PowerPoint Slides Use design templates Standardize position, colors and styles Include only necessary information Limit the information to essentials Content should be self-evident Use colors that contrast Be consistent with effects, […]

GMail Drive shell extension

Posted by on August 22, 2007 at 10:47 pm

GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google GMail account, allowing you to use GMail as a storage medium. Requirement: 1. Gmail Account 2. Gmail Drive Software Process: 1) Download Gmail Drive from (takes seconds to download) http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/GMail-Drive-shell-extension-Download-15944.html http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/E-mail/Mail-Utilities/GMail-Drive-shell-extension.shtml 2) Install the software. 3) After installing, a drive […]

Reinstall Windows without losing important data

Posted by on August 22, 2007 at 12:58 am

Once in a while, you might want to reinstall Windows, especially if your system starts to get bogged down, or if you’d had a catastrophic loss from a virus attack. The problem is that reinstalling Windows will delete personal files and data, so what do you do? Check out this article over at InformationWeek which […]

GoogleTalk Gadget in Firefox Sidebar

Posted by on August 22, 2007 at 12:06 am

The Google Talk Gadget is clearly more usable than the stand-alone GTalk desktop client or the floating AJAX version in GMail. Here, each chat session opens up as a tab (like Firefox browser tabs), it can show previews of images or video and the chat client can easily be embedded inside webpages. There’s however a […]