5 Ways To Make The Best Out Of Rapportive
Regular readers would know that we’re big fans of Rapportive, a Gmail add-on that displays a sidebar widget linking to social profiles of contacts when you hover over their email addresses. Rapportive is far more feature-rich and advanced when compared to its official counter part, the Gmail People Widget.
You could do a lot more with Rapportive than just viewing contact information. Here are five little-known ways to to use Rapportive:
Windows was unable to complete the format
If you’re having a hard time trying to format your USB pen drive, keep reading. Sometimes when you try to format your USB pen drive, you might get an error message saying ‘Windows was unable to complete the format’. Most of us assume that our pen drives are no longer usable and ditch them.
One cannot narrow down to specific reasons why this error message appears. But, your pen drive is still usable 90% of the time despite this error message. All you have to do is install the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool and try formatting your removable drive again.
Four Passwords To Make Your Digital Life More Secure
Those asterisks. Here are four not-so-obvious passwords you’re not making use of. They add an additional layer of security to your digital assets. Make sure you use them all!
Six Options To Backup Your Instagram Photos
Now that Facebook has acquired Instagram, there’s some talk about what will happen to all our photos. Although Facebook doesn’t have a track record of killing companies it has acquired in the past, it’s safe to have a backup of your Instagram photos. If you want to export your Instagram photos and take them with you, here are six options to try:
Speed Up iTunes Downloads By 500%
If you use iTunes on Windows to download songs, movies and podcasts, chances are you’re annoyed by poor download speeds and disconnections. Despite having a strong internet connection, you’ll find iTunes suspending a download, sometimes even after it reaches 90%. Most of these iTunes downloads are non-resumable.
Internet Download Manager comes to the rescue, though. You can set IDM to capture your iTunes downloads automatically. IDM speeds up your iTunes downloads by opening multiple connections simultaneously, and it is claimed that IDM could increase download speeds by upto 500%. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how you can use IDM to increase iTunes download speeds:
Quick Tip: Check if an email address is valid with Rapportive
We’re big fans of Rapportive here. Rapportive displays information about any email address you hover over when you’re in Gmail – tweets, links to social networking profiles, photographs, and more. It’s like the Gmail People Widget on steroids.
You can use Rapportive to quickly verify if an email address exists or not. Imagine you’re cold calling someone by guessing his email address – a glance over Rapportive on the sidebar will tell you if the email ID is valid or not – if Rapportive guesses the name of the person you’re emailing right away, and displays links to even one or two social profiles, you’re good to go.
iPhone Lock Screen Camera Icon Not Working
If you recently updated your iPhone or iPad to iOS 5.1, you should have noticed the Camera icon in your lock screen. Earlier, you had to tap the home button twice to make the Camera icon visible and then tap the icon to launch the Camera app.
With the new iOS 5.1 update, all you have to do is tap the home button once and the camera icon appears in the lock screen. That reduces one gesture. But if you tapped this Camera icon and all that happened was a bounce up and down, you came to the right place.
How to sync selected songs to iPod/iPhone/iPad?
Those of you who have an iOS device – an iPod, iPhone or an iPad – would frequently use iTunes to sync music and data from your computer. You can use iTunes to sync your entire music library, or just selected playlists. Besides that, you can also sync music videos and voice memos from the music tab that appears in the iTunes window when you connect your iPod/iPhone/iPad to your computer.
What if you want to copy a particular song to your iOS device? Discussion boards online mention that you can create a playlist with the song you’d like to transfer and then sync that playlist, but that’s not really necessary.
There’s a way to sync and copy certain songs individually to your iPhone or iPod in iTunes. Here’s how:
Three Tweetbot Features You’re Not Making Use Of
If you are active on Twitter and if you’ve got an iPhone, chances are you’re using Tweetbot already. Tweetbot is, by far, the best Twitter client for iPhone.
Here are three tips that will make your Tweetbot experience better.
Reader Tip: Quickly know any software’s license using Google
Oh, you’re probably getting bored of all the Google Search tips we’ve shared already. But here’s another one that one of our readers, Ning Nu sent in.
