Killer Tech Tips

Remember Killer Links? A list of pretty cool tech tips from around the web. We’re back with it after a long hiatus. Here are some tech tips from our blogger friends:

The Guiding Tech blog takes a look at the ChromaPaper addon for Google Chrome that integrates with your Instapaper account and allows you to read your saved articles even when offline. If you’re a long time Instapaper user and if Chrome is your browser of choice, this is one tip you shouldn’t miss.

Evernote has become our app of choice for storing things we’d otherwise forget. But, did you know that your notes aren’t synced to the cloud immediately? PC Geek Blog has a quick how-to on how you can enable automatic sync in Evernote so you can be assured your notes are immediately available on other computers or on your phone.

Talking of Evernote, searching could be a pain if you have a few hundred notes saved. That’s when you should tell Evernote to optimize the database and make searches faster. This option isn’t always visible to the user, though – you need to enable a hidden menu to optimize Evernote storage so check out How-To Geek’s article on how you can do that.

Most of us work from multiple computers once in a while and hence an extension that saves browser sessions and syncs them to multiple computers would come in handy. Nirmal from Life Rocks reviews TabCloud, one such extension for Firefox and Google Chrome.

Opening up a new browser tab, locating that one image that you’ve been trying to upload for the last five minutes, and hitting upload only to find that you have to fill an obscure captcha is annoying. PC Tonic has a clever workaround to launch Imgur from the desktop so that you can save a few seconds when uploading those screenshots or photos.

Google Instant Search has really impressed many of you and it’s even available for Google Chrome. If you’re still stuck with Firefox for some reason, the Simple Help blog has a quick guide on how you can turn on Google Instant using the Instant Firefox extension.

If you’ve got an iPad with iOS 4.3 and if you’re wondering how to enable multitouch gestures on it, you’re not alone. And it’s not easy either, according to BlogsDNA. They’ve got a neatly-laid guide on how you can get multitouch enabled using XCode though, and you certainly should see it if you own an iPad.

The best education will come from the web in five years, remarked Bill Gates recently. Techie Buzz reviews TeachNext, an end-to-end educational solution complete with a set-top box and state of the art software and educational content.

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