June, 2009 | PCs Place

How to Send Files from a Mobile Phone to Laptop using Infrared [ IR ] Port

Infrared Ports are one way to transfer data among electronic devices. In our previous article we discussed about how to transfer or share files using Infrared ports. There we explained the procedure to set up the infrared port and send data to the mobile phone from a laptop. In this article, we gave the steps […]

How to Transfer / Share Data Wirelessly using Infrared [ IR ] Port

Today, most laptop computers, smart phones and PDAs come equipped with an Infrared (IR) port. Although not as fast or as convenient as Bluetooth data transfer, IR is handy simply on the basis of its widespread availability. Since IR requires line-of-sight to work, you need to be careful to align the IR ports on the […]

Spamihilator – Free Anti Spam Filter for Every Email Client

Spamihilator is a free anti spam filter that checks each and every mail you get and removes the Spam or Junk mails and keeps your Inbox clean. The software works on your E-Mail client and filters all the spam mails. The site says that it removes 98% of spam mails before they get into your […]

Zamzar – Free Online File Convertor for Images, Documents, Audio and Video Formats

Zamzar is an free online tool that lets you convert image, document, Compressed , music, and video files up to 100 MB in size to different formats for free. This is an easy way to convert your files into different formats without installing any software. This free online file convertor has a lot of features […]

How to Add RSS Feed Readers to Firefox

Mozilla Firefox by default supports only three Web feed readers: Bloglines, Yahoo! and Google Reader. You can, however, add as many providers as you like, and use any of them as your subscription manager. For this, you’ll need to do a couple of about:config tweaks, and add some preferences. Here is the way to add […]

Voice On The Go – Speak and Listen to Your Email, Tweets, Facebook Status, and SMS [ Voice Recognition Tool ]

Voice On The Go is a web application which makes your work easier. Using this internet tool you can speak and listen to your email, SMS by voice, access your calendar, contacts, and you can even update your twitter and Facebook statuses. Voice on the go is useful to make hands-free, eyes-free access to your […]

Read RSS Feeds from Your Desktop with Google Reader Desktop Gadget

Google reader is one of the best and widely used RSS feed readers. If you are a user of Google Reader, Here is an option for you to access Google reader from your desktop. The Google Reader Desktop gadget allows you to access and read your RSS subscriptions from your desktop screen. This new gadget’s […]

Domains Bot – Domain Name Suggestion Tool [ Search Engine for Domains ]

Domains Bot , as the name implies is a Domain name search engine. It can be used to get domain name suggestions. The service is very much helpful for getting the suggestions based on a name, keyword, domain or even a short sentence. The web application will show you the results instantaneously as you type […]

Troubleshooting Monitor Resolution Problems in Linux

We already discussed about how to change monitor resolution in Linux. If you have chosen a resolution that is not supported by your monitor, you’re in for some graphics related trouble. The GUI tries to spawn, but the display doesn’t support it, so it re-spawns again and the cycle continues. To rectify this, you need […]

4 Possible Ways to Enhance Speed of Firefox

Firefox is my favorite browser. But It may be slow at times. We previously discussed about ways to Make Firefox faster and 10 add-ons to optimize Firefox performance. Now, here are 4 tweaks which will enhance speed of Firefox. In order to make these changes, open your Firefox Browser and type " about:config ” in […]

BASH Script to Back Up Files Modified Files in Linux

Here is a BASH Script which will back up the files created in the current directory within the past 24 hours in a “.tar.gz” file. Bash, an acronym for Bourne-again Shell, is a Unix shell written for the GNU Project and is the default shell for Linux and Mac OS X. let you accomplish a […]

How to Count Blank And Non-Blank Cells in MS-Excel

Figuring out the number of non-blank cells in a range is not entirely straightforward. The COUNTBLANK function returns the number of blank cells in a range, but what if you want to count the number of non-blank cells in the same range? One way is to use the COUNTA function:=COUNTA(B1:B13). The problem with this formula […]