How to Manually Recover the Unsaved Excel Spreadsheet

 Microsoft Excel is one component of Microsoft Office program, which is designed for Microsoft Microsoft and Apple Macintosh operating system. Excel is a very important part of Microsoft Office suite and it can perform calculation, analyze information and manage data from a spreadsheet or web page. It can provide users with many functions. Users can achieve a lot of advantages from it. As a result, it is widely used in many fields, such as management, statistics, finance, etc. So it is very important to keep the Excel spreadsheet securely stored. But what if you accidentally do not save the new created Excel file? Here we’ll take Excel 2010 as an example to teach you how to restore unsaved Excel file.

Chat With Friends Using MS-DOS Command Prompt

Usually we use chat programs like Facebook messenger, Google talk, skype etc to hang out with friends online. But do you ever think a change?. For instance how it will be if we are able to chat online with friends?. Well, it's possible. All you need to know is the IP address of your friend's computer. to determine IP address of a computer, do the following:

Fix .exe Files open with other programs like Notepad

Technology geeks will always have problems on their computers as they're the real users of the system. They'll play with advanced settings and control panel rather than just messing with the music or movies and internet.  One of the most common but annoying problem in such a kind is that the exe files in our system does not open in normal way. When you double click on exe file to open it, it may cause opening other programs like notepad but the actual program will not run. This may be due to virus attacks or by accidentally re-assigning the program using 'Open With' feature. 

How to Sync Subtitles of Movies in KMPlayer

KMPlayer is one of my favorite video players since it has the simple user interface as well as 3D capabilities.  It supports almost all media formats. Most of us require subtitles while watching movies in other languages. However most media player support subtitles, I use VLC media player and KMPlayer for watching videos with subtitles. In either case, some subtitles that you've downloaded from internet may not be synchronized with the video file. This makes audio either lagging or leading the subtitle making it no use. to correct this issue we have options in re-syncing the subtitle texts to audio in both VLC and KMPlayer.

Run Debug & MASM in Windows 7 , 64Bit (x64)

MASM and debug are great tools for students to assemble 8086 based codes using a windows based system. usually debug can be accessed in a windows computer simply typing 'DEBUG'in command prompt and MASM needs to be installed separately. But the story is different for Windows 7 x64 or 64 bit version. These programs are not available for this windows version. But using a simple technique using a software called DOSBox, you can run these Debugging tools in 64 bit versions of Windows.

Associate a File Type Extension with a Certain Program

In this fast life, we all want to reduce the time we've spending in front of computers for unnecessary things such as opening certain video files in a particular media player etc. It can be better customize Windows 7 to work the way we want rather than let us choose each time. Its a very basic thing for a computer user to associate file types with certain programs so that they should open up without having to right click and go for "open With" . 

How to Hide Specific Drives From My Computer

Usually you hard disk drive contains certain partitions such as system reserved one's or back up partition that you may not want to display in my computer. For example my dell laptop includes partitions reserved 39 MB. There's no need to display such partitions as drives in my computer because you're not going to store any data on those kind of drives. Here's the simple tip that allows you to hide such drives from my computer.

How to compress pictures taken using digital camera

This post is nothing but a step by step guide to easily batch compress your images taken using digital camera. Usually, pictures taken using digital camera's are large in size may go upto 6-7 Megabytes depending on the camera pixel clarity (more megapixel's means more bytes). Usually if you're planning to upload all photos you taken using the camera to Facebook, Google plus or blogger, it'll take years to complete if your internet plan is a slower one. Microsoft Office Picture Manager allows you to reduce the size of selected pictures to less than 350KB or even less very easily & fast. This software is included in MS office suite so most computers have it installed.

Show Task Bar Labels In Windows 7

In the earlier versions of windows, the programs or folders you opened were show up in the taskbar with a label exhibiting the name of the program or the folder etc. But in Windows 7, the taskbar is set to hide labels of opened threads and they're set to combine windows of same type. However the new system is opt for users who opens many programs and folders such that they wont clutter to make it difficult to pick the desired one. ie, more buttons can be placed in the taskbar simultaneously.

How to Increase Browsing Speed While Downloading

When it comes to downloading large files from internet, you may leave them to download it using some download managers or torrent clients other than your web browser. The problem get notices when you tries to browse web pages while downloading files from internet. The browsing 'll get slow down as the download manager or torrent downloader consumes greater part of your internet bandwidth. The case is even worse if your connection speed is low. There's not much we can do to increase browsing speed while downloading files as it totally depends on internet connection speed but here's some tips that might help to browse without much delay.

Play Flash Games Full Screen In Google Chrome

By the introduction of social networking sites like Facebook and Google plus, Flash games are gaining popularity day by day  and many people likes to spent their time playing simple games such as castleville or howzat cricket etc. But have your ever think of the flash games runs in full screen rather than staying the game like a small ad on a giant monitor. It is possible to scale the flash games to fullscreen by using the Google chrome extension SwiffOut Fullscreen Games. 

Like many other graphic games, it can hide the browser, Windows UI and other elements in the display and only shows you the game area. Another advantage of using this extension is that it avoids deselecting the page element (Flash game) by clicking other part of the browser so that the keyboard may not work while running the game. The Google chrome extension is very easy to install as like the normal addons. To run a flash game in full screen, just load the page and click the extension button in the tool bar. 

Download SwiffOut Fullscreen Games from chrome Web store.

The extension automatically adjusts for lag-free game play and it works with almost all flash games in various websites. You can the quit full screen by pressing Esc . 

BSNL Teracom Modem Port Forwarding

Many of us using Bittorrent clients for downloading torrent files from internet. For optimum speeds the software's like uTorrent must allow incoming connections to your computer. Port forwarding technique simply takes the data from the external ip address at a specified port to an internal ip address @ port. Here's how to setup port forwarding for Teracom T2-B-Gawv1.4U10Y-BI router provided by BSNL.

Turn Off Laptop Battery Charging While Gaming

High end laptops like Dell XPS has dedicated graphic cards that tend to drain the battery quickly while doing heavy multi-tasking or gaming. In this post we're talking about Dell XPS notebook which is a very good gaming machine with 2GB NVIDIA GPU. During normal operation, the NVIDIA optimus technology keeps the GPU in off state so that the battery will be saved. However the XPS holds a good battery, its not up to mark for gaming as the battery will quickly discharge when high end games are running.

Play Subtitle .srt Files With Movie File

Most of us choose watching movies with subtitles. Many movies that we download from internet has subtitles merged with movie file (.avi, mkv, mpg, divx, mp4) so that no need for another subtitle files to be inserted. But in most cases, the movie may not have, subtitles included. so we should download appropriate subtitle file (generally with extension .srt) separately. You can get subtitle for any movies by simply a Google search {MOVIE NAME<space>srt subtitle}. You''ll get better results if the MOVIE NAME is replaced with the file name of the video file. 

Change Windows7 Default Downloads Folder

Here's a simple windows 7 tip that might useful if your very new to this version of windows. For a new user, the windows 7 might look very complicated to configure things as in XP. You can change the windows 7 default download folder from C:\Users\username\Downloads to any folder in any of the drives.After doing this you can access this folder easily from the Downloads shortcut that is provided in Mycomputer sidebar andother windows.

Clear YouTube Search History From PC, Android App

Whenever you perform searches on YouTube, it'ill be recorded in Google's user logs if you are signed in to your account. With Google's new policy update, they've started storing all searches and activities on all their services. According to Google, it may be due to security threats but their intention is clear that this data is enough to enhance social networking advertisements. But as a YouTube user, you have left with an option to delete the search history from your eyes. You can follow the below steps to delete search history from your PC or YouTube android application.

Play Videos While Downloading on Android

Definitely you want to preview the video before it's downloading to ensure that the video that you're being downloading is correct one and the quality is good. But most of the downloading sites such as mediafire or megaupload, doesn't allow you to preview the video or anything. It's also a waste of time to preview the file first then downloading, from sites like youtube. I have some solutions for you to play the videos while downloading from any site on your android phone . 

How to Open and Edit NTH Files

Nokia mobile phone user are very familiar with the file type with extension .nth.NTH file is a unique file type based on the Nokia series 40 OS. The letters NTH stand for Nokia theme. The theme files for Nokia mobile phones in the S-40 range are usually available to download in .nth format. 

How to Use Google Cloud Print from Chrome

Google cloud print is a free Google service based on cloud computing theory to share your printer online for those you selected from the applications you use everyday. It can print your emails, documents of almost all formats  - pdf, doc, docx etc from any mobile phone or computer that connected to internet. The advantage is that you dont need any additional printer drivers or hardware to use this service. However google chrome browser can help you to easily use this service via a free extension called Print Using Google Cloud Print™. Here's a short guide to how to use this extension.

Reduce Image Size to 50KB or Less

In India, Certain websites including Government websites wont allow you to upload images greater than 50KB or 75KB in size while filling their application forms. But pictures taken from digital camera or scanner is usually 100 times greater than this size around 5MB to 7MB. Also thse big image size will cause problems when you want to attach images to emails, uploading to social networking websites like Facebook, Google Plus etc. It'll take lot of time and data to upload such pictures.