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De-clutterize your desktop

Rahul — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:13:52 +0000

We all have our fair share of clutter on the desktop. Lately, I have moved over to the minimalistic demographic. Minimalism is a technique in itself where you employ the very meaning to everything in your life. From desktop to your room, from workspaces to websites. Here are a few pointers to keep...

Auto find lyrics for your songs

Rahul — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:29:27 +0000

Everyone has a huge collection of music, and sometimes when you really need to learn the lyrics you search on the internet. Why not do that automatically? When you play a song, the lyrics are automatically downloaded and if you want, embedded it into ID3 tag of the track for displaying on your...

Tune your DNS to load pages quickly

Rahul — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:47:12 +0000

I know quite a bucket load of people who take their internet connection for granted as long as it loads up Farmville. In reality you might be deprived of the full potential of your internet connection by background bottlenecks(unless you live in India where speeds are retarded) which I will break...

Best of : Software update tools

Rahul — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:04:43 +0000

Typically a computer user installs tons of software. Along with that, there are other stuff like plugins, extensions etc like Java, Adobe Flash, Silverlight.. Many of these softwares don’t even bother checking for updates, or notify you after weeks by which time you would have probably heard...

How To : Download YouTube videos

Rahul — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:10:25 +0000

Since the launch of YouTube, plenty of unofficial downloaders have been released. Its hard to keep track of which service to use as people usually end up googling and looking at a thousand search results. Lets look at some of the best websites and plugins that allows us to download YouTube videos....

8 Facebook tricks you probably did not know

Rahul — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:37:30 +0000

Facebook is no doubt the most popular social networking site out there. Oozing with plenty of features many of the average users are not aware of. Here is a break down of 8 features you probably haven’t come across, and most of them can be done without installing additional software. 1. Hide...

Play Tetris, the insane way

Rahul — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:50:09 +0000

Remember Tetris? The game which you might have come across at least once in your life? Lets rewind the tape a bit here. Created by Alexey Pajinov in 1984 on an Elektronika 60, it went on to become a game which would be available in nearly every electronic device with a big enough screen. Mobile...

HighOnGeek is live!

Rahul — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:37:54 +0000

Howdy reader, Hullo and welcome to HighOnGeek. A website which was due for a long time. HighOnGeek is a tech weblog dedicated to spreading simple know-how about computers. Here, you will find the most simplest guides to your problems, app reviews, troubleshooting, software tips, gaming tips, etc.....