Skydrive Explorer

Wondered about accesing skydrive provided by live.com from desktop?

Well, it can be done now, from within windows explorer by using a utility provided by http://www.skydriveexplorer.com

Skydriveexplorer can be downloaded here

Search Attachments in Gmail

Just to find all attachments in Gmail, a cool feature is by placing the search term as

has:attachment

in the search box and it would list all the emails with attachment.

Firefox / Mozilla Bookmarks - Favorites as in Internet Explorer

Bookmarks or Favorites which are collected as we browse are now a much needed source of our daily internet surfing.

Real need is when we are changing the system or the system fails and want to retrive them.

Mozilla / Firefox stores them under the user profile.

Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\

lookout for bookmarkbackups folder and would find files in the following format.

bookmarks-yyyy-mm-dd.json

file dated lastest would the last backup file.

To transfer bookmark, can select the last file and import on to the other client.

Another method to transfer bookmarks, is export them on a regular basis and import whenever required.

Packard Bell - Recovery console

Packard Bell Desktop - Vista Home Basic

Now a days, recovery disc are not shipped along with the desktops, and for novice users it difficult to recover the operating system when something goes wrong.

On Packard Bell, Function Key F11 is the recovery console option to go into recovery utility on the hard drive.