How-to Guides

This is a collection of evergreen how-guides and detailed tutorials to help you do more with software tools that you use daily.

How to Use Twitter as a Gmail Notifier

You can use Twitter as a Gmail notifier with Google Script. You can also receive SMS text alerts for new email messages on your mobile phone via Twitter.

The Best Alternatives to Google Alerts

Google Alerts is quite a popular tool for monitoring your brand on the Internet but there are good alternatives to keep track of your online presence.

How to Use Flickr as a Photo Backup Service

Flickr offers 1 TB of free storage space, 200x more than Dropbox or Google Drive, and this should be enough to backup your entire collection of photos online.

How to Save Money While Shopping Online in India

Internet shopping is convenient and you often get discounts that offline retailers may find impossible to match. And if you put in some more effort, the online deals may get even sweeter.

Things You Should Do After Installing WordPress

After you have installed WordPress, you may tweak a few settings to further optimize the performance and security of your WordPress website. Here’s a complete guide to optimizing your WordPress installation.

The Most Essential WordPress Plugins

This is an always-updated list of the best WordPress plugins that will add new functionality to your WordPress blog. All plugins are available for download in the WordPress.org repository.

Introducing Video Slides

With Video Slides, you can quickly create a beautiful slideshow from one or more videos pulled from Youtube and Vimeo. Just past the raw video URLs in any format and the tool will bundle them into a presentation.

A More Efficient Embedding Method for YouTube Videos

The embedded YouTube video player loads several unnecessary files and increases the overall load time of your web pages. Here’s a more efficient and light-weight alternative inspired by Google Plus.

Finding a Replacement for Google Reader

Google Reader is shutting down and we have around four months to move our existing RSS subscriptions to another feed reader. What are some of the good alternatives to Google Reader?

How to Send Out of Office Replies in Twitter

Are you travelling for business or going on a vacation? You can create out-of-office automatic replies for people who are trying to reach you via Twitter and they won’t expect a response from you right away!

How to Write a Twitter Bot in 5 Minutes

This step-by-step tutorial explains how you can create your own Twitter bot using Google Scripts and the new Twitter API. The bot runs inside the Google cloud.

Introducing Tall Tweets v2.0

Tall Tweets is a Twitter app that will help you write tweets that are longer than 140 characters. It can also also publisher longer tweets as images.

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