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Different ways you can actually try using OneNote 2013

May 6, 2016 by Satyapriya

OneNote is the most amazing applications that actually works as a perfect alternative to a notebook. It can also be said as a digital notebook.

Manage shopping List:

Forgetting something to buy while you go to the supermarket is the most common thing. But OneNote will not allow you to do so, it will help you to take a list of all the shopping items that you need buy and then you can also make them tick once they are bought.

Manage recipes in OneNote:

If you are a food lover and also love to cook, then it might interest you to use OneNote for organizing your recipes. You can create section under the label “Recipes”. Use the camera to take the snaps of the recipes you find in magazines and books. You can even use the print option in your browser (choosing OneNote as your printer) to save those recipes to the OneNote.

OneNote as a media player:

Just drag and drop the audio files directly into the OneNote page and you will be able to arrange your favourites there. Click on play to start listening.

Record a demo tape:

If you are music lover, love to sing and wants to have all your tracks one place, Then this works great for you. Just record your singings by just go to Insert>Record audio.

Convert images to text:

Yes, this is among the best features of OneNote 2013 which allows you to just easily translate the text in the image that you scanned. You can later edit that text.

Scan and Manage receipts:

If you are really tired of searching for the bills, receipts from your past expenses, then this will be a great idea. Just scan the receipts, bills and store them in the OneNote which are easily accessible.

These are some awesome ways to use the best word application OneNote, hope you like them and try to use them for sure.

Best screen casting apps to record your desktop screen in Windows

May 3, 2016 by Satyapriya

You may have known about screenshots in mobile phones and computers and may also have used it. You can also find screen recorder videos while you search for how to use something, like some app, some software. But have ever thought that even you can use that screen recorder if you are in need. Yes, you can easily record your desktop screen and share it or upload it somewhere. Here are some awesome apps that lets you to record your screen in Windows OS.

If you are searching or looking for something to record your desktop screen while you are trying to explain something to your friends or upload a video of your desktop actions, then here are some best screen recording apps that may help your purpose.

The Game Bar:

For all the Windows 10 users, here is a surprise for you. You are actually having a hidden feature of screen recording in your Pc that I am gonna tell you now. Just press Windows + G to open the game bar where you are given with the screen recorder, actually it is intended to record Xbox games, while you can use it some other way. You don’t need Xbox one to use this just press Windows + Q and see the surprise. This apps works the best than any other installed apps. But this will record the app running rather than the entire desktop.

PowerPoint 2016:

Another option that you might be unaware of is available in PowerPoint 2016. Yes Powerpoint 2016 actually allows you to record your screen and directly add it to the power point presentation.

VSDC Free Video Editor:

This is a free video editing tool that allows you to record the desktop screen. After installing the app, you just need to configure it as you need by opening the subordinate app VSDC Free Screen Recorder. You can configure the hotkey combination to start the recording and then stop it. The recorded video will be saved in AVI file format and that can be edited in the VSDC video editor later if you need.

Rlystim Screen Recorder:

This is another interesting screen recording app that allows you to record your desktop screen for free. This is simple to use. You have to be a bit careful while installing the software as it will attempt to install an additional app Money Calender 5, so you will have to uncheck the option while installing this software.

FlashBack Express:

You will have to register in this app after downloading to use the free version. This software lacks video editing functionality which is a big drawback.

Ezvid:

It is the best screen recording software that has a lot of potentiality. It is flexible and it allows you to record the screen in sections or full screen. It also allows you to annotate, speed up and slow down. It even comes with the video editing tool, speech recording can also be done.

So with these great screencasting tools, I think you may be clear of which one to choose for your needs.

Replacements for Picasa which is vanishing soon

May 2, 2016 by Satyapriya

Picasa is the most loved photo organizing and editing app for many people and I am among them. As Goggle is going to shutdown Picasa service very soon, we have to shift to something else which is a kind of replacement to that beautiful software. As Picasa is free to use, here I share with you only the free replacements. There might be the better replacements if you are willing to pay.

One thing which I find very unfortunate is that we have to use two different softwares to get the services of photo organization and editing while Picasa used to offer both the services together.

XnViewMP:

This software is not just a photo browser, but a media browser, so you can also find your video and audio files and almost 500 file formats that it recognizes. It can be best used a s photo organizer rather than a photo editor. It gives the instant information about the photo like its size, time and date taken, lens and all. Its feature of tagging your photos is the best.

Its available for windows, Mac and Linux operating systems.

FastStone Image Viewer:

It may have few photo editing features, but it can be best used as a photo organizing app. It has few editing features like red eye removal, comparison, emailing, resizing, cropping and colour adjustments. But its only available in Windows operating system.

Photoshop Elements:

It is from the family of Photoshop software. It’s a stripped down version of Photoshop that allows you to organize and edit all your photos. The most liked features in Picasa are available in this software which include the facial recognition, fun printables, easy sharing. With the power of Photoshop in built in it, you can be sure that you get quality edited pictures.

Microsoft Photos:

It’s the native app for Windows OS users which lets to organize and photos easily. The editing features in this app are limited to some basic edits only.

JetPhoto Studio:

If your needs are so simple and you just need a software which allows you organize your photos and od some basic photo editings, then this could be the best software for you. This is available for both Mac and windows users.

Paint.NET:

If you have already decided to use FastStone or JetPhoto, then this could be the best compliment software for those as they both are limited to very basic photo editing features, so you can do all your editings with this while they will help you in organizing your photos.

So now plan by choosing from the various softwares I have mentioned above and start using them as you get used to them by the time Picasa goes away. I hope and wish that you would like these as you like Picasa. But definitely it takes some time.

Make your life easier with these keyboard shortcuts

April 25, 2016 by Satyapriya

Many of us are already aware of the well known keyboard shortcuts like ALT + F4 and CTRL + C, there are some more uncertain shortcuts which many of us tend to neglect. These keyboard shortcuts are not only helpful for an average user, but also for the advanced users. You can save lot of time and effort if you use these shortcuts properly, so lets get started.

Windows Key + D

This keyboard shortcut instantly shows the desktop and it’s job is equivalent to the “Show the Desktop”. It quickly minimizes every open window and shows the desktop.

Ctrl+ Shift+ Esc

This is the shortcut used to directly open the task manager.
Ctrl+ Click

If you want to open a link but don’t want to disturb the current tab, then just hold the control button and click on the link. This helps to open the link in the background.

Alt+ Print Screen

It just does the work of the Print screen button. It is used to take the screen shot of the current active window.

Shift+ Click

If you have check a lot of dialog boxes with the same Yes or No. then you can just use this shortcut which will save your time a lot. Just hold the shift button and then click on the yes box to make all options Yes or click No to make all options NO
Ctrl+ C

Have you ever got an error message from your computer and don’t know what to do. You can just copy the error message on your computer to share it with your technical guy. This shortcut copies the error message to your clipboard. You can paste it somewhere to share it.
Ctrl+ T

For opening the new tab in the internet browsers, this keyboard is helpful.

Ctrl+ Shift+ T

This is the shortcut key to reopen the recently closed tabs

Ctrl+ Shift+ N

This shortcut opens the Private incognito window in Google Chrome Browser.

Ctrl+ Shift+ P

This is for opening new private window in Mozilla Firefox.

Alt+ Enter

It inserts the .com automatically after entering the domain name in the browser.

Shift+ Enter

This will insert .net to the domain name.

Ctrl+ W

This shortcut is for closing the current window in the browser.

Ctrl+ Backspace

This is used for deleting the wrong word that you have recently typed.

Ctrl+ Left or Right Arrow key

It is used to move the cursor for moving one word at a time rather than the default one character at a time. It is used to navigate quickly.

Ctrl+ +

This is used to zoom in the webpages. You can use this shortcut key when the webpage is not legible.

Ctrl+ –

This shortcut does the reverse of the previous shortcut.

Ctrl+ 0

This is used to reset the webpage’s zoom.

Windows key+ M

This shortcut also used to minimize all the open windows.

Ctrl+ L

This keyboard shortcut is used to quickly jump to the address bar of the website.

Windows key+ Pause/Break

This is used to open the System Properties dialogue box.

Ctrl+ Shift+ Delete

This shortcut is used to open the options to delete the browser cookies, search history.

Windows Key+ L

To lock the computer instantly.

Ctrl+ H

It shows the history.

To rename the selected file, this shortcut is useful.
Ctrl+ F

This shortcut opens the find option in any program.

Ctrl+ S

As everyone is familiar, this is used to save the work done on any program instantly.

Ctrl+ Home and Ctrl+ End

This is for instantly going to the starting or ending of the page.

Ctrl+ P

This shortcut prints the current page.

Space Bar

Many don’t actually know this trick that you can move down to the page when you press spacebar.

Ctrl+ Tab

This is used to navigate between the tabs in your browser.

Alt+ Double click

This is for opening the file’s properties.

Train your computer to welcome you

April 24, 2016 by Satyapriya

We do many things with our computers like we do personal tasks, and official tasks as well. And we also use it to browse internet. But many users don’t know some cool and fun stuff that we can do on our computers.

We have seen many English movies that they are being greeted by their computers, if you are thinking that its just limited to their computers and cannot be done through our computers, then here I am to prove you wrong. You can actually make your computer greet you every time you login in to your PC and here are the few simple steps, you need to follow.

You can make your windows greet you with a custom voice message at start up

First you have to click on the Start Menu and then navigate to accessories and Notepad.
Copy and paste the following in the Notepad

Dim speaks, speech

speaks=”Welcome to your PC, Username”

Set speech=CreateObject(“sapi.spvoice”)

speech.Speak speaks

Replace the “Username” with the name that you would like to be greeted by the computer.
Click on the File Menu of the notepad and then click on Save as option and then select all types in Save as Type option and save the file with any name of your choice with the extension .vbs.
Now copy the file that you have saved.
Navigate

Windows Xp: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

Windows 7, 8 Vista: C:\Users\ {User-Name}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

Now paste the file.
You are done, the next time, you login into your PC you will here the custom Voice message.( I mean your computer will greet you)

For best result, you are advised to change the sound scheme to no sounds. This can be done as follows.

Go to Control Panel>Sound and Audio Device>Then go to Sounds Tab>Select No Sounds in the Sounds Scheme option and then click on Apply and Ok. That’s it you are done.

So I hope you liked this trick and would try it for sure. It will leave your friends in wonder and they think that you have a very intelligent PC that greets you with your name in the start up.