How to Tie a Tie: Traditional Windsor knot

The Windsor knot was started by the Duke of Windsor in the 1930s and it has remained popular to this day because it projects a statement that suggests the wearer is elegant and has confidence. This knot should be worn with a spread collar.

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Follow these steps:

Put [...]

Four Tips to Increase Your Article Writing Productivity

If you are in the field of Internet marketing, you already know how important it is to be able to write informative articles. If you can write articles well, you can make a lot of profits from online marketing. People use the Internet for gathering information. If your website doesn’t have good information, it doesn’t [...]

How To Search Using Google

Using Google is fairly simple. Just enter a phrase in the search box and press Enter and you are good to go. However, if you need more that simple search, Google comes with a number of powerful features. You can use these for better research. These are usually not necessary but learning to use these [...]

Watch YouTube Videos on Your iPod

You can use your iPod to watch YouTube videos on it. All it takes is a few minutes of work. Here are instructions:

1) Visit http://www.keepvid.com

2) Enter the URL of the YouTube video in the box and click on the Download button.

3) Keepvid will process the video and present you two links [...]

How to Host Your Domain Email at Gmail

If you have a domain name, you can use Gmail for your email needs without having to forwarding emails. Google Apps Standard Edition (known earlier as “Google Apps for Your Domain”) allows you to host your personal email at Gmail without having to use “Gmail.com” in your email ID.

You will need to register your [...]

Microsoft Office 2007 on Linux

How to Install Microsoft Office 2007 on Linux

This tutorial will demonstrate you how to install Microsoft Office 2007 on Linux using software package called WINE.

Instructions

1. Ensure that your computer conforms to the specs.

2. Acquire winetricks from www.kegel.com. At the terminal type

wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks

3. sh winetricks msxml3 dotnet20 gdiplus riched20 riched30 [...]

Use Plus Addressing in Gmail

A good method to filter out arriving messages is to use plus-addressing in Gmail.

Instructions

1) Acquire a Gmail account.

2) Go to the external web site you would like to sign up for e.g. Facebook, Myspace, eBay or Amazon.

3) When required to enter your email ID, add a suffix of a plus sign [...]

How to Check Your iPod’s Generation

Here are the features by which you can identify your iPod’s generation:

1st Generation iPod:

# A monochrome screen.

# A scroll wheel that physically turns.

# Control buttons placed around the scroll wheel

# Either 5 or 10GB capacity.

# A firewire connection.

# Only in white.

2nd Generation iPod:

# The scroll wheel [...]

Recover Gmail Password through SMS (text message)

The developers at Gmail have recently added the ability to recover gmail password through SMS i.e. text message. This was done because a lot of people often forget their password and this simplifies password recovery process.

To enable this for your account, just sign in, select ‘Change Password Recovery Options,’ enter your cell phone number [...]

Make Firefox Load Pages Faster

Mozilla Firefox is one the most popular free open source browsers. Millions of users prefer to use it over Internet Explorer, which comes by default with Windows. Firefox is much faster and secure (according to many users/developers). It can be further tweaked to make it more faster. Here are instructions to make Firefox load pages [...]