TechAirlines: Technology Tips

Are you receiving far too many emails? Is managing them all getting to be extremely difficult? The Gmail Team has recently started to roll out a new feature called Gmail Priority Inbox. While Gmail does an excellent job filtering out spam, we all sometimes find ourselves receiving emails that aren’t spam, but they’re not really important. Take notifications from Facebook or a product newsletter. Sure, they aren’t spam because you actually signed up for them, but are they as important [...]

Most websites, especially blogs, publish their new content to social network feeds. This allows for a greater audience and better interaction with their audience. Unfortunately, posting updates on multiple social networks manually everytime there’s new content can be a time consuming task.As a result, many are using services, such as Twitterfeed, to automatically scan their website’s RSS feed and post updates to social networks, like Facebook and Twitter. The website owners and bloggers [...]

Are you tried of seeing the word Start all the time on Windows XP? Want to change that text? Or perhaps you want to change the text that shows when your mouse hovers over the button? By default, it just says start. *Yawn* That’s boring. So let’s change it! Warning: Please try to follow these steps accurately. We will be playing with critical system files here and failure to properly edit them may have adverse effects on your system. Start by downloading a free application called Resource [...]

Would you like a chance to help out your favorite open source projects with some funding and recognition? It’s time for the annual Open Source Awards from Packt Publishing. This was formerly the Open Source CMS (Content Management System) Awards, but this year, they changed it a bit to include non-CMS awards and threw in four additional open source categories. The categories for the 2010 Open Source Awards are:Open Source CMS – Best open source CMS Hall of Fame CMS – Open to the [...]

Are you opening too many tabs? Is the tab bar getting too cluttered? Mozilla has recently announced in a blog post that the fourth beta of Firefox 4 is now available. It introduces a new tab management feature known as Firefox Panorama, formerly Firefox Tab Candy. Panorama is a new feature that allows you to group and organize your tabs by task. In addition, it offers beautiful eye candy and an attractive interface. Learn more about this new feature in the video below.To go to the Panorama view, [...]

Fred Figglehorn is the second most subscribed channel on YouTube. There seems to be a strange bug with his channel which currently says he has 246 subscribers.The Top Subscribed Channels list still has the correct counts though.This isn’t the first time something weird happens on YouTube, so I’m sure this is just a temporary error and should be fixed shortly. Are you noticing his as well? Have you seen this bug on YouTube before? Share your thoughts with us in the comments. Update [...]

On August 24, 1995, Windows 95 was born. Windows 95 was a huge commercial success and was considered one of greatest events in Bill Gates’ life. Windows 95 was a major upgrade from its predecessors. It featured a brand new interface style with the Windows Taskbar and Start Menu we all know today. It also moved to a 32-bit subsystem from the previous 16-bit. The following is one of the commercials for Windows 95.The new taskbar was a major milestone in Microsoft Windows. It significantly enhanced [...]

Ever wanted to share a YouTube video with someone but want to share just a certain part of it without having them start from the beginning? Need to have a video automatically loop? YouTube URLs can be modified with various query string parameters to change certain features and how to video player works. In most cases, parameters follow the video URL with an ampersand (&). The most commonly seen parameter is probably &feature=related which shows that the video was found through clicking on [...]