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We all watch YouTube videos frequently. While watching some videos, especially in full screen mode, it is annoying to see annotations and subscribe us links. It totally spoils our video watching enjoyment. You can manually close those pop-ups such as annotations and links, but it is not a permanent solution. There are two ways to hide those things in a hassle-free manner. This problem is a big burden for most of us, because the close button can't be clicked while watching in full screen mode. Most of the time spotting the x button to close those links becomes quite difficult. when it is more than two, you will be outraged. You can permanently hide those annotations by changing your YouTube settings as explained in this guide . The demerit of this method is you will no longer see links over the videos you watch which may include some useful links at the end of the video. Those links could be there as connecting links to other videos of the same channel or it may take you to the rel...

Sometimes, you might want to be offline and check who are all online on Google+ or Facebook. You may have some reasons to do this, I'm going to show you how to do this stuff perfectly. It will be something like the list of online people will be showed, you can choose whether you must be showed online or offline to them, it's completely your choice. UPDATE on 17/09/2015: Pidgin will no longer work for Facebook as Facebook disabled its XMPP Chat API from April 30th, 2015. You will need a third party application named, 'Pidgin' to do this. The best part is Pidgin is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Download Pidgin . For complete guidance on which version you have to download and how Check this link . You may ask me, 'Why should we use a third party application while there are provisions to do this on Facebook and Google+ by default'. Good question. Here my answer, you may turn off chat on Facebook and Sign out from hangouts on G+. But, you will no longer see ...

With 1.3 billion active users, Facebook is the most successful social network among world people. Day by day, the number of users joining Facebook increases steadily. Most of us know how to utilize the features of Facebook to make the most out of it. In this post, I share the most basic and important 10 features of it which I guess you don't know. Also, please don't blame me if you already know some of the tips mentioned. #1. Get post & comment links Often, you would come across a stunning post in Facebook which you couldn't share explicitly or you are too lazy to share it in custom. Sometimes, you may want your friend to check out a particular comment. You can get the link of any particular post or any particular comment by clicking on the timestamp (Refer below images). Else, you can simply right click the link and select 'Copy link address' and send it to your friend. #2. Download Facebook videos If you know how to download a YouTube video, you will easily d...

All bloggers are interested in Google traffic, because it is highly targeted and lucrative. It is also good to get referaal traffic from other sites. Flickr is an image hosting site owned by Yahoo. It is famous among bloggers for its CC licensed images. We can use CC images in our blog straightaway, depending on the type of the license. For instance, for CC BY-SA license, all we need to do is just giving credit to the owner. So, like Google, Flickr will also be searched for images. Also, Google often returns Flickr images if you filter the results under 'Usage rights'. Bloggers always filter the results under 'Labeled for reuse with modification'. So, they can use those images in their blog without any license problem. One can witness many Flickr images with this filter for any search query. So, it is good to have those kind of images in your Flickr channel to get traffic to your blog. It is easy to drive Flickr traffic to your blog. Also, if your image is good, it wi...

Are you a torrent freak and do you have a dual-booted system? I hope you understand what I'm going to teach you by taking a glimpse of the title. For instance, say you use Windows for Microsoft word and Linux for other purposes. Lets say, in Windows, You initiated a torrent download which is 75% completed. When you switch back to Linux, you could not continue the download from where you left. You have to begin all from the scratch otherwise you must boot into Windows to finish things. It's not at all necessay. You can continue the left off in your other OS too. You may have Windows + Windows, Windows + Linux, Windows + Mac, whatever this trick is going to work in all. Things you need Deluge - Torrent client. Two folders to store your .torrent files. (For example: win & lin) A common place for your downloads. (For example: container) Instructions Install Deluge bittorrent client in all OSs of your system. As said earlier, create three folders in your hard drive. Your OSs mu...

You might have used Google drive, Dropbox or Onedrive to save your files and share them with your friends or public. Whenever you want to share some files, you will be given a URL Obviously, they are not direct links in the sense, those allow other users to visit one gateway page which contains a download link for any particular file. The user must use that to download files. Some of us would want to share the direct links for the files, so that any user can initiate the download just by clicking that hyperlink. You could do that easily. You just need to edit the share URL to make this happen. To make things a lot easier, I have created a tool by which you can generate direct download links for your files in Google drive, Dropbox and Onedrive. What you have to do is just copy the share URL of any file. Go to this page - Direct Download link generator for Google drive, Dropbox, Onedrive . Paste the share URL in the text box under "Enter Share link" and press Enter. Now, if yo...

If you land in this page, then you must be a blogger. If you have registered your domain name with Bigrock (As I did), then you would have known about their free email service. Every domain name can have a maximum of 2 custom email addresses. Are you still using your gmail address in your contact page? This's the perfect time to look more professional. How awesome it would be if your email address look like the following one? vignesh@syncwithtech.org It's the email address I use in my contact page. Looks professional nah? Sure, it do. You can also have a custom email address like the one mentioned above. If you don't even know how to create a custom email address with Bigrock, refer this guide . This post is all about how to manage your custom email more easily without messing things up. Let's say you have created an email, from your Bigrock account. How will you use it? What are all you must do to get the most out of it? all of the above questions are answered in this...