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Work makes life so mundane (I know, I’ve been going to office for only a week now) that we tend to forget important things, like birthdays. Sending a personalized “happy birthday” text, or better, calling up and wishing them makes it so much more special. Technology has already made inroads into this part of life [...]

A good amount of IK readers own Nokia phones, and many of them also use the accompanying Nokia PC Suite. It is a great piece of software of course, but have you noticed it adding a ‘Nokia Phone Browser’ icon in your My Computer that you can’t just get rid of? Wait.. Why get rid [...]

All Gmail users had to rely only on the Autocomplete feature while typing in e-mail address in the To: field. But Google has now added a handy contact chooser. The next time you are composing an e-mail, click on the To: link to launch the contact chooser in a small popup window. With this feature, [...]

Ever found a great add-on for Firefox but then realized that it works only in an older version? Well, here’s how to hack into your add-on and force-install it. Note that this merely makes Firefox believe its looking at a new add-on and it may or may not work! (Though in my experience, most add-ons [...]

If you had been following the Facebook blog, you would’ve known that from tomorrow they’ll be letting users to register their new username that would give your profile page a more meaningful URL address. No wait, I think that piece of news was posted on your Wall by the Facebook team already! Now what this [...]

Most of you would already be using Gmail Labs – but for those who’re a bit lost – “Gmail Labs is a testing ground for experimental features that aren’t quite ready for primetime”. Although Gmail initially warns about instability of some Labs features, I haven’t encountered anything of that sort in months! Development is quite [...]