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Today when i logged into my gmail account, I saw a new alert informing me about new feature - Gmail Themes. Now you don’t have to use extra 3rd party plugins to give a fresh look to your mailbox. Some of the themes are really exciting. Like the one I installed which changes as per day time of your location. Isn’t this exciting!!!

Here is what Gmail’s help center says:

“In some cases, you can also customize by location. Some themes change during the day, and we use the location information you provide to correctly time these changes with your local sunrise, sunset, and/or weather. If you select one of these themes, you’ll see a Country/Region drop-down menu appear.”

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Now you can print any website page the way you like with Print What You Like. This free service let you make any page printer-friendly by letting you choose what to print and what not to print on a page. You can simply remove any text area image or ad that you think wont look good on your presentation.

Sometimes you may find some website which are not printer friendly and when you print them like the way they are the outcome looks scrambled and ugly if this is the case this website will come very handy in daily printing of pages from web. While using Print what you like you wont be needing to use MS Word again just put your page URL and start editing and customizing your print online. Actually i love this free service when i had to make my college assignments and i had to do a lot of copy paste research work and print from word now things are changed.

Key Features:

• Format any web page for printing in seconds - no more pasting into Word
• Save money and the environment by reducing your paper and ink usage
• Make printed web pages more readable by removing ads, widgets and other distractions
• Fix broken pages that don’t print correctly
• Edit any public page in your browser - no installation required!
• Change page font size and type, remove the background, and remove images
• Edit any part of the page by clicking a page element or selecting text
• Any selection can be removed, isolated or widened
• All changes are undoable
• Combine multiple web pages together - edit and print them as one document!
• Its all FREE!

When you put URL of your desired page and hit enter you are welcomed with a couple of options which I think are adequate to customize the pages you can simply click on any text area, image, ad in fact anything which you don’t want you to appear on your final printed paper and hit Delete or use ‘Remove’ button in the left pane and you are done simply click Print and enjoy making assignments and presentation.

PWYL

If you are using Windows, the number of shortcuts that Windows presents you is phenomenal. You even have the option to create your own shortcuts to launch applications.

Here are ten shortcuts that can improve productivity:

Windows Key + R

Open the Run window

Windows Key + F

Open the search window

Windows Key + E

Open Windows Explorer

Windows Key + 1, 2, …

Launch the various applications in the Quick Launch bar. (Works only in Windows Vista)

Windows Key + L

Lock your Windows Desktop

Ctrl + C

Copy a file / folder that is selected. Infact this shortcut works in almost all applications in Windows and several other operating systems

Ctrl + V

Paste what is present in the Windows Clipboard

Ctrl + X

Cut / move a file / folder to another location. Hitting Ctrl + V after this will move what is on the windows clipboard.

Windows Key + T

Cycle through the tabs in the taskbar. Hit Enter when the tab you want is highlighted.

Alt + Tab or Alt + Shift + Tab

Switch between various open windows. Alt + Tab allows you to cycle from left to right and Alt + Shift + Tab cycles in the reverse order.