There are times when we are faced with the daunting task of finding old messages among the hundreds of mails in our inbox. This is worse for people who have multiple email addresses that are not forwarded to a central one. Whatever your case is, this guide will help you find messages faster in your GMail. If you are a Gmail power user, there are a lot of tips to help you use ...

Keyboard shortcuts are essential to any Windows power user. Keyboard shortcuts may seem very simple and quite often it can take longer to remember the keyboard shortcut than it would to just perform that action the normal way with the mouse. However once you’ve practiced those shortcuts a few times it will eventually become second nature and you wont even realise that you’re using them. Windows 8 has plenty of new keyboard shortcuts as well as all the ...

Afloat, by developers at Infinite Labs, is a useful plugin application that allows users to customise the way they interact with the windows they have open on their Mac OS desktops. It's a small extender that adds both useful window management commands and a little eye candy to most Mac applications. It adds always-on-top, transparency, Spaces window management and more. Adding several features to most open windows, it can be useful for both productivity and the general tidiness of your machine so you can find your way around more easily ...

Whilst a useful addition to Mac OS, the dock is pretty limited in what it can do. Especially since the removal of any useful form of dock Exposé with the arrival of Lion. For users who like to keep a lot of apps and folders to hand on the desktop, without hoarding icons and alias' that generally make things messy, the dock can get extremely cluttered, and not actually make it any easier to find what you want to find on there, than say just a Spotlight search. Enter Jumper, an app with ...

There could be any number of reasons why you want to take a screenshot on your PC, and if you're using Windows then the chances are then your computer has a dedicated button, 'print screen' for example, which will take one for you. A Mac, however, has no such button, and therefore we Mac users have to find another way. Thankfully, there are a couple of efficient ways of taking screenshots in Mac OS X, so read on to find out how.   Keyboard Shortcuts I guess this ...

One of the most useful features of iOS 5 happens to be often neglected as well. We’re referring to keyboard shortcuts. If you’ve used a BlackBerry device before, you know how useful keyboard shortcuts are while writing emails or texting friends. iOS 5 on your iDevice now comes with an option to create your own custom keyboard shortcuts.  How it works is quite simple - you just enter a shortcut in lieu of the actual phrase that you want to type and iOS 5 automatically inserts ...