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Use (+) to create unlimited siblings of your Gmail address Many times, you need multiple email accounts for testing and the options you have is to create free accounts imaging if you have to create 100+ accounts for testing and then to test you have to open each and every account to check for the emails. A simple workaround is to get a gmail account and just append a plus (“+”) sign after your email address and after that, you can insert any combination of words or numbers to create any number of personalized email IDs with the same inbox. For instance, if your current email ID is  myname@gmail.com , you can modify email to  myname +sibling1@gmail.com  or  myname +sibling2 @gmail.com  or use any combination to still receive an email with the same ID,  myname@gmail.com . Hence using this Gmail trick, you will be able to create multiple aliases of your primary ID and that too without tweaking any setting or configuration. Tips: You can make use of multiple aliases to sign

For those who are use to save Word file as PDF might have faced the issue of Yellow background in PDF file post saving (see screenshot)  Below are the simple steps to resolve this issue. You can set a background color for a Word document, but it is only visible in  Web Layout . The background will appear white in  Print Layout . Use the  View  tab's  Document Views  group,  Web Layout  command to see it one has been set. If it has, it can be removed from the  Page Layout  tab's  Page Background ,  Page Color  options. Normally, the colored page background would not print. However, there is a Word Option to  Print background colors and images . Click the  Office button, Word options, Display  and look in the bottom section,  Printing Options  for  Print background colors and images  and unchecked it. Hope this help.

After moving to Windows 8, one of the major issue faced by most of the traditional Windows users is the unavailability of Start Button / Menu. I tried to get use to Metro interface on my laptop (without touchscreen) but never got settled. I find it really tedious to see my development tools lost in the Metro Style window and thereafter every time I need to search the apps. I missed the classic start menu where all my install programs are well organized the way I used to see them. Because of my corporate policy, I am stuck with Windows 8. After searching on net, I did found a free software which brings the Start Menu back on Windows 8.  Classic Shell™ is free software that improves your productivity, enhances the usability of Windows and empowers you to use the computer the way you like it. The main features are  classic start menu with multiple styles and skins. You can download the same at http://www.classicshell.net/ . Hope this helps to Windows 8 users who are need of

You just bought a domain on GoDaddy and if you would like to leverage the same with your AWS EC2 instance then just follow these easy steps to make it possible: First setup AWS to provide an IP address for your DNS settings. On EC2 Management console you will have a vertical menu on the left hand side. Under “NETWORK & SECURITY” group click on “Elastic IPs”. On the top menu you will see a blue button “Allocate New Address” click on it. Just be sure “EIP used in” is set to “EC2″ then click “Yes, Allocate”. A new IP address will be created on the table, select it by clicking on the empty square by the left of the name. Now click on “Associate Address” on the pop-up click on instance and select the instance you would like to associate to this IP. Finally click “Associate” and that’s it. For now to access via SSH, FTP, etc. you will need to use the new elastic IP. On the GoDaddy side we will set up the points to address with the new elastic ip. Login into your godaddy

You can use a mobile phone, tablet, or other supported device to access information in your mailbox. Here is great article from Microsoft to enable this for Office 365 Exchange accounts:  set up the device to synchronize with Microsoft Exchange

List of tools that generate or maintain files in the XML Sitemaps format, an open standard defined on  sitemaps.org  and supported by the search engines such as Ask, Google, Microsoft Live Search and Yahoo!. https://code.google.com/p/sitemap-generators/wiki/SitemapGenerators