Fix: “Resize Hard Disk Operation For This Format Is Not Implemented Yet” Error While Resizing VirtualBox Disk

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Long time VirtualBox users will know that VirtualBox doesn’t support resizing virtual hard drive via its settings. In one of our earlier posts, we discussed how to increase VirtualBox’s disk size in Windows using Command Prompt. The method is useful if your virtual hard drive is running out of space. While trying to resize VirtualBox’s [...]

Share Your Video Series On Blip And Make Money While You’re At It

When you hear the term “video sharing website,” what comes to mind? There’s the most obvious choice that 99% of us will think: YouTube. And then there are the half dozen other video sharing websites that sit under the looming shadow that YouTube casts: Dailymotion, Vimeo, Metacafe, etc. But there’s one video site that doesn’t receive the recognition it deserves and it’s called Blip. In his roundup, Dave included Blip as one of five video site alternatives to YouTube. Why would you want an alternative to YouTube? For one, YouTube is a property of Google and you’ll need to find...

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Plan A Trip With LikeWhere: A Magical System For Discovering A New City

What’s the hardest part about traveling to a new city? Finding the best things to do, of course. Each city offers its own unique experiences, and finding the ones you’d enjoy the most, especially under a limited schedule, can get challenging. Yes, there are many places to find inspiration for marvelous trips, and if you’re planning a road trip or a backpacking adventure, you don’t have to go far either. When it’s a city you want to visit, however, and especially if you only have about a week or two to spend there, you’re left with sifting through hundreds of...

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How To Install Macrium Reflect

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As all PC users know, installing software in Windows is a cakewalk. A user who has ever installed a single application in any version of Windows will easily install almost all programs designed to run on Windows. However, you’ll need to pay close attention while installing free software as some of them try to install [...]

Which Linux File Browser Is More Productive: Nautilus or Dolphin?

Any regular Linux user will know that the two most common desktop environments are Gnome and KDE. Additionally, each desktop environment likes to pack its own software along with it, everything from core items such as system setting control panels to photo management software. Therefore, users of competing desktop environments will notice that they’re using different file managers — an important part of desktop productivity. Surprisingly, there are a lot of things that can go right or wrong with a file manager, so these applications do a lot more than simply show where your files are. I compared Nautilus, Gnome’s...

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The Old Gmail Compose Interface, No Longer Available

If you're still using Gmail's old compose interface, you should switch to the new interface. In a few days, the old compose UI will no longer be available, so it's a good idea to learn more about the new UI and try to adapt.

The new compose box has been launched in October 2012, so it's not that new anymore. Google added some new features since then: inserting emoticons and event invitations, adding labels to outgoing messages and a full-screen mode you can set as default. The full-screen mode is closer to the old interface and it's consistent with the mobile interface.

"A few weeks ago we added a full-screen option to the new compose. Now that that option is available, we're saying farewell to the old compose and switching everyone to the new compose over the next few days. The new compose opens drafts as a minimizable window so you can write multiple drafts at once, keep an eye on incoming email, adds support for inline images and much more. If you prefer a full-screen compose experience, you can click on the expand button in the top right of the new compose window to switch to full-screen and then set it as the default by selecting Default to full-screen in the more options menu in the bottom right," explains Google.



I'm sure that a lot of people will complain and say that the old interface is better. I've used the new compose box ever since it was released and I think it's great. You can use other Gmail features while composing a message, you can write multiple messages and there aren't many links and buttons that get in the way. I've briefly switched to the old compose experience and I was surprised to see how cluttered it was: "add cc", "add bcc", "insert invitation", "check spelling", a lot of rich-text editing buttons. It looked like a document editor, not like a communication software. This quote sums up everything that's importat about the new compose layout: "You can now write messages in a cleaner, simpler experience that puts the focus on your message itself, not all the features around it."

Mobile Gmail Enhances YouTube Links

Gmail's mobile site has a cool feature that adds video titles to all the YouTube links from a message. They're still links, but you know more about the videos before clicking them.



Here's an example from Gmail's mobile web app in Chrome for Android:

This also works in Gmail's iOS app and Gmail's mobile web app in other Android/iOS browsers. The message from this screenshot only included a link to a YouTube video, with no special anchor text.

What Can You Learn From An Email Header (Metadata)?

Did you ever get an email and really wondered where it came from? Who sent it? How could they have known who you are? Surprisingly a lot of that information can be from from the email header, or by using info from the email header to do some detective work. The header is a part of the email message that most people never even see. It contains a lot of data that seems like gobbledygook to the average computer user, so as email use became a daily tool in everyone’s life, email clients started to hide this information out of...

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Print Vs. Digital: What Is The Future For News? [You Told Us]

Print media was once king, but sales of newspapers and other physical publications have receded sharply in the face of the wealth of options offered by the Internet. It has all been one way traffic to this point, with people invariably switching away from print media to adopt digital media as their new ruler. However, Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, recently surprised a great many people by personally purchasing The Washington Post, an august newspaper most famous for breaking the Watergate scandal. Could this be a sign that there is life left in print yet? Or is this...

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