Password protect minimized applications with LockThis

Have you ever wanted to let a friend quickly borrow your windows computer, but didn’t want to worry about them looking through the other applications that you have open, like, maybe an instant messenger window? One way would be to save and close all the other applications before you hand over the machine to your [...]

Find all Windows 7 settings in a box

If you recently switched over to Windows 7 you would find that it is quite an improvement over XP and Vista. However, if you are the techie type and love to tweak Windows to suit your needs, you will find that there are so many settings you can play with but these settings are all [...]

How to prevent Windows from rebooting after automatic updates

By default Windows is configured to automatically download and install updates. This is fine, as it saves you the trouble of checking for updates and installing them periodically. But the problem is that, once the updates are installed, Windows needs to reboot. Windows usually sets itself to reboot in 10 mins, but it also gives [...]

Shortcuts to switch applications to Full-Screen

Whatever be the size of your monitor, you would definitely not want to waste any precious screen space. But take any application, be it a Web browser, word processor, or other application, you would find that the omnipresent toolbars take up a significant portion of the screen space. If you would rather expand your software [...]

Eight ways to conceal your identity online

Whenever you go online, you unwittingly reveal information about yourself. Here are a few ways you can conceal your identity when you are online.
1. Use your browser’s privacy mode
Ever since Apple incorporated private browsing into Safari in 2005, other web browsers  have taken note and developed their own systems of letting you surf the net [...]

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Tab Sidebar: Make better use of your widescreen monitor

Tabs have become a ubiquitous part of the web browser and it is hard to imagine using a browser without tabs anymore.
However, if you are using a widescreen monitor, then you might have noticed that most of the time when you browsing web sites, a lot of screen estate on the sides is being wasted. [...]

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How to safely remove an external USB drive

Sometimes when you use an external hard disk and later opt to safely remove it,  you might receive a message saying ‘Cannot safely remove drive-because it is  being used by something else’ even though you may not be actually using the  drive any more.
This problem happens because, apparently, the focus of Windows Explorer is still  [...]

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How to compare registries and find out what has changed

When you are making some changes to your system settings, wouldn’t it be great to see what is actually changing in the registry? This would be really helpful when the changes you have made doesn’t work as expected and you want to reverse the changes but can’t without actually editing the registry.
Here is how you [...]

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How to run Firefox inside Firefox inside Firefox…

If you are not already aware of this trick, I am sure the title of this post would confuse you but that is exactly what this trick is all about – running Firefox inside Firefox
Well, I am not sure if this trick has any practical usage other than that you can show it off to [...]

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New scam email sent in the name of FedEx

Most of us are aware of the Nigerian scam and the different variations of emails that are floating around. But recently I recently an email that is obviously a scam but the story is not the usual ‘my father was a rich man who died ….’
This email pretends to have been sent by FedEx. Here [...]

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Do your Emails disappear once you have read them?

If you’re finding emails from your Windows Mail or Outlook Express inbox go missing right after you’ve read them, closed the program, then reopened it, don’t panic. Most likely, the messages are perfectly safe, and you just managed to accidentally change a setting in Windows Mail that hides messages once you’ve read them.
It’s easy enough [...]

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Speed up file deletion in Windows Vista

If you are using Windows Vista, you might have noticed that when you drag a file to the Recycle Bin, it sometimes takes 30 to 45 seconds to complete the process (sometimes even longer). A feature in Vista has been causing this problem for some, even though it shouldn’t. Remote Differential Compression attempts to moderate [...]

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Track the spread of the Flu at Google.org

We are all familiar with Google.com. But did you know about Google.org?
Google.org is Google’s charity branch working towards all sorts of good causes including renewable energy, improving public services and using technology to predict and prevent possible threats like climate change and pandemics.
It is part of their efforts to track the spread of disease. They [...]

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Firefox – Keep your favorite Google doodle all year round

Google loves to get creative with its logo on holidays and special occasions by customizing their logo for a day. But what if you love one of those logos so much that you want to keep it all through the year.

Favorite doodle is a Greasemonkey script, which though developed by a Google employee,  is not [...]

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Find related images with Google

Google is a great source to search for images. But sometimes when you are searching for a particular image, you find an image that is related to what you are looking for but not exactly the one you are looking for.
However, Googles new labs feature called similar images, which you can find at similar-images.googlelabs.com, makes [...]

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Browse multi-page articles without clicking on the Next button

How many times have you come across web pages where you find only a portion of an  article  on the first page. The remaining portion of the article is spread over several  other  pages, and you have to click the Next button, sometimes several times, to  read  the rest of the story.
Splitting a long article [...]

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Save your desktop icons layout

Quite often some game or application alters your computer’s screen resolution, and when the screen changes back afterward, your carefully arranged desktop icon layout is completely messed up.
Fortunately, there is a little free tool called DesktopOK that can come to your rescue. This nifty freeware lets you save and restore icon layouts. Just set your [...]

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How to log in to multiple web accounts simultaneously

Many of us have multiple accounts with one web site. Whether it be several gmail accounts or two separate twitter accounts or any such multiple accounts. But it is always a hassle to have to log out of each account to access another.
Internet Explorer
The newest version of Internet Explorer, IE8, already includes this feature.
In Internet [...]

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