Category | Tips & Tricks

Automatically add shortcuts to your removable media on the desktop

Posted on 30 June 2008

Usually when you insert a USB flash drive into your computer, Windows asks you ‘What do you want Windows to do?’. But it asks only at the time of insertion. Once you close the window and later, if you want to access the drive, you need to navigate through either My Computer of Windows Explorer.

If […]

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Speed up Firefox 3.0 in a flash with Firetune

Posted on 29 June 2008

Firefox 3.0 is surely faster than its previous version. And with a little tweaking and optimization Firefox 3.0 can be made to perform even faster than it does out of the box.
One way is to do the tweaking manually by accessing about:config and editing the parameters. Editing the configuration manually may not be everybody’s cup […]

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How to enter special characters not available on your keyboard

Posted on 28 June 2008

Suppose you have to type out characters like ®, ©, £ etc or for that matter any character which has no key on a keyboard to directly enter them. How do you do that?
Characters like ®, © etc are called special characters. In Windows, each special character is associated with a 4 digit numeric number, […]

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Firefox 3 location bar is truly awesome

Posted on 27 June 2008

If you are a Firefox user, then most probably you have updated to Firefox 3 by now. Apart from being faster, leaner and better looking than the previous version, Firefox 3 has some great new features built into it, one of which is the smarter address bar.
One of the most used area in a browser […]

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How to shutdown Windows almost instantly

Posted on 23 June 2008

How often have you been frustrated by the ’speed’ with which Windows shuts down. It seems to take ages, especially when you are in a hurry.
If you normally shut down Windows from the ‘Turn Off Computer‘ on the Start menu, then here is an alternative that works almost like magic.

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Recover wasted disk space by reducing Recycle Bin storage space

Posted on 22 June 2008

By default, Windows reserves a whopping 10% of each drive volume for storing files you’ve deleted. But how often do you really need to recover a 50GB file from the Recycle Bin?
Most of the time all those extra space reserved for the recycle bin goes wasted. For example, for a 500GB drive, the default space […]

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How to open the last/recently closed tabs in IE7

Posted on 16 June 2008

If you have accidentally closed a tab in Internet Explorer 7, you will have realised there is no way to get it back as with the Firefox or Opera browsers. However, there is a free add-on for Internet Explorer called IE7 Open Last Closed Tab that does just this.

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  • Zooming in Firefox

    In Firefox,  zooming in and zooming out is very easy. Hold down the Ctrl key and scroll the mouse wheel away from you to Zoom in and towards you to Zoom out.


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