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Shortcuts to switch applications to Full-Screen

December 14, 2009 0 comments

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

December 8, 2009 2 comments

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 [...]

Tab Sidebar: Make better use of your widescreen monitor

December 6, 2009 2 comments

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 [...]

How to safely remove an external USB drive

December 6, 2009 0 comments

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 [...]

How to compare registries and find out what has changed

November 28, 2009 0 comments

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 [...]

How to run Firefox inside Firefox inside Firefox…

November 23, 2009 1 comment

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 [...]

Do your Emails disappear once you have read them?

November 18, 2009 0 comments

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 [...]

Find related images with Google

October 25, 2009 1 comment

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, [...]

How to make Vista and XP taskbar to show only icons

August 15, 2009 1 comment

The Windows 7 taskbar consists exclusively of icons, even for programs that are currently running. While at first it may appear to be inconvenient to identify the tabs with just the icons, you quickly get used to it and importantly it frees up lots of extra space on the taskbar. However, in Windows Xp or [...]

Restrict access to applications using AppLocker

August 4, 2009 0 comments

Have you ever wanted to give someone access to your Windows computer but wanted to make sure that they couldn’t access certain applications? While you could create a guest account, many of the applications would still be accessible across all the users.

Get rid of the false ‘Disk Full’ message on your thumb drive

July 20, 2009 0 comments

When you copy lots of small files to a USB flash drive, you may have encountered a ‘Disk full’ message even if plenty of space is left. This is especially likely if the small files have long names.

Freely convert PDFs into editable Word documents

July 15, 2009 0 comments

Ever wished you could convert a PDF file into a Microsoft Word document that you could edit? You could opt for a pricey utility that converts a PDF file into a Word-friendly text. But the PDFtoWord web service accomplishes the same thing, for free.

How to inspect your Word documents

July 15, 2009 0 comments

Word 2007 has a new feature called the Document Inspector, which can be used to view the hidden information stored in Word files.

Save PowerPoint slideshows as PDFs

July 15, 2009 0 comments

PowerPoint presentations and slideshows can be large, which may be a problem if you need to send them to people. You could save everything to a folder along with the PowerPoint Viewer, but that requires a minimum of 9MB. One solution is to save the file as a PDF. PDFs are compact, can be viewed [...]

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