Kamasutra virus hides in a PowerPoint presentation

January 17, 2011 1 comment

Sophos computer security firm recently warned that hackers are spreading a nasty computer virus with a file promising a PowerPoint presentation of sexual positions from the Kama Sutra. Clicking on the file does open a real PowerPoint presentation with more than half a dozen lovemaking techniques illustrated from the ancient Indian text. But in the [...]

Microsoft’s Surface V2 – Take a look

January 15, 2011 0 comments

Microsoft first launched the amazing ‘Surface’ technology in 2008 and now here is Surface V2 with lot more advancements. Surface V2 runs on Embedded Windows 7 Professional 64-bit and has a new technology in the screen, called pixel sense, that allows for 2 million sensors alongside the pixels in the display. Pixel sense not only [...]

How to link to a particular page within a PDF document

January 13, 2011 0 comments

If you have a PDF document on the web and you want to draw the attention of your friend to a particular page in the document, you can send him a link to the page and also tell him the page number to look at. But there is a more convenient alternative. You can actually [...]

Google Goggles can now solve Sudoku puzzles

January 12, 2011 0 comments

Google Goggles is a tool for Android mobile phones, which lets you use pictures taken with your mobile phone to search the web. It’s ideal for things that aren’t easy to describe by words. Just open the app and snap a picture, and Goggles will display the result. You can use it to recognize pictures [...]

Significantly reduce your system boot time

January 8, 2011 5 comments

Do you remember how fast your computer used to boot up when it was new? But now, it takes over 2 mins or even longer after you switch it on before you can start any work. If you are one of those who keep downloading and trying out new software, sooner than later your computer [...]

Chrome – Move tabs to the side on your widescreen monitor

January 7, 2011 0 comments

If you have a widescreen monitor and are using Google Chrome browser, you can move the tabs from the top to the left-hand side. This is an experimental feature and works on the Canary or Dev version of Chrome. In the address bar, enter ‘about:flags’ (without the quotes) and hit Enter. Chrome warns you about [...]

How to enable Save All button in Word 2007/2010

January 5, 2011 0 comments

If you work with several Microsoft Word documents simultaneously, switching to each one of them to save them could be both a pain as well as time consuming. However, there is an alternative. You can enable a Save All button which when clicked will save all the open documents. Here are the steps: Click on [...]

How to stop YouTube videos from downloading in the background

January 4, 2011 0 comments

When you are playing a YouTube video and want to stop it what do you do? You click on the pause button. Well, there really is no Stop button in the YouTube player. But the problem is that when you pause the video, the video keeps downloading in the background. This is fine and quite [...]

Automatically change the priority of the active application

January 3, 2011 0 comments

Windows lets you adjust the each applications priority for the system individually in case your want your computer to assign more resources to a particular task. But if you are using more than one application at a time, and you keep switching between them time to time , wouldn’t it be great if your computer [...]

Sign into multiple Google accounts in the same browser

January 2, 2011 0 comments

If you use multiple Google accounts – say one for gmail another for adsense and yet another for Reader, you would know that you can sign into only one account at a time in a browser. Of course you could use separate browsers for each of the account, but it is hassle to do so. [...]

Control Google Instant with your keyboard

January 1, 2011 0 comments

Google Instant is a remarkably faster way of searching as it displays the search results as you type and also suggests the search term for you. But you can make it work even faster by using the keyboard instead of your mouse. To enter the search term, type in part or all of a word [...]

Gumnotes – Attach Notes To Any File or Website in Windows

January 1, 2011 0 comments

If you use sticky notes (either physical or digital) to remind yourself of things to do, then you might want to try out Gumnotes. Gumnotes is a free tool that lets you attach notes to any file or website. If you are working on a file and want to be reminded of something, you could [...]

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