New scam email sent in the name of FedEx

November 23, 2009 0 comments

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. [...]

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 [...]

Speed up file deletion in Windows Vista

November 18, 2009 1 comment

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 [...]

Track the spread of the Flu at Google.org

October 30, 2009 0 comments

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 [...]

Firefox – Keep your favorite Google doodle all year round

October 29, 2009 0 comments

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 [...]

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, [...]

Browse multi-page articles without clicking on the Next button

October 20, 2009 0 comments

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 [...]

Save your desktop icons layout

August 27, 2009 0 comments

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 [...]

How to log in to multiple web accounts simultaneously

August 19, 2009 1 comment

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 [...]

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.

How to take an offline backup of Google Docs

August 4, 2009 0 comments

If you are a regular Google Docs user, then you might have considered keeping a copy of all of your documents offline. GDocBackup is a free utility that will download a copy of your online files to your hard disk for you. Run the software and it will check whether a back-up exists. If not, [...]

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