NoVirusThanks Website Blocker blocks websites easily on your PC

by Venkat on May 16, 2012

in Freeware

NoVirusThanks Website Blocker

As we all know websites can be blocked permanently in all browsers on our Computers using hosts file, we’ve also covered that it is possible to block list of websites for a specified period of time (temporarily) with free app called Focal Filter, security company NoVirusThanks has released Website Blocker freeware tool that lets you [...]

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Reset Firefox to Its Default State in Firefox 13 with Reset Button on Troubleshooting Page

by Venkat on May 16, 2012

in Firefox,News

Reset Firefox button on troubleshooting information page

Yesterday we’ve talked about tabs on demand feature in Firefox 13 Beta and other improvements that are landed, another significant addition to Firefox 13 is reset feature which we talked earlier on this blog. Over the time you start using Firefox by installing various add-ons and themes it gets slower and slower, sometimes it crashes [...]

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Tabs on Demand feature in Firefox 13 to Improve Firefox Startup Times and Responsiveness

May 15, 2012

If you’re a Firefox user you’ll definitely hesitate to restart the browser with too many tabs open as it can take more time for Mozilla’s open source browser to load them, fear not! “Tabs on Demand” feature which introduced by Mozilla in Firefox 8 (not enabled by default then, now comes enabled by default in [...]

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How to Change the Default PDF Reader in Windows 8

May 15, 2012
choose default program

If you don’t know Windows 8 by default comes with a metro-style PDF Reader called Windows Reader, this program is the default app for opening PDF files from desktop as well as in metro environment. That means all PDF files by default will be opened in this metro PDF Viewer, Windows Reader icon will be [...]

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Enable Hidden Explorer UI Animations in Windows 7 & 8 with AniExplorer

May 15, 2012
AniExplorer

Windows 7 shows different animations for different actions in Explorer, for example one type of animation is shown for maximize or minimize of  a window and another one is shown for copy/paste dialog, though animations in Windows 7 can use precious system resources but really there are some cool Explorer UI animations that are hidden [...]

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Firefox Nightly gets In-Content Preferences

May 11, 2012
Firefox InContent Preferences

Mozilla today made available In-Content Preferences in nightly build of Firefox 15 which displays preferences with in the content area of the browser instead from a pop-up dialog window. Four students from Michigan State University worked on Firefox’s In-Content Preferences project for 16 weeks and submitted to Mozilla and today this feature is available in [...]

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Enabling Stacked Tabs in Chrome

May 11, 2012
stacked tabs on tab strip

Firefox has Panorama feature and Opera has Tab Stacking to manage tabs which has been a problem since ages where most users open too many tabs can’t organize tabs into groups where Mozilla solved that problem with Panorama, but how many are actually using this feature now is still unknown? Opera too offers tab management [...]

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How to Set Google Chrome Canary As Default Browser in Windows

May 11, 2012
chrome canary settings page

Google introduced Chrome Canary build two years back which is more of a nightly build gets updates daily. This release can be used along with any other installed Chrome channel such as dev./beta/stable. Chrome Canary will be installed in a separate directory and uses separate profile from other chrome version you’re running. Google doesn’t allows [...]

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Mozilla makes Google Secure Search as default Search engine in Firefox 14 Aurora

May 10, 2012
firefox 14 providing search results via secure Google search

We’ve covered back in March this year that Mozilla have plans to enable Google Secure Search as default from Firefox 14 version, this change now reflects in Aurora. What this means is that  the searches you performed from search bar, location  bar or from right click menu will only known to Google and it is [...]

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Forcibly Remove Broken and Stubborn Programs with Geek Uninstaller

May 9, 2012
Geek uninstaller user interface

Most of users by now know about Revo Uninstaller and IObit Uninstaller-these uninstallers removes leftover entries after a program uninstallation is over which Windows built-in Add/Remove programs applet doesn’t offers. Geek Uninstaller is a freeware portable app supporting 64-bit Windows OS is an alternate to Add/Remove programs applet and its also offers “Force Removal” option [...]

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