Flash Player 11.3 Beta Adds Background Updates for Mac and Protected Mode for Firefox (Windows)

April 6, 2012
choose update method for flash player 11.3

Recently Flash Player 11.2 has been released recently with background updates feature for Windows, today, Adobe has released first beta of Flash Player 11.3 ( this time) by adding support for background updates for Mac. This release also adds protected mode for Firefox (in Windows only) and other features. Two months back Adobe released public [...]

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Microsoft Security Essentials is not Compatible with Windows 8

April 6, 2012
MSE has compatibility issues

All users by now may know that in Windows 8 Microsoft offers rebranded Microsoft Security Essentials as Windows Defender which offers same malware protection as that of MSE. If you try to install MSE on Windows 8 CP now it won’t install and shows “this program has compatibility issues dialog”, why MSE is not compatible [...]

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How to Know Which Apps Are Preinstalled on Your Windows 8 PC

April 6, 2012
metro apps already installed on Windows 8

Windows  8 by default comes installed with some metro apps which you might not know, but by knowing them you can get a clear idea of what other metro style apps you’ve installed 0n your Windows 8 PC. Windows 8 overall offers 14 built-in apps, those are: Camera, Reader, Xbox Live games, music, video, SkyDrive, [...]

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Opera 12’s New Snapshot adds New Opera:CPU Page and gets Hardware Acceleration Fixes

April 4, 2012
Opera processor usage page

Recently Opera released Opera 12 Snapshot including 64-bit build for Windows and Mac with the addition of Out of Process Plugins, CSS Animations and HTML5 Drag and drop features, today continuation for that another snapshot has been released by Opera that fixes hardware acceleration issues and a new Opera:CPU page has been added to let [...]

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Bing Desktop Automatically Sets Daily Homepage Image from Bing as Windows 7 Desktop Background

April 4, 2012
Bing Desktop

I like Bing for the beautiful image it features on its homepage every day, I don’t use it for search. There are third-party apps like Bing Rounder which grabs the daily image featured on Bing homepage and sets as desktop background. Today Microsoft released Bing Desktop app in Beta version which automatically sets daily image [...]

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Disable Lock Screen in Windows 8

April 4, 2012
do not display the lock screen

Inspired from Windows Phone 7 UI Microsoft introduced metro user interface and Lock Screen  in Windows 8. Lock Screen includes a beautiful background image with date, time and some notification icons, this lock screen appears before you login or when you log out of or when your PC is locked. We’ve covered how to set [...]

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Chrome Web Store Adds Trending View, App Badges

April 4, 2012
Chrome web store Trending View

We’ve covered recently that downloads of apps and extensions in Chrome Web Store has been increased indirectly thanks  to inline installations and Sub categories feature has been added to improve discoverability of apps, more improvements and new additions to Chrome web store like Trending View, Autocomplete for the search box, new app badges. Trending View [...]

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Set IE10 on Desktop as Default Browser and Completely Disable Metro IE in Windows 8

April 3, 2012
choose how you open links

Metro IE is aimed at touch screen devices and has been set as the default browser in metro environment and IE10 version on desktop obviously becomes the default browser. It is really  annoying  that when we open links in metro apps they will open in metro IE where we want them to open in internet [...]

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Set Google as Default Search Engine in Internet Explorer 10

April 3, 2012
add to internet explorer

In Windows 8 by default Bing has been set as the default search engine for IE 10 in metro and desktop environments and its the only search provider Internet explorer offers in Windows 8 Consumer Preview, if you want to set Google as default search engine in IE 10 first you need to add it [...]

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Mozilla Now has a Working Prototype of Firefox for Windows 8 Metro Environment [Screenshots]

April 2, 2012
Firefox tile on metro start screen

Currently Metro IE 10 has been set as default browser in Windows 8 Consumer Preview at the same time, IE 10 will be the default browser on desktop also, I am not expecting Microsoft to change this in upcoming Windows 8 final. Mozilla has been already working on “metro version of Firefox for Windows 8” [...]

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