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We can improve system performance by turning on Readyboost for a Flash drive in Windows Vista and above, this feature once enabled, stores the cache file in the root of the Readyboost drive for faster reading of contents in hard […]
Adblock Plus, popular extension for Firefox (available for Chrome, Opera and Internet Explorer browsers too) that blocks annoying ads on web got an update, it has added support for upcoming Australis theme. Since Mozilla ditched Add-on bar from Firefox new […]
WinPatrol 2014 Preview version 30 has been released by its developer, Bill Pytlovany and is available to download for testing. The Preview comes with Windows 8 look and has many new enhancements. Tooltip functionality and Scheduled tasks 2.0 are in […]
Agomo, Piriform’s new cloud-based PC optimization tool offers CCleaner and Defraggler desktop apps features in the cloud, this tool lets you manage several computers remotely from the browser. Agomo is still in beta, you need to sign up for invite. […]
Till now SSL protection or HTTPS encryption is offered for Yahoo Mail only till you sign into service, once you signed into it it will be turned off automatically, back in January 2013 Yahoo offered SSL option for users, now […]
Avast has recently acquired Jumpshot PC optimization and cleaning service, they’ve now integrated it into their products interface in Avast 2014 R2 beta and released with name ‘GrimeFigher’. This beta is available for download with other new features such as […]
Bing homepage team goes through thousands of photos daily for their homepage photo, to end 2013 year they’ve picked up top ten most popular homepages based on user interaction. Microsoft now offering these ten homepage images as wallpapers and screensavers […]
Chrome Canary can be highly unstable and is a Nightly build that gets new features almost everyday is aimed at early adopters and developers. You can use it along with stable channel. One more reason for users to stay away […]
The method mentioned here that lets you automatically shutdown your computer after cleaning with CCleaner is no longer needed because Piriform has added ‘shutdown after cleaning’ option to Advanced Settings of CCleaner in version 4.09 which has just released and […]
Chrome on Windows already doesn’t allow extension installs from other websites except Chrome web store by showing error ‘Apps, extensions and user scripts cannot be added from this website’, you can still overcome it and install third-party extensions in browser […]
Two months back to make searching from ‘new tab’ faster and simpler Google has updated Chrome New tab page- also shows Google doodles if Google is set as your default search engine- with search bar, this was done to avoid […]
How many read the text that appears when Incognito mode window is opened, may be the text too large to skip for reading or you’re already familiar with it to ignore. Chromium team has simplified Incognito landing page they’ve reduced […]