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Yahoo Mail Recent View

Yahoo Mail’s Recent View to Return Multi-Tasking benefits of Tabs

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Yahoo Mail Recent View

Recently a month back, Yahoo has launched new version for their Mail  with new features such as conversations, disposable email address and others, if you’ve lost tabs that are useful for multi-tasking Yahoo is now offering “Recent” View for that. […]

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Adobe Flash Player 12 Beta adds Support for IE11 on Windows 7

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Beta versions of Adobe Flash Player 12 and AIR 4 with codenamed “jones” are available to download for testing on Mac and Windows platforms. With this version Adobe has introduced new numbering scheme- following from “Jones” release for each three […]

Posted in: News
Firefox

After Reset, Firefox now cleaning Old Data without Saving to desktop

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Till now when you reset Firefox -available when you select Troubleshooting Information on Help menu or visit about:support page- to its initial state it leaves Old Firefox Data folder on desktop which is your old profile contains important browser data […]

Posted in: Firefox, News
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After Upgrading to Windows 8.1, Older Versions of Avast Prior to 2014 will be Disabled

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

If you’ve a Windows 8 computer that has Avast installed, before upgrading to Windows 8.1 you’ve to make sure you’re using latest version of Avast i.e 2014. Because Avast 2014 has got Windows 8.1 certification and that’s why it works […]

Posted in: News, Security
Firefox

Firefox in Windows 8 to Use Same Profile for Both Desktop and Modern Environments

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Till now Firefox in Windows 8-Mozilla calling as “Metro Firefox” – used a separate profile from Desktop Firefox. Things to change and news is both to share same single profile but with some exceptions, Mozilla has detailed advantages and issues […]

Posted in: Firefox, News
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Avast 2014 program version

Avast 2014 Receives First Program Update

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Avast 2014 program version

Recently released Avast 2014 has got its first program update 9.0 2007. This update has fixed several issues. You can able to update to the latest version from “Update” tab in Settings of program or same can be done from […]

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You Can Now View Attachments in Gmail and Save them to to Google Drive

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

No more need to save attachments in Gmail to your computer, in fact you can now save them to Google Drive and save space on your hard drive. Google is integrating Google Drive more deeply into Gmail, now in their […]

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Avast Quietly Removes Ad Blocker

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Avast software has first made available Ad Blocker Powered by Adblocker Plus during Avast 8 beta testing though it didn’t hyped much about it it worked well on Internet Explorer and Chrome browsers but not on Firefox if ABP was […]

Posted in: News, Security
Google Chrome
Open with system viewer Chrome PDF

Google Chrome to Open Downloaded PDF Files in It by Default

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Open with system viewer Chrome PDF

Unless you’ve disabled Chrome PDF Viewer soon Google Chrome, starting Chrome Canary will open downloaded PDF files in it by default. Google thinks PDFs are safer to open in the browser. Of course, Chrome will still offer the option to […]

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Does Avast offers Protection against Cryptolocker? Yes

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Cryptolocker, recently became very popular and tough to get rid of kind of ransomware from your computer if you’re infected with. This ransom malware once enters system encrypts all files and provides the key to decrypt them only when you […]

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Freeware

IObit Uninstaller 3.0 Stable Released

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Final version of IObit Uninstaller 3 has been released and available for download. Freeware and portable Advanced Uninstaller tool from IObit which not only lets you batch uninstall several programs at once but its latest version now includes File Shredder […]

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Avast Emergency Update Scheduled task

Why Avast added Emergency Update to Startup?

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Avast Emergency Update Scheduled task

Few Avast users reported WinPatrol program has alerted them about Emergency Update entry addition in startup that supposed to run every time after reboot, they’re concerned about it. We’ve covered this in the past, Avast uses Emergency Update feature to […]

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