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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 […]

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Avast 2014 Receives First Program Update

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Google Chrome

Google Chrome to Open Downloaded PDF Files in It by Default

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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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Why Avast added Emergency Update to Startup?

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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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Freeware

KeyScrambler Personal 3.3 gets Windows 8.1 Support

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

KeyScrambler -available for free as personal edition- which protects against keyloggers in all browsers including Google Chrome and Firefox has been updated to 3.3 to work in Windows 8.1.  This anti-keylogger software’s 3.0 version had added support for IE10 and […]

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Avast Update Fixes Metro Apps Issues in Windows 8.1

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Avast has released another program update for 2014 products with build no 9.0.2008 that has fixed metro apps issues after upgrade to Windows 8.1 and resolves warning shown by Outpost Firewall “unsigned kernel mode driver or service”. You can update […]

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Freeware

Getting Started with MediaFire Desktop on Windows

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

MediaFire online storage and file sharing site which lets you get 50GB of free space for free account has launched desktop clients for Windows and Mac to make file sharing even more easier from desktop without need to open the […]

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Beware: SourceForge Installer Comes included with Adware

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

SourceForge, trusted site for hosting open source projects is loosing trust as developers moving their projects to elsewhere. To the latest, GIMP developers have moved their program’s Windows Installer from SourceForge to their own site as they’re annoyed with its […]

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