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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
Freeware
IObit Advanced SystemCare 7.0 Free with Metro UI

Download Advanced SystemCare 7 Final

October 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
IObit Advanced SystemCare 7.0 Free with Metro UI

After going through 4 betas, IObit has released SystemCare 7 stable and is available for download. This product is available in two versions: free and Pro. ASC 7 Beta 3 has added Metro UI and Real-time protector (PRO) features. Advanced […]

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Download “KB2902864” Hotfix to Remove “Windows 8.1 SecureBoot isn’t configured correctly” Watermark

October 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Microsoft has released KB2902864 update to remove “Windows 8.1 SecureBoot isn’t configured correctly” watermark from desktop wallpaper in Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2. Affected users can download and install the update. After applying the update, you need to […]

Posted in: News, Troubleshooting
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Download Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.1 [Offline Installer]

October 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

With the release of Windows 8.1, Microsoft has also released .NET  Framework 4.5.1 and Visual Studio 2013. As Windows 8 comes with .NET Framework 4.5 installed, similarly Windows 8.1 also comes included with .NET Framework 4.5.1 by default. So you […]

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Windows 8.1 Product Guide PDF

Download Official Windows 8.1 Product Guide [PDF]

October 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Windows 8.1 Product Guide PDF

After releasing Windows 8.1, Microsoft has made product guide for it available on its download center which gives in depth tour of new and improved features in Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1. Windows 8.1 Product Guide available for download […]

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Dropbox new setup wizard

Dropbox Gets Redesigned Setup Wizard and Pause Syncing Option

October 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Dropbox new setup wizard

Today Dropbox 2.5.24 experimental build has been released. Dropbox 2.5.x series to bring redesigned setup wizard, pause syncing option and smaller installer for Windows. Dropbox has offered web/smaller installer for testing in build 1.7.6, seems they want you to test […]

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Google Chrome
Malicious file blocked warning Chrome

Google Chrome to Automatically Block Malicious Software Downloads

October 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Malicious file blocked warning Chrome

With Automatic Updates, Safe Browsing and sandboxing, Google Chrome browser is already more secured. But these are not enough, where nowadays malicious programs somehow gets installed on users systems and hijacking browser settings- FYI Chrome already prevents third-party programs from […]

Posted in: Google Chrome, News, Security
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer 11 Blocker Toolkit

Internet Explorer 11 Blocker Toolkit for Windows 7 is Available

October 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Internet Explorer 11 Blocker Toolkit

If you don’t want Internet Explorer 11 final to be installed automatically in Windows 7 through Automatic Updates, then you can prevent that happening by installing IE11 Blocker Toolkit. Recently Microsoft has released Release Preview of Internet Explorer 11 for […]

Posted in: Internet Explorer, News
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