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Firefox

Firefox: How to restore Search bar after removing Universal Search?

November 30, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Mozilla to end Firefox Universal Search experiment today, if you’re testing the experimental feature and part of Fx Test Pilot program, know this: After … [Read more…]

Posted in: Firefox, How to, Tips and Tricks
How to

Pale Moon 27: How to Set Google as default Search engine?

November 23, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Pale Moon 27 has been released and available for download. This version comes with these search providers by default: DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, Bing, Ecosia, Twitter, and … [Read more…]

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How to backup and restore captures in Snagit library?

November 21, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Snagit automatically saves unsaved captures to DataStore folder –you can see all these captures in library — you can convert the images stored in that folder … [Read more…]

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Opera
Opera 42 advanced settings

Opera 42: Where is Advanced Settings Checkbox?

November 16, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Opera 42 advanced settings

Opera browser advanced settings –which used to exist at the bottom of the settings page in Browser section (check the second screenshot) and offers … [Read more…]

Posted in: Opera, Tips and Tricks
How to

How to disable EaseUS Partition Master’s Clean Junk files Popup?

November 15, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

EaseUS  has recently added Cleanup and Optimization feature — which includes junk files cleaner along with Large file cleanup and Disk optimization support– to EaseUS Partition … [Read more…]

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How to Uninstall Panda Safe Web?

November 12, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

When you install Panda Free Antivirus 18.0 and if you won’t pay attention during its installation, along with the antivirus, Panda Safe Web will also … [Read more…]

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Opera
RSS notification Opera speed dial

Opera : Disable RSS Notifications

November 3, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
RSS notification Opera speed dial

Know how to turn off Opera’s built-in RSS Reader notifications. Opera‘s built-in RSS Reader in Personal news is shaping up quite well, recently with … [Read more…]

Posted in: Opera, Tips and Tricks
How to

How to disable Advanced SystemCare Notifications?

November 2, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

After installing and configuring IObit Advanced SystemCare, when you start your computer next time, ASC shows its first notification about your system boot time. … [Read more…]

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Find out which BSNL Broadband Plan You’re Using

November 1, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

BSNL allows Broadband users to change their plan, the quicker way to change your plan is to visit the nearest BSNL office and submit … [Read more…]

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Tips and Tricks
Pocket displaying Trending Stories Chrome new tab page

Disable Trending Stories Shown by Pocket on Chrome New Tab Page

October 31, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Pocket displaying Trending Stories Chrome new tab page

Pocket, the service which lets you save articles and videos to it, has updated their Chrome extension with two new features: when you add … [Read more…]

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Firefox

How to disable Firefox’s unsubmitted Crash report Notification?

October 29, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Till now Mozilla has limited displaying ‘You have an unsubmitted crash report‘ notification to Firefox Nightly and developer users only, now they’ve enabled this … [Read more…]

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How to

How to uninstall and remove TechSmith Uploader Service?

October 27, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

When you install Snagit, along with it TechSmith Uploader Service will also be installed on your computer. This service registers itself to run on … [Read more…]

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