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How to disable Picasa’s Screen Capture if you use Snagit?

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

After installing Picasa on Windows, when you press ‘Print Screen’ key on keyboard screenshots will be saved to ‘Screen Captures’ folder. What if you’re already using Snagit or other screen capturing program before Picasa install and you don’t want Picasa […]

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Firefox

How to Enable Add-on Bar in Firefox Australis

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

With Firefox 4, Mozilla has introduced Add-on Bar, new menu and ditched Status bar. While Add-on Bar that appears at bottom of Firefox window if enabled by you is for the placement of Add-on icons. It has been removed in […]

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Firefox

How to Clear or delete Firefox Cache2 Files?

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Mozilla is offering new HTTP cache for Firefox from version 27 onwards -currently in Aurora  but disabled by default – you can enable this  backend cache feature by switching value of preference ‘browser.cache.use_new_backend’ to in ’1′ about:config, you don’t need […]

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Install Google Drive to Clutter your Desktop with its Shortcuts

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

When you install Google Drive on Windows it adds shortcuts for Google Drive folder, Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Slides to your desktop. Not over yet, they also gets added to Google Drive folder on Start menu as well. […]

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How to disable/hide Twitter’s Photo and Video Previews on Web

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Twitter has recently enabled Media -Photo and video- previews for its apps on Android and Phone and also for Twitter.com website on desktop. This means: Twitter automatically shows previews of Photos and videos in your timeline. Twitter allows to opt-out […]

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Firefox

How to Enable Old Menu bar (not Menu button) in Firefox Australis

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

If you still don’t know the news: Firefox with new UI, Australis is available on Nightly build and we’ve covered Classic Theme Restorer add-on that restores its interface to classic one which also includes Menu button. But do you know […]

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Revo Uninstaller Deletes Leftover Files to Recycle Bin

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Have you noticed or know this? When you uninstall a program using Revo Uninstaller’s Advanced or Moderate Mode (offers hunter Mode also) for your safety by default it deletes found leftover files and folders to Recycle Bin, you can find […]

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Open and View Google’s WebP Images in Sumatra PDF Reader

October 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Sumatra PDF adds support for WebP images. Till now you can able to view Webp images natively in Windows through Windows Photos Viewer, but for that you need to install codec provided by Google. FYI, you can still see WebP […]

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News

Prevent Google From showing your Profile name and Photo in their Ads

October 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Don’t want Google to show your profile photo and name in their ads?. Google has updated their terms of service with three changes and one important change related to users is with effect from Nov 11, 2013 onwards is Search […]

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Remove CCleaner Options from Recycle Bin’s Context Menu

October 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

When you install CCleaner on your computer, it adds two options- “Run CCleaner” and “Open CCleaner”- to Recycle Bin’s context menu. If you forget to uncheck those during install on setup dialog, you can still remove them by visiting CCleaner […]

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Google Chrome

Chrome to Block Adobe Reader Plugin by Default, Here is How to always open PDF files with It

October 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Due to phasing out of support for NPAPI plugins, even though you’ve disabled Chrome native PDF viewer in Google Chrome, it still doesn’t allows to open PDF files inline through plugin of Adobe Reader installed on your computer. Chrome blocks […]

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Google Chrome

Creating a New Profile for Google Chrome on Windows is Easy

October 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

A browser profile contains all important data such as bookmarks, extensions, passwords and other user data and it is stored in a separate folder from browser installed directory. This profile folder won’t gets deleted when you uninstall browser. A corrupted […]

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