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How to disable Picasa that makes Windows Photo Viewer Default again

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Windows Photo Viewer is the default program in Windows 7 to view Photos, whenever you double click on a photo in your hard drive it will be opened by Windows Photo Viewer. When you install Picasa in Windows, Picasa Photo […]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks, Windows
Google Chrome

Add Missing Apps Icon back to Chrome Bookmarks bar

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

Recently Google has enabled redesigned New Tab Page for Chrome by adding its logo and search bar at center. Thumbnails for most visited sites fetched from your history appears below search bar. And Apps shortcut which takes you to Chrome://apps […]

Posted in: Google Chrome, Tips and Tricks, Troubleshooting
Google Chrome

How to Export Chrome bookmarks to HTML file and import them later

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

If you want to uninstall Chrome completely to do a fresh install, then you may want to export all bookmarks you saved in browser to HTML file so that after reinstalling Chrome you can import them from same file. We’ve […]

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You can disable AdobeARM.exe but not the reader_sl.exe, Why?

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

When you install Adobe Reader XI in your computer two processes related to it AdobeARM.exe and reader_sl.exe are automatically set to run at startup, you can notice them running under Processes tab in Task Manager. Let us see more details […]

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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 […]

Posted in: Firefox, How to, Tips and Tricks
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How to Fix Foxit Reader’s Script Error in Windows 8.1

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

When you launch Foxit Reader, by default it shows start page and advertisements on startup unless you’ve disabled them in Preferences, if you try to open Foxit PDF Reader in recently released Windows 8.1 you can get script error saying […]

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Tips and Tricks

It makes Sense to Set Gmail to Ask before Showing Images on Slower Connections

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Gmail has announced they’ll load images in messages automatically without you need to click ‘Display images below’ link by storing images in their Google Image proxy servers. Before that, Gmail not showed images automatically unless you’ve selected always display images […]

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Tips and Tricks

RealPlayer hides Videos You download and watch in Private Mode

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

RealPlayer that lets you play, download and bookmark videos is available in free and paid versions. Free version with basic features that displays annoying ads offers useful ‘Private Mode’. When you turn on this mode, videos downloaded using RealDownloader will […]

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How to Uninstall Agomo from your computer?

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Piriform has a new cloud product Agomo, powered by CCleaner and Defraggler technologies, it lets you optimize and maintain PCs remotely from browser. This service is still in private  beta, if you’ve already signed up for it and got invited, […]

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How to Upgrade VLC to Latest Version

December 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

VLC Player which plays all media formats (also can convert video files to MP4) offers some special effects too for playing videos. If you’ve already installed this program in your computer, then to upgrade to its latest version visit videolan […]

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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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