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Chromes Cookies section lets you block third party cookies

How to block Third-Party Cookies in Chrome, Firefox and IE Browsers

February 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Chromes Cookies section lets you block third party cookies

Mozilla has decided from Firefox 22 onwards that browser will not allow third-party cookies to be installed on users computer if they’ve not visited that site. If you don’t want to allow third-party cookies in browsers like Google Chrome, Firefox

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GIF animations stopped playing in Chrome

How to Disable Animated GIFs in Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer Browsers

February 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
GIF animations stopped playing in Chrome

Are you annoyed with animated GIFs of some twitter users appearing in your timeline?, or if you don’t want to see GIF animations not anymore in browsers, we’ve got you covered. Those animated GIFs on websites sometimes look good, you

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How to Disable Self Pings Easily in WordPress

February 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

Are you annoyed with trackbacks shown by WordPress in comments waiting for approval which also happens when you interlink to your own posts in blog?, you can get over this easily by disabling self pings feature, which comes enabled by

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Want to Disable Sleep button on Keyboard? Here is how to do it

February 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

At times accidentally pressing Sleep button on keyboard can annoy you as system goes to low power state, if you don’t use Sleep button that much you can easily disable it on Windows. If you want to press one key

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How to switch from Dropbox experimental to Stable version and Vice Versa

February 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

If you’re a Dropbox user and wondering whether you can install experimental build over stable or similarly stable build over experimental one on your computer? (which is called downgrading), Answer is yes!, this answer is not from Dropbox, but from

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Metro apps already installed on Windows 8

How to remove All Default Apps from Windows 8

February 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Metro apps already installed on Windows 8

Have you found modern apps, those comes bundled with Windows 8 aimed at touch screen devices no longer useful for your desktop PC, you can remove all of them permanently by running few commands in PowerShell. Windows 8 comes with

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Command prompt opened with admin privileges on Windows 8

Windows 8: Quickly Open Elevated Command Prompt with Win+X, A Shortcut

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 2 Comments
Command prompt opened with admin privileges on Windows 8

Do you know we can use keyboard shortcut to open elevated Command prompt in Windows 8? don’t know? check this out. Lets accept this!, opening command prompt in Windows 7 is as easy typing cmd on search box on Start

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Dropbox cache folder in Windows Explorer

Clearing Dropbox Cache is dead Easy, here is how

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 2 Comments
Dropbox cache folder in Windows Explorer

This article tells how easily you can locate Dropbox cache folder and delete the files in it on Windows, Linux and Mac platforms. Dropbox has hidden cache folder which preserves the deleted files, FYI Dropbox clears this cache folder automatically

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Firefox

How to Set Firefox as Default PDF Reader

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Recently Firefox 19 Beta has been released with pdf.js, built-in PDF viewer enabled by default, since its not a plugin like to Chrome PDF Viewer that’s why this JavaScript based PDF Viewer is more secure. In fact you can set

Posted in: Firefox, How to, Tips and Tricks
MS Office
Troubleshooter launched by Office 2013 Fix it tool

Remove Office 2013 or Office 365 Completely with Fix It Released by Microsoft

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Troubleshooter launched by Office 2013 Fix it tool

If you were not able to uninstall Microsoft Office 2013 from your Computer in regular fashion from Programs and Features then use the Fix It tool released by Microsoft instead to completely remove it from your Computer. We’ve already covered

Posted in: MS Office, Tips and Tricks
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How to Merge Skype and Windows Live Messenger Accounts into Microsoft Account

November 7, 2012 by Venkat Eswarlu

If you’ve separate accounts for Skype and Windows Live Messenger then you can merge these  into Microsoft account so that you can use it … [Read more…]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks Tagged: Microsoft, Microsoft account, Skype, Windows Live Messenger
Firefox

Enable WebRTC Support in Firefox 18/19

October 13, 2012 by Venkat Eswarlu

WebRTC is short for Web Real-time communications, by using WebRTC websites/apps in browser able to share, stream video, audio and data without any plugins. … [Read more…]

Posted in: Firefox, Tips and Tricks Tagged: enable, Firefox 18, Firefox 19, WebRTC
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