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Entries for December, 2008

4 Ways to Run Two or More Gtalk Simultaneously

We happen to have more than one Email Ids and sometimes more than one Gmail Id. So logging out from one account and login to the other is very troublesome. If you want to run Gtalk for two or more same Gmail Ids simultaneously, you can easily do that.
There are many ways of doing that [...]

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Steps to Copy Text from Image Easily

How many times it happen that you have some scanned image of a document and want to copy the text from there? Yes quite often. So if you have any image whether scanned or photographed, you can still take out the text from the image easily.
Well there are many software available for that purpose that [...]

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Solution to Your Computer Might be at Risk Problem

Let me guess, you have some Anti Virus installed in the computer and are still getting the message balloon saying “Your Computer Might be at Risk. Click this balloon to fix the problem”. This thing occurs when you boot up the computer and more probably when you have installed Symantec Anti Virus.

It should be noted [...]

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Solution to Flash Uploader Not Working Problem

If you are using Wordpress or any application working on Flash to upload the files and images then you might have encountered this strange problem one day or the other. Flash Uploader is a great utility that enables us to upload any no. of files conveniently in one go. No doubt the Flash Uploader is [...]

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Steps to Reduce Counter Strike Latency or Ping

One of the most popular online games Counter Strike or CS also has some problems related to it. Almost one out of two people playing this game is troubled by the problem of facing a high ping or uneven latency. The high latency makes the game lag so badly that it becomes very difficult to [...]

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Free Virtual Space of 25 GB with Windows SkyDrive

Want to upload movies, pics, songs, data or just anything in a virtual space for free? Then surely, SkyDrive is for you. It provides you with 25 GB of online virtual space and that too for free. Now that’s what we call space. Mind it.

SkyDrive is the online storage service launched by Microsoft and no [...]

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Solution to Missing Security Tab in File Properties

I wanted to change some file permissions to a file in windows and required to see the “Security” tab in the file properties dialog. Tried many things as it was missing from my system and thought it would be worthwhile sharing with you.

The security tab is quite important when using Windows XP as it allows [...]

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Steps to do at Windows was Unable to Complete the Format problem

I wonder what is going with my PC right now but the truth is that my system is displaying this error message “Windows was unable to complete the format” every alternate time when I try to format my USB Pen drive. It is certainly a PC problem as this is happening with all drives i [...]

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Songbird - iTunes with Web Browser

Irritated with iTunes’ limited capability to manage just audio and video without a Web Browser? Imagine combining Firefox, one of the most amazing web browsers with iTunes, a serious contender for the top slot when it comes to media players, into a single entity. Right, that is Songbird for you!

It was very troublesome on iTunes’ [...]

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Steps to Remove resycled or boot.com Virus

I got a virus! Yes I did get one yesterday. I wonder from where I got this but my system got infected with Boot.com virus that displayed a resycled folder and an autorun.inf file on my each drive and even my Anti Virus (Symantec) which I trusted so much failed to catch it. I feel [...]

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Steps to Transfer Files Using Bluesoleil and Bluetooth

Bluesoleil is the most popular Bluetooth device driver used by many of us today to sync our computer with our mobile phones using the Bluetooth technology. It can create a small network between our cell phone and our PC that enables us to transfer any file between our PC and the mobile phone.

But there are [...]

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Solution to No More Connection to a Remote Computer Problem

Got a problem faced by one of our readers that when after logging 10 computers, he tries to access some file or printer shared on the network, he gets this message saying that:
“No more connections can be made to this remote computer at this time because there are already as many connections as the computer [...]

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