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Entries for May, 2009

5 Steps to Protect Your New Computer

You have just bought a new PC and are wondering what you are supposed to do next. Needless to mention you would like to ensure that it remains safe for a longer period of time possible.
Here is the list of steps that you should do to protect your new computer and ensure that it remains [...]

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Generate Tiny URL Addresses with Firefox Plug-in

If you don’t know what Tiny URL is, then it would interest you to know that Tiny URL is an online URL shortening service that can shorten the URL addresses for you so that you can use it where you have word limit restrictions like Twitter.

Tiny URL is quite a popular service and to generate [...]

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Join Tech Salsa at Orkut

Hello everyone!
After being into this Blogging world for so much time now and after learning lot of things, I announce the birth of Tech Salsa orkut community for all of you who wanted to join me and other admirers of TS.

Tech Salsa Orkut Community will be place where you can stay in touch with me [...]

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Free Online File Sharing Sites

Sending files of huge size over email is almost impossible. After all the efforts and time you have uploaded your file to the email and wish to send the file; the OOPS message that displays make us feel like bashing our head into the PC!
To our rescue we have a lot of file sharing and [...]

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Online Free Zip and Unzip Tools

You need to send a zipped archive to a friend and you just saw that your PC doesn’t have WinZip or Win Rar installed. Don’t get into trouble of installing the zipping software, just use the free online sites that can compress and decompress the files for you.

Following is the list of sites that can [...]

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Microsoft Launches a New Search Engine Bing

Ever thought of using another search engine that Google? But finally Microsoft has decided to launch its new and improved search engine named Bing and available at Bing.com.

The world just does not need another search engine and this is the reason why Bing is here.

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Popular Software Update Checker for Windows

We have a lot of software installed in our system, don’t we? Updating them for the newest of the updates available one by one is very tedious task.

Here are two popular software updater for you which will do the work automatically. Software Update checker scans all the software installed in our system and generates a [...]

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Password Protect USB Drive with 3 Free Software

Recently I mentioned about how to password protect your USB ports so that any drive whether a pen drive, an external hard disk, cell phone or a camera can not use the USB port. Today here is a list of some freeware software that can password protect your USB Drive.

The following tools can easily encrypt [...]

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Microsoft Releases Windows Vista Service Pack 2

Well it has been couple of days now but for all those who don’t know, here is the news. Microsoft has officially released the Windows Vista Service Pack 2 which can be downloaded in two ways depending upon your choice.
You can either download the complete package offline as a standalone package or just let your [...]

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Solve Explorer.exe Consuming 100% CPU Resources

This is a very common problem faced by many of us using Windows that many times, and unknowingly why, our CPU usage shoots up to 100% and a process named Explorer.exe starts consuming a lot of resources and memory.

This makes our system very slow to respond and takes lot of time to execute an application.
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Search Subtitles for Movies with Free Software Sublight

So you have downloaded another movie from the Internet but also wanted to have its subtitle. Don’t waste times manually searching for the subtitle of the movies as this could make you spend hours on this process.

Let software do all the searching for you. Sounds great, isn’t it? There is great software called Sublight that [...]

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Detach Embedded Video from Browser

Video sharing sites like Youtube provides a good interface for the streaming videos but there is one thing it lacked a lot. One can not detach the video playing in the web browser to the desktop by default but there is a great tool that does it.

The above screenshot would have told you the whole [...]

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