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Entries for July, 2009

Download Youtube Videos in a Click

I had been using this way to download Youtube videos for quite some time but just realized that I didn’t share this with you people.
Downloading videos from Youtube can’t get easier than this as using this method you neither require any tool nor any online site. What you all need is your video that you [...]

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How to Download Files from Direct Links

Recently while downloading some songs from a website I noticed that instead of saving the file it started playing the file. Usually, in this case, you can download the file by right clicking the link and selecting “Save As” but what if the right click is disabled on the link?
Here is a way that will [...]

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Microsoft and Yahoo Join Hands

Well most of you must have known this news by now but in case you missed it then here is the brief take on the actual news.

Microsoft had recently launched its search engine Bing and Yahoo too had been operating in this field through its Yahoo Search but the market, no doubt, has been dominated [...]

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Hide all Windows in One Click

If you have a habit of opening up lots of programs and windows while working then this tool will surely interest you.
The tool is called ClickToDesktop as using this you can minimize all the windows in just one click. Not only this, one click would also restore all the windows back. No need to install, [...]

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Remove mwau.exe Virus

The virus called mwau.exe has been troubling one of our readers who wanted to know about its removal and other things.
What is mwau.exe?
Mwau.exe is an undesirable and malicious program that can be probably termed as a virus. It stands for Microsoft Windows Automatic Update but should be deleted from the system as soon as possible.
Behavior:
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Alarm Clock for Windows

Wouldn’t it have been great if Windows also possessed an Alarm Clock that notified us at a specific time with a notification message?

Microsoft has lacked this feature and I wonder why they didn’t put it in Windows. But to make things easier there have been developed third party application to provide this functionality into Windows.

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Update Music Album Art on iTunes or iPhone easily

No doubt Album Art gives a better view while listening to the songs both in iTunes and iPhone but if you have saved hundreds of songs in your iPhone without the album arts and are wondering how to add Album Art back to these songs, then below are the steps.
Steps:
1.    First make sure you have [...]

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Happy Birthday Tech Salsa: We are 1

On this day last year that is on 28th July, 2008 I launched this website Tech Salsa that has been successful in gaining the love and admiration of many readers around the globe.

For the last one year we have been providing you with solutions to the most common and strange problems and also some cool [...]

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Backup and Save Drivers Installed in Computer

Well it is surprising but true that most people do not have the hardware drivers or the motherboard CD containing the drivers with them.
Then what do they do when they wish to format their computer? From where will they get their Audio, Video and other drivers like Graphics etc? The answer is simple, just backup [...]

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[Solved] iTunes Registry Settings Warning

Recently, I did a complete computer format and installed iTunes after that but now I see this error message whenever I run iTunes

I did a clean install of this software but didn’t know why this message comes up every time. The error message related to some missing registry settings related to some iTunes drivers though [...]

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Format your Computer

Most of us do not like formatting their computer because of the data stored in it and the hard work involved in setting it up again.
In this edition of the Tip of the Week, we would learn the advantages of formatting the computer and why should you do it soon.
Advantages of Formatting the Computer:
1.    Formatting [...]

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Backup or Restore Any Web Browser

I did mention about MozBackup, the backup tool to completely backup things in Firefox browser but if you prefer another browser then here is another tool.
There are times when we wish to either format our computer or take away the cookies, history or plug-ins stored in a browser to a new computer. This work can [...]

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