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Entries for August, 2009

Monitor your Images on Internet with TinEye

There are whole lot of images available on the internet but some images are copyrighted by someone since those are personal to them. But usually there is no way to protect our images from getting copied and ued by other person without permission.

One may watermark his image but despite this the images can get copied [...]

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Tip of the Week: Clean Computer Table

So when was the last time you cleaned up your computer table? It is the case of most of the people who do not clean their computer table tends to mess up all their important stuffs and thus lose out on it.
The common things that mess up your computer table are unorganized books, CDs, USB drives [...]

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Solve Ctrl + Enter Not Working in IE

You must have come across this problem one or the other day that Ctrl + Enter that always used to fill the URL address by .com doesn’t work anymore.
I also came across this problem recently in IE browser and here is the solution to solve this problem.
Steps:
1.    Run Internet Explorer

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Network Messenger for LAN Chat

Whether you are in college, office or on some Local Area Network, you can chat with your buddy right from your desktop.
Network Messenger is a tool that can enable you to chat in a client installed on your PC with your friend sitting on some other computer but on the same LAN. There are many [...]

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Steps to Retrieve Files from Windows.Old Folder

One of our readers was troubled this problem that after he had moved from Windows XP to Windows Vista, he came across a folder called Windows.old in the C drive.

If you also do not know that what folder is this and how to retrieve data from this folder, then below are the steps.

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Fix Computer Problems by Windows Repair

As we all know, most of the computer problems are caused by computer viruses it is the Operating System that suffers a lot after that.
Even if you have removed the virus from the system, it would have already done so many problems in your system that you wish to format it. While in most of [...]

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Free Tools to Read Data from Damaged CD

This is a usual case with all of us, and almost all of us have damaged CDs but with important data that we don’t want to miss.
If this is the case with you then you can try the following free software that can read or recover the data from the damaged and corrupted CDs.

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Survey: How much Security Savvy are you?

We would like to know how many visitors of TS are Security Savvy. Being a geeky site that share all the views of the people and provides solutions to most of the computer problems, it would interest me to figure out how the visitors of TS are.

In today’s survey we just want to know how [...]

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Remove Songs.exe or Khatarnak.exe Virus

The virus was reported by one of our readers and surprisingly this virus spreads under the names of songs.exe, khatarnak.exe and pictures.exe apart from others.
Steps to remove this virus:
1.    Turn off the System Restore.
2.    Boot in the Safe mode.
3.    Go to Add/Remove Programs and remove any programs referencing “W32/SillyFDC,” “Worm.IM.Sohanad” or “Khatarnak.exe (if any)
4.    Run [...]

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Free On Screen Volume Display 3RVX for Windows

If you have always wanted to have some OSD (On Screen Display) for the Volume Control in Windows then do check out this cool utility sent to us by one of our regular visitors Rob.

Seeing the image above we can easily make out what it does. The tool is called 3RVX Volume Controller and can [...]

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Convert Torrent Files .torrent to .exe

If you like downloading movies then I am sure that you will love this article. So what have you been doing to download movies?
Download the torrent files and then run the torrent client like Bit Comet to download the movies. There is a cool online site that can let you convert your .torrent files into [...]

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Tip of the Week: Uninstall unwanted Programs

Despite of the busy schedule and the hectic day we are back with this week’s edition of Tip of the Week.
This week’s tip is to keep your system clean by uninstalling unwanted programs and applications from your computer.
Tip:
We have a habit of installing several programs in our computer don’t we? But with the passage of [...]

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