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Missing Features in Gtalk

We all like chatting, don’t we and there are many clients available for use. We have whole lot of options to choose from like Yahoo Messenger, Gtalk, and Skype to name a few. Our choice of the messenger depends on our liking of the chat tool.

Every chat tool has its own advantage and disadvantage. While [...]

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Steps to Create U.S. iTunes Store Account Completely Free

As you people know I just bought a new iPhone 3G for myself so I need to make a new iTunes store account for it as well. Creating the account is necessary as to get any application we need to have an account. Now it depends upon you people that which account you want to [...]

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Steps to Delete Files Used by another Program

Unable to delete a file and annoyed by Windows giving this message “Cannot Delete Folder: It is being used by another person or program”? Don’t know which process to kill?

It happens many times that we want to delete a file or a folder but can’t do so and get an error message that the file [...]

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Steps to Block or Disable Ads and Images for a Website

Well there are several reasons for disabling or blocking the images or advertisements on a specific Web Page. Common of them are:
•    If you are annoyed seeing a large number if ads on the page.
•    If you have a slow internet connection that takes a long time to load the images.
•    To block objectionable ads [...]

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Steps to Clean Infected Computer

So let me guess you have infected your system and tried many solutions to clean it. There are many ways to clean the system and of course the final step is to Format the PC which no one of us wants to do.

After receiving a problem from a user, I think I should discuss what [...]

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Solution to Virtual Memory Too Low Problem

This problem was reported by one of our readers that in spite of having a sufficient amount of RAM, he is running out of Virtual Memory and his Windows PC gives the following error:

Your system is low on virtual memory. To ensure that Windows runs properly, increase the size of your virtual memory paging file. [...]

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Set Your Default Web Brower for Your User Profile

How many times it has happened to you that wish you to use Firefox as your favorite and default web browser but your brother or sister wish to use Internet Explorer as his/her default web browser? This is a common conflict in case of a single computer shared by many users with different user profiles [...]

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Not Able to Remove Virus Even After Format?

Strange but true, there are times when we decide to get rid of some virus or a worm by reformatting the system but even after formatting the PC we are shocked to see the virus back in our computers. This is what happened to my friend who formatted the PC just to get it cleaned [...]

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Extract mp3 Audio from Video Files like avi, mpg, wmv, flv

It happens most of the times we just like to listen to the audio of a video file and add it into our music library. This is not a problem any more as this can be done using many tools available and of course without using them as well.
We can easily convert the video to [...]

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Upload Suspicious Files to ThreatExpert

My Antivirus (Symantec) and I are good at finding any virus or any suspicious file and removing it successfully. I am able to remove any virus from the system or a pen drive without any tool and have been doing it for a long time now but there are several files that we feel suspicious [...]

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Steps to Download, Save or Record Live Streaming Audio

We like listening to music and also enjoy downloading it from internet, don’t we? Websites that provide us with the direct links to download the music or the song is liked by us while there are several other sites that do not allow us to download but to enjoy it online.
I came across a useful [...]

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Steps to Save .swf Flash File from Website

We all like surfing the net a lot (it’s my one of the favorite activities as well ) and happens to us that we come across some really interesting flash animation that we wish to view again. There can be many flash animations like Flash game, Flash Advertisements, Flash Tutorials, Flash Movie etc and [...]

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