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Surf Orkut Anonymously

Want to see your friend’s profile or any other person’s profile on Orkut but do not want to get noticed? You can easily do that using the Privacy settings of Orkut.

During all those years of surfing Orkut, I found that we can surf the Orkut anonymously without becoming the other person’s profile visitor by turning [...]

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Solution to #cstike_chat Disabled problem in Counter Strike

There is a strange problem in Counter Strike 1.6 or Half-Life that while playing over internet or Lan with friends we often come across that when we publish our chat either by using say option or say_team option we see that #cstike_chat comes at bottom of screen instead of the chat message that we are [...]

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Convert .ppt to .mp4 for iPhone and iPod

It was the time of projects and presentations in my college and I was required to present my presentation but there was so much work with me that I had no time to revise. This was when I thought, a ppt to mp4 converter would have solved my problem and I would have revised the [...]

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Steps to Transfer Firefox Bookmarks from One Computer to Another

Definitely, Bookmarks are for those people who like visiting some good site on a regular basis but don’t like to type the URL again and again. Also, bookmarking a site is a great solution to keep your favorite sites listed with you if you tend to forget its URL.
But what if you are going to [...]

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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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