Archive for the ‘General information’ Category

How to Backup and Restore Firefox Browser

Posted by Ashish On 22 December 2011 No Commented

Today, firefox it the most popular, widely used web browser in the world. It becomes dofficult for most of the web serfers like me to move to another machine or after changing OS and re-build the bookmarks, browsing history and passwords in firefox. So, here is a toll that can be used to take peropdic [...]

Use Your Ordinary Mobile Phone as Google Search Engine

Posted by Ashish On 19 December 2011 No Commented

Today, Google is the main tool that we use to search anything we want on the web. But if you want to access it without internet connection on your phone then? Yes you can do that! As i have described in the last post, you can use some special set of keywords and send them [...]

Tips to Use Your Ordinary Phone as a Smartphone

Posted by Ashish On 12 December 2011 one Commented

Don’t you have a smartphone? Are you been jealous of your friends having 1 or 2 of them? Don’t worry, you can do nearly all the mobile tricks they can if you know how to use your ordinary phone. However, the day-to-day routine becomes increasingly more inconvenient for those who can’t download an app at [...]

How to Troubleshoot Your Friends’ Computers From Far Away

Posted by Ashish On 11 June 2011 No Commented

You’re the computer whiz in your circle of friends and family, which means, inevitably, somebody is going to call for tech support. If you can’t fix it in person, these are the best approaches we’ve found for troubleshooting from far away. With distance being a formidable foe, and without the ability to see the computer [...]

Portable Internet Download Manager For Linux (Ubuntu)

Posted by Ashish On 31 May 2011 No Commented

Internet Download Manager or IDM is one of the finest download accelerators available for downloading purpose. It works in both Windows and Ubuntu (Linux). It can speed up downloading process upto 5 times your normal download speed. Portable version of IDM helps you to manage your downloads right from your USB sticks. You have to [...]

How To Install And Use Wine In Ubuntu (Linux)

Posted by Ashish On 31 May 2011 No Commented

So what is Wine? WINE (Wine Is Not An Emulator) is an open source software which translates Windows applications (Executables) into equivalent POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) code that Linux can understand and use. By using Wine, you can now run Windows apps and software i,e. .exe files on Linux (Ubuntu). So how to install and [...]

How to Add Your Favicon to Blogger Blog

Posted by Ashish On 26 May 2011 one Commented

Blogger.com is one of the most popular blogging platforms on the Internet, yet if you have a blog with them you are often stuck with the default Blogger.com favicon. Hard to brand your blog with your own personal touch when you have the Blogger.com favicon on the address bar. If people bookmark your blog they [...]

Ways to Increase Laptop Battery Life

Posted by Ashish On 25 May 2011 No Commented

With the rise in laptop buyers its essential for laptop users to make sure they use their laptop batteries to the fullest and make sure they can achieve the highest performance with the available battery. Generally most laptops are claimed to have 4-6 hours of battery life but in real it comes to 50% of [...]

Top Ten Tips To Improve System Speed

Posted by Ashish On 25 May 2011 No Commented

When you start using a computer, and it gets older after a period of time, it loses its speed. At this time, it needs to be serviced, just like our vehicles. There are many software available to keep the pc clean and speedy, but why do you need those when you can do the same [...]

Firefox 5, 6 Available For Download

Posted by Ashish On 24 May 2011 3 Commented

Finally, after a long time, Firefox 5 and 6 are available for download! thought these are available in Beta version. Yes, both 5 and 6! Firefox 5 has been moved into the aurora release channel, the second of a total of four release stages. Firefox 6 alpha 1 has been moved to mozilla-central and is [...]

Boost Up Internet Speed Without Software

Posted by Ashish On 23 May 2011 No Commented

In India, the condition of internet speed is really bad. even though we get broadband connection, you wont be able to get high download speed.(Max 256 KB/s), in standard home broadband plans. Though coy can get good speed in 3G, available in most of the circles of the country, but still they are also over-priced. [...]

Tips And Tricks To Protect Yourself From Phishing

Posted by Ashish On 22 May 2011 No Commented

Phishing is a variant of “ fishing ”.It is used to bait the users to give out their sensitive information such as credit card information,net banking username and passwords and other important personal and financial information.Now a days social networking sites like facebook and orkut are highly targeted sites.These attacks are mainly carried by using [...]

Tips And Tricks for Protection Against Keyloggers

Posted by Ashish On 22 May 2011 No Commented

Keyloggers also known as key Stroke recorders are the softwares that can record the key strokes.These are Used in phishing websites to steal your username and password.These keylogger can also be installed on a computer and they can send usernames and passwords using your Internet connection.You can protect yourself using special tips and tricks.And if [...]

Tips And Tricks To Protect Yourself From Hacking

Posted by Ashish On 22 May 2011 No Commented

In this post I will be covering the basic things you should know to protect your computer from getting hacked by some.Remember if you follow these guidelines it will be extremely difficult for a hacker to enter into your pc and to hack your data.As today everything from banking,business,studies etc is online so the threat [...]

Difference Between Virus,Worms,Trojan and Spyware

Posted by Ashish On 22 May 2011 No Commented

We all have heard the terms Virus,Worms,trojans and spyware but only a few of us know the difference between them.We genreally consider everything that is detected by an antivirus as virus but this is not the case.The antivirus not only provides protection against viruses but it also protects us from trojans,worms and spywares.All these can [...]

Top 10 Improvements/Features Of Firefox 4.0

Posted by Ashish On 22 May 2011 No Commented

The Highly anticipated Firefox 4.0 has been released and it had 4.7 million downloads in first 24 hours which are more then double to that of Internet Explorer 9. Internet explorer 9 had 2.3 million downloads in first 24 hours of its release.

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