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Google Chrome doesn’t run on Windows 7 64 bit by default and here’s how you can fix it.
Google Chrome runs fine on all Windows, XP and Vista 32-bit and 64-bit, and not being able to run such a nice software in Windows 7 is a bit of a pity. So a quick fix is what we all need.
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Just follow these steps to get Windows 7 gadgets working again even when UAC has been turned off. UAC was introduced in Windows Vista to protect users from installing and running malicious software but Windows Gagdgets continues to run perfectly even when UAC has been turned off. This has changed in Windows. By default, if you turned off UAC in Windows 7, Gadgets will stop working but there’s always a way around that.
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Google Chrome’s “Most visited” area shows the websites that you use most often. After using Google Chrome for a while, you will see your most visited sites whenever you start up Google Chrome or open up a new tab.
But what happens if you often visit certain website that you don’t want others to know and don’t want these sites ending up in the “most visited” area? You can clear them from chrome’s browsing history and here’s how.
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Learn how to download files hosted on free hosting providers such as rapidshare, megaupload, badongo, mediafire, yousendit easily with JDownloader.
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How to enter search query directly into firefox’s address bar and getting search results back from google. By default, firefox uses the “I’m feeling lucky” option to search if you enter a search query to the address bar. What this means is that firefox will, most of the time, redirect you to the page which has the highest search engine ranking for that searched keyword in google.
This default behavior is fine but let’s just say that most people would also want to see other results from google which has that searched keyword as well.
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Here’s how you can read your text text by each new row. Say for example, the set of textbox text is something like this
insurance
mortgage
house
life
finance
where each new line is triggered by an Enter/Return key.
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My favorite downloader tool for downloading files from file hosters such as Rapidshare, Megaupload, Mediafire, etc, JDownloader, has just been updated with a much needed GUI revamp. This is how it looks like after installing the newest update.
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I just found out that there’s an addon for JDownloader that helps you to schedule files to be downloaded at a specific time. Scheduling downloads has allowed me to download my favorite shows and sports programs from different file hosting providers such as Rapidshare, Megaupload, Mediafire etc any time I wanted.
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When you setup an Windows Live Hotmail in an email program using POP access, the following settings are to be used:
POP server: pop3.live.com
POP SSL required? Yes
User name: Your Windows Live ID, for example [email protected]
Password: The password you usually use to sign in to Hotmail or Windows Live
SMTP server: smtp.live.com
Authentication required? Yes (this matches your POP username and password)
TLS/SSL required? Yes
Downloading videos from youtube or any other video sharing sites such as Metacafe, Veoh, Revver, Myspace etc is very easy with these firefox extensions. If Firefox is already your default browser, then having one of these extensions installed will help you save your favorite videos for later viewing.
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