Yearly Archives: 2008

Fixing ‘Cannot Play This DVD’ Error Message In Windows Media Player

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How many times have you seen that whenever you play a DVD movie it gives the following error, “Cannot Play This DVD” in Windows Media Player? It is the most annoying message I have ever seen in Windows and to be honest, I really hate it when this message pops up. No, I am not an old fashioned person and I don’t use Windows Media Player anymore. The best way to fix this problem is to download VLC player(I use this media player personally, since it plays all formats). The problem arises when my family members still prefer Windows Media Player due to it’s ease of use and also because they are reluctant to move to a new media player, so I have to fix this error for them. Read More

How To Combine Multiple Links Into One Shorter Link Using Shrink2One

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How many times did you send friends or family a couple of links to various sites like your online photo album, a YouTube video, a funny news article, etc? It’s a pain having to copy and paste multiple links in email or in Instant Messenger. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could convert all of those links into just one simple link! If you are sick of pasting multiple links like me, then you should try definitely Shrink2One. It is a free web service that allows you to convert multiple URLS into one smaller URL. Read More

Easiest Way To Set Gmail As Default Firefox 3 Mail Client

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Does email clients such as Microsoft Window Mail or Microsoft Outlook Express prompt up everytime you click on an email link?. If you are a Firefox 3 user and use Gmail frequently, then you can configure and set Gmail as a default email client. The latest Firefox 3 comes with support of YahooMail as default email client. For Gmail users, some setting needs to be done to edit the mailto application handler. Read More

How To Add Your Image/Avatar Next To Your Comments

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Did you write a comment in a blog post only to see some default picture showing up? Do you want to remove this default picture and add your own picture instead. If yes, then what you need is a Gravatar. It is a globally recognized avatar, quite simply an avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on Gravatar enabled sites. Suppose you comment in any post in this blog, you will see a default image showing up next to your comment.

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Speed Up Windows 7 / Vista Start Search By Applying A Simple Fix

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When you perform a search in Windows 7 / Vista using the Start Search in Start menu, it automatically searches for the file and at the same time displays various similar programs installed. This causes significant delay especially when you have tons of files in your hard disk. For example when I search for Google Talk, I get two other results which are totally useless and not needed at all. One way to speed up Start Search is to narrow the scope of the search so that it includes only the exact file and does not include other similar files on the hard drive. If you are feeling a notable delay while searching, you can speed up Windows 7 / Vista’s Start Search using the following fix. Read More

How To Create A Free iPhone Application For Your Blog With AppLoop

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Do you own a blog? Do you want to create an iPhone application for your blog where users can read your latest post without needing to open their web browser? If yes, then AppLoop does exactly that. You just need to create an account, answer few questions, choose your logo and then choose the price at which you want to make it available. After all is done, they will create your application and send it to Apple for approval. Once approved, your application will be live and everyone with an iPhone can download your application and become and regular reader of your blog. Read More

16 Free Search Engines For Finding Music Online – Start Listening Now !

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Sometimes you just really need to hear a song and don’t want to buy the whole album from the market. Something reminds you of an old song you know or maybe an article references a new artist, for this Google(also YouTube) is one of the best search engines today and you can find almost anything using it. That said, it is almost always better to search things on a dedicated search engine. In this post we will list out some of the best search engines you can use to find music online.
Update: We have added 30 more music search engines here.

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How To Capture Screenshots Using Snipping Tool In Windows 7 / Vista

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Windows 7 / Vista comes with a build-in accessory called Snipping Tool which can be used for taking accurate screen shots. This tools lets you select a certain area on your desktop screen or any other opened window and copies the selected image section into your system clipboard. You can either save the copied picture directly from it making no modifications to it, also you can export the copied image to a third party photo editing software like Adobe Photoshop, Paint.NET, etc as your choice. Read More

How To Backup Your Firefox 3 Profile, Settings, Passwords, Extensions And Bookmarks Easily

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Firefox users need to create a backup to guard against the possibility that their profile may get corrupted or wiped after installing a new extension or a new version of Firefox. Backing up Firefox manually is as simple as copying their respective profile folders to another location. If you do that, you’ll have a full backup with all your settings and personal data will be saved. Backups come handy when you want to save the profile on multiple computers or want to use the profile in your freshly installed Firefox in your new computer.

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Stop An Application From Running Automatically At Startup In Windows 7 / Vista

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We covered a way to manage startup programs easily so that it  can increase system performance here almost 2 weeks back. Today we will explain another method to stop startup programs through Windows Defender that is installed by default in Windows Vista. If your computer seems to be starting up slow, it is most likely because of startup programs. These are programs, often unnecessary, that boot up automatically when the computer does. New computers are notorious for having this problems as vendors reduce the price of their computers by making deals with software providers to preinstall their programs. These programs are often worthless, and are usually trials and not even the full program and such programs are normally referred to as bloatware. This said, below is an outline of ways to remove these unnecessary start up programs from starting up automatically. This method also works in Windows XP. Read More

Remove AutoPlay Handler from the Options List in Windows 7 / Vista / XP

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AutoPlay or AutoRun dialog pops up whenever a removable drive such as digital camera or CD/DVD disc has been inserted into computer or placed into optical drive, with plenty of action choices in a list of options for the users, which they can choose to perform. Each item in the AutoPlay list is called a handler, installed by various applications to show as an option for a particular events or content types such as Pictures, Videos, Data, etc. By a simple change in registry, you can remove any entry or item from the AutoPlay menu. Read More

How To Extract Audio From Movies And Video Files Easily

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Have you ever watched a movie with a fantastic piece of soundtrack? Like I did, when I watched “Into the Wild”, its soundtrack was awesome, Wouldn't it be great if we could make an MP3 file to play on our computer? As long as we don't infringe on copyrighted material, there's a great selection of audio extraction tools that we can use to generate digital audio files from video, for this purpose, AoA Audio Extractor is a powerful tool for video to audio file conversion.

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