Media Browser(formally known as Video Browser) is a personal media aggregator that runs on Microsoft Media Center platform. In layman’s term, it is a media aggregator plug-in for Windows 7/Vista Media Center that takes all you recorded, digital, or ripped media and presents you in a simple and easy-to-use interface.
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Clean Up Text File With Text Cleanser
Have you ever received a document or text file containing redundant junk characters? Does the text contain lots of Asterisks, Hyphens, Empty Spaces, etc? If all of the above are true, you have come to the right place.
Read MoreDisable Windows 7 Automatic Update Restart Prompt
Microsoft is good at making OS and equally good at annoying the hell out of users. So you enable Automatic Updates and Windows prompts you to restart the computer after installing all updates. Guess what is common between us? Hitting the Postpone button.
Read MoreSearch/Find Files In Multiple Locations
Multi Path Files Finder is an app for network administrators who want to search for files in multiple UNC paths and local paths. If you are an average computer user and don’t know what UNC stands, this is probably not for you.
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Faster Google Analytics Code
After Google announced Public DNS to speed up URL resolve time, Google Analytics rolled out a new tracking technology called Asynchronous Tracking. There are reports from webmasters that Google Analytics tracking code can sometimes stop responding and slow down the overall load time of the website.
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Google Quick Search Box In Windows 7 Taskbar
So many people have asked about the small Google rectangular icon next to Windows 7 Start Orb on my taskbar that I have finally decided to publish this post. Originally, Windows Quick Search Box was introduced for Mac only, but Google has included it as part of Internet Explorer 8 toolbar too.
Read MoreFind Out Windows 7 / 2008 SID (Security Identifier)
We will discuss the following in this post:
- What is SID?
- How To find out the SID of a computer?
Change Windows 7 Folder Color With Rainbow Folders
[Fun Tip] Are you bored with the default colors of your Windows 7 computer folders? Try the Rainbow Folders application. It is a free light-weight application which lets you colorize your Windows folders quickly.
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Auto Login And Lock Windows 7
Personally, I find the feature of Windows allowing users to disable the logon screen, totally unsecure. When you enter the password on the logon screen, it takes some time to load windows explorer and all startup programs. This can also be quite annoying and time consuming. So what is the solution?
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Download Picasa Photo Albums
Developers tend to take advantage of Flickr’s popularity, this is why you will find many tools related to it, but now Picasa is growing at quite some fast pace too. Today we will review two opensource tools which allow users to download photo albums from Picasa.
Read MoreWhat is Google DNS IP & How To Set Up DNS Server?
What Is Windows.old Folder And How To Remove It
We will be discussing the following points in this post:
- What is the Windows.old Folder ?
- What is Included in Windows.old?
- How To Remove The Windows.old Folder?
Router Port Forwarding/Redirection, Proxy Server Bypass via HTTP and TelNet
Tcp Soft Router is a light-weight tool which lets you perform common TCP routing operations like port forwarding, port redirection, proxy bypass, etc via HTTP and TelNet protocols. It runs as a Windows Service.
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Is My Computer Free Of Virus? Find Out With Norton Security Check
Norton Security Check is a free online service which tests your computer’s exposure to a wide range of online threats. If you don't have any antivirus or malware detection software installed, then using this free online service will give your system a through scan to find out if it is infected with any malware or virus. It also helps in determining the internet security needs.
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Microsoft Office Publisher 2010: What’s New?
Microsoft Office Publisher is a well known application by Microsoft which lets you create brochures, postcards, newsletters, websites, e-mails and much more. Millions of people are using it to manage all their marketing activities. We are in the process of reviewing the main products in Microsoft Office 2010, such as, Word 2010, PowerPoint 2010, Excel 2010, Outlook 2010 and OneNote 2010. Lets see what new additions have been made to Office Publisher 2010.
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Wireless Ad-Hoc Network In Windows 7 Starter
When we wrote a detailed guide on setting up an ad-hoc network connection in Windows 7/Vista, some users complained that the Starter edition didn’t have an option for setting up an Ad-Hoc network in the Network and Sharing Center.
Read MoreAdd Google Calendar In Chrome
Google Calendar Popout is an extension for Google Chrome that adds a small Google Calendar button in the menu bar. When clicked, it shows the official Google Calendar Gadget.
Read MoreFirefox Browser Dock Bar RSS Feed Reader – Buckts
Buckts is an add-on for Firefox that adds a dock bar in the browser from where you can manage all your RSS feeds, Social Networks, and Search. At the moment it is in beta and allows users to add rss feed only, the social and search features are coming soon according to it’s website.
Read MoreStop/Prevent Installation In Windows 7
Recently I got an email from a reader who asked,
Read MoreI'm a Mac user; my family has succumbed to the price wars and bought a PC with Windows 7. I have created a user account for my 8yr old son who quickly downloaded Google chrome! How can I prevent users from installing software? Any suggestions?
Free Up Memory In Google Chrome? Purge Memory
Google Chrome’s Task Manager is quite handy, it can be launched by hitting Shift+Esc hotkey. It is useful in a sense that you can easily end a certain page(process) without having to crash the whole browser and restart it. Chrome is able to handle it well because it assigns a separate process to each page, thus making it faster.
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