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Top 6 Tips To Resolve System Issues Of Your Family Members & Friends In Holidays

The holiday season has once more arrived and it’s time to visit your loved ones, to spend some quality time with them. Having said that, a lot of this quality time can end up being spent on troubleshooting your nieces’ laptops, or your uncle’s old computer, i.e., if you are a geek, or even an [...] (more…)

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Shift Nautilus Back And Forward Buttons To Left In Ubuntu [Tip]

Some Nautilus users have been rather annoyed by the positioning of back and forward buttons to the right-hand side of the Nautilus file browser in Ubuntu 11.10. While there might not appear to be any easy way of getting this fixed, a developer has posted a tip on Ubuntu Forums to provide a quick solution. [...] (more…)

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How To Prevent Your Laptop From Overheating [Windows 7]

A few months back, I bought a new Core i3 laptop, hoping to run more resource intensive applications and games with better performance. While most of the applications seem to run without any issues, I have been dealing with a few thermal heating issues while playing games or running encoding tasks. For some odd reason, [...] (more…)

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How To Turn Off SmartScreen Filter For Windows 8 Internet Explorer 9 [Tip]

Microsoft recently introduced a SmartScreen filter for applications in the new Windows 8 Developer’s build. This filter works similar to the Internet Explorer SmartScreen filter, which protects users from malicious agents across the internet by providing warnings for phishing websites. Unfortunately, this new SmartScreen filter can be a bit annoying, since it often provides unwanted [...] (more…)

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How To Create Custom Brushes In MS Paint [Tip]

You are probably using Windows for a long time like us, and must have played around with MS Paint a lot. But did you know that you can create your very own custom brush? If you create rough prototypes of graphic design projects in Paint and need to use a custom brush, here’s a small tip [...] (more…)

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Enable/Disable Auto Hide For Unity 2-D Launcher In Ubuntu 11.10 [Tip]

Since the inception of Ubuntu 11.10, users have had a number of complains regarding the bugs and UI issues. One such problem is the management of the auto hide feature of the Unity Launcher. While it was fairly easy to disable auto hide for the Unity Launcher in Ubuntu 11.04 with the help of Unity [...] (more…)

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How To Share GPS From An Android Phone To An iPad [Guide]

The absence of GPS capability in the WiFi-only iPad was termed a dealbreaker by some when it was released and again when its 2nd generation counterpart hit the market. With either of the two devices, the only time the OS allows you to view your location on a map or, say, geotag a photo is [...] (more…)

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How To Make Any Photo / Image The Cover Of An Album In Windows Phone 7

A good operating system is one which, while maintaining an appropriate level of security and privacy, still manages to endow the users with a sense of freedom. A user must be able to customize anything on his or her device, the user has paid for it after all. Windows Phone 7 is sometimes dubbed as [...] (more…)

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How To Get Classic Scrollbar Back In Ubuntu 11.04 [Tip]

Along with the many changes which we saw in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty, the overlay scrollbar was perhaps one of the most distasteful ones. While some users might find it convenient to auto-hide the scrollbar, yet some of us just can’t seem to get used to it. Moreover, the overlay scrollbar also seems to be a [...] (more…)

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How To Delete And Disable Recent History In Ubuntu [Tip]

Whenever files are accessed in an operating system, a log of recently accessed files and folders is created. While this can be handy to reopen recent files and folders quickly, it can also become a privacy issue for some users. Unlike Windows, where it’s fairly easy to find recent documents (as explained here),  Ubuntu users often find it hard [...] (more…)

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[How To] Receive Updates For Side Loaded Market Apps From The Android Market Client

When you side-load an Android Market app that is unavailable in your regional variant of the Market (Google+ or Google Maps, for instance), it isn’t included in the My apps list within the Market client on your device and hence, the client does not notify you when an updated version of the app is released. [...] (more…)

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How To Empty Dropbox Cache (Hidden Deleted Files) To Free Disk Space

Who knew that Dropbox contains a hidden cache folder which is meant to store deleted files? This folder is present so that when one tries to recover deleted files from Dropbox, as the saved files within the cache are restored to quickly recover your data, instead of downloading it from Dropbox servers. While this  may [...] (more…)