How To Hide Or Limit Facebook Timeline

October 22, 2011 By 24 Comments
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Since the introduction of the new facebook profile layout known as timeline, there has been a great deal of privacy concern among users. I wish I could revert back to the old profile but all known tweaks stopped working since timeline went public and I'm presently stuck with it just like everyone who upgraded to the new profile layout. I read somewhere that disabling your facebook account for ten minutes or so reverts your profile back to the old layout but it didn't work for me. I saw some … [Continue reading]

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Recover Overwritten Files In Windows 7 And Windows Vista

October 21, 2011 By 15 Comments
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I was working on my notebook the other day when i made a really silly mistake: I overwrote a file with another having the same name. I was worried, angry and felt really stupid because once you overwrite a file, you can never find it in the recycle bin. I didn't know what to do and I ran a google search. Some said my case was hopeless, some said I needed to purchase some expensive data recovery software but I finally got a solution that looked rather too easy at first. I ignored it thinking it … [Continue reading]

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Progress / Loading / Status Bar For Firefox 4, 5, 6 & 7

October 19, 2011 By 1 Comment
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Mozilla Firefox remains my favorite web browser, followed by Google Chrome while I don't even use Internet Explorer at all. Firefox went through quite lots of upgrades in the last couple of years, jumping from version 3 down to 7 but I started disliking the design right from version 4 due to some reasons: the progress bar disappeared and the design looked like an imitation of Opera and Google Chrome. I decided not to upgrade and stuck with Firefox 3.6.10 until recently when I had to install an … [Continue reading]

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Display Blogger Widget/Adsense Unit At The Homepage Only

October 17, 2011 By 16 Comments
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Every Widget/Gadget you add in blogger automatically shows on all pages but sometimes, you might wish to have a widget appear just on the homepage only and nowhere else. If you've noticed, there are some page elements on this site's homepage that won't appear on post pages and you can do this for ads, html/javascript or any other page element. Instead of just making the widget appear on the homepage only, you can as well make it appear on a particular post page only.How To Make Widget/Adsense … [Continue reading]

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How To Access Blocked Sites Via Proxy

October 16, 2011 By 9 Comments
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Your boss at work might have restricted you from visiting certain sites like facebook, youtube, twitter and so on just thinking they are distractions. It might even be your school has a very fast WLAN but the network administrator makes it impossible to watch music videos on youtube or hang out with your peeps on facebook. Crazy, huh? Are you even aware some governments restrict their citizens from visiting certain sites? ( I've heard about China, Saudi Arabia and there's word around that you … [Continue reading]

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How To Switch Back To Old Yahoo Mail Classic

October 16, 2011 By 12 Comments
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Yahoo! was the very first email I opened and there are still a couple of things I like about it even though I'm stuck with gmail these days. Yahoo! Mail Classic looked simple and easy to use back then even when you're on a slow connection unlike the new yahoo mail that requires javascript to function properly. You might not notice the bug if you're on a fairly fast internet connection but it definitely sucks when you're connecting your computer to the internet using your mobile phone as modem. … [Continue reading]

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Hide From Certain Friends On Facebook Chat

October 14, 2011 By 2 Comments
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It not easy staying on facebook chat especially if you have a thousand friends or more with those chat invitations popping up when you have something else to do online. You might even be forced to answer a couple of them against your wish because you don't wanna be a snub. With almost two thousand friends on my list, I can't just cope with facebook chat though I wish I could chat with some people there every once in a while but logging on to chat with twenty chat invites can definitely scare … [Continue reading]

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How To Use Text Effects (bold, italics) In Google Plus Posts

October 14, 2011 By 1 Comment
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Unlike facebook that requires certain applications to update your status with text efffects, google plus allows you to do this without any third party application. Google plus allows you to post updates with text effects such as bod, italics, strikethrough and so on. I logged in to google plus last week and saw someone in my circle with this wierd looking post and that got me curious till I asked him how he did it. There's no special trick, just a couple of characters and you can post your … [Continue reading]

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