Some men love to to brag about their automobiles, while others love to talk about how powerful their computers are. If you think your system is loaded with power, then you might want to put it under the stress test of freeware program HeavyLoad. It puts your workstation or server PC under a heavy load and lets you test whether they will still run reliably.
Read moreHow to Create Temporary Bookmarks in Firefox
Whenever I see something interesting on the Internet I press Ctrl + D to bookmark it and read it later. But this results in having tons of bookmarks under the Firefox bookmarks menu mostly because I never bothered to remove them. The solution for this age old problem is a Firefox extension called Temporary Bookmarks or Tark in short. The Tark extension, as you may have guessed, helps you to create temporary bookmarks in Firefox which will be automatically removed after a period of time.
Read moreChange Double-Click Speed of Mouse in Windows 8
Over a period of time the clicking switch (the one that you press to left-click or right-click) of your mouse wears out and then it results in clicking multiple times each time you try to single click in Windows. This is because the switch is made of metal cantilever type spring and when this metal spring wears out, your switch starts to make unwanted clicks. To sort out this problem to a certain degree you can change the double-click speed of your mouse to be slower than usual in Windows.
Read moreRemove Malware Using Panda Cloud Cleaner
Everyday new types and variants of malware are seen on the internet. Most of these malware rely on fooling the users into believing that they are useful software. Fortunately, there are more than one tools available to fight back and remove such malicious software from your PC. The Panda Cloud Cleaner is such a tool that can detect and remove the malware from your PC. Since it uses cloud based malware definitions, it always stays up-to-date.
Read moreFind License Keys of Installed Software on Mac
There are many programs that allow you to find the license keys of software installed on Windows, but what about Mac users? Fortunately, the developers of Magical Jellybean Software have come with a solution for Mac and its called Mac Product Key Finder. This software does what Windows Product Key Finder does for the Windows PC. It is able to detect and decipher license keys of nearly two hundred different applications.
Read moreDisable Hardware Acceleration in Opera Browser
Like all the other moderns browsers including Firefox and Chrome, Opera has also added support for utilizing GPU for video and animation playback on a webpage. This is called hardware acceleration and is enabled by default. But if you have a low end graphics card then it can make videos play very slow and you may have to disable hardware acceleration. After you have disabled the hardware acceleration, Opera would use software rendering for all web page contents.
Read moreRecover Wireless Passwords with Wi-Fi Password Revealer
When you connect to a secure Wi-Fi network for the Internet access, you have to supply a username and password. Usually this password is given to you by your office, university, school, hotel or some other organization. But if you forget your Wi-Fi password in the middle of the night, you cannot connect to the Internet. Thanks to the freeware Wi-Fi Password Revealer, now you can find out your forgotten wireless network passwords easily, all by yourself.
Read moreRemove Background from Images without Photoshop
When it comes to editing pictures and removing background from images, the first thing that comes to mind is Adobe Photoshop. But not everyone has this costly piece of software. There are some alternatives like Gimp, but not everyone is comfortable working with these complex programs. If you want to remove the background from images, then you can do so easily using the free online service called ClippingMagic in just three steps.
Read moreCreate Mixed Tape CD Gift for Your Friends
When someone says mixed tape, it takes me back to 90s when these kind of tapes were very popular. People spent hours recording songs on their tape recorder from sources like radio or other cassette tapes and put a lot of effort in the mixed tapes. Although mixed tapes are no longer that much popular, but these days you can create a mixed tape in a few clicks on your computer. All you need is a collection of MP3 songs, a blank CD and the Random MixTape Maker software.
Read morePause Youtube Videos Automatically in Firefox
Once you start playing a Youtube video, it keeps playing to the end even if you switch to a different window or tab. Would it not be better if the video paused as soon as you switched to another tab and resumed when you returned to the Youtube tab? The Youtube Smart Pause add-on does exactly that in Firefox. It automatically pauses currently playing videos on YouTube once you leave the page and resumes playback as soon as you return.
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