You can play loud music on your computer but not all the time – you have to be careful not to disturb your family members and your neighbors in the early hours of the morning and the late hours of the night. You also have to keep in mind not to pump up the volume if you have infants or patients in your house taking rest. Though you can manually change the Windows system volume up or down, but an automatic volume changer would be better.
Read moreSearch Millions of U.S. Homes for Rent or Sale with Zillow
Although world economy is going down the hill and the real estate business is suffering too, yet everyone needs a home to live in – whether you buy it or rent it. If you are looking for a nice home to live in and want to buy or rent it, then you can search a home at Zillow. Zillow is a free internet service, a living database of more than a hundred million U.S. homes, including homes for sale, homes for rent and homes not currently on the market.
Read moreGet Cash Back and Exclusive Coupons with ExtraBux
If you shop online a lot then you would be delighted to know that you can get your cash back and find exclusive coupons at almost all the major online shopping sites like Groupon, Walmart, Barnes and Nobles etc. ExtraBux is a browser add-on which flashes yellow notification bar showing the discounts, coupons and exclusive cash back offers available for an online shopping site as you visit that web site.
Read moreHow to Optimize Folder Type in Windows 7
By default, Windows automatically detects the contents of a folder and decides what kind of folder it may be – General, Music, Documents, Pictures or Videos folder. So if you copy some music files to a folder, then Windows may optimize this folder as a Music folder. But if you do not want Windows to automatically optimize your folders, then you can manually optimize a folder type for any folder in Windows 7.
Read moreStay Away from Fake Online Stores with Zscaler Safe Shopping
All the modern browsers today are armed with protections tools to warn you about phishing and scam sites. For example, Mozilla Firefox checks all the sites you visit with Google Safe Browsing database and warns you about any scam, phishing or malicious sites. But these do not block the fake online store sites which are being run by cyber-criminals ready to steal your sensitive information. You can use the Zscaler Safe Shopping extension to get warned about such fake or compromised online stores.
Read moreQuickly Toggle Private Browsing Mode in Firefox
Like all the other modern browsers, Mozilla Firefox also supports the private browsing mode feature. If you turn this feature on, then Firefox switches to the private browsing mode in which your browsing history is not saved to the local hard disk. You can turn on the private browsing mode using the Firefox menu or using its hotkey, but a faster way is to install the Toggle Private Browsing add-on in Firefox.
Read moreCartoonize Your Picture Online Using Befunky
If you want to draw a comic book style cartoon of yourself, then it is going to take some professional graphics editing skills in Photoshop. But if you use the Befunky online application, then all it takes is a few clicks. Befunky is an online application that can turn your pictures into outlined cartoons automatically without needing any manual editing on your part. You can upload your pictures to Befunky and use one of many available cartoon effects to cartoonize them.
Read moreBypass Windows SmartScreen in Windows 8
Windows SmartScreen is a new security feature in Windows 8. Windows SmartScreen can help you stay safer by warning you before running unrecognized programs downloaded from the Internet. All the files you download from the internet have an alternate data stream (ADS) containing the zone information. Windows SmartScreen uses this ADS information to prevent running all the downloaded programs. If you want then bypass Windows SmartScreen by clearing the ADS.
Read moreTurn off Windows SmartScreen in Windows 8
Windows 8 has come with newer security features – Windows SmartScreen being one of them. Windows SmartScreen can help you stay safer by warning you before running unrecognized programs downloaded from the Internet. When you try to run a program, SmartScreen sends the information to Microsoft and fetches data as to running that program is safe or not. If you temporarily do not have an internet connection, then SmartScreen blocks every unrecognized program.
Read moreStop Getting Tracked by Social Networks Using Priv3 in Firefox
Security researchers have found out that the social networking sites like facebook, Google+, twitter etc. track your browsing behavior. For example, if you visit a web site with a facebook Like button implemented on it, then the information is sent to facebook that this facebook user visited that site. The same is true for other social networks like Google+, Twitter or Linkedin etc. This is a big privacy concern for everyone.
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