If you have become addicted to Google+ by now, it is high time that you connect your other accounts like facebook, twitter, Yahoo! etc., to your Google+ account. By connecting them to your Google+ account, you can see in your Google+ profile relevant content that your friends share on the web on facebook or twitter. For example, if you like Lady Gaga on facebook, then after connecting facebook to your Google+, you would be shown suggested Lady Gaga profile to add to your circles in Google+ page.
Read moreEnable or Disable CD Burning in Windows 7
There are many reasons due to which you would want to disable CD or DVD burning in Windows 7. You can disable CD or DVD burning in Windows so that the optical drive acts like a read only drive and a user cannot write content to a blank optical media. In Windows 7, this can be done using a small setting using group policies.
Read moreDownload and Backup Your Facebook Photos Using Pick and Zip
More and more digital devices are coming with options for uploading the digital pictures and videos straight to your facebook account. This is a great thing as facebook works like an online backup in this way. Even if you lose your photos on your digital camera, you still have them on your facebook account. But how would you download all the photos from your facebook account ? You can use the free Pick and Zip service to help you download all your facebook photos packed in a single ZIP or PDF file.
Read moreTransform Any Website into an Asteroid Game in Chrome
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and nobody wants to be dull. So why be a dull person at your work? Just turn any web site into an Asteroid like game and have little fun to cut through the boredom of your daily work-load. You can turn any webpage into an Asteroid like video game using the KickAss extension for the Google Chrome web browser.
Read moreImport Your Mail and Contacts from Other Accounts to Gmail
Often you have tons of emails and contacts in your older email accounts, so making a shift to Gmail is very painful. Situation is even worse for school kids who lose their email address (along with all the emails and contacts) as soon as they graduate from high school. Fortunately, the creators of Gmail have added an import feature using which you can import all the emails and contacts from your older email accounts.
Read moreBackup and Restore Drivers in Windows 7 Using Double Driver
It is not unusual for you to receive a computer without any driver disks. If later you decide to format the hard disk and re-install Windows, where would you get the drivers from. In the situations like this, Double Driver comes for the rescue. Double Driver is a portable application using which you can backup and and restore the drivers installed on a Windows based computer. Double Driver is freeware and supports all versions of Windows from XP, Vista to 7.
Read moreTurn Off Auto Closing of Programs at Shutdown in Windows 7
When you shutdown Windows and if some programs are open, then Windows automatically terminates them. Suppose you were working on a document and accidentally try to shutdown, then Windows will forcibly terminate the open document and there is a possibility that the changes will not be saved. You can turn off this default behavior of Windows to automatically terminate programs at shutdown.
Read moreTurn off Search Visibility for Your Google+ Profile
If you have a Google+ profile then just anybody can search for your profile using the Google+ profile search function. The search visibility is turned on by default for all the accounts. This is a good thing for celebrities who want themselves to be easy to look up. But some people do not want to be searched like this for personal and security reasons. If you want not to be searched then you can turn off the search visibility for your Google+ profile.
Read moreProtect from Search Data Profiling with TrackMeNot Add-on in Firefox
When you search for something in your favorite search engine, the search engine logs what you are searching for. Over a period of time, that search engine builds your search data profile and uses it to manipulate you search results or display advertisements. Fortunately, there is an add-on called TrackMeNot for Firefox using which you can send randomly generated search queries the search engines so that the search data profile it builds is not accurate and thus protect your privacy.
Read moreStay Safe with WebFilter Extension in Chrome Browser
If you share your computer with your entire family including young children, then you must be worried about protecting your family from all the crap over the internet like adult sites, illegal drug sites, spyware infected sites and other time wasters. If you are a Google Chrome web browser user then you can easily filter such inappropriate sites using a Chrome extension called WebFilter.
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