Turn off Windows Location Provider in Windows 8

The Windows Location Provider feature in Windows allows applications to find your geographical location. This feature can make use of GPS hardware in your computer directly or it can make use of IP address resolution, Wi-Fi or cellphone tower triangulation methods to locate you geographically. Some people might find it invasion of privacy. If you want, then you can turn off the Windows Location Provider feature in Windows 8.

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How to Begin Using Your Real Name on Youtube

Google invented Google+ so many years later after its other already popular services like Gmail and Youtube. Now Google is trying to integrate Google+ back to these services. In this series, now Google is allowing you to use your Google+ picture and name on your Youtube account. This way you can post comments with your real name and picture beside it. Any videos you upload would also carry your real name as displayed on your Google+ profile.

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How to Download All Instragram Pictures of Any User

Instagram is a free photo sharing program with social networking integrated into it. Lately many celebrities like Lady Gaga have also started using Instagram extensively. With a flood of high quality pictures from celebrities, you sometimes wonder what if I could download all of them on my hard disk. You can use the Free Instagram Downloader to download all the pictures of any Instagram user.

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SearchPreview: Add Webpage Thumbnails In Search Engine Results

If you are using Google, then you can hover over a website in search results to see its preview but it requires action on your part. The SearchPreview addon for Chrome and Firefox browsers adds the preview functionality to Yahoo!, Google and Bing search engines. It displays website snapshots as thumbnails along with your regular Google, Yahoo! and Bing search results. This allows you to get a small preview of the site without having to visit it first.

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PDFsam : Split and Merge PDF Files

PDFsam is an open source Windows application that can help you split a large multi-page file into smaller PDF files or merge small PDF files into a large PDF file. The application gets its name by joining word PDF with sam which is short for split and merge. The program is designed using the Oracle Java programming language and so you need JRE (Java Runtime Environment) installed on your PC before you can start using PDFsam.

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Tor Project : Browse the Internet Anonymously

There are several reasons for you to be wanting anonymity on the internet. The Tor Project presents with an easy, secure and safe solution to acquire anonymity. Tor is short for The Onion Router. When you connect through the Tor network, your data is encrypted several times through different nodes and it becomes impossible for anyone to decipher it. The Tor network also assigns you a different IP address and thus hides your real IP address effectively.

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