Sometimes when you boot into Windows, the system icons like volume, network and the power icon no longer show up in the notification area (system tray). This is very annoying because you can no longer quickly open the sound, network and power related settings from the notification area. This happens because of a registry problem in Windows 7. You can easily fix this problem by clearing some of the misbehaving entries in the Windows registry.
Read moreHow to Cancel Your Tagged Account
Tagged is a rapidly growing social networking site. You can make new contacts and friends on Tagged, play games and share gifts among many other things. While Tagged may sound like Facebook, it offers a unique and totally different kind of user experience. If you are a Tagged user but are not getting any fun out of it for some reason, then you may want to cancel your Tagged account.
Read moreRemove Start Menu button in Windows 7 with Start Killer
Everybody knows about the Start Menu button which stays on the left side of the Windows taskbar in the left-bottom corner of your screen. Although most people have large monitors these days, yet some people think that this Start Menu button is a waste of the taskbar space. If you are also one of them then you can easily remove the Start Menu button using a freeware tool called Start Killer.
Read moreBeautify Your Tweets with Twitter Symbols
Twitter is a micro-blogging web site that everyone on this planet knows about. Twitter has been known to be the center of many nationwide revolutions like in Turkey and Egypt. If you are also one of many Twitter fans then you should know how to beautify your tweets by adding stars, arrows, hands, smile and various other symbols to your tweets. This way you can make your tweets fascinating, eye catching and attractive.
Read moreChange MAC Address of your NIC Card Using Mac Makeup
Your network interface card (NIC) has a unique MAC address (media access control address) which identifies this networking device over a network. Some network administrators restrict network bandwidth, network access times etc. based on the MAC address of your NIC card. But you can bypass these restrictions easily by changing the MAC address. You can use the free tool Mac Makeup to change the MAC address of your NIC cards.
Read moreCreate Disposable Email Address in Firefox with TrashMail.net
Often you encounter web sites which require you to supply your email address for viewing, downloading or accessing some content. If you give your regular email address to them, there is a possibility that you would soon start receiving spam on that address. But if you are a Firefox user, then you can install the TrashMail.net add-on which can automatically generate a disposable email address.
Read moreAdd Windows 8 Metro Interface to Windows 7 with the Mosaic Project
Microsoft has announced some of the features of its upcoming version of Windows – Windows 8. The most talked about feature of this new version of Windows is its new user interface called Metro UI. It basically has many tiles which can be customized to hold different kinds of widgets like weather, control panel and various other widgets. If you cannot wait for Windows 8 to be released, then you can add the Metro UI of Windows 8 in your Windows 7 system using the Mosaic Project for free.
Read moreGive Your Photos Retro Vintage Look Using Pixlr-o-matic
Do you want to give your pictures a retro look as if they are from a bygone era of 60s or 70s? Usually you have to know some expert skills in Adobe Photoshop (or GIMP) to give your pictures a retro look. But now you can use the Pixlr-o-matic online tool to add many cool retro vintage effects without any knowledge of the graphics editing. The Pixlr-o-matic tool is powered by the popular online image editor Pixlr. You can use it from any modern web browser that supports Adobe Flash.
Read moreCopy Paste Text Without Formatting Using PureText for Windows
The most annoying thing that I have come across when using Microsoft Office is when you copy some text from a web site and paste it inside a Word document, then it also copies all the formatting and style (like color, size, font etc.) of the original text. It takes so much time trying to remove all the formatting and strip it only to just the plain text. But there is a freeware called PureText which can alleviate you from this painful task.
Read moreStop Windows 7 from Sleeping, Shutting Down or Logging Off
By default, Windows 7 is set to enter the sleep mode if the system has been idle (no user input) for ten minutes. This can be a problem if you set Windows to run a task for a long time like downloading something off the internet. An easier solution would be temporarily stopping Windows to sleep, shutting down, hibernating or logging off etc. For this, you can use Don’t Sleep, a freeware tool which can help you stop your system from powering down, sleeping, hibernating, restarting and more.
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