If you shop online a lot, many a times you come across foreign web sites selling something that you so much want to buy, but the cost of the item is given in a foreign currency. You can always use Google to lookup for it and convert the foreign currency into your local currency. But if you are a Mozilla Firefox user, then you can just use the Simple Currency Converter add-on which performs the currency conversions at the click of a button.
Read moreF-Secure Health Check for Checking System Security
F-Secure Health Check is a free application from F-Secure Corporation (the makers of F-Secure Internet Security), that tells you if your computer is protected and helps you fix possible security issues. It can tell you if your firewall, antivirus, and anti-spyware software is on and up-to-date. It can also tell whether your photographs, text documents, and other irreplaceable files are automatically backed up.
Read moreReport Copyright Infringement on YouTube
You burnt midnight oil to create an impressive video and uploaded it on YouTube. But soon you find that others have copied and shared that very same video on their own YouTube channels. This makes everyone furious. You should not just get angry about such instances, but also report about such videos and ask YouTube to take them down.
Read moreDisable Colored Tabs in Internet Explorer 9
Internet Explorer 9 supports tab-groups. When you choose to open a link in a new tab, the new tab is grouped together with the existing tab. Each tab group in the Internet Explorer is assigned a random color. By looking at the color of the opened tabs you can see which tabs belong to the same tab-group. If you do not like this colored tab groups, then you can disable the tabbed grouping (the colored tabs) in Internet Explorer.
Read morePlay Golf Game inside Google Chrome Browser
If you are bored working on your computer all day long, then you can relax your mind by playing a little game of golf right inside your browser. You can install the Mini Golf extension in your Google Chrome web browser and start playing the golf game anytime you want. The golf game starts by clicking on a ball like icon on the Chrome toolbar. If you click on the icon again, the game is closed and you can go back to work.
Read moreDisable Send To Menu in Windows Vista
When you right click on an item (like a file or folder) in Windows Explorer, you are shown a context-menu. One sub-menu of this right-click menu is the Send To which is extremely useful to copy a file over a device or a special folder. All you have to do is right-click over a file and choose Send To and then the device name or folder name shown. But if you want, you can disable this Send To in Windows Vista.
Read moreDisable Drives in Send To Menu in Windows Vista
When you right-click on an item in Windows folder, the right-click context menu shows a Send To submenu. In the Send To submenu, all the removable drives are included as destinations by default. But if you want you can disable the removable drives to appear in the Send To menu in Windows Vista.
Read moreDelete Stubborn Files Easily with FileASSASIN
Sometimes some files get locked because they are opened by other programs and become impossible to delete. There are also many cases when some malicious program (malware) puts such files on your system and lock them in such a way that you cannot delete them. If you try to delete them, you get many kinds of errors like the file is in use by another program or user.
Read moreEnable Saving Tabs Dialog on Exit in Firefox 4
In Firefox version 3.x when you closed the Firefox browser with many tabs open, you were shown the ‘Saving Tabs dialog’ asking you if you want to save the tabs. If you chose to save the tabs, those tabs were opened next time you started Firefox. But starting in Firefox version 4.x this feature is disabled. If you close the Firefox window, all tabs are closed and not opened the next time. This is irritating. If you want, you can enable the Save Tabs dialogs on exit.
Read moreIf Server Cannot be Reached, Try Again in Firefox
Sometimes when you open a web site, you get an error that the server cannot be reached. You can do nothing much except try to reload that webpage by pressing the refresh F5 button on your keyboard. If you are using the Mozilla Firefox web browser, then instead of pressing F5 again and again, you can use the Try Again add-on for Firefox.
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