When you start a browser it opens with the home page you have set. In Apple Safari browser, you can also set a home page of your like.
Read moreTurn off location aware browsing in Apple Safari
Location aware browsing is a new feature in modern browsers. It supplies your geographical location to any sites you visit. This information can be used by a web site to offer services near your place. If you do not like this feature you can turn it off easily in Apple Safari.
Read moreInstant translation in Firefox using gTranslate
Sometimes while browsing a web site, you may encounter a word or phrase that you do not understand. You can translate that word or phrase using Google translation. The gTranslate add-on for Firefox makes it very easy to translate any selected word or phrase in Mozilla Firefox.
Read moreShutdown Windows Vista faster
When you shutdown Windows, it attempts to stop all the running processes. Some processes may become unresponsive and thus can cause unnecessary delay in the shutdown process. This delay is called the timeout after which Windows forcibly terminates these unresponsive processes. You can modify settings to decrease the timeout and thus shutdown Windows faster.
Read moreDelete installed updates files from Windows 7
Windows 7 automatically downloads updates from time to time and keeps your Windows up to date. But these update files are stored on your computer even after they are installed. You can claim some hard disk space by deleting these update files.
Read moreShow classic Programs submenu in Start Menu of Windows 7
In Windows 7, Microsoft completely removed the classic Start Menu of Windows 2000. In Windows Vista, you could change the settings to show the classic Start Menu but not in Windows 7. But you can still change the settings to show the Programs sub-menu in the Start Menu of Windows 7.
Read moreMake FireFox faster using FastestFox add-on
Mozilla Firefox is the most customizable web browser. You can install add-ons and plugins to increase or modify its functionality. FastestFox is a Firefox add-on which claims to make web browsing using Firefox very fast. Here is how you can use FastestFox
Read moreQuickly share a picture on Twitter using Firefox
If you have to share a picture to Twitter, first you upload it to a image sharing service and then post the link to Twitter. But now you can just right click on any image on any web page and choose to post on Twitter and it will be done.
Read moreDisable combining of taskbar icons in Windows 7
Windows 7 taskbar does not show the name of open windows in the taskbar, but it combines all the same type of windows into a single icon. You can choose to stop this behavior and make Windows 7 show all open windows icons in the taksbar separately. This would make the Windows 7 taskbar look and behave like the Windows Vista taskbar.
Read moreAutomatically view PDF files in Google Chrome
When you click on a link to a PDF file or other document types it downloads the file to your hard disk, where you can use a program to view that file. But now you can view that PDF file (or other documents) right inside the Google Chrome using GoogleDocs. Here is how.
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