Gmail Apps and Add-ons

Gmail’s huge success owes itself in large part to the wide range of applications, browser add-ons, styles, scripts and bookmarklets that work with it. From the get-go Google’s stayed out of developers’ way and turned a blind eye to unofficial Gmail add-ons, even ones that may very well violate its terms of service. Smart move: [...]

How to Really reduce the memory usage in Firefox

After the release of Firefox 2.0, the memory leak has become an even more notorious problem than before. On average, Firefox should take up no more than 80MB of RAM. Any more than that and you can consider yourself a victim of Firefox’s memory leak. I’m sure you’ve probably already seen a ton of guides [...]

Howto: Prevent a Linux kernel module from auto loading

In some situation you may want to avoid loading a Linux driver module automatically . For example:
[a] You would like to use proprietary device driver (I’m against any sort of proprietary drivers) and not inbuilt (reverse engineer) kernel driver.
[b] If your server system connected without a diskette / floppy drive; kernel will try to [...]

Shred tip: Securely remove multiple files so no one can recover file again

Shred utility overwrites a file to hide its contents, and optionally delete it if needed. The idea is pretty simple as it overwrites the specified FILE(s) repeatedly, in order to make it harder for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data. By default file is overwritten 25 times. I’ve seen cases where law [...]

Improve Your Windows XP - Speed Access

Every time your laptop connects to a Wi-Fi hot spot, whether it’s in your home or down at the coffee shop, it logs the name of the access point that you connected to in the Windows Preferred Network settings. If you accidentally (or maybe even deliberately) connect to your neighbor’s access point, and then find [...]

10 must-have tools to improve Windows

Every version of Windows Microsoft has released has always left its users wanting more – either more features, more control or simply more value. And that’s left a huge hole for the many computer programmers out there to fill. In the end, we think they’ve done an admirable job providing solutions for Windows gaps that [...]

Simple Tweaks to Improve the Speed of your Windows PC

Here are four simple tweaks for your PC that will help improve your overall computing and internet browsing experience.
Step 1: Change the IE Concurrent Download Limit - Internet Explorer’s default settings only enable you to download up to two downloads at the same time. Optimizing the download settings enables you to download up to [...]
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Hiding users in Windows Vista & XP

Windows XP and Vista will automatically show all user accounts on the welcome screen with no easy option to disable this. You may want to have a hidden one that no one knows about, and using this tutorial, you will learn how to hide a user account from the welcome screen.
How to hide users [...]

How To: Give Ubuntu a speed boost

The XLNTsolution weblog has a whole stash of system tweaks they recommend to speed up Ubuntu Feisty Fawn.Some of the tips include disabling IPv6, enabling parallel boot processes, reducing the load of the swap, and re-aliasing the localhost — and that just scratches the surface. Some of the tweaks are pretty advanced
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Firefox: 10 tips to bolster your privacy

Web browsers are leaky faucets that are revealing email address, web sites you’ve entered, search queries and other information. This absolute invasion of your privacy is actually pretty common and there are several different ways you can take control and increase your privacy.
This article highlights 10 tips to bolster your privacy when surfing the Internet [...]

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