Google+ tips

How to Update Your Facebook Status from Google+

If you are spending a lot of time checking out Google+ and don’t want to neglect your Facebook friends, you can easily share your Google+ updates with Facebook and you don’t need additional software or extensions.

•  First, you need to get the upload email for your account from Facebook. To do this go to Facebook and login to your account. Then go to http://www.facebook.com/mobile/.
• Go to the upload section and copy the address for your personalized upload email.

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Skype disallow third party ads

Skype for Windows: Disallow Usage of Your Information for Third Party Ads

By default, Skype allows the usage of “non-personally identifiable information” about you when serving third party ads. If you are uncomfortable with this do to privacy concerns, you can change the default setting for your Skype to disallow this.

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Internet Explorer Tips

How to Restore the Animated Internet Explorer Logo

This article describes how to restore the animated Internet Explorer logo if it has been changed by your Internet service provider (ISP).

When you browse the Internet with Internet Explorer, the animated logo in the upper-right corner of the window spins, indicating that activity is taking place. Your ISP can customize this logo by using Microsoft Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK). For example, MSN, The Microsoft Network, version 2.5 replaces the animated Internet Explorer logo with an MSN logo. 

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Internet Explorer Tips

Synchronize Bookmarks in IE

Many computer users find themselves on multiple computers throughout the course of the day, from the home-based PC to a work desktop to a laptop. The constant computer switching makes it difficult to keep your bookmarks up to date and in sync. Fortunately, most modern Web browsers include built-in bookmark sync tools that can ensure you always have access to your bookmarks, no matter what computer you are using. If you use multiple different Web browsers, there are tools that offer cross-browser support.

This article will help you to Synchronize Bookmarks in IE.

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Google+ tips

Google+: How to Control Who Can Start a Huddle with You

Huddle allows mobile Google+ users to text with groups from their Google+ circles. By default, anyone on Google+ can start a Huddle with you, here’s how to trim that down.

1. Go to Google+ on your computer and login to your account.

2. Go to the upper-right corner of the page and click the Options icon.

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Google Docs

Google Docs: How to Download Specific (or All) Documents to Your Computer

While Google Docs is an extremely convenient way to store your documents, what happens if you need to view your files when you are offline or when the service is down? You can easily select which files to download (and even download all of them) into a zip file for storing onto your computer.

Steps to Follow

1. Go to Google Docs and login to your account.

2. Locate the desired files that you wish to download.

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Enable Save Tabs Upon Exit

In order to get your tabs and windows back from the previous session, you should close Firefox from the menu: At the top of the Firefox window, click on the Firefox button (File menu in Windows XP) and then click Exit. If you close each window or tab, only the final window or tab that you closed will be available when you restart Firefox.Prior versions of Firefox would ask “Do you want Firefox to save your tabs for the next time it starts?” when exiting the program. FF4 no longer has this feature enabled by default. Here is how to turn it back on.

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Firefox tips

The Mozilla Firefox's local area network settings allows you to specify how Firefox connects to theInternet. Although the network settings are typically controlled by the operating system, the Firefox settings allows you to change how Firefox connects to the Internet. Specifically, you can setup Firefox to use a proxy server, which conceals your true Internet protocol, or IP, address.

This article will help you to get in to LAN settings in Firefox.

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View PDF Files in Chrome

Google's Chrome Web browser is a free, open-source browser for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. PDF is a standard document format that display identically across all computers and operating systems. Google Chrome doesn't include a PDF viewer, but supports Adobe's PDF plugin, like other Web browsers do. Google Chrome displays PDF files embedded in browser tabs after Adobe Reader is installed and the plugin is enabled.

This article will help you to view PDF Files in Chrome.

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Import/Export Internet Explorer Pop-up Blocker Settings

 

        Pop-up windows, or pop-ups, are windows that appear automatically without your permission. They vary in size but usually don't cover the whole screen. Some pop-ups open on top of the current Internet Explorer window, while others appear underneath Internet Explorer (pop-unders).

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ActiveX Control in Internet Explorer

                    Whenever you visit a website in  Internet Explorer you may be prompted to install an ActiveX Control to use some functionality on the site. It is usually described in the appearing prompt. ActiveX Controls are similar to plugins for Internet Explorer that add capabilities to the browser.

       

Usually ActiveX Controls add plugin-like features to the web browser, for instance the ability to view specific videos. The website that tries to install the ActiveX Control should always display what the control is needed for. These type of controls have been misused in the past, and it is always a good idea to see if you can navigate and use the website without installing the ActiveX Control

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Mozilla Firefox Tweaks for Faster Browsing

Mozilla Firefox Tweaks for Faster Browsing

We spend more time online than anywhere else, In order make browsing better we have choosen different browsers. Mozilla Firefox is widely used and its in second placed when you compare with all top browsers. Its a favorite browser for developers because of its features.


  In order to customize for our optimum usage there are few tips and tricks which you can perform on Mozilla Firefox.
The first step is to type (about:config ) in the address bar and hit enter. Check th epicture below

 Now it will list all the settings which you can modify

Some Tweaks to Customize your Firefox

1. To enable/disable Single Click Select URL of address bar
browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll = True
browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll = False

2. To auto Complete URL while typing in the address Bar
browser.urlbar.autoFill=True

3. To set the number of auto complete URL in the address bar
browser.urlbar.maxRichResults = #
(# indicates the number of auto complete URLs shown. The default is 12)

4. To disabler Browser Toolbar Tip
browser.chrome.toolbar_tips = False

5. To paste copied content by clicking the center button on the mouse
middlemouse.paste = True

6. To disable blinking text
browser.blink_allowed = False

7. To create a single close button to for all Firefox Opened Tabs.
browser.tabs.closeButtons = 3

8. To increase number of recently closed tabs.
browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo=15

9. Right click view source in your editor
view_source.editor.external=True
view_source.editor.path= Path of Editor

10. To enable fast scrolling across tabs
toolkit.scrollbox.scrollIncrement =75

11. To stop displaying website icon in address bar and on the tabs
browser.chrome.site_icons = False

12. To enable spell check in text fields
layout.spellcheckDefault = 2

13. To speed up the browser
network.http.max-connections 30 to 96
network.http.max-connections-per-server 15 to 32
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server 6 to 8
network.http.pipelining false to true
network.http.proxy.pipelining false to true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests 30 to 8
network.http.pipelining.ssl false to true
network.http.proxy.pipelining false to true

14. To disable annoying browser behavior
Change the followowing values to ‘false’
dom.disable_window_open_feature.titlebar
dom.disable_window_open_feature.menubar
dom.disable_window_move_resize
dom.disable_window_open_feature.toolbar

15. To show more tabs on single window
browser.tabs.tabMinWidth = 75

16. To display search results in new tab
browser.search.openintab=True

Feel free to ask any question in case of any doubt.

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Gmail Security - Login Activity Log

Great Security Feature From Gmail

Simple... Follow these simple steps to know details about your gmail account activity:

1. Login to your gmail account.

2. Scroll down the list of your emails in the inbox.

3. In the image below, take a look at the highlighted area (in Red) "Last Account Activity". This tells you the last login activity of your account. and it also gives you the IP address of the PC from which your account was logged into.

4. If you want to check the details of the location of the IP, you can also do that, simply by clicking "Details" link next to the activity details to check the location from where your account was logged into. It also gives you details about how your account had been accessed, by a browser (OS), mobile, Email Client and so on. See the image below:

5. If you did not logout of your account while you were at work and are accessing gmail from home, you can also Sign-out the account access from work or other locations by clicking "Sign out all other sessions" as shown below.

Now you can easily now if someone else has used your Gmail credentials, and if you forget to log out from Gmail from any other machine (your home computer or office computer or any cybercafe) you can easily log yourself out from any remote locations.

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