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Troubleshooting

[Solved] Cannot connect to Gmail in Thunderbird 3.1.2 [Troubleshooting]

August 7, 2010

I use Thunderbird as my offline email client and it’s been a really smooth ride since more than a year. But recently I ran an update [3.1.2] and restarted my PC only to find myself not able to connect to Gmail [using IMAP] on Thunderbird 3.1.2. Turns out the issue lies with Google’s servers. They [...]

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Fix Windows Live Essentials uninstalling problems [Troubleshooting]

June 25, 2010

Windows Live Essentials Beta [Build 15.3.2804.607] is now available for download. I downloaded the Beta only to find myself stuck with a weird problem with the uninstall of the previous version of Windows Live Essentials. I tried to uninstall the previous version but the ‘Uninstall Wizard’ failed to launch. The previous installation had messed up [...]

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Disabling the BitTorrent feature in Opera

April 11, 2010

Opera has this really nice feature to handle .torrent files itself with its integrated BitTorrent protocol solver. Turns out, most of the torrent users already have a client software like uTorrent for downloading torrents. So the BitTorrent feature in Opera not only becomes useless, it also gets quite irritating when downloading torrent files. What happens [...]

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Windows 7: Use new 256 x 256 icons for folders

March 19, 2010

Beginner Tip Today I had a discussion with my friend about a troubleshooting session in which he wanted to change icons of some the folders. He wanted to use the native new Windows 7 icons which he could not find the new icons in its default location. Although he figured out after a while, I [...]

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How to: Disable file delete confirmation dialog in Windows

March 1, 2010

Beginner Quick-tip Confirmation dialog boxes in Windows are like the best thing after sliced bread just because they give you a ‘second chance’. However, if you are smart enough and consider yourself as the ‘one who can do no wrong’, you might want to turn off confirmation dialog boxes that appear when you delete a [...]

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Searching emails in Gmail made easy!

February 25, 2010

Opened up Gmail this morning only to find one small feature been quietly slipped down into it – The auto-complete list that pops up on email search. I frequently use email search and haven’t seen this feature before. So I am guessing it must have been there for not more than a couple of days. [...]

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How to: Play HTML5 videos in Internet Explorer

February 22, 2010

We’ve all known that Internet Explorer is the last one to support any new web browser feature. And while Firefox and Google Chrome are showing support to HTML5, Internet Explorer is busy playing in the sun. However, a genius dude called Christian Adams decided to roll up sleeves and provide a plugin for IE to [...]

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Stop users from running specific applications in Windows

January 20, 2010

As a security measure, there are times when you need to stop access to certain programs to other users. In Windows, using the Local Group Policy Editor, you can specify which all programs you want to prevent from running. This is very useful if you are administering an Internet lab in school and colleges or [...]

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How to: Change framerate of subtitles

January 15, 2010

While watching movies with subtitles it is very important to have same framerates for both – the movie file and the subtitle file. Although it does not apply to hardcoded subtitles, unsynced framerates is one of the most common annoyances when we use an explicit subtitle file to overlay on the video. Here, the change [...]

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Windows 7: Remove recent items from ‘jumplists’

December 21, 2009

Windows 7 has a very nice feature called ‘Jumplists’ which is otherwise very helpful but can get a little annoying at times. The main concern is that it not only displays the core functions of a program in the Windows 7 taskbar, it also displays a list of recent items stacked together, which is not [...]

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