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Tutorial

How to: Enable ‘All Tabs Preview’ in Firefox 4

July 8, 2010

Mozilla has implemented a very nice, useful and pleasant looking feature in Firefox 4 called the ‘All tabs preview’. Although it looks more like the task-bar preview, albeit on top, it’s slightly more handy and according to what I feel, ergonomically better. In order, to enable the ‘All tabs preview’ in Firefox 4, this is [...]

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3 easy steps to a secured WiFi network [Security]

May 17, 2010

WiFi networks without any kind of security measures set up within them are more dangerous than you can possibly fathom. An open WiFi network is like an unguarded treasury. Let alone unrestricted bandwidth usage by strangers, your private data like email, documents, pictures, etc can be at stake. Recently, Google apologized for collecting private data [...]

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How to: Increase or normalize volume in Media Player Classic

April 16, 2010

Quick-Tutorial Media Player Classic bundled with K-Lite Mega Codec Pack is my favorite player for watching movies (VLC comes close second). But sometimes I do run into a problem where the volume of the movie is not properly normalized. The result is a very low sounding audio. Here is a small workaround for this. I [...]

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Securing your WordPress blog in less than 5 minutes

April 12, 2010

Security of your blog and thereby your hard work is extremely important. Like all web 2.0 systems, WordPress too is susceptible to attacks. I guess you already know how much important it is to have a robust security for your online content. Here is a quick tutorial to secure your WordPress blog in less than [...]

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3 quick ways to check if a website’s down or not

March 25, 2010

Just a few hours ago, our site TechExplorer.in was experiencing some server-side issues and hence was down for a few minutes. That led me to make a quick post on what ‘you’ do to verify that a particular website is actually dead or not. I will list down the 3 quick ways to check a [...]

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How to: Overlay an image / logo on a video

January 27, 2010

Quick tutorial Recently I had to revamp a video of a family function with some overlaid text and images and I used VirtualDub after a long time. Thought this would be really helpful for anyone who wants to overlay an image / logo on a video and want it to be done really quick. So [...]

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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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Facebook: Show your Status Updates to only specific people

December 12, 2009

By now you must be well aware of the fact that Facebook has recently tweaked the ‘Privacy Settings’ which lends you more control over your content on the popular social networking site. As soon as you log in to Facebook, a pop up is shown, urging you to re-set your privacy settings (if you haven’t). [...]

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Force Windows Live Mail to always minimize to system tray in Windows 7

November 16, 2009

Sometime ago I showed a simple trick how you can minimize Windows Live Messenger to system tray in Windows 7. Based on the similar trick, I am going show you how you can set Windows Live Mail to always minimize to tray. 1) Right-click on the Windows Live Mail icon and then click ‘Properties’. 2) [...]

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Get real-time notification when your website is viewed

November 4, 2009

I am sure this will excite the hell out of you especially if you are a beginner and have just started a blog or a website. There are a lot of statistical analysis tools for websites available out there that does pretty much the same job so I am not going to discuss the charts [...]

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