Top 7 Windows 7 Explorer Tools and Hacks to Make You More Productive

December 27, 2011

Windows 7 explorer is very powerful when compared to its previous versions. However, if you are looking for some cool tricks to integrate few more useful features to the explorer, here are 7 utilitarian features you can enable on your default Windows  7 explorer to become more productive and increase accessibility at the same time. [...]

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How to Type Your Password Correctly Every Time, Even When You Are in Hurry, With Visual Hashing

December 27, 2011

Passwords are everywhere. No, I don’t hate them at all. What I do find irksome is the task of remembering all of them and the CAPTCHA that sometimes comes on when I mistype one repeatedly. Typing passwords is second nature to most of us these days. But let’s also remember that speed also leads to [...]

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How to Play Songs From GrooveShark On Your Desktop With WinGrooves

December 26, 2011

I don’t think I need to tell you anything about Grooveshark, however, if you have no idea what it is (which is highly unlikely), have a look at our previous post Find and Stream Your Favorite Music for Free with Grooveshark where we have talked about all the awesomeness of Grooveshark and how you can [...]

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Manage Your Online Shopping and Get Price Drop Alerts With Slice

December 26, 2011

Online shopping is in vogue (has been for quite sometime actually). In the west, especially in the United States, online shopping has matured to such an extent that you see a bevy of shopping apps around the industry. If you are a couch consumer, you will appreciate the need to manage your shopping across the [...]

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all GT Readers!

December 24, 2011

It’s Christmas eve and we wish all GT readers around the world a happy and enjoyable Christmas, and some wonderful holidays ahead. Be happy, stay happy. Cheers! Abhijeet Mukherjee, Editor, GT Network Image courtesy – Randy

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How to Stop Unnecessary Windows Process That Use CPU and Memory With JetBoost

December 23, 2011

When my computer was new, every game I installed on my computer gave me the best FPS (Frames per Second) and graphics performance. As days passed and new games hit the market, the FPS along with the graphics details reduced. Soon, there was a day when I manually had to close some of the background [...]

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How to Share Any Word, PPT, PDF Documents or Image Files Using QR Codes

December 23, 2011

The two dimensional bar codes called QR (Quick Response) Codes are finding new uses. Thanks to the omnipresence of smartphones and QR apps in them, you don’t have to look far for novel uses of these alpha-numeric codes. Tag My Doc (Beta) is a time-saving web service that uses QR Codes to share documents. Tag [...]

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15 Beautiful Christmas Wallpapers For Your Windows Desktop [Cool Collection]

December 22, 2011

It’s time for snow, lights, bells, gifts and Santa. It’s time for Christmas! You must have started decorating the Christmas tree, lighting up the house and hanging the bells to cherish the festive mood. With so many preparations around to welcome Santa, why leave your good old computer behind? Here are 15 high quality, handpicked [...]

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The Complete Guide to Sharing Firefox or Chrome With a User Without Revealing Personal Data

December 22, 2011

A browser remembers every move you make on the web. The idea is benign – to improve your browsing by way of faster loading times or easily retrievable URLs. But the footprints left behind also open up a gaping hole in our privacy. On one front, someone else using the same computer can easily track [...]

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How to Customize Facebook App Permissions With fPrivacy Extension

December 21, 2011

Way back, when I was new on Facebook, I tried a hell lot of apps and games everyday. Though each of them comes with a necessary set of permissions telling us how the application will integrate with your profile, I never paid attention to them. Soon when I started getting spams of horoscopes, daily fortune [...]

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How to Quickly Upload Captured Screenshots to Dropbox and Share them Using CloudShot

December 21, 2011

CloudShot, as the name suggests is a freeware that helps you take quick-fire screenshots and upload them to Dropbox automatically. This open-source tool is a tiny 180 KB application that integrates with your Dropbox account. CloudShot works on all Windows versions. Of course, to make it function on your Windows system, you need to have [...]

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How to Set Windows 7 Explorer to Open Your Favorite Folder By Default

December 20, 2011

I hardly use the Windows 7 library and hence I find it a bit irritating sometimes that the Windows explorer folder icon on my taskbar opens the Library by default. I mean, I should be able to quickly set it to open my favorite/most frequently used folder, right? Turns out, this isn’t that straight-forward. If [...]

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How to Track Movies, When and Where They Will Play, and Get Alerts With Watch It

December 20, 2011

The world revolves around movies. Hollywood rules; and a few language barriers aside, it cuts its way across borders. The web has become the go-to medium if you want to keep yourself updated about what’s going to play next…and where. It’s just not enough to get this information – you need to share it too. [...]

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How to Normalize Volume of Tracks In Your Music Collection With MP3Gain

December 19, 2011

We usually get our music tracks from many different sources. Some are ripped from audio CDs while others are downloaded from the internet or the local area network. With the variation of source, the one thing that gets messed up is the volume of the tracks. For example, the tracks which are ripped from a [...]

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A Quick Guide to What’s Changed in Facebook’s New Timeline

December 19, 2011

Come December 22nd and you will have Facebook Timeline gracing your profile whether you like it or not. With Timeline, Facebook has gone for a face-lift and perhaps made it more personal for you and me. To recap, Facebook Timeline is a date-by-date collage of all our memorable posts, photos, and events. Facebook has off [...]

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How to Sync Local Documents With Google Docs in Real Time Using KumoSync

December 17, 2011

Are you looking for a way to sync your local documents to Google Docs in real time? Well, if all you want is a tool that will automatically track any changes you make in your documents and reflect the same on the clouds then we have just the right thing for you. KumoSync is a [...]

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