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Bring Back That Old Windows 7 Style Start Menu To Windows 8

It has been almost a week since Microsoft has rolled out Windows 8 Developer Preview. And the buzz about the Windows Re-Imagined Start screen is yet to settle. While some are pitching for it there are voices that express the discomfort using the new interface. One thing is clear by now, that this debate has hardly started and is going to stay for some time. Until then, let us look out for a solution that can address this issue. So if you are loving the new start screen, just keep enjoying it with more metro style apps to come. However, if you are keen on getting back the old Windows style start menu, here is a simple registry tweak for you.

Facebook To Introduce Automated Smart Friend Lists In Coming Weeks

In coming weeks, Facebook will gradually roll out automated smart friend lists on your Facebook profile. These lists will be created automatically, depending upon your connections, sharing habits, common attributes and other signals. Here are some noteworthy points regarding new Facebook friend lists.

Windows Live Skydrive To Get Full On Integration In Windows 8

Microsoft has high hopes with its upcoming version of Windows operating system, namely Windows 8. The other day Microsoft announced a full download of Windows 8 developer preview and now we have more goodies coming into Windows 8 one by one. One of the fascinating ones is the full integration of Windows Live Skydrive in [...]

How To Change Or Recover Your Facebook Mobile Upload Email Address

Did you lost your Facebook mobile upload email address and want to recover it? Do you want to reset your Facebook upload email and get a new address for posting status updates and uploading photos from your mobile? Here is how you can reset the old Facebook mobile email address to get a new one

Facebook Wants Users To Increase Their Account Security

Getting trapped by malicious Facebook applications is one story, there are numerous other occasions when you might lose access to your Facebook account. Keyloggers, Phishing, malicious links, weak passwords, poor security question – you name it. The situation is worse when the imposter completely changes the login credentials associated with your Facebook profile and continues [...]

Record A Video Of Your Android Screen Using Screencast Recorder

While there are quite a good number of free as well as paid applications available for capturing a screenshot of your Android phone, but when it comes to recording a video of Android screen – you have fewer options. The good old way to record a video screencast on your Android device is to install [...]

YouTube Adds Support For Resumable Video Uploads

If your internet connection is slow and drops frequently, you might have noticed that uploading a video at YouTube gets truncated, when your connection drops. Lets say you are uploading a video of length 10 minutes but after a while, you find that the upload got stuck in the middle. One of the major reasons [...]

Split Large Folders Into Smaller Subfolders And Make File Management A Breeze

Managing large folders which contain thousands of different files in not an easy job. If you are a regular web worker and have to deal with email attachments, press reports, software downloads and other important files on a daily basis, you know how difficult it is to manage different file types kept in a single [...]

Restrict Access To Specific Android Apps With Android Parental Control

The one thing I don’t like about my Android smart phone is its liberal and open nature towards apps. My friends sometime take the phone to play games, watch videos or surf Facebook but I don’t want them to open my Gmail app or use the Twitter app on my Android device. Sure I can [...]

Keep Your Real Email Address Hidden From Facebook Applications And Games

Facebook, apart from being a hugely popular social networking platform is often used as a user authentication system in thousands of games, applications and web based apps. App developers and gaming sites prefer using Facebook as a login authentication system because it makes life easy for the user and doesn’t require them to create an [...]

Adding Authorship Markup On Your Website Using Special Anchors And URL Parameters

You might know that Google has recently launched an authorship markup tag which attempts to recognize original authors writing a piece of content. By using authorship markup on your blog, you can tell Google that you are the original author who has written this content. This helps cut the clutter from spammers, auto posters and [...]

How To Bulk Upload Photos And Videos To Your Facebook Account From Android

The default Android app of Facebook is great but it has some limitations, as far bulk photo and video uploads are concerned. You can’t upload multiple photos to your Facebook account from Android in one shot. You have to tap the camera icon, select the photo which is to be uploaded, upload the photo to [...]