What Is Facebook’s ‘Instant Personalization’ And How To Block It?

Facebook’s latest instant personalization feature is yet another flag raiser that the service uses to share your data with 3rd party services. Let’s take a quicklook at it and learn how we can disable Facebook Instant Personalization.

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Think Twice Before You Share Your Phone Number WIth Anyone

This new anti-social networking site, as it is called, is the brainchild of a stripper, a gambler and his friend.

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You Just Need A Browser To Chat With All Your Friends Anytime Anywhere

Imo is a web based chat platform that supports popular chat protocols like AIM, Facebook Chat, GoogleTalk, ICQ, MSN, MySpace, Skype, and Yahoo Messenger. Its ability to make both voice and video calls without installation makes it the perfect chat platform for the cloud user on the go.

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RockMelt: Welcome To Integrated Social Browsing

Rockmelt is a social browser based on the source for Google Chrome, meaning that it has access to the Chrome Web Store and all of Chrome’s extensions. However, Rockmelt is something much bigger than a Chrome variant.

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Qwiki: A Full Media Immersion Search Engine With Better Relevance

Qwiki opened the product to public testing on Monday, January 24, 2011. The new service is described as providing information in “rich media narrative” form. This is a combination of videos, photos, and audio clips relating to the search topic.

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How To Install A Program Using Compatibility Mode In Windows 7

How to make use of the Compatibility Mode in Windows 7 to run your legacy applications.

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5 Best Online File Conversion Tools To Convert Files From One Format To Another

Converting files from one format to another can be a really tiring procedure. With dozens of audio, video, document and media formats popping up every other day – downloading a file converter for each one of them is certainly not recommended.

Following is a list of some of the best free online file converting tools which let’s you convert audio, video, documents, images and archive files from one format to another. All of these file converters are free to use, absolutely no strings attached.

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Using Windows 7 Task Scheduler – Run Programs At A Specific Time

There are some common Windows tasks which needs to be executed at scheduled intervals. If you want Windows to work properly and always strive for a faster system performance, you will have to run backups, use disk cleanup and disk defragmentation.

This article discusses how you can use Windows task scheduler to automate common system jobs and run them at specific time or day of the week.

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Trunk.ly Enables Easy Search Of Twitter, Facebook And Delicious Links

Trunk.ly lets you search links shared on Facebook, Twitter & Delicious. The web app aggregates all the links you shared on social media and lets you search them from a browser.

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Use System File Checker to Repair Missing or Corrupt Files in Windows 7

Did it happen to you that your computer failed to boot properly or after boot it flashed some warning message saying that your computer is missing some system file ?

One of the reasons for Windows boot failure could be that some of the system files of Windows got corrupted due to hardware failure or other unknown reasons. The situation becomes worse if your computer automatically restarts and you lose all your unsaved data on the primary Windows partition.

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GrindStone Helps You To Keep Track Of Time Spent On Different Tasks

Keeping track of time spent on various tasks is very important, because often times we get carried away from one task to another eventually messing the whole scenario and not completing any of the tasks at all.

There are web based apps like WorkFlowy, Teux Deux, ThoughtBoxes and Google Tasks but if you are looking for a free Windows program for task management, try Grindstone.

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Beginner’s Guide To Windows Batch Files

Learning some basics about batch files will make your computer experience much easier and interesting. In this tutorial we won’t be covering advanced commands and functions but beginners can learn a lot to start with.

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7 Excel ‘If’ Function Techniques You Need to Know

Here are 7 conditional techniques that can help you create useful Excel formulas using “IF” function in Microsoft Excel

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How to Work with Date Functions in Microsoft Excel 2007

In this quick guide we will look at how you can easily manipulate dates in Excel to give you the answers you need.

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