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Entries from January 2008

Disable Orkut + Google Talk integration

January 17th, 2008 6 Comments

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Google provides integration of Orkut & Gtalk for the following benefits:

Scrap notifications
Orkut friends are added to GTalk friends list
Your GTalk status is shown to your friends on Orkut

Now if Orkut + GTalk [...]

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How to change album cover in Orkut

January 16th, 2008 2 Comments

Since Orkut has implemented album feature, a random image was chosen as the album cover. I was looking for a method to change it and was smiling when I found out that it was right in front of my eyes. I discovered this simple method and thought of sharing it with you all.
Here is how [...]

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How to change drive letter

January 15th, 2008 3 Comments

What is the use of changing the drive letter?
You can swap the drive letters for your optical drive. Sometimes you install a program from one optical drive and that program runs when the required media (disk) is inserted into that optical drive only and you wish to run it from a different optical drive. In [...]

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Create an XP Live CD

January 14th, 2008 2 Comments

One of the easiest ways to do this is using a software called pebuilder. Using it, you can create an XP Live CD in just about 15 minutes!
Here’s all the software you will need:
1. pebuilder (Get pebuilder)
2. Plugins:
xpe-1.0.7.cab (the GUI shell) from here. Other plugins from here.
3. Nero Building ROM
4. A (bootable) XP CD

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TaskSpy - Task Manager for your smartphone

January 12th, 2008 No Comments

What you do when something is not responding on your computer? You don’t wait a sec to hit all time favourite combination of many computer users Ctrl + Alt + Delete. Isn’t it? Miss that functionality in your smartphone? Don’t miss it anymore. Get TaskSpy for your Symbian OS based smartphones. You can quickly switch [...]

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5 Things you would love to do on your smartphone

January 11th, 2008 2 Comments

You are going to love these 5 things on your smartphone if you have an unlimited data plan.
Opera Mini (Web Browser)

You can browse the internet on your smartphone and that too at a fast speed as pages are first compressed and then delivered to your phone. Its the most popular free web browser used [...]

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How to set firefox not to automatically update itself?

January 9th, 2008 2 Comments

Firefox new versions are released over time and it keeps on checking for updates by default. It is recommended to keep this setting as it is because many security issues are also fixed in newer releases but it can be trouble some for dial up users. Moreover if you need to reinstall [...]

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