Web Talk

As many of you guys have noticed, Google has recently added a new feature to your Gmail account. I am talking about Google Buzz which adds some social features to your email box. The bad and annoying thing about this is that some contacts of yours might decide to “follow” you without your consent or that you might find in your inbox some unexpected updates you really don’t care for. Google engineers, aware of this issue, have released an interesting update which lets you turn off and disable such a feature, easily. Continue reading »

Lately, Internet privacy has become an important issue for a lot of surfers. Especially for those ones who want to stay anonymous during and after a Google Search. Web Talk has covered this issue widely with a lot of articles in the past, but maybe it is better to resume the best ways to clear and delete your Google history with a full, comprehensive tutorial which will teach you how to erase and hide your footprints from your computer and Internet! Continue reading »

After the cyber attacks against Google and more than twenty other U.S. companies which happened a couple of months ago (1/12/2010,) on the 22nd of March 2010, Google  has affirmed to have officially left China and stop Internet censorship in the country. All traffic going to Google.cn is now redirected  to Google.com.hk, where all  results are offered uncensored and in simplified Chinese. Continue reading »

As you know, after a  Windows operating system comes out,  some of the old features available in the previous OS versions are not availbale in the new one anymore. In fact, in Windows 7, you will notice that the classic start menu is not available anymore. So let’s see how to make available  certain features which, in Microsoft opinion, are not necessary, but for us have  still got some value! Continue reading »

Lately, a lot of Internet users are experiencing a weird issue. While searching something on Google, the famous Google search engine returns them with wrong results, weird advertisements and pop-ups and alarming computer errors. If this is your case, well, you have got a virus. In fact, a trojan horse got installed on your computer. Its aims to alter and manipulate the Google search and convice you to click fake websites or download infected applications. Continue reading »

If you are a parent and you have got kids, you know only too well how dangerous and insidious the Internet is. That’s why is always advisable to stay with your children when they are in front of the computer. You may want to read these articles on how to filter websites and block bad sites, restrict and forbid programs, how to spy Internet activity and how to make your children surf safely. However, since precautions are never enough, I have got another free program which will allow you to limit the time your children stay in front of the computer by logging it off/shutting it down  after a certain time you decide. Continue reading »

A couple of days ago, I was contacted by David Vella, CEO at Altaro.com. He was very kind and gave me 5 Oops! Backup licenses to share with my readers. Oops! Backup is an incredible backup utility sporting out-of-ordinary features which make this tool  stand  out of the huge list of applications of the same kind. Let’s see what you have to do to win a license key and read the complete list of its key features right after the break! What are you waiting for? Try your luck now. Win is as easy as 1-2-3! Continue reading »

By default, Windows operating systems load a certain number of applications at startup, without you being able to disable them easily and  indipendently from the fact that they are useful or not to you. Useless to say, because of this, your machine will have to dedicate a lot of its resources to run them all. If you want to decide what to run on your machine, if your computer is not so powerful and you even need  the smallest drop of your processor’s resources, I have got a nice, free program for you! Continue reading »