Web Talk

This is a really quick trick! Have you ever wished to loop a YouTube Video? As you know, among YouTube options there is no way to perform such an action. The only way to do this  is  click the play button as soon as the video stops. Here are a couple of websites which will help you watch your favorite video over and over…and over again! Continue reading »

One of the first thing we, Internet users, do while using the famous Google Map Street View is look for our house and see if the G-car took a picture of it. Now, if you think that this is going to be an issue for you, you might wish to remove it for good. Here is a simple, but rather unknown procedure to achieve this result! Continue reading »

So, at last Google did it! After a long time Google has officially launched the Google Buzz webpage where webmasters and bloggers will now be able to copy a special code, paste it on their blog and get the famous Google Buzz widget! This will help readers using this new Google service  share and spread the content of any website in a more easy way! By the way, I have added the Google Buzz widget to Web Talk too! What are  you waiting for? Share my content now! Continue reading »

Some months ago I wrote an interesting article talking about how to make Google Chrome faster thanks to its DNS pre-fetching feature. Such an option really improves your surfing experience by caching (saving) the IP address of the websites you visited. This simple trick improves the page load performance thus decreasing the time Google Chrome takes to display a website. The downside of this feature is that if a website changes location, if it changes its IP etc, Google Chrome won’t be able to display it right away and it the worst case it won’t be able to download it at all! So, let’s see how to turn off the DNS feature and clean Google Chrome DNS cache in case you don’t manage to display a website on your Google browser! Continue reading »

If you share your own computer with other people such as your family members, your coworkers etc, sometimes you might wish to lock it down, to prevent them  from peering at your private stuff. Here is a simple, free tool which in a couple of steps will let you block your computer. Only the right password will let the user to gain access to your machine. Continue reading »

If, for any reason, your Windows 7 operating system stops working all of a sudden and nothing seems to work to fix it, it is always a good idea to reinstall everything  thanks to the installation DVD or to the special partition in your computer containing the files to make a fresh Windows 7 installation. If instead you have a lot of important information, you can use  the DVD, for example, to retrieve them thanks to some interesting tools included in it. But what happen when you don’t have anything, when the computer house didn’t give you any disk or it didn’t create anything in your computer in order to restore your operating system after a failure? Here is a quick tutorial which will teach you how to make a Windows 7 System Repair Disc. This disc will allow you to boot the computer and recover all your precious files and programs. Continue reading »

While opening (executing and installing) a file having .exe, zip, bat etc. extensions in Windows 7 and Vista, the system will return with the following security warning window “Do you want to run this file?”. If you wish to turn it off and disable it for good because you are one of those guys who like installing tons of applications on your computer, here is a quick hack for you! Continue reading »

If you keep your computer always updated with the latest Microsoft patches, you know how boring is to download and install all the updates for your operating system. This is also true for those users who format their machine a lot of times. A couple of days ago I found an interesting application which will let you install all the updates you want offline. The idea behind this software is that you will be able to download all the patches that Microsoft releases for your operating system at once in your computer as a big “bundle” or “package”. Continue reading »