Web Talk

If you have a lot of icons on your desktop or if you have got some nosy coworker who constantly looks at your computer screen, then this little tool is right for you. Basically, it lets you hide icons sitting on your desktop after a certain inactivity time (default 5 minutes) or simply by clicking on the tray menu.  Continue reading »

If you create documents using Microsoft Word you should know pretty well that you can add photos, pictures and images to make them look better, more professional etc. The bad part of this procedure is that, by adding a picture, you increase the file size. This could be an issue above all if you have to send them via email (some web client doesn’t accept big files or limit the file size to X Mb for example). What follows is a tutorial to teach you how to turn on and off (enable or disable) the picture compression in Word and use it for your own benefit. Continue reading »

But what is a Facebook page exactly? Facebook pages is a new “feature” available in Facebook. As soon as you login your account, Facebook will prompt you to link your profile to some pages which should be of some interested to you. Reading from Facebook, we learn that: “We’ve improved the profile so that it doesn’t just list your information, but now links to Pages instead.  We matched your info to the Page(s) below.  Remember, your Pages are public.” The issue with this feature is that pages are openly public, so that if you link to them your whole profile will be accessible to millions of people! If you don’t like this, let’s see how to delete Facebook pages from your profile and account forever! Continue reading »

Twitter, like other web services, is heavily affected by spam. It is very common to open your Twitter account to find out that a lot of new spam users are following you. You can recognize them because their username  has to do with miraculous blue pills or they want to sell you something, or they try to show you hot videos.   Let’s learn how to block spam and spammers from pesting your Twitter account. Continue reading »

Asus has unveiled its new Apple iPad competitors called Asus Eee Pad. They are slate devices which just look like the famous iPad. They come in two flavours: Eee Pad EP121 and EP101TC. Let’s see some of its features and  how much they will costs! Continue reading »

If you use Office 2010 a lot and you are accustomed to work and “deal” with a lot of foreign languages, then maybe this little tricks should come up handy and help you a lot! Basically, it lets you set up and install an and helpful automatic support for each foreign language you have to work with. Let’s see how to achieve this result after the break. Continue reading »

The rather unknown Temp Folder is one of those  things in your Windows  you are now aware of  until you stumble upon it. But what is it? Well, every time you surf the web, you install/uninstall an application, you delete something, or a  report is created by the operating system, Windows uses it as a ” junk”  folder to store those  files . Such files will be deleted them later. Now, the bad thing about this folder is that when Windows tries to delete its content, some of  it will result undeletable. In fact, during such occurrences the operating system thinks  some of its files are still used by some applications. What it doesn’t know is that they can be safely deleted. Of course, the more this folder become bigger, the more your computer will become slower and sluggish.  So, let’s see how to force Windows to delete the content of the temp folder. Continue reading »

Lately, some users are reporting a weird issue after installing VMare (Virtual machine) on their Windows operating systems.  On such occasions, after installing a VMware, upon restarting the computer, the operating system gets stuck right at the at Welcome Screen or Logon screen. Let’s see how to fix this!  Continue reading »