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Sometimes, after you login to Facebook, you might notice that the Facebook Chat has disappeared from your Facebook personal page. The well-known chat box is usually located at the bottom right side of your page. Looking around on different forums it looks like such an issue is due to a lot of dissimilar, different reasons which usually have to do with Facebook glitches and bugs and  browser/computer issues. As a consequence you won’t be able to chat with your friends, you won’t get any messages from anybody and your friends will see you discontinuously on and off line.  Such an issue has happened to me a couple of times and despite I managed to find out a fix thanks to a small trick I am well aware that what worked for me might not work for other people. Let’s see the most common fixes and solutions available on the Internet which could help you recover from this problem. Remember, if none of the following methods work and your chat seems to have disappeared for good, it means that Facebook is undergoing some fixes and general maintenance, so be patient! Continue reading »

Hotmail SSL means that Hotmail has started using Secure Sockets Layer sign in feature  to provide extra communication security over the Internet. A lot of websites and Internet applications are actually already using  SLL protocols to protect their users such as Google SSL and Firefox. This is due to the recent hackers’ rampage which is scouring the Internet to gather and harvest surfers security information through software holes in their computers and software. Secure Sockets Layer encrypts  segments of network connections so that nobody will manage to understand the meaning of the communications sent (emails, chats, messages etc.). Let’s see how to turn on such a feature on Hotmail. Continue reading »

Sometimes, in Windows 7, you might see that no erase CD, DVD and Disc option (for rewritable discs) is available under My Computer. Windows 7 has got among its features a very handy CD/DVD burner. According to this Windows 7 guide: “Windows burns discs in the Live File System format or in the Mastered format, depending on which disc format you choose”. The burning feature in the latest Windows operating system is embedded in the system by default,  and no payment is required to use it. You can burn discs directly from Windows Explorer, My Computer, Windows Media Center and from the Windows DVD Movie Maker. On this guide I will talk about the issues some users might face when they try to use the “Erase this disc” option available on the disc drive in “My Computer”. If you right-click the disc driver icon you should gain access to all the options to burn and erase your discs without buying any extra software.  Sometimes some of these features might miss from the menu interface. Let’s see how to fix it! Continue reading »

Have you ever wished to download everything from a Facebook account including pictures and photos, videos, posts, status updates, different data, profile information etc? Till some time ago downloading something from Facebook was simply impossible unless you used software or online tools. Aware of this big limitation, the Facebook team has recently released an interesting web utility (directly embedded in your Facebook account) which lets you download everything from your Facebook account as a zip file! Continue reading »

If you wish to turn off and disable the new Google Images Search and switch to the old,  Images basic version, soon you might find yourself without any clue on how to do it. In fact, there is not any obvious way to perform this “simple” operation. For example, on the left Google Images Search sidebar there is no “turn off” option. You can only tweak and refine the way you  search images, photos and pictures by selecting certain parameters such as color, size, type etc. Personally speaking, I find the new interface quite irritating. It also distracts me because every time I hover on a picture it becomes bigger all of a sudden. Furthermore, it’s more difficult to find out the source (the complete URL address) and where the image comes from. Nevertheless, the all new Google Images has got a way to switch back  to the basic interface. The only issue is that such a option has been artfully hidden. Continue reading »

As you know, the only option you have got when it comes to using wallpapers on Windows 7 is to change the actual desktop wallpaper with…another one. If you wish to add something else, well, you are simply not allowed to do it because of  the lack of Windows 7 desktop options. Recently, I have found an interesting, free tool which will let you add and use videos and personal videos as wallpaper in your Windows operating system and give some fun to your boring Windows 7 desktop! Continue reading »

Windows Live Mail 2011 is the new free email client from Microsoft’s Windows Live. Apparently, there is no way to select all messages or junk emails on WLM 2011 interface, as no clear option is offered to its users. This issue is all the more distressing in case you have to mark a big quantity of emails for mass deletion. Do you want an example? Just image that one day you get up and find out that your Windows Live Mail is pestered with hundreds of emails. Well, without the “Select All” option, you will have no choice but deleting them one by one! Luckily for you, I have recently found out that the missed and wanted option is there and actually works! The only issue is that it is not clearly visible. Furthermore, there is more than a way to mass select all your unwanted emails. Let’s see together, thanks to these quick tricks how to get rid of junk emails in a couple of clicks! Continue reading »

By default, Mozilla Firefox browsers will attempt to automatically resize website pictures while you surf the Internet. If you don’t like this kind of behaviour and wish to stop it, this brief trick will teach you to turn off the automatic image resizing in a couple of steps. This hack works on each Firefox version, namely Firefox 2,3 and 4. Enjoy! Continue reading »