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If you have got an unwanted browser toolbar and you don’t know where you got it from, then you might wish to delete, erase and remove it. And that’s exactly where you issues will start! In fact, apart from exceptions, it is not every easy to uninstall and remove such toolbars since there is not proper option among its settings. Sure, you could go to your Windows 7 and Vista operating system settings, but why do you want to complicate your life among hard-to-understand options? While surfing the Internet it is very easy to download and install a toolbar. Sometimes you do it voluntarily, other times instead you are tricked into clicking a button which will automatically install the toolbar. In rare cases instead you will install it unintentionally because it is embedded to another software you decided to install. Google Toolbar, MSN Toolbar and Bing Toolbar are the most famous ones. But beside them there are tons of toolbars whose main goal is to spy you and your privacy. “Less famous toolbars” include: Alot, Ask, Dealio, Kiwee, Babylon, Tango, Mirar, Spyware, Crawler and many, many others. Let’s see how to get rid and uninstall of them! Continue reading »

This brief tutorial will show you how to install (in a very easy way) Windows Media Player 12 skins (WMP12) in order to customize the default and sometimes boring default skin. As you know Windows Media Player 12 offers you, right out of the box, a basic skin which, despite it gets a lot of praises by  a lot of users, it is not a very exciting template. So, why don’t customize it with your own tastes and colours? Actually, on the Internet there are dozens of websites which offers you different skins able to make your Windows Operating system media player unique and personal! Even the Microsoft website has got interesting and free skins! This tutorial will show you how to modify your Windows Media Player 12 and turn it to something…new! Continue reading »

As you know, Google Chrome is a rather minimalist and bare-bone browser. For example, if you want to export and backup Chrome history to a txt or html file,  you have to know that there is no easy way to achieve this result as there is not option for this. I have browsed the Internet rather extensively and, apart from a difficult trick available on Google Suport Forum which involves the use of a software called SQlite,  the situation is quite hopeless! There are different reasons why a user would need the Internet history available on the Google browser. The first one is that such a user needs to put this data on a USB flash drive and use it on another computer or  on another Google Chrome. Other times instead, the need to have a history log containing the  past searches is more practical. In fact, the same user  would like to see what kind of websites and blogs he surfed on a tidy list, an office document  (to make comparisons, for example) or on a more ordered way. So, it is a pity that the Google Chrome Team didn’t add such a wonderful feature which , I am more then sure, would make a lot of “Chromers” a lot happier. On my side, I have found out a couple of solutions which might be on some interest to the casual user. Continue reading »

If you wish to move or change the default toolbar position on your Firefox browser, it looks like you don’t have a lot of options. Once Firefox has been installed on your computer it seems that everything is locked without any option for you to alter anything. Sure, you can add new themes or you can change the default buttons thanks to some tricky hacks but, as far as the toolbar is concerned, you don’t have anything to play with. Nevertheless, there is a little option, a simple, stupid option which lets you hide/move/change the position of your Firefox toolbar. The issue with it is that it is pretty concealed as if the Mozilla Team didn’t like you to mess with their browser! Let’s see how to “mess” with YOUR Firefox and have it the way you want! Continue reading »

If you just installed Windows Live Mail 2011 (WLM 2011), then you might be at loss on how to change the default language as there is no obvious way to achieve this result.  The need to change and modify the language on  Microsoft email suite is due to the fact that it automatically detects your own language on the base of your Internet IP and your computer  regional settings. So, in case you are in France or your computer default options are set for France , WLM 2011 will install the local language (french). Of course, residing on a certain country doesn’t make you speak its native language right away. That’s why you might need to set a different language. This brief tutorial will show you a couple of tips and tricks which will let you easily solve this issue. Continue reading »

Have you got an annoying, nasty “friend” on Facebook (fb) you want to get rid of? Do you wish to delete his/her friend request because you really can’t stand him/her at all? Well, this is the right tutorial for you!  Facebook (fb) is one of most used social network around  which lets you share your life on the Internet. The whole hub around which this famous website spins is making a lot of friends and read their daily life on their pages or on other applications such as Skype, for example. If you want to limit this kind of  “information bleeding” from this social network you have got a couple of tools to use. For example, you can delete Facebook pages from you account, or you can even delete your whole Facebook account. However, the best way to make your life easier on Facebook and be sure to share your happenings with the right users  is to smartly pick the right… friendships!  Continue reading »

In case you wonder  what your kids are doing in front of your computer, Firefox and Windows  offer you a simple way to monitor their online activity thanks to a couple of tricks which will turn your Firefox in a kind of recording machine! Of course there are better ways (also thanks to special add-ons such as about:me, for example) to check and log your kids activity and eventually block the websites they are visiting while in front of your computer. However, this solution will arise less questions as it will pass completely unnoticed since it doesn’t involve any kind of software or application. Everything is done by using Firefox and Windows 7 resources with the result that nobody, even the most seasoned computer expert will know what you are doing and what you are…recording! Continue reading »

One the latest Firefox features  lets you reopen and restore recently and accidentally closed tabs on the toolbar.  This may be especially useful in case of a crash of your browser or simply because you had to turn off Firefox in a hurry. Whatever the reason, such a great feature has got a big limitation. In fact, Firefox won’t restore more than a certain number of tabs. The reason behind this apparent senseless decision is due to the fact that if you have a lot of opened tabs, Firefox could crash  or require your Windows operating system a lot of resources to reopen them. Basically, there is a security issue behind this limitation. However, if you wish to increase the number of these closed tabs, I have got the right trick for you! Continue reading »