Web Talk

As you know, Facebook has just introduced its new Facebook profile theme or layout (look) which wipes out the old, default theme introducing an improved re-arrangement of your information, friend list and photos as well as a better way to share your interests and activities. Despite some users deeply dislike the new Facebook layout I have to say that I like it! A new re-designed left sidebar, a great way to share your information and private stuff and the new infinite scroll which lets you browse your photos and images faster are the reasons why I think that such a new theme will become quite popular after its uncertain beginning. This easy tutorial will show you how to get the new profile and how to go back to the old, default one in case you don’t like it. Continue reading »

Gmail lets you view external images and content in the body message thanks to a couple of interesting options: Always Display Images from and Always Display External Content (such as images) Sent by Trusted Senders. Let’s see how to turn these two useful options on and what to do when Gmail doesn’t seem willing to display external images, pictures and content despite the options above have been enabled. Continue reading »

Windows 7 has got an incredible, shiny and polished User Interface (UI) thanks to its default themes and to thousands of themes which can be downloaded on the Internet for free.  If you are about to format your computer you might wish to save and backup your Windows 7 theme folder so that you won’t loose all of your themes. This is also especially useful if you plan to export your Windows 7  themes to another computer. This brief trick will show you how to save  the theme folder to a location of your choice. Continue reading »

If you have got a Facebook account I bet that you want to block the annoying Mafia Wars application from your personal profile, isn’t it? Mafia Wars (just in case you don’t know what I am talking about…but I doubt about it) is a game, an application, a multiplayer browser game which is available on a lot of social networks. The goal of this game is fight other users (the location is New York,  little Italy and other USA locations) through theft of cash, “icing”, or “death”. The more you win the more you earn points. Of course the game is more complex than this as there are a lot of rules as well as coalitions, under negotiations etc. as you can see on the Mafia Wars forum. If you don’t care about this game and you wish to block it permanently from your Facebook profile, you have to know that you can do it in a very easy way! Continue reading »

But who on earth is interested in creating a fake file and what is a fake file? A fake, dummy file is  a big file which contains…nothing. Users who want to make a fake file usually want to make a joke or want to test an Internet connection speed by uploading a large file or want to slow a computer down by clogging it with gigabytes and gigabytes of fake space. Continue reading »

Majority of Messengers don’t let you create funny, custom  smileys. They just offer you a default set of emoticons without any other option for you to play with. Wouldn’t you like to make your own smileys, wouldn’t you like to amaze your friends online with a fresh, new, funny set of personal emoticons? The new Windows Live Messenger 2011 (WLM2011) has got a quite interesting option which will satisfy your desire to be unique on the Internet. Make your funny, free smileys in a couple of seconds thanks to this small tutorial!  Continue reading »

Google has just released the final, stable release of its great Google Chrome 8. The standalone version is also available through Google servers. Google Chrome 8 (version 8.0.552.215) is a big leap in term of performance, security and Internet browsing experience. As stated on the Google Chrome official blog,  the Chrome team managed to fix  around 800 bugs (including performance issues). Google Chrome now implements a nice native PDF viewer with sandbox mode to protect your computer from viruses and spyware. Some of the PDF viewer features include: zoom-in and zoom-out, right-click save, copy text and print.  Continue reading »

Windows 7 has got a lot of nice and beautiful User Interface visual effects. However, some of them may annoy and bother Windows users. This brief tutorial will show you how to turn off and turn on shadows in Windows 7 themes and mouse pointer. In fact, apart from the fact that they are of no use at all, such nice effects tend to “drink” too much computer resources which could be dedicated to more useful purposes…above all if you don’t have a very powerful computer! Continue reading »