Web Talk

The latest feature in Opera browser is the Mouse Gestures which lets you perform actions with small mouse movements. However, you might wish to turn it off since some users find it quite annoying. In fact, such a feature is turned on, by default. To “awake”  and completely activate it, it is sufficient to hold up the right mouse button for a couple of seconds to see the mouse gestures user interface. Let’s see how to turn it off and get rid of it. Continue reading »

Grooveshark is a legal, online music search engine able to stream thousands of songs. A  couple of  Web Talk readers asked me if there are any free Grooveshark ripper able to save and rip music from this great website. To tell you the truth, before finding a valid, free solution to this issue I had to search the Internet quite a lot. In fact, apparently there are not free utility able to rip streaming music from website like Grooveshark and, useless to say, the quest was quite hard. In the end I found something which will do the trick  in a couple of easy steps. The  solution is a free program called WireShark whose goal is to capture and cache streaming audio and save it on your computer. Continue reading »

Despite Google updates Chrome browser quite often, some user might wish to downgrade his Google Chrome browser and restore it to earlier and previous versions. The reason behind this apparent insane choice is that maybe the user needs a special extension which is only available in old Chrome versions or maybe, for some unknown reasons, the latest update messed the Google browser making it completely incompatible with his operating system. Whatever the reason, the following guide will show you how to restore older Google Chrome versions on your computer. Continue reading »

My Security Shield is another  fake antivirus/antispyware which after installing on your Windows system you will want to delete it right away! In fact, Security Shield is a malware program whose only aim is infecting your machine with spyware and scareware applications making you believe that your system has been infected ( like for example Antivirus Action). The way it works is rather simple and effective. You visit a website. Such a website contains an advertisement (scam!) which pretends to be an online virus/spyware scanner which automatically scans your Windows 7 , Vista, XP. After finishing , the scanner will return with a warning telling that “Your Computer is Infected” and that you need to download and install My Security Shield to protect your PC. Let’s see how to get rid of it and uninstall it in the simplest way possible! Continue reading »

Facebook lets you make a lot of friends all around the world. However, you might wish to block or allow and unblock some friends or people you don’t know or, for example, nag you or that you don’t trust. Undoubtedly, the good thing about Facebook is that you can make a lot of new friends. In fact you can visit other people profiles and make friendship requests or you can even get friends requests from other users who like your profile and who you are. That said, on such social networks it is very easy to meet people you don’t like and that’s why it is important to get some kind of control over them (as well as your Facebook privacy)  in order to block undesired users or allow wannabe friends! Let’s see how to achieve this result thanks to a couple of easy steps! Continue reading »

In case you forgot your Facebook username and password, don’t worry! Actually it is very easy to recover and retrieve (or even steal) them from you computer and without resetting and restoring any account! In fact, forgetting account passwords is so common that in the Internet there are dozens of free software which are devoted to…save your life. I have already covered topics like this with tons of tutorials which explained to you how to recover your Google password, or how to get back your Router password and many many others. The free application I am about to show you is “specialized” so to speak with Facebook private login information, so download it right away and keep it at hand, just in case something goes wrong. Keep in mind that this application  will also let you steal Facebook passwords from any computer. So please be careful when you use public computers. Remember to delete all your sensitive information as well as clear the cache of these public machines to prevent other people and bad-hackers from stealing your secrets! While using outside Wi-fi  hot spots, also be-aware of the Firesheep Firefox extension which is able to steal any password send via wi-fi. Continue reading »

If you wish to underline any portion of text and certain words in Adobe PDF Reader you might be at loss on how to do that and actually you could even miss the whole opportunity to achieve such a result since you might not find the right option. In fact, despite the option is right in the Adobe Reader upper toolbar, the average users might miss it because it is a little misleading and tricky to understand and spot. This quick guide will show you how to enable the underlining option thanks to a little trick. (only works on Adobe reader 10 and further versions). Continue reading »

Mediafire is a free file hosting service where you can download tons of files. Did you know that you can search for Mediafire files, videos, music, documents and data with Google Search engine? In fact, by default, Mediafire doesn’t give you any way to browse among files uploaded by its users and this is a big limit shared by all the Internet websites (such as Rapidshare, for example)  providing the same kind of services. Mediafire is a big Internet resource where you can download any kind of files since majority of them are “open”, meaning they are not protected. Only a small percentage is protected by a passwords.  This brief tutorial will show you how to overcome and bypass Mediafire limitation and get all its pages (links) by performing special Google Searches. Continue reading »