Get your Blog Indexed Fast : SEO Trick

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Getting your posts indexed as fast as possible is a Blogger's dream! Well, now I have found a way to get them indexed easily on Google, Yahoo and Bing, the top 3 search engines of current times! And the trick that I am going to share works on all three of these search engines and can actually help you get your website indexed much faster! The service required for that is not any complicated one, it is just as simple as visiting the Google or Bing Website and pinging your Sitemap to it!

Powerful Wordpress Plugins for your Blog

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WordPress, the most common choice for blogging these days and I also at TechHive, completely depend on these plugins to power my blog! Plugins help me from the scratch to the most advanced. I use plugins that help me write better posts and also plugins that help me SEO my blog. The mid-category ones are those that work in the background of my blog and help me make it better and better.

5 Essential Android Apps for Travel

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Do you have an Android smart phone and travel around the world with your phone? Well, here is a list of apps that could benefit you when you are on the go! They use your mobile's internet and provide you with a lot of information on different topics! The topics can revolve around anything on the go need, like hotels, money converter or anything like that!

[How To] Maintain a Good Readership : Blogging

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Readership is something that you would always want to maintain on your blog. But doing that is not an easy task! It consists of various tasks, which you need to do in order to "attract" readers. Your blog needs to stand out on a few topics, which others do not have to offer. Well, this is one of the things that you need to do. Others thing vary from how you interact with your readers and also on your blog design.

Backup Gmail : Be Prepared

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Some time back, Google had a server crash. The server that was affected was the one with supported Gmail, Google's free email service. Due to that server crash, a lot of people lost their important data, though Google tried to restore it using the latest backup of the server. Anyways, Prevention is better than cure! So, in order to prevent your data from getting lost, you can make a backup of the same in an easy way!

Reduce your Bounce Rate : Must Read

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When I started blogging, I did not know what Bounce Rate actually meant. Is it good to have 100% bounce rate or 0% bounce rate? I did not know the answer to any of these questions! But then, I wanted to know the answer to those questions so I did research on what is bounce rate and what is the amount it should be? High or low? Well, then I actually found out what does Bounce Rate mean.

[How To]Backup Contacts on Android

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Backing up is a very important thing when it comes to sensitive data and I believe on your phone, your most important data is your contacts. So, it is actually good to backup your contacts every now and then. I backup my contacts every week and thus, I have a backup of my contacts every time I mess around with my phone! Or, before you mess with your phone, you should take a backup.

Things To Know Before Starting A Blog

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When I started this blog in the month of March 2011, I was guided by my friends and advised on all topics that I faced problems on. I would like to share the teachings I learnt from them before starting a new blog. Well, the teaching I got were pretty common ones, which make uncommon changes to your blog and blogging career. I was actually surprised when I saw that after following these things, I was able to make better decisions for my blog!

Google+ Badge for your Blog

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Now Google+ has option for creating pages for your business or blogs. This adds up to the point that you also need to display a badge for the same on your blog or website. Well, Now you can do that and have people +1 your page from there itself! Well, doing this is an easy task! All you need to do it login to your Google account, from which you manage your Google+ Page and follow these steps!

Neon Text Effect : Photoshop

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Neon glow effects are seen everywhere. Whenever you visit a shop at night, you might spot a Neon Glow Hoarding there. The advantage of Neon Glow hoardings or text is that it outlines the text and its so bright that it looks attractive. Well, now moving on with the tutorial, I would like to tell you all that you can create this text effect in just 5 minutes maximum and you can impress everyone around!

[How To] Revert Back to Old Gmail style

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Google rolled out a new design for Gmail some time back(maybe a month ago or more) but a lot of people did not like the new design and wanted to rollback to the older version. Google gives you an option to revert back to the old theme temporarily. When Google disables the old look, everyone will be automatically moved on to the new look. But right now, you have a choice so you can decide whatever you like!

Split a Post in Wordpress : No Plugin Required

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Well, are you a blogger on WordPress platform? Do you write long posts? Well, now you can remove yourself from the hassle of managing long posts! You can simply split them into various pages, which are automatically numbered by WordPress itself. Since this is done without a plugin, the page loading time will also not be affected! Also, if you have ads on your sidebar, you would want that the post should not exceed the total length of the sidebar as well, so that you don't loose clicks on your ads.

Photo inside Text Effect : Photoshop

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Well, text effects are one thing that you would want to learn so that you can create awesome looking texts on Photoshop for your loved ones! Well, and specially this text effect because this is a text effect which will help you make your text look as if it is made of a certain picture. Well, in this example, I will be using a Taylor Swift image with the text "Lorem Ipsum", so that you can easily do that, if  you want!

[How To] Backup Android Apps Easily

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Apps are the integral part of an Android Device and when you have to upgrade your firmware, you tend to lose all the apps that are there on the device. Also, sometimes when you have to format your phone or get it to factory defaults, due to some error, you also lose your apps. But now after reading this article. In this article, I will tell you  how you can back up all your apps before you do any such task!

10 Keyboard Shortcuts you Should Know

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Time is a very important thing in our lives and saving it for other works is also an art! To save time, we try to find shortcuts that are time efficient yet useful. While working on the computer, you need to perform a lot of tasks in order to get the desired output. So, here we are presenting you with a list of shortcuts that you can use in your day-to-day life that will indeed help you save some time!

[How To] Remove Facebook Ticker

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Facebook is one of the most common Social Networking website and in the recent few months, they have launched quite a few features on the website, which include the Timeline profile and the sidebar ticker. Some of us were frustrated with the new ticker feature. Even I was in the beginning, but now I got used to it. But some people, I believe still do not like that feature. So, here is a simple way by which you can disable that.

Facebook Chat Client : fTalk

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Facebook is one of the most common social networking websites that we encounter these days. Facebook is used for connecting with friends or even for chatting with them! So, in order to chat with your Facebook friends, you need to open up Facebook and then you can chat with your friends, but not anymore. If you want to chat with your friends, no need to open up Facebook. Just use this application, that works on Windows OS.

Tips to Run Windows XP Smoothly

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Windows XP, the best OS I would say that was ever released by Microsoft! I use Windows XP till date and not use Windows 7, the latest operating system from Microsoft. And I can say that I still love the Windows XP view and the UI. If you also you Windows XP, then this is a post that you should read in order to run your Windows XP smoothly and without any problems. Mainly, these tasks revolve around cleaning your Windows files or unused files and also De-fragmenting your hard drive.

Top Android Games : November 2011

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As you might be aware of the monthly custom that we are following here at TechHive from the month of November 2011, here I bring you all another list of games for your android devices that can actually entertain you! Last month, I posted some games that you should try on your Android device, but on that two of our readers suggested other games that we can try! So, I would try to include them in this version of the updated list.

Old Comic Effect : Photoshop

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Comics are one thing that all of us read at least once. Today, when I opened my bookshelf, an old comic dropped from it. And I was amazed to see the photos in it. It was all cubed like pixels on a screen and I thought that did I use to read comics with such bad pictures? Then I searched for other comics and found that every comic had those type of pictures earlier. So, I thought of giving that effect to a picture of my choice and boy was I surprised when I was actually able to do that! So, here is a nice and easy tutorial for all you Photoshop fans out there!

Windows Vista Online Simulation for Free

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Want to try out Windows Vista? Need to know the reason that it did not work that good for Microsoft? Well, just go ahead and read how to do that! Windows Vista, in my opinion was not that good as an operating system from Microsoft, compared to the other versions or Windows from Microsoft. Still, if you want to try out how Windows Vista looks, go ahead! 

Top Cydia Repos : November 2011

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As you all might be aware of the new custom that we are going to follow here at TechHive, which is sharing the list of the top-list on a few topics and Cydia repos is one of them. So, here we are back this month with yet another must have a list of Cydia Repos, the November update.

[How To] Watermark Images on your Wordpress Blog

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Maintaining your copyright is one of the main thing that comes to anyone's mind. When you blog, you want that your images should not be used by others. If they use, you actually deserve a credit to that picture. But this is generally not done. You also, sometimes Google your images and forget to give the credit to the original poster of that image. This is again wrong and you could be penalized by law for the same. Make sure your always give proper credits.

TechHive's New Monthly Custom

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Customs or Traditions are important for any religion and for the "Technology religion", we need to make our own customs and traditions. So, here at TechHive we thought of a custom that should be implemented from the next month. Though, this was already in use in the month of October, but from the month of November, we shall stick to it more often and provide you better posts on that custom of ours.

Android Games you Must Try

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Android is one of the most common operating system we find on our devices these days. And everyone likes to play games, be it an old man or a young teenager. And choosing from that good collection of apps and games from the market is an another difficult task. So, here I bring a list of Android games that you should try out at least once. If you like them, you can keep on playing or else just uninstall them.

Boost RAM on Windows XP : Hack

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RAM is sometimes a problem when running a heavy-duty application on your Windows XP. Like in Windows 7 and Vista, you can boost RAM using  a flash drive, you can not do the same in Windows XP. But, today here is a hack or an exploit you can say, by using which you can boost Windows XP's RAM and enjoy better performance at no extra cost. There are other methods also to optimize your RAM and boost your Windows XP, but here I shall be talking only about boosting it through a flash drive.

Android Apps for Better Blogging

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Android is a powerful tool for the day. It is almost your mini-computer which fulfills all your needs, but blogging can become better if you use your Android to an optimum level. As we all know, the Android market is one of the largest mobile store market that is available to the general public for use. But to choose the right app from that market is another big task that is not easy! So, here is a list of Android that can help you blog better to some extent!

[How To] Backup WordPress Database using phpMyAdmin

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Backing your blog or website is one of the most important thing, because you never know what might happen to your site! A regular backup is a must for every website, I mean at least once a day or thrice a week is recommended. Backing up the database can sometimes be a tedious task, so here is an easy way to back up the database without the use of any plugin in WordPress.

Evernote : Cross Platform Notemaking App

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Remembering things is one of the most difficult task for some of us. So, we intend to jot down notes, which wastes a lot of paper every time we make a note. So, here is an Eco-friendly(sort-of) way to remember things across all your devices. Whenever you are on your computer, using your Android Phone, or working on your iOS device or even working on your Blackberry device and you need to make notes, its easy! Just use this app and you can sync all your notes to their server and access them at anyplace, anytime on any platform.

Must have Android Apps : October 2011

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Android is the most common mobile operating system found today. And the best thing about android is that you have access to millions of apps for free. But, to choose from those best apps, you need to spend some time, or rather a lot of time. So, here I come to share with you all the apps that I found useful for my Android phone. The list may differ from person to person and also from what you use your phone for. So, don't kill me if you do not like these apps :P

Fix Error 3194 : iTunes

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Error 3194 is the error that pops on your screen when you try to update or restore your iPhone or iPod? Well, not anymore. Here is the solution that can help you easily overcome this error.Error 3194 seems to be triggered when unsigned firmware is used, often during an iOS downgrade or even during some restores. Here’s a small guide on how to troubleshoot this error in an easy way. All we have to do is, just to block the Apple's firmware signing services.

iOS 5 : Should you Update?

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iOS 5, the latest iOS version from Apple came out for the general public this week. And updating to it has been quite a tedious task for some of us, due to Error 3200 and Error 3194. But, it is actually good to update it to the latest iOS, the iOS 5. So, here I would discuss and highlight a few reasons why you should update to iOS 5 and a reason why you should not update to iOS 5.

Choosing a Domain Name : The Most Difficult Task

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Choosing a domain name for your business or your blog can sometimes be a very tedious job. So, here are some tips to help you overcome that job. If you run an on-line business, picking a name that will be marketable and achieve success in search engine placement is paramount. Many factors must be considered when choosing a good domain name. This article summarizes all the different things to consider before making that final registration step! 

Update Status from Different Devices : Facebook

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Have you ever updated your status from different devices? Like say, from your iPod or from your Mobile? If yes, you would be aware of what I am going to talk in this paragraph. If no, you better read this! Whenever you update your status on Facebook, it shows the device you used to update your status, if its other than the Facebook PC website. If you update status from your Android phone, it will show "via Android" or similar for other devices. So, if you do not have an Android device, you can't update your status "via Android", can you? Of course you can, you just need a bit of going here and there on Facebook applications.

Calculate Time Spent On Any Website

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Time is a precious thing, which we all should take care of! Spending too much time on the internet on Social Networking websites is not a good idea as it affects your real life to some extent. Now, you can monitor and control the time you spend on a website at a stretch.

doPDF : Save Anything as PDF

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PDF stands for Portable Document Format and it was created by Adobe to ease document exchange. Do you ever have to send out documents to others, and you want that those people should not edit those documents, well here is the key! Just convert that file into a PDF and editing PDF's is a bit tricky, though it can be done! So, all that this application does is that it saves any webpage/image/document or anything else that you can print from your computer into a PDF file, which you can take with you wherever you want to!

Top Cydia Repos : October 2011

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Here is a list of the top 5 Cydia Repos that you can use on your Jailbroken iOS device, which more or less satisfy all that you need to have on you iOS device. By adding these sources to Cydia, you can access hundreds or even thousands of HD themes, games, ringtones and tweaks for free. I haven't included standard Cydia repos as these sources are pre-added to Cydia by default whenever you jailbreak your iDevice.

Sync Facebook Profile Pictures and Birthdays : Symbian

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Having a contact picture for your contacts on your phones is good! Sometimes, you do not remember people by their names, rather by their faces. This feature comes by default in the Android phones that you purchase, but the "old" and still common Symbian OS on Nokia Phones does not have that feature, as far as I know! And since, I am still stuck on a Symbian OS phone, I always wanted to have pictures of all my Facebook and Phone book contacts synced, I tried searching how to do that and finally, I came across this application, which solved my problem.

Facebook Symbols : Essential Facebook Addon

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Facebook, one of the most common website on the internet these days has become very popular with the teens, who use it as a method of expressing themselves and looking "popular" on the internet. So, in order to express themselves on the internet, they use a very common thing, known as an emoticon. Emoticon is a picture, which depicts what the person wants to say. So, in order to use these emoticons, you need to learn the code to type them into chat messages or wherever you want. But, not after reading this post. I bring you a way, by which you need not remember all these codes. Simply copy-paste it from this website.

Feed Pauser : An Important Wordpress Plugin

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Feeds are an important part of any blog. And sometimes, due to some testing we need to publish a post that we do not want to appear in our RSS Feeds, but this would mean that you have to set up another blog on your local host or a sub-domain. But, now this can be done on your main blog itself. There is a WordPress plugin, which allows you to pause/delay the publishing of your RSS Feed.

Facebook Old Chat : Get it Back

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We all know how much we used to love the old Facebook chat, which used to show us all our friends in different lists that we had created. At least I loved that style of chat on Facebook, but now I miss it. But, recently I was frustrated with the new style chat, so thought that I should find out a way to get back to the earlier chat style. After searching over the internet, I came across a lot of ways to do that. But most of them failed! But then I found a script on the internet which does the job I want in Mozilla Firefox. So here is how we go about it.

Facebook Fun : Have fun with these tricks and impress!

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Recently, while surfing Facebook i discovered a few cool things about it that I did not know. So, i thought of writing a post about it but never got the time! So, today i thought of sharing it with everyone and here it is! Basically, you can use these Facebook tricks to impress your friends or loved ones! They help you put different status updates and change your profile language!

5 Best Tools To Improve Your Typing Speed

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As a computer user, sometimes you find quite annoying to see some people type too fast as compared to others without looking into keyboard and you also dreamed of typing too fast and that too without looking into keyboard because this will indirectly help you to increase your productivity in no time.

5 Essential Firefox Addons/Extensions For Bloggers

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In this article i have tried to list the best, and must have addons/plugins for firefox which can help you in blogging as well as speed yourself up. All the addons are my personal choices and i myself use this addons to get help in blogging. Some addons may have better counterparts but i like minimalistic addons without any unnecessary features, so i have preferred them in the article. Hope you’ll find some helpful addons/plugins here and Happy Blogging!!

Cool Shattered Style Text : Photoshop

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Hi there, I’m back with another novice Photoshop tutorial. This tutorial will teach you the simplest method of creating the below text effect shown in the image. Its pretty simple, i saw this type of effect once in some site i really don’t remember some years ago, it was not totally same it is its modified version giving it a better, cool, shiny, web 2.0 look.

Making a Navigation Bar : Photoshop

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In this tutorial, I will show you how to design a Modern Glossy Navigation Bar in Photoshop. This is a beginner tutorial with a just few simple steps, aiming to help beginner web designer for making their first-ever web page.Skills involved in this tutorials are selection tools, layer blending options, and some simple gradient filling techniques.  Have a go!

Vintage Photo Effect : Photoshop

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Vintage Photos are the new trend these days. People love to see their photos in Vintage effect and so they run after the Photo Studios to get them in that style! So, here i bring you  a tutorial in which you can make your own Vintage Photo in Photoshop. It is not at all difficult and can be done within 10-15 minutes.

Sketch You Photo In Just a Click: Photoshop

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Sketching your own photo can be a tedious work when you do it yourself, but why not let Photoshop do the job for you? I have designed a Photoshop Action, which does the work! Just load this action and you are good to go in order to sketch your photo in various forms.

Mastering SEO Is Essential To Effective Blogging

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One of the topics I like to write about from time to time is the art of SEO (Search Engine Optimization). In the past I’ve gone over a few tips to help you optimize your blog, and I’ll continue to share more insights as time goes on, but here’s the thing…if you are serious about blogging and serious about getting your website to show up in the search engines, then you must become a student of SEO…period.

Configuring a Robots.txt file : Wordpress

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One of the most important things that a lot of WordPress bloggers overlook is the necessity of setting up a robots.txt file. WordPress, by its very nature, creates a substantial risk of duplicate content. If you aren’t prepared to handle it appropriately it can hurt your search engine rankings and cost you traffic.

Configuring All in One SEO Pack : Wordpress

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Getting your blog ranked highly on the search engines is as much an art as it is a science. Writing keyword rich content, linking (wisely) within your own site to pass “SEO juice” between posts, selecting good anchor text, perfecting your URL structure, fostering quality backlinks from authority sites… these are just a few of the things to consider when looking at SEO for you blog.

View Your Website In Different Screen Resolutions

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As a webmaster, it is important to know how does your website or blog look on different screen resolutions, so that you can deliver the best to your readers or customers. But, it is not practical for you to change your resolution and have a look at it whenever you want! So, there is a website for this purpose, which lets you see your own website in various Screen Resolutions, including iPhone!

Compress your CSS Code : Load your Blog Fast

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CSS is the key element of any blog. And when this CSS runs into thousands of lines, it increases the loading time. Use this awesome tool to decrease the loading time. Today I came across a website that can ease your work and can remove all the unnecessary comments and whitespace from a CSS file.

5 Things to Do when Windows XP Won't Boot

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When your computer hardware appears to power up okay, but the Windows XP operating system won't boot properly, you have to begin a troubleshooting expedition that includes getting into the operating system, determining the problem, and then fixing it. To help you get started on this expedition, here are 10 things you can do when Windows XP won't boot.

Tips to Avoid Facebook Spam : Must Know

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Facebook, the biggest social network with 500 million users, provides an interface to hit an unsuspecting crowd with malware and viruses. These viruses aren’t very difficult to detect  if you are cautious enough. These Facebook viruses appear on your wall in forms of a bizarre or eye-catching stories and videos and once the user has clicked/liked the link, it is already late. The next step will be getting rid of your Facebook virus which is a time-consuming  process.  Its better to avoid spam messages and trojan viruses in the first place.

Speed Up Windows XP : Disable Services

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Windows XP has a ton of services enabled by default. By knowing what these services do (or don’t do), you can really speed up your system by disabling the ones you don’t need. Many services can be modified to increase the speed of your system. If you ever find something not working correctly, you should reset it.However, these are the services that I disable. This guide is very conservative. Many of these services are activated even though only the minority of users will need them. I describe the use of these services so you can make a decision if you should have it enabled or not.

How to check if you are infected with the Conficker : A Worm

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Conficker, also known as Downup, Downadup and Kido, is a computer worm targeting the Microsoft Windows operating system that was first detected in November 2008.It uses flaws in Windows software and Dictionary attacks on administrator passwords to co-opt machines and link them into a virtual computer that can be commanded remotely by its authors.

How to Stay Malware Free : A Guide

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Malware, one of the deadliest words that we all are afraid of and why must not we be? It causes harm to our computers and even to our Personal Information. I'm writing this to hopefully keep you virus, spyware, adware, and malware free. This manual will hopefully educate you on malware, help prevent it and help remove it.

Must know Secret Codes : Firefox

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Firefox, as we all know, is one of the most powerful web browser! Also, it is the browser that most of us use these days and what's better than to know the secrets of the things you are already using? Basically, Firefox has a lot of inbuilt about:_____ codes, that you can use to configure Firefox or to view different features of Firefox.

Access all Gmail Accounts at the Same time

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These days, generally everyone has more than one email accounts for different purposes. Like, i maintain two accounts, one for my blog and the other for various RSS feeds that I have subscribed to. So, in order to check for new mails on both the accounts, I had to logout and then login to the other account. But, after I found this Google tool, I do not have to logout and login again and again!! I can sign into multiple accounts at once.