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Today, online ads get more and more annoying, which spoils everyone’s browsing experience. Almost every major website in invested by ads: Facebook, Google, YouTube and many others. Also, new obtrusive forms of advertising are being introduced: video ads are one of the latest obnoxious trends in advertising. However, there is a very simple and quick way to get rid of all annoying ads. We have written earlier on how to block flash content in the browser.   With no doubt, Adblock Plus is the best way to block ads. Being introduced in 2006 as a Firefox-only plugin, today it is by far the most downloaded browser extension in the world, available for free on Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Android OS (Internet Explorer support is coming soon too). Besides being the most reliable solution for blocking ads, Adblock Plus also can be configured to block malware, disable tracking and remove social media buttons from websites. The installation is very easy, and it takes a few seconds:   Ste...

If you are having a [highlight]secured[/highlight] PDF file, for which you don't know password to make edits. This post is for you. I was having this problem in editing a PDF file, it was a secured file, after doing a bit of research I found this PDF password remover software, this takes less than a minute to remove password from secured PDF files. The download link to this software is given at end of this post. You can also read this guide, if you are having any problems removing password from a secured PDF.

Flash videos can some time be very annoying. They eat up your bandwidth unknowingly, but if you are using Google Chrome, you can always avoid them eating up your bandwidth. While there are Google Chrome Apps and extensions available for this purpose like chrome flashblock, but you can do it without actually installing any other add on for this purpose. You can selectively block flash plugins and other plugins in Google Chrome. The process is very simple to follow and will save 100s of MB from your bandwidth if you are a regular YouTube video viewer. Open Google Chrome browser and type in – chrome://settings Click on “Content Settings” Select “Click to play” under Plugins, and save your changes by clicking “Done”. Next time when you will open some website containing flash content or any other plugin content it will ask you before playing video. So, now you will have control on when to play video, so that videos won’t start automatically.

If you are having more than just one active social account on internet, it must be very difficult for you to manage all the stuff, give replies to comments, check messages, there is so much information to process. Well, to make things simpler here is a solution offered by MyLife.com which can integrate all your social networks to one platform and provide you with all the data analytics you need. It’s a unique Personal Relationship managing software, which can be accessed from internet anywhere in the world and you don’t need to have the capacity to digest extensive information, it gives you with a very comprehensive data and analytics of your personal accounts over the internet. It not only includes social media services but you can also integrate various e-mail accounts at one place. You can also maintain all your valuable information like work connections across multiple social networking platform and it includes almost all leading platforms. It also lets user to sort and manage use...

If you want to amuse your friends with this fake SIRI conversations then read along. Here is an exciting little website that enables you to create screenshots of your conversation with the amazing new Iphone 4S SIRI. To begin with, point your web browser here . Now all you have to do is enter the desired conversation, that you wish to fake in the specified format. That is all you need to do. iFakeSiri creates realistic conversation screenshots with the text that you have entered. And you don’t even need

File conversion is a day to day need today. Something that works on your machine might not be compatible with that with your boss. Hence, with this article we try to bring some of the major file conversion methods that shall help you with your stuff. There are probably two ways, Off-line and On-line. While both the paths are filled with numerous applications to do your job, we have gathered some of the very best. Off-line Softwares There are hundreds of junks of codes availaible to convert your pdf documents while we are here including the best one(s) for the most basic of issues. PDF2JPG is a small, free and powerful tool that quickly converts pdf documents into different picture image formats like JPEG,GIF,PNG etc.The piece of software will be particularly usable when you need to convert a part of an document so that it cannot be edited easily or when you need to publish those pages in that ebook quickly on the Internet. SmartSoft PDF converter is yet another PDF c...

Gone are those days when bulky net adapter were required to connect your different computers with a single network. Now, if one of your computers(or MAC) is connected with a wired or wireless network and you wish to connect it with other computers wirelessly, here is the solution. Create an ad-hoc network Creating and computer to computer network in Windows Vista and 7 is very easy. Just go to et up a connection or network" and choose "Set up a wireless ad hoc (computer-to-computer) network". Now select "Save this network" and now the network is displayed in along with other wifi networks.                              But there's a short cut, the next two softwares creates such a network automatically for you, and let you manage the connection as in a real wifi router. Connectify Connectify is a free virt...

We are extremely happy to announce that your own ChillGeeks.com is now 1 year old. We have renew the domain and to celebrate the first birthday, we have some good plans for you. We are planning to start Guest Blogging for ChillGeeks .  Although we had this plan quite a time before, we were waiting for some occasion. Being a Guest Blogger not only helps us, but it also helps you. Here is why one should start Guest Blogging at ChillGeeks :- Gain Publicity For Your Blog Maintaining a blog on the internet is quite a difficult job. Apart from writing good articles, one has to work on SEO’s, page rankings, and a lot more publicity issues. ChillGeeks has that all, so you don't have to worry. We’ll provide the link to you and your website in the post you write for us . So that will help your blog build fame around the internet.  . EasyHits4U.com - Your Free Traffic Exchange - 1:1 Exchange Ratio, 5-Tier Referral Program. FREE Advertising!

Whenever you prepare for a presentation or report, you Google it, copy from different sources and then paste it. It took a considerable amount of time to copy and paste the data if you have large number of sources. Also it would be a great help for bloggers .Select text on any web page and it will be automatically copied to the clipboard. It works in much the same way as does Trillian or mIrc. Paste on middle click into textboxes, the url bar, and the search bar. Select some text. Right click on it and see the autocopy content area context menu item filled with usefull features. (old users of autocopy will want to turn this on. In the options page look for "Content Area Context Menu Item"). You can undo a copy; there is a clipboard history of up to 10 items; paste to the search or location box with a click of the button; search for and open in new tab for when you select a text only url. Plus a handy append url to clipboard feature that will make sure your quotes can always...

Now, you can type in Indian Languages , any where over internet, like creating a message, writing an email or while using Gtalk. Google Translation team has come up with easy to use bookmarklets, based on Google Translation API. Supported languages include Arabic, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. It is very easy to use a bookmarklet, just drag and drop it to bookmarking bar, like shown here   Now, whenever you will click this bookmarklet, all text box on that page will be able to accept input in your language. You can use any of following links to get their bookmarklets- Arabic bookmarklet Bengali bookmarklet Gujarati bookmarklet Hindi bookmarklet Kannada bookmarklet Malayalam bookmarklet Marathi bookmarklet Nepali bookmarklet Punjabi bookmarklet Tamil bookmarklet Telugu bookmarklet Urdu bookmarklet For Hindi Bookmarklet, drag this link - [अ...

You are running a site and you want to know all those people who are linking to your site and are constantly tweeting your website. With BackTweets you can easily monitor all those who are linking to your site. How can these be helpful to you ? Well here are the answers : Connect With Your Fans : Now if you know who are the ones who are tweeting your posts, you can easily start building a relations with them. Connecting with your fans is the most important step i the success of your site. Monitor Your Posts : You can easily monitor your posts and optimize them. If you know all the hit topics of your site, then you should start concentrating on that particular topic theme. Ability To Search Keywords : With an ability to search for keywords, one can easily see if the topic that he is going to post is already tweeted or not. BackTweets is developed by BackType which is a conversational search engine and index and connect millions of conversations from blogs...

You can make your program windows transparent in Windows 2000 or late versions, using a very lite freeware known as Glass2k . Transparent windows are helpful to me and gives a good geeky appearance to Windows Desktop. You can download glass2k from here , it does not need to be installed, you can simply double click to start it, whenever you’ll right click on any window, it will ask you to set its transparency. It is very easy to use software and it is also having a feature to set any windows on top, according to your choice. Productivity Tip :- You can use glass2k in way to increase your productivity, as it will prevent you switching between windows, and you can do two works at time, like I keep browsing my computer by making explorer windows transparent and watching through my e-mail account. You can check out the screenshot below-   Related posts:- Easily Resize a partition in Windows Reduce Windows Disk check time delay

I do not like error reporting service of Windows Vista, which shows for send error report , closing the program and debugging the program. Well, its very obvious that when error has come up in any program, then we have no other choice to close it. I’ve tried submitting the error reports thousand times, but nothing happened, and it still shows that errors. As, I am not a programmer so, debugging any program is not my job. The only alternative left to me is disabling the useless error reporting window. If you are also upset with this feature of windows vista, and want to disable it, just follow these instructions- Open Run dialog box by pressing Windows Key + R Type and open wercon.exe Click Change Settings on left pane. Then click advanced settings. Turn off error reporting, for your self or for all users according to your choice. Other way to disable error reporting is, using services console- Open services console by opening services...

I’ve recently bought  new laptop , and created partitions on its hard disk. Now, I’ve got Wi-Fi modem installed in my home. So, to prevent from my neighbours or some outsiders sharing connection, I need to secure it… I am using BSNL broadband connection, in PPPOE mode, which makes the connection more unsecure, as password is saved inside modem itself. So, I’ve found a way to secure my Wireless connection using WEP security key. WEP security can be setup by following these steps- Modem / Router Settings Visit http://192.168.1.1 and give Username: admin Password : admin Now click on Security Tab, then click in Security Chose your SSID and click Enable WEP Encryption, and chose encryption strength as 128 bit or stronger Set the network key, which will be used as password to access wireless connection. Save and Apply the settings Windows Settings Now, you’ve to do similar settings in your Wi-Fi access device too. For setting in Windows Vista, double click the Networking Ico...

Orkut is India’s most widely used Social Networking site. I also use to log in to my orkut account daily, but I found interface of orkut is lacking some fast navigation links in it. So, I searched for it, “How to speedily navigate to Someone’s Scrapbook”. And I found amazing Greasemonkey script for it…. You can use this script if you have Firefox web browser with Greasemonkey add-on installed in it. Just follow these steps, to get fast profile links, like shown in Image… Click here to download Firefox Web Browser Click here to install Greasemonkey Click here to get Fast Profile Links userscript Now, after installing above, when you will open Orkut, you will be getting links like [S A M V]. S stands for Scrapbook A stands for Album M stands for Message V stands for Videos

I have not re-formatted my PC since last month and it is becoming amazingly messed by large amount of desktop. Some of you might have same problem, like me…. But today I’ve got the time to Organize all that Desktop mess, and I found it very easy to implement. It took just 2 minutes to Organize my desktop in much better way. Let me guide you through the process of organizing your Windows Desktop. Just follow the following steps- Identify the type, categories in which you can divide your desktop.In my case, I’ve divided my desktop mess as Images, Applications, Games , and others. Create new blank folders on desktop, and name them as categories of your choices. Now just start sorting out files by type and move them into various folders according to their categories. Right click on Taskbar and go to Toolbars , click New Toolbar . This will open folder browsing menu. Select your categories folder, and add them on your taskbar, one by one. Now, select the categories folder, and mark them...

I do not use Recycle Bin at all, I use to delete files permanently by using shortcut Shift + Delete. So, Recycle Bin is just a kind of Desktop mess to me… If you are also the one who do not use Recycle bin and want to clear it out, the just follow the following steps to remove Recycle bin. Press Windows Key + R.   This will open Windows Run Dialog box. Write in regedit and press enter. Navigate to following key- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerDesktopNameSpace Find and delete the following key in Namespace folder {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} And… You are done, with deleting of Recycle Bin from Windows Desktop. Now, if you want to restore it back, then, just create a new key of the same name, you deleted earlier. Its very easy… Just give it a try… Try deleting your recycle bin, and be a star in your friends. Other Windows Related hacks - Reduce Windows Disk Check Time Delay Change XP Start Button

Days are gone when people rely on Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. Today people want something new, something safe at which they can rely upon and something fast.   ORCA Browser is yet another powerful browser which is based on the patterns of Mozilla Firefox but far more better than Firefox. Not only does Orca Browser contains all the features, such as security, low memory usage, spell-checker, built-in download manager, etc. from a typical Gecko based browser, it also improves the speed, adds built-in features like an AD Blocker, Flash Blocker, Online Profile Storage, auto Form-Filler, and a Outlook-Style RSS Reader. The auto Form-Filler helps to memorize or fill different types of web forms and passwords. It can also protect them with a master security password. Online Profile Storage allows users to create their own account. With their username and password, users can choose to save or access their personal data such as bookmarks, Auto Fills, and RSS feeds remotely from ...

Google Talk service by Google is still running in beta phase, and now they’ve released Google talk real-time gadgets API . This API comes with some cool examples, like playing games and language translation, etc. If you are a developer, you can also contribute to this API by visiting here . I like playing chess and I found it there on Google talk real-time gadgets API, and that was amazing….Now, I play chess with my friends on Google Talk . If you also want to play chess or the rock-paper-scissors game, then just follow these steps- Go to Google Talk Sand box After Signing in, start chat with your friend Go to Options, click “Start Application”, and paste following address for respective games . Chess http://code.google.com/apis/talk/examples/chess.xml RPS http://code.google.com/apis/talk/examples/rps.xml Translate http://code.google.com...

Windows error reporting is made to support Microsoft to improve the bugs found in OS, but sometimes this error reporting causes annoyance. This problem I was facing for last so many days…, getting error report message whenever I exit from my favorite DOS based game Dave . It also happens with some soft wares too…. So, I got to remove this and used my ultimate tool “Google Search” I found that there are two methods of removing the Annoyance caused by error reporting, the one is Registry Editing Based (Advanced Method), and other is Non Registry based (Easy Method). I’ll explain the easy method first- Right click on My Computer Icon on desktop. Click Properties . Click on Advanced Tab in System Properties page. Then click on Error Reporting . Select Disable Error Reporting to Disable it Do not select notify for critical errors if you do not want to see error reporting message, ever again… Other method of getting rid of this Windows Error Repo...