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Delete accidental facebook posts

It happens with us, that sometimes, something unexpected gets posted on our facebook profile. Here is the way to remove any of crap you have ever posted on your profile, and do not want to share it with your friends any longer. Just open your profile, and hover mouse over right corner of post, you will find remove. Click on remove, you’ll be asked to confirm about deletion. Click on Delete. This can be used to delete any type of wall post on your profile.

Google Reader redesigned version

Recently, Google reader has come up with a new eye candy looks in its version called Google Reader Play . This provides an amazing new way to browse stuff updating over internet, and most importantly no setup is required, just try this link and use buttons like “Star”, “Like”, and “Share” This version of Google Reader is launched under Google Labs for now. This version is optimized for media like Graphics and videos and gives an easy and fun way to read feeds. You can check out more about this version at Google Reader blog or just a give it a try straight away at Google Reader Play .

Tab Previews in Firefox

With latest version of Firefox ( Firefox 3.6 ) you can get previews of tabs while switching between them. These tab previews are just like Alt – Tab Previews in Windows. Moreover, these are having extra feature of searching between tabs too… and most importantly, you don’t have to install any extension for enabling this feature. You can also get this type of previews in Firefox, by pressing Ctrl + Tab, after enabling “browser.ctrlTab.previews”, in about:config . To do this, just open about:config in your Firefox browser window, click on the button, “I’ll be careful,I promise!” This will open Firefox configuration window, from where you can set the value of “browser.ctrlTab.previews” as true. Just type “ browser.ctrlTab.previews ” as filter and double click to set as true, and you are done! Give it a try by pressing Ctrl + Tab You can always set back the value to “false” if you don’t like the changes.

Selecting files in Windows 7

Recently, I discovered a new way to select files in Windows 7, its amazing, one must check it out. It makes work of multiple selection a lot easier. Windows 7 supports checkbox selection . It enable users to select files by help of check boxes. You can enable checkbox selection in Windows 7 by following these steps- Press start key, and type Folder Options Click to open folder options, then click on view tab and check on “Use checkbox to select items” & click OK And you are done!! Now, you can see check boxes, whenever you’ll start selecting anything. Like shown here If you don’t like this feature, then you can turn it off anytime, you’d like to…

Create Windows 7 bootable USB

Many of us are so lazy these days that we do n’t want to use optical media for any purpose. Now, even Mini laptops do n’t include DVD +RW drive in them. My friend having a similar problem came to me, he was not having any optical media drive in hp Mini laptop. So, he asked me about how could he be able to load Windows 7 or Vista into it, and the answer is by creating a bootable usb pen drive. It is very simple to create a bootable USB drive for Windows 7. Here is the whole guide to create Windows 7 USB installation Preparing the USB drive Get a 4GB or more capacity of USB pen drive, SD/MMC card might also work (not tested by me). Format the pen drive in NTFS file system and copy all the data of Windows Installation DVD into USB drive. Click on start and click Run… Type cmd and press enter. Run cmd as administartor. Now open the USB drive, for example J: drive is my USB drive, I’ll type J: and press enter. Type- cd boot bootsect /nt60 J: /force This will make your pen drive...

Uncyclopedia- Parodies Wikipedia

Yup, you read it right. Now a site that parodies the renowned Wiki. Uncyclopedia parodies everything let it be a country, a celebrity or any current event. Originally an English-language wiki, the project currently spans over 50 languages. The English version has over 24,000 pages of content.Various different styles of humor are used as a vehicle for parody, from sophisticated satire to the apparently random. Like Wikipedia, Uncyclopedia has guidelines regarding what is and is not acceptable content and these guidelines have become progressively more strict as the site expands over time. The site has gained media attention due to its articles on places and people. Its logo is a hollow potato, named Sophia after the Gnostic deity, that serves as a spoof of Wikipedia's globe logo. Well this site looks similar to the original Wiki, so new users could be easily get dodged. But anyhow, the site is for fun and hope you will enjoy . Links : Uncyclopedia

Rename contacts in Gtalk

It has been my problem for last few years, that whenever I use to login to my Gtalk chat account, I use to see many of names written in stylized fonts, which sometimes makes the name meaning less. So, I recently discovered a way out to this problem, and wanted to share it with you. If you are also having similar problem, then just login to your Gtalk chat client or GMail chat client… Gtalk chat client Just login to your Gtalk chat client, and then right click on the contact you want to rename, and then click “Rename”. There you enter correct name, and now it will appear like what you’ve entered, whenever you’ll log in again. Also Read GTalk Shortcuts GMail based chat To rename contact in GMail based chat client, just hover your mouse over contact you want to rename, and then, click on name, which will select current name. Then, just type new name assigned to that contact. Technorati Tags: Google Talk , GMail Also Read- Check if user is invisible or unavailable Google Talk Services Re...