Add Steam game shortcuts to Windows 8's start screen
The gaming platform Steam is an all-in-one game store and gamer launcher available for various platforms.
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Block programs from pinning shortcuts to Windows 8's start screen
Sergey Tkachenko has created quite the number of programs for Windows 7 and Windows 8 that tweak various functionalities.
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AIMP 3.20 music player released
AIMP is my music player of choice right now, because it is everything that Winamp used to be back in the days.
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Google Updating Play to Version 3.10.9
Google has been pushing new updates to the Play store for Android at a rather fast pace lately.
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Spybot Search and Destroy 2.0 has bloatware issues
Remember Nero Burning Rom? The program was a lightweight burning software for Windows back in the days when first CD burners and coasters became available.
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How to Move Torrent Files to Another Location or Drive (qBittorrent and uTorrent)
To move a torrent to another location or drive, stop the torrent, use the client's relocation command and start it again.
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How to remove http://www.searchnu.com/406 from your browser
Some of the free software programs that you install on your computer include third party advertisement offers that you may inadvertently install if you are not
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How to import partial torrent downloads into another application
Recent uTorrent developments have caused some concern in part of the Bittorrent client's userbase.
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Create a special Windows 8 start screen icon for your website
Back when Windows 7 was released Microsoft introduced an option for webmasters to add tags to their site's code that would make special commands available on th
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Microsoft Skydrive: now with selective synchronization
Microsoft has improved its file hosting and synchronization service Skydrive in wake of the deeper integration into the Windows 8 operating system.
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Windows 8 start menu app Start8 1.03 released
The third upgrade of Stardock's Windows 8 start menu application Start8 has just been released, only weeks after we have taken a look at Start8 1.
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Enable Spotify's web player right now
The popular music streaming service Spotify is currently rolling out its first web based player for all of its users.
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Get your Google homepage background image back
Google announced some time ago that it would disable a feature on its homepage that enabled users to select a custom homepage background image for the site.
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AppRemover 3.0 update brings file sharing program uninstallation
It sometimes may be impossible to remove a security application completely from a Windows system using the program's built-in uninstaller.
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Add tools to Windows 8's logon screen
While Windows 8 is capable of displaying notifications from select applications on the operating system's lock screen, it limits interaction and accessibility o
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Adblock Plus for Opera released
The team responsible for the popular Adblock Plus extension for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox has released a first version of the official program for the O
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Old Tricks: Microsoft locks DirectX 11.1 to Windows 8
Many PC gamers want the latest and greatest when it comes to game technology on their systems.
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Shumway: Mozilla working on JavaScript Flash Player implementation
HTML5 is the future of the web, and while we have seen demos of HTML5 applications and services on the web, the standard has not moved to a point where it is [&
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Gmail advanced search parameters
Google's email service Gmail, or Google Mail, supports a variety of advanced search parameters which have not been documented that well until now.
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Use Plan B to find your stolen or lost Android phone
The chance of getting your smartphone back when it gets stolen is slim, right? That's especially the case if you do not have some form of application or softwar
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ViewTube adds HTML5 Video support to popular websites
Adobe Flash is the preferred option to play video on today's Internet.
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Skype disables password reset system after vulnerability disclosure
Skype's password reset system is vulnerable to an attack that gives attackers full control over affected accounts.
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Internet Explorer Administration Kit 10 available
Microsoft has released the Internet Explorer 10 Preview for Windows 7 and windows Server 2008 R2 yesterday.
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Cross-platform Nokia Maps Here.net service launched
You can do maps right, like Google does with its service Google Maps, or get lots of flak for your maps application like Apple did when the company switched fro
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Microsoft Security Bulletins For November 2012 Released
Today's Microsoft "Patch Tuesday" brings six security bulletins that patch vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Office, Internet Explorer and the Microsoft .
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SugarSync 2.0 Beta
Dropbox, SkyDrive, Google Drive, Cubby, Amazon Cloud Drive, SugarSync: the list goes on an on.
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H.264 video support lands in Firefox Nightly. Update: Not
Did Google play Mozilla in regards to support for HTML5 video standards? Back when HTML5 video began to take forms, browser developers split into two groups.
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Google Search app for Windows 8 update brings YouTube support
I had mixed feelings about Google's Google Search application for Windows 8 for a number of reasons, from missing YouTube video playback support ov
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Microsoft: with Steven Sinofsky gone, where does that leave Windows 8?
Microsoft announced yesterday that Steven Sinofsky, the head of the company's Windows and Windows Live division, left the company effective immediately.
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Control Panel for Android Launches
As of today, there is a new Control Panel app for your Android phone and it is, perhaps, the most comprehensive one so far.
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Lookout Ad Network Detector: Android apps advertisement scanner
It is important to analyze the permissions that applications request that you want to install on your Android smartphone to avoid installing apps that may reque
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Media Hint to access Hulu, Netflix, Pandora from everywhere
If you are sometimes on vacation abroad but do not want to miss your favorite TV shows while you are, you are facing a dilemma considering that you may not be a
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Mega.co.nz, Mega's new online home
I'm not sure what to make out of all of this.
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How to remove IncrediMail MyStart from the Firefox browser
Users of the popular IncrediMail may have noticed that the service has modified the default search engine and homepage of the Firefox web browser after installa
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Sort Samsung TV channels on your PC
One of the things that really annoy me is how - even modern - TVs scan and display TV stations on first run.
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Malwarebytes Anti-Rootkit Beta is out
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is without doubt one of the most popular and efficient tools when it come to protecting Windows PCs from malware and other malicious c
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MasterCard Display Card: the future of credit cards?
Credit cards are widely used throughout the world to make purchases, and while they are more in use in some countries than in others, they are a widely accepted
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How to recover data from a damaged docx, xlsx or pptx document
Interrupted transfers, system crashes while editing documents or malware may corrupt Office documents on your system.
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Windows 8 Media Center does not support Blu-Ray
Windows Media Player, the native video player on Windows 8's desktop and the video player application on the start screen cannot play DVD or Blu-Ray movies.
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How to re-download the Windows 8 ISO
You may have a Windows 8 DVD at hand depending on how you have installed the operating system or upgraded an older system to the newer version.
