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    Windows Live brings to you some really amazing and exclusive downloads such as free wallpapers, Desktop screensavers, wallpapers and messenger theme packs.


    CHM is a Microsoft Corp baby. This file format according to me is one of the best things to have happened to computing world. CHM file format facilitates archiving of millions of html files into onesingle file, including the images and all. Now, Linux boxes and mac boxes don`t have built-in support for handling CHM [...]


    You may have noticed that, the Firefox versions that ship for Linux, don`t have the ability to select the url in the address bar on single-click of a mouse, whereas this is set by default in Windows versions of Firefox. If, you feel this feature should be there in the linux version of firefox too, [...]


    Google StreetView is a product which can be used to view street level photographs, take virtual walks; pan, rotate and zoom through cities around the world and find shops, restaurants, parks, hotels etc. Since the photographs of the streets that are taken by Google for this purpose, contain pictures of people due to which Google [...]



    Fedora 11 Leonidas is yet another rocking linux distro from the Fedora Community. Fedora 11 has some really nice features such as finger print reader login, 10 second boot up and more. So that your experience with Fedora 11 is as smooth as it was our’s, we have prepared a cheat-sheet for the brand new [...]


    Twitter has been on the news of  late, the reason this time being their downtimes, which don`t seem to get fixed at all. I mean all twitter addicts just cant make it easy with out twitting. But then there are some people I know those who have taken to friendfeed as an alternative. Now, here [...]


    According to a Microsoft Survey, half of attempted search queries fail to meet consumer needs, and many people consider search results too disorganized. It has also been found that consumers are more interested in using the Internet to get things done, rather than to simply find some information. With all this in mind, Microsoft has [...]


    PrintFriendly is a web service which helps you to convert any webpage to a clean no-frills version so that you just print the relevant text from the webpage using your printer. This saves you both ink and paper. Plus you serve a noble environmental cause by using less paper. PrintFriendly removes ads, navigation, and all [...]


    It may be possible that after you make a clean install of the Firefox 3, the flash plugin will not work even after the browser notifies about the successful install of the flash plugin. In this case follow these simple steps.


    In case you lost your mobile phone, and eventually the contacts too, you need not worry unless you are a regular on Facebook. By regular I mean your network on FB is kind of vast and is outgoing. There are 50% chances that your friends will have entered some valid Phone number. And you can [...]


    Well, yes you can now write codes and scripts using python on your mobile phone too, provided it runs a Symbian 60 Operating System, all the Nokia N Series phones do. You need two SIS files (Standard symbian installer packages) namely: The Python Binaries PythonForS60_1_4_3_3rdEd.SIS The Python Shell PythonScriptShell_1_4_3_3rdEd.SIS


    In this article we tell so as to why we can not rule out a possibility of Google targeting ads based on OS as we learn from multiple news sources.


    Adfly is an innovative service that has taken making money online, one step further. We tell you how.


    Google`s Chrome Browser is indeed a very good browser. The amount of reading area / viewable area it makes available to the user is simply mind blowing. The idea of placing the tabs in the Title Bar is really awesome. (Man, google`s products are really innovative!) And we, here at Digitizor feel that the Google [...]


    Twitter has been around for a long time and people are using it these days for really cool things! Earlier, we had shown you how you could broadcast your computer`start and shut down times to twitter. In this article we will show you how you can use Twitter to get all the news, goal alerts [...]


    LookupbyISBN.com is a web based search tool that helps you find out Books and publications by their ISBN number, Authors, Titles or even keywords. It`s interface is very simple, just like google searc engine. You just need to key in the relevant details and in moments, the website throws at you various related search results [...]


    So what is this Facebook Connect thing? Let us consider a scenario where you are supposedly a very appreciated critic, say for novels or may be movies and your presence is known only online. What you do day in and day out is read movie blogs and post comments. Your comments are read by the [...]


    Dell Computer corporation brings out great offers for their customers on a regular basis. But all these offers are generally mentioned along with different order numbers. So customers can’t have a wide look over all the available offers. So, Dell has now launched twitter accounts to tweet the discounts and updates. 


    Windows 7 provides you with a tool called the Snipping Tool, with the help of which you could actually select a portion of the screen whose screenshot is to be taken. This is very helpful since you are now freed of the hassle of ‘Prnt Scrn’-ing the entire screen and cropping the required portion out. [...]


    The GMail team has introduced yet another new feature to their Gmail version of Google Talk, i.e. Gmail Chat. Now, if you receive or send a link to a video in a chat message, you’ll see a preview of the video right in your chat window. This feature removes the unnecessary copy pasting of the [...]


    Setting up Fedora 10 to log into our account automatically is very easy. You simply need to append a few lines to the file called custom.conf located in the /etc/gdm/ directory. Now, open the above mentioned file in a text-editor like gedit or kedit, and append these lines:


    Gmail Labs has launched yet another very useful feature ‘offline Gmail’.  So even if you’re offline, you can open your web browser, go to gmail.com, and get to your mail just like you’re used to, just the way you can with Google Reader!


    Installing Windows 7  from a USB Memory Stick (or, a Pen/Thumb Drive) is not only a cakewalk but also blazingly faster than the corresponding DVD install. What you will be needing for this memory-stick-based-install is a 4GB USB Memory stick, since the DVD itself is a 2.8GB approx ISO. Remember, you will be able to [...]


    Getting the Quick Launch Toolbar back on Windows 7 is very easy. As is probably obvious, the concept of having a set of pinned shortcut icons is now integrated directly into the new taskbar, which is actually good and I am liking the feature but many others are not. So, this is how you go [...]