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Print portions of web pages with HP Smart Web Printing add-on

Use HP Smart Web Printing tool to print portions of web pages and help save the environment by reducing paper usage. Everyone is talking about saving the environment and going green. One step toward green environment is to reduce the usage of papers. Papers are hugely wasted when printing web pages on its entirety. There are read more..

Create FavIcon for your website with this simple online tool

Use this simple online tool to create FavIcon for your website. FavIcons are those small little icons that shows up on your browser’s title bar, just in front of the title. FavIcon gives your website that last professional touch. These days with those multi-tab browsers it would be an easier thing to identify the tab your read more..

Prevent users from deleting Internet Explorer 7 Browsing History

Use this simple trick to prevent users from clearing out the Browsing History information in IE7. If you are a parent of a teenager or a young child then you’d prefer to keep an eye on your kids’ Internet activity. One way of doing this is to watch when they browse but that’s not practically read more..

Minimize open Windows to a single System Tray icon

Reduce your Windows Task Bar clutter with Minime and reduce the open windows to a single system tray icon. I’m not sure about you but I normally keep a lot of Windows open at any point of time and sometimes my laptop’s Task Bar get so cluttered. At times Windows’ “window grouping” kicks-in and forces me read more..

Add Google Reader to your Firefox Sidebar

Add Google Reader to Firefox Sidebar with this simple Firefox trick. Firefox is great and Google Reader is great too. How about bringing Google Reader to the Firefox Sidebar? Firefox has a great Sidebar which would be greatly helpful if you have a widescreen monitor. Why not make use of that space to keep an eye read more..

Easily disable UAC (User Account Control) in Windows Vista

Disable or turn off UAC in Windows Vista with this simple trick. One of the most annoying feature on Windows Vista is the User Account Control (UAC) feature. It is a feature that’s been baked into Windows Vista to make Windows Vista more secure but the implementation of UAC made it so bad that many of read more..

Happy New Year 2009!

Wishing you all a Very Happy New Year 2009! May the New Year bring in all the prosperity, happiness and peace throughout the world! I would like to take this opportunity to thank every one of you who has supported DemoGeek.com right from the launch in October 2008. Since it has just been 2 months and read more..

Windows troubleshooting made easier with Process Explorer

Sysinternals’ free utility Process Explorer makes Windows troubleshooting a lot easier. You must have hated the limited capabilities of Windows’ built-in Task Manager when it comes to drilling down to figure out that Windows issue that’s slowing down your computer. You must have hated the very limited information the “Processes” tab on Task Manager provides about read more..

Elevated Windows Vista Command Prompt

Use this simple trick to elevate Windows Vista Command Prompt. One of Windows Vista’s UAC annoyances is that when you run commands in Command Prompt certain commands would still complain about administrator privileges. Even though you’ve logged-in as Administrator it doesn’t help, particularly when it comes to Windows Vista’s Command Prompt. One solution is to read more..

Speed up Firefox to the extreme with FireTune

FireTune is a freeware that speeds up Firefox to the extreme. Now that you’ve taken the baby step to speed up Firefox why not take an extra step to make Firefox superfast? FireTune is a freeware tool that helps you optimize Firefox so that it can work on the turbo speed mode. FireTune allows you read more..

Speed up Firefox with this simple Firefox trick

Increase the pipeline requests Firefox makes to download a page from a web server to speed up Firefox. If you have a high speed internet connection (which most of us do have these days I believe) you can make use of your high speed bandwidth to speed up Firefox. By default Firefox uses 4 pipelines to read more..

Google Dictionary – Simple online dictionary from Google

You might already know the “define:’” operator in Google. It helps you find meaning of any words from Google.com. Just type in “define:” (without the quotes) followed by the word for which you want to find the meaning. Google will search through its list of dictionary providers and will spit out the meanings of read more..

Disable Flash in Internet Explorer using Toggle Flash

Adobe’s Flash is a great technology, no doubt about that. But some times even the modern browsers finds it hard to keep up with Flash. Particularly when you open a web page that contains Flash video in Internet Explorer 7 you might either see IE7 crash or you might notice that the Flash loaded page read more..

Google Pack brings you free essential software for your PC

Google Pack is a collection of software selected by Google. It includes some of the most essential softwares for a PC with Windows XP or Windows Vista. Those softwares are fully functional – no trial versions or freeware. Here are the softwares included in the Google Pack, Google Chrome Browser – Google’s web browser that’s read more..

Convert Gmail messages into Google Documents with a simple click

Gmail Labs is pretty interesting, they keep on introducing new features that makes Gmail more sticky that I find it hard to switch to any other email providers. If you are like me who tend to save some important email messages as documents for further processing you might love this Gmail Labs feature that allows read more..

Get more out of your Windows Vista laptop battery with Vista Battery Saver

You know it’s a pain to individually turn off the unnecessary bells-and-whistles of Windows Vista when your Windows Vista laptop switches to a battery source. Turning off the unnecessary bells-and-whistles of Windows Vista’s feature set will conserve the battery power and what that means in turn is that you get more out of your battery read more..

Sync your Windows Time to a different time provider for automatic time adjustment

If you’ve had any issues with your Windows Time you might want to switch the time provider to “time.nist.gov” to get an accurate time sync. Follow this article to set your Windows time provider to “time.nist.gov”, Step-1: Adjust Windows Time Right click on the Windows Time on your Windows Taskbar and click on the “Adjust read more..

Adjust Windows Vista’s Aero Glass Border with this simple Vista customization trick

If you don’t like the default size of Windows Vista’s glass border and would like to make it bigger to see more of the glass transparency there is a simple Windows Vista customization tweak that you can follow to make the Aero border size bigger (or smaller). Step-1: Personalize Vista customization Right click on an read more..

Translate your website or blog to different languages using Google Translate Gadget

If you run a website or a blog, these days, it becomes almost a necessity to make sure that your web site or blog can be read by people around the world. And that means to make sure your website or blog is available in many different languages other than English. Do you have to read more..

Easily burn ISO image files to CD or DVD in Windows

If you have to burn ISO files into CD or DVD images you don’t have to pay for those expensive programs like Roxio, Nero etc. With the free ISO Recorder you can write ISO image files to CD or DVD with a simple mouse right click in Windows. With ISO Recorder you can burn CD read more..

How to keep your Twitter updates private?

By default Twitter puts you on the public outline and what that means is that all your Twitter updates will be seen by anyone who follows you. If you’d prefer to keep your Twitter updates private to yourself or to show only to the followers whom you approve then you have to set your read more..

How to open the search results in a new tab in Firefox?

If you use Firefox as your web browser you might find it pretty handy to have the search box right next to the URL box (aka, Awesome Bar). But the inconvenience is that the search results open in the same active tab and sometimes that’s not what we want. If you’d prefer to have read more..

Superstar your Gmail messages to reduce the email clutter

With all things cool about Gmail this one is a bit handy. If you are a Gmail user you’d know about starring your emails so those can stand out from the hundreds or thousands of emails in your Inbox. But what if you have hundreds of starred emails? That again brings-in the same email read more..

Google introduces Gmail Task Manager

This has been a long time coming! Even though Gmail was cool I always felt the need of a task manager that’s built into Gmail to make things easier for Gmailers. I’ve tried quite a lot of other Task Management programs, both online and on the desktop, but nothing is sticky enough to move all read more..

Chat with your blog visitors using Google Talk ChatBack

Ever felt the need to provide a way for your blog readers to interact with you directly? If you have a Google account then it’s easily possible with Google Talk ChatBack Badge. It’s very simple and straight-forward. You customize and create a ChatBack badge and grab a piece of HTML code that Google provides. Place read more..

Create high quality PDF like documents in Windows Vista

Another cool (hidden) feature of Windows Vista is its in-built support for XPS documents. XPS (XML Paper Specification) is a device independent and resolution independent, vector based, fixed-document format developed by Microsoft based on XML (XAML to be precise). You can think of XPS as a PDF equivalent with vector support and what that read more..

Start to make use of Windows Notepad again with WordPad 2009

Are you tired of the blunt look and limited functionality of the Notepad application that comes with Windows? DeviantArt user Solo-Dev has developed a nice little notepad replacement application WordPad 2009 that boasts some great features that might make you start using Notepad again. The major visual that you might love right from the read more..

Control your Windows Vista computer with your own voice

Wouldn’t it be cool if we can talk to our computer rather than using the keyboard and mouse to get things done? Well, Windows Vista allows you to make use of your own voice to control many of the activities that you do with your computer. With Windows Vista’s Speech Recognition you can train read more..

Create custom backgrounds and themes for your Twitter pages

If you’ve been using Twitter for a while you might get a feel that it’s boring to see the same background. Of course, there are backgrounds that Twitter provides which you can make use of. But that’s very limited and you can’t fill-in your imagination. TwitBacks is a free service that allows you to create read more..

Find causes of your computer problems with Windows Vista’s Reliability Tools

If your computer is unstable or if you suspect that something might be wrong with your computer, there is good news if you are running Windows Vista. With many of the useful feature-sets that Windows Vista offers, the Reliability Tool is something that stands out in its usefulness. You can use these tools to read more..

How to restore an older version of a file in Windows Vista Home Premium or Home Basic?

On one of my earlier article I’ve explained on how to restore an older version of a file in Windows Vista. I’ve also mentioned in that article that it applies to Windows Vista Ultimate, Business and Enterprise versions. But if haven’t spend those $$$ on Ultimate, Business or Enterprise versions of Vista you read more..

Simple way to upgrade Google Chrome browser

One of the initial thing that grabbed my attention with Google Chrome was its simple installation process. Before I even got to experience the browser I was impressed with the simple installation process. So when it was time for me to upgrade Chrome to the latest version I was pretty sure there has got to read more..

Try these alternative Gmail URL’s when you can’t access Gmail

If your regular Gmail doesn’t work for some reason then you can try these alternative Gmail URL’s to get access to your Gmail account. This would be particularly helpful when Gmail is blocked at your corporate network or when Gmail team was doing some maintenance work and Gmail becomes unstable. Safe mode - http://mail.google.com/mail/?labs=0. It read more..

Make Windows Vista look like Mac OSX Leopard with Leopard Transformation Pack

Windows Vista is definitely a major improvement over Windows XP in terms of its UI capabilities. Even with Windows Vista, for those of you who envy the cool Mac OSX Leopard UI, there is transformation pack that you can use to simply transform the look of Windows Vista to Mac OSX Leopard’s. Leopard Transformation read more..

How to diagnose Windows Vista memory issues?

Windows Vista comes with a built-in memory check tool that at times might come-in handy to diagnose any of the known memory issues with your computer. If you ever hack with your BIOS settings or when you suspect that that your computer’s memory could be the culprit for the problems that you have, it read more..

Grab Screenshots with Windows Vista’s Snipping Tool

Another cool feature of Windows Vista is that it has a built in screenshot tool that you can easily make use of to capture screenshots. Follow these steps to enable and make use of Windows Vista’s Snipping Tool, Step-1: Click on the “Start” button and then click on the “Control Panel”. Step-2: Click on the “Turn Windows read more..

How to easily select multiple files in Windows Vista?

  Update: Sorry for not updating DemoGeek.com for the past 2 days…gotten a bad cold and couldn’t do much…I still have cold but wanted to get these to you. I hope you understand. Gotten tired of holding the Control (Ctrl) key down while selecting multiple files in Windows Explorer? Would rather prefer a simple way of selecting read more..

Simple Windows hack to speed up your internet connection

Even with the FiOS (Fiber Optic Service) connection I still feel that my internet connection speed is not that blazing fast. Have you ever felt the same with your internet connection as well? Follow this simple Windows hack to speed up your internet connection and to experience a faster, better and secure internet browsing read more..

Spruce up your Gmail page with Gmail Themes

Got tired of the look and feel of the default Gmail page? Have been using hacks like Greasemonkey Scripts to spruce up the Gmail page? Not any more. Gmail now officially has Themes support. It looks like they are rolling out this feature only for certain accounts so if you are lucky to be read more..

Top 25 of the most useful Windows application shortcuts that saves you a lot of time

Both Windows XP and Windows Vista comes with built-in support for keyboard shortcuts that helps you save time by not clicking around. Apart from the default Windows’ own shortcuts, both Windows Vista and Windows XP supports application shortcuts as well and what that means is that when you are within an application you read more..

Google Calendar on your Gmail sidebar

Wouldn’t it be nice to have your upcoming Google Calendar appointments show up on your Gmail sidebar? Wouldn’t it be a convenience than to open up another window/tab to check your Google Calendar agenda. Follow these steps to bring your Google Calendar appointments to Gmail sidebar, Step-1: Continue to add your appointments in Google Calendar. read more..

How to find more details about the wireless networks in your vicinity?

Is your wireless internet connection getting dropped quite frequent? Is your wireless internet connection is slow lately? One primary reason could be because of many wireless connections in your neighborhood using the same communication channel. How do you find out about the channels that your neighbor’s wireless connections use to make sure you don’t read more..

Stay healthy with these simple desk exercises

As geeks you’d be spending most of the time, you are awake, in front of the computer. While you might be happier with getting things done it certainly poses health and ergonomic risks if not done properly. So, I thought I would take a couple of minutes from you (DemoGeek.com readers) to let you read more..

Easily find updates for all your installed softwares on Windows

If you have many programs installed on your Windows machine and finding it hard to keep track of the many updates that the software maker releases then you should look into UpdateStar. UpdateStar is a program that lets you stay up-to-date with almost all the softwares that you’ve installed on your computer. Staying up-to-date read more..

Simple way to clean up dead links on your Internet Explorer or Firefox Bookmarks

If you are an active internet user then it is imperative that you may collect tens of hundreds (or may be thousands) of bookmarks over a period of time. If you don’t use any online bookmark services like Delicious and rely on your web browser’s bookmarking capabilities then you are on your own read more..

How to find the color of anything on your Windows screen?

If you are into web development or web design it is just inevitable to find the HTML color code of certain colors that you could make use of in your web works. Of the many tools that you can use I love this simple little tool, Instant Eye Dropper. Instant Eye Dropper is a read more..

Use Windows Vista’s Power tools to reduce your electricity bill

Running a PC does consume energy. Even if you think that you are not in front of your computer working, if your PC is running or in stand by, it does consume energy. If your electricity cost has gone up for no reason other than that you leave your PC running the whole day read more..

How to uninstall Gmail/Google Talk Video Chat?

Since now you know how to use video chat in Gmail you might want to know how to uninstall the Gmail Video Chat plugin in case if it starts giving you any trouble. It’s very straight forward. Follow these steps to uninstall Gmail Video Chat, Step-1: Click the “Start” button and go into “Control Panel”. Step-2: Scroll read more..

How to Video Chat in Gmail?

Google just introduced video chat capabilities to their already famous Gmail Chat. If you are an active user of Gmail you must have noticed an alert at the top of your Gmail page indicating the arrival of video chat. You can click on the “New! Video chat” link to learn more about the new video read more..

How to remove advertisements on Yahoo Messenger?

Yahoo Messenger is a great tool for instant messaging (IM) communications. It has some great features than other competing IM applications and it is one of the most widely used IM client. Even if you love the capabilities of features of Yahoo Messenger I’m sure you would hate the way advertisements are displayed at the bottom read more..