There may be times when you may have forgotten your Windows passwords and are unable to login to your PC, this can cause huge frustrations, if you do not have any other users on the PC, or do not have access to the administration account. The most dire consequences of forgetting your password could be [...]

There are several times when you may close a tab by mistake in the browser, if you are Google Chrome user, you can easily open the last closed tab, by opening a blank tab and selecting the link from the recently closed section. Firefox users can use a add-on to reopen accidentally closed tabs with [...]

Recently one of our readers had emailed and asked about removing a deadly worm codenamed Conficker aka Downup or Kidofrom their system, though we did not have enough time to research and reply back to the reader, we did come across a solution that would help users to remove Conficker worm from their systems. For [...]

Many Governments usually block services like YouTube for a short period of time, many users have to go through unwanted censorship which can be avoided. A recent example of this censorship is the blocking of YouTube access in China. However there are several alternatives to unblock or access the blocked websites by  bypassing the ban, [...]

There are many times when websites do not add hyperlinks to text thus making the text un-clickable, to open the link, you will have to copy the text and then paste it into the browser address bar.   If you are using Opera, you can easily convert text to links with a User JavaScript called [...]

We are pretty paranoid about having daily backups of our MySQL database for this site, and in the past have written a easy tutorial to create backups of MySQL database in under a minute. However not everyone is command prompt savvy, or you may want to create backups in a different way. Noupe.com has come [...]

The biggest problem with creating internet accounts is setting strong passwords for them, many users are lazy enough to create guessable and crackable passwords for their accounts, with the most common ones being 123456, password, 1234, testingand so on. These passwords are easily hackable, by using a simple brute force attack, we do have some [...]

Privacy concerns are pretty high these days, with ISPs snooping on what you download, throttling bit torrent connections and lawsuits galore. So how do you protect yourself from these privacy concerns? Image Credit The simple answer to this question would be Staying anonymous on the Internet, but how? When you browse any website, you are [...]

Hotmail the most famous email service which Microsoft purchased for $400 million is finally seeing a turn of times, with the availability of POP3 access across the world. This was after they had made POP3 available in limited countries. With POP3 support, users can now access Hotmail from practically anywhere without the need to install [...]

The Google Operating System blog reports that a new features has been added to Google Translate which will allow users to translate PDF Files and Office Documents (Microsoft Word etc) using the translation engine. Definitely useful if you have downloaded a PDF file or a office document that is in a language you do not [...]

Linux commands are not that easy, however there are websites which come up with brilliant tutorials that make learning Linux that more easier, just like our Linux Tips have been useful in the past, the Geek Stuff has been coming up with useful tips and tricks that would help make you a better Linux user. [...]

Users usually buy computers off the shelf or go for a branded PC, the reason may wary, like they may trust a particular brand more, or have been using them for quite some time. However not all branded computers come with the best configuration, and some may lack in memory,  processing power or even video [...]

There are several times when you may want to test out a mobile website, or use mobile websites to save bandwidth, since they load pretty fast and do not use heavy images, which in turn can use up more bandwidth from your ISP. However many mobile websites redirect users back to a regular website, when [...]

Google Book search is a popular offering from Google where users can search for digitalized copies of books, however finding and downloading books is a tedious task and a handy utility called Google Book Downloader can save you a lot of time, when you intend to use Google Book search to download books. To download [...]

Yahoo Mail has been coming up with several new features of late, and though we are more inclined towards Gmail’s features, we also love to cover new features in Yahoo Mail. The one new feature I saw in my Yahoo Mail account, was the ability to add stationery to the emails I send out.