Earlier we told you how to add Windows 8 user tile to Windows 7 taskbar? Discoveries about the new features coming in to Windows 8 continues. Well, still there is nothing earth shattering so far but now Rafael Rivera and Paul Thurrott reveals an other visually subtle but pleasing feature related to the Windows, taskbar and other GUI elements color. As we know Windows 7 already supports the new Personalization features but set of customization seems to be a bit limited. Microsoft has improved the ...

These days all kinds of images and features are leaking around the net for the upcoming highly anticipated Windows 8 OS from Microsoft. We have already shed light on the integration of the built-in PDF reading capabilities in Windows 8 as well as the use of ribbon based user interface to be employed now system-wide (if early Windows 8 builds are any indication). One of the features that was clearly visible in the very early leaked images of Windows 8 was use of a currently login user’s tile that ...

One of the many new features included in the Windows 7 was a vastly improved taskbar/superbar. One of the exciting features supported by the new revamped taskbar in Windows 7 is the ability to pin the items to taskbar. It can be very useful to quickly launch application without going through the start menu. However, if you have lot of favorite windows programs that you use regularly then you might attempt to pin all of them to the taskbar to have a quick access. As you will notice the taskbar becomes ...

Kindle is a portable E-reader introduced by Amazon that allows to read all kinds of E-books, websites, blogs, magazines and other digital media in the comfort of your hand. But if you want to read Google Books on your Kindle then there is a problem! As you might know that many public domain books on the Google books can be downloaded by the user. Only problem is that they are in the EPUB format which is not compatible with the Kindle native format. But there are some tools available that allows to ...

Windows 7 was released with many great new features. Most of these fall in to the visual eye candy and refinements to the GUI to have a smoother experience for it’s users as compared to the Windows Vista. In particular, Windows 7 taskbar got a big bump in terms of new functionality. One of the new features was the introduction of the real-time taskbar preview for the running application with their buttons listed in the taskbar. Regarding this functionality a problem that many of the users might ...

By default in Firefox 4 the behavior of the browser has changed a bit in the sense that when you quite, it no longer prompts you to save currently open tabs as it did in Firefox 3.x. You can bring back this behavior by changing a single preference in about:config in Firefox. So just launch the URL about:config and filter the results on the search bar on the browser.showQuitWarning. Then in the window double click on this to enable (true) the  browser.showQuitWarning property. Now even if you ...

Normally in Windows a user can lunch any desired executable file with a double click on the file. Same is true for the other files such as document files, audio/video files that are opened in this case with the associated program in Windows. However, there are some cases a user might want to launch multiple programs at once for example: to start the Excel when launching MS Word, or running a time-tracking application whenever starting a development environment such as Microsoft Visual Studio to track ...

Internet Explorer has recently been officially released by Microsoft. Overall it is an impressive product and a significant improvement over the previous iterations of this popular web browser. As soon as IE 9 has launched there are already some tools starting to come to light that allows to tweak the Internet Explorer 9 user interface and other aspects to a users likings. One such tool is called Tweak IE9 that allows to customize a number of Inter Explorer 9 settings from nice single window interface. ...

As we know Mozilla had many troubles launching Firefox 4.0 on time and as consequence was delayed by many months. Finally, after many many months wait is over, and Firefox 4.0 is officially available for download. Actually, there are not any noticeable changes if you are using any of the last release code (RC) versions. But Mozilla plans to substantially accelerate the release cycle with the Firefox 5.0 and Firefox 6.0 as we reported earlier. Despite including many exciting features such as hardware ...

If you are hardcore Google Chrome fan then I am sure that you might have already heavily customized the browser with a lot of extensions that are available there. With Chrome gaining popularity among users, in parallel the extensions in the Chrome’s repository are also growing rapidly. Although, it still has a way to go before reaching the same level of variety and quantity of extensions that are available for the Firefox. But still in such a short time this is quite an impressive gain. A common ...