Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

Desktop/Remote sharing with mikogo

Posted by saurabh On July - 24 - 2009
mikogo is another utility that lets you share your desktop with other users over the internet. It is very easy to use and you can share with multiple users. Start a meeting Visit http://www.mikogo.com Create your account (free) You will receive the password on your registered email Download mikogo-starter Install the application Run the application,

Desktop/Remote sharing with TeamViewer

Posted by saurabh On July - 24 - 2009
TeamViewer is a free utility that lets you share your desktop with other users over the internet connection. It is a cross platform utility and is free for personal use. In the free version the desktop can be shared only between 2 users (1 server, 1 client). To share your desktop with more than 1

Remove Google Redirect Virus

Posted by saurabh On July - 16 - 2009
Today my system got infected by google redirect virus. When I tried to open  www.techwhiz.in in Firefox, I was taken to www.google.com. Then I tried to open www.yahoo.com from IE and Firefox, but the result was same. I was redirected to www.google.com. Initially I thought that my internet connection had some problem and the DNS

Turn off Adobe auto update

Posted by saurabh On July - 3 - 2009
Adobe auto update was bothering me whenever I connected to the internet. There was a small icon in the taskbar which displayed the percentage of download completed. This was very annoying when I was using EDGE to connect to internet. Finally I disabled the auto update of Adobe. Launch the Adobe software (e.g. Adobe Reader)

Remove recent Google searches from Firefox

Posted by saurabh On June - 10 - 2009
I have been using the built-in search box which came preinstalled in my Firefox browser and I mostly use it for my search needs. I recently found that when I just start typing something in the same search box, the previously searched keywords directly show up there, revealing all my previous searches. But the search

Change Ctrl+Enter Behavior in Firefox

Posted by saurabh On April - 14 - 2009
Did you ever observe that when you enter ‘google’ in the address bar and press ‘Ctrl+Enter’, Firefox takes you to ‘www.google.com You can change this default setting and instruct Firefox to take you to ‘www.google.co.in’ when you hit ‘Ctrl+Enter’. Open ‘Firefox’ Type ‘about:config’ in the address bar and hit ‘Enter’ Enter ‘browser.fixup’ in Filter. The

Windows Mail keyboard shortcuts

Posted by saurabh On March - 15 - 2009
Shortcuts that can be used in the main window: Send and receive email – CTRL+M Open or post a new message – CTRL+N Open Contacts – CTRL+SHIFT+B Delete an email message – DEL or CTRL+D Reply to the message author – CTRL+R Reply to all – CTRL+SHIFT+R or CTRL+G (newsgroups only) Forward a message –