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Linux users always miss out on one feature that their Windows counterparts enjoy while listening to music. Most of the time, while listening to music using music players like Audacious, BMP, XMMS, etc in Linux, users misses out the equalizer presets that is present in most of the Windows music players like of Winamp, iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc.

For any die-hard music-aficionado who loves to listen to music and cannot compromise with quality, can never forgive a player that doesn't comes with an equalizer preset. If you are a music lover who don't likes to compromise with music and likes to have equalizer presets for fine tuning his music, there's a simple trick to import the Winamp equalizer presets into your Audacious, BMP, XMMS, etc Linux music players.

Microsoft few days back officially released Windows 7 SP1 Beta for public download. The beta version will expire on June 30, 2011 and after the expiration, users will have to either upgrade to a newer build or uninstall and return to the RTM build.

Users will not be able to upgrade directly from SP1 Beta to the final version of Windows 7 SP1. So, if a user installs SP1 Beta, then they will have to first uninstall it before installing SP1 final. If Windows 7 SP1 Beta uninstall routine fails, then the user has to do a clean install of Windows 7, which no user will like. Anyways, Microsoft has provided a simple guide on how to uninstall and remove Windows 7 SP1 Beta and revert back to the RTM build.

A lot of my readers were asking this question to me. They wanted to know how to completely disable flash in Google Chrome after Google decided to integrate Flash natively in Chrome web browser. So, I went in the quest to find the answer. Today, I found the answer hidden inside Google Chrome's plug-ins manager (not the extension manager).

It is a very simple trick and disables flash completely 100% in Chrome web browser.

FIFA World Cup Football 2010 Finals, one of the World’s largest sporting events is going to start in a few minutes in South Africa. The Internet is buzzing now for the soccer fans around the world with loads of information.

We thought we'll do our part here by providing the soccer fans with a list of the 10 best sites where they could watch the free live video streaming of the FIFA World Cup 2010 final match between Netherlands and Spain. Check them out yourself!

Gmail users have always wanted to have rich text signatures, after all they look cool, aren't they? Google has finally heard the users and as of today Gmail users can use a rich text signature. This means that users will no longer be forced to use boring plain text to end their emails. Gmail users can now add links and images to the signature, as well as change the text’s format, font and color and make them more lively!

Do you want to easily remove your User picture from Windows 7 Start Menu? Kishan Bagaria, one of our fellow mate and a member of The Windows Club Forum has came up with an one click solution. He has developed a free portable app known as Windows 7 Start Menu User Picture Remover that allows you to remove your User picture from your Windows 7 Start Menu with just one click.

To use this app, you just have to download it from his website door2windows and save it to a location on your hard drive. The download size of the app is amazingly only 441 KB for the ZIP version and 896 KB for the EXE version. After saving it, just run the app with Administrator rights and click on the Remove Start Menu User Picture button.

At the Google Chrome Help Forum, Google employee Blair has posted a list of software identified to crash Google Chrome web browser. In the list users will also find some popular software such as WinMount, NVIDIA NTune, SpeedBit Video Accelerator, etc listed along with others that causes instability in Google Chrome.

Blair suggests to temporarily disable the marked softwares and see if it resolved Chrome crashes. Blair also listed some softwares, for which you can simply disable some of its functions without disabling the software completely to solve crash issues.