Very Simple Google Chrome Tips & Tricks

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google-chrome-browserGoogle Chrome is another milestone in Google’s grand plans of world domination – and they are finding very few people who complain. Chrome is an extremely fast and lightweight browser. It packs in a ton of features in a minimal interface, and introduces some novel ideas to the whole idea of browsing. The top bar and the menu bar have been omitted completely, leaving a rather large space for browsing.

Make Google Chrome Your Default Browser

Click on the ‘Customize and Control Google Chrome’ button to the right of the address bar, click on ‘Options’ and under ‘Default browser’ click on the ‘Make Google Chrome my default browser’ button.
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Increase the Number of Server Connections to Speedup Internet Explorer

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Microsoft has made sure that Internet Explorer follows Internet standards, by allowing you and your browser to download only two files at a time from any server.

If you visit a web page with a lot of images and required files, such as CSS styles and JavaScript, you can easily end up with a scenario where your web browser has to make more than 40 requests to the web server to download all the files and then assemble the web page. Requesting only two of these 40 files at a time is going to be a lot slower than downloading, say, 10 of them at a time.

By tweaking a hidden registry value, you can speedup Internet Explorer and break Internet standards to download more than just two files at a time. Modifying this setting is simple to do, but be careful; the standards police will be after you. Follow these steps to speed up IE: [Read more...]

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Simple Tips to Keep Your Computer Safe and Secure

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When it comes to security, you will notice that everything that has a high value in your life are kept under tight security, be it your household assets or your highly classified documents. Similarly, data present in your computer and network is highly valuable and needs several layers of security to prevent data theft. Also its important to prevent malicious programs, bots, etc. to get in your computer. Whenever you are entering any data such as your usernames, passwords, your bank account details, they all are vulnerable and may be stolen by some pesky spyware or sniffed out of your network if you don’t secure your computer and network enough. Here, we will walk you through the process of securing your computer from any security threats. [Read more...]

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