ChromeBlock: Google Chrome Extension to Stop Third-Party Tracking

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ChromeBlock (formerly known as Do Not Track) is a Google Chrome extension that helps you block web beacons, bugs, and other tracking technologies used by advertisers to track your browsing actions. ChromeBlock automatically looks at each web page that you load and identifies web bugs, beacons and other tracking tools that the web page has and blocks them.

You can easily see what trackers are in use at each website you visit and then block any or all of them by simply clicking on the ChromeBlock icon and toggling the option “Not Blocked Here” to “Blocked Here.” [Read more...]

Filed Under: Browsers, Google Chrome, Security, Tips and Tricks

Anonymizer Nevercookie: Firefox Add-on to Kill the Evercookie

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Is it too much if one is asking for one’s own privacy on the Internet these days? First, we had normal browser cookies, then we had more persistent Flash cookies and now the Evercookie that can provide everyone from advertisers to malware authors with useful information about the sites you have visited and more. Evercookie, an open source JavaScript API developed by security researcher Samy Kamkar, when implemented by any website stores a user ID and cookie data in eight different places. This makes evercookie a more persistent cookie form than Flash cookies or normal browser cookies.

Its goal is to identify a client even after they’ve removed standard cookies, removed Flash cookies (Local Shared Objects or LSOs), and others. This allows websites to track user behavior even when users have enabled private browsing because an Evercookie stores data in locations outside of where standard cookies are stored, an Evercookie can rebuild itself unless users go through a number of steps to completely clear and reset their local storage. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Browsers, Firefox, Internet, Plugins, Security, Tips and Tricks

Use AirPrint Hacktivator To Automatically Enable AirPrint

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With the release of the latest Mac OS X 10.6.5 update, it was supposed that AirPrint or in simple terms, wireless printing from iOS devices like iPad/iPhone/iPod will be available to OS X users. But due to some last-minute issue, AirPrint support was pulled out in the final version of 10.6.5 release.

For users who wants to get back AirPrint support in the latest update of OS X, we found a manual work-around to enable AirPrint. But if you don’t want to mess around with files and do it manually, using this small app, “AirPrintHacktivator” is lot more easier. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Apple, Tips and Tricks, Troubleshoot

How To Get AirPrint Working In Mac OS X 10.6.5

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Apple’s new AirPrint wireless printing service for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch is now available for anyone running the golden master of iOS 4.2 on their iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. It was also supposed that the recent Mac OS X 10.6.5 update will bring AirPrint support to OS X, as it was available in the recent 10.6.5 pre-release builds. But AirPrint support from the final version of 10.6.5 was pulled out due to a last-minute issue (patent troll?).

Mac OS X users who are running 10.6.5 can now get AirPrint wireless printing support working, thanks to developer Steven Troughton-Smith. He has come up with a simple guide for getting AirPrint work on all installations of Mac OS 10.6.5. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Apple, Tips and Tricks, Troubleshoot

Mac OS X 10.6.5 Update Renders Mac with PGP Disk Encryption Unbootable

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Yesterday, we published the news about Apple Mac OS X 10.6.5 update being available. Well, it has been found that Mac OS users running 10.6.4 with PGP Whole Disk Encryption may render their systems unbootable after they update to 10.6.5. PGP has issued an alert for all those users and have asked them not to update their systems.

Alert: Mac OS X PGP WDE customers should not apply the recent Mac OS X 10.6.5 update. Compatibility issues may prevent the system from successfully booting.

In the interim, customers can accomplish the upgrade safely if the PGP Whole Disk Encrypted system is first decrypted, then apply the MAC OS X 10.6.5 update and then re-encrypt. We will provide a detailed update how to upgrade a PGP Whole Disk Encrypted system to Mac OS X 10.6.5 as soon as a solution has been identified.

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Fix Windows 7 Freezes When You Try To Rename A Folder [Hotfix]

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If your computer is running Windows 7, or Vista, or Windows Server 2008, or Windows Server 2008 R2 and it freezes or stops responding when you try to rename a folder, then applying this hotfix KB980382 released by Microsoft may come handy.

The problem occurs in the following scenario:

  • There is a volume in an NTFS file system on your computer. There are lots of files that are in a folder on this volume. For example, assume that there are more than 5000 files in this folder.
  • Many files in the folder were opened at least one time previously.
  • You try to rename the folder name.

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Filed Under: Troubleshoot, Vista, Windows, Windows 7

Repair MBR To Restore Windows 7 To Your Multiboot Options [How To]

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My friend called me yesterday to help him in getting back Windows 7 in the boot menu. What he did was, repair his Windows XP installation and now after repair he cannot find Windows 7 in the boot menu. Now, he was having a dual-boot configuration with Windows XP and Windows 7. The problem that he was facing is very common and every user who is having a similar dual-boot configuration also faces this problem when they try to repair or reinstall an older Windows version.

If you install Windows 7 or Windows Vista as a second operating system on a computer system where Windows XP is already installed, the Windows boot menu incorporates the options from the older boot menu. But, let us suppose, if you install a fresh copy of Windows XP or on a system that is already running Windows 7, Windows will overwrite the MBR with the old one that doesn’t recognize the Windows 7 boot loader. Each time you install any version of Windows, it rewrites the MBR to call its own boot loader. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tips and Tricks, Troubleshoot, Vista, Windows, Windows 7

Show Detailed (Verbose) Information While Windows Starts/Shutdown [How To]

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It is really frustrating when for some reason Windows takes up a lot of time to start-up or shutdown and you have no idea why it is happening. You desperately want to make Windows fast and try out almost all tips available to speed up Windows. But, at-last you still find Windows slow. Slow down a bit and think again as the reason for Windows sluggish response might be hidden during Windows start-up or shutdown.

Now, if Windows would have displayed every details of what it is loading during starting or what it is unloading during shutdown like Linux does, it would have been very easy to find out the cause. Don’t despair as even though Windows may not show you every details but you can ask Windows to display some more detailed information during start-up and shutdown through this simple registry hack. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tips and Tricks, Vista, Windows, Windows 7