Dial-up internet users now can get rid of frustration while waiting for Gmail to load the Inbox. A new Labs feature tries to reduce this inconvenience by giving a simple text preview of your Inbox while Gmail is loading.
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Google’s Chrome browser was first released 8 months back, with a Beta version later coming in March. Now a stable version called 2.0 is available for download. I you already have Chrome installed on your PC, you will get 2.0 by an automatic update soon. However if you want it right away you can update Chrome manually.
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Browsers usually share the session related information like cookies, login information among the all opened tabs and windows. Hence it’s not possible to log into your multiple accounts of Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo mail etc., at the same time.
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We all know how to add bookmarks to our favorite sites and then later go directly to these sites by selecting the bookmarks from the Bookmarks Menu. However as the number of Bookmarks increases, finding them in the long list becomes a pain and we rather start typing the URL in the address bar. Firefox has an advanced feature of assigning ‘keywords‘ to bookmarks which can get to your favorite site in a jiffy! Let us see how to do this.
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Wind has been a good source of renewable energy for more than a decade now. The growth however has been slow in this sector, owing to the scarcity of high wind areas. Wind turbines till now have been manufactured to harness the higher speed winds on land and sea. As the regions with favorable conditions have already been developed into wind farms, wind turbine manufacturers have now been pushed to turn their attention towards low wind areas.
Google has integrated it’s Automatic Machine Translation technology into GMail. So the next time you get mails from your foreign friends or clients in languages that you dont understand, you dont have to copy and paste the mail into a translation tool.
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Internet Explorer 8 may not be the best browser in town but it does have a few interesting features not found in other browsers. One already discussed example is the Customization of Search Providers. Here we will take a look at it’s other highly useful feature: Accelerators.
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Why is there a need for Master Password?
Every time you browse a web site which requires authentication, Firefox like most browsers gives you a choice of storing the login id along with the password. All these stored passwords are then accessible to anyone who can login into your PC. In order to avoid any accidental usage of these stored passwords by anyone else, you can set a Master Password in Firefox.
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The much awaited Wolfram Alpha has finally become live for every one. Lately it has been very much in the news, being touted as a next generation search engine which could overtake Google in the future.
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By default, Internet Explorer 8 opens most of the webpage links in a new window. In order to make these links open in a New Tab follow these steps:
