13 September 2013

RSS Support Returns To Google Alerts After Demise Of Google Reader



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You can once again use RSS feeds to have all Google Alert notifications delivered to your feed reader of choice. Google Alerts has reactivated the option, which had disappeared following the shuttering of Google Reader a few months back. Coupled with the usual email digests, this returns to you the RSS option that was favored by many who wanted to keep their inboxes decluttered. Google Reader was the vehicle of choice for catching all feeds. When it was discontinued, Google Alerts followed suit in removing the RSS feature. It’s difficult to pinpoint the exact reason but as a message on...


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Automatically close Not responding programs



Some time programs become non-responsive. When we see in task manager their Status will be Not Responding instead of Running. Than we had to Manually end the program by clicking on the End Task Tab in the task manager.

The Program became ‘Not Responding’ due to many reasons. May be there is a programming error and the application fall in a never ending loop. It may be due to malfunctioning of any hardware or The application is still performing the previous function and you are trying to perform next function and some times System Tends to hang.

We can set the windows to end them automatically as they become ‘Not Responding’. so here is the trick for it.Open Registry by going to Start then Run and Enter regedit.than Navigate to


HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl Panel Desktop


In Right side panel look for ‘AutoEndTasks’ and Modify its value to 1.

You can also set time for waiting before end the application if an application becomes Not Responding.


For this setting on the same panel find the ‘WaitToKillAppTimeout’ key and change its value to the time after which you want to kill a not responding application.(Time here is in Milliseconds)

That’s It..



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Google Change Homepage Look- Remove Navigation Bar



It’s seems, google changes the homepage look, Google recently removes the navigation bar and adds a app section in the top-right side. So now the homepage looks much more cleaner than previous.


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In the new design google has removed the whole navigation bar and put all apps links including, youtube, google play, google maps, news, drive etc in top-right corner.


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Update…


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Some cool tricks for windows XP



Here are the some cool tricks for windows XP.

One-Click Shutdown

You Can Shutdown your PC on a Single Click:

Navigate to desktop. On the desktop, right-click and go to NEW, then to SHORTCUT (in other words, create a new shortcut).You should now see a pop-up window instructing you to enter a command line path.Enter one of these as the path:

Use this path if your operating system is Windows 95, 98, or Me: C:\windows\rundll.exe

user.exe,exitwindows

Use this path if your operating system is XP: SHUTDOWN -s -t 01

If the C: drive is not your local hard drive, then replace “C” with the correct letter of the

hard drive.


Click the “Next” button. Name the shortcut and click the “Finish” button. Now, whenever

you want to shut down, just click on this shortcut and you’re done.



Disable Error Reporting


You can get rid of the Windows XP error report messages if you don’t want to send another one in. Start the SYSTEM CONFIGURATION UTILITY:

Click START, and then click RUN.

Type msconfig to open the SYSTEM CONFIGURATION UTLIITY.

Click the SERVICES tab.

Clear the Error Reporting Service check box, and then click OK.

Hit RESTART to reboot your system.



Adjust various visual effects


Open up the CONTROL PANEL. Go under SYSTEM and click on the ADVANCED tab. Click SETTINGS under PERFORMANCE OPTIONS. You can now change various

graphics and effects (mainly animations and shadows.)



Close Multiple Windows


This trick works in all versions of Windows, If you just opened a number of separate, related windows (a folder inside a folder, and so on,) there’s an easier way to close them all than one-at-a-time. Hold down the Shift key as you click the X caption button in the upper-right corner of the last window opened. Doing

so closes that window and all windows that came before it.



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How To Change The Start Button In Windows 8.1



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Microsoft has restored the Start button with Windows 8.1 update. While the Start button in Windows 8.1 takes you to the Start screen instead of Start menu and the new Start button isn’t what users were looking for, nevertheless it greatly enhances the look of the taskbar and desktop. A click on the Start button […]

YouTube's Compact Controls



A few weeks ago, YouTube tested a feature that grouped controls like annotations, video quality and player size. This feature is now publicly available.



"Notice something a little different about YouTube videos? We've just launched a new version of the player with improved caption controls and a cleaner look. If you're looking for the annotations switch, just click the gear button - you'll find size and quality controls there too," informs YouTube.






The gear button was previously used for the quality dropdown. This change makes the player less cluttered and makes the video quality dropdown less visible. When YouTube removes it, fewer people will complain.



Now it's hard to tell if a video has annotations without clicking the settings button. Each of the settings require an extra click.



{ Thanks, Tolis and Sushubh. }

The New Google+ Photo Editor



This is weird. Google+ had a photo editor that used Flash, worked in any desktop browser and it was powered by Picnik. Google changed this and switched to a new photo editor that's based on the Snapseed mobile app, but the new version doesn't use HTML5. It's a Native Client app.



That's the reason why the new photo editor only works in Chrome. No other major browser supports Native Client and it's likely that won't change in the near future. This is probably the first feature of a Google web app that uses Native Client and I have the feeling that many others will follow.






So what's new? The new photo editor has most of the features of the Snapseed app, so it's likely that Snapseed has been ported to Native Client.






"Auto Enhance already makes the photos you add to Google+ look great. Now you can customize and fine tune these adjustments if you have a different look in mind. Selective adjust lets you make edits to specific parts of your image, so you can make that summer sky look even more blue without affecting the beach in the foreground. Filters like Vintage, Drama, Retrolux or Black and White give your photos a new look. Add the finishing touch with a frame."






I've noticed that more and more Chrome apps and extensions use Native Client: Google+ Photos app, the Office Viewer and Editor. Porting mobile apps to Native Client doesn't make the web better because these apps only work in Chrome.



"The Native Client open-source technology is designed to run native compiled code securely inside browsers. Native Client puts web applications on the same playing field as local applications, providing the raw speed needed to compete with traditional software like 3D games, video editing, and other applications. Native Client also gives languages like C and C++ (and eventually others as well) the same level of portability and safety that JavaScript provides on the web today," explains Google.



Native Client is great for apps that can't be built using web technologies, but it looks like Google starts to rely too much on Native Client. Google managed to build a powerful office suite using web apps that work in any modern browser and it now ports a mobile Office editor to Native Client. There are many HTML5 photo editors that work well, but Google chose to port a mobile photo editor to Native Client. I think that's the wrong path to follow. Chrome was supposed to make the web better, not to become an operating system that runs its own apps.

How to Disable or Delete Recent Document History Automatically



In windows, Recent Documents showing the list of files and documents that you have used recently. sometimes it may be a threat to your Privacy. You can clean recent documents history manually but it may be annoying to do it again and again.


You can also empty this folder whenever you Shutdown or Logoff your Computer or can also stops all your recently opened documents from being saved in a list.A ) Empty My Recent Documents Automatically on Shutdown or Logoff

1) Go to Run then type gpedit.msc and press enter

2) Then Navigate to User Configuration > Administrative Template > Start Menu and Task Bar

3) Then on the right side look for the “Clear history of recently opened documents on exit” option.

4) Double Click it & select Enable Option & then just Apply it.



B) Disable Recent Document History


1) Go to Run then type gpedit.msc and press enter

2) Then Navigate to User Configuration > Administrative Template > Start Menu and Task Bar

3) Then on the right side look for the “Do not keep history of recently opened documents” option.

4) Double Click it & select Enable Option & then just Apply it.



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Embed Google+ Posts



One of the things I don't like about Google+ is that it's hard to embed content from Google+. You can't embed photo albums, you can't embed videos uploaded to Google+, you can't add a widget that shows your latest Google+ posts, at least not officially. There are workarounds, but these are features that should be added by Google. Picasa Web Albums had a cool slideshow widget, YouTube lets you embed videos and almost any other Google content service supports feeds.



There's a new Google+ feature that somewhat addresses these issues. You can now embed almost any public Google+ post: just mouse over the post, click the arrow icon and click "embed post". You'll get some code you can quickly add to a blog post.









The embedded post looks just like a Google+ post from the homepage, so you can only read the first sentences of the post and the most recent comment. Obviously, you can expand the post and the list of comments. "Text, photo, and media posts are all supported, and the embeds are fully interactive, so visitors can +1, comment and follow inline," informs Google.



Here's an example:








This page has more information about the Google+ embedding code. If the post includes a video uploaded to Google+, the video will play inline. If the post includes a Google+ photo or photo album and users click a photo, a new page will open and they'll see the Google+ image view.



This feature is limited to public posts. You can't embed posts from a community, posts restricted to a Google Apps domain, private posts, event posts and Hangout on Air posts.