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[Tutorial] How To Safely Remove USB Drives Just By Unplugging It – Windows 7

[Tutorial] How To Safely Remove USB Drives Just By Unplugging It – Windows 7

When ever you want to unplug/disconnect your USB drive or external hard drive from your desktop or laptop computer, from Windows system tray you always need to choose Safely Remove Hardware. The main reason why you should do this is to make sure Windows is not busy reading from or writing to the drive when you want to remove it. If you do this without using Safely Remove Hardware option you could damage your drive. However with just few simply modifications in Windows you can easily bypass this options and avoid those extra click when you are removing your drive.

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Microsoft Discovers Malware Exploits In Older Versions Of Office For Mac

Microsoft Discovers Malware Exploits In Older Versions Of Office For Mac

Given the immense expansion of the tech population, it is only inevitable that some security loopholes will go unnoticed for years. Same is the case with a number of exploits in Microsoft’s Office for Mac. Researchers at Microsoft have found out these flaws only now when a new malware attempts to exploit them. The flaws are there in the three-year-old version of Office for Mac.

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[Tutorial] How To Block A Website In All Web Browsers – Windows

[Tutorial] How To Block A Website In All Web Browsers – Windows

Blocking websites has become commonplace now because of parental control or for any other reason. Browsers offer add-ons which can effectively block any web site you choose, unfortunately, if the idea is to be unnoticed (e.g. because of your children which can easily disable the addon) there is an alternative way to achieve this goal in any Windows version and in this tutorial I will show you how.

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[Tutorial] How To Make Mozilla Firefox Address Bar Transparent

[Tutorial] How To Make Mozilla Firefox Address Bar Transparent

When you enter a keyword in the Mozilla Firefox address bar, it offers a drop-down list of sites you’ve surfed. You can make the background of this list slightly transparent, as is the case in Google Chrome, simply by changing the browser settings and in this tutorial I will show you how to do that.

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Adobe Updates Flash Player For All Platforms To Fix Exploit

Adobe Updates Flash Player For All Platforms To Fix Exploit

Adobe has been pretty active in nabbing security vulnerabilities of its software. Now, the company has shipped out a security update for the Flash Player. The update is to fix an exploit in the Flash Player that, Adobe says, is already being utilized by hackers to gain control of Flash Player users.

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Religious Sites Infect Your Computer More Often Than Porn Sites

Religious Sites Infect Your Computer More Often Than Porn Sites

Many readers may feel surprised at the title of this article but that is what a latest study reveals. According to the study, you are far more likely to be a victim of a malware when visiting a religious website as compared to when visiting a porn site.

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[Tutorial] Manage File Compression More Easily With 7-zip In Windows

[Tutorial] Manage File Compression More Easily With 7-zip In Windows

Since Windows XP, Windows includes basic tools for managing compressed files in ZIP format. From the explorer, it is possible to extract files and folders within a ZIP archive and create your own archives. You can group files together in a single compressed file, multiple files and folders on your hard drive. And since it is compressed, the archive takes up less space than the original files which is much easier send or upload it on the web. But Windows only supports ZIP archives and does not include advanced features such as cutting archives into several pieces, encryption and protection of archives, management of compression and use of the command line. With the free tool called 7-Zip, you will be able to add features such as creating self-extracting archive and verifying the integrity of your archives directly inside Windows Explorer. This complete tutorial will help you understand all those steps.

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