Wall Street is full of whispers this morning with rumors Microsoft is planning a buyout deal for video streaming giant Netflix. Thus far it’s an unconfirmed rumor that has only caused shares of Netflix to suddenly spike by 13-percent.
For long, Mac users have been able to experience Windows on their machines, thanks to Parallels for Mac application. However, Parallels seems unprepared to support Windows 8 upgrade on Mac machines and has advised Mac users against upgrading to the new operating system from earlier versions.
![[Tutorial] How To Disable Proxy Server In Google Chrome Browser?](https://thetechjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/propertiese-g-chrome-asd54sa65465e4r89wer31er5ew498.webp)
When using proxies you are hiding your actual IP address, and the web sites you are visiting see the proxy’s address instead. With Windows you can configure proxy address for use when you are browsing websites and although some web browsers use their own settings for proxies, Google Chrome relies on the proxy settings that Windows has. As you can see, in order to disable proxy in Google Chrome you need to disable it in entire Windows, however I will show you a simple solution you can perform and disable it only in Google Chrome.
Microsoft has been bringing its mainstream OS, Windows, and its mobile OS, Windows Phone closer to each other. The company’s co-founder, Bill Gates, has now revealed that eventually, both these platforms will be merged into one.
![[Tutorial] How To Remove ‘Shortcut’ Word and Arrows From Your Icons In Windows](https://thetechjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/uwt-start-sd8897f1gd32f1g32df1.webp)
If you want to get rid of those arrows sticking over your desktop icons in Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8 but also avoid of create a word ‘shortcut’ next to each created shortcut I will show you very simple solution for that in this tutorial. Although this procedure can be done within Windows registry we will be skipping that procedure and will be using a small app called Ultimate Windows Tweaker.
![[Tutorial] How To Fix Freezed Windows 8](https://thetechjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/sfc-scannow-asd79y32u1o32u1p3u.webp)
I am using Windows 8 Consumer Preview for the past few months and it happened to me that Windows would freeze occasionally and some options and features were not functioning anymore. Although this version is still in beta and full version of Windows 8 is expected in few days, these freezes will most probably continue to happen. In this tutorial I will cover few techniques you can use in order to fix errors caused by Windows 8 freeze and how to return your Windows 8 to normal.
Using Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), a telescope at the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in northern Chile, astronomers have cataloged 84 million stars at the heart of the Milky Way. If that giant image of the Milky Way is printed at “normal resolution”, it would measure 9 x 7 meters.
StumbleUpon has been among the top destinations of content-sharing and aggregating audience on the internet. The website has been looking forth to a redesign, much along the lines of Pinterest’s interface. Now, it has rolled out the redesign to all 25 million of its users.